JerseyMike

Just got and listened to this. its a very good record, I like it.

This record is my first real exposure to The Black keys, and I have to say that they have huge, brass balls. To have a band and a sound that is so much like The White Stripes takes a lot of gall. And the last track "Things Ain't Like they Used to Be" is such a blatant, yet artful rip-off of The Beatles "Don't Let Me Down", I give them kudos.

See, you can link Rudy to EVERYONE!! Musicians, actors, world leaders. Rudy Sarzo: The Greatest Human Being Who Ever Lived?

These kids should be rewarded. Did you see that they had a PLAN? And that the PLAN included delegating responsibility? Working as a TEAM? Thats pretty impressive for 3rd graders!

"Hey ma, fuck yo mama" - from Vacation

"Man, we ain't found shit"- Spaceballs

"Can we dance with yo' dates?" -Animal House

We've been playing this game in the van on the way to gigs. Its much easier than you think.

Ex: Rudy Sarzo > BB King. Impossible you say?

1. Rudy played in Whitesnake with David Coverdale

2. Coverdale played in Coverdale/Page with Jimmy Page

3. Page played in the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck

4. Jeff Beck played in the YB's with Eric Clapton

5. Eric Clapton played with BB King

That photo ended up being used on the inside of the sleeve - if it is the one I am thinking of.

You are correct, sir.

I have a blue and white "Lighting Bolt" guitar strap signed by Ace!

I have one cool thing (besides every Kiss record on Vinyl):

A copy of G'N'R's Appetite for Destruction with the original cover. And I didn't get it as a collectible, it was because at 13, I knew more about music than I do now!

Man, I love watching Halladay pitch.

Me too, just not vs. the Yanks!

Thats my favorite part of opening day: the pitching match-ups. I was able to watch Santana, Verlander, Oswalt, Peavy, Penny, Sheets and Zambrano pitch yesterday. As an ex-pitcher, it was great. I was also excited to watch my most loved/hated pitcher of my life today: Pedro. When he was in his prime, there was nobody more fun to watch. Unfortunately, he pitched for my 2 least favorite teams, the Red Sox and the Mets. If the Yanks hadn't overpaid for Mike Stanley late in the season in '97 by sending their top-pitching prospect, Tony Armas, Pedro would have been a Yankee. Armas ended up being the key piece in the deal between the Expos and Red Sox. Unfortunately, Pedro didn't look so good tonight. It makes me wonder how effective he can be with his fastball topping out at 88-90 MPH.

but would you rather have a band appear (and it's only your perception to be honest) to be trying too hard rather than coasting?

Its a great question that could be its own thread.

In this case, I would rather see a band trying too hard to create something new and different rather than trying too hard to re-create past glories.

If I want to hear a band coast, I'll wait 'til the next AC/DC record!

And Procul Harum!

Marah's last record struck me the exact same way. OK, this is our return to when we were fucking great.

Couldn't agree more. I thought "Angels" was a huge disappointment.

Bach is definitely the rock fan's classical composer. I tend to lean more to Chopin and Rachmaninoff, for some reason, I don't know why.

I don't claim to be a great REM fan, but I do appreciate their music. I have listened to Accelerate a few times and I think it is a good, but not great record. There are moments when I feel they are trying to hard to recapture the past, but it does make for an enjoyable listen. My main criticism with the record is Stipe's lyrics, which are pretty tepid and silly for a man of his age and experience, especially on the last track, "I'm Gonna DJ". Hardcore REM fans may have a harder time enjoying the record than someone who hasn't spent a lifetime connecting to their music, which is perfectly acceptable. So far, Houston has been my favorite track, but I think I'm moving to Texas in a few weeks, so I have a sub-conscious bias.

Marc Ribot on "Rain Dogs

Good call.

Curtis Mayfield

Ditto. Open F#. Add wah.

He's not one of my favorite guitar players, and they are not even in my top 100 as a band, but what about Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac? He gets a great tone, mainly, I think, because he doesn't use a pick.

Nobody sent me a birthday present, and Whitey's on the moon!

It is sad and ironic that the very things that he fought against are the things that brought him down.

By being so closely associated with Rev. Wright, Obama falls short.

Thats assuming that the few snippets of a few sermons represents the man's entire career and his life. I just don't understand how one person can be held so accountable for somebody else's words and views. I also feel that there is a double-standard working here, when Pat Buchanon can say this on National Televison, and he is still employed by MSNBC:

"America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American."

