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Thread ID: 15391 | Posts: 154 | Started: 2004-10-21
2004-10-21 11:51 | User Profile
Just curious.
Me: Got early Crosby, Stills, Nash goin' on (yeah, they're mostly lefties...tho David Crosby supports capital punishment and is an outspoken libertarian on marijuana decriminalization):
"Everybody, I Love You" (from their debut LP, year-1969--scorching guitar by Stephen Stills and one of his most-potent/muscular vocal performances...God, that guy had some range, from baritone to the highest of falsetto);
"Almost Cut My Hair" (same LP; David Crosby's vocals defy words; I saw him sing it with CSN, live, at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, in 1984, and it just hushed the crowd);
"Daylight Again" (from the eponymous LP, 1982; defying its title, this is a f*cking dark tune--full of Civil War references, and with a masterful acoustic guitar spree by Stills. A deep, gorgeous song.)
So, what are you listening to?
2004-10-21 12:26 | User Profile
ho ho...
OK, just changed my tastes--to Frank Zappa. Not the silly sh*t (of which there was so much), but on Apostrophe, he had some incredible, serious music (still bent-humor, but, hey, that was Frank Zappa...).
"Uncle Remus," from Apostrophe (1973) is a classic. Legendary black jazz pianist George Duke tickling the ivories, and an uncredited Tina Turner doing background vocals on what is one of the most overtly racist songs ever written. I don't know how Zappa got away with this one. But he did (and it's a gem). Totally serious music, but with a set of lyrics that'd get any U.S.- based employee fired instantly. :)~
2004-10-21 13:02 | User Profile
In rotation in the CD changer as of 10/21/04......
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots-The Flaming Lips American Idiot-Green Day A Ghost Is Born-Wilco Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand Good News For People Who Love Bad News-Modest Mouse Transatlanticism-Death Cab For Cutie Buena Vista Social Club
And at home on the vinyl records..... Still Crazy After All These Years-Paul Simon Breakfast In America-Supertramp Shake It Up-The Cars Pieces Of Eight-Styx
2004-10-21 13:51 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001HHJ/qid=1098366588/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-2879949-9763349?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]John McCormack[/URL].
Greatest tenor who ever lived.
The last few bars of his rendition of "Makushla" are enough to make the angels weep.
2004-10-21 14:49 | User Profile
Walter Yannis:
Now, knowing you love great instrumental work, I'd encourage you (if you haven't already...you probably have) to check out:
Oliver Nelson's [I]The Blues and the Abstract Truth [/I] (the only distraction is the unfortunate inclusion of a tune called "Hoe-Down"). The rest is pure genius. He went from being a pure jazz session player to being a composer, then becoming NBC's (yeah, the network) lead composer. Jazz purists say he "sold out," but he was probably a po' black boy and was doing what he had to do (and was still great at it). He composed the soundtracks to such TV series as "Mannix" (sp?), "Adam-12," "Emergency," and countless others.
Poor f*cker dropped dead of a heart attack at age 43 in the parking lot of NBC studios.
The song "Stolen Moments" (off [I]The Blues and the Abstract Truth[/I]) is one of the great unsung tunes, of any genre.
2004-10-21 14:52 | User Profile
The album 'Genuine' by The Derailers
Oh yeah... :thumbsup:
2004-10-21 15:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE][toddbrendanfahey]Walter Yannis:
Now, knowing you love great instrumental work, I'd encourage you (if you haven't already...you probably have) to check out:
Oliver Nelson's [I]The Blues and the Abstract Truth [/I] (the only distraction is the unfortunate inclusion of a tune called "Hoe-Down"). The rest is pure genius. [/QUOTE] Todd, I'll check it out.
Thanks for the tip.
2004-10-21 16:34 | User Profile
Charlotte Church, Yanni, Hiroshima, Thalia,,,,,,, elevator music.
No Cuban music, it hurts my ears hehehehehehehe.
I hope castro is ok, he fell down and broke his upper arm.
2004-10-21 21:01 | User Profile
I'm listening to hip-hop
[url]http://www.youknowsit.co.uk/[/url]
Peurile, but subverts the genre quite nicely, and even raises the occasional laugh.
2004-10-22 03:15 | User Profile
[quote=toddbrendanfahey]What Are You Listening to Now?
[B]Richard Wagner[/B]: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Faust, Tannhauser, Rienzi, Tristan und Isolde.
2005-04-01 17:22 | User Profile
on now, South Korea way:
from "The Chamber of 32 Doors" ([I]The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway[/I], Genesis, 1974)
..."The rich man stands in front of me, poor man behind my back; they believe they can control the game-- but the juggler holds another pack.
I need someone to believe in, someone to trust. I need someone to believe in, someone to trust.
[chorus] I'd rather trust a country man than a town man. You can judge by his eyes, take a look if you can; he'll smile through his guard-- survival trains hard.
I'd rather trust a man who works with his hands. He looks at you once, you know he understands. Don't need any shield, when you're out in the field."...
The entire 1st LP (in the double-album version) is the most brilliant, twisted opera-esque thing I've ever heard. The whole thing is genius.
The incredible thing about [I]The Lamb [/I] is, that Gabriel had 0.00 input in the creation of the instrumentation. He was suffering pretty much a nervous breakdown (which lasted for several years...augmented, no doubt, by very heavy LSD use, of which he's copped to at that time). Tony Banks/Mike Rutherford/Phil Collins/Steve Hackett handed him the completed musical score, and said: "OK, now we need lyrics and the vocal track."
& Gabriel crawled out of the pit and performs (with the help of Brian Eno, who did added strange effects in the mixing room) by far his best vocals--to-date and to-present.
If "Back in N.Y.C."; "Counting Out Time"; "Broadway Melody of 1974"; "The Carpet Crawlers"; "Cuckoo Cucoon"; "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging"; "Fly on a Windshield" and the title-track, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" don't do it for you...please just pass over this genre entirely. (And those are just the tracks on the first LP of a double-album.) It doesn't get any better than this.
A bent (sometimes very beautiful and often superdisturbing) role-playing epic, from four incredible musicians and the best (to my eye) lyricist of the 1970s.
2005-04-01 17:44 | User Profile
Spock's Beard 'V': The Great Nothing
2005-04-01 17:50 | User Profile
Mindy Smith
2005-04-01 18:02 | User Profile
Fahey, Genesis was interesting during the Gabriel period. It was obvious that Gabriel was high on [I]something[/I]... he had to be, to want to sport a hairdo like that in the early 70's. What would you call that exactly... a reverse mohawk?
I like Steve Hackett, but he's no Steve Howe. Though it's possible I just haven't heard enough of him. [I]GTR[/I] was supposed to be a collaboration, but I hear much more of Howe than Hackett in that one.
I've only taken to listening to old Genesis recently, but I was struck with the impression that Phil Collins should have stuck to percussion. He's really good, though Bill Bruford's wild overplaying on [I]Seconds Out[/I] seems even more well suited to the band's music at the time.
2005-04-01 18:12 | User Profile
Yeah... Peter Gabriel was, from 1970-74, the most theatrical and strange figure in music. It's a crying shame they had such shitty management, and that no one captured the [I]Foxtrot[/I], [I]Selling England by the Pound [/I] and [I]Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [/I] concerts on professional videotape. Gabriel was legendary for his costumes and costume changes and weird storytelling between songs.
Supposedly, not one single professional or decent amateur video was ever taken during the [I]Lamb[/I] concert run. That'd be enough to make me want to quit the band.
He was a major acid-head (not of the Syd Barrett quantity, but still...). Is also said to be manic-depressive, and that's pretty obvious by his stage performances/lyrics. Still, he's alive and well, and has a new baby with a longtime girlfriend. He suffered some bad financial straights in the 90s, but has pulled out of the spiral and just sold a software product--which he and a partner developed--to a major company; is reportedly again fairly prosperous.
He's had a strange life. That's prol'ly why I like him so much.
As to Hackett and Collins:
Nobody can compare with Steve Howe (except for jazz/fusion geniuses Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin). Hackett tears it up in some unique ways on [I]Foxtrot[/I] (try: "Can Utility and the Coastliners," and tell me that isn't a mind-boggling stretch of strings); most of everything of Hackett's on [I]Selling England by the Pound[/I] is brilliant. But comparing him to Steve Howe ain't fair.
Collins, on the other hand, is to my ear the greatest drummer in rock history. That sounds nuts, I know. For percussive intricacy, timing, capacity to grind out extended periods of impossibly difficult rhythmic structures (see: "Apocalypse in 9/8" section of "Supper's Ready" from [I]Foxtrot[/I]; or "The Cinema Show" from [I]Selling England[/I]--fix your ears on the middle section, which runs about 4 minutes and features some of the most beautiful cymbal/high-hat/snare work ever recorded), the only "rock" drummer who could compare to Collins is Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra, which was an all-instrumental rock/jazz project of John McLaughlin's in the early 70s). Cobham is mostly a jazz drummer. Collins is, too--but he played in a progressive rock band.
Bill Bruford is more like Billy Cobham in that he just attacks the drums. Collins can, too; but my ear is more interested in tricky/cunning jazz percussion than total assault (tho I like total assault).
Good talking to an EducatedMofo, ho ho...
2005-04-01 18:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Spock's Beard 'V': The Great Nothing[/QUOTE]
Good grief; now I know what [I]missionaries [/I] feel like!
Tex, have you heard either of Neal's full-on 'Christian' albums yet, by any chance?
2005-04-01 18:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Good grief; now I know what [I]missionaries [/I] feel like![/QUOTE]
Yep. You were the man, IR. :)
Tex, have you heard either of Neal's full-on 'Christian' albums yet, by any chance?[/QUOTE]
I've heard a few tracks here and there from the website and Launch radio, but don't have the album. From what I have heard he sounds just like Spock's Beard really, which isn't a bad thing.
2005-04-01 19:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey] The entire 1st LP (in the double-album version) is the most brilliant, twisted opera-esque thing I've ever heard. The whole thing is genius.[/QUOTE] TBF, What a coincidence that you posted this. I was just listening to this album yesterday, and thinking how good it was. It's hard to believe that Genesis would eventually sink to the level of 'Invisible Touch.' I'm also a Peter Gabriel fan. His old stuff is great, and even his newer albums (So, Us, Up) are quite good.
2005-04-01 20:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE]I've heard a few tracks here and there from the website and Launch radio, but don't have the album. From what I have heard he sounds just like Spock's Beard really, which isn't a bad thing.[/QUOTE] Correct. Both TESTIMONY and ONE are essentially Spock’s Beard albums – effortlessly great songwriting, uncanny pop sensibility, a kind of down-to-earth grandeur – and of course, chops to die for. I’ve gotta tip my cap to him for undertaking this new direction, since everybody knows “Christian rock” is a hybrid almost guaranteed to disappoint both sides of the aisle. If a top-flight secular band has to fight an uphill battle just to be heard nowadays, it’s exponentially more difficult for somebody like Morse. It’s not as if the “prog rock” tag is helping either band sell cds or tickets, either.
