You know exactly who you are.
June 5, 2009
For the people keeping it real as fuck in the comments
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June 5, 2009
You know exactly who you are.
June 6, 2009 at 2:33 am
June 6, 2009 at 7:41 am
Very real indeed.
June 6, 2009 at 5:25 am
June 6, 2009 at 7:45 am
Words fail.
June 6, 2009 at 11:20 am
And just think, the Japanese didn’t really even need the drugs to do that kind of awesome.
June 6, 2009 at 8:45 am
Hey–where did you get that footage of my Bar Mitzvah party?
June 6, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I see your Japanese, and raise you minus 50 percent:
June 6, 2009 at 6:54 am
June 6, 2009 at 7:14 am
June 6, 2009 at 7:51 am
Remember when you wanted an Octave Plateau Voyetra 8?
Sure you do.
June 6, 2009 at 9:14 am
Or the Moog Source. Nobody wanted the Moog Source.
June 6, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Try to beat this mustachio
June 6, 2009 at 6:11 pm
June 7, 2009 at 10:37 am
Red Cumberbunds, 2 for a dollar.
June 6, 2009 at 9:12 am
I call shenanigans. None of those videos are real at all.
June 6, 2009 at 10:17 am
You mean Klebher and kenmeer, right?
Keepin it real, brotha —
June 6, 2009 at 10:35 am
anf for those who like historical drama.
Shag and the world shags with you, beat ye off and ye beat alone.
June 6, 2009 at 11:20 am
Damn. Best soliloquy since:
June 6, 2009 at 11:21 am
Shit. Make that
June 6, 2009 at 11:15 am
Awesome white-guy ‘fro on that guy.
MC5 definitely kept it real.
June 6, 2009 at 12:01 pm
MC5 fans who may not be aware should check out Fred Smith’s next band of note, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, which included Stooges drummer. There’s a concert version of this on youtube, but the singing is pretty much inaudible, so I post this version. Album is from 1978. You might call this high-energy rock.
June 6, 2009 at 5:50 pm
What did I do now?
June 6, 2009 at 10:49 am
Pikers. Behold:
June 6, 2009 at 11:06 am
Just had to bring the Dutch into this, didn’t you.
I’ll see your Focus, and raise you a Golden Earring.
June 6, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Ce n’est pas “Twilight Zone”, ce n’est pas vrai.
June 6, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Supersister is the best Dutch Prog Band period.
June 6, 2009 at 9:21 pm
No argument here. The audience was totally mesmerized.
June 6, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Finally I think I understand the current controversy in Britain:
June 6, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Mr T(he eds),
Thx 4 cruzin the toobz so we don’t have 2.
Without reading previous lynx, here is my first thought.
I will go back to see all the other links, but here’s mine.
Hope it works.
.
June 8, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Great parody. My starry-eyed, fresh-from-college, idealist, 6th grade English teacher played the original “Desiderata” for us in ’72. My big brother played this for me a couple years later. Always regretted that I never had a chance to play this back at Miss Rupp, just to see her reaction.
June 6, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Today’s conundrum:
What’s the diffference between a pole and a poll?
ONe is more polished than the other.
June 7, 2009 at 7:09 am
I can’t believe I ever watched any other sport.
June 6, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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June 6, 2009 at 6:03 pm
June 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm
June 6, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Alright, you force me to do this.
June 6, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Do not resist, we are legion.
June 6, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I recall being strangely mesmerized by Mr. Tiny Tim. Tip Toe Through the Tulips was just the tip of the iceberg.
June 7, 2009 at 8:16 am
I ruvs rew, peorgie!
I sometimes imagine what it might have been like to be, say, 19 years old in 1956 (year of my auspicious birth roughly nine months after the death of Albert Einstein, proof conclusive that I am his reincarnation), smoking weedy and seedy Tennessee green with some dude named Bob Denver visiting his aunt and uncle in Philly, and discovering Kovacs as Percy. A bit of wikistory:
“During one of his NBC shows, Kovacs was appearing as his inept magician character Matzoh Heppelwhite. The sketch called for the magician to frequently hit a gong, which was the signal for a sexy female assistant to bring out a bottle and shot glass for a quick snort of alcohol. Stagehands substituted real liquor for the iced tea normally used for the gag. The look on Ernie’s face upon taking the first shot was priceless, as he realized (correctly) that he would likely be called upon to drink a shot of liquor for each successive gong. But Kovacs pressed on with the sketch, and was quite inebriated by the end of the show. On another occasion, while doing his “Percy Dovetonsils” character, he found that his drink contained a live fish.”
