Monster Magnet

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"

'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'

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).

a huge physical mass now

As in fat or musclebound?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/3078822468_c47559fc32.jpg

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.

hes been like that since he came off heroin

apparently a lot of people are fascinated...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/wyndorf_google.gif

c'mon google, dude is in his 50s, cut him a break

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

holy crap

wow, dude was well into his 30s when he founded monster magnet. that's quite a revelation for me. where there's a will...

If nothing else this revival is inspiring me to replay Dopes to Infinity.

had no idea dude was nearing AARP eligibility

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.

weirdly, im really into this band

weirdly, im really into this band

"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."

you can't cover it with your hair
you can't hide it in your army coat
you got the miltown demon stare
you forgot all the letters that you wrote

i love u, monster magnet

i like superjudge and 25...tab

mm vs. fu manchu

\m/ (-____=) \m/

A fan since Spine of God.

Anyone heard the new one?

It's fucking awesome.

In 1991 Wyndorf went on to birth his first child, the delight[citation needed] Betty.[3]

new album got a very good review in Terrorizer

just listened to god says no. couldn't be more excited for this new one

I listen to 25..... Tab about once a month at least.

What I mean to say is, is the new album anything like that?

no.

Can you describe what its like, then?

ha, I remember when betty was born

viceroy, have you ever heard the original version of tab?

bought another copy of fragile, seeds were busting up the spine

you can never have too many copies of fragile

I'm liking this album so far. Their last one was alright, but the new one feels a lot more spirited..."Gods and Punks" is a great little tune.

Christ I'm a good looking man

cool video too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ofFFrx8QI

I interviewed Wyndorf the other day - nice guy. We talked about Hawkwind.

if satan lived in heaven he'd be me

always excited by tales of new magnet, though i've kinda jumped ship since powertrip. that early glitterhouse EP is still one of my favorite things of ever.

New album is fantastic, particularly "Gods & Punks" and "Ghost Story."

"You can fuck recovery / 'cause you're already gone . . . "

i jumped ship after 'Superjudge' .. it just wasn't , i dunno, it just wasn't the same maaaaaaan

^ can totally understand this, but dopes and powerslave are awesome albums, so long as yr willing to meet the cheeze halfway

lol @ powerslave duh

anyway, "god & punks" is excellent, right in line with "negasonic", "space lord", "crop circle", etc. love the video too. "homeless, hungry, EVIL." ending bums me out though cuz i can relate to evil hobo dude. fuck the kids.

this was a band I had been meaning to check out for years but got turned off in the late 90's by "Space Lord" (which I realize isn't representative of their sound, but hey I was 18, and I hadn't discovered mp3s yet).

finally picked up Spine of God and holy crap is this thing awesome. not just the sludgey goodness I love in stoner-psych music but really nice trippy melodies, and Wyndorf's voice is incredible for the style. not just droney, it really has character and adds a lot to the music.

yeah, spine of god/tab and the stuff that led up to 'em = the peak, when john mcbain was still playing guitar. groovier, sludgier and WAY more psychedelic than the stuff that came after, though superjudge retains a bit of that flavor. i like both dopes to infinity and powertrip, though, and i'd say that "space lord" represents that phase of the band pretty well. it's dumb, cartoonish cock rock polished up for 90s radio, but catchy, funny & surprisingly clever within the parameters. a guilty pleasure.

the best version of monster magnet was the 5 piece w/ tim cronin on vocals, but that alignment recorded almost nothing that conveyed their live power

anybody tripping off spine of god should do themselves a favor and track down their first cassette, forget about life I'm high on dope, which contains a massive version of tab (funny story: I actually have the 2 track mixdown master tape of this)

would love to hear that, edward. have a boot with an early demo of tab, maybe the same version you mention, maybe not. it's damn good.

almost certainly one and the same, it's pretty widely available. the original track listing was:

side A
lizard johnny
black wahwah
8-ball
brainstorm

side B
tab

when it got bootlegged in the 90s, somebody tacked on "freakshop USA" from the circuit 7" after "brainstorm", and that's the version that most frequently circulates.

those guys were from my hometown, we were all in the same incestuous scene, forming one absurdly-named concept band after another and releasing cassettes left and right. but there was something special about that first monster magnet tape. they rode it up and out of the local scene, it was kind of wild to witness.

i've listened to that granicus album a bunch and never really got the fuss. love what he has to say about captain beyond though. \m/

I'm glad someone else wasn't bowled over by it. I'm actually way more partial to the Pandora "Space Amazon" album that had some vague connection to Granicus.

"A lot of the records in this list, I just gave it a try because I liked the cover," the man says about Nuggets. i know what he means; that granicus cover is amazing. four rock bros with flares jamming in the sun! still it just hasn't clicked for me yet, after years of chances. never heard of pandora. what's 'space amazon'? i'd give it a try because i like the name!

It was a glam/hard rock band from NYC 1974 produced by Granicus' drummer, but it really leans towards the HARD side of the spectrum, outside of the vaguely Bowie-esque title track. Which is still pretty hard. They originally did a flexi disc sampler but the full album wasn't released until the 90s on Arf! Arf!

Stupid Question: Was there ever a version of "Space Lord" that goes "Space lord motherfucker" or was the actual lyric originally supposed to be "Space lord mother, mother"?

got this album a few weeks ago, its fucking immense.

however, tonight while listening on headphones this exact question hit me.

anyone know the answer ?

also, i now have monolithic baby and power trip .. what next ?

Dopes to infinity and spine of god, not necessarily in that order.

:-)

cheers.

just needed a pointer.

fucking brilliant rock and roll band.

god says no is fucking awesome. do yourself a favor

Dopes to infinity and spine of god, not necessarily in that order.

not the only person to suggest these additions to the archive.

so in the last 7 days this has become a reality.

summary : f*ck yes !

thank you to those that pushed me to get myself sorted.

(i guess 'god says no' is next on the list .. )

\m/

Anyone heard Milking the Stars? I actually haven't heard Last Patrol yet but I'm intrigued by the idea of the songs being redone with a "weird 60s vibe."

me too.

So, for the record, I think I dig Milking the Stars a little bit more than Last Patrol. Last Patrol is mixed like what you expect a Monster Magnet album to sound like; MtS definitely has a more expansive, psychedelic quality to it while still having some pretty heavy stuff. Doesn't sound 60s, exactly, but if you dig the early albums idea of psych it's worth checking out.

Not quite Monster Magnet but the Acid Reich tapes from 1989 are resurfaced:

https://guerssenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mistress-of-the-perpetual-harvest

Not sure how I missed Ned's last revive, but I definitely need to check that out!

I actually really like both of their full album reworks, both the Milking the Stars redo of Last Patrol and Cobras and Fire: The Mastermind Redux, they both injected the weirdness and unexpected turns that had been missing from their more recent albums. Of course this approach led to the natural conclusion of last year's A Better Dystopia, on which they just straight up tackled a batch of proto-metal and psych-era covers.

I think my post 6 yrs ago sounded a little lukewarm but Milking the Stars really stands out as a late peak to me, easily beats out Last Patrol, great stuff and he even rewrote some of the lyrics for the better.

hard to beat the original, but any unearthing of "Tab" is always a good thing.

you know about this cassette from 1989 (unless it isn't, things aren't very clear) too? https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=41958

I need to check out that new demo version, wish this wasn't a vinyl only thing tbh.

It isn't. It's on Bandcamp digitally too.

https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/test-patterns-vol-1

Oh, thanks! Was misinformed by the announcement I read that said it was vinyl only. Thought it might have been released on Napalm, where their recent stuff has been released and only checked their bandcamp page.