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The Album Of Colour

 

I'm drinking heavily thinking of my auld lad but lads Achilles Last Stand is the greatest song of all time.

They deserve their own thread.

I'm a Zeppelin 3 guy usually.

Always loved this...

All of Zep's albums are incredible.  I listened back to Houses Of The Holy recently for the first time in years and was blown away - as if I should have expected anything different.

Four masters of their crafts, each contributing something distinct, formed this juggernaut that conjured timeless magic again and again.

My Dad got me into them, along with listening to the like of The Byrds, Barrett-era Floyd, and general UK 60's rock, back around the tail-end of '93 I think.  He had The Song Remains The Same on VHS and recommended I watch it, and Zep stood out head and shoulders above the rest.

By the end of '94 I'd stayed up til all hours to watch No Quarter (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded) on TV and it changed everything.  I'd never seen or heard anything remotely like it, and still haven't to this day - it still offers the occasional little surprise when spun.

It's frightening that most of us here would be as old as Page and Plant were in this. 

I came away from this feeling a little disappointed and underwhelmed. The whole thing seemed hastily thrown together and unprepared. There was a lot of mistakes and trying to remember riffs which was funny at times but it stings to have paid £50 for what felt like a rehearsal, and that's without the £7 pints in Limelight. Playing the first 30 seconds of a song and then stopping and moving onto another song was annoying. I'd have preferred if one half was spoken word and the second half was a normal set instead of a mash of both.

Went to the Ambassador show and these are my sentiments exactly.  This was an intimate, buddy experience for superfans - not a gig in the traditional sense.  To have enjoyed it fully, you would pretty much need to have followed his entire career from the beginning and been aware of his journey and personal battles in life. Being late to the Dev party, I had neither.  Charging €67+ for that type of show is disgraceful in my view.  But at least the €8.40 bubbly Guinness in a plastic cup cushioned the blow.

Finally getting to hear DT's voice live was great though.  When he did occasionally get into a song it felt extremely powerful and I left content at the end of it having witnessed Lightworker, (some of) Deep Peace and me oul' Home At Night in full - absolutely class!

On a side note, walking around the vicinity of The Ambassador (O'Connell Upper and Parnell St.) for the first time in over 20 years was shocking.  I'd heard the stories but its even worse than I could have imagined.

Yep, still available.

Have a ticket for sale - PM if interested.

Think Bungle took the Sno core tour booking because of Kiedis getting them kicked from Big Day Out and Reading/Leeds. 

Dunn was slagging Patton about "shitty bands that sound like your old band that FedEx Coors Light when they play Europe"" the following year in a Fantômas interview.

That rings a bell alright re the Sno Core tour now that you say it.  Would have been shortly after the release of California too right?

Bungle were on that "Sno-Core" festival tour back in 2000 which was headlined by SOAD so in spite of Patton's apology for FNM being the primary influence on nu-metal, he was happy to do it then and it's obvious FNM have no issue with it at all now.  In fact, I'd argue tis a wise choice as Nu-Metal has been riding this wave of (retro/nostalgia) resurgance and now it's System's turn.  If Pantera can build awareness and sell some merch to new fans on the back of their touring with Metallica, then Faith No More must surely be thinking along the same lines.

Anyway I couldn't give a fuck who they support as I'll hopefully get to see them again, when I was 99.9% sure we'd all seen the last of 'em.

Tragically, we also lost Kavinsky today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

Fuck. Dead Cruiser...what a tune.

The Drapery Falls

Saw him in the RDS a good few years ago. Unreal. Mates went to him and Cut Chemist in the Ambassador years ago. Sounded unreal.

Saw DJ Shadow v Cut Chemist on the Sunday of Oxegen 2007, having spent the previous 2 days at The Pedigree Corner for Day Of Darkness.  One of the maddest weekends of my life.

New album out now...

Hushed And Grim.

Seen one of italian dates was listed as pompei. I assume its actual pompei like pink floyd did? Couldnt think of 2 better suited bands for it if that is the case

Pompeii tickets sorted.  They had me at Hello!