[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Oh and LOL at Moulds’ Cardigan in the Sugar video, he looks like he doesn’t want to be wearing it. fuckin’ 90’s man.
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Damn, some great memories of college. I was a sophomore when Copperblue came out; loved that disc.
How bout this:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Oh and LOL at Moulds’ Cardigan in the Sugar video, he looks like he doesn’t want to be wearing it. fuckin’ 90’s man.
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Husker Du were part of the soundtrack of my life in the 80s! I even got to see them live and they kicked ass.
Then a few of years ago Bob was playing a local bar in Philly and my wife and I decided to go. I didn’t know what to expect. Last time I saw Bob live he was FAT. I was familiar with all his solo stuff and with Sugar through the 90s, but I hadn’t known he trimmed down.
Anyway, the opening act finished their set and cleared the stage. Some skinny bearded bespectacled dude in a hoody with the hood up came out and set up an amp, mic, and effects pedals, then left the stage.
No drums, no bass amp no nothing. Not even a stool. About 20 minutes later, Bob came out (it was he who was the roadie 20 minutes earlier)! I was stunned at how great he looked. He strapped on that guitar and started slashing into some blistering chords of a Sugar song, singing like he meant every word, and the goosebumps took me over! Bob had the most powerful presence and diamond-sharp focus and determination that night. Everyone was feeling it and it just rolled through to the back of the room and up to the stage again, and he just fed off it.
In all my years seeing live bands, I’ve never seen anything more powerful than that lone figure of Bob Mould ripping through a set of his best work that night.
Old, but DAMN good!
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
How bout this:
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Oh yeah! I saw the Mats several times back in the 80s. By the time they reached their popularity peak (not long before they split up), their live sound had grown in fullness almost to the point of verging on a heavy metal sound.
Great band!
I remember an article in musician magazine from '89 where the author wrote that the first great band of the 80s was The Clash, and the last great band of the 80s was The Replacements. The following month’s issue had a letter from Bon Jovi himself. He wrote: “How can The Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I’ve never even heard of them?”
LOL
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Oh and LOL at Moulds’ Cardigan in the Sugar video, he looks like he doesn’t want to be wearing it. fuckin’ 90’s man.
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Husker Du were part of the soundtrack of my life in the 80s! I even got to see them live and they kicked ass.
Then a few of years ago Bob was playing a local bar in Philly and my wife and I decided to go. I didn’t know what to expect. Last time I saw Bob live he was FAT. I was familiar with all his solo stuff and with Sugar through the 90s, but I hadn’t known he trimmed down.
Anyway, the opening act finished their set and cleared the stage. Some skinny bearded bespectacled dude in a hoody with the hood up came out and set up an amp, mic, and effects pedals, then left the stage.
No drums, no bass amp no nothing. Not even a stool. About 20 minutes later, Bob came out (it was he who was the roadie 20 minutes earlier)! I was stunned at how great he looked. He strapped on that guitar and started slashing into some blistering chords of a Sugar song, singing like he meant every word, and the goosebumps took me over! Bob had the most powerful presence and diamond-sharp focus and determination that night. Everyone was feeling it and it just rolled through to the back of the room and up to the stage again, and he just fed off it.
In all my years seeing live bands, I’ve never seen anything more powerful than that lone figure of Bob Mould ripping through a set of his best work that night. [/quote]
ID that’s an awesome story man! I saw him about 4 years ago in San Diego. He was pretty fit and played fucking LOUD. Like he was on a mission, you’re exactly right about that. In the whole pantheon of rock music Bob doesn’t get the cred he truly deserves. He’s not a shredder, but he’s powerful, and that matters.
They’re long songs, but this song and the next one I post are absolutely KILLER tunes that are still way ahead of their time in many respects. Further proof that Miles Davis was and always will be the single greatest maker of music the world has ever known.
Off the new album of a Band from my Home town. I dig this one, even though the video has a generous amount of dude butt.
Also, at the very least this one makes for a pretty cool ringtone.
Please, show of hands of everybody who has posted in this thread and actually listened to at least 1 song they hadnt already heard of/liked.
Begin crickets now.
Andrew Bayer.
just saw these guys at a little music festival in Hollywood, guaranteed you guys have never heard shit like this before:
Also this, sometimes I lay in bed listening to this and day-dreaming about migrating to Africa, somehow becoming a Warlord with an AK, a cigar and playing chess outside a mud hut with some other guerilla soldier type guy.
P.S. Both of these musicians are blind, I find that pretty cool.