WOLFMOTHER

what i wrote on the metal thread (in response to somebody else):

>You could say they are to their influences what Wolfmother is to Black Sabbath. <

No way. Doomfoxx come way closer to Rose Tattoo than Wolfmother (whose EP I'm listening to right now) come to Sabbath. I don't think I even would have guessed Sabbath is what Wolfmother were aiming for if you hadn't said so. They sound like a weedy little indie rock band to me - say, Secret Machines wannabees with a Jack White wannabe singing. And Secret Machines aren't even that good. And yeah, I guess a "stoner riff" (trademark symbol here) comes in now and then, but it's like some joke "'70s show" version or something, to my ears. They seem not to know how to rock, just to zoom their churn in the air a bit. Or I got it -- they're part of that Black Mountain/Gris Gris/Warlocks "Hawkwind with the rocking parts taken out" genre maybe?

-- xhuxk (xedd...), January 23rd, 2006

that track and White Unicorn are both cool.

i'm right there with you, but seriously, Black Mountian?! i listened to them thinking they were gonna be some stoney rockin band and it sounded like some crap radiohead indie band. i haven't heard Wolfmother, probably never will, but i don't think you know how to rock.

jaxon where do I get a 3-6 shirt like that?

I had to endure wolfmother at a rock festival recently where they were the headliners, and it was all spectacular lightshow and volume and precious little else. cut to the next day, where the band that closed the festival (melbourne guys legends of motorsport) took the same ingredients (big riffs, organ, screaming vox) and totally blew away the previous night's nonsense, and also didn't sound like a really poor deep purple impression. but of course most people had left by then.

i thought you were joking, but no, the video at this link

http://www.musicremedy.com/audio/4953

confirms that is the actual lyric sung. "totally Sabb." more like totally gay

it looks like this guy was recently punched in the left eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/motherwolf/images/IMG_3801.jpg

Just FUCK OFF will you?

Here's a winky face: ;-)

There's a lot of this in Australia at the moment. Chuck misunderstood my point in the quote he posted above and appeared to restate it, thinking he was disagreeing with me(though I don't share his views about the 'foxies at all). Each song by these new acts is a kind of epigone of some 70's hard rock act. As has now become clear, the target varies from one song to the next with the 'wolfies, though never with the 'foxies. The next cab off the rank is Airb0rne, doing something very like early AC/DC. No doubt they'll be in your reviews tray before too long Mr Eddy.

George, on the metal thread:

Howler hype of the day: In the Saturday LA Times -- "The Aussie trio [Wolfmother] showcase a sonic grandeur and freewheeling song structure that has earned them deserving comparisons with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin." This from a newspaper features section where none of the music writers ever cover anything that actually has anything to do with the LZ and BS vintage sounds invoked.
This follows last Sunday's entry, You Know That Just Ain't Right:
Blurb in Amoeba's ad in the Sunday LA Times on an instore show by Wolfmother -- "Like the bastard son of Uriah Heep and Jimi Hendrix..."

Uriah Heep, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin. That about cover's it. Wolfmother, the magic elixir of heavy rock, including everything for all people who don't like hard rock, have to write about it once or twice, and have this to glom onto.

-- George the Animal Steele (george_the_animal_steele...), February 18th, 2006.

Xhuxk, I was intending to point up that in their post-album interviews the band have been going out of their way to DENY all the 70's name-drop references that every single person who saw them play in the six-month hypefest after their first gigs walked away concluding for themselves, and claim that the songs themselves don't even sound like that anymore.

Nah, their first album was okay! It's just been steadily downhill ever since.

But that's the state of nonsense that's normal in hyping something as inconsequential as a new hard rock/metal band. For example, the material that came on the Sword in e-mail on Friday was of similar cloth. The Sword are being towed around on the undercard of the Early Man tour, appearing at a very small club in LA on Saturday night, accompanied by more delirious howlers comparing them to the standard 70's namechecks, furnishing riffs so compelling you'll soil yourself, taken from urban slum publications that received the promo copy late last year. Wish I'd kept the e-mail instead of hitting the delete. I'd repost it now.

Does anyone who is not a fool believe this stuff? I just don't think it's an effective way to promote an act. I'd be bummed if I were in a band and saw it written. You'd think to yourself "surely no one could be so stupid as to believe this trash."

Semi-entertaining and certainly enthusiastic review even though Wolfmother don't sound like the best of Ozzy Black Sabbath or mega-fuzzy 70's arena rock which wasn't that fuzzy really. Technical bit of info: Yes, Pagey used a Tonebender fuzz into his Marshalls but, like everyone else, he didn't use it to cover everything in ZZZZZZ and hair, you used them to juice sustain, thickness and crunch on the tone.

