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Hasil Adkins is awesome.

Not to jump this thread but so anyone near Michigan they are headlining a benefit for a guy that died at my work fighting a commerical fire (city of Westland MI) also a few others one was a pre dillinger escape band (not a fan and don't remember the name) a new guy here works at the majestic and his wife is a promoter. Ill post details when it finialized

West Virginia is 150 years old today. I'ma be jammin this dude tonight while making pepperoni rolls. I suggest you do the same.

I haven't had much more opportunity to listen to this, though my wife did pick up the record the other day from her favorite coffee/record/purse shop. It seems like the songs are solid enough, but damn the production/mastering sucks. It's kind of a victim of the times. Brad Wilk is also way too stiff of a drummer for Sabbath. At face value, I'm enjoying it, but it's also disappointing in a "what could have been" way. I don't want to seem like I'm outright trashing Brad Wilk, because I think he's great.
 
People talk about Sabbath being this "sludgy" band in some ways, and it's not totally accurate. You listen to the old stuff, and it sounds huge - everything has it's place, with the bass, drums, guitars, and vocals all existing in their own "space." This recording, like most these days, suffers from the "loudness war" and lack of definition. I can't wait to see them live, and imagine I will enjoy it a lot more.
 
Spotify has the extra tracks from the album, which truthfully, just make it feel overlong to me.

It'd be fair to say that Ozzy, Geezer, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, are one of my favorite alchemical combinations of rock and roll musicians, ever. In the late 60s and a good chunk of the 70s, the stuff they did was unassailable in my eyes. But where all the "magic" in music like this comes from are all of the elements coming together. When you take out any one component, it's just not the same.

No way man, he's Kurt Cobain and Jeff Mangum rolled into one.

No, it's not easy being in a band. No sir. It's not easy working in a factory or a coal mine or being a doctor or a teacher or driving a cab or being a train conductor or working on an offshore oil rig or managing a McDonald's.
There's a pretty significant difference between someone having an off night, or a whole off-tour, and being someone who consistently and throughout their career comes off like a snot. It requires a certain type of ego to feel confident going on a stage and playing music for other people - in fact, you could even say that it's a form of madness and attention seeking behavior on every level, whether it's someone in Local Garage Punk Band or Disney Pop Princess Du Jour. But there's a significant difference in how people channel it and how entitled they feel to having other people listen to them. Some band members are grounded, kind people, who understand what they do and how it could disappear in a moment. The most recent band members I've had the chance to talk to were Pete Adams and John Dyer Baizley from Baroness. You want to talk about dudes who've had a shit time on tour! But they were totally cool guys, and seem genuinely humbled and grateful that people support their endeavors.
It's a world apart from people who seem to think the world owes them a chance to be a star. Or groupies or drugs or whatever. It's a fine line. Playing music for people requires a certain measure of that mentality, but being a human and having class and dignity and humility and a flexible personality and emotional intelligence requires a heaping measure of exactly the opposite.

Most of the best music is made by degenerates. But the least they can do is be nice about it.

Boards you like despite douche members?
Vee cee.

I put my name on all my records. That way, if the neighborhood kids take them, their moms will know to return them to me.

I feel like, despite being an iPhone user, I feel way less strongly about this kind of shit than everyone else.

I saw Baroness tonight.
As most of you likely know, after they got in a horrific wreck in England last summer, two members quit. This is the first time they've been back. So I'm waiting for them to come out, and I don't recognize the person walking out in the dark at first. Then my next thought is, "the new guy in the band looks like Rob Trujillo..." it wasn't until I could see Kirk Hammett behind him and the place explodes that I figured it out. There's literally almost 1000 people behind me just going ape poopie as all four members took center stage.
It's easy to talk shit about Metallica, or say that if you were literally standing right in front of them that you'd call them out for something. But those dudes are genuine (and rightful) superstars, and their first four albums can forgive a lot of almost everything they've done since then. Unexpectedly seeing them messes with you, and being surrounded with that many people who are that excited about it is infectious.
Those guys deserve major props for doing what they did - they had no security, they just came out to show their support for a fellow band that went through a similarly horrific bus wreck (but with less tragic results). They just came out onstage, took mics, schmoozed the crowd, and spoke very genuinely and supportively of a younger band they don't really have to give a shit about at all.
Later I spoke to Pete Adams and he actually didn't know that whole thing was going to happen. It was pretty cool, and while its easy to be jaded (and I'm virtually never starstruck by ANYONE), seeing what amounts to the biggest gods in the heavy metal pantheon, not to mention one of the most culturally significant bands in the whole world, was pretty fucking cool.

Indiscriminately invading the privacy of law abiding citizens, even ones with "nothing to hide," is a problem.

No, "who" is on first, "what" is on second.

Comment allez-vous ce soir? Je suis comme ci comme ça. Yes, a penguin taught me French back in Antarctica

I watched black sabbath play about a month ago. It ruled. I went in with zero expectations, well that isn't true. I went in expecting it to be shit.
They played 2 new songs. Both for me were good, but not memorable in the way war pigs is.
For guys their age to be still doing this, it's great.

I didn't know this was a thing, and now that I do, I don't understand the appeal in the slightest.

Honestly, if people hate this release altogether, then I don't know what it is they were hoping for. It's not perfect, but it's three old fucks making music 40 years after they drew the template for everyone else. And while one and a half listens through headphones while I read the news isn't enough to let it all soak in, I still feel like it's bristling with a surprising amount of creativity.

The one jersey I want is pretty obscure I guess...it's a team from the German Ice Hockey Federation. Jajajaja.

I know right?
And does anybody else ever think about how coca cola is one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known? Or what about if the McDonald's corporation declared itself sovereign, and had their restaurants legally designated as embassies that are continuing their benevolent economic trade with the areas where they exist. They'd have one of the world's largest economies. Does anybody else ever think about how American business interests like GE and Apple ultimately have the safety of their offshore assets assured by the US military, an all-volunteer force made up largely of the middle, working, and poorest classes of people, yet there's still a significant number of those same people that applaud their efforts to avoid paying taxes for what amounts to the greatest security from physical threats in the world?

Sometimes I think I missed my calling as a high paid corporate lobbyist or television pundit or rock star.

or cult leader.

Yeah, go Wings.

Old fucks who remember a time when record stores still regularly sold it as a format, or when you'd have to mail order shit, or buy from distros at shows, feel differently about it than other people, I'm sure.
Truthfully, the part that irritates me the most is that more companies wanting to press more shit means the price goes up for everyone. There are only so many factories and only so much polyvinyl chloride and sometimes, Kenny Rogers represses are going to delay and drive up the cost of pressing records for the new hip indie band, Unicorn Parachute.
So yeah, the sooner that's over, the better.

Old fucks who remember a time when record stores still regularly sold it as a format, or when you'd have to mail order shit, or buy from distros at shows, feel differently about it than other people, I'm sure.
Truthfully, the part that irritates me the most is that more companies wanting to press more shit means the price goes up for everyone. There are only so many factories and only so much polyvinyl chloride and sometimes, Kenny Rogers represses are going to delay and drive up the cost of pressing records for the new hip indie band, Unicorn Parachute.
So yeah, the sooner that's over, the better.