Music... I Listened to Some

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  1. ddmansprty

    ddmansprty Member

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    Love Amos Lee.
     
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  2. MTBZen

    MTBZen Member

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    Amos Lee? I've been a fan for a while now...just saw him live playing a show at the Portland Zoo of all places this past summer. Talented and great songwriter.....I also put guys like John Moreland and Jason Isbell in that same category...not mainstream but fantastic songwriters and musicians.
     
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  3. DangerDirtyD

    DangerDirtyD iMTB Hooligan

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  4. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Luis iMTB Addict

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  6. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

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  7. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

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    That's friggin' brilliant!!!
     
  8. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

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  9. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Got Slightly Stoopid tonight. A half-assed homage to those SoCal boys. What a band.


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    @buggravy, I can only imagine the wincing. My apology if you (or any discerning ear) listened.
     
  10. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

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    I like it. I should actually dig into them a bit more. I have one of their songs ("2am") on my chill snowboarding play list, but never listened to them much beyond that. Thanks for prompting a deeper listen.
     
  11. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Most of their stuff has more reggae influence, but punk, rap and folk creep in regularly. I think Everything You Need is there seminal LP, but I have not heard a record by them that I think is a clunker. Enjoy their catalog. :)
     
  12. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

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    Nice nugs.:thumbsup:
     
  13. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Sundae Driver, a hybrid. Not sure why they call it that – I'd have named it Daily Driver. :cool:





    Said the man
    Who feel him a fool
    For he be the wiseman
    For the man
    Who don't think he's a fool he
    Control his destiny
    But he's too cool for himself
    For himself
    For himself
    All I need
    Is something to keep me movin on
    In a world
    Where violence reigns
    And everybody seems so strange to me
    Said the man
    Who feel him a fool
    For he be the wise man
    For the man
    Who dont feel him a fool he
    Control his destiny
    Yeah he's too cool for himself
    For himself
    For himself
    This weapon of destruction
    Swallows peoples suffering
    And no confusion
    You aint winnin if your losin
    We don't need
    Said the man
    Who feel him a fool he
    For he be the wiseman
    For the man
    Who don't think he's a fool he
    Control his destiny
    But he's too cool for himself
    For himself
    For himself
     
  14. Oaken

    Oaken Well-Known Member

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    Buuuuuddy!
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  15. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

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    Dude! Don't harsh my mellow...:cool:
     
  16. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

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    Psychedelic country. How's your day going?


    I've seen Jesus play with flames
    In a lake of fire that I was standing in
    Met the devil in Seattle
    And spent 9 months inside the lions den
    Met Buddha yet another time
    And he showed me a glowing light within
    But I swear that God is there
    Every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend
    Says my son, "It's all been done
    And someday you're gonna wake up old and gray
    So go and try to have some fun
    Showing warmth to everyone
    You meet and greet and cheat along the way"
    There's a gateway in our minds
    That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane
    Where reptile aliens made of light
    Cut you open and pull out all your pain
    Tell me how you make illegal
    Something that we all make in our brain
    Some say you might go crazy
    But then again it might make you go sane
    Every time I take a look
    Inside that old and fabled book
    I'm blinded and reminded of
    The pain caused by some old man in the sky
    Marijuana, LSD
    Psilocybin, and DMT
    They all changed the way I see
    But love's the only thing that ever saved my life
    So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes
    Or fairy tales of blood and wine
    It's turtles all the way down the line
    So to each their own 'til we go home
    To other realms our souls must roam
    To and through the myth that we all call space and time
    Source: LyricFind
    Songwriters: John Sturgill Simpson
    Turtles All the Way Down lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
     
  17. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Van Halen demo tracks from '76. Demo??????? o_O I'm not a big VHalenite but this is just damn good.


     
  18. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

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    Damn good stuff right there. Wow. Such kids!
     
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  19. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

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    That is pretty cool.

