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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...

Frazetta did art that was used on one or two Nazareth rekkids. However, they were the Nazareth rekkids that weren't the ones most people kept in their collections.

I dunno. I've hear Wolfmother's "Love Train" and stuff over and over and I don't hear 70's or I'd like it a lot more than I do. Which is the equiv of an 'eh' when its on.

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>The fact remains - no matter how good or bad, real metal fans
>will never buy albums by Wolfmother

Probably true. I like metal and metalheads have a certain charm but lord knows they're fairly dogmatic and narrow in their tastes.

My personal opinion of Wolfmother: I was introduced to them via the "Jimmy Kimmel concert series" where they played about four songs. I was tremendously entertained and immediately downloaded the album. What a dissapointment! It's like all of the rawness and excitement were smoothed down. Live, the singer essentially howled, with passion if not precision, and the solos were monstrousl raw and volcanic. The studio recordings are much more restrained and predictable. Alas. I hope in the future they'll be able to capture the tremendous energy of their live show.

-- Domenico Buttez (estebanbutte...), September 4th, 2006.

I was told I'm Jim Anchower. But I don't have a stocking cap. And I am too old. I thought the Detroit Rock City movie had nothing to do with my experience. It was always easy to get AC/DC, Kiss and Sabbath tickets.

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE NO FUCKING TASTE? :-(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98WLLWMq3o

Celentano + Patton = unbelievably demented classic.
His Italian is incredibly good, by the way.

Video of Mike Patton being interviewed at Lollapalooza as Wolfmother start to play; his reaction is amusing:

Repentance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XT26VjTfug

Tongue piercing cheek, tickling woman's hairstyle.

you cant seriously like wolfmother

who can't?

Someone was telling me the other day that Wolfmother straight from the get go had critics talking. As industry bigwigs fumbled for their cheque books they sold out show after show without even a proper release to their name, sending Sydney hipsters crazy.

i still kinda like "woman"

they will have a decent singles collection in like 4 years and i will probably buy it

woman is probably my favorite song to play on guitar hero

I saw the singer in a really shitty restaurant in Brisbane the other week.

I ran in to an old friend literally seconds after this happened, which was more exciting.

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