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#221 > SEPT 13th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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on the street are you feeling all right? Scroll down for this week's issue... |
Once
upon a time in the West when the acrid sting of self reproach was of no
importance and more ears needed feeding and Led Zeppelin thought reforming
and asking for well over a hundred pound a ticket was perfectly alright
– ever get the feeling you’re being cheated? Well you knew it was going
to be like that didn’t you. Well you did didn’t you? Still leaves a rather
rancid taste and no, we don’t want a slice, you ain’t gonna squeeze our
lemon that much – enough of that, we’ll never mention it again, the whole
thing is tainted now, never pick up the same jellyhead twice. Never mind
no overpriced bloated old bands, that was was back then, this is very much
now, things no longer remain the same - man on the street are you
feeling alight? All good, we're heading for the next bite...
– these are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the www. |
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
| Why wait a week for your
news when you can now have it daily over there? |
THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
We
don't shout every week, unless some fat old band thinks it to be acceptable
to think they can charge us one hundred and twenty fine pounds to see the
bloated old man play a giant mobile phone advert of a gig. Have we shouted
about George Tabb this week? That's him in the orange there - old school
punk rock zine guy who needs a little bit of your time and effort. Maybe
Robert Plant can help out? Maybe Robert's a little ashort this week, maybe
Jimmy feels the need to milk his fans a little more? Instead of everyone
giving the greedy pisstaking Zeps 125 notes they could all give George
1.25. I wouldn't go if you paid me 125 now, obscene greedy bloated rockpigs.
How much does a damn stairway to heaven cost anyway?
John on the phone... |
| What
would John say about the ticket price? He'd say nevermind those vile vile
rockpigs, here's some VILE VILE CREATURES (and then he'd put them on at
the wrong speed) |
ORGAN TV? |
ORGAN
TV is
on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm
on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160. And now due to the fine response,
repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 11.15pm.
This
coming Sunday we have the following videos...
OURLIVES
- Sandra
MY
VITRIOL - This Time
BEE
STRINGS - Pressure (Running Away)
TO
THE BONES - Tycho
DAN
DEACON - The Crystal Cat
COLT
- Never know
THE
KEITH JOHN ADAMS - Other Side Of The Road
BEECHER
- Function! Function!
Next
Wednesday and Sunday we have...
OURLIVES - Sandra
BEE STRINGS -
Pressure (Running Away)
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS - Other
Side Of The Road
SOHODOLLS - Right and Right
Again
THE DUEL - Camden Town
CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY
J - Cream 3
SIKTH - How May I Help You
SLIPKNOT - The Heretic
What's
it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...
Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just
handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor
- expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post
rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever.....
music and creativity for the open minded
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Want
to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what
you have, send us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever,
or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then
we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted |
DEMO TIME |
Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos, we're
just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time
for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when
we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
Well
let me see, got this potentially interesting demo here from a band, 11
tracks, worthy of more investigation, one little tiny essential detail
forgotten though – no band name! No website address or anything else besides
a phone number that leads us to a confused old lady who swears blind she
isn’t in a band who sound a little like they rather like Radiohead... Oh
well, next...
ALSO
CHECK OUT
The
thing is we really haven't heard anything worthy of a review this week,
we've listened to a lot, we're very picky, very very picky...
Last
week's demo of the week - DEATH QUNT
Previous
demo's of the week - OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN
SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP /
FUNERAL
CRASHERS / THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! / HELLFIRE
/ MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE
APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
This
week we’ve been listening to...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
MEWITHOUTYOU
– Brother, Sister (Strange Addiction) – They sound so thoroughly modern,
a perfectly positive snapshot of what’s really going on in/good about current
alt/post American rock -they’re a glass that could spill far more than
it actually contains. The Philadelphia band’s third album is released in
Europe at the end of September (came out in the USA at the end of last
year), - an album full of speckled birds that choose to run when they could
have easily flown – a decent ear for notes and a fine appreciation of harmony
(and porcupines high up in the trees). Without ever sounding anywhere near
too busy or cluttered mewithoutYou have just so so much going on – they
touch bases with post-hardcore bands and Liars and the imaginative end
of alternative indie rock and twists of American folk (and anti-folk) and
compelling psychedelia, all without ever obviously lining up with any particular
genre – what’s really going on here? Yellow spiders, brown leaf or belief?
