Laibach's take on Let It Be, which I brought to vinyl night. It has not aged well. Now, it is Mr. Bungle, which is amazing. I did not bring it.
RIP to Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst who passed away after a 3 year battle with pancreatic cancer. That drum roll on the bridge of "Power and the Passion" is some pretty awesome stuff.
I like Bob's more recent (man, Beauty and Ruin came out 15 years ago?) stuff. But it'll be fun to see him get together with a bunch of other old farts who play just as loud as him. Still one of the best Tiny Desks.
I saw Hüsker Dü on their "Warehouse Songs and Stories" tour in 1987 at the Syria Mosue ballroom in Pittsburgh (it's gone now) and it remains one of the best concerts I've ever attended. Hüsker Dü basically recorded that whole album after learning the entire album over and over in a Warehouse rehearsal space and recorded them live in nearly a single take one after the other and then proceeded to play the first 12 songs exactly like they appear on the album one after the other before dipping into all the other classic stuff from their past albums. It was amazing. Here's a link to the full album
Later '87 Husker Du played at a place called The West End, at about Armatige and Racine. A bar. Saw the Circle Jerks there too. Anybody remember the place? At the end of the regular set Bob faced his flying V against his amp and let it howl for the break before they came out for the encore.
Yes I remember him doing that in Pittsburgh as well. In that same room I also saw The Ramones, Midnight Oil, The Cult, Modern English, The Pixies and probably someone I'm forgetting.
Tonight is Albums Live: Lithium, at the theater where my partner works. A bit of a misnomer as it is not an album that is live, but a band doing 1990's covers of grunge bands. I think they are doing a full Nirvana album for the second act. Now, it is Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and related stuff. They have pictures of Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, and Scott Weiland with candles and flowers. Ugh. The band is quite good. The singer does a great job of impersonating the various (dead) singers. A good reminder about how much I despise this music. Oh, f*ck, they are playing Pearl Jam's Jeremy. Yuck. Pearl Jam is insufferable. On the plus side, she said the band was nice and appreciative of the effort she put into getting them set up and ready for the show. She is very, very good at her job
I was JUST thinking that. I have had two shots of Magilicudally , but I was thinking about Malört. Last night, almost everybody at the bar (different bar than tonight) shouted at the bar "Who is having Malört?" Of course, we said "We are from Chicago. We like pain."
Here’s pain…Terry Kath (CTA) anniversary of his passing in 78 https://www.instagram.com/p/DT3FvgNDa0Y/
Kath is not appreciated the way he should be. Terry's passing left Chicago to become the Peter Cetera Sappy Love Song Experience. The early albums smoke (though each one a little less than the one before).
Class. Sly Dunbar, with Robbie Shakespeare, laid down as many top shelf rhythms as anyone to ever walk this planet. A thumbnail of who he played with: Peter Tosh, the Stones, Dennis Brown, Bob Dylan, Sinead O'Connor, Jackson Brown, Ziggy and the Melody Makers, Ian Drury, Jimmy Cliff, just off the top of the head. RIP
I don't spend a lot of time on this thread, but I was tempted to mention Sly Dunbar's passing. Thanks to those who remembered him. For me Sly & Robbie drove Grace Jones' great trilogy of Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing, and Living My Life, all albums I literally wore the grooves out. Sly also co-wrote "From The Nipple To The Bottle". RIP