Re: Re: the 70's (and The Residents forthcoming gigs!)

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Revfever wrote:
> PS- Speaking of THE RESIDENTS, they are doing a show with PRIMUS in 
> Oakland at the Fox Theater SOON on   Dec.30th  for any of you that are 
> in that area! (Rick W? And...?)
> http://www.songkick.com/concerts/7085826-primus-at-fox-theater
I got to open for the Residents a few years ago and it was such a peak 
experience
for me that I think I might not go see them again.

I always appreciated them, frankly, but never loved them like so many 
people did.

I seemed to have an atypical relationship to a lot of artists that are 
dearly loved by
lots of people on this list.       I always appreciated Zappa but never 
loved him.....
the same with King Crimson,  Fripp,   Primus,  the Residents,  Mr. Bungle,
Captain Beefheart,  Tom Waits.

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warning,   the next bit is really self indulgent, so you can skip over 
it......it's just
a bunch of stuff that I love..............

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I always feel like a heretic admitting this, but the people I've loved 
have been
people like the Beatles, the early Stones,  a ton of early British 
Invasion when it was
on the riff rock side of things, Cream, Led Zeppelin,  David Bowie,  
Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,  Peter Gabriel (but not 
so much anymore), James Brown,  Motown and Stax/Volt 60's soul,  Roots 
Reggae,  African Pop music,  Middleeastern Pop music, Nine Inch 
Nails,the Cure (but nothing, really, after Disentegration),  Boards of 
Canada, Aphex Twin (but not the later stuff),  Autechre (but only the 
middle period), Bjork,  the Knife,  Fever Ray, Sufjan Stevens, Elliot 
Smith, Miles Davis (particularly his modal period and early fusion 
periods), Ralph Vaugh Williams, Maurice Ravel and then a lot of records 
by people that ended up being their worst selling records:
Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison
Happy/Sad by Tim Buckley
Along the Red Ledge by Hall & Oates
Heroes and Low by Bowie
Before and After Science by Brian Eno
Kiko by Los Lobos

and then I really round this odd list off with individual tracks by 
straight up pop artists like
Missy Elliot, Eminem,  Chrisina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, 
Evelyn 'Champagne' King, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Thomas Dolby, Peter 
Murphy, Kings of Leon,
MGMT and the list goes.

this reminds me:  I'm in  a particular love affair with simple riff rock 
lately and playing as minimally as I've ever played with Done Beginner 
my wife's band........using really big, thick drum sticks......listening 
to the Kills, the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs,  the Dead Weather, Black Rebel 
Motorcycle Club (their rockier stuff), Filter, Local H, Nirvana,
Soundgarden, New Order (this great record that didn't sell well for them 
called 'Get Ready'), Editors
and even some early U2.

okay, there's more, but I'm rambling...........