I managed to – on back to back nights yet – see the Morseless Beard in NYC, and Neal’s own band (w/ Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy on drums) in Jersey. It was an glorious one-two punch with, sadly, less than 200 people there to witness both shows combined – but that’s the music biz these days. Quality keeps the kids away in [I]droves[/I]. It’s a funny thing about club dates, though – the smaller the turnout, the more all-out the band’s performance for those fans who [I]did[/I] show.
[QUOTE]I was just listening to this album yesterday, and thinking how good it was. It's hard to believe that Genesis would eventually sink to the level of 'Invisible Touch.'[/QUOTE] THE LAMB is indeed great, and I think SELLING ENGLAND is even better - their all time best. Interestingly, I was listening to TRICK OF THE TAIL last week - probably the Collins album held in the highest regard by 'true' Genesis fans - and it struck me yet again how much was missing from it. I love Gabriel's first solo lp - how can you not swoon over 'Solsbury Hill'? - but he too has been an overall disappointment. Genesis is definitely a case where the chemistry of all five members created a sum greater than the individual parts.
2005-04-01 20:03 | User Profile
I don't think there has ever been such a total drop-off waste as happened to Genesis. (Anyone?: Comparisons?)
Phil Collins is still an excellent drummer. I saw him backing Eric Clapton not too long ago, and he still scorches. But he's only good behind the drumkit. His assemblage of garbage songs, dating from 1986-present has turned him into a cruel joke. Really, he's almost a poster-boy for throwing away a fine career (I've read lots and lots of quotes from persons in the music biz, saying, in effect, "Well, at least he's not gone the way of Phil Collins."
He went for the easy cash. He sold out. Sucks to be him (glad I'm not).
Yeah, that's weird that you were listening to [I]The Lamb [/I] yesterday. What a piece of work. Some filler (not sh*t, but not superb) on the second LP...or the second half of the CD; but the 85% of it that is good is like Hall of Fame material.
2005-04-01 20:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]I don't think there has ever been such a total drop-off waste as happened to Genesis. (Anyone?: Comparisons?) [/QUOTE]
Post-Faces era Rod Stewart comes close.
A listen to "Every Picture Tells a Story" followed by a brief remembrance of "Young Turks" is enough to bring tears at the waste of talent.
2005-04-01 20:42 | User Profile
[I]Every Picture Tells a Story[/I] and [I]Gasoline Alley [/I] are as good as it comes. Have enjoyed many road trips and moments listening to those two.
By "Hot Legs" and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", he'd blown his wad. Mommies still like him, 'cos he's aged really well. A good comparison--Rod Stewart and Phil Collins.
2005-04-01 21:59 | User Profile
Blues Newburg, from Danny Gatton's magnificent 88 Elmira Street album. God, the man was a genius.
A shout-out to muh hebe "music" industry homies who's total lack of support helped drive him to blow his brains out. Yo, Murray! What up, bubby!
[QUOTE=weisbrot]Post-Faces era Rod Stewart comes close.
A listen to "Every Picture Tells a Story" followed by a brief remembrance of "Young Turks" is enough to bring tears at the waste of talent.[/QUOTE]
Yes, it really makes you sick to compare his wonderful early stuff to - uh, every effin' thing he's shat out since. Doing standards now, for crissake. What a cheap whore.....
2005-04-02 02:25 | User Profile
Continuity in the changer, for once:
Junior Brown - Semi Crazy
Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe
The Derailers - Full Western Dress
The Mavericks - Music for all Occasions
Webb Pierce - Greatest Hits
2005-04-02 02:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Blues Newburg, from Danny Gatton's magnificent 88 Elmira Street album. God, the man was a genius.
A shout-out to muh hebe "music" industry homies who's total lack of support helped drive him to blow his brains out. Yo, Murray! What up, bubby! [/QUOTE]
Great album and great musician. What's the story behind that- I had read he was frustrated by his relative lack of success, but is there more to it?
Now playing: Old 97's- Fight Songs
2005-04-02 02:42 | User Profile
I saw Peter Gabriel at the Jones Beach Theater, NY in 1994 with Midnight Oil and Live. I was never really a fan of Gabriel and only went because my friends had an extra ticket. But lo and behold, Peter Gabriel was absolutely amazing and his show had not one single boring moment. I was certainly blown away. The next day I went out and bought "So" and "Greatest Hits". I think nowadays Mr Gabriel runs a music label called Real World Records.
Oh yeah, right now I'm listening to Smashing Pumpkins.
2005-04-02 03:26 | User Profile
Joan Baez [I]Joan[/I] album (1967) esp. The Lady Came from Baltimore and Annabel Lee
2005-04-02 03:27 | User Profile
World Ov Worms by Zyklon
2005-04-02 03:48 | User Profile
'80s pop/rock, [I]The Cars-Complete Greatest Hits[/I] , The Police's [I]Every Breath You Take: The Classics[/I]
2005-04-02 06:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Blues Newburg, from Danny Gatton's magnificent 88 Elmira Street album. [/QUOTE]
Ditto on Danny - and how about "Quiet Village" right [I]after [/I] "Newburg"?
2005-04-02 06:54 | User Profile
Baron Rojo's Metalmorfosis - This album is so loud and the riffs are so powerful that they can neuter a charging rhino at 50 paces.:)
2005-04-02 13:47 | User Profile
Iggy Pop 'Girls' :cool2:
2005-04-04 07:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Ditto on Danny - and how about "Quiet Village" right [I]after [/I] "Newburg"?[/QUOTE]
Lovely chord work on that one. My favorites are Blues Newburg, Elmira St. Boogie, Funky Mama & Red Label - the latter two Danny performed on his world-shattering Austin City Limits appearance. I managed to cop some of that stuff - an ongoing master class, if you will..... :smartass:
2005-04-04 07:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]Great album and great musician. What's the story behind that- I had read he was frustrated by his relative lack of success, but is there more to it?
Fight Songs[/QUOTE]
Perhaps there was: Danny's longtime bassist John Previti said that he thinks that Danny might have had a slight stroke before he killed himself - and I read just the other day that he'd had an argument with his wife just before he stormed to his garage and did the deed.
No one really knows why he did it, and no one ever will. But we do know that he was depressed about not being able to make it in the vocation he was born for, due to the near total lack of industry support (real artistes like Mudonna and the troops of anonymous rap apes get all that, ya see).
And for that crime, the Lipshitzim alone are to blame. :caiphas: :hitler:
2005-04-04 07:54 | User Profile
That's the double-edge to winning Guitar Player magazine's [I]Best Unknown Guitarist of the Year[/I] award.
The first time you win it, it's a huge thrill - you're about to arrive as a pro. But by your fifth straight win, it's become a bitter joke....and so's your 'pro' career.
2005-04-04 09:10 | User Profile
The Cat Empire
2005-04-13 05:35 | User Profile
Right now it's Exit...Stage Left by Rush.
2005-04-13 06:59 | User Profile
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
2005-04-13 08:59 | User Profile
While I'm not playing it [U]right[/U] now (it's 5am), earlier today I was listening to another world-class guitarist who killed himself ten years ago - Petri Walli of [I]Kingston Wall[/I], a Finnish power trio who'd be legendary if they were somewhat better known - as well as [I]Mandragora [/I] (hypnotic limey psych a la the Ozric Tentacles) and the retro organ-fueled primal chug of [I]Atomic Rooster[/I], all while awaiting the arrival of Spock's Beard's OCTANE in the mail.
2005-04-13 09:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]ho ho...
OK, just changed my tastes--to Frank Zappa. Not the silly sh*t (of which there was so much), but on Apostrophe, he had some incredible, serious music (still bent-humor, but, hey, that was Frank Zappa...).[/QUOTE]
Yes, "Apostrophe" is an incredible album. Its both extremely humourous and demonstrative of the fact that Frank Zappa was one Hell of a guitarist. I sold off about 85% of my CD collection a year ago, but that was one I kept.
"So Fido turns to me and asks, 'What is your conceptual continuity?,' I turn to the dog, sort of staring in disbelief, and I say, 'You can't say that!'"
2005-04-13 09:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Spock's Beard 'V': The Great Nothing[/QUOTE]
I remember seeing ads for "Spock's Beard" playing small gigs at bars and such here in the Bay Area a decade ago. I thought it was such a cool name for a band; nice to see they apparently managed some degree of commercial success.
2005-04-13 09:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]the only "rock" drummer who could compare to Collins is Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra, which was an all-instrumental rock/jazz project of John McLaughlin's in the early 70s).[/QUOTE]
"You've lurched, uncontrollably, into the truth!"
2005-04-13 09:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]What a coincidence that you posted this. I was just listening to this album yesterday, and thinking how good it was. It's hard to believe that Genesis would eventually sink to the level of 'Invisible Touch.' I'm also a Peter Gabriel fan. His old stuff is great, and even his newer albums (So, Us, Up) are quite good.[/QUOTE]
Genesis with Gabriel was decent; Genesis with Phil Collins was an abomination (the only good thing they ever did was that video with all the puppet heads of various political figures gurgling about in a swamp; surely someone remembers that odd little piece). Speaking of videos, all of Peter Gabriel's videos for the "So" album (the one with "Sledgehammer" and "In Your Eyes"; that one did get sold last year, I'm afraid), way back in '86, were totally friggin' awesome and ahead of their time. That helps to explain why, despite not really being a Gabriel fan, I saw him in concert that year (the fact a really good friend of mine was going being the other reason). I was only 15, amusingly enough.
2005-04-13 09:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sather_Gate]Joan Baez [I]Joan[/I] album (1967) esp. The Lady Came from Baltimore and Annabel Lee[/QUOTE]
When I got arrested for a "hate" crime/expressing my opinion about the Jews to some Jews, Joan Baez was the master of ceremonies at the "anti-hate rally" which was held in protest of me and my beliefs. Needless to say, I hate that cunt. But at least I get to have a world-famous celebrity as a personal enemy; not everyone can say that. :nerd:
2005-04-13 09:49 | User Profile
On CD, I've mainly been listening to my two Flatt & Scruggs CDs (the first is a CD that contains two of their original albums, i.e. "Hard Travellin'" and "Final Fling," while the other is part of an anthological series of various, apparently well-regarded musicians called "20th Centiury Masters: Flatt & Scruggs), "Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits," Laibach (particularly the "WAT," "NATO," and "MacBeth" albums), an old double-live Johnny Cash album taped from appearances at Folsom and San Quentin prisons, and my two Rammstein CDs (the names are in German, so I don't recall what they are, but I THINK its their first two albums; they're from '97 and '98, in any event, and they kick ass, especially the '98 one). I also have a really cool live album by Sol Invictus, entitled "Trieste" (as that's where they played the concert), that I've been playing a bit lately.
In my car, I have to use cassette tapes, so I've mainly been listening to Laibach's "Opus Dei" and "Let it Be," along with Celtic Dawn's "Faith & Fatherland," and Bound for Glory's "The Fight Goes On" and "Glory Awaits."
