Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Powerstufff]

only thing worse than guitar solos in songs is drum solos in songs

Both ruin concerts. Well the 10 min extended "I'm a rock god" ones do.

 

[edgie]

Being a rock and roller like I am, naturally the 90s alternative scene is my mortal enemy, along with hip hop, but the following are exceptions.

Alice in Chains
STP
Smashing Pumpkins

 

[edgie]

In other news, Marky Mark looks exactly like Dave Mustaine in Rockstar.

 

[raman]

Both ruin concerts. Well the 10 min extended "I'm a rock god" ones do.

The Allman Bros. Band disagrees.

Oh and I do too. Live jams ****ing rule.

 

[Powerstufff]

Frankie Boyle ‏@frankieboyle 2h2 hours ago
It's a real pity they hadn't perfected spacewalks when we used to send dogs up there.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Well at least it would be something worth fighting for.

Well something you would dig I just read

Get on it, written by three of his closest friends.. best book I've read on an aussie rocker, from his melbourne Valentines days to the Fraternity days in Adelaide & then AC/DC, freakin' wild guy but humble, would talk to anyone & bloody loyal to his friends and family.

 

[Powerstufff]

... Live jams ******* rule.

We've been to a few 'A Day on the Greens' (odd capitalisation) in recent years. There's always at least one wanky drummer or lead guitarist who thinks we're there to see them, not the act they are supporting. Once that extended solo gets going my wife knows she has to shoot either them or me with the sedative darts, or I'm going to get verbal.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

The Allman Bros. Band disagrees.

Oh and I do too. Live jams ******* rule.

Fillmore East Live album is killer

 

[edgie]

I first started taking notice of him in Blood Diamond, before that i wrote him off as a prissy actor, but he pulled it off the tough guy pretty well, plus thought he did the South African accent quite good

Are you craze? That accent was Mickey Rooney bad!

 

[raman]

Are you craze? That accent was Mickey Rooney bad!

That is probably the accent itself rather than the performance.

 

[edgie]

OH MY WORD

IN ROCKSTAR THEY ARE LISTENING TO ARE YOU READY BY AC/DC WHICH WASN'T RELEASED AT THE TIME THE MOVIE IS SET!

 

[LK Metro]

Don't give **** what the rest think, 10 and Vs were great albums (lost total interest after that), Badmotorfinger better than Superunknown times a million, and Purple by STP was one of the great albums of the 90s.

Purple was good...but this was betterer...

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

So for people that don't like long guitar solos you'd never listen to something like Hendrix playing Machine Gun at the Fillmore East? What a drab existence

 

[Dylan8]

Guitar solos are for noobs like JimmyBeerCarns

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

sax solos set the mood.

 

[I Dont Care]

Are you craze? That accent was Mickey Rooney bad!

For an American it was OK

 

[I Dont Care]

Both ruin concerts. Well the 10 min extended "I'm a rock god" ones do.

Do you listen to Mozart?

 

[manureid]

sax solos set the mood.

Baker Street!

 

[I Dont Care]

Baker Street!

That's the one

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Guitar solos are for noobs like JimmyBeerCarns

Don't **** wid my name poindexter

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Baker Street!

And plenty of others inc NTUA.

 

[edgie]

 

[Portia]

STP's Purple was a v good album, Core had some good stuff but seemed to be trying too hard to be current, they took more risks in Purple.

Superunknown > Badmotorfinger, I will brook no disagreement. Temple Of The Dog one of my all time favourite albums.

 

[Portia]

Pretty solid new album from Shearwater free for streaming

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/13/462845383/first-listen-shearwater-jet-plane-and-oxbow

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Great unedited interview from 7.30 report with Kerry O'Brien interviewing David Bowie in 2004 on rage. I Found the transcript from the edited version. I found this bit interesting as to what he wanted to do 18 inadvertently led him to the Ziggy Stardust character

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1046353.htm
KERRY O'BRIEN: ...as there has been about the reinvention in your music. When you set out to build a career 40 years ago, did you already then have the kind of groundbreaking musical ambition that emerged in the 70s, or did you really mostly just want to be a star in...

DAVID BOWIE: I wanted to write theatrical - actually, strangely enough, well, maybe it's not so strange when you look at it in context, but when I was around 17 or 18 what I wanted to do more than anything else was to write something for Broadway.

I wanted to write a musical.

I had no idea of how you did it or how musicals were constructed, but the idea of writing something that was rock-based for Broadway really intrigued me. I thought that would be a wonderful thing to do. I saw myself as someone who would end up writing musicals in a way - probably rock musicals of some nature - but it never actually became that.

So, in a way, those ideas were kind of quashed a little when I realised what a huge ambitious thing that was to take on, you know, because you have to write dialogue and all that. And I really didn't know how to approach that so I took a far simpler course and kind of abbreviated the idea of musical to a concept piece for an album, and created the characters to go with the albums.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Well, Ziggy Stardust is a classic illustration. How much of Davey Jones is in Ziggy?

DAVID BOWIE: I don't think there was very much at all.

I honestly was trying to create an idea of how to expand rock and expand the horizons of it and I took as the alien form for Ziggy, as he was supposed to be an alien of some kind. I based him very much on the Japanese concept.

At that time, in the early 70s, we knew so little about Japan and Japan really hadn't exploited itself and brought its stuff over to the West, so it still looked like an alien society. But it was a human alien society, so you could make a human connection to Japan far more than you could say Mars, which would be beyond.