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MN5, interesting that for all those blokes that you mention, that fuckwit Eddie Van Halen used to win a fuck ton of "Most Valuable Player" awards in reputable guitar magazines.<br />
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My favourite rhythm section is relatively recent in Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor from Tool. The shit they come up with is unreal, and able to create atmosphere in their songs as required (usually dark i admit). -
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He wasn't playing his Chapman Stick was he RT? I saw Myung playing one with Dream Theatre - pretty cool I thought.<br />
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Yes, definitely played the stick with both KC and PG. I took some really cool photos of him circa 1994 where he is playing a bass, probably a Fender. -
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As for best bass player full stop then I'm voting with RT and going for Jamerson.<br />
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He's my fave, not necessarily the "best." (I'm in no position to judge technicalities between these guys, I just know the sounds I like.).<br />
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Possibly the most talented bassist I ever saw play was Stanley Clarke - saw him several times, including w/ Return to Forever - but at the time (late 70s/early 80s) I was more impressed in the sheer musicality and otherworldly weirdness of Pastorius. -
Foreplay, tension, build-up, orgasm (3:42). Sparks. Genius.<br />
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(The actual live sequence is from Woodstock (the concert and the movie), (as well as Kids Are Alright, where this clip is presumably from with the Townsend interview), and the live performance is the first (?) film directed by Martin Scorsese, (he wasn't responsible for the movie, just the Joan Baez and Who sequences). He might have been operating one of the cameras, too, but I'm not entirely sure about that.) -
Bryter Layter. Marvellous. [Warning: 70's nerd shit following]<br />
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I pulled it out because was listening to some String Band over the weekend and decided I'd listen to as many of Joe Boyd's albums as I've got as complete albums, rather than just picking the odd track. I'm glad I did, the guy was a genius, and he managed to tie together some fairly eclectic output from some difficult acts into coherent works. So much so that I'm kind of wondering what Pink Moon would have been like if he'd done that one too.<br />
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You know it struck me recently that much as I love all the tech around music, the experience of listening to it is diminished by the whole concept of shuffling, playlists, genres, tags and especially "smart" software that anticipates what it thinks you want to hear next. In the old days the whole process of looking through the big stacks of vinyl was an integral part of the process. I'd discover things I didn't remember having, or that I hadn't played for a while. And some of the best was when I couldn't decide what to put on, so I'd grab just anything and put it on an an "inbetweener" while I found something I really wanted. Progress, it's not always best. -
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Love it RT. "Listen to Tommy with a candle burning and you'll see your entire future".<br />
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Things rock doesn't get any better than:<br />- The first minute of Pinball Wizard, through to when Moon comes in, with the volume so loud it hurts.<br />
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Funnily enough, I was surfing through youtube riffing on the Clapton vitriol above, and started scratching my head knowing that I'd seen him play live four times, and couldn't remember where, and then it dawned on me that two of those shows he was the guitarist for Roger Waters on the Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking, which was a very interesting tour, the first one for Waters post-The Wall. Waters claims he lost a million dollars on the tour. There isn't much good video from the tour, sadly. Shortly thereafter, David Gilmour was playing with Pete Townsend on the White City tour, and I was watching that li9ve performance with the big band, which is really fabulous, and saw the Sparks clip. I saw that on the big screen for Kids Are Alright when it was released circa '78/79 and that was my favourite part and pretty much sold me on the who as a teenager. It stands up really, really well.<br />
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RIP John Lord. Was lucky to see him play a couple times in the 1980s, but being mostly obliterated on both occasions I can't remember much. I can, however, vividly remember a very late Saturday night tv special on TVNZ in the early-to-mid 1970s, Deep Purple in Japan (or Made in Japan? -can't remember the name of the movie, but it seemed like a companion piece to the live double-album). I was about ten years old, I knew the Beatles, but by comparison this was awfully heavy (and scary and dangerous). I was mesmerized by "Smoke on the Water." It does seem fairly primitive nowadays, but that song along with the Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar" and Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog," was my formative introduction to "serious rock for grown-ups." -
Yeah Lord was such a huge part of their sound. Deep Purple were kind of a hybrid of Zep and Sabbath to some extent. I will stick my neck out and say I liked Blackmore as a guitarist better than Page, controversial call I know. A bit rough I should be talking bout the late Jon Lord !<br />
