Friday, July 25, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Colbert hosts Rush trying (and failing) to play one of their own songs on Rock Band

Not really surprising, but still pretty darn funny!


http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=1657
The Canadian rock power trio RUSH appeared on The Colbert Report last Wednesday, performing an extended version of their hit "Tom Sawyer" that reached into the beginning Thursday's show. Before they took the stage, Alex, Geddy, and Neil accepted our challenge to perform "Tom Sawyer" as part of the video game Rock Band. Check it out!

It's also at:  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O8auw-D-DfU
for the time being, I imagine it will be taken down, but will spring up there again.

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Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Subject: Guitar Hero Aerosmith
To: mattlove1@gmail.com

This is so much harder than Rock Band...you've got no idea.

Rock Band is for weenies, you can set it up on easy and cruise along.  Whereas the entrance fee to Guitar Hero is...ATTENTION, DEDICATION, PERSEVERANCE!

I usually read the instruction booklet, I want a fighting chance.  But so excited about playing, I breezed right through.  I figured I could play Rock Band, what could be so different?

And it's not that different...

I'd say the graphics are better on Rock Band.  And the tutorials are much hipper.  The Guitar Hero instructor has got this ghoulish Halloween voice.  Whereas the Rock Band instructor is the hipster on the corner who wants to be your best friend, so you'll buy a nickel bag.

Not that the game is so much different.

But at least on Rock Band you start out only having to hit TWO buttons!  On the easiest Guitar Hero level, you've got to play with green, red and yellow, and that's COMPLICATED!

I blamed it on the machine.  Hell, the game gave me that option.  It said if I found it hard, I could CALIBRATE the game to the TV...  That didn't help, not at all, it only made it worse.  Finally, after calibrating falsely, ad infinitum, I went back to the original settings.  Which were perfect.  But still hard as hell.

I started off with the Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night".  I failed.

I felt awful.  Then again, Rush couldn't even play their own song!  (http://www.colbertnation.com/?p=1657).

So I switched to "All The Young Dudes", which is a cover, but much more faithful than the ones on Rock Band.  I could play this, I felt good about myself...until I started playing Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You".  I hate myself for sucking at Guitar Hero.  You can slow the song down to practice, but that makes it EVEN HARDER!

Finally, after failing at "Uncle Salty" but finally nailing that Joan Jett song (well, not nailing, just not failing), I fired up the game...  I wanted to open for Aerosmith.

And I'll tell you, everything's been written about the songs, how the young 'uns are getting hooked on classic rock.  I'll tell you about the AUDIENCE!  Guitar Hero teaches you what a gig is like, how to act at a gig.  Go into the pit at the House of Blues, it's not much different from this.  Palpably exciting.

I played "All The Young Dudes" well enough to earn three stars and 16,848 points at Nipmuc High School, site of Aerosmith's first gig.  But I only made $75, I got docked for the freebies at the bar and destruction of the hotel room.  But then I just couldn't nail "Dream Police".  My character, Axel, a big, beefy gent, kept throwing his guitar down and stepping on it.  I felt so EMBARRASSED!  Finally, fourth time through, I made it all the way.  I had a newfound appreciation for Rick Nielsen's work, I heard the leads in a way I hadn't before.  I was energized!

But then Felice made me turn the TV off so she could get a massage.  I guess raucous rock doesn't go with Indian treatment.  But I can see how dads end up playing all night.  You want to get OVER THE HUMP!

As for Aerosmith...  Tyler looks like Tyler.  His toxic twin Joe's avatar was a bit off.  But what I didn't expect was the videos.  Really, you've got to play these games in HD.  They come alive in a way that even real concerts on television don't!

And, I was excited to play Max's Kansas City.  But wasn't that Steve Leber in the front row?  Or his hairline with David Krebs' face?

Those are the two that broke Aerosmith.  They left the Morris office behind because they heard this music.  It didn't break wide at first, but they were right.  I bought the first album upon hearing "Dream On", but I was riveted by the second, with my all time favorite "Lord Of The Thighs".

I'm not sure if that's on this game.  Maybe you can buy it.  It seems easier to buy tracks and play on the Net on Guitar Hero than Rock Band.

Still, it takes it out of you...  Standing in front of the TV, guitar slung around your neck, having to perform.  It may not be quite like being on stage, but the ANXIETY IS!



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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] When you make downloading songs a crime, only criminals will have CDs

No, wait, that's not how it's supposed to go. But it is how it goes!

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Subject: [Up-Tight] CD sales booming (in prison, that is)
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"Pack Central do a roaring trade in audio cassettes and CDs, but how? By
selling them to the one group who can't download music for free."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/22/prison.tapes

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Friday, July 11, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Fwd: UtneReader.com: Pop Chart Database Blows Music Geeks’ Minds

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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Matt Love, Big in Cyberspace!

The world continues to beat a path to my door... they can't get enough of my music!

All this attention is humbling, it really is...

Matt Love

Statistics

(11 listeners, 186 plays scrobbled)

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Weekly Top Tracks

Sun 29 Jun to Sun 6 Jul

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My Old Shotgun
1

6 Monthly Top Tracks

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My Old Shotgun
2
Up2 2
When I Saw Your Face
1
2
Ambition
1
Up2 2
Five and Ten III
1

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  • 0 Listeners (-100%)
  • 0 Plays Scrobbled (-100%)

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[Zebra_Trucks] video: "Metal Machine Music (excerpt)"

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It's just sad that it's only 1:30 minutes of this masterpiece instead of the full 90 minutes or whatever it is. All that music was transcribed from the original recording, and the group carefully followed the score. I wonder if Lou was as meticulous in his guest solo spot...
Excerpt from Asphodel's release of 'Metal Machine Music', performed by ZEITKRATZER.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music may be the most misunderstood work ever created by a popular musician. The original two record set, released in 1975, was mostly noise: feedback squalls, amplifier hums and the tortured screech of electronic gadgets. Directed by Reinhold Friedl, the 11-member ZEITKRATZER ensemble from Berlin gave Reed's album a thorough listen and and Ulrich Kreiger, the group's saxophon transcribed the sounds to create an acoustic music score for their ensemble to play live.

