Music
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Should be interesting if it works out https://www.stereogum.com/2204334/dolly-parton-wants-to-reunite-led-zeppelins-robert-plant-jimmy-page-on-her-forthcoming-rock-album/news/
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I’ve been obsessing over a band I appreciated at arm’s length for some time, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard of Melbourne. The obsession took hold too late for me to get a ticket to their return to Red Rocks last night. Managed to score one and join some friends. Boy did they blow away already lofty expectations. Indescribable. No one is doing what they’re doing. Go see them if you can, if you dig hard rock and metal, there’s plenty of that drenched in psychedelia with interludes from every conceivable genre, including ones that don’t exist (yet). The musicality, sophistication, lyrics, production, creativity…. Peerless. I’ve been going through the whole catalog over the past few weeks, maybe 25% through the studio stuff and have not found anything I don’t love.
To give an example of how outside the box they are, the designed microtonal guitars with fretting that gets them a lot of notes between those in the western scales. I was really pleased to see them break those beasts out for a few songs.
Best music out of Australia since Nick Cave as far as I’m concerned.
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True @GraemeE so true, across the whole continent.
Meanwhile, in London…
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@mclaincausey can you hang with the swedes?
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Saw Pavement recently. I was decidedly dissapointed by a band whose music I've bought since1991. Hey ho
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Funny. I saw em at a small club here in Austin a couple weeks ago and they were fantastic. They played three shows (including an ACL taping) and covered an absolutely massive range of songs. The show I saw was a lot of really great, deep-dive stuff — Westing, b-side, EP material, plus a couple big ones (Silence Kit probably the biggest).
I've seen them in '99, '10, and now '22 — can't say any show was better than the other
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On the turntable
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Fall of 1980,my band was recording it’s second album at Roundhouse Studio in London. We were big fans of The Jam,which we mentioned to the studio receptionist. She replies well Paul Weller’s a mate of mine,I’ll ring him up for you. He invites us to come hang out with them where they were recording,couldn’t have been nicer,and invited us to come see them at a concert in Manchester,which we did. It was in a high school gymnasium of sorts.
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damn, thats cool as hell
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thanks for posting !
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A generational talent and visionary. He did a Lord of the Rings theme for their 3 day Halloween run. I streamed Halloween night and he had the drummer from Widespread Panic, Duane Trucks (Butch Trucks’ nephew) along with some other guests, and a big old Orange rig. Busted out a Les Paul to play superb renditions of “Ramble On,” Sabbath’s “The Wizard,” “The Battle of Evermore,” and “War Pigs,” all in the theme of the final chapter of LotR and intermixed with more traditional instrumentation and styles. Also covered “Fearless” by Floyd as they sometimes do.
There are a couple of shows from a festival called Rooster Walk where he teamed up with Marcus King and the amazing Jeff Sipe on the skins, and those are amazing as you’d expect. The first time it happened they had only met a few hours prior. You can find videos and recordings searching for “King and Strings.”
Here is a show by a great band of Bill Kreutzman’s (Grateful Dead drummer) I was at where they played “Join Together” by the Who into “Franklin’s Tower” by the Dead:
All that said, his acoustic stuff for me is even somehow better than majesty of electric Billy.
black midi, as mentioned, not bad either. Not sure how I’d describe them but some of their more frenetic and ADD moments recall Mr. Bungle for me.