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Those three groups were just fucken light years from the afore mentioned Beatles, Obviously the Zeps were the biggest but the other two can rightly claim to have influenced countless Bogans down the years.<br />
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Red Terror the album is indeed Made in Japan and was on high rotate on my walkman ( the tape version which ran out of batteries quickly ) when I was at school in the early 90s and everyone listened to their old mans music ( those three, Hendrix, Doors etc ) alongside Rage, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple pilots, Chillis, Nirvana etc. Good times ! -
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They played Pros and Cons in it's entirety, then an intermission, and then a longish set of "classic" Floyd tunes, (Money, Welcome to the Machine, etc.) although now that I'm thinking, it might have been a Floyd set first, 'cos I seem to remember the show began with an epic rendition of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."<br />
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The production was very, very big, easily at the time the biggest I'd ever seen, so it doesn't surprise me Waters lost a ton of money on it. Lots of video projection, I think a triptych of images going, much of it the original visual material from Floyd tours. The Floyd material was naturally received much, much better, but the visual quality of the Pros/Cons was noticeably better than the Floyd effects, which appeared dated. I saw them two nights in a row (Maple Leaf Gardens, I stayed at the hotel next door) and the 2nd show I liked the Pros and Cons better than the Floyd set. It was an eye-opener to me that outside the Gardens before-and-after the 2nd show a small gang was selling cassette tape bootlegs of the previous nights' show. It might seem easy to do that now in the digital age, but I'd never seen that sort of diligence done before and it must've taken them a lot of work dubbing multiple copies overnight. Naturally, we bought a tape. According to several references I've read since, Waters offered both The Wall and Pros and Cons to Floyd and asked them to choose which one would be a PF album. -
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Red Terror the album is indeed Made in Japan...<br />
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I know the record very well, it was a high school staple. What is less remembered by me is the name of the movie (or tv special) which I've never seen since. I can't remember the title, but I saw that before I discovered the album, and I've always associated them together. For all I know, the movie might not have been filmed in Japan at all. There is a dvd from that era ("MkII") recorded in Denmark, perhaps that's what TVNZ broadcast? Dunno, it's a mystery to me.<br />
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Check out the mullets (more like helmets) from MkI at the Playboy Mansion, Blackmore giving Hef guitar lessons, not easy to do smoking a pipe, and Hef interviewing Lord about poltergeists... they almost look like they're wearing wigs!<br />
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Those haircuts are nothing short of fucken horrific ! none of them would ever need crash helmets.....<br />
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JC, totally agree, I've heard Blackmore is a Grade A fuckwit ( to quote Norm Hewitt ) but no denying the dude can play. Fucken awesome stage presence as well. YOu can see how he influenced all the shredders of the 80's and beyond ( although he was more subdued in the video above ) -
Oh, boy. The mystery deepens... what happened to Great Barrier Island's most (in)famous resident??<br />
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I have met him and hung out with him several times, but haven't seen him in a few years (I did some photo work, video shoots, interviews). In 1995 (maybe '94?) he was under instructions from management, on the first night of the N.American tour in Toronto (Pandemonium) the record label had him on a curfew (if you can believe it!), he had jet-lag (or reverse jet-lag, I s'ppose) having flown from the UK the night before, and got up at 4 am and went on a walkabout. His management checked on him in the early morning, he was gone, they got an APB to the cops and he was later found strolling. He has showed me the slash scars on his wrists where he tried cutting himself... he didn't say he was attempting suicide, and he didn't say what age he did that, but I deduced it was serious. Speaking of vodka ... His management also forbade him from drinking on the entire tour, which meant I had to sit with a polystyrene cup in my left hand and a bottle of black label Smirnoff (the really expensive, really high proof vodka) in my right hand, lest management catch him, so I had to keep passing the cup back n' forth to him while he got sheepishly hammered. He invited me and my buddy to ride the bus with him to Montreal, a decision we passed on and have regretted ever since. The guy is a charismatic nutter.<br />
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True to the title of the thread. This is what I'm listening to at this very moment. Having a nostalgia trip filcking around on Youtube and came across this great live version of Johnny Was. Considering it was done in 1999, well past the shelf life a band like SLF should have had, it is great.<br />
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SLF's Hanx live album is in my alltime top10 yet I don't listen too it that much nowdays (I must be getting old). When I do crank it up though, it's a treat. One of the best ever live albums IMO.<br />
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And yes, that is Bruce Foxton on Bass. He played with the Fingers for 15 years (much longer than he did with The Jam).<br />
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Btw, no disturbance in the force... Jaz has been found working in the Sahara desert. (The Nirvana Symphony??)
