Andersper

Turns out they're from my hometown.

Sixty Fiver

More like getting my mind blown... again.

Nobody can play this like Albert Lee.

T13

Roky Erikson's version is much creepier. This almost sounds like Weird Al singing haha. Not awful though.

WestyNaut92

I'm bored at work, can you tell?

Mumonkan

that makes me wanna listen to these maniacs


theres like 13 dudes in the band

TenSpeedV2

Been listening to this pretty much non stop all week. Really enjoying the song selection and mixing of the DJ. Very clean, uptempo and easy to listen to.

Andersper

It's co-produced by Dave Grohl so there's that Foo Fighters glazed donut feel to it. I enjoy a Foo Fighters song every once in a while, but a dozen of them in a row is just gross.

T13

Haha yeah, I know what ya mean.

TMonk

^
I've always dug "My Hero". It has a pretty melodic line to it, so I want to cover it with my tenorman friend that I play jazz with weekly.

In other news, my gf surprised me with a wonderful gift yesterday: an album of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of Animals, featuring Yo Yo Ma on the cello.

I have always loved this piece of music growing up - I still listening to it monthly, at the least.

Ma's rendition of the swan is fantastic - this piece was really made for the cello. His tone and emotion are so good - it makes me feel like my skin is melting. This version below is a little slower than the album, but it has the right effect:

Mumonkan

ive always loved foo fighters and dave, but i went to a foo fighters concert and that was when i realized i cant really listen to a whole set of their songs. i like them on their own and get excited when they come on but im good on a dozen.

they do play a great live show though, you can tell theyre really enjoying themselves playing for you which to me is pretty important

Hothead286

I'm going to see Run the Jewels in Des Moines this weekend. Pretty pumped.

T13

Did you see that Husker Du tribute that Dave Grohl did? It was pretty good.


Ya know who else puts on a really good show? Metallica. I haven't really been a fan since "ride the lightning", but a friend of mine has a one of those private box things here at the Arena, so I got to see them play. They played for three ****ing hours with no break, and they took requests. And they talked just enough between a few songs, but not too much. They just seemed like cool humans. I met James Hetfield at a car show in Antioch, CA a few years ago, and he was real cool then, in person too.

It's kinda sad when you are surprised by someone being cool, instead of being a dick.

Andersper

I think James Hetfield is a tremendous musician, even if his taste is sometimes questionable, but I can't stand Lars Ulrich's drumming. I would love if Hetfield went solo even for just one album, but I'm not holding my breath. Metallica, to me at least, seems more like a lucrative (and prestigious) business arrangement than a fertile creative outlet for Hetfield. But yeah, I bet they still put on a great show.

Mumonkan

dint see that but im gonna check it out

i havent been into anything metallicas put out for many years, theyre a friend of mines favorite band and hes seen them 3 times in recent years and keeps trying to get me to go. he says the same thing, they play like its still the 80s and put on a good show. i should probably go but i just dont get amped about metallica like i used to.

im ok with kirk hammet having his bellybutton pierced, im ok with hetfield being off the junk, im ok some new guy, but i just cant get myself to like that ****er lars. hes like an annoying little piglet that wont shut the **** up.

edit:\ lol @ another lars related comment as i was typing my response

T13

Yeah, Lars IS pretty annoying. I love his tirade against "Napster", seeing as how Metallica gained popularity through tape trading, which is no different than file sharing. I wonder if the rest of the band was just like "Please shut the **** up, Lars"....

Mumonkan

im sure it was as much a PR stunt as much as it was some little turd being angry about losing $4 per album sale

hilariously enough p2p filesharing gained popularity much more than metallica did from that whole fiasco

Andersper

Lars Ulrich's public persona is unpleasant to say the least, but his drumming is atrocious. He honestly can't keep a beat.

jlafitte 

Opportunity Cost

I'm not judging anyone or anything here, but the difference between trading tapes and file sharing is impossible to overstate. The internet has basically eliminated scarcity of any kind of media content. This wiped out the the economy that artists (musicians in particular) and their distributors spent the better part of the past century building.

SpeshulEd 

Give me colored vinyl, call it limited edition, and charge me $50 for it and I'll buy the damn thing.
Release it on itunes and expect me to pay $9.99 for it and I'll steal it or listen to it on spotify.

TMonk

I heard this recently on KSDS jazz88.3 I really, really dig the main melodic line - which starts shortly after 1:10.

T13

The thing is, Metallica made it's bones in a somewhat underground community. And tape trading is what helped them achieve that. But because of that success, they were able to make the transition from and underground "scene", where you may not really be able to make a living selling tapes or records, and where you can make more money by touring and playing out, to essentially being pop artists, who depend on record sales as much as touring. You can't compare the two. Lars is basically a pop star whining about losing money on record sales.

Unkle Rico

#drumkitscosta ****ton

T13

I don't even know why he has a full kit. All he plays is the snare, anyways.

prooftheory

I suspect that Metallica still makes a relatively small proportion of their income on album sales and that they still make a lot more money on touring. I think lars has more of this sense of fairness thing going on with his intellectual property but it is just misplaced. I am relatively surprised that the music industry still hasn't settled into a coherent business model. I would have thought that labels would be completely gone by now.

T13

Labels won't go away until people stop aspiring to be on them. I mean, that's the formula, for being a "rockstar". Get on a label, get famous.