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

[Zebra_Trucks] Chris Difford - Come On Down

I buy a lot of rock music magazines, and I prefer the ones that have
CDs with them... I feel like I'm getting a better deal. Interestingly,
I feel out of the habit of actually listening to the CDs.  Maybe it
was a concern that I'd learn all these great new bands I've been
hearing about aren't so wonderful... I've certainly had this
experience in the past.

I pursued the exotic notion of listening to the CD that came with the
May 2008 issue  of Word Magazine. Predictably, there isn't much worth
writing home about, but I found one song really getting under my skin
- "Come on Down" by Chris Difford.

At first it merely irritated me, with a verse section that reminded me
of the verse melody of "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christy... it just
seemed to go on and on, and not go anywhere in particular. But I found
myself coming back to it. I noticed that between verses, it has a
chiming guitar part that tries to lift it from the doldrums, but then
goes back to the minor just as it is about to take off. Rather than
finding it boring, I begin to find it full of dramatic tension that is
finally released.

I wanted to learn more about this guy. It turns out he's not new at
all, he was the brains (or at least part of the brains) behind
Squeeze. He has had several solos out. Maybe it's post hoc non propter
hoc reasoning, but it seems to me this is a solidly crafted song by an
experienced craftsman...

What lifts it above the routine for me - makes it stand out from all
the other songs on that CD (and so many others) that quickly faded to
gray?  I really don't know. Maybe it's the female harmony vocal on it.
It's the kind of voice I love to hear. When I hear a voice like that,
I just want to find the owner of that voice, and put my arms around
her. Nibble her ear.  Touch her hair. Maybe snip off a bit of it, and
have it bronzed.  And/or bronzed in leather.

A woman with a voice like that has just got to be beautiful and nice.
This ain't Janice Joplin we're talking about here, that's for sure.

Anyway, I felt I had to have the CD, so I went to the music section of
Indigo Books (Canada's answer to Barnes and Nobel), but they didn't
have it. Maybe Starbucks is right. Maybe people my age have forgotten
how to find CDs.

Wait, I just remembered!  You find CDs on Amazon.com!  So much for box stores.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Re: The strange world of Gary Wilson


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:00 AM, matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com> wrote:
The cognoscenti at KAOS loved Gary Wilson.  They brought him to Evergreen for a show in 1981.. Locals Steve Fisk, Steve Peters, Phil Hertz, and I forget the bassist learned his material and acted as his backup band.  They put on a killer show after one rehearsal.  Wilson came out wrapped up in bandages from head to foot like a mummy.  He gradually unwound his costume through the course of the show.

I didn't know Wilson was obscure, I thought he was famous. It's funny what getting "discovered" by somebody like Beck will do for you...  your life and career is rewritten to start the moment they first heard you.

It's nice that Cobain gave Meat Puppets, Young Marble Giants, Daniel Johnston a wider audience... but he wasn't such a fearless sonic explorer, he was just listening to what we were playing, making notes on names to drop later so people would think he was cool.  He probably little guessed that he would get all the credit, but I'm sure it delighted him when it happened. He was calculating that way (rewriting his life story so that his first concert was Black Flag, not Sammy Hagar, for example), his diaries reveal how much contempt he had for everybody around him as he pretended he liked them... he had no intent to give anybody else any credit for anything, unless it burnished his reputation for people to see a connection (Leadbelly, for example).

But I'm doing an Abe Simpson here, I'll stop.


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"When I first heard You Think You Really Know Me, the rescued-from-oblivion
record by Gary Wilson, I thought it must be the work of some New York
downtown hipster who palled around with Arto Lindsay, lived in a ratty loft,
and eventually got rediscovered by Thurston Moore.

Wrong on all fronts - although that last part is closest, as Wilson's music
did get enough grapevine exposure to earn a Beck shoutout in "Where It's
At." The 1977 LP, which was issued on CD by the short-lived Motel Records
in 2002, came to that label's (and Beck's) attention via a record collector
whose claim to fame was playing the kid who visits the cockpit in the 1980
comedy Airplane! - and that's not the weirdest part of the Gary Wilson
story."

http://sacurrent.com/music/story.asp?id=68975

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[Zebra_Trucks] Fwd: mattlove1 sent you a video: "John Travolta - '83 - Staying Alive - Show Finale(Last Part)"

I tried, but I can't even come close to the quality commentary other people provided:

John Travolta was really hot in this film. I love the amazing choreography he does, that he really played the part really good. He has a sexy killer athletic body that is just so hot to me!!!!!!!! I love the little kilt he got on cuz he looks so cute in it, with his hot little ass too!!! I love you John T.!!!!!"

and

"I looooooooove the end where he flies off, breaks the rules, and does a whole solo to totally shine on his own in the end! Brilliant movie direction by Silvester Stallone."

and a soundtrack heavy on Frank Stallone no doubt, his generation's Clint Howard?

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Sooooo good. Why can't they make movies like this anymore? It's right up there with Xanadu and the Apple... yet Travolta has a reputation. the italian is a nice touch, too.
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