Forums » Shakin' Street

List of newest posts

    • May 31, 2010 3:31 PM CDT
      Browse

    • Hahaha I haven't heard that song in years.

    • May 31, 2010 1:48 PM CDT
      Browse

    • You got to admit this is hilarious

    • May 30, 2010 6:22 PM CDT
      Browse

    • Thanks, Dead Boy!
      Still haven't discovered the cover band.
      Tough one.

    • May 29, 2010 10:34 AM CDT
      Browse

    • It's "1 2 X U". The original is played by Wire, but I don't know who played that cover version.

    • May 31, 2010 1:55 AM CDT
      Browse

    • Curious how they've been sounding....they're coming through portland this tuesday

    • May 30, 2010 11:01 PM CDT
      Browse

    • The Stones could practically have their own anthology series of unreleased tunes that should have been released.

    • May 30, 2010 10:47 PM CDT
      Browse

    • Sorry, but I kind of gave up on being the Paul Revere of my generation (running through the streets yelling what to look out for), since I could barely convert anybody. My only outlet these days is telling people on myspace since chances are friends there have similar tastes.

    • May 30, 2010 6:27 PM CDT
      Browse

    • I was once referred to as the "party killer" because I would always try and get people to listen to mix cds and crap I would bring... usually against a lot of protest.

      I don't have that problem anymore because I don't have any friends!

    • May 29, 2010 11:49 PM CDT
      Browse

    • "Classic Rock" is the muzak of my work place too. It took me many years to work myself to a position in which I get to be the stereo nazi at work. I put up with 18 years of their crap, now it's pay back time. All kidding aside, I generally take it easy on them and try and play something I think they may be able to warm up to, but it appears that anything that they don't instantly recognize from their small radio playlist knowledge of music is unnerving for them. The only one at work who I've ever made a disc for is also one of the oldest at 63. He's given me some of his old LPs like the Standells, ? & Mysterians, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Leaves etc, so he had general decent taste in the 60's when he grew up.He has taken a liking to modern surf stuff like the Tiki Phantoms etc, he really likes the Detroit Cobras, recorded a disc of the Lyres at his request and lots of Ska, Rock Steady and early Reggae. He may not want a copy of everything I play, like Wau y Los Arrghs, Peyotes or Beat-Man's stuff, but he can give it a serious listen and not gripe about it like the others. He in turn turns it on to his grown children who generally are not into it. Outside of my jaded friends my main "mission" is my son who for being 15 has a pretty eclectic taste and knowledge of rock n roll of all eras. In actuality I've never pushed anything on him, I want him to develop his own tastes whatever that might be, but he's just developed a liking for it from hearing it all his life I guess. I actually get a kick out of hearing him play something he's discovered on his own or better yet something I've never heard.

    • May 29, 2010 6:18 PM CDT
      Browse

    • I "spread the word" in my weekly music column and my radio shows.

      Most people my age made their musical beds years and years ago. My cousin once observed that most people just like what they liked in high school. I don't waste much energy on trying to convert.

      Then again, at least one NM state legislator i know subscribes to The Big Enchilada.

    • May 30, 2010 10:41 PM CDT
      Browse

    • Though not a popular choice these days, but I still enjoy Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols as well as the first Clash album (actually I like both UK and US versions) and the first 3 Ramones albums. Road To Ruin is OK but not really one of my favorites.

    • May 30, 2010 10:26 PM CDT
      Browse

    • The Ramones Pleasant Dreams is '81 but it's definately one of my faves!

    • May 30, 2010 7:11 AM CDT
      Browse

    • I will have to say fun house even though it's 1970

    • May 30, 2010 2:44 AM CDT
      Browse

    • Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx!

    • May 29, 2010 10:21 PM CDT
      Browse

    • Dead Boys.. love em' what about Cocksparer? Lubna Barracuda! said:

      doubtless Dead Boys' "Young Loud and Snotty".

    • May 29, 2010 5:46 PM CDT
      Browse

    • doubtless Dead Boys' "Young Loud and Snotty".

