What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #7

PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
mjp said:
I've seen some other videos this guy has done, and his barely-contained (or like here, not contained at all) enthusiasm and insistence on playing along, or asking how certain things are done, is refreshing and inspiring. He annoys me, but I love him.
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Ah, the guy from, among other things, Chavez...

 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
saw this guy with Matthew Ryan Saturday. Some of his songs reminded me of early Tom Waits, not too affected, not bad.

 
Johannes

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The "Mad Aria" from opera Lucia di Lammermoore, after Lucia has gone nuts and stabbed her husband. Normally I can't stomach arias but this is quite something.

 
Black Swan

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
From the doc: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: "runnin' down a dream",
Hank Williams' song, Lost Highway

4 hours worth watching...
"I got a room at the top of the world tonight and I ain't coming down", wow!

 
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Johannes

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I know, Iron Maiden covered this one. But don't let this be your only criterium of judgement.

Always loved this one. Any song that begins with the lyrics "Doctor, doctor, please, oh the mess I'm in ..." gotta be a classic.

 
mjp

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PhillyDave said:
Hey mjp, ever see these guys live?
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The first time I saw Bad Brains was in a club in Minneapolis (Duffy's) with maybe 25 people in it. Husker Du opened for them. It was April of 1982, right after the ROIR cassette release and about 8 months before the CBGB show in the video above. They were, without question, the greatest, most intense band I'd ever seen in my life. I went to rehearsal the next night (with Sonny and the Extreme) and said, "I quit. I just saw the greatest band in the world and we'll never be better than them."

I didn't really quit (that night), but that's how good they were. Just unparalleled. Then and now. For what they do, or did, no one was ever better.

They came back a few months later and played a reggae show at First Avenue, to a crowd of a few hundred. A lot more people than the first show, since they were getting some press and becoming known. But when they said they were playing a reggae show, that's what they meant, they didn't play one hardcore song. I turned around about halfway through and the place had emptied out, and it was just 25 people again. Maybe the same 25 people that were at Duffy's, I don't know. The next day we helped them move their equipment to a different club (Goofy's), and that night they played their usual hardcore/reggae show and tore the place up.

I saw them a few times after that, both in Minneapolis and after I moved to Los Angeles (once at The Roxy, where HR played a trumpet, which he seemed to have picked up for the first time a few days earlier). They were always great, though the intensity and awe-inspiringness of that first show was hard for any band to live up to.
 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
A friend of mine was at the above show. He saw the Clash in NJ in 1980 too and one of the NY Bonds Casino shows....etc, etc, etc....
 
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Johannes

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View people actually know that Joey Ramone played drums with Deep Purple and Orchestra in 1969, but if you look closely you can see him in this doing a solo

 
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