I am looking into buying a new drum kit. I have a Gretsch that I bought about 8 yrs. ago that has just been beat to shit. It's had beer spilled and spit on it; other people have mistreated it; it's all dinged up from touring; and I want to get a new kit. It's time. I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any advice or any certain kits that they like. I'm thinking I want to have a 24" bass drum and a dark sound. I guess I'm wanting to know if anyone has a kit that they or their favorite drummer swears by that I can take into consideration as I look for my next drumkit.
Dead Boys
Return Of The Living Dead Boys: Halloween Night 1986
Description:
On Halloween (of course!) 1986 the gods of punk rock rose from the dead. The original members of the Dead Boys reformed for a short jaunt to pre-Disney NYC and leveled the audience of old heads, burnouts, prostitutes, junkies, geeks and freaks. This DVD is the document of that hallowed evening at the Ritz. Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Jimmy Zero, Jeff Magnum and Johnny Blitz got it together for one more show in their old stomping ground of New York City. Starting with an introduction from long time supporter Joey Ramone, to the power riff of the honest-to-god anthem "Sonic Reducer" (played twice!) to an unreal cover of the Stooges' "Search and Destroy," the Dead Boys put the boot to the notion that all reunions suck.
Media:
Watch trailer/clip »
Track Listing:
Joey Ramone Intro
Sonic Reducer
All This And More
Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth
Calling On You
Won't Look Back
What Love Is
I Need Lunch
Ain't Nothing To Do
Down In Flames
Son Of Sam
Detention Home
3rd Generation Nation
Tell Me (cover)
Search And Destroy (cover)
Flamethrower Love
High Tension Wire
Sonic Reducer
Bonus Materials:
Super Rare 'Sonic Reducer' Video
Rare 1980 TV interview featuring Stiv, musical collaborator Frank Secich and interviewer Gary Cubberly
It's out now!
I have the Sore Loser 7", but I was wondering about the Sore Loser version that's on the Sore Losers soundtrack. Does that version only exist on the soundtrack, or was there a 7" or an album with that version as well? I can't find any listings, but I don't exactly know where to look other than Grunnen Rocks.
Have you read Ronnie Spector's autobiography (called, of course, BE MY BABY)? The most interesting parts of that one (I almost hate to say) concern Phil and his bizarre and abusive behavior. The DA's office could've saved themselves a lot of hassle (and probably won the case to boot) if they'd just given every member of the Clarkson jury a copy - none of the "revelations" about his violent and woman-hating ways was a huge surprise to me. Best part is when Phil finally relents to Ronnie's complaints about never getting to leave the house and buys her a car, which she is only allowed to drive on the condition that she's accompanied by either Phil himself or A BLOW-UP DOLL FASHIONED TO LOOK LIKE PHIL, which he's made special for just such and occasion and presents to her along with her new ride. Her initial enthusiasm is, to say the least, considerably dimmed.
Jenny, I do know how to contact Damon and Jason (now called Rueter) I see Seth around every now and again, but have no contact for him. PM me and I will contact you with details. Really I have posted all I know here.
Thanks!
Mario Migliardi: Matalo! (theme song - single version)
Dust Bugs : Filthy Rich
Hipshakes : No No No
Robert Calvert : The Right Stuff
Kenni Cocksucker aka The Village Idiot live in Lowcut radio studio:
Don't Weep
Dead Buried & Gone
Down The Drain
Gimme Some Drugs
This Machine
Teenage Punk
Gadus Morhua
Let Her Go
Sob Sob Boohoo
You Don't Stand A Chance
Alcoholic Deathride
Sammy
Hollywood Squares : Hillside Strangler
Los Oxfords : Aprietame Mas
The Gories : Great Big Idol With The Golden Head
Replacements : Stuck in the Middle
Whiskey Daredevils : Beef Balony
Manfred Hüber & Siegfred Schab and The Vampires Sound Incorporatio (Jess Franco soundtrack) : The Lions and the Cucumber
Kenni Cocksucker & The Heterosexuals : Dead Buried & Gone
Yoke & Yohs : side B
The Predegist : Sob Sob Boohoo
Wire : Ex-Lion Tamer
Black Radio : Outlaw Racer
The Vicious : Alienated
FNU Ronnies : Meat + Robot
The Ruling Class : Born To Kill
Four Flamingos : Mad evil woman
Turpentine Brothers : Like A Dead Man
Septic Death : Gore Story
Troy Hess : Please Don't Go Topless Mother
Hi Fi Guys : Rock n Roll Killed My Mother
Tom Waits : Fish in the Jailhouse
Captain Beefheart : Kandy Korn
Well, I think The Rockin Vickers did one (one of Lemmy's first bands...way before Motorhed), The Sonics (who I'd thought MIGHT be the original), and The Lyres. I hadn't even heard about these other 2 versions!
As long as you can remember the structure and the words and be able teach them to other folks to play the way you want it sound, then you are doing what most Musicians do. There are no hard and fast rules.
Pretty simple when you think about it.
Keepa Rockin'!
Songwriting (Algebra) 101 (I tried to post this yesterday, but the site was "undergoing maintenance")
Your Structural Key:
A=verse
B=chourus
C=bridge
D=other fucked up shit you wanna put in to your song!
Mosta your basic music is Verse-Chourus-Verse stuff so that is
A-B-A-B
Then you have a bit more advanced structure when you want to link the first half of the song with the second that is called a Bridge, so that goes;
A-B-A-B-C-A-B
Then when you really wanna get advanced you can have a D section or Coda at the end (if you wanna fuck your head all up remembering all that structure)
A-B-A-B-C-A-B-D
You can use any permutation of this equasion and it should work as long as you keep your sections a uniform length (so be sure you have mastered counting the length of measures first!) It all becomes pretty formulaic after that.
Wow that's quite a story. I'd be pretty pissed if I sat on a needle. I think that's some good advice about the lyric book. I remember hearing or reading somewhere that you should write and then put the song in a jar for a few weeks or however long. That way you can evaluate what you've written with a fresh perspective. Of course I have no idea if that's really the way to go cause I haven't tried it. :)
