― your null fame, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― Ramosi, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Bayonet Bulb, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
― the fire god, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:36 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:59 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:05 (8 years ago) Permalink
Wot's the big deel with Pentagram?
― George Smith, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:05 (8 years ago) Permalink
Great band, and the best live rock show I've ever seen.
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:12 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:13 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:16 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:20 (8 years ago) Permalink
Monster Magnet are a shtick. Pentagram are a shtick. Shtick = a comic scene or vaudeville act. Many people like shtick. I often enjoy shtick. Pick your flavor. In this manner of shtick, mine is Pentagram.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
dopes to infinity is awesome, top to bottom. "negasonic" should've made 'em famous. it's a shame. but at least you can count on MM for a coupla lines per album that make great metal sludge message board sigs. i prefer "cashing satan's checks with my dick in my hand."
― cobra commander (cobra commander), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 23:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
Entire cattle cars of stoner bands have hoisted themselves upon this shtick.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 23:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 3 March 2005 03:39 (8 years ago) Permalink
― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 3 March 2005 11:16 (8 years ago) Permalink
We could do a whole thread of Wyndorfisms....sigs:
"I need a fistful of medication just to keep it in my pants"
"It's a Satanic drug thing, you wouldn't understand"
"I think I wet my pants doing whippits"
"I'll never trust myself again, but I don't care"
― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:02 (8 years ago) Permalink
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:15 (8 years ago) Permalink
― the fire god, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
'bummer' is a fantastic song. i very much prefer the stuff they do that is of the mid-paced variety. slow, groovable hooks all over the shop on 'powertrip'
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 5 October 2007 15:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
saw them on sunday night. dave wyndorf is a huge physical mass now - i was a little bit shocked. he had a guitar strapped on the whole time and barely played it. great show though and a true breath of fresh air. some awesome riffs and the occasional scorching guitar solo for good measure. plus the songs that i knew (mostly from "dopes to infinity' and 'powertrip' really held up).
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 03:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
a huge physical mass now
As in fat or musclebound?
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 11:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 11:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
well as the picture shows, he's gotten very fat. he was actually wearing the same kind of hoodie as the one above and while it did a reasonable job of masking the size of his gut, there was little doubt that he's now a very large man.
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
hes been like that since he came off heroin
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
apparently a lot of people are fascinated...
c'mon google, dude is in his 50s, cut him a break
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
His Wikipedia entry has an odd table of contents:
* 1 Biography o 1.1 Early life o 1.2 First years as a member of Monster Magnet o 1.3 Short-lived commercial success o 1.4 Monolithic Baby! o 1.5 Drug overdose and recovery o 1.6 4-Way Diablo * 2 Opinion about drugs * 3 References
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
holy crap
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, dude was well into his 30s when he founded monster magnet. that's quite a revelation for me. where there's a will...
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 17:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
If nothing else this revival is inspiring me to replay Dopes to Infinity.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
had no idea dude was nearing AARP eligibility
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
nearing AARP eligibility, but still having an absolute ball on stage. :)
yeah, i dug out dopes to infinity and gave it a good spin in advance of their show. seems i'd forgotten how much i enjoy it. 'negasonic teenage warhead' proved to be my personal highlight of the show.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
weirdly, im really into this band
― butthurt (deej), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 07:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 20:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I went to see a heavy metal band in New York ... called Monster Magnet. Man, they were heavy, boy. The lead singer got on the monitor, and he said, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" Then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question. "Yes, I do feel like a human. I do not feel like a tree."
― amarillo fat (jim), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 20:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
you can't cover it with your hairyou can't hide it in your army coatyou got the miltown demon stareyou forgot all the letters that you wrote
i love u, monster magnet
― Gorgeous Ladies Of Curling (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like superjudge and 25...tab
― the descent of mayne (am0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
mm vs. fu manchu
― the descent of mayne (am0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
\m/ (-____=) \m/
A fan since Spine of God.
― Helmut Was A Krautrocker, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the new one?
It's fucking awesome.
― Wally P. Doyle, Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
In 1991 Wyndorf went on to birth his first child, the delight[citation needed] Betty.[3]
― Dan I., Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
new album got a very good review in Terrorizer
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
just listened to god says no. couldn't be more excited for this new one
― kamerad, Saturday, 16 October 2010 17:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
I listen to 25..... Tab about once a month at least.
― The Brand Most Dentists Smoke... (Viceroy), Saturday, 16 October 2010 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
leo
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
acid reich did a great version of "set the controls for the heart of the sun" with made-up lyrics like "bathe in the light of the unholy one / fry like a pig in the heart of the sun"
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
We then recorded the second demo and decided, along the way, that Ozium didn't quite fit.
Did you shop that tape around to the labels (including Primo Scree/Caroline)?
