Rocks Like Fuck! – Page 8 – Los Bastardos Reunidos

March 15, 2019May 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

That’s Probably The Coolest Thing In Any Of The Songs I’ve Broken Down Yet

If Rick Beato says what the song is in the video’s title, YouTube takes it down. This one is “No One Knows,” the first single off of Songs for the Deaf. Incidentally, the last QOTSA album that interested me.

And here it is without all the music theory …

March 8, 2019 // 3 Comments

Ramones 12th Show Ever

CBGB, September 15th, 1974. If there’s anything better than this, I don’t want to know what it is. Including the between-song arguments and Tommy bitching about how fast everything is.

1) Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
2) I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement
3) Judy Is a Punk

February 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS

Yes, please!

New and completely bonkers sci-fi series from Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, Mindhunter). On Netflix March 15, you magnificent bastards. 18 animated stories, allegedly in a kind of Heavy Metal format.

January 30, 2019May 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

Bid On That Axe, Eugene

David Gilmour is probably my all time favorite guitar player, and he’s selling a bunch of his guitars for charity. 120 of them. He’s even selling the “Black Strat” that he played on Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. So that’s the guitar that was used for Time, Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Run Like Hell. Day-um… I’d just like to see that guitar, and I can’t imagine what it would be like to own it. Check out the auction here…

So if you’ve got $100,000 burning a hole in your pocket, go pick one up.

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 // 6 Comments

Fuck Me, Don’t Tell A Soul Is 30

Released February 1, 1989. This makes me feel older than turning 50. To put it in perspective, this post is the equivalent of the 20-year-old me in 1989 talking about an album that came out in 1959.

Wiki-wiki-wikipedia says …

Don’t Tell a Soul marked the debut of Bob “Slim” Dunlap, who replaced founding guitarist Bob Stinson. The album was recorded at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Matt Wallace and the band. It was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, who decided to give the record “a three-dimensional, radio-ready sound”. However, singer and guitarist Paul Westerberg was not satisfied with the new direction, commenting: “I thought the little things I’d cut in my basement were closer to what I wanted.”

To celebrate, let’s all take a moment and watch one of my favorite rock ‘n’ roll moments.

As explained by a lesser blog …

Before the show, they were told they needed to change the line, “We’re feeling good from the pills we took.” Well, fittingly, Westerberg did no such thing, and the censors were obviously ready for it, as the tape goes silent during that section of the song. What the censors at ABC didn’t anticipate was this: Near the conclusion of “Talent Show” the lyrics address the time when the band hits the stage and there’s no retreating: “It’s too late to turn back, here we go” is repeated twice on the album version, but here Westerberg has changed the line to “It’s too late to take pills, here we go”—ha! The censors missed it and they’ve pissed everyone off again! To add insult, the line is sung three times.