tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33950231056120160622024-03-22T13:04:02.358+08:00longliveheavymusicconservative, pure grain and unadulterated hard rock and heavy metal ramblings for the school of old. concert, record, dvd reviews and more!rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-50845628718515116762013-05-18T18:55:00.000+08:002013-05-18T18:55:02.149+08:00Slash - Live in Manila Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just a couple of weeks before Pulp made this announcement, I have found Aerosmith's <i>Get A Grip</i> album in heavy rotation in my iPod, mainly out of the reason of having nothing good to listen to. I contemplated on Stevie's sheer lyrical genius, and at the thought of him finally leaving that reality show of deluded hopefuls. One thought led to another, until I finally remembered their 1988 North American Tour and the subject of their main complaint relating to that. They were not comfortable doing a series of shows in which they were headlining, with a front act that was at the time, a lot more famous than them. That front act was Guns N' Roses. While I do not have the foresight for such events- and it's not even GnR who's coming over, the fact that both Joe Perry and Slash are in the same geographical spot in a gap of four days in between their respective shows is just too damned hard to absorb right now. But I have my tickets, so I guess it won't be that hard.</div>
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<b>May 4, 2013, Saturday<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SMART Araneta Coliseum<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>PATRON VIP (Standing) - Php 3,710 <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Aerosmith Live in <st1:city w:st="on">Manila</st1:city> on
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ACDC-Beyond-the-Thunder/195117219330" target="_blank"> From Beyond the Thunder</a>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-56716907084640621762012-05-13T11:52:00.001+08:002012-05-13T11:57:02.548+08:00Happy Mother's Day!Same day of last year, same cold drizzle, same bad case of hangover. My mom and I spent Mother's Day morning draggin' each other in the most ultimate tug of war battle the stairs of our home have ever seen.<br />
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The event: Yours truly was hellbent on deliverin' a can of whoop ass to an asshole of a neighbor who was at it again. I could have gone to jail for what may have transpired had my most prudent of a mom gave all her strength to contain my demon-like possession.<br />
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How our mothers save us from damnation, mystery.<br />
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And so I slide back to the lessons our mothers taught us. None could be more identifiable than the words of this Lynyrd Skynyrd song:<br />
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Come sit beside me, my only son<br />
And listen closely to what I say<br />
And if you do this it'll help you some sunny day<br />
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Oh, take your time don't live too fast<br />
Troubles will come and they will pass<br />
Go find a woman you'll find love<br />
And don't forget son there is someone up above<br />
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And be a simple kind of man<br />
Be something you love and understand<br />
Baby be a simple kind of man<br />
Oh, won't you do this for me son if you can?<br />
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Forget your lust for the rich man's gold<br />
All that you need is in your soul<br />
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try<br />
All that I want for you my son is to be satisfied<br />
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And be a simple kind of man<br />
Be something you love and understand<br />
Baby be a simple kind of man<br />
Oh, won't you do this for me son if you can? Oh yes, I will<br />
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Boy, don't you worry you'll find yourself<br />
Follow your heart and nothing else<br />
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try<br />
All that I want for you my son is to be satisfied<br />
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And be a simple kind of man<br />
Be something you love and understand<br />
Baby be a simple kind of man<br />
Oh, won't you do this for me son if you can?<br />
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Baby be a simple, be a simple man<br />
Be something you love and understand<br />
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Dear Friends,<br />
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Make this happen, and do your "Like"-trigger-happy finger a favor. Go to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-SLAYER-to-Manila/123897044296700">Facebook Page</a>, click Like then suggest to friends! And soon we'll all be painting this town, er..rather, country, blood red!<br />
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Cheers!<br />
-Rawhiderawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-23847420034002693582010-11-28T00:47:00.068+08:002010-11-28T13:30:30.213+08:00Black Label Society's Order of The Black - A Re-inspired Zakk is Back!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Indeed. I couldn’t find any more appropriate three words to begin this. For five years I had been growin’ roots in my ass out of snoozfest from anything post- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mafia</i></b>. Even Zakk’s presence in Ozzy’s band had been of the same serving. But at fuckin’ last, fate throws in the bucket of cold water, and the beast awakens.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It could’ve been one or all factors together. Ozzy’s firing, blood clotting, alcoholism, whatever it is, there must be something that had finally summoned guts of steel to make Zakk finally put all overused stuff aside, and bring everything ‘back to basic’. A true return to form, I must say. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Before spinning this record, I honestly felt a need to duck in a quasi-cringed manner in anticipation of a salvo of pinch harmonics and wound string vibratos, three repetitions of each for every riff. But God was I surprised to hear all those had been virtually laid to rest. It will not be until the fifth track, Black Sunday, before this record greets you with the standard BLS sound. And, besides being blown away right off the bat by the preceding tracks, it’s not that much of his ‘template’ either. Notice how it starts with a shredfest of insane legatos and howls (reminiscent of those from that Tesla song) before it explodes into the berserkin <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sonic Brew</i></b> fashion. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ballads here, which have been making a fuss about how utterly creative this album is, (or how disappointingly lame and anti-climactic, depending on which perspective you’re at) are of all in an assortment of genres. Darkest Days is a soulful piano ballad. Time Waits for No One (child!), is slow classic rock in the likes of early Elton John and Bob Seger. Shallow Grave is a bit American folkish of a piano ballad, and a darn sad one at that. January, is the 80s rock acoustic session touch thrown in for the finale. There is no doubt this record is some serious display of musicianship, undermining all accusations that Zakk is but pure image antics. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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My shitty iPod which almost ended up as trap shooting target for my double barrel has never been this busy.<br />
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It's a few songs shy of getting to ten thousand, hundreds of albums lined-up and dragged to my "bite" playlist- a set of potentially good ones, old and new, that I feel I may actually get to like. Well, it will have to wait again. Right now, this dumb old-fashioned disk is in heavy rotation of three relatively new albums. And I hope to get back with decent reviews of them because these bands bark of reputation for kicking serious ass.<br />
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Released last August, I only acquired this record recently when I decided to look into their last compilation <i>Skullage</i> (2009) and how much of <i>Mafia</i> (2005) made it into that selection. I got re-acquainted with Fire It Up and Suicide Messiah, one nostalgic fit led to another, eventually making me remember how much I used to fucking love these berserkers.<br />
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Argh!! Can't have enough of this band!<br />
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Call him what you will, cheapo Iggy Pop incarnation or Anthony Kiedis drugged dead ringer- Dave Wyndorf is a fuckin' legend. There are but a few lyricists of his caliber, mighty witty and entertaining as hell. <i>Powertrip</i> and <i>Dopes to Infinity</i> remain to be my favorites but it's time for a new one from this pillar of stoner rock. Released last October 25, it has been sending ripples throughout the entire heavy music community since.<br />
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I can't do the goddamn typeset, so let's just leave it at that. Would be fuckin' cool if I could though.<br />
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Most probably the one I am most thrilled about. The heavy metal world, as far as I observe, has never been this fired up about an upcoming record from a relatively new band. Sure everyone went nuts with the release of <i>The Final Frontier</i> and <i>Death Magnetic</i>, but man, Daath is far from being a decade-old band. I will have to go back for another post about how their last record <i>The Concealers </i>totally fucking blew me away. If you don't have that one yet, grab it and just plain marvel at the sheer technical prowess and brutality of the band. Surely that will explain why everyone is this stoked about their new self-titled record released last October 28.rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-838005205164116392010-11-04T23:04:00.030+08:002010-11-04T23:53:23.139+08:00HOMEGROWN: Bloodshedd's Spare No OneBefore things get ugly, I would like to first and foremost point out that this entry has nothing to do with that recent Metalsucks Reader's Choice fiasco. Absolutely nothing to do with it I swear. Notice I didn't place the link here and make this a portal to your worst reading nightmare. This draft has been in my shitty laptop since I made my last trip to my good ol' local cd dealer. You heard me right, I buy homegrown stuff. And on that last visit, I came with a list that had Intolerant's <i>Reasons for Unrest</i> and Sin's <i>Audio Summoned Flesh</i>. Thing is, I always buy three from my dealer. So I was, to put it mildly, kind of forced to choose one more.