So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Basvarken]

If I was their A&R man, I'd say her hair dye will have to go - their music isn't edgy or pop enough for that. Doesn't fit. Hard Rock/Heavy Metal fans are inherently conservative and have expectations.

Whoaaah Uwe! Not edgy or pop enough for that colour?
Since when do Hard Rock / Heavy Metal fans judge anybody by the colour of their hair?!

[uwe]

She (the singer of EW) looks more Indie/Goth than the well-played, but rather rock-conventional AC/DCish track would let you think. I'm speaking strictly from a "marketing a product" perspective. The way she looked I would have musically expected something like Paramore. And at the same time, it's not really against the grain enough to be attention-grabbing.

Again, all this just from  a commercial image viewpoint, she can of course wear any hair color she likes.

[uwe]

I just sent you a rare Springfield CD -- Dusty Springfield sings Buffalo Springfield. Recorded in Homer Simpson's home town of Springfield.

But I was essentially only giving the facts as they were, with just the tiniest touch of poetic license, Dave!

Given Rick Springfield's earliest involvement with the cartoon genre, it's criminal he never had the chance for a cameo with Homer. It was 50 years ago today ...

[Dave W]

Anytime is Dave Edmunds time.

[uwe]

Whoaaah Uwe! Not edgy or pop enough for that colour?
Since when do Hard Rock / Heavy Metal fans judge anybody by the colour of their hair?!

Returning to our pet subject, Rob, your good countrywoman Ms Sonia 'Anubis' Nusselder, a sex six string heavy metal meid from Haarlem so to speak, seems to understand the concept of (un)dressing for the occasion & meeting (or surpassing) expectations better than you!



And yes, since you asked, without all the make-up (not my preference in any case), Mevrouw Nusselder looks enticingly Dutch (and pretty).



Or is that a picture of Mijnheer Vandenberg ?

[Basvarken]

Haha, they look and sound as if time stood still in 1985.
Are they for real, or are they a parody act?

[uwe]

They missed the train by roughly four decades, true, but Sonia is an 80ies hair metal geek and earnest about it. She's played in various metal outfits of different sub-genres, but 80ies poppy glam metal is her thing and Cobra Spell her project.

[Basvarken]

I think I saw her guesting in a TV show a while ago.
I wasn't impresssed by her guitar skills.
Lots of hair flying around.


EDIT:
found it

[uwe]

Don't be a grumpy white old man, Rob, she was born late 1998 and very likely heard more Yngwie Malmsteen, Adrian Vandenberg and Bruce Kulick/Tommy Thayer (she's a KISS fan) than Chuck Berry or Scotty Moore in her protected life. She's certainly better on guitar than I will ever be on bass - to this day I can't tap for shit and it's not that I wouldn't want to do it once in a while, I just can't do it physically, period. I'm amazed by people who can even though they all tend to play the same lines.

I welcome anyone her age who puts that much effort into something as old-fashioned as guitar playing. She'll have less hair and more taste in twenty years from now (and swapped her pointy Jackson for something nicely vintage-looking in the meantime), you just wait. Or Alice Cooper will hire her in a few years, he has a penchant for female guitar talent.

My eternal female guitarist crush is still Kelly Johnson from Girlschool, she was a bit Farrah Fawcett with a Les Paul! 



I saw her and her girls open for Rush early 80ies and while her and Geddy's singing voice are in a similar range, I found hers more alluring.



Not sure whether Kelly heard more Chuck Berry than Sonia, but likely - with some Mick Ronson, Marc Bolan and Johnny Thunders thrown in for good measure (who all heard a lot of Chuck Berry I'm sure, with Marc concentrating on Eddie Cochran too!).

[Basvarken]

 I don't care what or who she heard. That piece she played was mediocre at best. Compensated by (white) boot kicking and hair flying around.
The fact that you can't do it, doesn't make her playing any better.

[uwe]

Ouch, how harsh you can be, Holländer!

Ok, let's turn to some innocent, apolitical Americana then:




And since we mentioned Alice Cooper ...

[Basvarken]

In 5 years they can change that title into I'm eighty.

[uwe]

And in six years he can just jumble the digits of the original!

[uwe]

Sometimes, I'm real happy we didn't win the Crusader Wars, who knows where culture might have gone?



And thinking about it, if this wasn't reason enough for Persia to legitimately obliterate Sparta, what would have been?

Where is Ursula the Sea Witch when you need her? She can cast spells that can make women's voices go away!

[uwe]

All surf guitar music stems originally from Taiwan, you guys lied to me.