great song

SKATE RAT · September 01, 2011, 06:40:27 AM

Nocturnal · September 01, 2011, 07:35:31 AM

STIV!!!!

Psycho Bass Guy · September 01, 2011, 03:26:27 PM

My band used to cover "Sonic Reducer." It was fun.

uwe · September 02, 2011, 08:27:45 AM

In that case, you all must like this too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ruUm-TGMXg&feature=related

I always found this really fast chugging eights, bar chords stuff - novelty effect of the 1st Ramones album aside - a bit like fumbling adolescent hasty sex. It's more fun if you do it slower, you know what I mean?

But it has undoubtedly had its lamentable influence. A lot of today's more poppy rock music is chugging bar chords - Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, you name it. Yawn.

What happened to the art of writing a riff and singing something completely different over it?

I always found that the Sex Pistols were more Ohio Express than Jimi Hendrix. There, I said it.

Ok, I'll make an exception for Ric Ocasek though he certainly heard his share of Ohio Express too:

SKATE RAT · September 02, 2011, 07:34:51 PM

hey, i'm a native New Yorker! i love the Dictators.

uwe · September 03, 2011, 02:38:04 AM

So do I. Their (well-performed)cover of the Stooges song was just never my favorite. On their Manifest Destiny album (which is my favorite album of theirs though the band dislikes it for being BÖCified too much on it) it sticks out like a sore thumb. Handsome Dick Wild Man Manitoba rules. And Andy Shernoff's songwriting.

SKATE RAT · September 03, 2011, 06:22:25 AM

i know the daughter of the original B.O.C. bass player. i used to be her boss. lol.

uwe · September 03, 2011, 07:58:22 AM

And, was Miss Bouchard a good employee?

Highlander · September 03, 2011, 10:27:50 AM

Quote from: SKATE RAT on September 02, 2011, 07:34:51 PM
hey, i'm a native ~~New Yorker~~ Noo Yoiker! i love the Dictators.

SK8 may mean Miss Winters, Uwe...?

uwe · September 03, 2011, 06:11:47 PM

Was there a bass player with BÕC prior to Albert Bouchard?

SKATE RAT · September 03, 2011, 08:33:11 PM

yes. Bruce abbott.

clankenstein · September 03, 2011, 08:39:10 PM

the best version of this tune i have heard is on a live pere ubu bootleg called why i live women from 2006.the dead boys/television/pere ubu alumni being ex rocket from the tombs.

Highlander · September 04, 2011, 02:28:38 AM

Quote from: SKATE RAT on September 03, 2011, 08:33:11 PM
yes. Bruce abbott.

Crikey! I'd forgotten about him, but he is credited as a writer in later years on released BOC material... pre Stalk Forrest...

Andy Winters was on bass in the very early days and recorded on the Elektra stuff - from a "legal" (read UWE here) standpoint Joe Bouchard was the "original" BOC bassist, but switched over from guitar to join so his present day stuff is not him jumping track to "lead" but reverting to his original instrument...