I got to see The Hold Steady perform last year, their live show is a real treat.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Trudy Booth - May 09, 2010 3:50:27 pm PDT #2932 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Shir - May 09, 2010 7:47:18 pm PDT #2933 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I do love The Hold Steady.
tommyrot - May 10, 2010 7:31:31 am PDT #2934 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, best T.Rex album: Electric Warrior?
DavidS - May 10, 2010 7:34:13 am PDT #2935 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I prefer The Slider: "Buick Mackane," "Baby Strange," "Telegram Sam"...
Though there are oddball gems to found throughout his catalog.
tommyrot - May 10, 2010 7:37:50 am PDT #2936 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I prefer The Slider: "Buick Mackane," "Baby Strange," "Telegram Sam"...
Yeah, those are all great. I guess I'd rank The Slider as almost as good as Electric Warrior.
Lately I've really gotten into "Rip Off" from Electric Warrior. I think that would be a fun song to learn to play....
DavidS - May 10, 2010 8:32:28 am PDT #2937 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
T. Rex is such an interesting touchstone band. They're referenced in so many different songs, and so many different musicians have alluded to them or covered them.
Obviously Bowie made his whole Ziggy persona up after watching T. Rex mania (or "T-rextasy!" as it was called then) explode, and namechecks them in "All the Young Dudes." The Ramones refer to them in "Rock and Roll Radio" as did Hoodoo Gurus on "Let's All Turn On." Alejandro Escovedo named one of his bands Buick Mackane, and Los Lobos used to cover "20th Century Boy" in concert. Richard Barone also covered T.Rex fairly often. That's just off the top of my head.
And now even the Freak Folk types are going back to the early Tyrannosaurus Rex albums.
I'm always heartened by the enduring fascination and fandom of T.Rex.
Hayden - May 10, 2010 8:36:39 am PDT #2938 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I like 'em both, but Electric Warrior has the edge on The Slider for me.
More T. Rex fandom: Big Star both in early and late configuration covered a handful of Bolan songs. Loose Fur, the Jeff Tweedy/Jim O'Rourke collaboration, also covers a T. Rex song when they play live.
tommyrot - May 10, 2010 8:40:03 am PDT #2939 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Obviously Bowie made his whole Ziggy persona up after watching T. Rex mania (or "T-rextasy!" as it was called then) explode, and namechecks them in "All the Young Dudes."
Back in the early '70s, some British music magazine referred to Bowie as "the thinking man's Marc Bolan." Ouch. But Bolan and Bowie were actually friends. So sad that Bolan died young in a car crash....
DavidS - May 10, 2010 8:56:13 am PDT #2940 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But Bolan and Bowie were actually friends.
Kind of frenemies, though that's how it always is with La Bowie. But Bowie is loyal, I'll say that. He even appeared on the last episode of Marc's kiddie TV show, just weeks before Bolan was killed in the car crash. (Car driven by Gloria Jones - the soul singer who originally sang "Tainted Love" back in the sixties.)
Cor, as a guitarist are Bolan's songs particularly fun to play? They seem like they would be. Such crunchy, groovy chords.
Hayden - May 10, 2010 9:01:58 am PDT #2941 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The only one I've ever learned was "Jeepster," but that's a fun song. I think the riff is a Willie Dixon rip-off, but there's nothing wrong with that.