Introduce Yourselves!

I've posted on and off here for 5 years or so.

I'm 33, and I grew up listening to punk and hardcore. In 1989, at 15, I started booking bands and running a fanzine in CT (Fun With Cows). I booked Neurosis, Green Day, Born Against, Nation of Ulysses, and tons more Dischord and Lookout bands. I interviewed Henry Rollins, Naked Raygun, and Fugazi. I sang in bands called Maude and Pageant.

Now I listen to lots of jazz (20s to 00s, with a preference for avant-garde) reggae (the usual Blood & Fire, Tubby/Perry suspects), and I've had the long-term crazies for Mekons, Tom Verlaine, and Alex Chilton. I've moved more toward instrumental music, but I've always loved good lyricists, from Dylan to Darnielle.

I've always been ambivalent about this site--in order for me to submit considered, well-worded answers, I would be on here all day. Still, thought I'd say hi, since I've dropped in more often lately.

Look at me
Look at me
I'm a zing master

bolton borealis.

kenneth connor, white pigeons, beaver and krause.

bester. is it september yet?

tongues cold when stored salty.

I sang in bands called Maude and Pageant.

tell me you guys covered "...and then there's Maude"!

No, but we heard it all the time! I hardly remembered why we called ourselves that--I'm pretty sure the drummer and I were gonna have a joke rap band called that (joke rap bands--not funny then, not funny now), and then called our Screeching Weasel-derivative band that instead.

The second band was Fugazi/Jesus Lizard derivative--a common arc at the time among kids my age, I think.

Hey all, been reading these boards for a few months now, and found it a great source of information and discussion, so I finally got around to making an account.

I'm a 17 year old student living in London, which makes me younger than the vast majority of posters, but hopefully I can contribute a bit without making too big a fool of myself. Really just hoping to expand my still very small knowledge of music and hopefully broaden my tastes a bit.

Currently listening to a lot of metal (cos I'm a teenager clearly) but plenty of other stuff, small selection of artists I've been listening to recently to give you an idea:

Agalloch/Alcest/Amok/Anathema/Angelic Process/Arcturus/Boards of Canada/Boris/Burzum/Caina/Candlemass/Darkspace/Deathspell/Dillinger/Dodheimsgard/Down/Earth/Electric Soft Parade/Electric Wizard/Emperor/Endstille/Ghost/Gorgoroth/Grave in the Sky/High on Fire/Immortal/Isis/Isole/Jesu/Katatonia/Moonsorrow/Mr. Bungle/My Bloody Valentine/Neurosis/Neutral Milk Hotel/Novembers Doom/Novembre/Oceansize/Om/Radiohead/Ride/Slowdive/Studio/Sunn O))/Super Furry Animals/Talk Talk/Trelldom/Ulver/Virgin Black/Watain/Witchcraft/Working for a Nuclear.../Wolves in the Throne Room/65daysofstatic

Ok I should stop, sorry about the facebook style list. Anyway, it just seems like I have quite a lot of the obvious and more famous choices (as well as mostly new stuff), and I'd love to try and get deeper into a few of those genres, probably by haunting the Rolling Metal Thread like I did last year.

Oh, and a certain l j4gger happens to be my brother, but don't hold that against me (yeah I'm the dude he kept stealing metal off).

this has to be fake

has to

Louis gets his revenge!

Holy shit.

http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif BREAKING NEWS http://www.blinne.org/photos/uncategorized/siren.gif

WOW

Have you met Noodle Vague yet?

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As one door closes another opens...

Heh, I knew mentioning lj in first post was a bad idea (though I was hoping for some amusing responses), but I'd rather just get it out the way. Guess I'll lie low until the zings stop flying.

'Have you met Noodle Vague yet?'

Don't think so...

dude if you were gonna go ahead and impersonate louis' brother you should have gone ahead and made sure you didn't call him "lj"

Wecome, Brother Jagger, to the madhouse.

this had potential

'dude if you were gonna go ahead and impersonate louis' brother you should have gone ahead and made sure you didn't call him "lj"'

Not only did I impersonate louis' bro I also hacked his school email account and used it to register. :)

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creep

Are we sure this isn't legit?

FAKER PD

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(but it's probably chaki)

"Agalloch/Alcest/Amok/Anathema/Angelic Process/Arcturus/"

I'm just glad that he's listening to Amok. I raved about the last album on ilm, but i don't think anyone else on here heard it. louis is always saying how he's stealing metal from his brother. why wouldn't he be real?

Heh, I guess the liking lots of the same stuff is pretty natural, but I didn't think I'd come across as a caricature of louis' bro.

And yeah Scott I really liked that Amok album, and in fact most stuff you recommend. :)

it would be hard to come across as a caricature of louis. he takes care of that all by himself.

anyway, Welcome!

Thanks!

Frankie I'll look forward to yr contributions to Rolling Metal

Frankie what is your stance on racist bottle openers?

Is the drum a musical instrument

I guess I'll take this opportunity before I get called out again to introduce myself. I'm an ex-college radio DJ, and I used to be hip to all the cool shit, but having a job has seriously limited the amount of time I spend looking for new music and going to shows. I came here to read about new music and hopefully find stuff that excites me. I can't adequately describe my taste in music- lately I've been listening to a lot of "ringtone" rap and the new collection by the Lucksmiths. Anyway, hi.

whaddup dog

I guess I'll take this opportunity before I get called out again to introduce myself. I'm an ex-college radio DJ, and I used to be hip to all the cool shit, but having a job has seriously limited the amount of time I spend looking for new music and going to shows. I came here to read about new music and hopefully find stuff that excites me. I can't adequately describe my taste in music- lately I've been listening to a lot of "ringtone" rap and the new collection by the Lucksmiths. Anyway, hi.

Are you from Windsor?

Windsor? Nope.

whaddup HOOS.

WE'RE ALL FRANKIES

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WE'RE ALL FRANKIES

-- electricsound, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:24 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

'bout time.

frankie munez

my roommate can vouch for the fact that, upon seeing this post, I spent the next 2 minutes in a single continuous "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

(the frankie post, that is)

I sort of introduced myself! on the EMP 2008 thread a week ago but I've never chimed in here in properly. I'm Dan, I've been hanging out on this board for the last year and a half or so, during which time I moved from Manhattan to New Jersey and again to Concord, Mass. I'm married with two kids. My professional music experience: I worked at an independent record store in Chicago, then at Tower Records, and then at an independent music distributor, all of which are now defunct. More as a hobby, I did some music journalism and played in a couple bands in the '90s. Now I work as a lawyer in Boston. Hello to all of you.

dad a: Which Chicago record store did you work at?

I hope your law firm doesn't go defunct. It sounds like that shit happens to you.

it's frankie muniz, bro.

That's funny -- I'm LJ's wacky neighbour.

I'm LJ's papa.