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Too Dad rock for ya?

Ima take you word on that one.  Not sure I could tolerate that song under any circumstances.

It was surprisingly great, reggae style.  

Curious if the show happen, yet.

Yes, it actually happened last week, just haven't had a chance to report back yet.  

It was excellent of course.. Sound was actually pretty decent for an arena.  Eric's guitar was face melting loud during solos.  The old man can still play just as good as he always has, if not better.. But just one minor note.... He didn't play Layla!?!  I was incredibly surprised and a little disappointed....  But he played some gems to make up for it.  Crossroads, Sunshine of Your Love (both amazing).. He also did Tears In Heaven with a reggae feel, which was great.  And oh yeah, a 10+ minute version of Sheriff with a really long solo breakdown in the middle.  

Everyone is happy where they live until they move, and that's usually when the bashing comes out.  I loved living in Boston, but when I look back, most of the people there were generally rude (not everyone), it was cold as balls in the winter, and the cost of living was ridiculous.  Pretty much the same for Los Angeles although the weather was great year round.  

Currently I'm happy to represent beautiful upstate South Carolina.  Low cost of living, mountains are a short drive away, a few hours from the beach, people are friendly, and the weather is nice year around (doesn't get too hot where I am).

Got to watch the performance on a better sound system last night, and I really liked it.  Seems to be following in the footsteps of the last album with the more ear friendlier sound than their early stuff, but still having the Deerhunter grit.  Very excited about the new record now.  

Holy shit.  Did anyone see Deerhunter on Fallon?  Interesting to say the least:

 

http://stereogum.com/1307491/deerhunter-monomania-fallon-performance/mp3s/

I listened to/watched it on a shitty phone speaker so I haven't truly heard it yet.  I liked it though.  Bradford is certainly a weird dude.  This explains the severed finger:  

On April 2nd, 2013 the band performed the song "Monomania" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Singer Bradford Cox premiered his alter-ego which he called "Connie Lungpin". Cox wore a black wig covering his face, bandaged his finger as if it had been amputated, and wore vampire like teeth. This performance brought much attention to the band, especially the finger, as many wondered if his finger had actually been amputated.

Most of those are either who?  or yawn.. But a few that stick out for me:

Surfer Blood: Pythons

It's about freakin' time they got a new release.  

MGMT: TBA

Awesome.  Their last record was highly underrated. 

Camera Obscura: Desire Lines

Also about freakin' time.  Nice!

I can't be the only one that for a moment thought another Ramone had died.  

40 Easter Bunnies more terrifying than a crucified man coming back from the dead

 

http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken/page/1

i read a while ago an interview with john lennon where he said Ticket to ride was the first heavy metal song..... pompous maybe

I just heard that song this morning playing at a gas pump, of all places.  

"You Really Got Me" is the first metal song.  

I don't really get They Might Be Giants, never been a fan.  Maybe I'm not listening to them correctly.  

no doubt that Sabbath deserves all the accolades they get for birthing metal, but stylistically thrash and doom are distant cousins at best. same w/ the Kinks, if distortion is the sole connecting line between them and Sabbath...if you go back to stem cells, then everything is related.

Fair enough.  I don't know what a stylistically thrash and doom is, so it seems I am out of my element to make such a claim anyway.  

Carry on.  

i think you missed the mark by quite a bit on both of these.

Care to elaborate a bit?  

All modern heavy metal is based off of Black Sabbath in some way.

The Kinks were the first to really popularize the use of distortion.   They were the early pioneers of hard rock, which eventually became metal.  So tracing metal all the way back to its roots, you gotta start with The Kinks.  

All of this is subjective of course, but I think you missed the mark by claiming that I missed the mark. 

Slayer is the poor man's Black Sabbath. 

Black Sabbath is the poor man's The Kinks

Is Wayne Coyne still the Lip's roadie?

He is actually.  At least when I saw them.. Him and Steven both helped setup their own gear.  

Giving Tree on their home turf a few weeks ago

They ought to make you an honorable member.  How many times have you seen them now? 

