Astrojanitor

knowing Mississippi? probably would have turned a firehose on them

Willie's place is more consistent. outlaw sometimes takes a real loose definition of the term "outlaw country." Half the day it breaks down to whomever had a mullet in the early 90s. I was listening to Willie's Place today and, in a row they played Guy Clark, Townes Van zant, Steve earle, Jerry Jeff walker and george jones. Can't beat that

Piper. Piper has Syd and Syd is all that matters.

Little Steven's Underground Garage. It's like channel 24, 25...something like that. Rough ramshackle rock and roll. Byrds, early Stones early Kinks, rockabilly....the real stuff. Channel 64 is "Willie's Place," a station curated by Willie Nelson. Pretty solid old school country 32 is all Grateful Dead. Pretty dope seeing they play 2-3 full length gigs a day.

is not dying a trend?

there's also an insane story about Duff McKagan drinking so much his liver exploded with such force it left third degree burns all along his insides. How none of them died is totally beyond me. I was actually surprised to learn Chris Holmes from WASP was still alive. Those glam metal dudes are nothing if not resilient

I suppose, but no one ever died from second hand lesbian

so depressingly true. in High School one of my good friends was gay and pretty obvious about it in this weird goth/metal way (I don't know, it was the mid 90s--people took marilyn manson serious back then). anyway, I've been forced into a few fights in my time...but every single one of them involved keeping the basketball team from beating him unconscious. they just saw something different and attacked. this poor girl is in for a very unpleasant experience. unfortunately she is part of the only minority that is allowed to be victimized by institutional bigotry.

I totally agree with you about 80s music. The hair metal stuff was shallow and stripper-y, but the underground was amazing. SST, Homestead, Twin Tone, 4AD, Shimmy Disc, Rough Trade and Factory were putting out essential album after essential album. Bands like This Heat, Tuxedomoon, Half Japanese, Birthday Party, Amebix and Rain Parade were doing stuff that people couldn't even begin to wrap their heads around until 10-15 years later. Lots of great stuff that was criminally ignored. Indies are making a commercial comeback/push/whatever mostly because indie bands offer cheap licensing fees for tv shows/movies/commercials. It's a tricky thing trying to come to terms with Grizzly Bear in a VW ad. Or Of Montreal having one of their songs re-written as the Outback Steakhouse theme. "Selling out" does not mean what it did in the 80s. The mats would never allow their music on St Elsewhere, but the entire Sub Pop roster are tripping over themselves to get placement on Grey's Anatomy. So now we are back to being singles driven with product placement being the main avenue for distribution. The video has been replaced by the beer commercial. I think it just shows how little music matters to most people now. It is being marketed has a half step above white noise and is being treated as such. Now this is coming from someone who got 6 vinyl LPs in the mail today--I probably swing to hard in the other direction. But I can all but guarantee the continued love affair with nevermind, Appetite, or classic rock as a whole stems from knowing we will never have anything to replace it. There will not be another "thing" we can all agree on. In 1987 loving Appetite was a given, in 1992 loving Nirvana was a given....now our lives are scored with personalized mixes as opposed to albums, Music is no longer a communal shared experience. It's depressing to think that in ten years some kid is going to reminisce about "Awesome party mix #3" the same way I do about Daydream Nation.

nobody wants a mediocre QB/convicted felon who hasn't played a full game in four years? Weird.

I agree (mostly)...but then I also like Joey's analogy. A lot of that 80s metal is a guilty pleasure of mine. I can certainly attest Appetite wasn't so much influential as obscenely popular. The thing that really let Appetite survive is the fact it's recorded well. A crazy amount of that stuff sounds over processed and boring. Take Junkyard for example. Great scuzzy blues metal from the 80s (featuring a member of Minor Threat, what?). Songs are clearly great, but the albums are just dead. Too much production. GnR may have made it big, but half those bands were similarly channeling the new York Dolls. Only difference between Guns and Hanoi Rocks, Jetboy, LA Guns, Junkyard..etc was the ability to put together one monster album. It really was the peak of that movement. But, unlike post-Nevermind, the radio waves weren't flooded with GnR clones. Appetite was this one singular thing that happened and no one, not even GnR, were able to pull it off again. Nevermind was, although in my opinion over processed and overrated (musically), it was vastly more important in terms of changing the pop music landscape. The 80s stuff was fun, but ultimately almost suffocatingly shallow. Nevermind opened up the possibility to add introspection into music. it's so much more personal--something that was missing then (and now). Unfortunately a lot of the post-Nirvana bands confused being humorless with being deep which kind of retrofits Nirvana as being pretentious and self important in a lot of people's minds. Which, if you've heard their live albums or had the chance to see them in person, was just not the case. So yeah, Appetite was the pinnacle of a pop movement and Nevermind was the break in the new wave. I still think Appetite is a better record.