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Regardless of how the more 'technically proficient' heavy musician may rate this, I can label this as one record off my collection that's a surefire trigger of a serious case of bangover. I regret brushing this band off aside when I first saw them live as the final opening act for Arch Enemy last year. Their lead singer, Jojo Book came out screaming "Destroy Heaveeeeen!!" in his full-on spiked leather clothing glory and as much as I was impressed from an image standpoint, I thought, 'what the hell..' </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But even if I wasn't dead-centered on their music that night, their rhythms had since been ripping in my head. That, for me, is something. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And so I took the shot of getting this record just to complete my unspoken minimum order for that trip to the store, went home, and BAM! Save for the Asian diction still discernible through the growls (which is utterly forgivable as it gives the music a much more un-Caucasian touch) and that Linkin Park-esque techno filler (Time To Change All), there's really nothing to find fault about this near-perfect album. It's one ferocious killer record from start to finish, heavy and mighty brutal without leaving you jaded and wanting to put your feet up for some lighter listening. My most honest observation actually gave me the opposite, even wanting more heavy tunes! Its track after blistering track of technical death but with heavy vestiges of thrash, catered with much modern effects, blindingly fast tandem sweep picks, ultra-sonic blast beats, chainsaw right hand chugging and everything insane in between. That's not even mentioning how they have managed to pull-off some otherworldly stuff thrown in to the pot. Some songs just break into Manila Sound Department style infused jazz, Spanish Guitars, and other bits of which I have no words to describe. Impossible? Hah! Well then get the record and let the beast walk you through it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">While I know most of my readers are from the old school and more accessible flank of heavy music, I can't say I took the time sieving through this album to describe it for them. It wasn't an effort at all, grasping the tracks. And it's proof enough that while I'm from the Daddy Rock genre, I'm truly digging this one. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Another teaser for the supposedly upcoming Beast 696 official video, which said September 2010!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-54141141082189179392010-10-03T15:12:00.010+08:002012-02-19T11:55:53.649+08:00Clutch's Blast Tyrant Blasts Big Time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCZFc13uE86YyCDuZG7xZvbQhCiSTkqgwnnUgU9vK1kbOmr587z7hU_T3oRifFE1PAvA66ZqUpkTYZojX9MBWoxb7JS9equTWmJzHb7EUHVR6tsgMF8H55qmA86aCc7sB6vlfXIryuJA/s1600/Clutch-Full_Band_on_Stage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCZFc13uE86YyCDuZG7xZvbQhCiSTkqgwnnUgU9vK1kbOmr587z7hU_T3oRifFE1PAvA66ZqUpkTYZojX9MBWoxb7JS9equTWmJzHb7EUHVR6tsgMF8H55qmA86aCc7sB6vlfXIryuJA/s400/Clutch-Full_Band_on_Stage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Without having to resort to visual imagery or commercial packaging, they have painted a picture of a badass hard rock act through words and music only. By turning a blind eye to bigotry and imperialism, they proved it's alright to be a redneck at this day and age. They even made it cool to wear plain white t-shirts in rock again.<br />
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I can waste a year's worth of blog space here if I were to describe their brand of hard rock. And I'm sure as hell I won't even get close to defining their music. I do think though, that they shift along the lines of rock but the 'hues' change from one album to the next in their entire discography, which is one hell of a list by the way.<br />
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<i><b>Blast Tyrant</b></i> will probably be their most accessible record to date. It is chock-full of hard-hitting rhythms and intelligently woven lyrics, broad-ranging from life beyond the Ol' Mason-Dixon line to political jabs in comedic delivery. I have never been so lyrically amused for a long time.<br />