And the lyrics and the phrases will keep on grabbing you (and one day the
water’s going to wash it all away). The lyrics - that’s where you find
the spiders and the speckled birds that choose to run or the sweater poorly-knit
or the brown leaves or the twisted twigs and crocked cross (or the orange
spiders) – the lyrics are captivating - the slightly darkened honeydew
and pumpernickel bread and the rows of peas that don’t quite grow. He’ll
take your mind and keep it held for play after play, day after day - your
books will be overdue and your goats underfed. Euphoric, nostalgic, attention
grabbing, warm milk from his bowl – Aeron Weiss is the voice, and yes he
is both frantic and fragile and yes he does lead you in to a labyrinth
of musical/lyrical delight. Is that a harp? The album opens in some kind
of spoken word story teller fashion, Messes of Men will take you in to
some kind of concept album that really sounds like no one else – and the
peacocks have twice the autonomy that the giraffes and the tigers do and
everyone knows a glass can only spill what it contains. Aaron Weiss is
captivating, he’s bewildering - his band propel his lyrical wit perfectly.
This is a magical treat of an album that will hold your attention again
and again. I can’t actually remember the last time an album had me trying
to catch every single word in such a positive way. What colour is the spider
now? Relatively simple American indie rock has never sounded so quite so
wonderfully clever as this – go enjoy.
www.brother-sister.net
or www.myspace.com/mewithoutyou
x
ALSO CHECK OUT
A WHISPER IN THE NOISE –
Dry Land (Exile on Mainstream) – Now this is a challenge, no easy pigeonhole
here, no shorthand signpost, no safe way to dance around the architecture
with this fine album. The band themselves talk of Orchestral garage rock
– whatever that could mean? They’re certainly orchestral and rather lush,
maybe we could get away with talk of a male-fronted Dresden Dolls? Darker
and fuller than that though and without the deco cabaret. Maybe a hint
of Arcade Fire or Ourlives in there - that tendency towards the dramatic
epic without being too overblown and bombastic about it – an air of lightness
actually, that widescreen filmoid sense of well being. This is very enjoyable
and rather different, they’re from Minnesota, they’re kind of Radiohead
paced, a little more hopeful though, a little more likely to leave you
with a will to live and feeling good about that fact. There isn’t too much
of a noise to their sublime whisper either, well maybe a quite set of rewarding
noises. Lush strings and piano toned electronics, warm textures and fine
crafted details – songs that don’t really sound like anyone you’ve heard
before. Edging on gothic but not in any kind of obvious way - melancholic,
atmospheric, rather beautiful – alright some of it may leave you feeling
a little sad... Well actually by the time we get to the final cut and True
Love Will Find You In The End and he’s telling us to not be sad and don’t
give up and... well... I’m kind of thinking of reaching for some Radiohead
to lift me just a little – a rather fine a beautiful experience of an album
and a band well worth investigating. www.awhisperinthenoise.com
or www.myspace.com/awitn
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PICTURE
FRAME SEDUCTION / TRUE SOUNDS OF THE REVOLUTION – Split CD – Skateboarding
Down Merlin Hill With Penny Harry (CultJam) – Two punk bands from one small
South Wales town, one new, one old. Picture Frame Seduction are the old
guys who’ve been around for years, they play fast raw no-messing heads-down
fists-up old school street punk that clearly fed off a wholesome blend
of The Pistols and early Motorhead and comes out sounding like some kind
of healthy Blitz, Anti Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts
kind of thing. True Sounds are the new guys, not really in any fit state
to follow Picture Frame quite yet – cliched everything, dreadfully obvious
lyrics and really not very good (yet) – give’em time though, or maybe enough
rope. Well worth it for Picture Frame Seduction - www.cultjamrecords.com
