Kyuss/QOTSA/Unida/Hermano/Che/Desert Sessions/Brant Bjork (and any other Kyuss spin-off + Stoner Rock in general) Search & Destroy , Classic Or Dud?

the first QotSA is SOOOOO classic it's criminal. the angular guitars, the drone beat, bassy hiccups, just so huge yet agile.

Rated R- ok, Feel Good, the Fade, Tension Head always bring a smile.
SftD- i can't even put this in anymore, i played the hell out of it.

somebody listed Budgie, and i've been pondering getting some, can someone describe it for me? AMG has a pretty loose description. it seems to be "OK" to them, but i want 2nd, 3rd opinions.

and YES! Blue Cheer 1st two albums are where it's at. think and psyche.
Oneida are just not ready for the categor treament yet...

i absolutely recommend getting the double-cd live budgie release "heavier than air" if you find it for $10 or less - it has material from the good periods of the band and some amazing bbc sessions that were lost and had to be taken from cassette tape. raw!

(also - clear blue sky's s/t album, which sounds sort of like budgie and sort of like the just post-psych british 'heavy prog' stuff is highly recommended.)

Don't know if it's just in Europe, but you CAN buy it from the Masters Of Reality Website.
It features a few songs that have only appeared in live form previously and the rest are all new songs.

Also a tour is planned (Presumably for Europe though)

"A very eclectic club tour featuring the music of "BARABBAS"
and many more past MoR tracks not suited for large festival venues
is being discussed for Fall of 2004. "

various appearances by-
alain
billy gibbons
brody
shirley manson
mark?
dave
timmy?
jesse?

that's who's been recording, at least.

And I'm so annoyed that everyone actually slammed WRETCH. That is my favorite Kyuss CD.

You know what really made Kyuss? The low-tuned guitars were cool and all, but John Garcia just kicks fucking ass. He's the perfect amount of singer. Check out Slo Burn or Unida. Both fantastic!

MASTERS OF REALITY mainman/producer Chris Goss has fallen ill and is in critical condition in Palm Desert, CA, according to a posting on the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE web site. Gifts and well wishes would be much appreciated.

Lets hope Chris gets well soon.

Also Yawning Man are releasing 2 cds next year.

1. YAWNING MAN with Alone Records

The semi instrumental desert rock cult band YAWNING MAN will release their past and present music through
ALONE RECORDS worldwide, during 2005. The band was born in the middle 80´s and it´s currently formed by
Alfredo Hernandez - drums (ex-Kyuss, ex-QOTSA); Mario Lalli - bass (Fatso Jetson, Orquesta del Desierto, Across the River) and Gary Arce - guitars (The sort of quartet, Oddio Gasser).

The release plans start with "Rock Formations" , a collection of 10 new tracks recorded in late 2004. Also ALONE RECORDS will be releasing the YAWNING MAN´s older songs on a double CD. The working name is "The birth of Sol Music". This recordings to be released in late 2005, will include an extensive booklet and special artwork with genealogic tree about all the desert music scene and the connections between all those bands and what influence they received from YAWNING MAN. The music includes the late 80´s recordings, with around 30 - 35 tracks on it.

YAWNING MAN. Rock Formations. CD (March 2005).

"Rock Formations" includes 10 new tracks recently recorded by YAWNING MAN. The band shows what it´s going to be one of the most celebrated albums during 2005. YAWNING MAN´s unique musical style takes the highly aclaimed Brant Bjork´s "Jalamanta" like the way to follow with their new songs. we could say that "Jalamanta" followed a way opened by YAWNING MAN years earlier. Needless to say that Gary Arce as well as Mario Lalli recorded additional guitars on "Jalamanta" and Mario sings in one of the tracks. This colaboration was a proof of respect and admiration that Brant Bjork feels for YAWNING MAN.

If we could describe with words what YAWNING MAN´s music sounds like, nowadays, with easy words, that would be a melancholic mix of acoustic space rock and folk, with elements of surf music as well as middle eastern guitar style.

The track list to appear on YAWNING MAN´s "Rock Formations" comes like this:

"Rock Formations", "Perpetual Oyster", , "Stoney Lonesome", "Split Tooth Thunder", "Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway", "Airport Boulevard", "Advanced Darkness", "She Scares Me", "Crater Lake", "Buffalo Chips".

Tour plans for 2005 are still to be confirmed.
A biography of the band is posted at Alone Record´s site. (www.alonerecs.com)

How good is the Unida album? It is one of those albums on Man's Ruin that is long out of print and going for too much money if you can find a copy.

and mark...

and the ego inflation...

GOON MOON is the spooky and dirgy alignment of a sorted and celebrated bunch. The band features Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, Zach Hill of HELLA, and Chris Goss from Masters of Reality, and concocts a startling bitch’s brew of outsider prog experimentalism and thrown back and twisted stoner jams in the tradition of no one. [suicidesqueeze.net]

http://www.stonerrock.com/store/info.asp?item_num=ATH-2969

haha He's obv on crack.

John Garcia mades a cameo appearence with Queens of the Stone Age a few days ago.

not to mention, there's just something missing (called the low-end).
so, here's to Brant! keep coming...

-- Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (pfunkbo...), December 27th, 2005.

lol, its STONER rock, man!

Anyone heard the new Mondo Generator?

I have. I talk about it fairly extensively on the Rolling Metal Thread.

There was too much arguing on there so I hadn't read everything.

So the new Mondo Generator record is actually pretty good, way better than the last one. It's really funny, because it seems like Oliveri took all the ripping punk stuff from Queens of the Stone Age, while Homme kept all the experimental stoner stuff. I like it better than the new Queens record, but those two really need to reunite.

-- Jeff Treppel, Sunday, August 5, 2007 9:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

The new Mondo Generator, on the other hand, grew on me a lot. It's more of a collection of songs than a coherent album, but there's some pretty good songs in there, most notably the title track, which sounds kind of like Monster Magnet, "So High," and the spaghetti Western-sounding "Take Me Away" (which was actually available on an acoustic EP that Oliveri put out, but it was good then and it's good now). Too bad it only sold 300 copies.

-- Jeff Treppel, Monday, August 13, 2007 11:32 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

OK, so not extensively, but that's my assessment.

I think my favorite thing at Oliveri has ever done on his own is that acoustic EP, though. Well, it's half acoustic, half Mondo generator, but there's a great version of the Queens' "Autopilot" on the acoustic half. It also appears that "Take Me Away" was called "All I've Got" on the EP.