So, what have you been listening to lately?

uwe · February 15, 2018, 12:03:20 PM

Quote from: Denis on February 10, 2018, 07:44:29 PM
Saw them a couple of years ago. It was a GREAT show!!!!

I like them a lot too - and it's not for the Satanist Vaudeville image stuff at all (which I find mildly amusing, but also limiting). What I really dig about them is their melodic sense in their music - it reminds me big time of Blue Öyster Cult which I loved for exactly the same trait (and not for their laser shows or songs about giant lizards). But whenever I hum along to "come together - together as one - come together - for Lucifer's son", Edith goes: "How old are you again?"

wellREDman · February 16, 2018, 03:24:10 AM

I worked them last year and was disappointed with them live.
the lead guy was giving it his all but the band seemed to be just going through the paces

uwe · February 16, 2018, 05:53:28 AM

BöC or the Swedes? BöC sound tired these days, especially the once very alert Eric Bloom, who is now a mere sideman to Donald Buck Dharma Roeser (always a major force in the band, but not as dominating as he is now).

Ghost are a bit like Rammstein with their Satanist hocus-pocus (with Rammstein it's that constant allusion to Third Reich imagery and their obsession with sex taboo-breaking lyrics). It has given them an immediate and entertaining image, but it will become too confining for them quickly.

4stringer77 · February 16, 2018, 07:43:22 AM

Rammstein has a promising future as a Bossa Nova band.

uwe · February 16, 2018, 08:52:10 AM

They sure are an act.

4stringer77 · February 16, 2018, 09:13:48 AM

That's some smooth Purple there. To get back on topic, I heard about a new free streaming app for heavy metal music. Looking forward to hearing what these djs spin.
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Pilgrim · February 16, 2018, 10:59:26 AM

Quote from: 4stringer77 on February 16, 2018, 07:43:22 AM
Rammstein has a promising future as a Bossa Nova band.

That's a whole lotta gesticulating for smooth bossa nova music! Visual/aural discontinuity....

But nicely played.

gearHed289 · February 17, 2018, 09:59:15 AM

Another one I've been digging - Von Hertzen Brothers from Finland.

Denis · February 17, 2018, 07:24:28 PM

Quote from: uwe on February 16, 2018, 05:53:28 AM
BöC or the Swedes? BöC sound tired these days, especially the once very alert Eric Bloom, who is now a mere sideman to Donald Buck Dharma Roeser (always a major force in the band, but not as dominating as he is now).

This is a terrific live version of "Last Days of May" when Allen Lanier was still alive. He's on a Telecaster here and Eric Bloom in on keyboards, Allen's usual instrument. I love this version.

Barklessdog · February 18, 2018, 07:24:29 PM

The sofa surfers

uwe · February 19, 2018, 10:15:41 AM

Quote from: Denis on February 17, 2018, 07:24:28 PM
This is a terrific live version of "Last Days of May" when Allen Lanier was still alive. He's on a Telecaster here and Eric Bloom in on keyboards, Allen's usual instrument. I love this version.

That's a great version indeed! I've seen BÖC more than a couple of times, even with the orignal line-up, but I don't remember Lanier playing as extended a solo on guitar ever. His "artfully sloppy" style contrasts nicely with Roeser's sleek melodicism. And the drumming ... signature Bobby Rondinelli, say no more!

Basvarken · February 19, 2018, 01:01:19 PM

I saw King King perform the other day.
Stellar live band.
Think Paul Rodgers meets Thunder.
Good old fashioned rock music.

Their latest album has been in heavy rotation in my car.

doombass · February 19, 2018, 03:16:59 PM

Quote from: uwe on February 19, 2018, 10:15:41 AM
That's a great version indeed! I've seen BÖC more than a couple of times, even with the orignal line-up, but I don't remember Lanier playing as extended a solo on guitar ever. His "artfully sloppy" style contrasts nicely with Roeser's sleek melodicism. And the drumming ... signature Bobby Rondinelli, say no more!

Speaking of Rondinelli I can't help but remember that one time I happened to combine the word sloppy with the name Blackmore in one and the same sentence. I was'nt sensitive enough to use "artfullly" before sloppy thus getting quite a reaction.

Rob · February 19, 2018, 05:24:39 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on February 19, 2018, 01:01:19 PM
I saw King King perform the other day.
Stellar live band.
Think Paul Rodgers meets Thunder.
Good old fashioned rock music.

Their latest album has been in heavy rotation in my car.

Really nice

uwe · February 20, 2018, 06:19:07 AM

Quote from: doombass on February 19, 2018, 03:16:59 PM
Speaking of Rondinelli I can't help but remember that one time I happened to combine the word sloppy with the name Blackmore in one and the same sentence. I was'nt sensitive enough to use "artfullly" before sloppy thus getting quite a reaction.

Blackmore can be hugely sloppy if he is in a bad mood, a real noise merchant and he then works himself into a state where it gets worse and worse. That is not artfully sloppy but undisciplined, impatient-with-yourself sloppy.

Neil Young on electric guitar is "artfully sloppy/noisy".