Hammeron
Downloaded 4 gig of Hawkwind, around 60 odd albums since 1970.
What brilliance.
Psean
Temple of the Dog (what an album!) and a selection of Muddy Waters?
Squonk
Watching Deep Purple live at the Albert Hall.
It's a 1999 Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Paice and of course Steve Morse.
I am impressed. I did own the Concerto for Group and Orchestra long years ago and they do part of it on this album as well some of the more modern stuff.
I had forgotten how good Jon Lord is on organ...
This is good stuff, Even the played to death "Smoke on the Water" is pretty hectic with Ronnie James Dio doing some vocals as well as members of the Steve Morse Band, Dave La Rue etc.
Bob-Dubery
Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves
It goes to show what a strong performer is. About 3/4 of this live disc is Wainwright and a Martin D28 *, and Wainwright is not likely to pop up on any polls of the world's best 100 guitarists any time soon. Yet he can capture and hold the audience's attention (as he did when I saw him in London in 2010). One guy and a guitar - sometimes it's all you need.
* for one sequence of songs he's joined by long-time collaborators David Mansfield and Chaim Tannenbaum.
Jack-Flash-Jr
Got my hands on Endless Boogie's first two (called um Volume One and Volume Two), previously available on vinyl only.
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There are no words to describe how much I love these guys... here's someone else's words instead:
Monday, 12 March 2012
I saw the Real O-Mind with Endless Boogie
IF you've ever listened to any Stooges or Radio Birdman records, you'll be familiar with the idea of the O-Mind. The concept came from a lyric in the Stooges' Down In The Street: "floatin' around on a real O-Mind". In the literal sense, it meant the whacked-out bliss of a drug stupor. But musically, it meant something else: a state of transcendence where all earthly concerns fall away and you're left focused on the only thing that matters, which is Right Now, the moment you're in.
I've never seen it referred to as a kind of orgasm, but the effect is similar.
For the Stooges, the O-Mind was the musical holy grail. They were bent, as American critic Ann Powers once memorably put it, on touching rock's molten core, and they did it again and again - on Down On The Street, on I Wanna Be Your Dog ... Hell, the entire first two Stooges albums constitute a trip into the deepest recesses of the O-Mind. For the Stooges, pharmaceutical and personal psychosis was the inevitable result.
I saw the Real O-Mind last Thursday night. The band was New York City's Endless Boogie, playing to a crowd of about 50 people at the Jubilee Hotel.
I generally hate jam bands. I prefer brevity: the Ramones are my favourite band ever, hands down. And if ever there was truth in advertising, Endless Boogie are well named - the infinity symbol adorns all their recordings. Despite that, there's an economy and simplicity about what they do: find a riff; lock the groove; then drive the whole thing over a cliff. There's touches of psychedelia, to be sure, but it's not remotely progressive. Nothing is complicated for the sake of it.
Besides, their primary singer-guitarist, who'd been propping up an impressive merch stand up until that point, doesn't look like Cousin Itt so much as a caveman. As soon as I spot him propping up an impressive merch stand, I know this is gonna be great.
He's got long, long hair that hangs in his eyes, a row of stumps for teeth and he's wearing the clothes he's probably worn for a month. Calling him a singer is a stretch, since he doesn't so much sing as gargle and howl and grunt, but you realise singing's hardly the point once they launch into their first song and not a syllable's been crooned after about eight minutes.
After about 12 minutes, there's a power failure. The band, unfazed, continues - or rather, the drummer does. He doesn't miss a beat. To play this music you need to be above all accurate, and this guy is a human metronome. There's a bit of fiddling from the house engineer and we're cooking again. The band plough on - and on. The song must clock in at over 20 minutes.
But length doesn't matter in the way I might expect it to. Firstly, because it's all about groove, it's actually easy to dance to. And secondly, the longer some of these songs go, the better they seem. The guitar playing is clean and sharp and always tasteful. The music hits fantastic peaks, sustains them, backs away, then builds again. It's mesmerising.
"Floating around on a real O-Mind" indeed.
It's no exaggeration to say this changes the way I listen to music. I'm not sure if Endless Boogie are necessarily fantastically original - in fact, I'm sure they're not. It makes me wonder about all those Hawkwind and Grand Funk Railroad records I've ignored all my life. Drawing on my more familiar reference points, it's like Asheton-era Stooges crossed with Krautrock influences like Can or, more particularly, Neu!
