― xhuxk, Sunday, 19 February 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 19 February 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 19 February 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 19 February 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 19 February 2006 07:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 19 February 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Nah, their first album was okay! It's just been steadily downhill ever since.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 19 February 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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."
― George the Animal Steele, Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leach Woman, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― George 'the Animal' Steele, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― George 'the Animal' Steele, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― George 'the Animal' Steele, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Exact same situation for Sword, except I didn't try as hard to like them.
― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
-- George 'the Animal' Steele (georg...), March 29th, 2006. (later)
The artwork is original Frazetta...
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Esteban Buttez Goes To College, Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― George 'the Animal' Steele, Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 30 March 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 30 March 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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― hjfkzl, Thursday, 30 March 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
>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.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Sunday, 5 November 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Domenico Buttez (estebanbutte...), September 4th, 2006.
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 5 November 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Sunday, 5 November 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Sunday, 5 November 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 November 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE NO FUCKING TASTE? :-(
― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 5 November 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98WLLWMq3o
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 6 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 6 November 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Celentano + Patton = unbelievably demented classic.His Italian is incredibly good, by the way.
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 17 September 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Tongue piercing cheek, tickling woman's hairstyle.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
you cant seriously like wolfmother
― the galena free practitioner, Monday, 17 September 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
who can't?
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 7 February 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i still kinda like "woman"
they will have a decent singles collection in like 4 years and i will probably buy it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
woman is probably my favorite song to play on guitar hero
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw the singer in a really shitty restaurant in Brisbane the other week.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I ran in to an old friend literally seconds after this happened, which was more exciting.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, they're Australian?
They make more sense now.
― jim, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
What a shitty band.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, "woman" is pretty fun in guitar hero.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 7 February 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
pretty much the case from what i remember - they were allegedly signed after their third gig. of course they'd been rehearsing for nigh on eight years before playing any gigs so you'd hope they'd be somewhat polished
― electricsound, Thursday, 7 February 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
That bar is pretty awesome, they stock pretty much only ~craft beers~
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 22 July 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
*Australian craft beers I mean
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 22 July 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
xxp wouldn't it be great if it was, like, chisel doing a secret warmup for that reformation tour of theirs
― Omega-3 fatty acid house (haitch), Friday, 22 July 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-2wWZXlJU
― Who? Well, I've never heard of Mogwai. (electricsound), Friday, 22 July 2011 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 22 July 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
it's like one's girlfriend leaving them for matth3w newt0n
― trimdon orange explosion (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
how is this band a thing
oh well i guess it isn't outside mr stockdale's head
― Clive "The Chip" Crinkly (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
M0du1ar has declined to release their 3rd album, too.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
mixed blessing
― roadie road (electricsound), Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link