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But Anthrax is Not All I've Bought
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 I'll get back to pissing you off with my Left-wing politics shortly, but in the meantime let's continue everyone's favorite kind of blog entry, the kind where I recite the CD's I've bought lately.
Though I can enjoy some old school thrash metal from time-to-time, my real home base is anything with a Les Paul and a `70's plexiglass front Marshall in it. Therefore it was my destiny to procure Humble Pie's Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore.
Way back in about 1991 my band had a singer with a major Chris Robinson fetish. Since Robinson referenced Humble Pie in many interviews our singer picked up the Pie's Smokin' and Fillmore on cassettes and tried to get me into it. At the time I was drawn to the more progressive rock aspects of Led Zeppelin and the Who and Humble Pie was just a little too...well, probably low-brow for me. Fortunately later in life I've come to appreciate that the very low-brow, nitty-gritty sound of Humble Pie is what made them great and I now have four of their albums: Fillmore, Smokin', Rock On and King Biscuit/Greatest Hits Live. When Steve Mariott and Peter Frampton hit the first power chords of "Four Day Creep" you can practically smell the ganja seeping out of your CD player. It's rather perturbing to find that so many people who love AC/DC and Aerosmith aren't aware of this band that was superior in many ways. They actually had about 10 albums but you're lucky if you can find these four these days.
TRIVIA: Steve Marriott lived in Atlanta at the turn of the 1980's, and he has a son that still plays in bands around here! Marriott also created a new Humble Pie with local Atlanta musicians; there's one double-disc of that conglomeration called The Atlanta Years. Dan Baird of the Georgia Satellites and "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" fame was given his Fender Esquire/Telecaster by Marriott after he saw one of their shows in a bar here and invited the Satellites back to his house.
Yeah, so I've really been enjoying this one. Another great find was that there are still guys in their early 20's covering Humble Pie songs and doing a hell of a job of it. Check out these You Tube videos:
"Four Day Creep" by the Sparrows of Melbourne, Australia
(Check out the vocals at 2:13! Perfect Marriott! These guys need to come to the U.S.A.!)
"Stone Cold Fever" by Dub Squarewheel of Dallas, TX
(These guys suffer the malady of many bands that attempt to rock like it's 1973 - comparisons to the Black Crowes.)
Eh, let's see...other than that I've picked up The Who by Numbers, leaving only Quadrophenia to complete my Keith Moon-era Who collection. I also got Black Sabbath's Masters of Reality, which has done little to rid me of the opinion that they were primarily a gimmick band. I think a riff from "Into the Void" has wound up in one of my tunes, though.
More Bush bashing straight ahead.
*EDIT: Also the Power Station's first album. Robert Palmer, two guys from Duran Duran and the drummer of Chic. I listened to this obsessively in the summer of 1985. |
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Posted by Art | 1:59 PM EST |
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RE: Robert Palmer
Check out some of Palmers earlier solo work: Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley, Pressue Drop, Some People Can Do What They Like...he recorded these albums using both Little Feat and The Meters as a back-up band. Now that is some funky shit! Mr. Palmer was far cooler before he doned his black suit and neatly combed hairdoo. Power Station is *just ok* compared to these earlier works.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...you NEED a subscription to the Rhapsody music service. For the cost of one used CD a month you can have access to MILLIONS of songs and albums. I'm not sure why you are so hung up on having to own everything you listen to. You can always turn around and buy CD's if you really take a liking to an album. Trust me...Rhapsody will open up your listening world. You can try it FREE for two weeks...
http://rhapsody.jambase.com/
The old Robert Palmer is probably great but the `85 edition is what lit my brain up. Maybe I'll examine those. I've got two more Little Feat discs to go and then I can settle into being incurious about anything else.
I signed up for the free Rhaphsody, but even if a disc doesn't give me a hard on it's just nice to have a "library."
You should write more about music and less about politics.
Sad that we lost Palmer a few years back.