ZONARIA – Infamy And The
Breed (Pivotal) – Swedish death metal outfit throwing pretty everything
including the screaming blood stained kitchen sink in there with the epic
all gone wrong in the church synths, the speeding riffs, the growing vocals
and the bombastic drums. All we need now is a little something different,
a little identity and just a tiny hint of something we haven’t heard six
hundred and sixty seven times already. I guess they do what they do well
enough - www.zonaria.com
PRONG – Power Of The Damager
(13th Planet) – New twelve track album from the LA cult band (would you
call them legends?). Might have been ahead of the pack and breaking ground
back in the early 90’s with their industrial hardcore metal hybrid, sounding
a little tired and dated here in 2007 though. As heavy and aggressive as
ever and just a little flat and... – www.prongmusic.com
BILLYCLUB – No Justice (CultJam)
– A classic cut-to-the-chase street punk band with quite a bit of underground
history – the current line up are apparently holed up back on home turf
in the North West of England, Bolton to be exact. You may know the name
from their activities over in the US back in the 90’s or a split album
with GBH - then again, you may not. Whatever the case, what you need to
know right now is that they’ve weighed in with a more than decent set of
classic, well played, straight to the point, loud fast street punk rock
‘n roll tracks and a rather good album. Old school middle aged punks who
should know better by now – nice to see they don’t. Fine old shouty swearathon
loud-mouth white trash punk rock - well recorded, well produced, nice and
raw without being too messy – just right. One for those with a taste for
things like GBH, Discharge, Exploited, Broken Bones or UK Subs along with
a healthy edge of Motorhead, The Ramones, Fang and oh you know the names
– gooooooooooood stuff. www.cultjamrecords.com
or www.myspace.com/billyclub95
TOM OVANS – Party Girl (Floating
World) – Texas alt.country singer songwriter with a blues underbelly -
hard not to mention Bob Dylan in the first sentence of any review (so we
will), we should probably mention Tom Waits as well, and drifting through
urban desolation and steel guitars and... And we should probably say he
has more than enough class to pull it off. The man has soul, he has an
edge. www.floatingworld.co.uk
ATHLETE – Beyond The Neighbourhood
(Parlophone) – Athlete are alright. Athlete have an intelligent alternative
sublime easy-on-the-ear sound that sits rather well when you need it to
and this is another fine album. A triumphant euphoric sound that just makes
so much sense, hard to not feel good when you have an Athlete album playing.
The antidote to a visit to an English airport, lets play that song again
– I like Athlete, they’re a celebration of life – of life’s simple pleasures,
of raindrops bouncing off leaves, they’re just good to have around, and
even when the subject matter isn’t the most uplifting they still manage
to have you feeling that there is a positive. It may not be a cool opinion
to voice, Athlete make good records and I like them – www.athlete.mu
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ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
LIVE |
IMPERIAL
LEISURE – Camden Barfly, London – Sept 8th 2007 – It was the guerilla gig
videos they had up on line that first grabbed our attention, that and the
word of mouth that got us to go check out the videos in the first place.
Have you seen that one on Clapham Common? Or the one on the beach?
Or the one outside Camden tube station? We had to get ourselves to the
next gig – oh hell, the next gig is the damn Barfly, I detest encounters
with new bands in the damn Barfly (beer seems to be getting worse as well).
Place is heaving when we got there, sold out actually, we were warned.
They may well be an unsigned band with no kind of widely available release
and no real media profile right now but there’s rather a lot of people
who didn’t get here early enough to actually get in (thankfully we know
where the secret side door is).