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This is also the record you get out when you throw in slabs of meat on the grill, smash bottles to the wall or just get plain stoned to. Almost every reviewer out there says this is a mix of stoner rock, blues and funk, and I must say to an extent it really is. What amazes me though is how homogeneous that mixture is to my ears. The mood it sets for being stoner music catches up real tight but in no way close to being Monster Magnet, it is funky without bending that much to Chili Peppers yet you can groove (but I won't) pretty fine with it. AND, get this: it is full-on Blues Rock without almost any blues soloing! There's really not much complex blues guitar licks you'd find in here but the songwriting is topnotch. Not even the real 'masters' of blues guitar have thought of taking the music to a level the way Clutch did in this record, riff-wise.<br />
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One thing I must add before you get this one is for you to clear a space, not just on your list of greatest rock records ever, but also one from your list of most gifted singers. Neil Fallon's voice may not have that much of range, but hell, with that kind of power, who needs one in this sort of heavy rock?<br />
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</div>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-4524469578509718822010-09-30T23:49:00.006+08:002010-10-03T21:46:04.927+08:00Metallica: Français Pour Une Nuit<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I seldom talk about Metallica. I reckon they really don't need that much of an attention considering how LARGE an act they are. If I had any urge in the past, it was to write about </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Death Magnetic</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. But it came at a very low point in my life. Needless to say, I missed my chance. Also if I were to say anything Metallica-related, chances are it would be bitchin' about how they had failed me in this or that aspect. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the hell, I need not do that really, for that would be a total waste of time. Off </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAfdytJAqFM&feature=related"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metal Hammer TV: Guilty Pleasures - Just Don't Get It</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed already said it</span>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>anything you say about Metallica bad, it's like pissing in the ocean,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> it doesn't fucking matter!".</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An overload of Metallica live videos clearly can't get me stoked enough to have a few more. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cunning Stunts</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, in hindsight is something to remember with fondness. Even if it has been ridiculed to the max, it was a huge affirmation of a big turning point in the band's history. I have it in my rack, along with their set in the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monsters of Rock in Moscow, Woodstock '99</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and some other live clips from the hillbilly-where's-the-handlebar-moustache James Hetfield era. I have none from the present line-up, and I dig Robert Trujillo. Problem is, I already got Ozzy's <i>Live in Budokan, </i>and he's already more than amazing there<i>.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's just too hard to ignore the fact that <i>Metallica: Français Pour Une Nuit</i> (French For One Night, is that it?) is one badass almost-medieval metal live dvd. I found it impossible not to get my hands on this one, evidently everything about it tells me it falls into great halls of awesomeness. True enough as it actually took place in the literally awesome halls of a Roman amphitheater! </span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">TRACKLIST</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ddddcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">01. <b>Blackened</b><br />
02. <b>Creeping Death</b><br />
03. <b>Fuel</b><br />
04. <b>Harvester of Sorrow</b><br />
05. <b>Fade to Black</b><br />
06. <b>Broken, Beat and Scarred</b><br />
07. <b>Cyanide</b><br />
08. <b>Sad But True</b><br />
09. <b>One</b><br />
10. <b>All Nightmare Long</b><br />
11. <b>The Day That Never Comes</b><br />
12. <b>Master of Puppets</b><br />
13. <b>Dyers Eve</b><br />
14. <b>Nothing Else Matters</b><br />
15. <b>Enter Sandman</b><br />
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16. <b>Stone Cold Crazy</b><br />
17. <b>Motorbreath</b><br />
18. <b>Seek and Destroy</b></span></div>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-39493214292743759202010-09-09T15:36:00.009+08:002010-09-30T22:34:20.322+08:00Mike Portnoy leaves Dream Theater<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Seems like it truly is Mi Ultimo Adios to his band of 25 years.. Just a reposting of what has been stirring up every heavy metal news site since this morning. The initial source, his actual goodbye letter, is in his <a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-portnoy/mike-portnoy-leaves-dream-theater/137362372974878">Facebook Page</a>. Again, here it is to save you the hassle. Apologies to hangovered Dream Theater fanboys..</span></span><br />