2005-04-13 09:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE]I remember seeing ads for "Spock's Beard" playing small gigs at bars and such here in the Bay Area a decade ago. I thought it was such a cool name for a band; nice to see they apparently managed some degree of commercial success.[/QUOTE]
[I]Very [/I] small, and what there is is mostly in Europe. Their current US tour is a whole entire [I]two [/I] dates: this past Saturday nite in SF, and the following night in LA. And that was only because the keyboardist lives near SF while the rest of them live just outside LA, so they could drive to the show from home and not have to eat the kind of equipment-rental and insurance costs an actual US tour would entail. (The tour previous was 8 dates and averaged 150-200 patrons per gig - all incredible shows, but they didn't make a dime.)
Kevin, you shoulda checked em out. If they ever come around your way again, you [I]still [/I] oughta.
2005-04-13 18:42 | User Profile
[U]RIGHT[/U] now I'm listening to Rotterdam Terror Corps. nose bleed of a track called Rotterdam hooligans, but I usualy listen to the likes of; Frank Zappa :thumbsup:(this might be your one shot deal, you are what you is, peaches en regalia...), Pink Floyd (dark side of the moon album, climbing, allens psychodelic breakfast...), Flatt and scruggs (foggy mountain breakdown, drink that mash, orange blosson special...), The Ramones (Blitzkrieg bop, psycho therapy, commando...), Dave Brubeck (take five, unsquare dance, blue rondo a la turk...), The Police (message in a bottle, walking on the moon...), Eva Cassidy, Cannibal Corpse, Skrewdriver:angry:, Big Audio Dynamite, Happy Mondays, Various classical music (prefer the Baroque period), The Saints, Radio Birdman, Motorhead, Diana Krall, Steely Dan, Dave Clarke, The "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" sound track, various 80's cheese! to name a few.
2005-04-13 20:34 | User Profile
Currently -- [u]The Who -- The Who Sell Out[/u] -- an odd concept album that is done as if it were a morning of radio on a London station in the late 60s or early 70s, including songs, fake commercials, and radio promos. It is a 'concept album' but much of it is so silly that it never seems self-indulgent. Plus, it includes some great tracks, like Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand and I Can See for Miles.
[u]Pinback -- This Is a Pinback CD[/u] -- these guys make laid back, very melodic music, with layers of harmony stacked atop one another. Good stuff.
2005-04-14 03:39 | User Profile
It is sickening the way the kikes have relegated truly great musicians to oblivion: geniuses losing money to play in shitty bars while sacs of pus like Mudonna pack Madison Square Garden with teen girls & faggots.....
But today, I was treated to some encouraging news: I bought this month's GUITAR WORLD, and they had an article saying that "power metal" (traditional '80s-style neoclassical hard rock) is making a comeback in the States (it never went away at all in Europe & Japan, of course). Many of the players interviewed came of age in the musical Sahara that was the '90s, and first started playing that wretched death, thrash & nu metal shit, soon became bored by the endless negativity, tuneless guitar bashing and constipated bear yawps, then turned to the infinitely musically superior older style. Malmsteen is their ultimate idol (love him or hate his overkill, there's no denying he was an original, and the sucker can play).
Good. And by God, it's about time.
Another great article is an interview with Jimmy Page on the 30th anniversary of PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. Very interesting. Jimmy says that he saw a ghost at Headley Grange, the old Victorian workhouse in which they recorded GRAFFITI & ZOSO, and he boldly states: "Even when Led Zeppelin was mediocre, we were still better than everybody else."
2005-04-14 09:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]But today, I was treated to some encouraging news: I bought this month's GUITAR WORLD, and they had an article saying that "power metal" (traditional '80s-style neoclassical hard rock) is making a comeback in the States (it never went away at all in Europe & Japan, of course). Many of the players interviewed came of age in the musical Sahara that was the '90s, and first started playing that wretched death, thrash & nu metal shit, soon became bored by the endless negativity, tuneless guitar bashing and constipated bear yawps, then turned to the infinitely musically superior older style. I certainly wouldn't lump the better death and thrash bands in with "nu metal." I agree that the latter sucks terribly -- bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit aren't even really metal, in my opinion -- but most of the best death, thrash, and black metal is very sophisticated and frequently influenced by classical music as well. What a lot of people can't get past when it comes to bands like that is the screaming and/or "gargling with broken glass" vocal style. I can understand that. It's a taste acquired gradually, and while I generally like aggressive vocals, I also like to hear clean, melodic singing when I'm in the mood for that. Some bands use both styles, depending on the song.
The best metal is often difficult to categorize. My all-time favorite is probably King Diamond. (Even my elderly mother who listens almost exclusively to classical stuff likes King Diamond's music, though she doesn't care for his singing, which is melodic but often alternates betwen a high falsetto and a low growl.) If you like complex metal with a lot of contrasting moods and tempos, guitar harmonies, and highly technical but emotional leads, you can't go wrong with King Diamond. Ignore his ghoulish stage makeup and the sometimes-cheesy storylines behind his lyrics and just focus on his music -- it's simply brilliant. His longtime guitarist, Andy LaRocque, is basically God on the guitar. Check out his 27-fret Caparison:
[url]http://www.kyowashokai.co.jp/caparison%20english/caparison-andylarocque.html[/url]
If you pick up Conspiracy by King Diamond, you will be blown away by the musicianship. Nothing else is even possible. The same is true for most of his other albums: House Of God, Abigail, and Them all kick enormous ass (although Them is a little weak in the production department).
Malmsteen is their ultimate idol (love him or hate his overkill, there's no denying he was an original, and the sucker can play). Malmsteen is indeed an awesome guitarist -- one of the very best in the world. His lead playing is phenomenal. I do find most of his riffs boring, though. That's sort of the downfall of a lot of the virtuoso soloists such as Malmsteen, Vai, Stump, etc.: their technique is brilliant, but their riffing is often trite. I like to hear much more complicated tempo changes, modulation, etc.
Another great article is an interview with Jimmy Page on the 30th anniversary of PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. Very interesting. Jimmy says that he saw a ghost at Headley Grange, the old Victorian workhouse in which they recorded GRAFFITI & ZOSO, and he boldly states: "Even when Led Zeppelin was mediocre, we were still better than everybody else."[/QUOTE] That's actually a rather arrogant thing for him to say, especially since it's not true. They may have been more popular than everyone else, but they certainly weren't better. The musicians in Yes, for example, were more talented than those of Led Zeppelin, IMO. Yes's music was often less accessible, though.
2005-04-14 11:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE]....making a comeback in the States (it never went away at all in Europe & Japan, of course). [/QUOTE]
I think that's a point that bears repeating, or, rather, restatement: there's never been a shortage of good music. What there is is a dearth of cultural reinforcement....if Pavlov's dogs didn't receive their 'reward', the sound of that bell would have lost any significance to them. It's an odd thing to buy new music that
a- is really and truly good, yet
b- seemingly nobody but you knows or cares about
because part of the physical response to great music is andrenaline and excitement and an almost palpable need for social interacton - a need to [I]share [/I] that sense of discovery and pleasure with others. These days, discovering a knockout band out of left field is a lot like being all dressed up with nowhere to go. What does it say about the health of society when quality, more and more often, exists - and is appreciated - in a virtual vacuum?
I first noticed this during the advent of disco (so for once I'm not going to hang the albatross around Murray Rothstein's fat neck). Disco's emphasis on sexual exhibitionism - on hair-obsessed, dandyish men and eye-candy, coke-slut women - really resonated with hormonal youth and overrode the idiotic repetitive simplicity of the mostly-machine-tooled 'music'. The priapic thumpa-thumpa of disco acted as a Pavlovian bell to most of my friends at the time - a cultural signifier/lifestyle accessory/mating call all rolled up in one. I remember getting into a buddy's car circa 1978 or so, my eardrums assaulted as usual by nog-jungle rhythms boiled down to their grunting-primate essence; I shut off his radio, said something flip like "now let's try some music for a change", and popped in a tape of something far more worthwhile (I forget what -Thin Lizzy, The Who, Jean-Luc Ponty...something like that). After a few minutes he turned to me and said, "This is some awesome stuff" in complete sincerity. And two minutes after that, we saw a couple of girls we knew from the neighborhood and [I]whap [/I] - the radio was back on and "Push Push In the Bush" was clogging the car-speakers again as if by mindless reflex. That [I]other [/I] stuff wasn't going to reinforce an image that might conceivably get him liked (and thus laid), so out it went, baby and bathwater both.
[I]It didn't matter [/I] that he actually liked the superior music far more than the shit on his radio presets. For him, it was something that - its quality notwithstanding - existed in a vacuum; it could not get him liked or accepted or laid. Fun's fun, but business is business.
PS: I love THE WHO SELL OUT, too. Particularly the recent, much-expanded cd version.
2005-04-14 14:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno] PS: I love THE WHO SELL OUT, too. Particularly the recent, much-expanded cd version.[/QUOTE] Odorono and Tatto are hilarious, and the Coke chant ('Coke after Coke after Coke after Coca-cola' in track 15, I think) is both funny and catchier than any actual jingle Coke ever had.
2005-04-14 18:40 | User Profile
Dixie Chicks.
I love the Chicks, and I think they love me.
2005-04-14 19:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Dixie Chicks.
I love the Chicks, and I think they love me.[/QUOTE] Although I don't like country music, it's easy to recognize that the Dixie Chicks are a very talented band. Their command of their instruments is most impressive.
Of course, they also deserve enormous respect for speaking out against the Iraq invasion. They took a lot of venom for that from the mindless, bleating, "patriotic" masses, yet they didn't back down.
2005-04-14 20:24 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=3076414]KCBD.com[/URL]
Monday marked the two year anniversary of the Dixie Chick ban on Lubbock radio. The ban stems from negative comments Lubbock native Natalie Maines made about President Bush at a London concert in 2003. NewsChannel 11 spent the day calling local radio stations and researching other markets. We found that two years later, the ban remains in effect.
Since the controversy began, Lubbock country music airwaves have never been the same. But we found a light at the end of the tunnel.
Flipping through Lubbock radio there's one thing you can bet you won't hear...The Dixie Chicks.
"We are not currently playing the Dixie Chicks," explains Jeff Scott, Program Director for KLLL. He says the trend is the same across the country. The reason? He says audience demand. "From the very outset it has been our listeners who have indicated that they don't want to hear the Dixie Chicks."
"I think Lubbock radio stations are right on cue," says a listener with a laugh. "We're in West Texas so that's probably part of the problem but I partly agree," says another.
"I think it's their loss, I think it's a loss for people who like to listen to them," explains a listener who says he enjoys the group. "I think you should forgive and forget probably," adds another listener.
For now, majority rules at KLLL. "If the audience says they want to hear the Dixie Chicks then we'd be the first to put them on," says Scott.
"It's been two years we're going to end that," says a DJ at KCRM The Bear as he makes history, playing a Dixie Chick's song for the first time in two years.