Also really looking forward to Deerhunter 

Just posted via FB:

Mystery disc of NOCTURNAL GARAGE. rat tapes / NEW FORMAT is avant garde(?) but only in context not form (original intent of avant garde (1912-59) / before logic: FOG MACHINE / LEATHER / NEON

 

RECORDED VIA MULTIPLE 8TRAX into MCI MIXING DESK by Bradford Cox and Nicolas Vernhes in Brooklyn, Borough of New York JAN-FEB 2013

 

5th Longplaying Album from American (GA) Rock Group Deerhunter Resistant to HISTORICAL / FUTURIST SNARES (1959_)

 

THE MUSIC GROUP: formed 2001, AMENDED JAN. 2013

 

Bradford Cox: Vocals, Rat Tapes, Fog Machine, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Treatments, Percussions, Melody Bass on Final Track, Microphone Placement, Typesetting.

Lockett James Pundt IV: Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Vocals on 'The Missing', Synthesizer, Percussions, Laser Focus, Neons.

Moses Archuleta: The Drumset, Videos, Percussions, Decorations.

Frankie Broyles: Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Steel Guitar on 'Pensacola' Josh Mckay: The Electric Bass, Wurlitzer, Transistor Organ.

 

Neon Junkyard

Leather Jacket II

The Missing

Pensacola

Dream Captain

Blue Agent

T.H.M.

Sleepwalking

Back To The Middle Monomania

Nitebike

Punk (La Vie Ante?rieure)

 

Monomania

May 7

 

 

 

I'd vote Jag. 

This.  Personally never been a fan of Tele's, but to each his own.  

I'd scoop up that Jag in a heartbeat.  I've always wanted one... 

I can hear it too, but never really thought about it until it was brought up here.  The first few notes of the bell sound on "Can't Stand It", I can definitely hear the excessive use of compression/limiting.  

Toby Leaman

Jack Bruce

Rick Danko

Aston "Family Man" Barrett

Paul Simonon

Jaco Pastorius

Kim Deal gets an honorable mention, but I think for the most part she played what Frank told her to.  But she's still one of my all time favorite rock n roll chicks.  

I thinik he's been overrated since the moment someone spray painted "Clapton is God" on a wall in England.

 

 

That's cool.. And to be honest, I'm having fun debating this, whether I think you are out of your mind or not... lol

Just gearing up for seeing one of my hero's for the first time in a few weeks.  

So why is he only #55 on that list?  

Because that is a list of greatest artists, not guitar players.  

Peter Green is another of those early greats. Again, much prefer him to Clapton. It's just all about personal preference.

By the way, SRV was only 10 years old in 1964, and his career as a musician didn't really take off until the late 70s to early 80s. Not exactly one of the "fathers." Just sayin'...

You have a point about SRV.. And I agree that it is about personal preference.. I am speaking for what is generally known among the masses.. It's just that this is the first I have heard of negative comments towards Clapton's guitar playing, and I'm having a hard time computing it.. (lol).  His song writing is another story, he had some weak years in that department.  

One thing you and I can agree on, Zappa was a freaking madman on the guitar and a musical genius.  Influential?  Hugely.  As influential as Clapton?  Not hardly.  

I think this article explains it well:

 

Eric Clapton is the most important and influential guitar player that has ever lived, is still living or ever will live. Do yourself a favor, and don't debate me on this. Before Clapton, rock guitar was the Chuck Berry method, modernized by Keith Richards, and the rockabilly sound — Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Cliff Gallup — popularized by George Harrison. Clapton absorbed that, then introduced the essence of black electric blues: the power and vocabulary of Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and the three Kings — B.B., Albert and Freddie — to create an attack that defined the fundamentals of rock & roll lead guitar.

Maybe most important of all, he turned the amp up — to 11. That alone blew everybody's mind in the mid-Sixties.

 

Full article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/eric-clapton-20110420

You forgot Jeff Beck and Peter Green (and a whole bunch of others that other people can name).

 

I suppose what I was thinking of was the trinity - Page/Beck/Clapton.

I didn't forget Beck, but good point about Green.  Like I mentioned, there are many contributors.  Keith Richards is another one... But the guys that top the list are the one's I listed.. I thought this was common knowledge.  Folks saying that Clapton is overrated is just preposterous.

I don't know about all that

 

We're talking about, rock, blues guitarists here.  Yes there are the one's before them that basically invented the guitar methods and sound (the early blues and jazz greats, the Grandfathers), but referring to the guys that revolutionized modern rock/blues guitar and have influenced everyone playing the guitar today in some shape or form.  There are many others that have contributed (Gilmour, Zappa, Beck, Allman, many others), but Hendrix, Page, Clapton, and SRV are the fathers.  

I heard Clapton was Jimi's hero too... That's saying something..