But its ok for Buchanon, why? Because he is white? Because its expected of him?

My favorites guitar tones are definitely from REVOLVER, especially "She Said, She Said", "Taxman" and the incredible "And Your Bird Can Sing"

Spandau Ballet. They fuckin' rock.

Don't know if I'd spend the dough to see "No Show" Stone, as he was dubbed in the '70's. I did see some clips from BB Kings and he did sound good, but he is definitely flaky. Too bad, one of the great bands of all-time.

Black people are sentenced to prison at a higher rate than white people who committed the same crime, and black people who are sent to prison get longer sentences on average than white people who committed the same crime. To give just one example, a 1998 study by the Pennsylvania State Correctional System found that white men aged 18-29 were 38% less likely to be sentenced to prison than black men of the same age group, and those that were sentenced to prison received an average of 3 months shorter sentence.

You can boil this down to looking at the difference in punishment for cocaine vs. crack. And although there is definitely a difference in crime and punishment between black and white, a lot of those stats are skewed, because the true difference in most cases are monetary and involve poor defendants getting proper and capable representation.

When I see Rev. Wright or others so angry and spreading hate, I wonder "geeze, this is the 21st centery.. get over it.. let's just love each other damnit!"

 

Easy for you to say, whitey.

Great answer! My answer would have been "take a walk through Newark."

I think the big problem with race in this country: whites don't get offended by the word Honkey.

Is anyone else extremely disturbed that most of Wright's comments that are being used against Obama were

actually quotes? I haven't seen this mentioned on the news at all.

Slash made GnR and everyone knows it.

Not true! IZZY made G'N'R. He wrote most of the tunes on Appetite, a great and seminal rock record.

Use Your Illusions was Axl's ego being overblown. A lot of trite crap on that one.

I could be very wrong about this, since it has been quite a few years since I sat around with anyone, old or young and sang folk type material (that includes stuff like the Band, etc.). Do people still do this?

 

LouieB

Its funny you bought this up, because I was just having this discussion with a friend.

I find myself in these situations quite a bit, a bunch of musicians with their instruments drinking wine, beer and getting high, singing along and passing the guitars around. Unfortunately, music is so segmented today that there is not that well of song that we can all dip into. If the singers and songwriters from the '60's were going back and dipping into the well that was filled with Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Pete Seeger and traditional folk songs, then todays well is filled with Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the occasional Grateful Dead song.

Todays listener (I am 32) is so bound by the confines of whatever genre they've chosen that it has built walls of ignorance around them. And those genres have sub-genres and they continue to sub-divide. So a bluegrass fan will have intimate knowledge of Bill Monroe, Flatts and Scruggs and even the Yonder Mountain String band, but almost no knowledge or love for Hank Williams. They don't realize that those walls are not boundaries produced by music, but walls produced by the mass-sellers of music who needed a way to keep records organized in stores.

My FAVORITE 20:

Willie Nelson

Jerry Garcia (especially the stuff he did with Grisman)

Albert King

George Harrison

Neil Young

Duane Allman

Robert Quine (especially on Lou Reed's "The Blue Mask")

Steve Cropper (because rhythm is the key)

Jimi Hendrix

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Kieth Richards

Robbie Robertson

Chuck Berry(inventor of the famed "Chuck Berry Riff": the rock guitarists best friend from Elvis to the Clash and beyond!)

Ali Farke Toure

Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Criminally underrated.)

Curtis Mayfield

Hubert Sumlin (Howlin' Wolf)

The Edge

Prince

Just missed the cut: Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, Nels Cline, Ry Cooder, David Hildago, Buddy Miller, Leo Neocentelli (The Meters), Gary Louris, Richard Thompson, Larry Campbell.

but few artists today think of their creations as anything other than short term fodder for their next album.

I highly disagree with this statement, respectfully. We can take that argument and go back to The Beatles, The Byrds, the Stones, etc. and find evidence that not every song was a well thought out and crafted jewel. On the flip-side we could look at much of the music from today and find evidence that many artist strive to make each song the best it could be.

When we talk about Leonard Cohen as a songwriter, it is unfair to bring anybody else's writing in comparison with him. He was already a well-respected author and great writer before he began penning and performing his songs. He sits on the mountaintop alone, arguably.

Oh and just for the record...I don't play guitar, which is lucky because I can't sing worth a damn either..)

Perhaps you are the next Leonard Cohen!