June 7, 2009 at 11:34 am
Ernie Kovaks is one of those very vague memories in the back of my mind that I guess comes from some exposure to his show when I was 3 or 4 years old. These old clips still seem weird and slightly creepy to me. It’s possible that they did permanent psychological damage. Something did!
June 7, 2009 at 11:39 am
Let “they” = “seeing Kovaks as a child.”
June 7, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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June 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Dooode, the Tree! Awesome
June 7, 2009 at 11:43 am
Ian Curtis kept it very, very real.
June 7, 2009 at 11:52 am
June 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm
This is realer than “Real Deal” Holyfield.
June 8, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Interesting that Nick Cave grew up …
June 7, 2009 at 11:50 am
etc.,
June 7, 2009 at 12:01 pm
June 8, 2009 at 7:30 am
sick
June 8, 2009 at 7:51 pm
And therefore lovely.
June 7, 2009 at 12:03 pm
June 7, 2009 at 12:07 pm
June 7, 2009 at 12:12 pm
June 7, 2009 at 12:27 pm
June 7, 2009 at 12:46 pm
June 8, 2009 at 6:47 pm
For years I couldn’t decide if Frippatronics was new age bullshit or a step forward a-la Music For Airports.
In any event, I bought a Fripp album. After three listens, it ended up like one of those A Brief History of Time things: looks great in the collection but nobody really deals with it.
June 7, 2009 at 12:47 pm
June 7, 2009 at 12:48 pm
What?
June 7, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Jeff Beck will smoke your goat.
June 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Was listening to Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop on cassette circa 1989, just the other…
Beck is amazing.
June 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm
One-man-band traveling minstrel from the ’60s Abner Jay, keepin’ it real in ’93:
“I crave cocaine…I can’t find nuttin’ here in New York…these college kids done used it all up…”
“Y’all who know what’s happenin’, meet me under the clothesline, cause that’s where I hang out.”
June 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm
You see that’s information you cannot buy.
June 7, 2009 at 1:31 pm
You can’t own music you can only experience it.
June 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Is that like you can’t buy beer, you can only rent it?
June 7, 2009 at 1:55 pm
If you have a CD on the shelf you only use it when you hear it, otherwise it sits there, so you really don’t own the music, you own some plastic. Music may or may not happen depending on how your little ear bones vibrate.
June 7, 2009 at 1:58 pm
So in the future when the full catalog of recordings is at our finger tips you should be charged like half a penny for 10 minutes of listening, not “owning” a particular song. A charge for tapping into the flow of a river for a drink. I dunno. I’m a crackpot.
June 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
or not charged, like with radio except you pick the song you want to hear, and then they throw a ad spot at you after a few songs, a la pandora but if you want to hear a certain song “right now”, you may do so. Pandora with more immediate control.
June 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm
You must be from an alternate reality where the RIAA didn’t kill off internet radio and studios don’t divide up public commons into “premium”, “regular” and “you ain’t got jack shit prole”.
June 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Kill the RIAA with universal voter campaign contribution credits. In my world we have campaign finance reform that meets the SCOTUS free speech requirements. It was bequeathed by a Yeti-Chewbacca Hybrid.
June 7, 2009 at 1:44 pm
June 7, 2009 at 1:46 pm
June 7, 2009 at 1:50 pm
June 7, 2009 at 2:25 pm
June 7, 2009 at 2:34 pm
June 7, 2009 at 2:41 pm
June 7, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Really real
June 7, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Hey, and the harp blower didn’t even have to break for oxygen, pretty good.
June 7, 2009 at 2:53 pm
June 7, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Why isn’t anyone posting French bands? Oh, right. (h/t Crotchbat)
June 7, 2009 at 3:44 pm
June 7, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Rather..
