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Seeing the GZA next tuesday night at San Fran in wellington. Can't wait to hear some Wu getting dropped!!<br />
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[quote name='Paekakboyz']Seeing the GZA next tuesday night at San Fran in wellington. Can't wait to hear some Wu getting dropped!!<br />
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Strangely I was never a huge fan of Gza even though he was probably the cleanest on the mic of all the clan. <br />
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I was a Ghostface and Meth fan. Raekwon and ODB to a lesser extent. Always thought Rza was good with words but his flow is not my thing, trying to fit too many words in.<br />
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Inspectah Deck was average. And then the part timers, in their thousands, were often crap. <br />
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Yeah I'm an ODB fanboy for sure. I love Liquid swords and Beneath the Surface - fav Method man album was blackout with Redman. Ghostface is very sharp too - he was amazing in his Akld gig earlier this year (or late last year). The Wu were all about chemistry and the fact they were fresh and had good skills. Most have at least one solo album of note but a lot of the more recent material has been average.<br />
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The RZA has been the most successful outside of rap - acting and writing the score for several movies - even got some material on Kill Bill.<br />
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[quote name='Gibbit']Pere Ubu.. y'know I'd never actually heard him before. I used to flat with a dude that had some albums of his in the CD rack... he never played them though. Thanks for that, Mr Ubu is an interesting fellow[/QUOTE]<br />
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I believe Pere Ubu was a title of a piece of art by Man Ray and a character in a French play. The singer's name is David Thomas. The Modern Dance is one of the greatest punk albums, and it's difficult to imagine either Talking Heads or Devo without the P.U. influence and inspiration. I've seen them play about 6-7 times over the past 30 years, and they are always brilliant, and best of all, they usually don't ask for more than $15 tickets. <br />
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I discovered them by Chrysalis Records f-up accident. Side 2 of my vinyl pressing of Jethro Tull's "Stormwatch" was not Tull, it was a strange unknown band. My friends and I used to drop acid and listen, it was avant garde insanity, and the mystery was a big reason, then we actually fell in love with the record, and eventually discovered it was Pere Ubu. <br />
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You can dance to this one:<br />
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Ray Davies live at Glastonbury 2011. Man is an absolute genius.<br />
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Little Feat live at Columbia. -
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The coolest Wellingtonian I've ever met, Dean Wareham. -
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He left there when he was very young, yes? But Luna did include bassist Justin Harwood, ex-Chills, who is a genuine Kiwi. (I met Wareham several times, Galaxie 500 and Luna, and did a cover story interview for an arts rag with him for that first Luna record. Nice, down-to-earth guy.) -
I was pretty sure he told me he was 12. From memory, I didn't detect an accent, other than a soft northeastern American accent.
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[quote name='red terror']He left there when he was very young, yes? But Luna did include bassist Justin Harwood, ex-Chills, who is a genuine Kiwi. (I met Wareham several times, Galaxie 500 and Luna, and did a cover story interview for an arts rag with him for that first Luna record. Nice, down-to-earth guy.)[/QUOTE]yeah he was a kid when they moved to NYC and his accent is almost gone. what I didn't mention is that i was only in Wellington a couple of days an didn't meet many locals. So he was the coolest Wellingtonian out of 3 or 4. I didn't mean for it to work out that way, but that's another story. in fact, we were there the Thursday and Friday before the 05 lions test in the Wellington and the city was so full of Lions fans i think i met more of them than I did locals.<br />
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i had a gang of friends in philly and DC who from 2000-2005 would meet up at every luna show in philly Baltimore and dc that we could get to. sometimes nyc as well. And lucky for us there were lots of them. one of the girls was a huge flirt and managed to get us backstage after the DC shows most times. the kind folks at the 9:30 club provided way more booze than the band could drink, and Dean, being the generous sort, invited us to help liberate the club of the excess. then I'd get really shitfaced and offer to give Dean and Britta a ride back to the hotel. And my friend who didn't drink quite as much would wind up driving and everyone would be cool with that. Stupid, good times, and I miss them. Now I am married and my wife would be right there beside me if we didn't have cute little papooses to watch over at night. Luckily, I'm sure when they're old enough that we can go back to having fun, D & B will still be performing... -
the 80s were great, but not for the reasons most people seem to think...<br />
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speaking of interviews, Michael Gira permitted me to waste his time by submitting to an interveiw with me for hte shittylittle fanzine i wrote 3 or 4 stories for in 1988. I was a fan, but I hadn't heard enough of the catalogue or knew enough about the band to ask what needed to be asked. But I did get to sit in a room and b.s. with him for 30mins or so. He tolerated me quite nicely, but broke his promise to put me and my fanzine buddy on the "guest list" for that nights show at the old "Revival " club on 2nd and Chestnut in philly. To my everlasting shame we let our bruised egos get in the way of common sense, refused to pay the $10 cover, and by all accounts, missed the greatest piece of performance art, this side of GG Allin, that city ever saw. <br />
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[quote name='Emerican AB']speaking of interviews, Michael Gira permitted me to waste his time by submitting to an interveiw with me for hte shittylittle fanzine <br />
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I have met Gira several times, and actually done work for him. I shot some Angels of Light video for a friend, and Gira's record label Young God Records released them, then did a solo show (actually three different shows, single camera to Gira's specs) and he released that DVD with his last solo CD, Ltd. edition to 1000 copies (sold out in 4 hours - it was announced that the proceeds were going directly to the recording of a new Swans album), and I subsequently shot a (brutally LOUD) Swans show at Lee's Palace in Toronto, and that is currently in production. I guess that covers much of what he's been doing the past decade. He doesn't pay me, but I'm chuffed to even get asked, and he gives me proper credits on his work and he plies me and my pal, who does the production legwork, with original artwork and ltd ed. rarities. He's a super-nice guy, but is a disciplined sharp taskmaster when drilling his band during soundcheck; he's very precise about his vision and not afraid to tell you. He now lives in Woodstock, NY, (as do Mercury Rev, some members appear on the new Swans; as does Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, who appear on Mercury Rev records, and to bring all of that full circle, Dean Wareham has played on a Mercury Rev record and some of those members (maybe just Grasshopper) appear on a Luna record. Phew! Incestuous stuff!!)