"What a better time to go ahead and do something that we've been talking about doing for a long time," explains Kidd Manning, Program Director. He says he'd like to see the end of the negativity against the trio. "All we can do is say hey, let's put it on and hope for the best," he adds.
We spoke with the DJ at The Bear and he says after playing the Chicks they haven't received any negative comments. In addition, Manning says they're working on bringing the Dixie Chicks to Lubbock for a show. The band is currently in the studio in California working on their new album.
2005-04-14 22:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]
Of course, they also deserve enormous respect for speaking out against the Iraq invasion. They took a lot of venom for that from the mindless, bleating, "patriotic" masses, yet they didn't back down.[/QUOTE]Exactly right. These women did'nt jump on the bandwagon of boobs that cheerleader on Pa. Ave -- Dumbya -- helped put on the road. Good for them!!
I live in a small Southern town where country music is BIG. Personally, I think the format's come a long way in the past 20 years or so. Seeing Bocephus in concert in '85 in south Florida made me a true believer in country. He was awesome back then! While I like the music itself (it's #2 in my book, after blues-rock -- Zeppelin, Cream, Savoy Brown, Foghat, Johhny Winter -- which had its day in the sun), the way some of these guys blindly support with their lyrics what we're doing in the ME at the behest of our Jewish overlords just sickens the hell out of me. These bumpkins go no further in their "thinking" than what Junior tells them. "Wahr over thar fightin' fer freedom an' 'mocracy, dammit! Les kill awl them thar terrorist sand nigres!!"
Bunch of gullible goyim in ten gallon hats...
to Hell with them and their mindless ribbons and "United We Stand" bumperstickers.
2005-04-14 23:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]It is sickening the way the kikes have relegated truly great musicians to oblivion: geniuses losing money to play in shitty bars while sacs of pus like Mudonna pack Madison Square Garden with teen girls & faggots.....
But today, I was treated to some encouraging news: I bought this month's GUITAR WORLD, and they had an article saying that "power metal" (traditional '80s-style neoclassical hard rock) is making a comeback in the States (it never went away at all in Europe & Japan, of course). Many of the players interviewed came of age in the musical Sahara that was the '90s, and first started playing that wretched death, thrash & nu metal shit, soon became bored by the endless negativity, tuneless guitar bashing and constipated bear yawps, then turned to the infinitely musically superior older style. Malmsteen is their ultimate idol (love him or hate his overkill, there's no denying he was an original, and the sucker can play).
Good. And by God, it's about time.
Another great article is an interview with Jimmy Page on the 30th anniversary of PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. Very interesting. Jimmy says that he saw a ghost at Headley Grange, the old Victorian workhouse in which they recorded GRAFFITI & ZOSO, and he boldly states: "Even when Led Zeppelin was mediocre, we were still better than everybody else."[/QUOTE]Way to go, N.B.! Still pluggin' Zep I see. And WTF not??? Only the greatest rock/blues-rock band of all time. I can't exactly recall where (RS, maybe?), but I once read that during their heyday, Zep was outselling The Stones three to one in record sales!! I mean, c'mon -- we know that Pagey & Co. were a helluva lot better than The Stones, but....*three to one?!? *
You ever hear tell of this -- to me, anyway -- remarkable bit of trivia? I would've honestly thought the reverse...
2005-04-15 03:49 | User Profile
"I wrapped a newspaper 'round my head, so I looked like I was deep; I said some mumbo-jumbo, then I told him he was goin' to sleep. I robbed his rings and pocketwatch and everything else I found; I had that sucker hypnotized-- he couldn't even make a sound. I proceeded to tell him his future, then: As long as he was hanging around, I said:
[B]The price of meat has just gone up, and your old lady has just gone down[/B]."
"Cosmik Debris" (Frank Zappa, [I]Apostrophe[/I], 1973)
2005-04-15 10:52 | User Profile
There was a young man- from the negro persuasion, who thought it would be fly- to become a caucasion. He stopped eating pork- he stopped eating greens, he traded his [can't remember the word!]- for some jordass jeans. He learnt to play golf- and he got a good score, now he says to himself- "I 'aint no nigger no more".
[B]You are what you is, by Frank Zappa.[/B]
Some take the bible for what it's worth and it says that the meek shall inherit the earth well I heard that some shiek, bought New Jersey last week and you suckers 'aint getting nothing.
Is Hare Rama really wrong, when you wander around with a napkin on and a bell on a stick and your hair is all gone THE GEEK SHALL INHERIT NOTHING!
[B]Some take the Bible wrong, Frank Zappa.[/B]
It's a shame he wasn't given the recognition that he deserved, but I guess the Jews running the music industry didn't want people to hear what he had to say.
2005-04-15 11:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ledhead V-2]Way to go, N.B.! Still pluggin' Zep I see. And WTF not??? Only the greatest rock/blues-rock band of all time.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. I was just playing along to the LED ZEPPELIN dvd before, and lovin' it.
To all: if you don't have the dvd already, GET IT.
[QUOTE]You ever hear tell of this -- to me, anyway -- remarkable bit of trivia? I would've honestly thought the reverse... [/QUOTE]
Never heard it.
2005-04-15 11:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE]That's actually a rather arrogant thing for him to say, especially since it's not true. They may have been more popular than everyone else, but they certainly weren't better. The musicians in Yes, for example, were more talented than those of Led Zeppelin, IMO. Yes's music was often less accessible, though.[/QUOTE]
The musicians in Yes were certainly more techically advanced than Zep, but their tunes themselves don't quite measure up. Jimmy Page, admittedly a sloppy technician, is the Lord of the Hook; the greatest hard rock songwriter of all time.
2005-04-15 11:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE][I]It didn't matter [/I] that he actually liked the superior music far more than the shit on his radio presets. For him, it was something that - its quality notwithstanding - existed in a vacuum; it could not get him liked or accepted or laid. Fun's fun, but business is business.[/QUOTE]
Yes, for most sheeple, music is just another social lubricant or fashion statement; a means to the end that is Hot Pussy, or that "gorgeous" hunk's baloney pony.
For me, good music is an essential part of the enjoyment of life: if I'm driving with the radio on and some aural shit starts blowing from the speakers, my hand instantly reaches out and I keep turning that knob until I find something pleasing; I simply CANNOT abide trash - and I can't help feeling contempt for those who mindlessly gobble it up.
In the power metal article, one of the players says "American kids know absolutely nothing but what's on MTV. They passively accept it, while in Europe people seek out the good stuff." Another musician said that "Over there, I was amazed to find guys wearing jean jackets with band patches and drinking big cans of beer - just like the '80s!"
In other words: it's a WHITE music/social scene, and yea, it is good.
As Malmsteen humorously put it: "When I was a kid, we idolized rock musicians because they looked great onstage - they didn't just wear street clothes. Now, you got nothing but tattooed assholes who can't play wearing socks on their heads....." :punk:
2005-04-15 16:39 | User Profile
No need to compare Yes to Led Zeppelin; or Zeppelin to Frank Zappa (at his best; a lot of his sh*t is just stick-it-in-yer-eye satire...but the rest of it is genius).
Genius is genius. The first four Led Zep LPs are quintessential music. Period. (Jimmy Page is a totally different kind of guitarist than is Steve Howe; Plant milks the gals' lower regions, whereas Jon Anderson goes for your Third Eye; Chris Squire is the superior bassist, period; Bonham versus Bill Bruford...well, it depends what you're into: I like Bruford, 'cos I like his tricky rhythmic sense; I like vintage Phil Collins in early-Genesis even more than I like Bruford; were I a bandleader, I'd probably take Billy Cobham [Mahavishnu Orchestra] over any of them].
Gimme Zep over anything other than the finest jazz or progressive rock, and I'll listen to Zep. But I still prefer vintage Yes and Genesis (the vintage stuff) to Zep.
So it is to be human. :thumbsup:
2005-04-15 17:38 | User Profile
Webb Wilder- [U]Hybrid Vigor[/U]
[B]Human Cannonball[/B] R.S. Field Crossunder Music (ASCAP)
[I]Saw the ad in the paper said the hell with it all took a gig with the circus as the human cannonball
It didn't take long to learn my trade very first show, man I blew the folks away now the jobs a little risky but I'm my own boss I gotta tell ya jack it really gets me off
I live in a tent with the worlds strongest man when I met the mother like to broke my hand my baby she's a lady in the high wire act when I'm feeling tense she walks on my back
now the pays ok the benefits are great I get to shoot the bull with the worlds smartest ape
ahh hahhh I'm the human cannonball I'm the human cannonbaaaa-all y'all
Well I'm a hot shot I'm a cool breeze Underneath the big top I'm the big cheese I lay it on the line Let it all hang when I go least I know I'll go with a bang
I reckon i'm living every kids dream its a buzz its a gas its a real scream
ahh hahhh I'm the human cannonball I'm the humman cannon baaaa-all y'all
yeah....
Alright folks just make yourself at home Have a snow cone and enjoy the show
They put me on the cover of the USA TODAY tell the world what the Human Cannonball got to say On the Carson show they sayin' "HC... what you do you got to be right out of your tree"
Well its a little risky but I'm my own boss I got to tell you John it really gets me off
ahh hahhh I'm the human cannonball I'm the human cannonbaaa-all y'all
I'm the human cannonball I'm the human cannonbaaa-all y'all
yeah...
hahahahaha Now blast off!! I said.... Blast Off
ahhahahhhahhhahhha ahhahahhhahhhahhha ahhahahhhahhhahhha[/I]
2005-04-15 18:38 | User Profile
Listen to some Jaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!
Man that guy goes... what a cracking gig in Brixton Academy 1996 - me and the bro's were there - 27 people on stage, fantastic. Just cannot get better.
2005-04-15 18:59 | User Profile
Metal is doing well in Russia, apparently:
[url]http://www.exile.ru/2005-April-08/moscow_metal.html[/url]
2005-04-15 19:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]baloney pony:[/QUOTE]
Baloney pony??? :clap:
I swear, General, sir. You do have a way with words. :thumbsup:
2005-04-15 20:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sambo]Listen to some Jaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!
Man that guy goes... what a cracking gig in Brixton Academy 1996 - me and the bro's were there - 27 people on stage, fantastic. Just cannot get better.[/QUOTE]
This command of the modern Negro venacular is most impressive.
MauMau, anyone?
2005-04-15 20:26 | User Profile
I wouldn't listen to James Brown even if he was white! He's a filthy sodomite and a drug riddled wacko if you ask me.
I'm listening to the beaten generation by a little know band called The the.
2005-04-15 22:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]This command of the modern Negro venacular is most impressive.
MauMau, anyone?[/QUOTE]I don't think our trolling friend here is Black. Read his other posts -- they reek of Jew/Jew apologist. Plus, he makes no mention of his penis size, watermelon, or crack cocaine (big slip-up on your part, Buckwheat....eh, I mean Sambo).
It's anyone's guess though, really...
can't expect he/she..."it", to tell us the truth now, can we?
