The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Blazer on April 20, 2009, 08:10:34 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWjNX4PBlI
You have to give the guy props for at least giving people something to look at when the music is so lame...
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Very expressive drummer that is. Probably raised on a diet of Metallica's Lars and Mötley's Tommy ...
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Thats was really funny, good thing he can't or does not sing.
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Thats was really funny, good thing he can't or does not sing.
It does look like he has a vocal mic.
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He has a mike, but he doesn't appear to need it. HE's the show, even if the singer isn't hard to look at.
And I appreciate the slow zoom into a moderately (not completely) out-of-focus shot on the guitarist's (pseudo) LP. No one told the cameraman that you zoom in, focus, THEN zoom out.
But the drummer is something else.
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Hey, I like the girls too!
But that drummer is pretty damn funny when he goes off at about 2:20.................
Kind of a bad Korean Keith Moon thing ;)
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simply awesome
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It's like someone put bennies in his coffee, huh? ;D
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Funny part is that it seems he could kick Arse if he was in the right band, The Drummer equivalent of Zal Cleminson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0fT9BHpImI
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Glen's and Cleminson's choreography at 2.28 is priceless - first of the boy bands!
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I didn't even have to look at 2:28 to know exactly what was happening. Loves me some SAHB. I've said this before, but the most outrageous concert I ever saw was SAHB and The Tubes (first tour) in Chicago on Halloween Night.
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That's AWESOME! ;)
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Meh. Cute but I'd rather listen to someone whose voice is suited to the song.
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someone whose voice is suited to the song.
I disagree, Alex Harvey's voice reeks of Whores, the under belly of society & woe. Certainly it seems he really did live that life that was cut short at the age of 47.
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer - charismatic, provocative and intense. "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s - taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville. But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and his own alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash. Eventually with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack whilst waiting for a ferry home from a gig in Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday.
Lou Reed, Les Claypool & Stan Ridgway are other "underbelly" singers.
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Alex Harvey was never in Tom Jones' league, IMHO.
Lou Reed, Les Claypool & Stan Ridgway are other "underbelly" singers.
Interesting idea, yet I really don't agree that they have much in common. Again IMHO, Stan Ridgway is head and shoulders above Reed or Claypool.
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i think tom waits is an 'undebelly guy'. i saw alex harvey back in the day perform his salute to feminism, "gang bang".
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That drummer in the Korean band is a riot! ;D
I was thinking he might bode well in a Vanilla Fudge tribute band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TX9xpfwDA0
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Alex Harvey was never in Tom Jones' league, IMHO.
Interesting idea, yet I really don't agree that they have much in common. Again IMHO, Stan Ridgway is head and shoulders above Reed or Claypool.
I don't think Alex Harvey ever tried to compete with Tom Jones. The SAHB take on "The Impossible Dream" was one of my favorites, and his voice hit a high note I didn't think him capable of. The video clip isn't as effective as the recorded version, which segued off the tail end of "Money Honey"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDMz5DtDICY
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i think tom waits is an 'undebelly guy'. i saw alex harvey back in the day perform his salute to feminism, "gang bang".
LOL! "There were 27 guys..."
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He was a just a tad off key in that last clip. Funny how many super bands, their singers are caught off key (The Who comes to mind)
The really ironic thing about "Gang Bang" & songs like "Dynamo Hum" was that were regularly played on commercial radio, in Cleveland, back in their day. Try doing that now!
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He was a just a tad off key in that last clip. Funny how many super bands, their singers are caught off key (The Who comes to mind)
The really ironic thing about "Gang Bang" & songs like "Dynamo Hum" was that were regularly played on commercial radio, in Cleveland, back in their day. Try doing that now!
SAHB seem to have hit a market in Cleveland. Nearly everyone I know from there says that they were big up there. "Vambo" got a little airplay in Chicago, but that was about it.
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There was a reason Cleveland got the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame. They supported a lot of smaller or second tier rock acts with commercial airplay including Zappa, Roxy Music, Mott The Hoople, Rare Earth, Hawkwind etc.
They also gave considerable airplay to King Crimson, Weather Report (Bird Land) Stanley Clarke's School days & All of Jeff Beck's fusion stuff. That was probably the only good thing about Cleveland back then.
At Midnight they had a show called import hour where they played bands like NEU!, The Pink Fairies etc.
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I wish that was the case here in Adelaide now John.