    Fun (hopefully) studio story time. I had been working as a runner (person who gets food for artists, cleans up studio, makes minimum wage, etc.) for longer than I had envisioned, and was getting a little jaded, as was my roommate who worked at the same studio. We were both working the graveyard shift one night, and came in to a bunch of 2" master tapes that needed to be logged and stored in the vault. Upon further inspection we saw that they were Motley Crue masters from Too Fast For Love, and some early demos. They were there for a digital transfer. We kind of couldn't believe that they were there at our disposal, so we did the stupidest thing we could possibly do, which was do our own digital transfer into the Pro Tools rig in the empty studio. There was a drum kit already set up in the live room, so my room mate, who was a guitarist, and I, a drummer, took turns recording ourselves with Motley Crue. The next day tapes were picked back up to be sent out to be baked, which is a process that's basically exactly what it sounds like done to old tape that has been stored for a long time, to keep it from potentially snapping and being ruined once it's under tension on the tape machine. Little did they know that we'd already loaded them up on the 2" machine, and had at it ourselves. What a sh!tstorm that could have been.
     
  20. Dr. Wellington Yueh

    Dr. Wellington Yueh Member

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    Tom Kenney
    The Aristocrats (Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller, Marco Minnemann):

    GUTHRIE:: I Want A Parrot:


    MARCO:: Pressure Relief:


    BRYAN: Smuggler's Corridor:


    Jazz-Prog-Metal, probably the best. Marco 'failed' his audition for Dream Theater...thank Gawd for that!
     
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  21. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    I’m hoping some evidence of your terrible deed exists. :)
     
  22. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

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    You'd think it would be a prized possession, a trophy, but unfortunately I have nothing. We burned rough mixes of everything to a couple of CDs, and deleted all the files (evidence) since we were working on studio drives, and would have absolutely been fired had we been found out. We both misplaced the CDs in pretty short order, so everything is but a memory and an anecdote at this point.
     
  23. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Mike O
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    HT, FS
    Some things are best left that way.

    Thanks for relaying a fun story. I'm sure you are rich with memories of R&R hijinks from those years. I'd never tire of hearing those tales.

    There is an art to maintaining satisfaction in any menial or rote job. Apparently you understand this... :):thumbsup:
     
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  24. siata94

    siata94 Well-Known Member

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    Super cool story Matt. I have the original pressing on Leathur Records and when it was remixed, I didn't like it as much. Thoughts from your expert point of view?
     
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  25. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

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    Thanks, but just for avoidance of doubt I am far from an expert. I knew a couple things back in my day, but it's been well over 15 years since I sat behind a console. In fact, that I'm referencing a console as the centerpiece of recording is probably evidence that any expertise I may have had has gone the way of the dinosaur. I will say that those original tracks were a hot mess, even in the context of the era. There were also demo vocals from someone who was not Vince Neil, though they weren't labeled as to whose voice it was. Some of Vince's tracks on the demo stuff was so bad. Conceptually speaking, recording (and maybe more to the point, editing) technology is such a different beast than it used to be, and I don't know that the new tech marries up with the old all that well. I think the beauty of the imperfections in early recordings is part of the magic, and just feels too sanitized when old tracks get remixed and remastered.

    Actually that reminds me of another cool thing I heard, and I promise I'll stop after this. Jimi Hendrix's long time producer Eddie Kramer would often come to the studio I worked at. I don't remember any of the context of this, what project it was for, etc., but he brought in some original Hendrix masters, and was re-amping some of the lead guitars. So, not just remixing, but sending the track of Jimi's performance out to an amplifier and cabinet that was mic'd up in the live room. From the hallway you couldn't hear anything coming from the control room, only what was coming through the amp blasting in the live room. I got to pause for a minute and take in the fact that I was hearing Jimi Hendrix coming straight out of a Marshall amp.
     
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  26. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

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    Some fun.....recently discovered this guy:







     
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  27. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Wow... Gotta have fun. Lots of fun!


    Cotton Eyed Joe lives... click through if you’re down with bluegrass.

     
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  28. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

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    TC servin' up wicked soul...

     
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  29. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Some live magic from Portishead.


     
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  30. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

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    Mike O
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    HT, FS




    Rock of Ages
    I am tumbling down
    Where the roots of trees
    Embrace you
    I do fall upon my knees
    And ask you how
    You can just sit there and be

    Rock of Ages
    I am crumbling now
    In an avalanche
    I'm reaching for the Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages

    Father now I have stepped
    Beyond my bounds
    Now the pack I wear
    It weighs a thousand pounds
    It drags me down
    Makes me think crazy

    Oh my Rock of Ages
    I have gone astray
    I heard my brother call
    I turned the other way
    Now I'm ashamed
    To face him

    Oh my Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages
    Oh my Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages
    Reach for the Rock of Ages
    Rock of…
     
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