2005-04-16 00:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Axiom]I'm listening to the beaten generation by a little know band called The the.[/QUOTE]I liked 'Soul Mining'. I remember reading an NME interview with Matt Johnson around the time 'Infected' was released (1986) in which he lambasted Britain's role as America's lapdog; he called Britain the '51st State of America'.
But, in light of recent events, I would say Israel is the 51st State of America--but in this case America is Israel's lapdog.
2005-04-17 05:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Baloney pony??? :clap:
I swear, General, sir. You do have a way with words. :thumbsup:[/QUOTE]
'Fraid I can't claim the credit for that one - dammit :biggrin: The first time I heard it, my reaction was the same as yours.
2005-04-17 06:16 | User Profile
Gents, I googled up this phenomenal guitar gunslinger named Rusty Cooley the other day: go to the videos page on his site and check out the almost superhuman sweep-picking on the REVOLUTION 1991 clip - and prepare to be blown the hell away.
[url]http://www.rustycooley.com/home.html[/url]
2005-04-17 07:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Gents, I googled up this phenomenal guitar gunslinger named Rusty Cooley the other day: go to the videos page on his site and check out the almost superhuman sweep-picking on the REVOLUTION 1991 clip - and prepare to be blown the hell away.
[url]http://www.rustycooley.com/home.html[/url][/QUOTE]
LOL. I almost jumped in to this discussion the other day to mention Rusty, but decided against it since it hits very, very close to home. Cooley plays lead in a band called Outworld here in these parts.
2005-04-17 07:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Gents, I googled up this phenomenal guitar gunslinger named Rusty Cooley the other day: go to the videos page on his site and check out the almost superhuman sweep-picking on the REVOLUTION 1991 clip - and prepare to be blown the hell away.
[url]http://www.rustycooley.com/home.html[/url][/QUOTE]
HOLY CRAP!! :shocking:
2005-04-17 07:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]HOLY CRAP!! :shocking:[/QUOTE]
Yep. Graham Chapman would call watching that a "brown trouser job". :dung: :punk: :biggrin:
2005-04-17 07:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]LOL. I almost jumped in to this discussion the other day to mention Rusty, but decided against it since it hits very, very close to home. Cooley plays lead in a band called Outworld here in these parts.[/QUOTE]
Have you seen this fellow work his magic live? If so, what did you think after you regained consciousness?
2005-04-17 08:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Have you seen this fellow work his magic live? If so, what did you think after you regained consciousness?[/QUOTE]
I've actually never seen him live NB, but he offers lessons from my local music store. I don't know him personally, but a fairly close, long time friend of my family knows him very well in a musical way. My kids wear Outworld t-shirts from time to time, if that tells you anything. :lol:
I'm not a big fan of that type of orchestral rock, but the guy can flat-out play, no doubt.
2005-04-17 20:06 | User Profile
Now on: "Rite of String: Dedicated to John [Coltrane]"
Check out this lineup:
Al Di Meola (guitar) Chick Corea (piano) Jean-luc Ponty (violin) Stanley Clarke (bass)
What a smoker! Totally acoustic; no drums (but you wouldn't know that while listening to it, 'cos the rhythm section of Stanley Clarke and Di Meola keeps everything pumping; and the intricacy and style of Ponty's violin work in this one shows why he is the greatest violinist to ever dive into jazz and rock.
I've never heard this tune before; came up through a p-2-p network, and I downloaded it. Same line-up (without drummer Lenny White) as Return to Forever's masterpiece LP [I]Romantic Warrior [/I] (1977). Will have to find out a little more about this pairing of four of the finest musicians to walk this Earth.
2005-04-18 04:34 | User Profile
I am listening to "The Best of Vic Damone." He was one of the better crooners. Sinatra always said he "had the best pipes in the business."
2005-04-18 05:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Yep. Graham Chapman would call watching that a "brown trouser job". :dung: :punk: :biggrin:[/QUOTE]
I watched that video clip. Yes, he is very good.
But, I still am in total awe whenever I watch Jimi Hendrix play the song "Red House" live with that black Flying-V guitar, in the film "Jimi Hendrix." It's almost like a religious experience. That, and watching Jimmy Page play "Since I've Been Loving You" or "Dazed and Confused" live in the movie "The Song Remains the Same."
2005-04-18 21:52 | User Profile
My apologies for belaboring the obvous to anyone who already knows all this, but I figured – as the topic now seems to be unknown and overlooked guitar heroes, I might as well strike while the iron’s hot and we have all these lurkers.
Those of you who favor shredders no doubt already shop there, but if you haven’t been, check out Dan McAvinchey’s online store, guitarnine.com, which has gone, in 5 short years, from a boutique carrying lesser-known up and comers to a stronghouse warehousing tons of guitar virtuosos both renowned and ignored playing in every style categorizable and a few that ain’t. It’s where I discovered some awesome players I otherwise would not have been exposed to: Bernd Steidl, Dave Beegle of Fourth Estate, Rob Balducci, Igor Belsky, Michael Lee Firkins and many others equally as worthy. One stop shopping for all axe maniacs.
Some of the best recent-vintage guitar playing I’ve heard can be found on Ozric Tentacles cds. They seem to frighten off a lot of rock fans, though, who smell a techno or world-music outfit in camouflage. And they have and do dabble with both; you can always hear a little reggae, and lots of Turkish scales, on every Ozric Tentacles album, but nevertheless Ed Wynne is a world-class guitarist that any rock or metal fan would be impressed by. I suspect Wynne's flawless hypnotic jams have been a bigger influence on his colleagues than is generally fesed up to.
He’s probably better noted for his vocals and presence and songwriting, but don’t overlook Warren Haynes of GOVT MULE & the Allmans. Particularly in his Gov’t Mule incarnation, Haynes is a fluid, expressive and vastly-underrated guitarist…commanding without being showy, and a perfect and pefectly organic Greek chorus to his great, soulful vocals. Thanks to their nonstop touring, Gov’t Mule is about the only hard-rock band born during the MTV 90s that are still around and still relevant and still able to pay the bills without having to go overseas to do it.
In the interests of brutal honesty, I’ve got to note 90s releases by two black guys who excel in the rock idiom, Jesse Johnson (ex of THE TIME) issued a few Prince-soundalike solo efforts garnished here and there with his incendiary jamming, and one flat-out guitar classic, called BARE MY NAKED SOUL thatI think holds the world record for going in and out of print. It was barely even released, but nab it if you happen to find it. Ernie Isley was the one who plated guitar and came up with the memorable break in Who’s That Lady. Around 1991, with little fanfare and somewhat out of left field, he released an album called HIGH WIRE that hit me almost like a funkier 88 ELMIRA ST with vocals….a master class in lead guitar applied to any number of hard-rock styles; one of the great guitar albums.
And it must be noted, albeit too briefly, that some of the very best players you’ve never heard play in European or South American bands who never got a wider release than their own backyards, and were available here, if at all, as prohibitively-priced imports. (Many are now available as reasonably-priced cd reissues, I’m happy to add.) Petri Walli of Finland’s Kingston Wall was possibly the best heavy-rock player Europe has ever had, who avoided the cliches of neoclassical speed-for-its-own-sake by instead developing a brilliant retro style that blended Hendrix/Blackmore/Page influences into something uniquely all his own; like Danny Gatton, he too punched his own ticket in 1994.
In addition, the Dutchmen Joop van Niewegen (of Finch) and the de Hont brothers (Cargo); Czechs Radim Hladik (Modry Efekt), Frantisek Griglak (Fermata) and Michael Pavlicek (Stromboli); the lyrical Swede Roine Stolt (Flower Kings) and Argentinean fireballer Pino Marrone (of Crucis), are all brilliant players who remain unheard by most of the people who’d appreciate them best. Not that you can pick em up at Best Buy, but – if you do get the opportunity to hear any of these guys and get change back on your twenty– do it.
2005-04-19 00:13 | User Profile
I am listening to a band called "Lifehouse".......there are some really good transcendental tracks on their latest album-
I was just listening to "Chant"- very calming "monk" music
Later on- I will probably hit the 60's- love Joplin and Simon and Garfunkle-parents loved it- guess they passed it on
2005-04-24 00:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=toddbrendanfahey]Just curious. [/QUOTE]
Black Label Society (Zakk Wylde) Yngwie Malmsteen Place of Skulls
When I can't take any more metal, I slap an Andres Segovia CD in the player.
2005-04-24 13:50 | User Profile
been into [I]Splendido Hotel [/I] (Al Di Meola) and the acoustic trio of Di Meola, Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin ([I]Friday Night in San Francisco [/I] and [I]Passion, Grace & Fire[/I]) all weekend.
Doesn't/won't ever get any better than this.
2005-04-24 20:28 | User Profile
Anodyne by Uncle Tupelo
Simply one of the best albums I've ever heard. Just incredible. It's a crying shame that Farrar and Tweedy couldn't continue to work together. But then again, that conflict may be what fueled the genius of the three or four albums Uncle T made.
2005-04-25 15:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Anodyne by Uncle Tupelo[/QUOTE] 'Acuff Rose' and 'New Madrid' off that album are sublime.
2005-04-29 17:41 | User Profile
John Hiatt
2005-06-20 07:19 | User Profile
'Wicked Twisted Road' by Reckless Kelly
:cowboy: :thumbsup:
2005-06-20 16:28 | User Profile
Charlotte Church and Yanni.
2005-06-21 00:43 | User Profile
Recently....
George Jones Super Hits: The greatest country singer who ever lived.
Luiz Bonfa A Brazilian in New York: A Net acquaintance sent it to me. Listening to it now. Some very juicy fingerpicking, but I don't much care for that samba (Sambo?) type shit - too similar (like mariachi noise).
I've also been re-watching my old tapes of Eric Johnson's Austin City Limits appearances: Why can't I do it like that?
2005-06-21 15:41 | User Profile
The White Stripes, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00097A5H2/qid=1119368347/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Get Behind Me Satan[/url]
Pinback, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002Z9ZQI/qid=1119368413/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Summer in Abaddon[/url]
Flying Burrito Brothers, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004ST4S/qid=1119368371/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Hot Burritos![/url]
2005-06-21 15:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]George Jones Super Hits: The greatest country singer who ever lived.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Son of Vidor, Texas - long-time Klan stronghold.
:oh:
2005-06-21 16:00 | User Profile
[B]Coldplay's[/B] newest record "X&Y" is spinning non-stop in my discplayer and is quite excellent, even for a mainstream "pop-rock" band. (I don't have an MP3 player yet...I'm still stuck in the Stone Age of compact discs!)
I've revisited [B]Morrissey[/B]'s last record "You Are The Quarry" recently and have been listening to that one alot too.
Also been listening to alot of "chill out" electronica stuff too.
[QUOTE=Quantrill]The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan[/QUOTE]
Do you like this one, Q?? Something missing without a bass guitar, IMO, but that "Seven Nation Army" tune was pretty friggin' great.