Support band are on
when we get in, big crowd watching their we want to be Franz Ferdinand
act, they’re not bad, not that good either, musical ok but those lyrics
don’t really stand up to too much close attention, we’ll leave them for
now and go prepare for the main event – actually the first signs of things
to come are the frantic pint-in-hand people pushing their way to the front
the minute the support band finish – this is not your usual Barfly go on
impress us folded arms crowd, something in the air here. |
Imperial
Leisure are from deepest North London, there’s ten of them squeezed up
there on to the stage – DJ on the decks, two MCs, a rather busy singer
along with the keyboards, drums, guitars and impressive horn section. Yep,
we’re talking a rather infectious energetic North London hip-hop flavoured
ska hybrid. This is the real English inner city deal, don’t go running
with the idea that they’re just another one of those punk bands who heard
Less Than Jake and tagged on a horn section – this is an authentic old
school ska band dragged in to now jumping and smiling by the hip-hip, the
decks and the London suss. Definitely something happening in here, the
place is jumping from the start, everyone seems to know the words, the
whole crowd are dancing and smiling at each other and sharing space. Imperial
Leisure are tight and there’s a real sense of unity, like some great big
gang (band and audience) have invaded the Barfly and turned it in to a
proper gig pit – never experienced the Barfly quite like this! Important
thing here is that it isn’t all about adrenaline and attitude – sure, they
do have plenty of both – they have the songs and the style to back it all
up. Songs that mix just a hint of the tongue in cheek style of a Goldie
Looking Chain with the street suss and authentic two tone ska bite of The
Specials or early Madness (actually no, that's a bit of an insult, nowhere
near as throwaway and as the GLC). They’ve got some soul in there along
with the songs about being in love with the landlord’s daughter or The
Beast (a song greeted by a mass chant of The Beast from the by now manic
audience). Hey look, this is the most fun we’ve had at a gig in ages, London
Ska kicked right in to now by the hip hop, the subtle decks and sublime
horns. Hey look, we’re hooked, we’re dancing like fools, they hooked us
enough last week to want a bite long before we got to a gig and now we’re
walking out of the venue with shit eating grins and smiles as wide as crocodiles
– the songs are in our heads, man on the street are you feeling alright
– all good, I’m heading for the weekend, read these words, don’t just chew
them all up now. I’d be getting down to the Borderline early next month
if I was you.
go
explore over at www.imperial-leisure.co.uk
| Live
previously - HERZOGA
/ JOHN ADAMS / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
/ VILE VILE CREATURES
/ TIME.SPACE.REPEAT / SISTER
/ JOHN & JHEN / BEARSUIT
/ TANGAROA / GUTWORM
/ MALEFICE / ACT
ART 5 – TILL DEATH US DO ART / TO THE BONES
/ RON ATHEY / PURESSENCE
/ VEENUS
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
SINGLES |
Single
time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
AND
THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT – Prologue EP (Small Town) – Growling out of
the north on England with some extreme off-centre skin-scraping hinge-wrecking
metalcore goodness. Ferociously good, extremely heavy – primal, cathartic,
guttural, churning up your insides and regurgitating your soul. Man the
lifeboats and call the thunder stealing crocodile, they well and truly
sound like they’re going to poison far more that the pissy little well.
Five tracks – www.myspace.com/atewbs
or www.smalltownrecords.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
URSULA
MINOR – Laudanum (The Foreign Office) – Scottish band with a five track
debut EP. They doing a kind of airy/brooding Spacemen3/Jesus And Mary Chain/Krautrock
things and doing very very well. Quality sound without really adding anything
much in terms of a finger print of their own though. www.myspace.com/ursulaminor
BABYSHAMBLES
– Delivery (Parlophone) – Take away all the hype and bull, throw away the
hat and divorce yourself from the tabloid media saturation and the NME
force-feeding them/him down your throat to the point of nausea... Actually
they do know how to write a good English pop song and he does know about
delivery a wordsmith’s twist. A fine slice of clever Jam/Kinksness - pretend
this is 1969 forever. Another satisfying single and thankfully, he can
back it all up with the music.
