What are you listening to, right now................
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@nevorian said in What are you listening to, right now................:
have been revisiting all of my high school - varsity era bands, many are still classics and saw this band in Christchurch in 1982
What do you remember of the Chch gig @Nevorian ?
The Auck gig on that tour was funny. They were on a Sandinista tour promoting the triple dub monstrosity and the crowd, having waited years to see them, weren’t impressed. After about 10minutes the chant of “old stuff, old stuff” filled the Logan Concrete Centre and eventually Strummer stopped, ripped up the set list and said “hope we still know how to play this” and ripped into Tommy Gun followed by White Riot and a great show.
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@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I saw Pearl Jam at the super top, their support act was Dead Flowers who got half way through their first song before the promoter yanked them and wouldn’t let them play again due to safety concerns. Man that must have sucked for those guys.
Geez, so many kiwi bands are completely forgotten until they get randomly mentioned. Wonder what those blokes are doing now?
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I saw Pearl Jam at the super top, their support act was Dead Flowers who got half way through their first song before the promoter yanked them and wouldn’t let them play again due to safety concerns. Man that must have sucked for those guys.
Geez, so many kiwi bands are completely forgotten until they get randomly mentioned. Wonder what those blokes are doing now?
Probably chilling with Nine Livez
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@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I saw Pearl Jam at the super top, their support act was Dead Flowers who got half way through their first song before the promoter yanked them and wouldn’t let them play again due to safety concerns. Man that must have sucked for those guys.
Geez, so many kiwi bands are completely forgotten until they get randomly mentioned. Wonder what those blokes are doing now?
Probably chilling with Nine Livez
As a semi pro muso I'm proud of what I achieved as a working bass player
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I saw Pearl Jam at the super top, their support act was Dead Flowers who got half way through their first song before the promoter yanked them and wouldn’t let them play again due to safety concerns. Man that must have sucked for those guys.
Geez, so many kiwi bands are completely forgotten until they get randomly mentioned. Wonder what those blokes are doing now?
Last I knew Bryan Bell was guitarist in the Jordan Luck band .. i.e ... the Exponents
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The chili's have gotten more stale as they have gotten older. The thing is though, gigs are very much so a personal experience - what one person says sucks balls, another thinks was the best gig ever. I think it was V Fesitval 2001 when they were well and truly off their peak, I still rmember them playing Fire and totally blowing my mind. They left the stage at peak peak energy, was fucking awesome.
I think it was 95 I saw Faith No More at Logan Campbell, I'd still put it up there as one of the best gigs I've been to. Ask most other they'll tell you it sucked balls. The version of King For A Day they played then had incredible energy.
For energy though, pretty hard to top almost every Shihad gig.
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The chili's have gotten more stale as they have gotten older. The thing is though, gigs are very much so a personal experience - what one person says sucks balls, another thinks was the best gig ever. I think it was V Fesitval 2001 when they were well and truly off their peak, I still rmember them playing Fire and totally blowing my mind. They left the stage at peak peak energy, was fucking awesome.
I think it was 95 I saw Faith No More at Logan Campbell, I'd still put it up there as one of the best gigs I've been to. Ask most other they'll tell you it sucked balls. The version of King For A Day they played then had incredible energy.
For energy though, pretty hard to top almost every Shihad gig.
I've seen a shitload of FNM live stuff on YouTube and I think it's fair to say he ( Mike Patton ) improvises a bit more than I'd like ideally. Definitely better in the studio.
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Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
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@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
FNM are a strange one, as the more you follow them, the more you realise that Bottum & Gould are the soul of the band. Not often you'd say the keyboardist and bass are the soul of a rock band.
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@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
Yep. I think him and Rob Halford are the only openly gay hard rock stars out there ?
Awesome performance of we care a lot, how good is this ?
Their guitarist Jim Martin quit to go and grow massive award winning pumpkins.
As you do.
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
FNM are a strange one, as the more you follow them, the more you realise that Bottum & Gould are the soul of the band. Not often you'd say the keyboardist and bass are the soul of a rock band.