2005-06-21 16:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead] Do you like this one, Q?? Something missing without a bass guitar, IMO, but that "Seven Nation Army" tune was pretty friggin' great.[/QUOTE] X, I do like the new White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan, a great deal, although it had to grow on me a bit. It is more eclectic than their previous efforts, so it doesn't seem as cohesive as Elephant did. 'Seven Nation Army' was actually on Elephant, and that was a great, great album.
I have been on a bit of a White Stripes kick lately, and I've found Jack White to be an interesting fellow. According to an interview I read, he was very close to entering the seminary before he decided to stick with music. He wears a pendant of St. Christopher around his neck, and he gave the singer of the Flaming Lips a statuette of Jesus as a gift. I don't know the details of his theology or politics, but he is a traditionalist at heart, and in many of his songs and interviews, he discusses and laments the passing of our manners and mores. So, yes, I am a pretty big Whites Stripes fan, I guess. If the new record is not rockin' enough for you, then you should check out some of the older stuff, like White Blood Cells or De Stijl.
BTW -- I just got X&Y, but I haven't given it a few good listens yet.
2005-06-21 17:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]X, I do like the new White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan, a great deal, although it had to grow on me a bit. It is more eclectic than their previous efforts, so it doesn't seem as cohesive as Elephant did. 'Seven Nation Army' was actually on Elephant, and that was a great, great album.
I have been on a bit of a White Stripes kick lately, and I've found Jack White to be an interesting fellow. According to an interview I read, he was very close to entering the seminary before he decided to stick with music. He wears a pendant of St. Christopher around his neck, and he gave the singer of the Flaming Lips a statuette of Jesus as a gift. I don't know the details of his theology or politics, but he is a traditionalist at heart, and in many of his songs and interviews, he discusses and laments the passing of our manners and mores. So, yes, I am a pretty big Whites Stripes fan, I guess. If the new record is not rockin' enough for you, then you should check out some of the older stuff, like White Blood Cells or De Stijl.
BTW -- I just got X&Y, but I haven't given it a few good listens yet.[/QUOTE]
Q, I do like the White Stripes for their uniqueness and quirkiness. I like their punk rock ethos even though they might be more blues sounding than punk.
However, let me say something that might sound over-the-top-conspiracy-minded-that-I-am.....I was and still am struck by the color coordination of the White Stripes' fashion.....red, white and black.....the same colors of the Nazi flag. Of course these colors can be nothing but pure coincidence and I'm probably reading too much into it, but when I see magazine pictures and videos and even their other album covers, I just freeze for a moment because those colors are so striking.
"X&Y" took me a few spins to "get it", but now I'm totally hooked. Beautiful guitar sounds and a little more rocking than the other albums. I think if I was married to Gwenyth Paltrow, I'd been inspired to rock too.
2005-06-21 17:49 | User Profile
"Who's Next" by the Who.
A blast from the past.
2005-06-21 18:59 | User Profile
13th Floor Elevators: "Bull of the Woods" - a unique Texas sound
2005-06-22 07:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]"Who's Next" by the Who. [/QUOTE]
One of the all time great albums. I am currently working on a cover version of the Live At Leeds version of My Generation which is basically the first two and half minutes of the song before it morphs into another song.
[quote=mwdallas]13th Floor Elevators: "Bull of the Woods" - a unique Texas sound
Texas may be known for some incredible blues guitarists like SRV and Doyle Bramhall II, but they had some great psychedelic bands also. I have a bunch of 13th Floor Elevator songs stripped from the Tech Web of Sound using Winamp and Streamstripper (only 64 KBPS though).
2005-06-24 02:14 | User Profile
Here is my version of My Generation if anyone cares to give it a listen. It is recorded in the spirit of the Live At Leeds album. One bass track panned to one side, one guitar track panned to the other side. The vocals are slightly off key and don't carry the tune, but it was fun.
[URL=http://www.deecken.com/jim/SnouterMyGeneration.mp3][img]http://www.deecken.com/jim/SnouterMyGeneration.jpg[/img][/URL]
2005-06-24 02:42 | User Profile
Hey, that's not bad, Snouter! I'd make the vocals louder, but it sounds very good. :thumbsup:
Right now I'm listening to Supreme Immortal Art by Abigor.
2005-06-24 13:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Snouter]Here is my version of My Generation if anyone cares to give it a listen. It is recorded in the spirit of the Live At Leeds album. One bass track panned to one side, one guitar track panned to the other side. The vocals are slightly off key and don't carry the tune, but it was fun. [/QUOTE]
Snouter, nice work. Nice bass guitar, whoever that was playing it.
In my old band, we used to cover Pinball Wizard. That was before MP3 was even dreamt about.
"Who's Next" and "Who By Numbers" are my favorite Who records.
2005-06-24 15:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]X, I do like the new White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan, a great deal, although it had to grow on me a bit. It is more eclectic than their previous efforts, so it doesn't seem as cohesive as Elephant did. 'Seven Nation Army' was actually on Elephant, and that was a great, great album.
I have been on a bit of a White Stripes kick lately, and I've found Jack White to be an interesting fellow. According to an interview I read, he was very close to entering the seminary before he decided to stick with music. He wears a pendant of St. Christopher around his neck, and he gave the singer of the Flaming Lips a statuette of Jesus as a gift. I don't know the details of his theology or politics, but he is a traditionalist at heart, and in many of his songs and interviews, he discusses and laments the passing of our manners and mores. So, yes, I am a pretty big Whites Stripes fan, I guess. If the new record is not rockin' enough for you, then you should check out some of the older stuff, like White Blood Cells or De Stijl.
BTW -- I just got X&Y, but I haven't given it a few good listens yet.[/QUOTE]
I listened to an NPR Fresh Air interview featuring Jack White, along with the other Stripe who was nearly mute and somewhat inscrutable when she did speak up. Jack made some very interesting comments along the typical lines of how he wished he was black and could then play the blues honestly, etc. He was very knowledgeable about music, although some of his comments about "mountain music" seemed to be shaped to fit the world view of uberJew Terry Gross.
Like the music, not sure about Jack.
2005-06-24 15:41 | User Profile
Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Mindy Smith.
2005-06-24 19:10 | User Profile
Thanks Angler and xmetalhead. I might mess with the vocals to get them louder (cpoy and paste to add the same track to another track is one way to accomplish that). That is me playing the bass also. I use a Variax 500 guitar and G&L Tribute L-2000 bass and the processor for both is a POD XT Live. The drums on that are a series of clips (Acid Loops) that I arranged from Betamonkey which Cakewalk Guitar Tracks recording software accepts. The technology today is indeed amazing for recording songs and making mp3's.
:rockon:
Just listened to Nazz's Be All That You Can Be is one the Tech Web of Sound. Nazz had musical super genius Todd Rundgren as the guitarist. Robert Antoni's vocals were amazing with Nazz.
2005-06-24 19:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]Jack made some very interesting comments along the typical lines of how he wished he was black and could then play the blues honestly,...[/QUOTE]
I would much rather play like Eric Clapton, the late Rory Gallagher, the late SRV, Joe Bonamassa, Johnny Winter, and others who play(ed) blues better than even the late, great Jimi Hendrix (he had American Indian blood so was much more creative than average Black bluesmen).
2005-06-24 20:22 | User Profile
I have to shamefacedly admit that a sentence like "I'm still stuck in the stone age of compact discs" stuns me. Then again, I don't have the slightest idea what an mp3 is exactly, let alone how you would collect them for home playback. (Can you tell I don't have a IPOD?) Would you plus an IPOD into your CPU and download music...or how does it work? And I thought file-sharing music tracks was now a no-no?
Jeez, the other week I was dragooned into clearing out my old man's garage and found a few 25-yr-old packing cases full of vinyl albums (most near-mint to boot)...and all I could think of was how much more potent music was - in my life at least - when it came packaged in these big clunky cardboard sleeves, the discs scratched and popped every time you played em (and skipped unless you taped a nickel to the tone-arm of the turntable!), and only ran 40 minutes tops. By the time music is marketed and sold as customized subdermal microchip implants, I frankly wonder if it that music will even [I]matter [/I] to anyone (except the microchip manufacturers and Murray Rothstein).
How many revolutions in technology can the human mind process, and reorient itself to accomodate, before it either cracks up or stops caring?
Anyhow, as per cds currently in my changer, it's Don Dixon's ROMEO AT JULLIARD, Horslips' THE MAN WHO BUILT AMERICA and a Mink de Ville best-of, set to 'shuffle'. (CD changers, 'shuffle' functions.... that's as much technology-of-tomorrow as I can handle right now!)
2005-06-24 20:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]I have to shamefacedly admit that a sentence like "I'm still stuck in the stone age of compact discs" stuns me. Then again, I don't have the slightest idea what an mp3 is exactly, let alone how you would collect them for home playback. (Can you tell I don't have a IPOD?) Would you plus an IPOD into your CPU and download music...or how does it work? And I thought file-sharing music tracks was now a no-no?[/QUOTE]
IR, first off, that comment I made was partly sarcastic, noting how compact discs are becoming passé in this 'fast-paced' world. In reality, I still have and listen to, vinyl records and contend that they sound better than any other music medium. (Provided you have a real turntable unit...any made in Germany, for instance.)
As for mp3, I'm no expert....but you'll need software, such as Musicmatch, to interface between your library and portable device. As for MP3 players such as i-Pod as well as other brands, first off you hook it up to your computer via USB port. Take all your CD's and copy them to your library...whole CD's or select cuts, whatever songs you like. You can download select songs from pay sites or free sites directly to your library too. Upload your tracks to your mp3 player. Some mp3 players have capacity for 1000's of songs and some smaller ones hold a few hundred.
2005-06-24 21:20 | User Profile
Ahh...thanks, XMH...I had a feeling that sneaky USB port would come into play.
Yeah, I'd heard something like an IPOD can hold 40,000 (!!) songs....at which point the first thing that I thought was "gee, I don't think I [u]know[/u] 40,000 songs...let along have 40,000 favorites." Then again, how could anyone download-then-upload 40,000 songs without it taking years to fill up an IPOD?
"Yeah, tracks 2 and 3 are killer...then there's, like, 12 or 14,000 filler songs after that....but track 13,258 friggin' smokes!"
Me, I got a simpler system. IPODs are mainly target-marketed to kids....and - like gangsta-rap, belly-shirts and being forced to read Elie Wiesel - most stuff sold to kids is bullshit, without which the world would comfortably continue spinning on its axis anyhow.
2005-06-24 23:53 | User Profile
Yes, there's a difference between luddite-like fogeyism and being a sucker for every mediocre consumer trend...
Besides, Prokofiev's Fifth really does sound better on vinyl.
2005-06-25 03:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]IPODs are mainly target-marketed to kids....[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Every geek or music downloader has one. As for capacity, you can encode in better quality, then it fills up much quicker. There's something in being able to take your music everywhere you go -- car, work etc -- and being able to pick from a lot rather than carrying around a stack of a dozen CDs.