MILBURN
– What Will You Do When The Money Goes? (Mercury) – First single from the
new album and the Sheffield four piece have taken some positive steps forward
– still pretty much your standard polite radio friendly current-crop indie
rock thing that sounds like all the others, but hey, if this is the kind
of thing you want then Milburn just stepped up a division or two, they
probably deserve a place alongside the Kaiser-Fi types and if that appeals
then here’s a link (I don't know, were good singles a little thin on the
ground this week?) www.myspace.com/milburnmusic
NOISETTES
– The Count Of Monte Christo (Vertigo) - Following on from their
recent Yes impressions with another fine fine single, give them all your
pennies for their thoughts and you won’t be wanting any change. They just
get better and better and this time they sound like no one but Noisettes
and there’s plenty more honey to come from this bee, we’re stung, they’ve
got a hold on us. www.myspace.com/noisettesuk
THE
HOLLOWAYS – Two Left Feet (TVT) Levellers go cheeky street urchin London
Brit pop, I guess they’d make Joe Strummer smile. Been out a couple of
weeks already... www.the-holloways.com
Last
week's single of the week - BRENDA / CHAUFFEUR
DRIVEN AVIATOR
Previously
- FIGHT LIKE APES / THE
SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT / LIARS
/ DAN DEACON / TWIN
THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE
GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR / FRAN
RODGERS / SOULSAVERS / THE
NOVA SAINTS / VILE VILE CREATURES
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
'RE-ISSUE
OF THE WEEK |
THE
HOUSE OF LOVE – The House Of Love (Renascent) – The seminal self-tiled
debut album, first released in to a sea of glorious hope back in 1988.
Featuring the acclaimed single Christine alongside classic songs such as
Hope, Happy, Love In A Car and Man To Child. That easy, creamy, refined,
slighty jangly, lightly textured, echoed, sustained uncomplicated psychedelic
pop that tasted as much of The Byrds and The Bunnymen and 60’s elevations
as it did of the My Bloody Valentines. Still sounds fresh and exciting
today, still sounds like a classic. Reissued on September 24th to tie in
with the band performing the whole album live at London’s Koko as part
of the excellent Don’t Look Back series on September 13th.
The
German Album, a collection of early singles and rare compilation tracks
is also re-issued on September 24th on Renascent. www.renascent.co.uk
/ www.houseoflove.co.uk /
www.myspace.com/thehouseoflove
PREVIOUSLY
- MONO / DEEP PURPLE
/ NUB / ANTHRAX
/ OMD |
MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
DVD:
U.S POP LIFE VOL 20 – MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD (Contact) –
A fascinating 73 minute DVD that focuses on Brooklyn’s underground scene
and specifically the Mighty Robot collective and their annual Junk Yard
shows alongside footage of some of the indoor shows the arts collective
have put on in 2004/05 - a rather healthy overview of the scene (even if
the audiences do sometimes look like they’ve fallen asleep – we had heard
talk of NY audiences been even worse than London ones). What you get here
is lots of raw (sometimes very raw) live footage and basic camera work
that manages to capture the spirit and the occasion(s) in various degrees
of what you’d call ‘bootleg’ quality. Lots of compelling footage and early
visual/aural records of some rather important bands though – worth checking
out for the excellent early Liars footage alone. Some of it might just
be a little too raw and basic in terms of sound quality and static camera
action, this is worth your time though. Besides the rather decent Liars
footage (and you know they’re always compelling), you’ve got Onedia, Ex
Models, hospitals, Coachwhips, Tallboys, Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Sightings
and more. A raw, sometimes inspiring, sometimes frustrating and ultimately
rather important document that captures an energy and a scene (which reminds
me, we got about twenty years of Organ footage kicking around here now)
- www.secretprojectrobot.org
- available in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY
- DVD: GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE
/ BOOK: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra
De Salvo / BOOK:
BERNARD SUMNER – CONFUSION / ZINE:
NOISY No5 / DVD: SAMMY AND THE WABOS – LIVING
IT UP IN ST.LOUIS / DVD - NAZARETH – FROM
THE BEGINNING |
THE
WORDS OF WEASEL |
Drumming
Influences
A lot
of people ask me which drummers influenced my drumming. a lot of people
who aren't drummers or even musicians have influenced me! Regardless, there
are a ton of drummers whose great playing influenced me or have left their
stylistic touch buried in my own.
