Listening to "x":

[the G-man]

For those who may not remember, Late Night with David Letterman was not able to show whole bands performing unless they got special permission from The Tonight Show

Speaking of Letterman, one of Dave's favorite musical guests (he'd even fill in for Paul as bandleader sometimes) was the late, great, Warren Zevon:

• Lawyers Guns and Money
• Werewolves of London
• Excitable Boy
• Splendid Isolation
• Boom Boom Mancini
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• Carmelita
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Mohammed's Radio
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
• Play it All Night Long

So close were they that Letterman even "sang" on one of Zevon's records ("Hit Somebody") and, shortly after Warren announced he had inoperable lung cancer, Dave devoted an entire show to interviews with, and performances by, Zevon.

 

[J.T.B.]

Still, I'd argue that "Little Honey" proves Phil can do a downbeat or emotionally vulnerable song.

Good example, I'll give you that one. It's not a knock against Phil, I like his style, just an observation. He's a really solid fingerstyle guitar player, too.

As for X, pure speculation on my part, but I think they've decided that John Doe's solo work and their involvement with the Knitters is going to be the outlet for the alt country stuff. Therefore, they confine themselves to the early records when out on tour.

I think it is pretty much a stipulation to keep Billy involved, because that's all he likes. He apparently has pretty rigid ideas about what bands should and should not do, and about people's roles within bands, which had a lot to do with his leaving the band the first time. He can sing, but won't sing with X because, to him, it doesn't fit his role.

Speaking of Letterman, one of Dave's favorite musical guests (he'd even fill in for Paul as bandleader sometimes) was the late, great, Warren Zevon:

Another favorite. I have almost all his stuff, but his first album is still the class of the lot to me.

--Justin

 

[the G-man]

Zevon's "first" album? Wow. You're only person I know who'd refer to "Wanted Dead or Alive" as class. You must really like covers of Iko Iko.



But seriously, I assume you're referring to his first record for WB/Asylum in the 1970s which is an undeniable classic.

Still, I must admit that my all time favorite of his will always be Excitable Boy.

 

[J.T.B.]

Zevon's "first" album? Wow. You're only person I know who'd refer to "Wanted Dead or Alive" as class. You must really like covers of Iko Iko.



But seriously, I assume you're referring to his first record for WB/Asylum in the 1970s which is an undeniable classic.

Yeah, you got me.

--Justin

 

[Mistral]

Zevon's "first" album? Wow. You're only person I know who'd refer to "Wanted Dead or Alive" as class. You must really like covers of Iko Iko.



But seriously, I assume you're referring to his first record for WB/Asylum in the 1970s which is an undeniable classic.

Still, I must admit that my all time favorite of his will always be Excitable Boy.

"Send lawyers, guns and money..."

Does anyone even know where Biafra was/is these days?

 

[the G-man]

Zevon's "first" album? Wow. You're only person I know who'd refer to "Wanted Dead or Alive" as class. You must really like covers of Iko Iko.



But seriously, I assume you're referring to his first record for WB/Asylum in the 1970s which is an undeniable classic.

Yeah, you got me.

--Justin

Just funnin' with you.

Though, I have to admit that "Bullet for Ramona" and "Tule's Blues" were pretty decent bits of proto-alt-country.

 

[the G-man]

A couple of bands that are touring together right now:

Reverend Horton Heat - Galaxie 500

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band "Clap Your Hands"

 

[the G-man]

Steve Earle: Justice in Ontario
Bruce Cockburn: If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Soul Asylum: Summer of Drugs

 

[iBender]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLhgxoczlY[/yt]
What's Up
With What's Going Down
In Every City
In Every Town

 

[zakkrusz]

1. Stabbing Westward-"Haunting Me"
2. Rage Against the Machine-"Sleep Now in the Fire"
3. AC/DC-"Hell's Bells"
4. Psykosonik-"Alone"
5. Breaking Benjamin-"You Fight Me"
6. Breath Frequency-"Peach Headz Addiction"
7. Motley Crue-"Planet Boom"
8. Yuki Aira-"Colorless Wind"
9. Judas Priest-"Breaking the Law"
10. Iron Maiden-"The Clairvoyant"

 

[the G-man]

9. Judas Priest-"Breaking the Law"

Never the Bride: Going to California
Tracy Chapman: Fast Car
Bruce Springsteen: Open all Night
Paul Kelly: Desdemona

 

[zakkrusz]

The song is cool but that video is in the "So awful it good" catagory. Pretty sure I saw that episode where Beavis and Butthead tore it a new one.

 

[the G-man]

"Breaking the law" was their favorite song. Are you sure they attacked the video? I thought they went nuts for it.

 

[the G-man]

Roy Orbison - She's A Mystery To Me

 

[zakkrusz]

"Breaking the law" was their favorite song. Are you sure they attacked the video? I thought they went nuts for it.

Could be it's been years since I watched the show. When I saw the video again I remembered it as one of the ones played on the show though.

CCR-"Run Through the Jungle"
Dry Cell-"Body Crumbles"
A Perfect Circle-"The Hollow"
Girl's Dead Monster-"Alchemy"
MELL-"Kicks"
Dio-"Dream Evil"
Within Temptation-"What Have You Done?"
Savage Genius-"Fragments of an Eye"
Kamelot-"Wings of Despair"
The Prodigy-"Diesel Power"

 

[the G-man]

Other than "breaking the law," the two videos I most distinctly remember them commenting on some were:

• "all star" remake of Devil Went Down to Georgia with Johnny Cash as the narrator (the boys, wisely, observed that "the old guy [Cash] could probably kick everyone's ass"); and
  
  a Lou Reed video ("No Money Down") where he tore off his own face to reveal a robot (they called it the coolest thing they had ever seen and said that "this guy belongs in Gwar").