2005-06-25 05:34 | User Profile
I received a 40 GB iPod as an unexpected gift last Christmas and really like it, actually. I have most of my music collection on it (also backed up on an external hard drive on my computer via the included "iTunes" software). Its sound quality is exceptional, it's very reliable and durable, and you can take your whole music collection with you anywhere. You can also buy attachments that allow you to hook it into your car stereo. I mainly use mine while working out, but I do that often enough to make the iPod very worthwhile.
I do recommend the iPod, but 40 GB is probably excessive for most people (including myself, actually, though that wasn't my choice -- it was a gift). To provide some perspective for prospective buyers, I currently have 1325 songs on mine (from 135 CDs). I normally use the 192 kbps encoding rate, which isn't the highest possible but gives excellent sound quality (indistinguishable from higher rates as far as I can hear). This equates to about 8.5 GB of space taken up on my iPod -- far from the total capacity! So unless your CD collection is much larger than mine, I would stick with a smaller iPod if you do pick one up.
2005-06-25 06:01 | User Profile
There is a huge gap in capacity between the ones with a microdrive -- currently at 6GB -- and the ones using a larger drive. I agree that a mini-iPOD may be the best choice for most. When they up that capacity to 10GB, most people will probably be buying minis. 40GB is more like an external hard drive for not only music but everything you may have.
2005-06-25 08:42 | User Profile
[SIZE=4]Jeez, the other week I was dragooned into clearing out my old man's garage and found a few 25-yr-old packing cases full of vinyl albums (most near-mint to boot)...[COLOR=Red]and all I could think of was how much more potent music was - in my life at least - when it came packaged in these big clunky cardboard sleeves[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Yep. Those big ol' album covers were an essential part of the enjoyment of the experience: seeing what clever artistic concepts or interesting photos were chosen: the cover of Led Zep III, for example. That element of pleasure was greatly reduced when they changed to CDs, and its total elimination is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to get an i-POD, its great convenience notwithstanding (the other is I'm totally hopeless with new technologies - I've never even used a cell phone or a pager).
2005-06-25 12:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest] Yep. Those big ol' album covers were an essential part of the enjoyment of the experience: seeing what clever artistic concepts or interesting photos were chosen: the cover of Led Zep III, for example. That element of pleasure was greatly reduced when they changed to CDs, and its total elimination is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to get an i-POD, its great convenience notwithstanding (the other is I'm totally hopeless with new technologies - I've never even used a cell phone or a pager).[/QUOTE] I still remember staring at the covers of my older brothers' Molly Hatchett albums for what seems like hours. That cover art was pretty darn kick-ass to a ten-year-old.
2005-06-25 15:00 | User Profile
Well...given the way Angler's described it - it [I]does [/I] sound int'g.....like a post-apocalyptic Sony Walkman...and I'm assuming you can plug it into external speakers without having to drag along an amplifier, since the 'car' function is cited so often (and seeing somebody with headphones on driving in front of or behind me on the parkway would give me an angina attack otherwise).
I suppose I'll end up getting one sooner or later. Not like I'm looking forward to laboriously down/up-loading 10, 000 songs, mind you. The idea of a 40 gb hard drive you can stick in your shirt pocket is either pretty amazing or pretty scary, though. Knowing me, I'll probably pop for one just around the time the Xmas-season advertising really [I]is [/I] shilling those microchips they surgically implant in your neck.....("This holiday season, turn your voice box into a jukebox! Why settle for just voices in your head when now you can hear the rest of the band, too? Now you can skip ahead...change settings....bump up the volume...or just take your pulse! It's easy and fun with the Sony Necktrola!")
2005-06-26 06:01 | User Profile
The last portable sound playing devices I ever used was a pretty compact Sony FM/AM radio and a standard sized Sony Walkman with a cassette player. I don't plan on getting a new one since I listen mainly at home or in the car.
For the new technology, I have an E-Mu 0404 sound card that feeds the digital music into a home stereo completely separate from the computer. I think it is impossible to get good sound with self powered speakers that feed off the little plug on the PC.
Using Winamp and a free shareware called Streamstripper, it is possible to listen to The Tech Web of Sound (about 2,000 amazing psychedelic songs in rotation) or a number of other "broadcasts" on Winamp and have each song saved automatically. I sold my factory car radio and got an inexpensive Pioneer CD player that can also read mp3's. The Tech Web songs are only 64 KBPS instead of the CD quality 128 KBPS, but they are still listenable. They are about 3 meg a song so over 200 songs can fit on one CD in contrast to less than 10 on a non-mp3 CD format.
2005-06-26 06:24 | User Profile
128 kbps is far from CD quality. Strictly speaking, only lossless formats are CD quality. Lossy formats can approach it, but it's generally believed that 192 kbps is the absolute minimum to have decent quality.
The cheapest setup is cassette player in your car with cassette adapter. Then you can drive it by iPOD. CDs are truly obsolete: too large and hold too little. All this because of the impressive gains in magnetic storage density. Maybe when blu-ray discs come online, optical storage will have a comeback.
2005-07-07 19:51 | User Profile
I've been checking out the new Spoon album, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00082ZRN0/qid=1120765744/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Gimme Fiction[/url]. I like it so far. Their older album, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056O2Q/qid=1120765744/sr=8-3/ref=pd_bbs_ur_3/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Girls Can Tell[/url], is a classic, especially 'Fitted Shirt' (which is actually a very conservative song).
2005-07-08 04:07 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nativeground.com/heart.asp[/url] Wayne Erbsen, old time gospel
some of my favorites ive been listening to again lately: "just over in gloryland" "angel band" "a beautiful life" "methodist pie"
absolutely GREAT stuff if youve never heard this music!
2005-07-08 05:01 | User Profile
20 years ago I used to listen to a lot of gospel - the genuine White Southern variety, not that caterwaulin' coon shit that the juden have made sure is the only type Sam & Sally Suburbia know exists. The Kingsmen Quartet was my favorite.
2005-07-08 14:27 | User Profile
Josey, 'Angel Band' is a classic, and I don't think I've ever heard a version of it that I didn't like. Such a beautiful, poignant song.
2005-07-08 18:17 | User Profile
What am I listening to? The cooling fan in my laptop, with some cheap battery powered plastic wall clock providing the tempo.
2005-08-14 20:29 | User Profile
Okemah and the Melody of Riot
by [url=http://www.sonvolt.net/]Son Volt[/url]
and
Down Home Chrome
by [url=http://www.juniorbrown.com/]Junior Brown[/url]
2005-08-14 21:32 | User Profile
Inside:
Dwight Yoakam - Blame The Vain
Wayne Hancock - Swing Time
X - Big Black Sun
Taggy Tones - Viking Attack (Danish Rockabilly/Psychobilly)
Malcolm Yelvington - A Tennessee Saturday Night
In the car:
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea
Robyn Hitchcock - Greatest...
Bowie - The Singles
Hunters & Collectors - The Collected Works
A comp I made of Loyalist, Ulster Scot flute bands from Ulster
2005-08-14 23:23 | User Profile
That's the second time somebody's brought up Hunters and Collectors this month.
Makes sense. After a decade or so of 70s-music nostalgia, I suppose it's the 80s turn now.
2005-08-15 12:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Okemah and the Melody of Riot
by [url="http://www.sonvolt.net/"]Son Volt[/url]
and
Down Home Chrome
by [url="http://www.juniorbrown.com/"]Junior Brown[/url][/QUOTE] Tex, What do you think of that new Son Volt album? I haven't heard it yet.
2005-08-15 16:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]Tex, What do you think of that new Son Volt album? I haven't heard it yet.[/QUOTE]
Hey Brother Q,
I've only given it about three listens so far, but what immediately jumps out at me is the absence of what I consider to be one major SV ingredient -- the lap steel. I'm all about the lap steel, but you may feel differently.
I would say most of the album sounds like 'Route' off Trace, with the distorted feedback and crunching guitars, though there are a number of softer tunes and even a piano number, which is new.
All in all it's a harder sound, but it's got Jay's excellent lyrics and comfortable voice. If you're a Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo fan, it's definitely worth investing in.
It's not Trace in 1996, but it's real nice having something new from Jay. Get it.
2005-08-15 18:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]That's the second time somebody's brought up Hunters and Collectors this month... [/QUOTE] Actually, I thought it was you who recently mentioned them. Regardless, it prompted me to dig through old vinyl in the garage. He's a very good lyricist - honest comes to mind - and their sound was relatively unique at the time. They were one of the few bands to come out of that barren wasteland for music - the mid-80s.
2005-08-15 22:16 | User Profile
Check out this webcast of the late, great Shawn Lane [I]tearin' it up [/I] with his longtime partner, the fantastic bassist Jonas Hellborg and top-notch drummer Jeff Sipe: fusion at its finest - and far more listenable than shred.
[url]http://www.abstractlogix.com/features_view.php?idno=23[/url]
2005-08-17 15:49 | User Profile
Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here."
[QUOTE]did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?[/QUOTE]
Guilty as charged.
2005-08-17 16:36 | User Profile
The Chieftains, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003F7Z/qid=1124296078/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Another Country[/url] A record that focuses on the relationship between Celtic and Appalachian music, with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, and others appearing as guests.
David Bowie, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001OH7P/qid=1124296443/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7744886-0822263"]Ziggy Stardust[/url] Yeah he was a total fruit, but this is one good album.
2005-08-17 17:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE][Quantrill]The Chieftains, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003F7Z/qid=1124296078/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7744886-0822263?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Another Country[/url] A record that focuses on the relationship between Celtic and Appalachian music, with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, and others appearing as guests.[/QUOTE]
The Chieftains also did the magnificent Down the Old Plank Road, which I can't recommend more highly.
[QUOTE]David Bowie, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001OH7P/qid=1124296443/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7744886-0822263"]Ziggy Stardust[/url] Yeah he was a total fruit, but this is one good album.[/QUOTE]
No need to apologize, Bowie's a genius. He gets a pass, although I have to say some of that stuff is for adults only.
2005-08-17 17:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=N.B. Forrest]Check out this webcast of the late, great Shawn Lane [I]tearin' it up [/I] with his longtime partner, the fantastic bassist Jonas Hellborg and top-notch drummer Jeff Sipe: fusion at its finest - and far more listenable than shred.
[url]http://www.abstractlogix.com/features_view.php?idno=23[/url][/QUOTE]That is outstanding. I especially liked the (second?) song that starts when the timer's at about 4:18. (But what the hell does he say into that mic at ~7:33?? LOL!)
I'd heard Shawn Lane's name mentioned before by guitarists, but I'd never heard him before. It's too bad he died. Health problems? He was clearly an awesome guitarist, but he sure looks like he could've taken better care of his health.
I agree that that stuff they're playing is more enjoyable than shred. Neoclassical shred guitar is amazing from a technical standpoint, but nearly all of it gets boring and predictable quickly, IMO. This music you linked to just kind of takes you away -- it's hypnotic and entrancing, if that doesn't sound too queer. The technique is also superb.
