― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
is it correct by the way that Geezer wrote the lyrics in Black Sabbath?
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
True - but if he was (capable of) writing the music himself, rather than actually having to force a set of lyrics he'd already written to fit 'round a tune someone else had written (because I'm prepared to bet that's how he wrote his most of his best songs), I think he'd lose the very thing that makes those songs so distinctive!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
He could play a mean harp 'tis true but he was no musician. He could also hammer out a tune on a piano with one finger or make strange noises through a saxaphone - but he couldn't play anything well enough to communicate with his musicians without having to resort to somewhat less-than-technical instructions like "play that like a smokey yellow room, make it more sulphur yellow" or "play it like a bat being dragged out of oil, and it's trying to survive but it's dying from asphyxiation" or to make a drum roll sound more like "a bunch of keys being thrown down stairs"
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
In an interview I read with Robert Plant a few years back, he talked about getting serious about playing guitar and had gained even more respect for Page as a musician by trying to learn the guitar parts in Zeppelin songs.
― earlnash, Friday, 5 March 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
Search: IGGY POP, Liz Fraser,...
Destroy: Julien Casablancas (boy does he look like he needs something to do with his arms).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
Not only can Iggy play guitar but he started off as a drummer (does that count as being a musician?)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
Shame on you.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
yeah, wtf?
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
ACK! You are so fulla shit! Dig out a copy of Mothership Connection at once!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
...why are you assuming this was meant as any sort of criticism?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― tod (tod), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
Just listen to even "P.Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)". I mean, he's no crooner, but his voice is melodic and melifluous when it needs to be. It's not like he's Einar Orn or somebody.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
(this being einar)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
I just haven't seen a lot of her old live footage. All we get now are the videos from Who's Zoomin' Who and the time she was craned in to perform on VH1 Divas.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 5 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― sublimityeternal (sublimityeternal), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
I guess Ultra was an more emotional outpouring altogether, but to tell you the truth I haven't listened to it as much as the older albums.
― sublimityeternal (sublimityeternal), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
He plays a mean kazoo.
― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
?
― Ben Dot (1977), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
She can definitely play church organ and sing simultaneously very well indeed!
― mei (mei), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
Destroy: Jim Morrison, Henry Rollins (despite playing cowbell onstage during Black Flag's final days, according to Chuck Eddy)
And yes, Tod, Geezer Butler was the lyricist
― Myonga Von Bontee, Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link