The
first drummers that really made me want to play were probably early punk
drummers like Rat Scabies, Paul Cook, Don Bolles, Jerry Nolan, Robo, people
like that. Each one was such an individual stylist with their own set of
licks . . . I'm friends with don and it's gratifying to be in touch with
somebody whose playing meant a lot to me. He was and still remains one
of the great rock drummers! faster hardcore drummers never meant much to
me, but the drummer from Gang Green on the "this is Boston, not L.A." comp
sounded so fast to me at the time I couldn't even believe it.
I got
into no wave shortly after and Don Christensen's warped James Brown drumming
really affected me and pushed me towards more complex playing. Jim Sclavunos
was always great in 8-Eyed Spy and The Bush Tetras' Dee Pop was rock solid.
Ikue Mori from DNA and even Bradly Field from teenage Jesus' Primitive
approaches appealed to me - they played what the song needed and the songs
needed very unusual and simple bludgeonings, so that's what they did.
Of
course, free jazz made it's impact early on but the gateway drummer for
me was Charles K. Noyes and his totally insane free scrambling on the Toy
Killers track from the "Speed Trials" comp. As I started getting into the
old free jazz stuff though the New York punk jazz stuff (with great drummers
like Ronald Shannon Jackson, Denardo Coleman, Grant Calvin Weston and Kamal
Sabir) a lot opened up for me. The most crucial drummers on me in that
scene were Rashied Ali, Beaver Harris, Sunny Murray, Andrew Cyrille, Ed
Blackwell, Charles Moffett and so many more.
European
drummers had their impact too: Tony Oxley, Paul Lovens, and although I'm
not a worshipper of the man, Han Bennink's early work on Marion Brown's
"Porto Novo" record really had an impact on me. Straight ahead jazz drummers
have never really affected me too much. I admire the technique, but I'm
just not too into the idiom. For me the drummer that really slayed in the
straight jazz field was Charles Mingus' cohort Dannie Richmond. That guy
could fucking slay.
Death
metal hit me hard in the early '90s and obviously it has made its mark
on me in a very big way. Steve Asheim from Deicide seemed so utterly machine
like to me at the time and hearing "Legion" totally knocked something loose
to me. there are so many insane death metal drummers, I don't think I could
even begin to credit them all (chuffed!), but I've knicked little bits
here and there I've learned from Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Malevolent
Creation, Cryptopsy, Immolation, Krisiun, Suffocation, Nuclear Death...
you know. It might surprise people, but my favorite extreme metal drummer
is probably Proscriptor from Absu - that guy has style, chops and great
taste. J/Read fromRevenge/Conqueror and Apocalyptic Warlord from Usurper
are also maniacs, but in a totally different, more unhinged way. As far
as old school shit goes, I always loved Dave Lombardo's drumming
on Slayer's "Reign In Blood" and Reed St. Mark on Celtic Frost's "To Mega
Therion".
The
second wave of black metal had a heavy effect on me too and I have to credit
Hellhammer, Abbath Doom Occulta and Fenriz with their innovations. There
are many "faster" or "better"drummers in death and black metal than the
ones i named, but i'm not really all that interested in pure technique
and speed for its own sake any more - there's gotta be good compositions
there that make me feel something or it's all just a technical exercise.