2005-08-18 21:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE]That is outstanding. I especially liked the (second?) song that starts when the timer's at about 4:18. (But what the hell does he say into that mic at ~7:33?? LOL!)[/QUOTE]
I particulary enjoy the strong Indian influence in their music. I don't know for sure what he said, something about Charles Mingus' birthday, wrapped up with "motherf-cker"...lol
[QUOTE]I'd heard Shawn Lane's name mentioned before by guitarists, but I'd never heard him before. It's too bad he died. Health problems? He was clearly an awesome guitarist, but he sure looks like he could've taken better care of his health.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, morbid obesity and chain smoking isn't exactly a longevity-conducive combo....he died of lung failure, by the way.
[QUOTE]I agree that that stuff they're playing is more enjoyable than shred. Neoclassical shred guitar is amazing from a technical standpoint, but nearly all of it gets boring and predictable quickly, IMO. This music you linked to just kind of takes you away -- it's hypnotic and entrancing, if that doesn't sound too queer. The technique is also superb.[/QUOTE]
My sentiments exactly. I too have a deep admiration for the fantastic technique of the best shredders, but I only want to hear that stuff in short, inspirational blasts. On the other hand, I could listen to hot, sophisticated fusion for long stretches, because it tends to have both dazzling technique [I]and[/I] a variety of moods & tempos.
2005-08-28 04:25 | User Profile
Another artist on the way up with a tantalizing voice is Randall Gilbert. I saw him in DC a few weeks ago and he is an all around talent - composer, arranger, keyboard player, percussionist, guitarist - with a fantastic baritone voice. Not to take anything away from Josh, but to say there are other rising male stars on the horizon. By the way, I found out about Randall at [url]www.randallgilbert.com[/url]
2005-08-28 06:54 | User Profile
Then entire [I]After The Gold Rush [/I] album. A Neil Young masterpiece.
2005-08-28 07:15 | User Profile
[url]http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2607[/url]
by "NotNeconned" August 29, 2005
Decades ago as a child I attended a Jewish day camp. I may very well have been the only Gentile camper. It was the early-1970s and one of my fellow campers was a Jewish teen with hair almost down to his waist. At this time I was becoming increasingly interested in politics (from a traditional conservative perspective: my hero then was William F. Buckely Jr., who I now hold in some degree of contempt for falling in with the Neoconservatives; ironically, nowadays one of the political writers I most respect is Buckely's longtime nemesis, the purported "leftist" (but I say "genuine patriot") Gore Vidal, whose take on the Iraq War, the Bush Crime family, the Jews and other issues I agree with completely.)
Anyway, what I so distinctly remember is how anti-Nixon my young Jewish long-haired fellow camper was. I mean, we talked politics a number of times and it was clear that he, coming from a liberal-left perspective, absolutely HATED President Nixon and was completely against the war in Vietnam, from which Nixon at the time was trying to extricate the US.
It would not suprise me in the least if nowadays, like the former leftist radical David Horowitz and so many other former flag-burning, draft card burning young Nixon-hating Jews (Abbie Hoffman, Mark Rudd, the list is endless) my Nixon-hating fellow camper is now a rock-solid Israel First Neoconservative chickenhawk. (I myself later served in the US military) cynically waving the flag at every chance and displaying "WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" bumperstickers on his cars, beating the drums for the US to attack Iran next and then Syria and then Saudi Arabia and then . . .
And so it doesn't come as anything of a surprise for me to read today that the Jewish journalists Woodward and Bernstein (the former long suspected -- with good reason, based on the evidence I've seen -- of being an espionage agent for the military/intelligence communities; the latter being a "red diaper baby" born to Communist Jews [see [url]http://www.washingtonian.com/people/woodward_bernstein.html][/url] are apparently ready to "out" their top informant, aka "Deep Throat," as another Jew, Mark Felt, a high-level US Government functionary.
And people wonder why Nixon, in recordings that only were released to the public a few years ago, laments the control that the Jews have in the US?...
The fact is that, ever since he himself outed the Jews' goy errand boy, the Soviet spy Alger Hiss, the Jews have never forgiven Nixon. They've LOATHED him, in fact -- even though Nixon was never, ever a "far-right" conservative ideologue in any sense of the word. The fact is that, as relatively moderate as his political positions were, Nixon made himself an enemy of the Jews the moment he went after Hiss after it was clear that ex-Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had the goods on their Gentile front-man. "Never forget!" -- you're damn right the Jews never forget.
And Americans should never forget how, it now appears (based on research by Michael Collins Piper and Seymour Hersh) Israel had a tremendous motive to remove a former US president, JFK, from power about a decade before Woodward, Bernstein and Felt removed Nixon.
The voluntary outing of "Deep Throat" as yet another US Government Jew only illustrates how deeply compromised "our" government is by Jewish "sayanim" ("helpers," in Hebrew), US citizen Jews who, having been approached by members of Israel's intelligence services, stand ready to provide whatever services are asked of them by Israel. Was Mark Felt, a former top FBI bureaucrat, a sayan? I can't say for sure but, considering his position, I strongly suspect that, as the former #2 man at the FBI, he was. At the VERY LEAST, as a high-ranking US Government official (the FBI yet!) it's quite obvious that he would have been approached by Israeli intelligence and asked to be a sayan. The worst that could happen is that he would have turned them down (unlikely) -- it's doubtful that he'd have actually reported the Israeli approach as required. Optimally -- and I think this is more likely - he would have agreed to work with Israel by serving as a conduit feeding it top secret FBI data, which obviously ANY foreign nation -- and ESPECIALLY Israel -- would love to be in the loop to receive.
And if a secret Israeli listening device in the Oval Office had overheard the comments about Jews referred to earlier (and perhaps others that we're not aware of) then it would not be at all surprising if Israel recruited its sayan in the 2nd-highest office of the FBI to do Nixon in.
2005-08-28 22:05 | User Profile
What am I listening to?
Franz Liszt's "Les Preludes" :smartass: :cheers:
2005-08-31 05:43 | User Profile
Fair Warning by Van Halen.
2005-08-31 08:08 | User Profile
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
2005-08-31 08:13 | User Profile
Cajun KKK by Johnny Rebel
:gunsmilie
2005-08-31 12:12 | User Profile
[I]Just a Shadow[/I] by Big Country. Nice guitar.
2005-09-01 06:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=RowdyRoddyPiper]When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin[/QUOTE]
[I]When the levee breaks, have no place to stay......[/I]
2005-09-07 12:20 | User Profile
For those of you who're unfamiliar with the genius of Danny Gatton, check out this page of video-audio clips:
[url]http://www.dannygatton.com/av.html[/url]
It's all fantastic - but I particularly encourage you to view the "Sunday Jazz Gig at Gallagher's" clip: I cannot imagine a more mind-blowing display of technical brilliance - and far more importantly, it [I]swings.[/I]
2005-09-16 09:01 | User Profile
Nemesis - Pride and Purity
2005-09-17 14:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Fair Warning by Van Halen.[/QUOTE] David Lee Roth was an egomaniacal Jewish buffoon, but Van Halen was much better when he was the frontman. That early stuff was pretty darn good.
2005-09-17 14:41 | User Profile
I've been in a Pavement mood lately, so I've been going back and listening to [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JHAR/qid=1126967895/sr=8-3/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-3008652-2013440?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Brighten the Corners[/url] and [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JH3F/qid=1126967895/sr=8-7/ref=pd_bbs_7/103-3008652-2013440?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain[/url]. Good stuff. Stephen Malkmus is a total nut.
2005-09-17 18:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]David Lee Roth was an egomaniacal Jewish buffoon, but Van Halen was much better when he was the frontman. That early stuff was pretty darn good.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I like Roth-era Van Halen. I normally like my music to be much heavier, darker, and more serious, but when I'm in kind of a goofy mood old Van Halen is what the doctor ordered. And Eddie's guitarwork is excellent. Many surpass him in sheer technique and playing ability, but he's tough to beat as far as innovation.
Although DLR's father is a Jewish doctor, his mother isn't Jewish, so I guess technically DLR is not Jewish. He is indeed a buffoon with a huge ego, but that really added to the cheesy charm of VH's "party metal." It's even possible that his egomania is just a tongue-in-cheek display for the sake of image.
One of his funnier quotes: "Some people say that life is a cesspool of darkness and despair. Well, we in Van Halen are sailing through it on a yacht." That definitely captures the attitude of old VH.
2005-09-17 18:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Yeah, I like Roth-era Van Halen. I normally like my music to be much heavier, darker, and more serious, but when I'm in kind of a goofy mood old Van Halen is what the doctor ordered. And Eddie's guitarwork is excellent. Many surpass him in sheer technique and playing ability, but he's tough to beat as far as innovation.
Although DLR's father is a Jewish doctor, his mother isn't Jewish, so I guess technically DLR is not Jewish. He is indeed a buffoon with a huge ego, but that really added to the cheesy charm of VH's "party metal." It's even possible that his egomania is just a tongue-in-cheek display for the sake of image.
One of his funnier quotes: "Some people say that life is a cesspool of darkness and despair. Well, we in Van Halen are sailing through it on a yacht." That definitely captures the attitude of old VH.[/QUOTE]
I used to find his "I'm a Gigolo" video hilarious until I discovered that it was a note-for-note rip off of Louis Prima's arrangement. But yeh, Roth gets points for showmanship...
2005-09-17 21:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.]I used to find his "I'm a Gigolo" video hilarious until I discovered that it was a note-for-note rip off of Louis Prima's arrangement. But yeh, Roth gets points for showmanship...[/QUOTE] The video was still hilarious. The fat guy working out in the 'Don't Feed the Animals" t-shirt cracks me up.
2005-09-17 22:30 | User Profile
My favorite DLR quote came in 1980, as THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was in release: "I'm like Star Wars, man. There's gonna be eight more of me."
Listening to Le Orme's classic 1973 prog-opus FELONA E SORONA, liberally augmented with doses of Savatage's POWER OF THE NIGHT and Rory Gallagher's PHOTO FINISH.
2005-09-18 00:27 | User Profile
"Walk On" John Hiatt
Someone called out to you And it sounded just like crying On a street where nobody Even knows your name Your mind was getting high on the sweet air As your spirit was flying
Steam rising from the sidewalks Of New Orleans after an evening rain Steam rising from the sidewalks After an evening rain
And it only made the heat Feel like it was walking even closer As you headed up St. Charles To catch a streetcar named Desire Young couple struggling in the doorway Like he was trying to force her
In the distance you swore You could hear them open fire Tires squealing in the distance As you heard them open fire
[Chorus:] Walk on, walk on Don't look back Don't ask questions Don't you try to understand Walk on, walk on Straight back down to your hotel room Where she lies waiting for her man
You're so afraid you might be losing love That it makes you worry And you wonder if she's ever seen this Kind of fear in you And you think of that young couple In the doorway And it makes you hurry
You wonder what kind of fear They might be living through Yeah you wonder if They saw that fear in you
2005-09-18 02:35 | User Profile
Quicksilver Messenger Service. You know the song -- the one about having another hit of fresh air.