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Post by kds on Jun 22, 2021 16:19:56 GMT
Wow. That's quite an eclectic group of musicians. That's what I thought. Jason Isbell on the country rock side, My Morning Jacket as kind of mainstream roots rock, pop stars like Miley Cyrus, indie stars like St. Vincent, Mac DeMarco and Phoebe Bridgers, hip hop/RnB act the Neptunes, metal from Ghost, jazz from Kamasi Washington, and many others (including a lot I've never heard of).
Good thing it isn't a new album or Metallica would REALLY be getting the Brian Wilson NPP treatment from their fans.
Tell me about it. Metallica fans can be pretty brutal. Granted, the band doesn't always do themselves any favors with stuff like St. Anger and LuLu. But, I think the Black Album is a great (albeit way way overplayed) album.
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Post by jk on Jun 22, 2021 17:21:31 GMT
Metallica fans can be pretty brutal. Granted, the band doesn't always do themselves any favors with stuff like St. Anger and LuLu. But, I think the Black Album is a great (albeit way way overplayed) album. Master of Puppets! I read a highly informative magazine article on Metallica on one of my many Italian holidays and the author described MoP as "flawless". Now this I had to hear! And it's a great little album, to be sure.
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Post by kds on Jun 22, 2021 17:25:55 GMT
Metallica fans can be pretty brutal. Granted, the band doesn't always do themselves any favors with stuff like St. Anger and LuLu. But, I think the Black Album is a great (albeit way way overplayed) album. Master of Puppets! I read a highly informative magazine article on Metallica on one of my many Italian holidays and the author described MoP as "flawless". Now this I had to hear! And it's a great little album, to be sure. I'd agree that Master of Puppets is probably their best album, as a great album too. But, I think they had a killer run from 1984-1991 with Ride the Lightning, MOP, And Justice for All, and the Black Album. I like a lot of the songs from the Load / Reload albums too in 1996 & 1997, but they fall into that 1990s bloated CD era album trap.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 22, 2021 17:26:12 GMT
MoP is in my opinion their best by a mile.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 23, 2021 17:05:55 GMT
One of my favorite hard rock songs and a great performance by James Gang:
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 29, 2021 16:54:20 GMT
Here is St. Vincent's version of Metallica's "Sad But True," from the aforementioned anniversary release. I'm not a fan, particularly. However, something about the voices in the verses reminds me of Bowie's "Fame."
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 2, 2021 11:34:30 GMT
A great band...Montrose.
Ronnie Montrose - guitar Sammy Hagar - vocals Bill Church - bass Denny Carmassi - drums
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Post by kds on Jul 2, 2021 12:21:52 GMT
A great band...Montrose.
Ronnie Montrose - guitar Sammy Hagar - vocals Bill Church - bass Denny Carmassi - drums
That first Montrose album is absolutely killer. Ted Templeman, who produced it, actually tried to talk Van Halen into replacing David Lee Roth with Sammy Hagar back in 1977. I was supposed to see Ronnie Montrose in the summer of 2012, but sadly, he took his own life before the tour.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 6, 2021 13:05:05 GMT
One more Ronnie Montrose tidbit...I was reading a little bit about Ronnie's early career, and I never knew he played that great guitar on Van Morrison's "Wild Night" and on Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride". Wow!
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 6, 2021 13:12:04 GMT
I was half-listening to a Youtube show on "albums everyone hates, but we like," and one of the hosts chose Gamma 3, which I'd never heard of (much less hated, or contrarily liked!). Turns out Gamma was Ronnie Montrose's post-Montrose band (which also at times included producer/musician Mitchell Froom, Crowded House keyboardist and producer of them, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney among others).
You learn something new every day.
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Post by kds on Jul 6, 2021 13:14:31 GMT
I was half-listening to a Youtube show on "albums everyone hates, but we like," and one of the hosts chose Gamma 3, which I'd never heard of (much less hated, or contrarily liked!). Turns out Gamma was Ronnie Montrose's post-Montrose band (which also at times included producer/musician Mitchell Froom, Crowded House keyboardist and producer of them, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney among others).
You learn something new every day.
I watched that SoT episode the other night. I've never given a listen to any Gamma albums.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 6, 2021 13:16:18 GMT
I listened to a little of their debut after seeing the show, and frankly it was pretty pedestrian.
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Post by kds on Jul 6, 2021 13:18:32 GMT
I believe Gamma was one of Martin Popoff's choices. While I enjoy a lot of his books, I find myself disagreeing more with Martin than with Pete Pardo.
Although, I can't recall if it was Martin or Pete who brought it up, I liked the mention of BOC's Club Ninja album, which does tend to get a lot of hate despite having some very strong material (IMO).
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 6, 2021 13:22:09 GMT
This is the channel KDS and I are talking about, btw, for anyone interested. Lots of album reviews, rankings, and discussions that can be a lot of fun. And while there is plenty of hard rock represented there, it's not exclusively along those lines, either. For example, there was a recent video ranking ABBA songs.
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Post by kds on Jul 6, 2021 13:25:19 GMT
I've been enjoying the Classic Rewind episodes over the last month, where Pete discusses an album that might be very good to great, but gets overshadowed by more iconic albums in that band's catalog.
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