I don't know man, I think you are taking it in the wrong spirit. It's like dismissing Andy Kaufman for acting out on Letterman. He was on the movie star track and purposely embraced his weirdness in order to stay interesting. Clips like that are his appeal (and should make everyone miss the old Letterman show--hot damn that was a great show). He presents his films personally instead of having a wide release, does a whole evening of performance art and film. I caught it a couple years ago and was blown away. That guy doesn't have fans, he has followers. People just get obsessed with him. I thought I was a huge fan, but I was nothing compared to some of them.

There's a place in Pittsburgh called Jerry's that is kind of a warehouse of vinyl. Things are barely in order and nothing costs over $5. Cash only and when you bring up your stuff the guy just guesses cost. Always breaks down to spending like $20-30 less than expected. Also no tax. Takes like 2 hours to get through the place, but you always end up with gold.

Lived there 5 years an absolutely loved it. Still go back 2-3 times a year. Great restaurants and record stores...that's what I need in a town. that being said, the yinzer accent is one of the ugliest I've ever heard

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'm loving you already B Nix

I saw a clip of him on some reality show last year or sometime, he was talking to some other famous guy (who I have never seen before in my life) about how he was a black belt. He started doing all these karate chops while telling the guy he could kill him with his bare hands. Other "famous" dude was doing everything in his power to not break out laughing. Arrogance and a comical sense of entitlement. Though I kind of want to read his Saved By The Bell tell-all book. You just know it's going to be 250 pages of claiming he nailed Kelly Kapowski

I felt the same way when everyone was going nuts over Mickey Rourke last year. I was thinking it was nice he was able to find a movie about a guy with a F-ed up face...but there's a reason we don't see Gary Busey much. Not many movies out there require a morbidly obese woman. She'll get a decent post-oscar pity role but that's about it

what makes you think Crispin Glover is a "fallen child actor"? He's in a big movie every couple of years (currently Alice in Wonderland) he makes these really insane art films he tours around the country as well as being a pretty astonishing artist. For me it's a tie between Kirk Cameron and Dustin Diamond. Screech is an obnoxious douche and Cameron is straight up creepy

yeah, Vic Chestnut killed himself on Christmas. He was something like $80K in debt because of mounting medical bills. It was the breaking point. I saw him play over the summer and he seemed pretty upbeat (of course he was touring with Jonathan Richman--can't be depressed when you deal with that guy every day). I read today Linkous shot himself at 1:10 pm outside his friends house. His story is getting more tragic by the minute.

pretty hostile for a dude with stupid taste in guitars

Butch Vig overproduced the living hell out of Nevermind. For my money Nevermind is the least listenable Nirvana records. Appetite vs Bleach? Bleach. vs Nevermind? Appetite. Besides, Appetite has Rocket Queen. killer tune.

cause of death was released today--Linkous shot himself in the heart. Takes a lot of pain to end things that violently

absolutely, he's the only of those guys we should listen to. Kelly is at all the games, he's involved in the organization and wants only the best for the Bills/Buffalo. Cats like Reed and Smith don't even watch/follow football anymore.

For that money you might want to consider ASAT. They kind of look like teles except the higher pickup is a humbucker instead of the lipstick pickup Fender uses. If you want a project, a Danielectro tends to run $400. But for another $300 can be souped up into a bit of a monster. Ira Kaplan from Yo la Tengo plays one. Huge guitar sound on their huge guitar records. They also have these jazzy records that really show off the versatility of the Danielectro. -problems: needs to be souped up and they tend to have shorter necks (21-22 frets)

god...we can only hope so.