June 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm
June 7, 2009 at 3:52 pm
June 7, 2009 at 3:59 pm
June 7, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Oh, so it’s demons, is it?
The originals. Asteroth is actually a light jazz prog fan, who knew?
June 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Kléber, you’re a wild man.
June 7, 2009 at 5:08 pm
G, you dig out great stuff from the stacks.
Peorgie, variety, variety, variety, genre- eclectic.
The Lab:
http://www.pandora.com/stations/b2953d898689f94d5f3d888b2346fc5fc874869f84047ca8
you’ll appreciate these guys, “Deus Ex Machina” ,nobody sounds like these guys.
http://www.derepublica.com/
June 7, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Kyuss was a band from Death Valley, California, Josh Homme was a 17 year old prodigy in the band, they kind of turned into The Queens of the Stone Age, a vehicle for Josh Homme’s casual virtuosity. “Songs for the Deaf” and “Rated R” are pretty perfect rock records. Nick Oliveri, the bass player and squealer, is off and on in the band due to a his heroin habit, that I believe now he’s kicked again. Anyway, QofSA have I think four albums, tons of variety, especially on Songs and Rated R. “Era Vulgaris” their last album reminds me a lot of a band that did a one off a few years ago, “Death From Above 1974″, it’s a classic 2000s eponymous release that inspired an equally awesome re-mix album. I also like Isis a lot. Check them out.
June 7, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I miss Frank today.
June 7, 2009 at 5:36 pm
June 7, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Zappa on Crossfire is great. We’ve come along way, baby.
June 7, 2009 at 5:54 pm
The Zappa Catalog is kind of scary for newbies, the re-mastered live recordings help people appreciate Zappa more immediately. Zappa is a God. Zappa Plays Guitar is as good as place as any to start. No doubt. I think I have 40+ Zappa “recordings”, I need to make more time for Frank this week. It should be perfect cause I’m going to Doctor Mengela’s dental surgery clinic to have the rest of my “wisdom” tooths pulled out with what must be a rusty pair of pliers. I dunno I’m too busy space truckn’.
June 7, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I recently saw the Zappa Does Zappa DVDs (Netflix). Highly recommended.
June 7, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I was pretty stupid in the 70s, but one smart thing I did was to buy Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. His best work, imho.
I also loved the You Are What You Is album.
June 7, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I was born in 1973, but I had older brothers on of whom was a sax man, they were into a lot of obscure bands, and so that’s what I heard growing up, a lot of very different stuff that most people didn’t access pre-internet. Too many people get stuck on genres, only metal, only rap, only KROQ style alternative rock, I’m not a musicians but I take their advice on what’s good, and they are more eclectic then say my buddies from 7th grade. End product,
http://www.pandora.com/stations/b2953d898689f94d5f3d888b2346fc5fc874869f84047ca8#tbl_artists_table,all
A set list that includes Lush with Company Flow, Pelican with Toots and the Maytals, Kyuss with James Brown…
http://www.pandora.com/stations/b2953d898689f94d5f3d888b2346fc5fc874869f84047ca8#tbl_thumbs_up,all
June 9, 2009 at 6:27 am
zappaesque Italian band lotsa sax
speaking of slightly ‘oscura’
June 9, 2009 at 8:54 am
or theeese:
June 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Strangely fascinating. I think you win.
June 7, 2009 at 5:22 pm
You can’t touch this.
June 7, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I saw Gong+Magma in ’99 in SF at the palace of fine arts, (great venue).
June 7, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I bought a Gong album somewhere around 1976. I still have it, and it’s moving to the top of the must-digitize queue.
June 7, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Gong has a rangy catalog.
http://gnosis2000.net is a good place to separate the good from filler.
http://gnosis2000.net/
Great place to find out about new bands and the classic nuggets from the ages. I can’t recommend the gnosis project enough.
June 7, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Foyst I hoid o em. Such miracles on earth!!!
June 7, 2009 at 7:45 pm
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh77847502111946777
June 7, 2009 at 10:42 pm
‘s all Good, bad, and ugly…
June 8, 2009 at 7:36 am
June 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Here’s my main man keepin’ it real old school, y’all.
And someone said ‘French’?
Damn this is a server busta-longass thread!
