Aerosmith feud starts
wonder what that was all about?
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to know! I don't think that was covered in the Popoff book.
lol triumvirat
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
BOC just destroyed the place. The "feud", I believe, relates to Aerosmith pulling the plug on BOC's use of FX as their warm up act. Then, quid pro quo, Aerosmith's entire sound and power mysteriously vanished mid set for them. Joey Kramer, Aerosmith's drummer did his solo acoustic, which was lame - I remember he goofed, grabbing his own head of hair and slamming his head into a drum while simultaneously using his kick pedal. Funny... but not as amusing as when singer Steven Tyler lept on stage after power resumed wanting to know "who was the cunt who shut us down."...
I remember that the set was very short after the power outage... It was a magical night in rock & roll.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
a week and a half of nothing but BOC... I think I've opened up my veins too many times.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
ny'ers with wheels: they're playing a free show in long island on saturday.
http://oysterbaytown.com/departments/community-and-youth-services/cultural-and-performing-arts-capa/music-stars-2014/
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
"veins in my eyeballsdamage that i've doneveins on the stairwayveins in my skull"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8jrK8Q_ek
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
^^last ever BOC song with Richard Meltzer lyrics iirc
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
One of the two indispensables from revolution by night. Though shadow of California is pretty good too.
Xpost goddamn them for playing NYC area as soon as I get to Minnesota >:[
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 14 August 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
holy crap "Then Came the Last Days of May" has the weirdest fucking reverb
entire first album just the oddest sound-world, totally unlike anything else
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the *vibe* of that first album is really something else. Like it actually sounds like there was evil in the air.
― cwkiii, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
it does! the kind of evil that can only be evoked by a band who are actually all living in a big house together.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
uggghhh the fucking segue into "she's as beautiful as a foot" SO PERFECT
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
And that looped-and-reverbed-unto-eternity "Telescope-ope-ope-ope-oPE-OPE-OPE-OPE-OPEOPEOPEOPEOP..."
Its like the sonic equivalent of the album cover's vanishing point.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Deeply unnatural production and equalization on this record, just unright and uncanny and downright unamerican!
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Drug the debut out earlier tonight thanks to this revive. In the liner notes they say it was recorded on the cheap in an 8-track studio known for recording jingles!
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 September 2014 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Jingles that eventually drove people to madness and murder?
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 September 2014 07:59 (nine years ago) link
That explains the bizarre reverb and fidelity. It works.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" in 81
check out this motherfuckin buck solo damn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFdkkjGiEs
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that's pretty dope.
― We Boo... The Cross (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 24 August 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
OK so look at the NYTimes book review section today. There's a new crime novel by JK Rowling writing under a pseudonym and it's titled Career of Evil, and is apparently stuffed with further overt BOC references. Liek tons of them.
This delights me and it can't help but enhance the visibility of BOC.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
WHAT
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Review by M Kakutani today. It reads like a joke! I'm v happy for my boys.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Amazing, no? It's still not going to convince me the Harry Potter books are worth reading...
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
haha! that's awesome
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
E Bloom is an SFF nerd so I'm sure he has commented on this by now
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
This is great, if it turns out there's a chapter called She's As Beautiful As A Foot I might even read the thing.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Chapter 7Screaming Dizbusters
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
anybody know what synths they used on Fire of Unknown Origin? Don't Turn Your Back came up on shuffle and those pads grabbed me.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 06:39 (eight years ago) link
Man I just spent ten minutes researching that, couldn't find anything but a list of what he used live in the 90s. Where are the gear nerds when you need them?
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to know too. I love the synths on that record. There's not a ton of choices for polyphony in 1981 right?
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
There's a good shot of the keyboard rig in the live video a few posts northward (at around 4.55), difficult to tell though. Maybe a Memorymoog?A clue: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/r-i-p-allen-lanier-of-b-o-c.326402/page-3#post-9260256
On a similar note: http://www.synthfind.com/moog/moog-minimoog-model-d-309/
Also this thread is great: http://www.hotrails.co.uk/blueskybag/samjudd/oldroadies.htm
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
best band ever
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Fire of Unknown Origin is one of the best synth-on-a-rock-record rock records, no doubt.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
See also "deadline" on the previous album
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
OK so Sam Judd is my new favorite person, that thread is awesome. And CLUE -- on this thread:
http://www.hotrails.co.uk/history/1980.htm
Mr. Judd mentions loading patches into the Prophet V and having the Oberheim worked on. This was during 1980 and the synths on FOUO and Cultosaurus sound about the same generally.
I was already wondering if it was a Prophet V because that was just about the only polyphonic synth at the time right?
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, in 1980, the two main contenders were the Prophet-5 and the Oberheim OB-X. Moog were still pushing the Polymoog, but it's fairly weak-sounding - not the sort of thing BOC would have been using. In the interests of completeness, I would also note that by 1980 Roland had released the Jupiter-4 and there were a couple of other Japanese and German polyphonic oddities available, such as the Korg PS-3300 and the PPG 340. But big bands like BOC were using Sequential Circuits and/or Oberheim.
― Vast Halo, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Both of which are mentioned in that 1980 roadie diary. Sounds like the minimoog was still on tour with them that year too.
Obv Lanier has a shitload of synths around him in that youtube m@tt posted
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
Prophet 5 and Oberheim OBX-A were I think what Japan pretty much used exclusively on Tin Drum, so they were in good company.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 09:47 (eight years ago) link
Arc of a Diver by Stevie Winwood is almost entirely Prophet 5 I think, except for the drums -- lol not that that necessarily constitutes good company but I do love it.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
I'd figure those glassy pads on the song 'Fire of Unknown Origin' to be from an Oberheim. They have a similar sound to Van Halens synths and he used Oberheims.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
the 1980 tour thread is awesome, love the contrast between the inside dope & backstage geekery of the roadie diary VS the civilians memories "it was my first concert i was 14 and on acid..."
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:33 (eight years ago) link
This clip is pretty awesome. Bet you never figured to see Charles Grodin interviewing Blue Oyster Cult either.
This quote on the Youtube page is pretty funny too.
Gerber Bernstein3 months ago"Edgar Allen Poe is wearing Ace Frehley's pajamas, and rockin' !"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0X5YpOkSz4
― earlnash, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Paris 1975 this is fucking godlike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGI99kQ13hA
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Their current drummer, Jules Radino, is also a realtor on the side in case anyone is ever looking to purchase some property on Long Island.
http://ricerealty1.com/real-estate-agents/
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Don't Fear The Realtor
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
Real Estate Agents of Fortune
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Secret Closings?
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
i wonder if he knows don deitrich of borbatmagus, maybe they talk shop
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
The real Sharona from 'My Sharona' is a big time realtor.
http://www.mysharona.com/about/about-sharona/
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
So are Neil Smith, the "platinum god" drummer of the original Alice Cooper group, and Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom.)
― henry s, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link