    • May 30, 2010 1:37 PM CDT
      Browse


    • A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican May 28, 2010 Andre Williams is one bad mother (hush yo’ mouth!). And he’s not afraid to tell you so himself.
      This underappreciated R & B geezer has been making records since the 1950s — his most famous song being “Shake a Tail Feather” (first recorded in 1963 by a band called The Five Du-Tones, but best known from the cover versions by Ike and Tina Turner and James & Bobby Purify).
      ANDRE! After years of hard drugs and even harder living, Williams began making a comeback in the late ’90s. And as recently as 2008, he showed he could still make a powerful album. Reviewing Can You Deal With It?, which he recorded with a band called The New Orleans Hellhounds, I wrote that Williams “gives dirty old men a good name.”
      But on his new album, That’s All I Need, I hate to report that Williams is starting to show his age. It’s not a bad album — there are some pretty cool songs scattered over the 10 tracks, and even the filler isn’t terrible. But the sizzle Williams showed on Can You Deal With It? just isn’t here.
      Williams recently published his first book, a collection of short stories called Sweets and Other Stories (Kicks Books, 2009). He reportedly wrote the book during a stay at a rehab center after a drug relapse. So perhaps this album catches him during a reflective period of his life.
      That’s All I Need starts off slow and slinky with “My Time Will Come,” which features a snaky guitar lick from Dennis Coffey. It’s an understated tune, stark, but with an under- lying optimism.
      The highlights of this record include “Tricks,” which features Williams speaking the lyrics almost like an invocation (“If you want to catch a woman, you use your brain. And I’m a scientist. ... If you want to catch a snake, you use a rabbit. And I’m a jack.”); “When Love Shoots You in the Foot”; and “Too Light to Fight” (Williams might not be that physically fit, but his trigger finger still works, he warns).
      Some of the topical songs here are just too predictable. “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Good Dope” is an obligatory anti-drug song, while on “America” Williams assures us that he’s not unpatriotic “just because I sing and dance after midnight, just because I take a drink or two.” Huh?
      “Amends,” the final song, features a slow groove and an acoustic guitar. It reminds me a little of Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby.”
      I’m glad Williams is pulling his life back together. And you can’t begrudge someone in his mid-70s for slowing down. But newcomers to Andre Williams should start with some of the old stuff such as the Rib Tips and Pig Snoots: 1965-1971 compilation, the 2003 album Holland Shuffle!: Live At The World Famous Vera Club (with the Dutch band Green Hornet), or Can You Deal With It? Recommended:
      *Fourteen Blazin’ Bangers!! by King Salami and the Cumberland Three. This is a high-voltage British garage/punk band infused with R & B sensibilities. The group is still basically unknown in this great land of ours — I got this album from a German company, Soundflat, though it’s available on the British Dirty Water label) — but I’ve got the feeling that Salami and the boys will be expanding their empire onto these shores before long.
      Blazin’ Bangers is the King’s first full-length album. It has versions of a couple of the group’s previously released singles like “Do the Wurst” and the frantic “Mojo Workout.” One of my favorites is a crazy sped-up Bo Diddley romp called “Ma JuJu Girl.” Also worthy are “I Smell a Rat” and “Chicken Back.”
      Salami is apparently fond of faux American-Indian surfy instrumentals in the tradition of The Shadows’ “Apache.” One of his early tracks is called “Uprising.” He uses the same opening war whoop on this album, on the song “Pawnee Stomp.” It’s politically incorrect to be sure, but nonetheless irresistible.
      * The Way of the World by Mose Allison. Like Solomon Burke and Bettye Lavette before him, this venerated Mississippi jazz/blues singer gets the full Joe Henry tent on this, his first new studio album in a dozen years or so.
      Allison is even older than Andre Williams, but at the age of 82, he’s still in fine form — both on vocals and, as he proves handily on the instrumental “Crush,” on piano. He pokes fun at his advanced age on “My Brain,” based on Willie Dixon’s blues classic “My Babe” (“My brain is always workin’/Long as you keep that coffee perkin’. ... My brain is gettin’ pounded/Pretty soon I’ll be dumbfounded”).
      Allison offers a twisted view of religion on “Modest Proposal,” suggesting that God deserves a vacation. If I weren’t already familiar with “I’m Alright,” an old Loudon Wainwright III tune about surviving a bad romance, I could have been convinced that Allison wrote it himself, he does such a great job of making it his own.
      Producer Henry is nothing if not tasteful. He provides Allison with a suave, understated little combo — bass, drums, guitars, and sax — just like on Allison’s best recordings, with no attempts to modernize.
      The album has a cool little treat, “This New Situation,” a duet between Mose and his daughter Amy Allison, an alternative country singer. It’s short, but indeed it’s sweet.
      I never thought I’d be yakking about a great new Mose Allison album in the year 2010. But The Way of the World is a true pleasure.

    • May 29, 2010 8:53 PM CDT
      Browse

    • I use a whole slew of pedals with tube amps mainly, my favorites are the good Old Big Muff and a pedal called the Static Egg made by a local guy, he actually used a sharpie to label it's plain sheet metal enclosure. The Egg gets the killer old school hollowed out fuzz and a thicker, meaner slightly more modern fuzz too. By tweaking the "static" knob it sounds like a ratted out speaker or a pedal that is seriouly broken, crackly even, in short I am in love LOL. Dan Electreau said:

      The Branded said:
      For a cheap and cheerful good sounding fuzz I use a Danelectro french toast, .

      I used to used a Dan Electreau Grilled Cheese but then I switched to this:

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/hipsterd00fus/4504685950/?edited=1

      I like being able to control the amount of cheese to bread to signal ratio.

    • May 29, 2010 8:29 PM CDT
      Browse

    • I use a super cheap Lafayette Mic that was made in the sixties, instant distorted low fi tones because it cannot handle much else LOL. I sometimes set up one regular mic and then the old one for distortion effects and go between the two as the song warrants. Bob Log III, a low fi one man blues band sings with a motorcycle helmet on which has an old phone built into it, freakin awesome sound and it looks crazy too! Tight white's suggestion will work too, even little old solid state amps can work, the Guy from the Strokes I think sang through and old peavey.

      Good luck and let us know what you end up doing.

    • May 29, 2010 3:46 PM CDT
      Browse

    • the wylde mammoths
      the barracudas
      sex museum
      the monsters

    • May 29, 2010 12:30 PM CDT
      Browse

    • ryan...where do i find your podcast?

    • May 29, 2010 10:44 AM CDT
      Browse

    • Oh yeah, I'm hip to the Crusaders Of Love. I love their album, played a track from it on my last podcast, Cheap Thrills. The Conjugal Visits said:

      If you like the hearts, check out crusaders of love.
      They are on tour now from France, and if you are lucky you will get to see them
      I am extremely bummered that they are not coming anywhere close to Colorado.

      Ryan Katastrophe said:
      I love that band. I like some Nice Boys stuff but it's kinda wimpy.