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ORGAN #221 > SEPT 13th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
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PREOnce 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 
 


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...

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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

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK
mewithoutYouThis 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
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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
 

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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Last week's album of the week - PRE / LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER

Previous album's of the week - SCRAPS OF TAPE / EVERY TIME I DIE / SOHODOLLS / LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX / MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZGEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN  / CHROME HOOF / TWELVE / WEEDEATER / LASSE MARHAUG / MOTORHEAD / TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND / ANEKDOTEN / ORIGINAL SILENCE / GIRL BAND / MORVISCOUS
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ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

  LIVE 
IMPERIAL LEISURE - London, Sept 07IMPERIAL 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 - London Sept 07Imperial 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

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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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ORGAN 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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