Friday, June 24, 2005

CD from Geoff came in the mail

Judas Priest
Lamb of God
Love Battery
Mark Sandman
Motorhead
Mudhoney
PJ Havey
Strapping Young Lad
Supersuckers
The Mooney Suzuki

Can only play them in ITunes though, all MPEG-4, but that's okay. I need to mess around with it a little more. Got through one of the Supersuckers, great title: Motherfuckers Be Trippin' and some of the Motorhead. Good stuff. Thanks man!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing like musicians sharing new material ... meanwhile, I'm planning a swap of sorts w/a friend up here ... I asked him to burn me the John Lennon box set, and in return I'm going to try to burn him a 2-DVD Beatles set I got from Ebay ... it's about 20 of their complete live shows from '64 through to the rooftop concert ... if that fails, I'll burn him a couple of Calexico disks, Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose," a double-CD Blasters compilation and maybe my 4-disc BB KIng box set ... meanwhile, I grabbed a 5-DVD Beatles set from Ebay that claims to have just about all their complete TV appearances ... beats the hell out of the old days of vinyl bootlegs of dubious quality and a mish-mosh of offerings ... Ebay is replete with "live" and DVD Beatles offerings ...

And there's still MORE music ... I used my dad's $50 gift cert. on iTunes (he didn't want to download iTunes for Windows, so he gave it back). They really have a damn good selection ... I got a great Dead Milkmen comp called "Now We Are 20," which is something they released 10 years ago as "Now We Are 10" ... this version has four bonus tracks, so 31 songs total ... it's mostly live versions of some rare stuff and a TON of songs from "Big Lizard in My Backyard" ... I also got Southern Culture on the Skids' latest, "Mojo Box," the first Bad Brains, Clutch's "Blast Tyrant," of course (thanks again for the tip, JZ!) and Gun Club's 1984 album "The Las Vegas Story" ... the disc immediately preceding 1987's "Mother Juno," which I happened across at Waxtree or Murmur (those 2 places again!) back in the days when you could actually take a shot at a band you had NO CLUE about and be reasonably assured of something UNIQUE and SATISFYING, not COOKIE-CUTTER and YAWN INDUCING!!!

Que sera.

Geoff

Anonymous said...

Oh, and as for the Supersuckers ... they've come such a LONG way from that little spot you see of them in "Hype!" ... as these past three discs of theirs attest, they're rocking their asses off, yet retaining their sense of humor and debauchery ... and let me tell you, them opening for Horton Heat at Webster Hall was a FUCKING SHOW!!! The 'Suckers did the second leg of the tour as a trio because one of the guitarists elected to go into rehab ... and I can't imagine what it would have been like w/2 guitarists, because with just the 3 of them, it was immense! Drummer's a fucking monster! Can't wait for their new CD to come out ...

gg

jzanko said...

I've never seen Mudhoney, always heard they put on a great show.

The best shows for me were Afghan Whigs @ Beach Club 1992 I think, and Horton Heat for Smoke em, and Melvins @ the Social 2003.

Geoff, I would love to get a copy of that Beatles live stuff. I don’t think I've seen the rooftop concert in it's entirety. I've heard nothing but good things about Van Lear Rose... np on the Blast Tyrant tip. I think your High on Fire tip wins! Needs to be more bands like this out there.

Anonymous said...

I must say one of the best shows I ever saw was the Dead Milkmen at Decades on Univ. Blvd. in O-do ... '87 or '88, maybe even '89 ... even better than the records! Flaming Lips at the old Beach Club were great, too (they started the set with the middle part of "Whole Lotta Love" ... it was about $5 back in '87 or so, again ... touring for "Oh My Gawd!" their second LP ...

QOTSA at Irving Plaza ruled ... any Horton Heat show is great ... Calexico did a rocking set at Irving Plaza a couple of years ago that was nowhere near as laid back as their records ... Joe Strummer at Irving was great, too (not long before he passed). An INDESCRIBABLY VIOLENT show was Iggy Pop at Roseland ... he turned the crowd fucking rabid, esp. after super lamo sets by some piece o' shit MTV band called Stun, then an ACOUSTIC set by Godsuck!!! Then Iggy, in his mid-50s, comes out and destroys the fucking place (also saw Joe Jackson there for the No. 4 album, with the reunited band, and they rocked, too ... as did Primus, which did all of Sailing the Seas of Cheese ... NOTE FUCKING PERFECT!)

gg