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Forum: General Talk
08-16-2023, 05:47 PM
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(Laughs)
I think this is more their style, there's the satire, that the scariest show on TV is the nightly news, it's worse than anything a horror writer could come up with.
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Forum: General Talk
08-16-2023, 05:19 PM
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Some 70's Aussie 'pub rock'. These guys were the sort of more 'intellectual' AC/DC, but yeah, it's relative, right? :)
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Forum: General Talk
06-20-2023, 06:14 PM
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A lot of Australian groups were originally bar bands.
Right into the 1960s, bars in Australia closed at 6pm. We never had prohibition, alcoholism was allegedly 'managed'.
The laws lifted at the same time as rock and roll hit it big, so a natural fit was for a bar to begin booking bands to get patrons out of their houses at night and in the front door.
Subtle singer-songwriter music simply couldn't be heard on the noisy floor of a typical beer barn, so successful acts were raucous.
These guys were a 1980s act in that tradition, sort of Midnight Oil meets U2. :)
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Forum: General Talk
05-15-2023, 11:38 PM
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As business focused and anti-drug as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are, Kiss are of interest to promoters these days only as a nostalgia act.
What they and the fans want are the formerly drug-addled (and allegedly anti-Semite) paranoiacs Ace Frehley and Peter Criss with them as a reunion act, instead of other blokes in silver costumes and makeup. That's been the band's problem for decades now.
One thing that still unites them is their common love of early Seventies British glam acts like Slade and The Sweet, such as this cover by Ace.
As teenagers, the members of Kiss were Anglophiles, which was only cured by actually visiting England and experiencing it for themselves. According to Stanley in his biography, they toured in the Seventies expecting a land typified by Swinging London of the 1960s but instead found a grim place inhabited by grim people. :D
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Forum: General Talk
03-21-2023, 05:49 PM
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Extreme are probably remembered for their Everley Brothers style ballad 'More Than Words', but they're a full on rock outfit. This recent single reminds us Nuno Bettencourt really is up there in the pantheon of current guitarists.
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Forum: General Talk
03-02-2023, 04:27 PM
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I reckon every band should at least attempt a story song. Someone might say, well, rootsy bands can do them because that there's a folk music tradition of ballads.
But these guys were a hair metal band.
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Forum: General Talk
01-16-2023, 07:50 PM
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Lot of love here for Jeff Beck, described as your greatest guitarist's opinion of who the greatest guitarist actually is.
I play myself, and can't get over his articulations. He doesn't use a pick, so he's simultaneously hitting or plucking the strings at the same time with his fingers as he also uses the whammy bar and changes his volume knob, often imitating a slide guitar, a saxophone, or even a harmonica.
Rod Stewart thought he was ideal for singers, because with all his counter melodies as you finished your line, effectively you were doing a duet with him.
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Forum: General Talk
12-13-2022, 02:51 PM
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Yeah, I've a pretty good tolerance for them. I even like Music From The Elder, an album even the band hates. With that one, Bob Ezrin decided that ordering the songs by narrative made it an unbalanced listen, so he rearranged them, which Paul says was like ripping up the pages of a novel and gluing them back in randomly.
Kiss cheerfully admit they're Anglophiles, that they're really a British style 70s glam band like The Sweet, Slade, T-Rex or whatever, it's all about fun, and religion/politics/seriousness have never entered into it, no matter what evangelists claimed.
Ace often plays direct tribute to those UK acts:
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Forum: General Talk
12-12-2022, 08:54 PM
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I've enjoyed reading Paul Stanley's memoir, 'Face The Music'.
I've seen Kiss twice, including with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Docklands, and even a Gene Simmons Q&A at the Palais in St Kilda, launching his biography. I've always thought of them as a singles band. The one below is from when they were being encouraged in the 1990s to go with the flow and try incorporating grunge into what they did. As Stanley writes:
"We sang about how great life was and self-empowerment ... I just couldn't picture Kiss writing gloom and doom stories. What were we going to write about? That our housekeepers didn't show up today? Our limo was late? It was ridiculous for me to write gloomy songs, and just as ridiculous for Gene to do it too. It ain't that dark in Beverly Hills.
I was also sceptical about what all the grunge bands would do on their second albums. There were a lot of great first albums, but what would they do once they were platinum acts instead of kids living in roach infested garages? I mean if they were so miserable once they had money, they could all go see shrinks."
All four members were in their own ways neurotic misfits, and it took miracles by their manager (who unfortunately developed an appetite for drugs and teen boys) to keep them together. When they had to fire that manager for going off the rails, Paul claims the band really became a solo act. It had always been a bit that way ... it's Paul, not Gene, having to play that iconic disco bass on 'I Was Made For Loving You', but it got a lot worse.
Ace and Peter, never bright to begin with, got into drugs in a huge way and struggled to turn up to gigs, rehearsals and events. Brought back financially destitute for reunion tours, they had to be taught how to play their own parts again. Even then, it was a struggle, so those shows tended to be the same safe 17 songs over and over again. As Stanley says, 'It's hard enough to deal with a p&&ck who's a virtuoso, but a p&&ck who can't play their instrument ...'
Gene was a teetotaller and anti-drugs, but became distracted trying to turn into an actor and manager of other bands instead.
There's a funny write up of the experiences making their film 'Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park', meant to be their 'A Hard Day's Night'. No one knew how to act, or had read the script beforehand. People openly laughed at the premiere, and Paul slunk down low in his theatre seat, humiliated.