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There was a reason Cleveland got the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame. They supported a lot of smaller or second tier rock acts with commercial airplay including Zappa, Roxy Music, Mott The Hoople, Rare Earth, Hawkwind etc.
They also gave considerable airplay to King Crimson, Weather Report (Bird Land) Stanley Clarke's School days & All of Jeff Beck's fusion stuff. That was probably the only good thing about Cleveland back then.
At Midnight they had a show called import hour where they played bands like NEU!, The Pink Fairies etc.
Are you sure that's why Cleveland got it? Not saying that you're wrong, it's just that most of those acts aren't in the RRHOF and aren't likely to be. Seems odd that it would have influenced the decision to locate there.
Meanwhile, the inductees include quite a few acts that aren't rock and roll by any stretch.
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and no Stooges! i won't go untill the damn stooges get in
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Yeah, WTF is THAT all about? :rolleyes:
+1 for Stooges nomination
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FWIW, Iggy turned 62 today.
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Cleveland? Immortalized by Herr Hunter, because of his song I always identify that city with rock'n'roll even though I#ve never even been near:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZOVJ40Q6w
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That drummer in the Korean band is a riot! ;D
I was thinking he might bode well in a Vanilla Fudge tribute band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TX9xpfwDA0
With all due respect to Ms Ross: The Fudge took that song to places it had never been before and gave it the yearning drama it deserved.
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Cleveland? Immortalized by Herr Hunter, because of his song I always identify that city with rock'n'roll even though I#ve never even been near:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZOVJ40Q6w
The original song was called "England Rocks", and was recorded by Overnight Angels. When Ian was signed to Epic/Cleveland Records, he rewrote the lyrics, and rerecorded it. The original is pretty cool, and has a pretty busy bass line running underneath it.
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Are you sure that's why Cleveland got it? Not saying that you're wrong, it's just that most of those acts aren't in the RRHOF and aren't likely to be. Seems odd that it would have influenced the decision to locate there.
Meanwhile, the inductees include quite a few acts that aren't rock and roll by any stretch.
XTC was another band that were huge in Cleveland.
I saw Pink Floyd Animals tour at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (tore it down) which normally seats 80,000. For that show they had 80,000 in the seats & half the field filled at open seating. They had this industrial noise cranked up before they came on, and just as they took the stage, their jet flew right over the stadium. Like the Beijing Olympics, you will never see another show like that.. I remember going to the bathroom and they were so over crowded people were peeing everywhere, in sinks, in garbage cans, anywhere. No wonder they no longer have these kind of shows. I also remember seeing ELO with the big spaceship stage there. I also remember seeing Angel on the lakefront, Mahogany Rush at Chipawah Lake, drinking beer at 10:00 AM & seeing Mahogany Rush at like 11:00 PM. Frank Marino was amazing. Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs tour. I saw Adrian Belews carreer rise. I saw him with a band called Ga Ga, in a little club. Then he got hired for Zappa, Zappa always played Cleveland
Every band came through Cleveland. Now it's totally different. Its just another city now. No more playing Zappa as regular airplay. Funny how they never had a Rock & Roll induction in Cleveland. Its always New York. The museum is really cool though. A great learning experience.
Then you have the whole Akron thing. Most of my relatives live in the Akron area. It is a dirty run down depressed city. It used to have all the tire factories there. I went to visit my cousin and they still have brick streets in many areas. Chrissy Hinde moved back and opened a vegan restaurant.
My cousin collects old high end tube steroes, like Macintosh. He started when people were throwing them away. He made a killing on them. Now people are rediscovering them and they go for big bucks.
Akron is breeding ground for musicians for some reason. I read about the Black Keys and how they still stay in the same place, recording in their basement.
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Oh man!
This Korean band gives me flashbacks to my days as part of The Suzi Kim Band in Waikiki!!!
She'd apparently had a minor hit back home in Korea.
We played in a Korean bar,
our draw was all Koreans,
her whole stage rap was in Korean
and even our charts where in Korean characters
but had been numbered in the upper corner.
So she'd be talkin' away to the audience
and all of a sudden would yell something that sounded like,
"Ah Mah Do Yo!!!"
(to which the audience would respond with great applause)
then she'd turn around to the band holding up four fingers in front of her
saying to us- "Numbah foah".
I recall that I had a post it note on my music stand that said,
"$100"
to answer my constant question to myself of,
"What am I doing here?"
:P :rolleyes:
As far as I know,
we may have played this song.
I wish my drummer were as good as this guy though.
;D