Posted on 05/28/2003 1:00:57 PM PDT by Drew68
No can do - I'm missing a string for that song!
He's brilliant and weird.
I stand corrected.
After watching the dvd, I have come to the conclusion that Page was not deficient in his abilities, he was restrained. Big difference!
People may laugh at this statement but I firmly believe that Grohl is one of the best --if not, the best, rock drummers currently playing today.
His work on QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf is incredible.
If Zep was to reform and tour, Grohl could sit on Bonham's drum stool and do the music justice.
Laugh away...
Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) is perhaps, IMHO, the best band on the scene right now.
They were formed about five years ago from the remains of a defunct hard-rock band called Kyuss.
I first caught them live purely on accident. It was 1999 and they were playing in front of about 200 people in my favorite dive bar: The 15th Street Tavern. I happened to be there enjoying some after-work drinks when they set up. I had heard of Kyuss, so I decided to stick around and see what they had to show me. I was not disappointed and have seen them two more times since them.
Here is a photo from the show that I saw them at (I may or may not be the dude in the front with the cigarette):
The bar was so small they had to turn the pool tables on their sides and remove their legs to accomdate the crowd.
They have three albums out and they are all great. The first is my favorite, only because I know the music much better. These dudes are getting huge fast! And it is well deserved.
P.S., if you like this type of music, check out Fu Manchu. They rock balls-hard as well, though they haven't developed the following that QOTSA has --yet!
I picked it up today but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet. After the dvd, I had to have some new Zep to jam to in the car!
If it isn't there already, my guess is that the cd will hit #1 with a bullet.
I bought the last copy (once again) at the Media Play in downtown Denver.
My copy had no liner notes. Did yours?
Cool Pic Drew. That must have been some kind of show in that small place. If the song "No One Knows" is any indication I'm sure I'll like the album. I have always been drawn to artists/bands that take chances and go for unusual sounds.
If I have a criticism about music today it is that it is too sanitized, too over produced, too clean, too mundane and definitely over marketed. Speaking of which I heard that Nora Jones album recently and fell asleep after the first number. It's just too clean and contrived to keep me interested.
I miss that grit that even pop bands of the 60s had like the Fifth Dimension. Paul McCartney once lamented that his song "the Long and Winding Road" could have been a lot better but John Lennon told McCartney we do it on this take or forget it. And if you listen carefully to that song there are some technical flaws in it but that IMO makes it even better. I prefer mistakes and that chance note if there is live brilliance in the mix. So much spontaneity and brilliance is lost when bands try to achieve perfection in the studio.
I hear Ibanez sells them with a priest.
If you plan on coming down this way let me know. Rumor has it a certain homebody may come out of her shell and a trip to the PRS factory is in order.
You nailed it. While Clapton may be good night in night out, one night is never much better than another. Page, on the other hand, can go from sounding like me to something from another planet over the course of a night. Page at his best is probably my favorite player.
MD
I think of alot of that sound that we miss so much doesn't translate over to compact disc very well. I've listened to CDs - even the well made, "remastered" ones - and compared them to the original vinyl right afterward, and there's a quality missing from the former that's difficult to define. Some have said "warmness," and others "listenability" (which is even more vague). CDs, now matter how well engineered, seem to have a sterile sound quality to them that is difficult (if not impossible to engineer away. Perhaps it's just comes with the territory -- digital.
The "listenability" argument, vague as it seems, is right on the money in my book. I can listen to vinyl and vinyl recoreded onto analog (cassette) tapes for hours without suffering from "listener fatigue" (depending on what I'm listening to, of course). Rarely if ever can I do that with CDs ....comfortably, at least.
And adding to the sterility factor is what you mentioned -- most music is way overproduced these days. A lot of artists (like Neil Young and Tom Waits) have tried to combat this problem with various studio techniques, and although they achieve a certain level of success, the sound still sounds ....forced, not quite genuine.
Well, first you find a hillbilly...
I feel the same way. Those old LPs had better fidelity and were easier on the ears (of course they were easy to scratch too and usually had hiss in the background). The difference in sound quality I guess is because digitial recording only "samples" sound whereas analog electo magnetic recording picked up almost all the sound. Perhaps with CDs going to the DVD format some of this disparity in sound quality will be closed.
And adding to the sterility factor is what you mentioned -- most music is way overproduced these days. A lot of artists (like Neil Young and Tom Waits) have tried to combat this problem with various studio techniques, and although they achieve a certain level of success, the sound still sounds ....forced, not quite genuine.
What was that old method of recording called? "Through the Boards", or something like that? Where instead of multi-tracking a song together track by track all the members of a band would play together at once like playing live. This method of course limited what a band could do in the studio with sound effects and the like but it did produce a "live" feel to the music. Rory Gallagher and Rod Stewart/Faces often recorded this way.
And waiting...
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