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Returning from a week in Boston, my band The Angelic Slugs played and had a good time. Apparently we rock and are tight, I thought for years that we suck, but actually we are thought to be pretty good. I guess I'm glad, but the down side is that they will not let me play bass since it seems that I can not sing and play at the same time. They are no doubt correct, I can not play and sing at the same time, but they are a bunch of uptight pussies, so I ask you you, what is worse? anyway it's nice for this country mouse to be home.

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

47 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Funny, I thought that video entry would have done it, but it seems to have breathed a sort of unhallowed and stuttering life into the thing instead. 

The singers should be used for bacon and smoked hams, The drummer I'm afraid will only be useful if ground into sausage, the douche on the keyboards is riddles with worms and need to go on the compost pile. Only the bass players has on ounce of cool.

20 hours ago, Will said:

Each to his own I guess.

 

I'm not trying to be an annoying and contrary arsehole every time you say something might be Nu-metal, but to me they seem more groove-metal/thrash/metalcore (depending on album or song).

Have at it Dude, not a problem. Thrash is the only term there that means much to me and I'd guess this was not so much a thrash album, it's the album Sacrament as it happens. Go ahead and tell me it is thrash if you want, I will totally not take it personally.

That was a Lamb of God album in case anyone has lost track. shit is moving pretty quick in the nu-metal thread these days so try  keep up sports fans.

I've never heard all of Ten Thousands fists, and personally I liked Believe way more than Indestructible. By the way I listened to my bosses Lamb of God CD, don't know which one. Pretty sure that is Nu-metal, but not fully sure. While the subject of Nu-metal is hot, I wanted to mention that I kind of dig the high production weirdness of the Nu-metal videos that I've seen. That is a fun aspect of Nu-metal even if they are fairly vapid as far as I can tell. Lot of lights and scowls and pyrotechnics and carefully selected outfits.

Paul Chain's music is fascinating, but I didn't know all that crazy stuff about him. I had heard the stuff with Dorian. Didn't he record with someone else famous like Matt Pike or Wino or someone like that? Some of his output seems like it ought to be edited a bit, but some is totally top notch. I take issue with the use of old art work, new recordings should get new art, that is my opinion.

If I saw a copy of Disturbed's album "Believe" for under $10 I would purchase it. Don't know if that is relevant here or not, is that new metal?

On 4/22/2017 at 3:47 AM, Skull_Kollektor said:

Ahah yes, they don't make eponymous debuts this good anymore, these days...

It's kinda sad that Great White is now split into two bands... One with Jack Russell and one with Mark Kendall...

Mister Kendall might have been responsible for much of the music, but Jack Russell's voice is amazing! Too bad that he had the worst looks of the whole Sunset Strip... If Vince Neil's looks (up until 1991, of course), Jack Russell's pipes and Diamond Dave's antics could be merged into a single front man it would be the ultimate rock and roll Frankenstein!

Your right on top of what gives with Great White, I'd need to look up the details but I thought a few of the band members died on stage in a pyrotechnics catastrophe. Maybe it was the drummer alone who died? Anyway I don't know anything about the subsequent bands, but I'd be intrigued. Dudes vocals are tremendous, that I don't need to research.

Wikipedia points out that it was a vocalist and guitar player, Ty Longley, who died in a failed attempt to save his guitar. 

Yes I enjoyed it very much, which stands to reason, as I've always loved an eponymous debut.

Judas Priest heavy you say... I need to check out this first album. I've got some greatest hits or something off theirs, i don't know what it is.... I love it, maybe it's Rock Me.

Welcome to the forum.

I drank a Greek liquor tonight that I'd never had before. It was called Mastika.

Welcome to the forum, please receive this flower arrangement as a welcoming gesture.

 I carved it myself out of balsa wood, Hope you enjoy.

I never heard Coroner until this morning. I enjoyed then a lot, especially the bass playing. Like it more that the venom listening that somehow let to it. Thanks to Youtube for the recommendation. 

Carol Kaye from the wrecking crew which recorded so much of the iconic music form the 60's, and late 50's I think, deserves mentioning (even if she did play with a pick). And while we are at it with women I'd say Tina Weymouth is an amazingly great bassist (I had to look her name up, but I've been listening to a fabulous talking heads album at work and the whole purpose of that fabulous band is to provide a vehicle for her bass). Another bassist I had to look up the name of last night after watching some of Mark Boland's old show Mark, is the bassist for T-Rex at least when that show was getting made whose name is "Herbie" Flowers, I learned from wikipedia that he has played on 500 hit recordings some for famously elite artists like Bowie and McCartney and such, he also recorded the bass-line for "jump Into the Fire" by Harry Nilsson which ought to be heard by people who care about bass-lines. 

