Wanted to amend and say that while I'm a bit tough on 80's pop, there are examples of genius in all genres, in all decades.Stewart Copeland's drumming comes to mind!
Was his first project post-Police the Rumblefish soundtrack?
Was his first project post-Police the Rumblefish soundtrack?Wanted to amend and say that while I'm a bit tough on 80's pop, there are examples of genius in all genres, in all decades.Stewart Copeland's drumming comes to mind!
That was the same year as the Police's last real album (Synchronicity), I think. He also did "Wall Street," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II," "9 1/2 Weeks," and a bunch of others... not to mention more recently composing the scores for a number of ballets, and fronting his own Jazz orchestra in Italy. I think the guy has won like 5 Grammies; he makes Sting look kind of shallow and inept in comparison.
That was the same year as the Police's last real album (Synchronicity), I think. He also did "Wall Street," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II," "9 1/2 Weeks," and a bunch of others... not to mention more recently composing the scores for a number of ballets, and fronting his own Jazz orchestra in Italy. I think the guy has won like 5 Grammies; he makes Sting look kind of shallow and inept in comparison.
I remember when Copeland first left he was talking about composing opera.
"Opera boils the blood," he said. I wonder if he ever got around to it.
I almost met Sting at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2002 (televised for the first time that year) He looked at me for a full five seconds, looked at his wife, then decided to go a different way. I don't know if I threatened him in any number of ways (I was mad stylin' that night but also wearing frankenboots that put me at 6'5") or if he thought I was going to bug him for an autograph. Thing is I was clearly hanging out with Phil Ramone and then Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, (taking fans' camera in hand to snap a photo of them with their country favorites) so I don't know why he'd assume the latter. I wasn't impressed but then he wasn't there for me. Man can smoke a bass line though and before he went Madison Avenue he sure had the world hooked.
Man can smoke a bass line though and before he went Madison Avenue he sure had the world hooked.
Actually, I think the coke had him hooked... then he discovered African-French prostitutes and yoga. But point taken. (P.S. My only brush with celebrity was lunch with Arnold Stang.)
Man can smoke a bass line though and before he went Madison Avenue he sure had the world hooked.Actually, I think the coke had him hooked... then he discovered African-French prostitutes and yoga. But point taken. (P.S. My only brush with celebrity was lunch with Arnold Stang.)
An unsold pilot from the man himself. Go to this page and look for the link. It's actually funny.
I always knew who he was but never knew the name.
When you live in Los Angeles, you wind up running into so many celebrites, you stop noticing after a while.
Celebrities that I've run into that a) I actually liked, and b) were cool enough to stop and talk for a moment:
Geoffrey Rush
Ron Livingston
Tony Shaloub
I'm sure there's others I've forgotten about.
Oh! Except I was a party once and spent the better part of an hour talking to DJ Chris Killmore and guitarist Mike Einziger of the band Incubus, without realizing who they were. It wasn't until later that I went into the house the party was at, to use the bathroom, and saw the framed, quadruple platinum record award for Make Yourself above the couch that I figured out who those two groovy cats I was talking to were.
the Prodigy-Breathe
When you live in Los Angeles, you wind up running into so many celebrites, you stop noticing after a while.
True that. I grew up in LA and San Fran and my mother was the right hand woman of a boutique talent agency that had a small but famous client list. So many famous folks that, a year later, when kids in a school in Boston didn't believe my casual rattling off off famous people I'd known or lived with, my teacher, who knew my mother well, had to step in and back me up.
I remember a kid named Glen with a huge blonde head said that he'd met Bobby Vinton. For some reason kids didn't believe him because Vinton had a TV show on at the time. The kid brought in pictures to prove himself. Now who is going to lie about having met Bobby Vinton? Are you kidding me? That's like something you admit in the confessional.
NYC has many celebrities. I try to smile back and leave them alone. I figure they're getting hounded enough.
Oh, and I've worked with Julia Sweeney and (my personal favorite) Ted Raimi.
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I once played basketball with the Beastie Boys backstage. Very nice guys, even if they were utterly, totally baked. And I also had to change Janet Jackson's toilet seat because she refused to use a plastic one. So we put in one of solid oak instead, 'cause that's what her rider specified.
Ah, the joys of working concert security...
Right now I'm listening to Opeth. Brilliant.
Sounds like Russel Simmons attempting to say Opus.
'Queen Anne's Revenge' from my new Flogging Molly CD. I'm so happy.
Klaxxons!
The TV.
I just got the new Smashing Pumpkins album as I used to be quite the fan. I'm half way through the album and it's a load of crap, I might turn it off. So far it sounds like some old bland stuff left over from the Machina album with Billy Corgan moaning meaningless lyrics over the top of it.
I knew I should have bought those towels and matching candles for the bathroom instead!
What happened to you Billy Corgan? Where are the beautiful/brilliant songs like Disarm, Today, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, 1979 etc?
This new album is pointless and boring. What did you do with Darcy and James (with his beautiful face and perfect hair?)
Hrmpfh! :/
*Folds arms and taps foot*
I skipped to the last song and it sounds like Billy Corgan trying out Enya... with Queen style guitar from the campy Flash Gordon movie...
I shall say no more...
I skipped to the last song and it sounds like Billy Corgan trying out Enya... with Queen style guitar from the campy Flash Gordon movie...
I shall say no more...
Was a fanboi meself once - thanks for the warning!
Uncle tupelo - "No depression"
Kate Bush!
Weird Al's 'White and Nerdy'.
Guns n roses
Sonata Arctica
Cake
And anything by Weird Al
BTW, I'm going to my first Weird Al concert soon! YES!!!
BTW, I'm going to my first Weird Al concert soon! YES!!!
I know how you feel. He's coming to the State Fair in Pueblo this year. We already have tickets and I can't wait.
Pink Floyd's first album, The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn.
Trippy.
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Office safe music. You choose the year.
Thoth-Amon
That jukebox is pretty decent, actually... though I don't know if I really care for that flashing "Are you a good person? Good enough to go to heaven?" sign. BTW, what makes music "office safe"? Just curious.
As for myself, I'm listening to Strapping Young Lad's "The new black". After that, it's probably Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak".
'Jinx', Green Day
Queensryche: Promised land.
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.
A rebroadcast from this morning.
AGH! I cannot stand Amy Goodman. I offered to pay my local public radio 120 bucks to not play her for a week during thier fund drive... They declined. She did a radio spot for them for the same fund drive.
The last cool thing she did was about Haiti.
To each thier own I suppose, enjoy!
AGH! I cannot stand Amy Goodman. I offered to pay my local public radio 120 bucks to not play her for a week during thier fund drive... They declined. She did a radio spot for them for the same fund drive.
The last cool thing she did was about Haiti.
To each thier own I suppose, enjoy!
Now I'm listening to Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld (sp?) That guy is a nut!
I heard a guy call a radio station one time during a charity fund drive and say something very similar. For a small donation they would play any song they could lay their hands on. Someone wanted to hear "Meat loaf's" Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. The DJ said the song was so long that he would need a couple more people to call in and pledge before he would play it. The next thing you know someone called in and pledged 10 times the normal pledge if the DJ would promise NOT to play it. Alas....no Paradise...
'Killing in the name of' (by Rage Against the Machine) remixed by Mr Wazzo (of former 'Flat Eric' fame) -it is totally INSANE! :D
Sinead O'Connor's new album "Theology"
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'One is the Loneliest Number' by 3 Dog Night
'Assassins' by Muse
'Attack' by 30 Seconds to Mars
'The Government Totally Sucks' by Tenacious D
'Labyrinth: Second Modern Movement' by the Yoshida Brothers
'The Ruins of Bone Hill' by Midnight Syndicate
'Guernica' by Brand New
'The Wolf is Loose' by Mastodon
'Mr. Roboto (Nietzchgttnstein remix)' by Styx
'Your Spirit's Alive' by the Dropkick Murphys
'In the Hall of the Mountain King (Corpse Bride mix)' by Danny Elfman
'Deliverance' by Sick Puppies
'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
'Mad World' by Gary Jules
'Urgency' by Tilly and the Wall
'This is Not a Sad Song' by Captain Tractor
'I'm So Sick' by Flyleaf
Parka.
UFO - Doctor Doctor
Rocks!!!!
Tracy Chapman "New Beginning"
Johnny Cash - "Hurt"
Oh, that's a good one. The video made me get all choked up.
Some dudes outside with a chopsaw cutting steel frame.
Was his first project post-Police the Rumblefish soundtrack?Wanted to amend and say that while I'm a bit tough on 80's pop, there are examples of genius in all genres, in all decades.Stewart Copeland's drumming comes to mind!
This has suddenly brought to mind The Equalizer.
Right Where it Belongs
by Nine Inch Nails
For some unknown reason I keep thinking that it would make great music for a tragic death scene.
Marilyn Manson.