I've heard SOOO MUCH extreme metal over the last 15 years, it takes a lot
to get me excited about something. Basically, I gotta hear some unique
vision and personality or I'm not interested. I tend to like fucked up,
inept, weird metal bands more than the "good" ones! At least there's some
f**kin' character.
Obviously
progressive rock weighs in on this. Nobody can touch Christian Vander.
I'm into bill
Bruford's
King Crimson and Yes drumming and his use of improvisation within structure.
Terry Bozzio just kills me. Daniel Denis is a master. Chris Cutler's playing
on the Art Bears' "Winter Songs" really shook me up when I was a kid. Then,
you've got new guys like Zach Hill who are just untouchable. That motherf**ker
is the Michael Jordan of drums. Unbelievable. Cock rock drummers are also
relevant to me . . . Steve Tucker from sweet is definitely one of my all
time favorite drummers.
I could
go on and on. it never ends. Influence is everywhere . . . I'll hear a
lick here or a great drummer there and it all plays into the equation.
W.W
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220 - PRE, LOU REED/ZEITKRATZER, DEATH QUNT, BRENDA, CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN
AVIATOR, VENICE IS SINKING, THE FLATLINERS, MONO, GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE,
CHRISTOPHER REES, KNIGHT AREA, THRUSHES, VOODOOSHOCK, SENDELICA,
W.A.K.O, BEEHOOVER, MINUS THE BEAR, EMIGRATE, EVILE, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA,
ZEBEDY RAYS, THE BROKEN HEARTS, BLACK LIGHT THEATRE, BLESSTHEFALL, THE
HOPE AVENUE, CAMDEN STABLES MARKET
ORGAN
219 - SCRAPS OF TAPE, WAR FROM A HARLOT’S MOUTH, HEAVEN AND HELL, CAREER
SUICIDE, LINED UP VOL 1, MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS, SEVENYEARSDEAD, FIGHTSTAR,
LUNATIC, FIGHT LIKE APES, THE DOMINO STATE, EPSTEIN SUPERFLU, OAKWOOD,
HERZOGA
ORGAN
218 - JOHN ADAMS / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, VILE VILE CREATURES, EVERY
TIME I DIE, SOHODOLLS, WHITE HILLS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HOPE IS NOISE, THE
BLACKOUT ARGUMENT, TIMO RAISANEN, PATRICK WATSON, THE CONDORS, THE FURIOUS
SLEEP, FUNERAL CRASHERS, FIRESUITE, CODA, KUBICHEK, THE SOUND MOVEMENT,
WEASEL WALTER, RADIOHEAD, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, HENRY ROLLINS, DOWN, DEEP
PURPLE, THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra De Salvo
ORGAN
217 - LIARS, UPSILON ACRUX, TED MAUL, GUTWORM, BLACK BONZO, ALLFLAWS,
NUB, THE CULT, ODD SHAPED HEAD, THUMPERMONKEY LIVES!, ARTY KARATE, I KILLED
PHAROAH, SUPERJIMENEZ , TONY WILSON, VILE VILE CREATURES, RADIOHEAD, WINTERS,
HERZOGA, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, TV ON THE RADIO, CRITICAL MASS...
ORGAN
216 - MIKROKOSMOS, ODD NOSDAM, MENENDEZ, ANTHRAX(uk). AKERCOCKE, MOHA!,
THE BDI’s, HANOI ROCKS, SPIKE, LIARS, HELLFIRE, TIME.SPACE.REPEAT, SISTER,
JOHN & JEHN, BEARSUIT, BERNARD SUMNER biography, The LONDON FETISH
FAIR, DIABLESSE SCREAMING EAGLE, HIGH ON FIRE, TO THE BONES, KILLSWITCH
ENGAGE, OTTO VON SHIRACH, CHROME HOOF and more....
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