There's also more obvious classic-rock influences like Crazy Horse, and early '70s Australian shit like Lobby Loyde's Coloured Balls. (That connection's underscored by the fact that Steven Malkmus, an avowed fan of the Balls, is also a fan of and friends with Endless Boogie, and has joined them on stage more than once.)
Now I'm at home, writing this blog and listening to Focus Level, their first album. It's a double, of course, and stretches to the full 79 minutes - the maximum length a CD can handle. The reviews I've read haven't been all that kind, so maybe it helps that I've seen them live, and am not reacting to it the way a time-poor critic needing to write a dozen McNugget-sized reviews might.
Right Now, it's all I want to listen to.
FROM: andrew-stafford.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-saw-real-o-mind-with-endless-boogie.html
Malkav
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 2.0
You can download it legally for free over here on this Serbian site:
http://nocturnemagazine.net/vest/1198/david-maxim-micic-preuzmite-bilo-20
Here's an article on it where in the comments he says:
Submitted by David Maxim Micic on Wed, 30/05/2012 - 20:49.
Yup it's legal, since many people from my country still don't use internet to buy/sell things.. Nocturne uploaded the EP, and it will be up for a few days for those who want it, but can't get it. Feel free to download, there are many download links around anyway.
http://got-djent.com/article/david-maxim-micic-bilo-20-ep-released-available-streaming
I'm literally at a loss for words to describe how jaw droppingly good I think this album is...
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Such a good album ? Already one of my favourites for 2012 so far ?
dee
I'm loving Awolnation at the moment...
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giggsy
Enter Shikari...
Not sure if I like this band - some listens I do, some I dont, but I love the song below. Its wierd, starts out with vocals sounding like Keane, then goes emo/screamo, has some electronic stuff thrown in and finished off with a killer riff. Not too much guitar work in the song, but I like all of it.
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mity88
:cheesy: Born & Raised - John Mayer :cheesy:
GaryMac
The Gathering Britannia.
Very topical name!!!
This ones for all the old Folkies out there, I said old Folkies not old Foggies!!!!
We all know who you are!!!!!!!
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There are one or two members of The Gathering Britannia that the older members of the Forum may remember.
The album is The Bridge Between and here is aling to some info.
http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/gathering.html
GaryMac
PS Paul McCartney really needs to quit singing now, did anyone else watch the concert last night?
Averatu
Spiritual Beggars. First album kicks, good old raw stoner doom, other albums sound like Arch Enemy style rock anthems, blech.
Averatu
Fusion dressed in djent is still fusion. Blech!!!
Wizard
Old stuff.
Police - Roxanne.
Tight & timeless.
Malkav
Averatu wrote:
Fusion dressed in djent is still fusion. Blech!!!
I'm sorry I have this weird disposition where I like to listen to people who can actually play the instrument and say something interesting musically ?
LooneyAtTheGate
Fusion dressed in djent is still fusion. Blech!!!
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I'm digging this... Djent mixed with anything is great as long as its done well. Its more interesting than the usual generic djent out there.
I think its great and refreshing to hear djent mixed with other genres. ?
Jayhell
Adele, Sting and the police, Paradise lost and Chevelle. :-[
rikus
I'm still thoroughly enjoying John Mayer's new album. I'm loving Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967...
Edit: I'm also enjoying Haley Reinhardt's new CD. :-[ She finished 3rd in last year's American Idol and was hands down my favourite throughout. Her new CD is pretty good imo.
costafonix
Santana's latest release - Shape Shifter,,,
onto song number 6 7 8 9 10 so far and,,,,,, :-\ and all instrumental up to now..
a touch untidy in places,,,,,
I hope it improves,,,
still won't stop me from going to watch the dudes live though :yup:
Squonk
Dominic Miller - Shapes
Great playing and the Nylon sounds beautiful
Unfortunately elevator music or music for intermission(Or worse when you are holding on the Joburg Connect line)
Still anyone who could come up with the "Shape of my Heart" riff is "Good Stuff" in my books ?
He also played the acoustic guitar parts on Phil Collins 'Another Day in Paradise" among many other sessions.
costafonix
CostaFonix wrote:
Santana's latest release - Shape Shifter,,,
onto song number 6 7 8 9 10 so far and,,,,,, :-\ and all instrumental up to now..
a touch untidy in places,,,,,
I hope it improves,,,
still won't stop me from going to watch the dudes live though :yup:
unfortunately overall, a total disappointment,, highly not-recommended,,,,,,,