Why do the reviews that namecheck 70's arena rock never mention Foghat or Nugent? Or ELP? Man, up until '74 ELP had coined and ruined superstadium rock.
Nice Frazetta/Dean-esque art.(or maybe they did drag Dean out of semi-retirement or whoever the new Dean/Frazetta is). Very 70's and if you bought the LP on the basis of it back then you'd probably be happy with it for a couple weeks. Dean did a couple Heap covers but Wolfmother don't sound like that either.

Exact same situation for Sword, except I didn't try as hard to like them.

-- George 'the Animal' Steele (georg...), March 29th, 2006. (later)

The artwork is original Frazetta...

So, any scuttlebutt as to why the two dudes left or is it obvious?

'longstanding personal and musical differences'

probably just hated the fuck out of each other

lolngstanding, that'll learn them for practicing for so long

the singer and two new dudes

*three* new dudes, he's switched things up man!

old band: there were months of trying to persuade them to stick it out, then one dude quit and the other dude said "wait for me!" fast enough for this detail to actually be in the press release

saw the drummer play for someone else about six months ago, and they evidently hadn't been allowed to use his name when listing the backing band for the tour, he was identified as "a major LA session dude" or some such. organ/bass dude was in the audience grooving.

lol the picture. "here i am with all of my vintage gear, and all of my friends, aka half a dude on a couch"

http://www.wolfmother.com/images/andrew_studio-1.jpg

dead ringer for jay reatard

dead ringer for a retard

roflmother

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mxYmtCsiL._SS500_.jpg

this album came out this week and it rocks!

...how?

more like sucks rocks

Much like how bowel cancer rocks, I presume.

I don't live near dis guy anymore :(

local sports radio jocks big upping this urgh

I'm sure every idiot Australian indie radio personality is hawking this rubbish if I cared to listen.

I heard one of the new songs on teh radio and fuck it was boring

the record that will ruin alan moulder's career

RIP, heaven needed a moulder to cry on

moulder old dough

Cosmic Egg vs Cosmic Nipple

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/COSMICNIPPLELP.jpg

Oh Alanpaws...

I like their classic sound, and they have some cool guitar riffs, but they need someone to write and arrange the songs for them.

instead of DJ Dave from 2Dogs?

I like two songs on the new one: "White Feather" and "Far Away." They are so much better the less they try to "rock."

Classic damned by faint praise. Better when they don't try to rock for a rock band is like saying they ought to pack it in, more or less.

Or become a different kind of band. The guy has a voice.

they ought to pack it in, more or less.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/music/rock-star-andrew-stockdale-takes-car-parking-to-new-level/story-e6freqgx-1225956814143

WOLFMOTHER frontman Andrew Stockdale allegedly played the role of both the joker and the thief recently when he was said to have been involved in a bit of carpark rage at the Merthyr Village shopping precinct at New Farm.

A Confidential reader says she was pulling into a park when the bushy-haired guitarist gunned his white hatchback against the oncoming traffic and grabbed the spot.

When she began to remonstrate with the wayward rocker, his identity dawned on her, and he proudly confirmed that he was indeed the Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother.

The pair became involved in a vigorous debate in front of curious onlookers before Andrew walked away with the words "peace and love, peace and love".

To say the least, the lady was not impressed.

it was the least surprising thing ever when the dude from Re5in Dogs lasted less than a year as new sideman in this band

"his white hatchback" is pretty funny but "he proudly confirmed that he was indeed the Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother" totally killed me.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/music/wolfmother-frontman-fined-for-singing-20110722-1hrnr.html

<3

the band playing at the time "took exception to that".

it's the fine that had to be levied

sadly i have been unable to confirm the band in question

That bar is pretty awesome, they stock pretty much only ~craft beers~

*Australian craft beers I mean

xxp wouldn't it be great if it was, like, chisel doing a secret warmup for that reformation tour of theirs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-2wWZXlJU

:(

it was the least surprising thing ever when the dude from Re5in Dogs lasted less than a year as new sideman in this band

― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Saturday, 20 November 2010 18:21 (1 year ago)

Now onto their fourth lineup in as many years, with a dude who used to draw metal band logos onto his pencilcase during high-school exams on drums, freed up because he couldn't deal with the egotistical irascibility of the singer in The Vin3s anymore. So that's sure to last.

it's like one's girlfriend leaving them for matth3w newt0n

how is this band a thing

oh well i guess it isn't outside mr stockdale's head

M0du1ar has declined to release their 3rd album, too.

mixed blessing