On the other hand, since he's a good singer, he accepted the role of Phantom of the Opera in Canada, and did eight shows a week for two seasons. He felt eerily connected to the character ... a birth defect meant he only had one ear, was deaf on that side, and had been unable to let any of the thousands of people he'd encountered in life get close to him. Perhaps he'd also been putting on that mask to keep them at a distance.
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Forum: General Talk
11-30-2022, 04:29 PM
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Yeah, I'm with Luftfluss in remembering Christine McVie.
Her husband of course was John McVie - the 'Mac' in 'Fleetwood Mac'.
He's second from the left on this album cover from his time in the Bluesbreakers ... a wonderful bass player. He was a 'boozer', as they say, and in his new band, he brought Christine in as keyboard player and she had an affair with their sound engineer. The turmoil afterwards is all part of the magic of the 'Rumours' LP.
(BTW, how good is Peter Green on guitar?! John Mayall discovers and loses Eric Clapton, finds Green to replace him, goes on to give Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page starts .... he identified talent, for sure!)
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Forum: General Talk
11-17-2022, 04:33 PM
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Vale Keith Levene, one of the original founders of The Clash, and who can be seen here doing guitar duties for John Lydon on Public Image Limited's spikey debut.
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Forum: General Talk
11-03-2022, 03:52 PM
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Bit of British quirkiness from the 70s ...
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Forum: General Talk
10-04-2022, 09:23 PM
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Love the guitar tones! Big Mesa amp, I think.
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Forum: General Talk
09-06-2022, 05:08 PM
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Larry Mullen is such a great drummer, a bit like Charlie Watts he pulls the rest of the band up to his standard!
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Forum: General Talk
08-15-2022, 09:37 PM
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I commute past the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre at the Austin Hospital a couple of times a week, may she rest in peace.
Indie singer-guitarist Juliana Hatfield didn't care about embarrassment to her alternative credentials doing a whole album of Livvy covers, her admiration was that great.
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Forum: General Talk
07-12-2022, 05:18 PM
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The mighty Janes ...
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Forum: General Talk
06-14-2022, 08:11 PM
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Very gutsy!
I like 'Blue Suede Shoes', but I think I like the original better ...
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Forum: General Talk
06-13-2022, 05:20 PM
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I saw an interview years ago with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the two young Jewish songwriters who broke into and lifted the black music industry in the 1950s.
Neither liked the idea of Elvis Presley doing 'Hound Dog'. It's written for a woman standing up for herself, putting a deadbeat boyfriend into his place.
But all those royalties were pretty good consolation, I guess.
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Forum: General Talk
05-18-2022, 04:21 PM
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Yeah, huge issue. Australian singer songwriter Paul Kelly had to change the name of his band from The Coloured Girls to The Dots before taking his act to the United States.
What should be done with The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar"?
Or The Beatles' 'Run For Your Life', with its misogyny and threats of violence?
Lots of examples, too many to list! :)
We're all photographers, and I've also done boudoir. Social media doesn't permit us to show nipples of female subjects, etc, etc.
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Forum: General Talk
05-17-2022, 11:05 PM
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It's claimed 'Walk On The Wild Side' wasn't widely banned as expected because radio station managers were out of touch with urban slang and missed the 'giving head' reference. I really loved Reed's 1989 effort, with him essentially talking over some back-to-basics sounds.
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Forum: General Talk
04-28-2022, 06:44 PM
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The Offspring's Dexter Holland is an interesting bloke. He has a PhD in molecular biology, joining other musical doctors Brian May (astrophysics), The Velvet Underground's Sterling Morrison (Medieval Literature), Kris Kristofferson (English) and Dr Dre.
Ok, not sure about that last one but that huge spliff might be ganja wrapped up in a degree.
Holland recently put out a slowed down version of Gone Away, the song he wrote after his girlfriend died in a car accident. He's more accepting now, versus the original, which had a lot of anguish.
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Forum: General Talk
03-16-2022, 05:39 PM
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Great traditional song - check out The Byrds and Rod Stewart versions, too!
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Forum: General Talk
03-15-2022, 06:54 PM
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Yeah, I think I first became aware of him when he did the soundtrack for Wim Wenders' 'Paris, Texas'.
Later on, he and Steve Vai shared duties for the film 'Crossroads', where Ralph Macchio redid Karate Kid but with a guitar! It is Steve in this clip getting an 'acting' credit. :)
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Forum: General Talk
03-14-2022, 08:50 PM
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When Mick Jagger released his (very Dylanish) first solo single, it was always going to be seen how he'd fare without Keith's guitar work. Well, Ry Cooder is not a bad substitute. :)
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Forum: General Talk
02-20-2022, 03:30 PM
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Obviously, Waffles! :D
Experts disagree:
"The album includes some of their finest songs such as ‘Across The Universe,’ ‘Let It Be,’ ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ ‘Get Back’ and the Harrison-penned ‘I Me Mine.’ It also includes ‘Dig It,’ one of two studio-recorded songs credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey. There were 7 in total, the other 5 being outtakes, B-sides and the post-humous single, ‘Free As A Bird.’ Arguably the sound of a band breaking up, although Peter Jackson’s upcoming documentary would have you believe otherwise. Even at their most fractured, The Beatles were still better than all the rest."
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