On the metal side, who knows how well Candelmass's leader and bassist Leif Edling plays because you can not hear him, which kills me about Candlemass because I fuckling love the band, Why Such A Low Bass Track? So regardless of his playing there is no one cooler.

Here He is with Avatarium.

On 4/12/2017 at 5:28 PM, Skull_Kollektor said:

I love it all. And own (almost) it all. I have a hard time picking up a single favorite glam metal band... but I have no doubt about the single most relevant album of the era. "Appetite for Destruction". The great thing about that record is that if you are a casual listener, someone who doesn't know shit about rock and roll, you're gonna love it.

Again, if you are someone who has done all the homework, someone who owns all the "hip" wild rock and roll records (the first two NY Dolls, the Pistols, the first run of Aerosmith records, all the stuff by Hanoi Rocks, by Nazareth, the punk shit Duff loves) as well as all the records of those who preceded Guns on the strip (Motley, Quiet Riot, Ratt, Dokken, Great White, Shark Island, Odin, London, Stryper, you name it), came along Guns (LA Guns, Tesla, Faster Pussycat, Poison, Warrant, Rock City Angels) or followed in their wake (Bang Tango, Asphalt Ballet, Circus of Power, Skid Row, Spread Eagle - although these two heralded from the East Coast), YOU ARE STILL GONNA ACKNOWLEDGE the superiority and the be-all-end-all-ness of "Appetite".

Let's face it... it's the ultimate badass street-wise yet major backed record.

 

It has been noted here that a lot of these bands differ quite a lot from each other. Of course they do! But so did Saxon, Priest, Motorhead, Maiden, and the other british bands that defined the NWOBHM. Yet, there definitely exists a common ground between, say, Poison and Guns N Roses. Slash even auditioned for Poison, but ended up in Black Sheep instead (replacing Paul Gilbert!). And no matter how these bands tried to downplay the "metal" factor and stress their rock and roll roots, they ALL came from HEAVY METAL. Come think of it: many a Crue riff stemmed directly from "British Steel" ("Knock Em Dead" IS "Grinder" under the verses) and "Breaker" (Accept... "Use it or Lose it" on "Theatre of Pain" is "Breaker" itself, a bit twisted!) and "Wheels of Steel" (listen to the first few seconds of "Street Fighting Gang" and "Wild Side" in a row). Warrant used to cover "Living After Midnight" in their set. The first known band to have featured the vocal talents of Axl Rose was named... RAPID FIRE!

British Steel is the matrix of all things metal for the whole 80's decade. Wanna thrash? Go "Rapid Fire" and "Steeler". Wanna glam? Go "Living After Midnight"! Wanna power metal? Go "Breaking the Law"! 

JUDAS PRIEST RULES!

Nice post Skull, great to have you around and well on your way to a 200th post. Would you please put on an avatar though, It's like your hanging out in you underwear with that generic silhouette you're sporting. Slip into something more formal and join the club.

I've got a compilation called "Hollywood Rocks" that I love, but sadly have pretty well trashed out in the car with my lax CD handling skills. It's for CDs worth. The down side is I never know what band is doing what as I've got no liner notes because they are a booklet that does not fit into a CD sleeve.

Is Heavy Metal Movies worth reading True Belief?

Requiem dude, the last thing you want to do to your vinyl albums is play them, and haying the turntable around will temp you to do just that. 

Thanks Macabre, and congratulations Alabaster, I'm excited to hear it. Is the painting of the woman pulling her skull form her head associated with this album? Just wondering.

Hey Mike, I live near Augusta. Welcome to the forum.

I've been listening to lot of jazz recently, Ella Fitzgerald is my favorite, and I have been learning Autumn Leaves and Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You on the bass. I also listen to lots of old soul.

Y'all are not a great help to the Youtube bound dilettante; discussing an album and never naming it, but don't worry about me, I'm sure I can find it, I'll input the year into to google search engine... be right back.

Wow, eponymous title. Didn't see that coming. Frenetic as hell, which I did see coming.

I switched over to the best of the Steve Miller Band, so carry on without me friends.

Grassroll, what is your interest in that music? It sounds more than a little soulless to me. My guess would be that it was made to order so as not to be offensive, and at it's root is a sort of smooth jazz, so that is my opinion about the music, what is yours? Why are you interested.

Like this kind of jazz,

or more like this,

I apologize for my snarky and judgmental attitude, and ask in earnest why are you interested in the name of this piece of music?

Westworld pretty much blows my mind!

It was not a new acquisitions things, but I did realize I had twice as many Scorpions albums as I thought I did; so basically the same thing, just less expensive.