Never was a great big fan of G.G., but he was a native son of New Hampshire.
[Pours one out for the dead homie]
Mission of Burma are still awesome today. The new stuff is up there with Signals, Calls and Marches.Got all nostalgic and looked up some vids by Bostonians (not all natives) who only achieved modest levels of success and then I would run into in used record stores:
The Real Kids
The Lyres
Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers
Slapshot
Galaxie 500
Mission of Burma
Papas Fritas
Al Kooper
Yup. Peter Prescott used to work at...at...shiznit, I forget the name of that store. It was on Newbury Street and you had to walk down the stairs to get there...Shiznit, g&@&*$n [bubble bubble bubble].
GG Allin. I know yr going to find this hard to believe, but I have to put the rest of this in a spoiler tag...be warned.
The other scene is even more intense.
GGs birthday and the band buys him a hooker. The food served at the birthday party was hotdogs...GG ate some dogs and drank a LOT of booze. He asked the hooker to pee in his mouth for his birthday wish. She squats over his upturned face. He throws up the dogs as he's gulping...everything splatters and he keeps on drinking. UGH! My stomach is turning even now, remembering the clip.
So, you will remember it if you see it.
And now for something completely different: Sitting around waiting for Comrade Omar to show up so we can go to the anti-war rally in Boston and Mrs. Comrade sez, "No, play the Yo Gabba Gabba! clip!"
I had never heard of it.
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Rally was lame, but afterwards, back at the pad, stream-of-consciousness youtube surfing led to some quite good videos by a schoolchum's band.
Bone Dagger
Sweet Shiznit of Christ
Poly which, apparently, was banned from youtube for a while.
Which is funny, coz he's out in the Bay Area and recently, when Ariel the Sexy Roller Derby Chick was back in town from Oakland she was complaining about how difficult it is to find a man on the dating sites out there who wasn't "a poly bisexual writer of erotica."
F@#+ing Californians.
Rally was lame, but afterwards, back at the pad, stream-of-consciousness youtube surfing led to some quite good videos by a schoolchum's band.
In the same vein, but more explicitly D&Desque,
Ghost Mice--"Critical Hit"
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Ah, the video they tried to learn the Temptations dance for.
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Apollo Brown & Ras Kass - How To Kill God
and because I had a dentist checkup this morning:
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A bit of a Laurel Canyon week for me thus far:
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Plumtree - Predicts The Future
I enjoyed that enough to go look for videos:
You Just Don't Exist
Scott Pilgrim*
Michael Cerra's fictional band in that movie is, I think, my favorite fictional band in a movie evah.
Unless it's Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
*Weird hipster-cars-rabbit imagery going on, same as in that Ladytron video.
Went looking for more nostalgia-inducing nineties grrl-power indie rock (and I'd never even heard of Plumtree) but, somehow, stream-of-consciousnessly, ended up on a run of early seventies rock'n'roll:
The Flamin' Groovies
The Runaways
The Raspberries
Warren Zevon (alright, that one's '82)
T. Rex
My tour buddy Dylan Bowers a.k.a. Caught Up In A Dream just released his debut EP, "Mountains & Milestones". You should give it a listen.
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Welcome to Night Vale.
I never get sick of that podcast. Listened to it so many times. Good way to find music you normally wouldn't come across too, since the weather songs tend to be a bit obscure. It's how I found Danny Schmidt and The Tiny.
Funk for Friday!
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That performance by JB is pure AWESOME!
punk it up to get going this morning...
Minutemen - The Glory of Man
fIREHOSE - Under the Influence of Meat Puppets
I was listening to this album yesterday...
Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
More Friday Funk!
Bambu--"Rent Money"
Killer Mike--"Reagan"
Lauryn Hill--"Black Rage"
Welcome to Night Vale.I never get sick of that podcast. Listened to it so many times. Good way to find music you normally wouldn't come across too, since the weather songs tend to be a bit obscure. It's how I found Danny Schmidt and The Tiny.
While the weather isn't normally my style, not a big rap or hiphop fan nor a lot of the other styles they seem to prefer, the most recent performance by Morteth is very much up my alley.
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Minutemen - The Glory of Man
Minutemen = first class (econo class?)
Electric Prunes - Stockholm '67
Also got the new Flying Lotus album!
Great song. Lovely costumes.
Rally was lame, but afterwards, back at the pad, stream-of-consciousness youtube surfing led to some quite good videos by a schoolchum's band.
Bone Dagger
Sweet Shiznit of Christ
Poly which, apparently, was banned from youtube for a while.
Finally looked them up on Facebook, and, apparently, they opened for The Avengers earlier this month.
And then I see that his other band, Thee Hobo Gobbelins will be opening for Jello Biafra on Black Friday.
I'm starting to get the sense that I have horribly misspent my life.
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Waking up in a hardcore mood with a splash of Boston:
Murphies
Mighty Mighty
Black Train Jack
UK Subs
Blue Meanies
The Urge
Mollies
Skids
Pogues
Sam Black Church
While the weather isn't normally my style, not a big rap or hiphop fan nor a lot of the other styles they seem to prefer, the most recent performance by Morteth is very much up my alley.Welcome to Night Vale.I never get sick of that podcast. Listened to it so many times. Good way to find music you normally wouldn't come across too, since the weather songs tend to be a bit obscure. It's how I found Danny Schmidt and The Tiny.
Yeah the rap isn't really my thing, but occasionally you'll get some folk rock or just something really unique on there. The Jews for Jesus Blues was one that surprised me (I'd find a link but I'm at work) as I normally hate country. Similar thing with danny Schmidt, he's folk music but with a country sort of sound, and I really never would have thought I'd like it until I heard his song This Too Shall Pass as the weather in one of the early episodes.
Am working alongside a kid fifteen years my junior who's an aspiring rock star. Everyday he comes into work and tries to stump me with obscure artists that he likes. So far, he hasn't succeeded. Yay me!!
Yesterday, he asked if I had ever heard of Tony Joe White.
The real score, however, was a record by Tony Joe White. Records by this swamp rock maven (who provided comeback Elvis with his sound) are almost impossible to find in New England, so I was quite happy.
It was then my turn to be surprised when he knew about Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits.
A 2 Steps from Hell mix that I made.
Eisley's first three albums (4th one isn't on Spotify for some reason).
Many Funerals
Invasion
Taking Control
Those three songs are from the album Combinations, only posting stuff from there because it's the one I'm most familiar with and actually know song titles for.
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I'm the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless....Steve...
Be more constructive with your feedback... please...
Nagat El Saghira - Ana Baashaq El Bahr
70s Arab pop(?) with Mellotron and electric Clavinet, I think. Super.
Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Dammit! Why can't I "like" something more than once?!
Todd La Torre, the guy taking over for Geoff Tate in Queensryche is amazing! I am truly impressed. I did not think it was possible to reproduce those lyrical tones. I hope they tour close to me.
I got to see ICON at Rocklahoma a couple yrs ago. The guy I saw, Sheldon Tarsha, sounded REALLY close to the original singer's voice (Stephen Clifford).
NEW DOOMTREE! They're coming to Columbia Mo in February. Oh man, if Dessa's there...I'm going!
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