Be scared, very, very scared.
It's a double cowbell with a spring reverb mounted upside down so I can hit the springs.
Live music on Sat, 4-28.
Playing with Sun Drugs on Saturday if you are around the Portland areas. Cello, guitar / singer and lap steel. Mellow and low volume but fun stuff...
Chris Dave Trio
Amazing Drummer. Brings a very interesting edge and sense of danger to the sound. Crazy....
Rocking in the van
Awesome band, lol.
"How important can this speech be if we're giving it at noon?"
Bruce Springsteen On The Meaning Of Music
The cover of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" is amazing.
Shellac - The End Of Radio
The Doors? Really?
"And while a thousand bands have artfully ripped off Pavement, everyone looks absurd imitating the Doors. They are the rock equivalent of "Don't try this at home.""
I have not thought about The Doors in years, but the other night a buddy brought them up and then I read this yesterday. The above quote is one of the best descriptions of them I have ever read. The write up is a interesting read about the 40th anniversary of L.A. Woman.
Thin Lizzy vs Pixies - The Boys Are Back In Heaven
Tortise
- Prepare Your Coffin
- I set my face to the hillside - Live
And Today in Music
I laugh to stop from crying.
Brian Blade- Drums.
Yowza. Never heard of him before. Sweet stuff.
Red Fang
Was hanging out at the new bigger Revival Drum Shop talking drums and this fella comes strolling in for new heads and what have you. Asked him what band he was in a he said Red Fang.
A wee bit of google later and holy shit.
Get yer Mornin' Funk on.
Jimmy McGriff - The Bird Wave - 1970 [Soul-Jazz]
Hooo boy, that is some damn fine funk right there. If this don't get you moving, check your pulse.
Grant Green
Interview with him here. I read somewhere he played the same cymbals for 30 years and cleans them with mud...
"I went down and it was Rahsaan Roland Kirk. It was amazin' to hear this guy do this. So I asked the drummer, could I play one tune with him. It was like a magnet drawing me to him. So he asked me where I was from. His name was Candy Finch. And he let me play. And after the melody, Roland Kirk turned around and said, "Who's that on them drums?" And I said I was Leo Morris. And he said, "Keep that beat! Keep that beat!" And the next thing you know I end up playin' the whole set."
The live concert experience is a valuable thing now
Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail
The parallels between that and the Internet are quite obvious. Everyone said that radio would kill live music and kill the existing music industry because people wouldn't leave their houses because radio would bring the ballroom to them. It had exactly the opposite effect—it made people much more interested in music. The same thing happened with the Internet—people said access to music on the Internet was going to kill the music industry. What it killed was the record industry. The music industry—bands, concerts, things like that are doing great. The live concert experience is a valuable thing now.
Hoo hoo HOOO!
Best song of 2010. Possibly ever. And if you think it's dedicated to you, from the deepest part of my heart, it probably is.
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (ISOLATED DRUMS)
Charlie Watts is one of my favorite RnR drummers of all time. So solid and clean. Damn fine tasty.
And this from the WikiLink.
A famous anecdote relates that during the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Jagger phoned Watts's hotel room in the middle of the night asking where "my drummer" was. Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs and punched Jagger in the face, saying: "Don't ever call me your drummer again. You're my fucking singer!"
Now that is flipping epic.
Got them BP Oil Spill Blues VIA Neil Young in 1974.
Neil Young : Vampire BluesOn the Beach, 1974.
I'm a vampire, babe, suckin' blood from the earth. I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth.
I'm a black bat, babe, bangin' on your window pane I'm a black bat, baby, bangin' on your window pane. Well, I'm a black bat, babe, I need my high octane.
Good times are comin', I hear it everywhere I go. Good times are comin', I hear it everywhere I go. Good times are comin', but they sure comin' slow.
I'm a vampire, babe, suckin' blood from the earth. I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth.