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Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson does a cool cover
of`Last Train To Clarksville`,I think it`s on her
"New Moon Daughter" album.I forgot to mention that these CD`s did`nt cost too much.$17.99 for the SY,$11.99 for
the Griffith,and $9.99 each for the Gilmore
and Mingus tribute.
I do have used CD place near me,going to them can be the worst mistake of your life.
I got into the habit of trading CD`s and messed up my collection bad.There is good part though,I have about 90 CD`s I have`nt
even listened to!I decided that I`m not
going to go to anymore used places anymore
or at least trade no more.The guy at the place
is nice,so I`m glad I helped out his business
as well as giving people a chance to buy
music cheaper,even though it does hurt the
artist or the label,but I bought tons of CD`s
new and don`t feel too guilty about used,but
I don`t think I`ll be doing anymore trades to
used stores.
The Little furry things video is great,saw it
years ago.I heard an interview with Scarce,a Rhode Island band who most people never heard of,
this was in 94 I think and they were suppossed
to tour with J,but J changed his mind and chose Kyuss.They were not angry with J,I guess they did`nt mind,but lead singer Chick
Graning said he thought J looked like the Mona Lisa in magazine photos,a strange comparison.
Bassist Joyce Raskin said"No,the moaning Lisa!"Hendrix opened for the Monkees around 1967
or 1968.
Did you know that Charles Manson auditioned
to be in the Monkees?So did Steven Stills.I think 6-7 years ago the canadian dollar was
around 65 cents,going up or down just slightly.
But I never watched TV at that time so I did`nt see any info on that then,but it usually
stays around 65 cents,at least over the past few years.Here`s part 6 of "Smokin J" by James Rotondi
From Guitar Player Oct 94:(But J has`nt forsaken 100-watt girth:He continues to plow through a recently acquired
`68 purple Marshall Plexi and a purple `71 Super Lead.)"Purple amps sound better,"(he
deadpans."especially with purple cabs."(As much as J prefers 100-watt heads to 50-watt
jobs)"I like to feel it pushing air"(he rarely cranks them up all the way.)"I`m not scared to turn them up,"(he adds)"but except for some distorted rhythm,I usually set them about halfway up.For leads I use the big muffs."
(One of the first contemporary players to succumb to vintage effect mania,Mascis still
maintains a considerable stable of snorting,bucking broncos,which he`s attempting to tame with the assistance of switcher svengali Bob Bradshaw.)"I have a horrible noise at this point,"(says J,who once told GP that"a little hum never hurt anybody."
(Bradshaw`s task is cut out for him.The Mascis
menagerie starts with an MXR Blue Box,the fuzz/sub-octave device that Jimmy Page made famous on the solo from In through the out door`s "Fool In The Rain".A big muff is next,but not the late 70`s black and red kind.)
"The older ones are better,"(insists J)"You can play rhythm with `em too -kind of a Mettalica-type sound."(From there,J`s blaze passes through two preamps-a three-channel Groove
Tubes Trio for a "Bassman-style"sound or a Fender Super-like tone)"forget the hot third channel,"(says J)( and a Soldano for clean sheens.After his Vox Wah,retrofitted with new guts by Roger Mayer,all Electro-Harmonix hell breaks loose:Electric Mistress flanger/filter matrix,Clone Theory chorus/doubler,Small Clone,and Memory Man echo.After winding through a Mayer Axis fuzz and Mayer Supervibe(similar to a Univibe),J`s signal,buzzing like a Ritalin kid on jolt,makes its way to various imposing amp columns.)Good Choices John,Is that Pixies cd a double,
the 2nd disc a live concert or is it just 1 disc?
When I bought that a few years ago it was just the one cd,now when I see it in stores
it has a bonus live disc.
Nick Drake-Way To Blue was the first Drake cd
I bought back in 95,I`ve bought Bryter Layter
and Pink Moon since then,still don`t have Five Leaves Left or Time Of No Reply.My 5 Fav Sonic Youth records:
Daydream Nation
Evol
A Thousand Leaves
Washing Machine
DirtyI still never bought Sister!So I can`t rate that.
Experimental Jet Set… is my least fav.Hey Jebus-
Good choices;Astrud Gilberto`s from Brazil,very cool singer;"Agua De Beber" that`s my favorite Astrud tune.
Brad-Shawn Smith sings a little on the Afghan
Whig`s Black Love Album,you might want to check that out.
Steve Earle-You mentioned "Train A Comin"album before in alltime fav albums section;I love his cover of Townes Van Zandt`s `Tecumseh Valley`on that album.
Townes was amazing,love his music.
Tupelo/Son V/Wilco-all cool stuff,when I heard `Grindstone` back in 93 by UT that got me into their music.Did you hear that rumor
that Tanya Tucker sang back up on Son Volt`s
"Trace"?
Blue Mountain-Don`t have any of their music
but hope to check it out someday.Have yoy ever checked any Bottlerockets?I have "the Brooklyn Side" and that`s cool.Their Guitarist
Brian Henneman played on Wilco`s "AM"Here`s part 5 of "Smokin J" By James Rontondi
From Guitar Player Oct 94:(Once Mascis had enough material in the can,
he and bassist Mike Johnson retired to
Dreamland Studios in Woodstock,New York,to
lay down the basic bass and drums tracks.It`s
not hard to firgure out why J chose Dreamland.
It`s main room is a huge converted church that could make the Duracell bunny`s bass drum sound like "When The Levee Breaks."
He makes it sound easy on the final mixes,but
getting tempos straight was tough.)
"My tendency is to play real fast,"(groans Mascis)"I`m always speeding up."(Ironically ,it was on the moody,mid-tempo "Outta Hand"
on which he played to existing acoustic guitar
tracks,that J had the easiest time.His performance,filled with accents,snare rolls,and tom flourishes,is loose and airy,with the kind of
live feel you associate with CSN and Y`s Dallas
Taylor or Procol Harum`s B.J. Wilson.)
"The guitars were moving that song,so I decided to fit the drums into them,"(J says of the track,which gains orchestral scope via piano and Mellotron.)"Normally,that`s pretty hard,but it worked out."
(Apart from Johnson`s hopelessly and intentionally out-of-key solo at the end of"Yeah Right"and Kurt Fedora`s Tony Iommi-like licks on "Even You",Mascis played all the guitars on Without A Sound,redefining his characteristic wall-of-barre crunch and saturated solos with some surprisingly pretty
pull-off phrases.A stickler for tone,J played with various amp/speaker/guitar combinations.
For dirty rhythms,he`d pull out his `61 SG-shaped Les Paul Junior with P-90s)"definitely
my favorite pickups"(or his `64 Fender Jazzmaster,wire up his `59 Fender tweed Bandmaster through both a Marshall 25-watt
4 by 12 cabinet and the Bandmaster`s own three 10 inch speakers,and send each signal-
close miked with an SM-57 or a Sennheiser 421
-to a separate track.Clean rhythms called for a vintage,15 watt,all tube Vox Super Berkley.)
"I played the beginning of "She Said She Said"
through it-exactly like the beatles!"I`ve gone through the list,towards the end people don`t mention anymore bands so I hope I did`nt miss anything.Here it is:
Sonic Youth-51
Pavement-29
Nirvana-24
Pixies-22
Radiohead-21
Sebadoh-20
Built To Spill-19
Smashing Pumpkins-19
My Bloody Valentine-15
Husker Du-15
Pearl Jam-14
Weezer-13
Modest Mouse-12
The Cure-12
Flaming Lips-11
Neil Young-10
Guided By Voices-10
Ramones-9
Archers Of Loaf-9
Minutemen-8
Lemonheads-7
Fugazi-7
Firehose-7
Mudhoney-7
Mogwai-7
Foo Fighters-7
Yo La Tengo-6
Mike Watt-6
Buffalo Tom-6
Tool-6
Sunny Day Real Estate-6
Stooges-5
Melvins-5
Placebo-5
Black Sabbath-5
Teenage Fanclub-5
Primus-5
The Who-5
The Beatles-5
Stone Temple Pilots-5
Led Zeppelin-5
Superchunk-5
Hum-4
Wipers-4
Bob Mould-4
Wilco-4
Rage Against The Machine-4
Tom Waits-4
Red Hot Chili Peppers-4
Screaming Trees-4
Beck-4
So that`s the top 51 bands that the memberlist of this site mentioned as their favs.
