Thursday, June 09, 2005
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Welcome to Radio T.I.C.K. - as in "Tick tock, baby - you know what time it is"
That's a sample from Alex Gopher's "Time" from his "You, my baby and I" CD (which is mostly brilliant).
Why you wanna start posting weird random stuff like that, Mikey? When did you start quoting French DJ's? Meh.. Whatever. Cool Müf rehearsal last night, good to get the ol' vocal chords out again and even better to have a drummer playing the drummist bits, too! Shame Sam couldn’t be there but Toki made an excellent stand-in dep.
Saw a snippet of a rockumentary the other day, it was about the band Living Colour and was saying how it was sad that they didn’t enjoy the success that their talent deserved - the fact that they were Black artists working in a predominantly white field (rock music) was mentioned, but how weird that they were being discussed as a band that "never made it" - they were huge at one point! They wrote some of the best rock tracks ever ("Cult of Personality", "Love Rears it's Ugly Head", "Solace of You", "Type") and had Vernon Reid shredding and riffing away with that FAT tone of his. They were all brilliant muso's, had a great image and I just wished I'd seen them live, so to hear that they felt that they never "made it" took me aback. I mean, maybe they never made the millions that a lot of bands make, but to hear someone say that they never "made it" is just a bit pants. Oh well maybe their lyrics to "Leave it Alone" were strangely prophetic:
"I'm not down with this one,
Their motives are much too severe
You know, I'll never be like that one
I don’t plan to make this a career"
That's a sample from Alex Gopher's "Time" from his "You, my baby and I" CD (which is mostly brilliant).
Why you wanna start posting weird random stuff like that, Mikey? When did you start quoting French DJ's? Meh.. Whatever. Cool Müf rehearsal last night, good to get the ol' vocal chords out again and even better to have a drummer playing the drummist bits, too! Shame Sam couldn’t be there but Toki made an excellent stand-in dep.
Saw a snippet of a rockumentary the other day, it was about the band Living Colour and was saying how it was sad that they didn’t enjoy the success that their talent deserved - the fact that they were Black artists working in a predominantly white field (rock music) was mentioned, but how weird that they were being discussed as a band that "never made it" - they were huge at one point! They wrote some of the best rock tracks ever ("Cult of Personality", "Love Rears it's Ugly Head", "Solace of You", "Type") and had Vernon Reid shredding and riffing away with that FAT tone of his. They were all brilliant muso's, had a great image and I just wished I'd seen them live, so to hear that they felt that they never "made it" took me aback. I mean, maybe they never made the millions that a lot of bands make, but to hear someone say that they never "made it" is just a bit pants. Oh well maybe their lyrics to "Leave it Alone" were strangely prophetic:
"I'm not down with this one,
Their motives are much too severe
You know, I'll never be like that one
I don’t plan to make this a career"
# posted by AK @ 10:28 