Gould is probably the most underrated bassist in history. Some really good lines and chops.
Patton makes FNM though.
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@majorrage i was at that 95 FNM gig. It was awesome!!!
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage i was at that 95 FNM gig. It was awesome!!!
Have you got one eye? My mate crashed his car two days before the gig, so had to jump in a van sponsered by the local radio station up from Tauranga. A guy in the van had one eye.
Oh and how good were Pumpkinhead as an opening act. Unreal.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
FNM are a strange one, as the more you follow them, the more you realise that Bottum & Gould are the soul of the band. Not often you'd say the keyboardist and bass are the soul of a rock band.
Gould is probably the most underrated bassist in history. Some really good lines and chops.
Dunno about that. You'll struggle to find a rock bassist out there who says they weren't influenced by Gould. Certainly doesn't get the coverage of others (Entwhistle, Flea etc) but he's pretty highly regarded.
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Faith no more live at Brixton was a favourite of mine for a long time. I saw them live at the old town hall and they were really good I thought.
The keyboard player had a brief relationship with Courtney Love which apparently turned him into a homosexual.
FNM are a strange one, as the more you follow them, the more you realise that Bottum & Gould are the soul of the band. Not often you'd say the keyboardist and bass are the soul of a rock band.
Gould is probably the most underrated bassist in history. Some really good lines and chops.
Dunno about that. You'll struggle to find a rock bassist out there who says they weren't influenced by Gould. Certainly doesn't get the coverage of others (Entwhistle, Flea etc) but he's pretty highly regarded.
Yeah fair call but still underrated. Not even mentioned in the ( admittedly ridiculous ) rock supergroup thing that the Rock had going but then again Gene Simmons beat Flea in the round robin....
I still reckon he's constantly overlooked compared to others.
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@rocky-rock-rockbottom said in What are you listening to, right now................:
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<p>You're talking about Dylan, but i don't get it. </p>
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<p>And i like Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham was fucking good guitar player, and those bitches could sing. They also created some of the best rock and roll stories of the 70s, dysfunction and drugs for the win</p>
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<p>always hated Dylan, that nasal delivery and keening fucking shrill mouth organ, just didnt get it. Then, like a zillion other old gits, i hit 40 and the clouds parted. Have about 15 of his lp's now and 3 cd's (Love and Theft, Modern Times and the other newish one, old timey shit that absolutely grows on you like a motherfucker)</p>
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Saw "Tusk" LP recenlty, there in the record shop for the umpteenth time, only 2 bucks, fuck it, that Lindsey Buckingham lp did me right I'll have a burl.</p>
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<p>I actually LIKE Fleetwood Mac now.<br><br>
That's the last of my punk rock points redacted.</p>
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Tusk is pretty fuckin interesting. Not the pop gloss super yacht 70's FM radio flashback fuckcopia of Rumours but more like 3 solo lp's biffed into one 2xLP. It's easy even for this clueless doom metal drongo to pick whose songs are Mcvie's/Nicks/Buckingham's.<br><br>
It's kind of a sprawling mess. Starts off with what I reckon was financial suicide; a sooky as hell Mcvie ballad. Back in 1979, with people expecting pop candy Runours II it mustve resulted in half the audienece not even bothering with the rest of the 7 hour 2xLP. All side 3 is a sookfest too. But those Lindsey Buckingham numbers.... just can't help but like em</p>I'm listening to the demo versions of Tusk's songs tonight, and the vocals are really raw and direct. Great stuff. Storms is killer so far.
Helpfully they're collected on one disc (#2) of the 5 CD Tusk box set.
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@tim Gene Clark. Now there was a troubled man. When I first heard the No Other album I thought what the fuck is this? In context though, he was a man in a downward spiral who was struggling with alcoholism, mescaline, coke and his Christianity and his songs reflected that. And the production is outstanding.
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@crucial this was my first real concert and just remember it went off, may be was over a bit too soon. . I'm pretty sure it was also a Monday night and the place was packed. I saw a young U2 at the same venue a couple of years later and always remember thinking the Clash was way better for audience energy etc
