Showing posts with label Slipknot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slipknot. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Something In the Dirt

 

From the forthcoming album The End, So Far available on September 30th. You can pre-order the album HERE. I like the video a lot more than I like the song, but I've always been hot/cold with these guys. Still, they've evolved over the years, and that definitely means something. 




Watch:

The teaser trailer for Benson and Moorhead's new film Something In the Dirt dropped yesterday. Here'sn our first look:

 

I really can't wait for this one. These guys are Aces in my book.




Playlist:

Various - Every Day (Is Halloween) Playlist: Small Cat, Big Yard
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Live)
Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
Forhist - Eponymous
Somnium Nox - Apocrypha
Fen - Epoch




Card:


Lots of big ideas, but I have to narrow my focus for a bit to accomplish what I want. 

As usual, the cards are pretty spot on. I'm writing again - been going to local coffee shops after work. I have quite a few short stories on deck, and part of the "following the inner voice" here is figuring out which ones I want to allocate for the free Kindle book I'm aiming to publish shortly before Halloween, and which ones I want to submit. 

Saturday, July 31, 2021

A Week of Musical Death

Jesus Christ, who didn't die last week? We lost three big names, and I wanted to pay some tribute here.

R.I.P. Dusty Hill:


Dusty Hill, founding member of ZZ Top. I never realized Dusty sang lead on Tush. What a band. I think my third ever CD when I was in early high school was the ZZ Top greatest hits album.

R.I.P Joey Jordinson:


Say what you want about Slipknot, but this is the song that broke my hate for the guys that I still insist totally ripped off Mr. Bungle. The drums on this song are amazing.

R.I.P. Mike Howe:


I haven't listened to Metal Church in a very long time, but there was a time when they were pretty important to me. My girlfriend in High School had their first couple of records, and I can remember laying stoned out of my mind listening to this song and feeling that intense thrill that the really epic 80s thrash stuff inspired in me at that age. I still feel that now, and it has a lot to do with Mike Howe's vocals. This song crushes.




Playlist:

ZZ Top - Rhythmeen
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Metal Church - Eponymous
The Replacements - Tim
The Replacements - Let It Be
The Replacements - Sorry Ma, I Forgot to Take Out the Trash
Peter Gabriel - So
Valkyrie - Fear
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Ultrabann - Big Trouble in Little Haiti
Godflesh - New Flesh in Dub Vol. 1
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen 

Monday, January 21, 2013

Sound City Official Trailer



I respect the hell out of Dave Grohl but his music does next to nothing for me. It's textbook radio rock - not bad, just not for me. Likewise for most of the modern bands touted herein (Queens of the Stone Age and NIN being the exceptions). But I LOVE Neve boards and a lot of recording history happened at this place. I heard an interview with Grohl and Corey Taylor from Slipknot/Stone Sour on Kevin and Bean late last week and although I didn't particularly go in for the track they premiered for their shared music project The Sound City Players (which also features Rick Nielson of Cheap Trick and Krist Novoselic I'll put the song up as well. Props to Grohl for doing all of this, again it's not my cup of tea but it's cool to see someone with so much stature in the mainstream rock community actually do cool, creative and respectful stuff like this. And props to the bands who participated in the doc, from Fleetwood Mac to Slipknot to Cheap Trick and everywhere in between.