tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post5433547686018055226..comments2023-09-28T08:56:57.955-05:00Comments on The Mighty Blowhole: Bland Beer MusicIgorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857186835391466064noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-40183235355160792712011-03-29T01:02:30.302-05:002011-03-29T01:02:30.302-05:00As I dropped in mid-post this time, I'd read 6...As I dropped in mid-post this time, I'd read 6 paragraphs before I cottoned on that you were talking about VERTICAL HORIZON and not VAN HALENPig State Reconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401804047345715254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-31753674477690417792011-03-22T11:48:36.194-05:002011-03-22T11:48:36.194-05:00It is SO VERY HARD to describe. Vinny's always...It is SO VERY HARD to describe. Vinny's always asking me, "Why do you like that?" or "Why is that funny?," and they're honest questions, and they're hard to answer. Because the answer is "I don't know - I just like it / it's just funny." The result is I wind up grateful that I detest shit like the above (along with literally everything on the radio) and instead love Aphex Twin, QOTSA, Stravinsky, Radiohead, et al.<br /><br />Remember the video of us playing "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at Southfork and people well-nigh running for the door? Hilarious!kicker of elveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15819019135835419846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-19105756214116399262011-03-16T05:30:37.397-05:002011-03-16T05:30:37.397-05:00Fucking wonderful... I can't understand how th...Fucking wonderful... I can't understand how those cats can do it. As a musician, I find that I don't 'get' anything from a performance unless there is a definite reaction. In Go!Dog!Go! + Skeleton Crew, we had quite a few of those not-so-excellent-at-the-time reactions where we'd start playing + as soon as things got a little out-of-hand, folks would flee in droves... like that footage of Sonic Youth opening for Neil Young + all those crowd shots of people just grimacing + plugging their ears with their fingers... Oh, and you've gotta help me (or just go for it yourself +) write the review for the Cloudland Canyon / White Hills show!Igorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857186835391466064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-3811929771829777192011-03-15T12:50:58.750-05:002011-03-15T12:50:58.750-05:001. Thanks for the Twitter plug (or perhaps satire ...1. Thanks for the Twitter plug (or perhaps satire of my incessant Twitter-pimpin' on the blog ;) ) - either is appreciated! I'd plug yours but I never know if people want theirs publicized or not. But, your stuff consistently cracks me up, usually more than the "professional" comedians.<br /><br />2. Zach is always hilarious... I need to check out that monologue next time I'm on a video-capable computer.<br /><br />3. Indeed. I've been listening to a song by that title by The Street Dogs a lot lately. <br /><br />4. Conservativism has already fucked us. Look at the South to see what kind of results it gets ya. The states that most consistently elect 'em always pull in the worst numbers as far as poverty, unemployment, infant mortality, crime, etc. go. If it weren't for religion keeping the blinders on, nobody'd back those idiots.<br /><br />And the post... excellent description of a hard-to-describe thing. I run into a lot of music like that. It's not technically *bad* musicianshipwise (a lot bad-musicianshipwise-bands can turn out great stuff... I don't care what anybody says, GG Allin had some catchy freakin' songs), but I just don't know how anyone stayed interested in such bland stuff long enough to do the hard work of writing/composing/and learning it. It's kinda like when I read Henry James... I'm like, "Dude, you expended a lot of effort on that... why didn't you write something GOOD?" It's weird to me, the stuff that there's an audience for.<br /><br />Like, Sugarland. Holy Jesus is that a pointless band. I don't know how they ever got motivated to form a band and practice to play such nothin'-happenin' songs...Zwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02364540771153476179noreply@blogger.com