No. It was made strictly for the band. I don't recall how The Ugly American got involved. As I see it, it's far superior to anything we ever did. I love how raw and grating it is.
mcbain otm
I still kick myself for losing my copy of this, and for not bidding on one that showed up on ebay a few years ago
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
i lived at the shore at the time and always assumed the red bank weirdo tape scene, of which i'm pretty sure i still have some cassette mementos in a box somewhere, was basically three or four guys in a basement somewhere making it up as they went. which i guess, skimming through that mcbain interview, isn't that far off the mark. i can't imagine the audience for most of that stuff exceeded a dozen people. the brighton bar was a fantastic shithole of a club. i loved that place. big nurse, who mcbain mentions as having headlined the brighton bill that was monster mag's first gig, were fantastic for awhile. they released a single on heat blast records, which was THE local label, which was pretty good in a husker du-ish way, not sure if they ever released anything else. they weren't a red bank band; they were from somewhere else on the shore, i forget exactly where. nudeswirl, from new brunswick, was another good one, them and their silly-yet-quite-catchy drum-machine-and-guitar offshoot they might be vaginas. nudeswirl signed to polygram records, back when the grunge dollars were starting to flow, and promptly vanished. monster magnet were really something else when they started playing at the brighton bar. they just kinda walked in as rock stars from the start. and, yeah, i loved them with tim cronin on vocals too. tim was also an all-time-great record store clerk.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha, I was one of those guys in the basement
there were more than three or four of us, but me + 3 other guys probably generated 50% of it so
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
it depended on the release but those cool beans tapes did decent business through jack's and blowyourselfup. I'm sure some of the bands with local followings like laughing soup dish did pretty well.
otm re: tim as all-time-great record store clerk. "if you don't like this, I'll buy it back from you." the guy was hugely influential on my musical education. he's actually in chasing amy, stocking the shelves in the record store scene.
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Monster Magnet is one of my Top 10 All-Time Bands so huge bong-tokin' grin at Mastermind. I still wear my Dopes To Infinity tour shirt weekly but almost didn't care anymore after the last few. currently Diggin' That Hole \m/
― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
there was another clerk who worked with tim when i first started going to jack's, whose tastes were a lot more poppy, and they used to fight over how i should spent my money. "you need this sex clark five album." "no, no, what you really need is this scratch acid record." i needed that balance in my life. i learned a lot from the two of them.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
that would be gary
he and tim started cool beans
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes, gary, that's it. thank you!
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Interview w/Dave Wyndorf (part 1 of 2; the rest, including Wyndorf talking about Hawkwind, will be posted on Thursday)
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure some of the bands with local followings like laughing soup dish did pretty well.
Ha, I got a request for these dudes on my show once. Couldn't find their records though.
― BENDLESS WOOKIEE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 03:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
dave's wrong, he's a great drummer
xp
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 03:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tim's still at Jack's and also currently in an excellent band called The Ribeye Bros along with some Magnet alums. Excellent, straight up garage rock with really good and funny lyrics.
― thirdalternative, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Sunday, 31 October 2010 05:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Having finally heard that early demo cassette Edward rightly praises above, it's pretty great to hear that legendary Freddie Hubbard rant used as a sample.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 October 2010 06:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've had 'Space Lord' (& all of Powertrip, really, but especially that) on constant rotation lately & I'd been thinking "how in the hell, at a time when White Zombie could fill stadiums, was this not a gigantic single?" And so I looked it up & it turns out it actually kinda was, in its own modest way:
The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart..The music video is notable for being the first video ever aired on MTV's Total Request Live on September 14, 1998.
I guess I just wasn't paying any sort of attention at the time! At any rate, it is a JAM
― THONG duck SONG (Pillbox), Thursday, 12 January 2012 07:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
this band totally rules btw
― THONG duck SONG (Pillbox), Thursday, 12 January 2012 07:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Scharpling interviews Dave for ninety minutes. Absolutely a must listen... http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/lt_episodes/009/
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw man, his story about playing Norman Mailer's place is hilarious!
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 5 May 2012 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I heard "Teenage Negasonic Warhead" for the first time in ages and was struck that it was a major cop of "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream. Or am I insane?
― Matt M., Saturday, 5 May 2012 01:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'M SO FUCKING STOOOOONED
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 28 May 2012 05:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
if satan lived in heaven he'd be me
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Scharpling interview was so great. Totally like listening to any old Jersey dude except he saw good bands and had an interesting life.
― strictly shitty piano rock underground (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
watching this right now and it's kinda blowing my mind! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CpmTYVqe1Ig
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 28 May 2012 07:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
I mean, wow, right? that vid is crazy stupid rock dumbshit in a bottle, absolutely amazing!
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 28 May 2012 07:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
wow, that starts out like a good cover/version of "spine of god", but by the end, holy shit
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 07:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
19 years before hanging with marilyn manson
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
awesome, thanks EIII
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 16:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
lead singer in that clip is Daniel Rey, who produced and co-wrote much of the best late-period Ramones stuff.
― how's life, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
You mean guitarist?
― strictly shitty piano rock underground (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sorry, yeah. That's exactly what I meant.
― how's life, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
that scharpling interview is awesome. even if you couldn't give two shits about monster magnet, there's great stuff on the 60s/70s music scene, early NYC punk, the similarities between hawkwind and the ramones, etc. I'm 30 minutes in and they haven't even started talking about monster magnet yet.
kinda weird listening to this thing cuz I grew up around the corner from dave, and I spent a lot of evenings in that exact kitchen having the same convos with him. and y'know I still haven't heard most of these chestnuts, he's a bottomless pit of wry observation and batshit rocklife stories.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
john mcbain has been throwing up some MM rarities on his soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/john-mcbain/mm-murder-court-tavern-1991
including the greatness that is CHIGGER
http://soundcloud.com/john-mcbain/chigger-chigger-alive-live-at
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
speaking of throw up
Nice!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
high school me can be heard on them donuts are talkin' to me... I'll never tell where tho
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 18:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
wow, thanks for the heads up, EIII!
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 18:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
np
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 19:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
so, is everything my mm as fucking brilliant as 'monolithic' ?
i cant get enough of this track ..
― mark e, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
Pretty much, yeah.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 10 February 2013 01:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
dave wyndorf was on the best show last week. him talking about going to see suicide is pretty special.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:48 (3 months ago) Permalink