What are you listening to right now?

fcs101 said:
Not really sure what I just watched! :D
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Basically the song is humorous self-pity about small D vs big D, from the small D perspective, with almost every D reference censored with 'funny' noises and the repeated request to "show me your (big D) and I'll show you my (small D)".

But it's pretty much the same style of trashy humour I was into when I was their age (and younger). So the world isn't all that bad, yet. :)
 
Checking out a couple of new releases.

Here's Shinedown with "Dance, Kid, Dance":



Just discovered Electric Callboy. I checked out some of their stuff and they seem kind of formulaic, but I'm getting a kick out of "Elevator Operator":

 
fcs101 said:
Checking out a couple of new releases.

Here's Shinedown with "Dance, Kid, Dance":



Just discovered Electric Callboy. I checked out some of their stuff and they seem kind of formulaic, but I'm getting a kick out of "Elevator Operator":

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Don't know how well-known he is around here (I've only known about him for a week, stumbled upon The Butcher Sisters on his channel), but he was/is? Electric Callboy's tour manager.

 
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Peavey Herman said:
But originally, I wanted to post this:

Because it was fifty frickedifeckin' years ago!
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Loved Peter's voice for heavier tunes - always wished he'd done more overall. Bands like Kiss with multiple lead vocalists (I'm thinking also of Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Triumph, Queen, Styx ...) seem to provide so much more interest for the listener.

What a fricken great band Kiss were back then - so little respect at the time and since (or maybe I should say, so much disrespect thrown their way). I watch their old performances like the one you posted and can't help but think how well it holds up - never gets old, dated sounding, or looking, Ace especially for me, he was the epitomy of R+R in persona, riffs, tone, and style.

A lesser known PC tune:

 
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sprint said:
Loved Peter's voice for heavier tunes - always wished he'd done more overall. Bands like Kiss with multiple lead vocalists (I'm thinking also of Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Triumph, Queen, Styx ...) seem to provide so much more interest for the listener.

What a fricken great band Kiss were back then - so little respect at the time and since (or maybe I should say, so much disrespect thrown their way). I watch their old performances like the one you posted and can't help but think how well it holds up - never gets old, dated sounding, or looking, Ace especially for me, he was the epitomy of R+R in persona, riffs, tone, and style.

A lesser known PC tune:

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Love this tune. Rock and Roll Over is my favorite studio album from them. The show I saw on the tour supporting Love Gun in 1977 was very impressionable to this 14-year-old kid at the time.
 
tealtonerick said:
Well put on the title track of Steely Dan's Gaucho and then listen to that track by Keith again. ;)
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Hah!

Looked it up, and from Wikipedia: "Following the release of Gaucho in 1980, it was noticed that Gaucho's title track, credited to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, bore a resemblance to jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's instrumental "'Long As You Know You're Living Yours" from his 1974 album Belonging. When asked about this during an interview with Musician magazine, Becker replied that he loved the Jarrett composition, while Fagen said "we were heavily influenced by that particular piece of music." After these comments were published, Jarrett sued for copyright infringement, and Becker and Fagen were legally obliged to add his name to the credits and provide Jarrett with publishing royalties."

Thanks for pointing that out!
 
sprint said:
Loved Peter's voice for heavier tunes - always wished he'd done more overall. Bands like Kiss with multiple lead vocalists (I'm thinking also of Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Triumph, Queen, Styx ...) seem to provide so much more interest for the listener.

What a fricken great band Kiss were back then - so little respect at the time and since (or maybe I should say, so much disrespect thrown their way). I watch their old performances like the one you posted and can't help but think how well it holds up - never gets old, dated sounding, or looking, Ace especially for me, he was the epitomy of R+R in persona, riffs, tone, and style.

A lesser known PC tune:

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RnRO is my favourite of the '70s albums! Exactly what was needed after the musically more diverse Destroyer, which I also mostly love - but RnRO just burns from start to finish, tempered just slightly by a classic ballad and finished with a searing rocker, getting us a bit closer to their roots. It doesn't exactly sound raw, but it definitely isn't overproduced, it has a really, IMHO, intimate atmosphere, where you feel you're right there in the room with them. "Just a band rocking off together, no tricks!" (Hahahahahahaaaaa, yes it's KISS.) Edit: Peter's playing on the entire album is blazing hot and intricately detailed at times.

As far as I'm concerned, it's "all thriller, no filler". No matter who actually played what. And since it's KISS, we'll never really know. ;)

And regarding Peter: The way he first heats the audience up with his thundering drum solo and then keeps them on boiling point with this inimitable background performance during Paul's chat with the audience on Alive's version of "100.000 Years" - masterful. He keeps all the tension alive during 'the rather long talky bit'.

But I do feel a bit bad for Eric Singer, for all of Peter's dissing. I mean, I get where Peter's coming from, it's his character. But there's a short interview on the "KISS my A**" video compilation (still got it on VHS!) where Eric laments the fact that he'll never know what it's like to wear makeup and costume and wonders "what beast it may unleash" if only he could. And I was stoked for him when his time came, but he catches nothing but flak from Peter since then. :(

BTW, people used to call me "KISS Chris"...

 
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David Houck said:
Hah!

Looked it up, and from Wikipedia: "Following the release of Gaucho in 1980, it was noticed that Gaucho's title track, credited to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, bore a resemblance to jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's instrumental "'Long As You Know You're Living Yours" from his 1974 album Belonging. When asked about this during an interview with Musician magazine, Becker replied that he loved the Jarrett composition, while Fagen said "we were heavily influenced by that particular piece of music." After these comments were published, Jarrett sued for copyright infringement, and Becker and Fagen were legally obliged to add his name to the credits and provide Jarrett with publishing royalties."

Thanks for pointing that out!
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Yes, I just discovered this recently myself. I still learn something new every day!
 
fcs101 said:
Well, since we're on a KISS kick, nothing is more KISS than this...

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Desmond Child's magic makes just about everything better.

One of my favourite 80s KISSers is this:


I showed it to a younger colleague of mine, expecing some "ermagerd, you crazylame boomers, what were you doing back then - look at them!" (I was only six years old, back then...) But, surprisingly, she thought it was genuinely cool - the look, the sound, everything. Said that's totally 'in' again. :)
 
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