nic.rulz

Repressed Records in Sydney will have copies of this record. Just sorting out the final details with the label, shipping etc.

TONIGHT SYDNEY. Sick line-up, Dead Farmers, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys and Ether Rag.

What I gathered about from having a general conversation with Tom (constant mongrel, woollen kits) a couple of weeks back is that he was frustrated about what Jarrod said at the time (as any young band would be) but doesn't have a chip on his shoulder about it. Tom is speaking about a particular feeling at a particular time, not a long standing resentment. I can kind of see a similar path in how Fab D and Woollen Kits have evolved from their beginings.

Jarrod, the Woollen Kits bros and Harriet Morgan are some of my favourite people to talk about music with and although I don't always feel the same way about things they value in music I can always see their point. What I get out of what Constant Mongrel have said is that the burden of aiming to create something ''original'' can remove any element of human emotion or expressing anything beyond being a clever or interesting. I reckon there's not much difference between your pudding bowl haircut garage rock revival and a great deal of the experimental music going around. Both being frauds with an approach to playing music that they feel is pure and important while they aren't really exerting themselves or expressing any emotion.

Aw man this doesn't really make sense but I'm drunk and I've got to take my cat to the vet to get immunsed in 6 hours....

Maybe check out the ''Alive & Dangerous'' record first. The ''Remembering'' comp is of their early stuff but it's pretty hit and miss, great jams like ''The Rocker'' and ''Little Darling'' but a lot of average stuff. They've become one of my favourite bands ever but they're a tough band to convince people on. Although you can hear their influence on the first couple of Iron Maiden records if you're after ''proto-metal'' or even gnarly hard rock you might be disappointed, they’re pretty melodic and sentimental (but still rockin').

Here’s a few choice moments….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoFkl3qSOyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJYL1GaVlo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7YWRxAUtDk&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EjMLfa-13w&feature=fvw

Best stuff I'd heard for the first time this year that aren't new releases (but might be reissues/comps)...

Crisis - singles, demos bootleg LP
Thomas Jefferson Slave Appartment - Bait & Switch Judas Preist - Sad Wings Of Destiny
New Order - Low Life, Brotherhood (never bothered with New Order til this year)
Mike Rep & The Quotas - Stupor Hiatus
A-Frames - 333
Thin Lizzy - Remembering comp, Jonny The Fox, Thunder & Lightning (actually none of these albums are amazing as a whole but there's killer tunes on them and Thin Lizzy are pretty much the best band ever)

''Michael Anthony of Van Halen''

Zac I think you meant to put that in the ''highly essential members of truely awesome and amazing bands'' thread.

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Marcus (UV Race)

No room this time sorry. Two Bad Boys are in Carborator though alongside Steve the drummer in Songs and David the guitarist in Dead Farmers.