Will it make my iPod? (volume 2)

8. Jefferson Airplane - The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil.

Hot bass bit at 2:25 -. mjp will just love this shit:


I can't tell if Grace is trashed or tripping out of her gourd.

Or both.
 

mjp

Founding member
Well that pretty clearly demonstrates the problem with bands tripping on acid while they play, and that is, you have to be on acid yourself to appreciate it. It doesn't really hold up unless you are, I don't know, Wavy Gravy or something.

Besides I like the current day Grace Slick who looks and thinks more like Rush Limbaugh than a child of the filth, degradation and enlightenment of 60s San Francisco.

Rock on!
 
The same color acid, to be specific. :rolleyes:

No love for the distorted Cassady stuff? Word is he was fairly sane during that whole crap - sane being a relative term, of course.
 

mjp

Founding member
No love for fuzz over actual distortion (though I am building a fuzz box with 50 year old germanium transistors, so take all of this with a grain of salt). Sounds like a fuzz box to me anyway, on that recording you linked to.

But no, I don't think you should ever do that to a bass. Bass is bass. If you want to play the guitar, play the guitar. Don't half ass it with four fat strings. That don't work. It don't hammer down correctly. Anyone can hear that. Any kind of plinking, buzzing, grinding or displays of virtuosity on the bass bore the living shit out of everyone but other bass players. Surely you recognize that.

Come on, man. Stop playing devil's advocate! Take a couple steps back...toward the drummer. There you go. Now just stay there and hold down the rhythm. Shhh. Good boy, good bass player.

:p
 

mjp

Founding member
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What it sounds like when the gates of hell open up to swallow your pretty virgin daughter.
 

nervas

more crickets than friends

One of the greatest songs, like, ah, ever! And a pretty weird video to go with the song!
 

nervas

more crickets than friends
Very, very nice choice informal, one of my favorite bands of all time, well anything Patton does is amazing.
 

nervas

more crickets than friends
To close out the weekend, doin' their swinging live version of Van Halen's"Hot For Teacher!"
Oh how I remember the first time I ever saw these guys at the Derby on Los Feliz blvd. I thought Marilyn Manson had started a swing band. Back then, the lead singer had full on vampire teeth, a cape and more make up than the above referenced video. Great live band!!!!!! Actually their cd's are pretty excellent as well!

leeprsson.jpg
 

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
Moderator
Founding member
well, it seems I'm about to Bogart this thread...

I was watching American Idol tonight, and the last performer did an ok version of Maxwell's version of Kate Bush's This Woman's Work. one of the judges was crying, they all liked it. that's fine. I have no problem with that. but it made me think of how good the original was, so...


bonus track (BOGART!): y.

why are people screaming FAGGOT!? I don't get it.
 

chronic

old and in the way
Let's call it a new week, shall we?

1) The Chieftains w/Nanci Griffith -
BONUS: The Pogues -
...and while I'm on an Irish run, a scene from one of my favorite movies...

The Commitments -
 

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
Moderator
Founding member
I promise not to post in this thread for at least one month. especially after drinking and watching American Idol.

heh.
 

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
I'M NOT PROMISING ANYTHING! Sorry about the cap locks, it was an accident that must stay.

At the risk of killing this thread I want to start this week with a song that I kept looking for when everyone was throwing around the Rick Astley crap.

1.) Wham- .
Hey the song reminds me of walking on a white sandy beach in Southwest Florida that was covered with babes in bikinis and everyone's radio was playing this song. Yes I was three years without a vacation before then so I was hypnotized. Of course I was toting my baby boy with his sand pail. -like you care, whatever.

Just in case you don't know who is....like fingernails on the chalkboard.
 
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