June 9, 2009 at 4:16 pm
It’s fun to think of this as a really tiny person playing a violin … or a giant playing an upright bass.
June 8, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for the quality Frog stuff, secondharmonic.
This indie track is a response to curveball’s indie post.
June 8, 2009 at 2:54 pm
D’oh, there are 3 minutes of silence at the end of that Beulah video, sorry.
June 8, 2009 at 4:48 pm
touche
June 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm
You know I have a stack of un-listened to Granddaddy plastic. Now I will listen.
June 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Embarrassing follower that I am.
June 9, 2009 at 7:44 am
There’s definitely some wortwhile tracks to mine.
June 8, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Oh yeah, and fuck Yomama, yoyoma, whatevah!
June 8, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Peorgie, do these guys rate? Seldom-heard-these-days UK jazz rock from 1970. I discovered them only 6 mos ago. They put out 5 great albums 1970-72, but couldn’t find an audience. Everyone was too busy listening to jam bands instead.
June 8, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Never heard of `em.
What we need around here is some Soft Machine.
June 8, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Possibly the best party song ever.
Gogol Bordello vs Tamir Muskat:
I’ll stop now.
June 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm
This post should be called RAM test.
Remember for every video you post we deduct one meal from a child.
June 9, 2009 at 7:25 am
I’d have replied sooner, but it took my 15mbps broadband connection 5 minutes to load this page.
June 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm
holy shit. Went digging for Soft Machine and found Soft Machine + Alan Holdsworth! This hardly qualifies as Soft Machine, but hey.
June 8, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Here we go…
June 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm
and this documentary is good:
June 8, 2009 at 6:24 pm
That drummer is the great Robert Wyatt.
June 12, 2009 at 11:30 pm
June 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Sup everybody!
I’d just like to remind everyone that Andrew Sullivan, the blogger that is wrong about everything, all the time, forever, recently accused David Neiwert, right-wing inflitraitor blogger extraordinaire, of being over the top and hysterical. The former was awarded the ironic Michael Moore award by the latter for having the gall to suggest that radical conservatives might decide to take matters into their own hands and gun down some high-profile liberals.
Well, whoopsie-daisy! Looks like some fuckhead in Wichita decided to blow away Tiller, a semi-famous late-term abortion doctor, in a Lutheran church! Guess the right really is getting violent, huh.
Of course, this means that Andrew “Not Nearly Gay Enough for Women’s Rights” Sullivan is wrong again. I wonder when Neiwert is going to get his Atlantic spot?
June 9, 2009 at 3:15 pm
“former” “latter” or something or other.
At least I’m not a helpless contrarian at The Atlantic.
June 9, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Missing some pistols
June 10, 2009 at 6:20 pm
THREAD!
June 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm
As to the Magnum vs Solo, I think I have tallied the votes so far, and clearly the winner the Mustachio… Besides;
Clearly, Big is better than Alone…
June 10, 2009 at 10:47 pm
This is the thread that killed Hugh Hopper. I hope you’re happy.
June 11, 2009 at 8:35 am
Fuckin’ hell.
June 10, 2009 at 10:49 pm
“A leading light in the Canterbury scene, starting back in early 60s as bassist with The Daevid Allen Trio, alongside drummer Robert Wyatt. He was also a founder member of the Wilde Flowers and in 1968 Hopper joined the legendary Soft Machine, staying with the band until 1973. Later he would go on to play with Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind, Gary Boyle’s Isotope, Carla Bley Band, Hopper/Dean/Tippett & Gallivan, In Cahoots, Pip Pyle’s Equip’Out to name but a few. Hopper was a wonderfully gifted bass player and equally gifted song-writer…
Hugh, who had been ill for over a year sadly he has lost his battle against LeUKaemia on Sunday. Our thoughts go to his family and close friends.”
June 11, 2009 at 5:01 pm
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12872-crack-the-skye/
Use this to cope.
June 11, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Music this insane could only come from Atlanta. (My home city-within-driving-distance.)
June 12, 2009 at 9:42 am
They are very good in an otherwise bland genre. Them, Isis, maybe Opeth if you consider cookie monster an opera singer.
The new Isis album I haven’t heard, but it’s getting great reviews, and there catalog is just the best post-rock/metal there is.
