Comments on: Friday Random Ten

By: gus

gus — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:20:36 +0000

What the FUCK are you doing with a Skrewdriver song on your list?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:16:32 +0000

I rotate a couple of Roy’s live numbers onto my player. These twenty minute kinetic adventures occasionally cause me to blurt obscenities of wonder and respect where everyone can hear. And yeah, tone to perhaps (big perhaps) rival the great Les Pauls.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:27:02 +0000

I like this photo

By: Yosef

Yosef — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:21:05 +0000

Roy Buchanan is playing in Charlotte soon (or maybe even this past weekend. Who knows? I can’t afford to go to the Visulite anymore, and anyway, they usually just have crappy local hippie bands.)

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:12:52 +0000

Sadly Alert : Sadly spotted at Brainwashed :

“I have largely looked with unenthused disgust at the so-called “folktronica” sound that has played out in recent years. Growing up with my parents’ Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Woody Guthrie records provided me with an appreciation for real masters of the craft, and, comparatively, some moody dipshit’s grandiose laptop meets guitar experiments hardly garners my respect. The only possible thing worse than the typical album in this half-assed subgenre would have to be one that also incorporates that desperately pretty late nineties IDM sound. Sadly, that’s just where Gonglot fits in…”

Brainwashed

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:44:30 +0000

la alalalalalalalalalalalal

2:43 in tha am nobody home I’m running naked through the internets

alalalalalal

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:54:42 +0000

I don’t get #7

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:22:50 +0000

I listen to The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s Silvertown all the time*. But I’ll see that and raise you The Levellers.

In terms of personal brushes with music greatness**, the closest I can come is the time I met Mick Jones of Foreigner in a hotel bar in Boston and he hit on the girl I was with. Seriously, the guy told her what hotel he was staying at and invited her to call him later. In my mind, I called him out then and there and strangled him with his own E-string. In reality, things didn’t get quite that confrontational. I think he cadged a drink off us and we went on our way, and as far as I know, she didn’t call him in his hotel room.

*For very small values of all the time, as I hardly ever listen to music these days.

** Actual greatness not guaranteed.

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:54:29 +0000

Hey, I remember The Men They Couldn’t Hang. I see your “The Men They Couldn’t Hang” and I’ll raise you one “An Emotional Fish.”

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:38:41 +0000

Gavin, I definitely agree about the 50s Tele. I’ve got a more recent version; they still sound sweet.

Now, if I could just move out of the 2 chord neighborhood…

BTW, here’s my FRT:

http://empireofthesenseless.blogspot.com/2005/10/friday-random-ten_14.html

No Kitties.

By: Pinko Punko

Pinko Punko — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 02:01:27 +0000

Actually I think the Capt. meant his fish.

By: oudemia

oudemia — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:12:21 +0000

Oh, how I love Articles of Faith . . .

By: mdhatter03@yahoo.com

mdhatter03@yahoo.com — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:20:33 +0000

what jexter sed

By: Mr. Mordant

Mr. Mordant — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:41:41 +0000

One more reason that my jealous obsession with Gavin burns at my sole.

You sure that’s not athelete’s foot?

By: Capt. Trollypants

Capt. Trollypants — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:39:39 +0000

Oh my God. Amanda must be pissed because you obscuritans have dropped the Scarlet U on her- Unhip! Nothing can top the personal stories of the old scene. One more reason that my jealous obsession with Gavin burns at my sole.

Heh.

I wonder after I do the deed if the tell tale heart will have a Two Tone beat? Gav under the floor boards and Coldplay rocking the house at the Motorhead reunion show from Wembley. Good times.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:13:39 +0000

I'm not clear whether the objection to Skrewdriver ought to be that they are white power propagandists or that their music is formulaic. A much more interesting band from that sector of the public ill is Death In June. DiJ have also given rise to interesting and indeed impassioned criticism from the left wing sub-culturati, as here: Death In June Not Mysterious"

By: Marq

Marq — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:16:59 +0000

I, happily, have just stumbled across a compilation of 999 stuff on ye olde iTunes. There was an old album of theirs that I had on vinyl that I always wanted on CD (no dice) that I had pretty much despaired of ever seeing stuff from ever again. But this thing, "The Albion Punk Years," has about 4-5 tunes from the old album-sweet! Best of all, it has the threatening cover they did of that old '50s tune, L'il Red Riding Hood (iTunes link)! Man, does that make me happy.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:16:52 +0000

Pete used to be in a band called Sticks and Stones. There’s a story about a night the band went to the Felix #9 Diner (in Bridgewater) and found Dave Vanian of the Damned sitting there eating a hamburger… Vanian’s girlfriend’s parents apparently lived in the area — he used to turn up in funny places there, where you least expected to find a rock star.

But the punch line is Pete freaking out and yelling, “All my life, all I’ve ever wanted was to be the Dave Vanian of central New Jersey! And now this guy is MUSCLING IN!!!”

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:58:23 +0000

Gavin, no. Seriously, I literally just found this one song on my iPod. Back in March, the SXSW Festival put something like 750 songs on the Intarwebs for free download. I pulled them all down and have been listening to them occasionally in various iTunes/iPod shuffle modes, and that song came up the other day. I was impressed, went looking for info about them, found the website. Turns out their stuff is on iTMS, so I may go shopping one of these days.

By: Gavin M.

Gavin M. — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:30:02 +0000

if you haven’t heard The World/Inferno Friendship Society’s “Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater”

Dude, I knew Pete back when he used to live in Bridgewater. Are you from NJ?