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i agree
Yep.
I still need to get hold of their self-titled album though.
I once told rick froberg
that "Do you compute" would be great entrance music for a boxer!
He laughed!
Yes indeed
Though I would place Hot Snakes above them. Not by much, but slightly. Its all about Rick Froberg in my world.
Yeah, I think Hot Snakes are above them.
I was trying to teach myself Plenty for All last night. "Take it or leave it, do both...do both if you choose!"
"Nothing to work with! Nothing to lose!"
<3
I think I've worked out how to play Plenty For All..
..how are you doing with it?
I think most of their stuff is in Drop D..
Oh I was just fiddling while I waited for the guys at rehearsal
I hadn't considered if it was in drop D. Appeared to be using G and D, played on the 10th, 11th and 12th fret, over G-major, G-sus2 and G-minor, with B for the extra chord.
Ooh
I think I worked it out in a different key to you!
The riff from Kreative Kontrol is well fun to play though.
I cued up the record on my iRiver to check so that's the right key.
I was playing it higher at first.
I haven't tried any other ones of theirs.
Ah, I usually play the lead part
so I'm not sure..
I think I've worked out most of Suicide Invoice (album) now. There's one chord in Suicide Invoice (song) I can't seem to work out though!
Mystic Decade is fun to play too.
The lead part of Plenty For All is what I was talking about
when I said it was shaped as G major, G-sus2, Gmin, G-sus2 all on the 10th fret. Unless you reckon that's not the lead part, that riff. Oh well :D
Good work on Suicide Invoice. I've never really tried learning them before.
They...
were brilliant. (though Hot Snakes are indeed right up there next to them)
They're good, but ROOOOOOOOCKET
FTW.
agreed! Rocket are the best thing ever.
Alex, did you end up seeing The Night Marchers?
I'm still virtually shaking with rage, but.....
my dumbfuck employers cocked up our pay so I had literally no cash at the time, therefore I missed out!!! :(
Did you go? Regale me with tales of how amazing it was!
ah that sucks! :(
Hell yes I went! They were fantastic, the songs sound so much faster and meatier live, if you know what I mean. Speedo's shirt was soaked through at the end of it, but he looked good. He made us do this weird thumb nail tapping thing during 'You've Got Nerve' which no-one really got, but still...amazing! THey played 2 songs not on the album, which should be released as they were actually better than some of the album stuff. Speedo did say they would be returning in October though! :D
Also, Gar Wood is possibly
the happiest left-handed guitarist I've ever seen.
Wasn't he on bass? I'm confused.
Tommy Kitsos from CPC Gangbangs was on bass.
Oh right. He played bass with Hot Snakes, though, right?
yep.
That sounds like a great night!
I'm even more pissed off now. : (
Still, October isn't too far away and I'll be in my lovely new job by then so shall see them next time!
Are you talking about the two songs they did to finish just before the encore?
I was a bit surprised not to find them closing the album when I put it on. My main criticism of the album is a lack of an amazing closer like Let It Come, Ben Gurion and Plenty For All, which is what they seemed to pull off for the gig.
I'm still anticipating the Obits album A LOT!
whhaaat? They did an encore at the 100 Club???
Shit, I had to leave to catch my train after they finished 'Fisting The Fanbase.' :'(
Oh no, this was at Dirty Water club on the Friday before.
The Encore was Bad Bloods I seem to remember.
gotcha, I got worried then!
They opened with Bad Bloods at the 100 Club. :D
I get what you mean by album closer, We're Going Down is good, but something with the riffs that Let It Come has would have been better.
I just realised it wasn't Bad Bloods
It was And I Keep Holding On.
I thought that
thumbnail thing was particularly lame. Rest was good though. No encore = amazing.
The 2 blazing songs
towards the end of the set have been released. They're on the tour 7".
Well bugger!
I didn't buy that.
we going through one speedo band a day?
i hope so
drive like jehu were sick
have to say...
..that jehu were never fantastic live.
Saw them three times in summer 1994 (Phoenix festival, Stereolab support and Newport TJ's) and they were very good, but compared to RFTC and Hot Snakes?
No contest.
Two great albums though.....
i fully support this thread
drive like jehu are brilliant.
John Reis's guitar sounds amazing. awesome use of feedback.
sooooooo good.
RFTC and Hot Snakes were awesome but DLJ are something else.
something else...
agreed. i'm a pretty decent guitarist, and they played stuff i couldnt figure out, which made them all the more interesting for me.
Night Marchers...
word has it that they may do a one-off London show in August, off the back of a festival they are doing in Norway on 9th August.......
I'm all over this if it's true.
Sacrilege maybe
but whilst I thoroughly love them, I do prefer Hot Snakes.
So disappointed
By Night Marchers. I'm holding out hope for Obits, although there's no decent sounding recording of 'em yet.
Those two songs sound really good, though.
I mean as songs, not as recordings.
...
Did you see them? I agree that of all the Reis bands they're probably the worst but live, they were spot on. Especially 'In Dead Sleep' with it's perpetually building chorus, amazing!
DLJ's self titled album is so underrated, the last track 'Future Home of Stucco Monstrosity' is genius, for example.
ATOM FUCKING JACK
Perfection
Ah, the monthly DLJ thread.
Yank Crime is perfect. All that needs to be said.
cosmic!
have any of your guys heard EARTHLESS? the drummer from Hot Snakes new band?
yepyepyep
yank crime = made of win
what about
Trumans Water? they always get a mention near DLJ but I've never heard a single note from them lot
It needs saying I'm afraid
ROME PLOUGHS! ROME PLOUGHS! ROME PLOUGGGGGHHHHHHHS!