June 11, 2009 at 5:55 pm
June 12, 2009 at 1:26 am
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,
“After Against Me! left, with the indie rock and the punk kids gone, it was time for the aggressive metalheads to take the floor. Mastodon took to the stage as violently as their sound would expect. They are a jazz-oriented (read: technically complex) heavy metal/hardcore band with a penchant for meaty riffs, rapid drumming and violent fans. As soon as they took to the stage, a huge pit opened up, and the metal kids started beating each other senseless. Karate moves abound, it was almost as captivating as watching the shredding onstage. Both were relentless. Devil’s horns galore, the crowd were having a great time…and then I was sucked in.
About three-quarters of the way through the hour-long set, I was standing stage left, about halfway out into the crowd, which ended up being at the outer fringe of the metal/hardcore pit, when a large, muscular man threw me into the pit. He took me by my wrist and twisted; I spun to the epicenter of the inferno. As soon as I was oriented and about to walk out of the pit, a tall, skinny man with a metal t-shirt took his shoulder and rammed it into my chest. My glasses flew off, and I landed on my back and head, with my wrist underneath me.
I do not remember exactly what happened next, though I think I was hoisted upright by the fans behind me. I couldn’t stand up (that I remember) and security must have been alerted. The next thing I know, I am hovering above the crowd on the shoulders of four CSS Security men, looking at the wide eyes of the people there to see Mastodon. I hung my head in shame, but I still could not see anyway; my glasses were gone forever. They let me off at the back corner, where the VIP gets to sit. I was walked (I still couldn’t under my own power) by three other security men to an area behind the stage, where they brought me to an EMT, who examined me after asking for identification. I refused to go to the hospital, but accepted ice for my wrist. Listening to the performance in behind me, it was as if nothing had happened; the same meaty riffs, the same guttural cheers from macho men boomed in the venue.
I was let out from behind the stage after the set was over and the house lights were on. Remember, I still had no glasses, and I could see blurs all around me, but nothing in any detail. Until I was kicked out of Roseland, I looked for those glasses. They were nowhere to be found, so I walked the streets of New York City unable to see, clutching a ziplock bag filled with ice and, in the very least, a set of mostly pleasing memories from a diverse bill that will hopefully hand me a bill of health entirely more clean. ”
http://www.punknews.org/review/6334
OK, that is not usually what happens. Fear not.
June 12, 2009 at 1:28 am
That’s what you get for dropping your gloves in NYC.
June 12, 2009 at 5:10 am
I picked up the Mastodon cds a couple months ago when you were recommending them. I appreciate their technical skills, but me and metal parted ways somewhere in the 80s, not really my thing.
It’s good to know that security will step in and rescue a twink like me should I ever get sucked into a mosh pit. I’ll be sure to leave my glasses in the car.
June 12, 2009 at 9:37 am
I really don’t care for most metal either. I maybe listen to three metal bands, Isis might be more up your alley. But, having said that, a metal record is still going to be a metal record. I think Mastodon is really the only band progressing the form.
I really can’t believe anyone one who likes rock n’roll can’t appreciate Leviathan. It’s a classic record. But if you don’t like the form, then you’ll not like it. I doubt you appreciate Def Jux, and other contraptions we youngsters prefer as medium. Some times you have to just fucking rock. Dillinger Escape Plan and Opeth have similar level chops, but are more obtuse. I don’t really listen to them. I find Isis and Mastodon drawing me back for repeat listens, and a DVD I saw about Mastodon in the studio really connected me to the sounds, because you saw how much effort goes into it all. It took me a long time to get used to growls. I still prefer crooning over metal a la QofSTA. Mastodon is the next Metallica, who was the next Iron Maiden, I do see evolution in the form. But if you aren’t ready to really let go of inhibitions, Mastodon is not for you. Radiohead is the best band in the world. I just like to be challenged, to a point.
June 12, 2009 at 6:07 am
Liberal Fascism at Last!
June 12, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Ah, I see now, Vansvestite did the music for Bladerunner, and Solo was in that, and some Dick wrote the original story… Hmm..
Although I now change my vote to the Solo, I still say the count stands as Mustachio as the wiener!
June 15, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Too obvious?