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</span> </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm sorry to all the disappointed DT fans around the world...I really tried to salvage the situation and make it work...I honestly just wanted a break (not a split)...but happiness cannot be forced, it needs to come from within....</span></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Nugent, Tony Frankin, Vinnie Colaiuta, Derek Sherinian)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">03 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chip Away At The Stone</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Vince Neil, Blues Saraceno, Ricky Philips, Pat Torpey, Paul Taylor)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">04 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last Child</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Mickey Thomas, Earl Slick, Nathan East, Stephen Ferrone)</span></span></div></div><div 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style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">07 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Walk This Way </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Fee Waybill, Steve Lukather, Tim Bogert, Tommy Aldridge)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">08 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Draw The Line</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Jeff Keith, Tommy Skeoch, Tony Levin, Eric Singer)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">09 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Same Old Song and Dance</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Jack Russel, Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, Jeff Pilson, Bobby Blotzer, Edgar Winter)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">10 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No Surprize</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Jani Lane, Chris Holmes, Adrian Perry, Stephen Riley)</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">11 </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Toys In The 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Ronnie James Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen on Dream On? Such fantastic soul-searing voice and majestic licks to add up to an already regal tune. Outstanding. Chip Away at The Stone introduced me to Blues Saraceno and I've been a fan ever since. We used to break this song apart to find out what's so special about his playing though in the end, his 'expressionism' was what we could only make different. I've got more to say about him but that again, is a tale for another day. </span><br />
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</div>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-90014910318065901162010-08-27T00:29:00.004+08:002010-08-28T23:47:15.567+08:00Pantera's 'The Will To Survive' and the 20th Anniversary 'Cowboys Deluxe'.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yours truly and the very best of my friends are all big, big Pantera fans. How can we afford to be not? Heck, we rode hell and high water during our four years of secondary education with almost all records from those Lone Star thrashers! Anything Pantera, myth or fact, was enough to get us through Piss High.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be premiering the track "The Will To Survive right </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/Pantera"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on our FB page at Noon EST on 8/30/10.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay tuned for more details. And check out the packaging for the 3cd Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition of Cowboys From Hell:</span></span></b></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MRwu8ir8QSOpDiitAs0UnbhtRPFNkDXf1uIbyNv7hEDZU3OIZUJPj0dASHHVCk1EX6i0j3gMYkwXt5KAO2eTqadf1VF-XLNFa6IH8iTzJOWaO4lZEQVOufAxRWQw7R0lNscudoriFAA/s1600/pantera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MRwu8ir8QSOpDiitAs0UnbhtRPFNkDXf1uIbyNv7hEDZU3OIZUJPj0dASHHVCk1EX6i0j3gMYkwXt5KAO2eTqadf1VF-XLNFa6IH8iTzJOWaO4lZEQVOufAxRWQw7R0lNscudoriFAA/s400/pantera.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was practically not stoked when Nirvana put out the then-unreleased track 'You Know You're Right' back in '02. That was supposed to be the treasure from the compilation record they had at the time. Cobain wasn't great, we all know that. He just happened to have executed his disappearance at a perfect time. Needless to say, 'previously unreleased tracks' aren't always cool. Besides, did we really need a new Nirvana song?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Dime? Dead or not, he will always be celebrated as a metal genius. And we're missin him like hell, ain't we? Now let the wings of gratitude flutter for we can add another song to that fine collection of his works. And if that's not enough, at least with it, they've re-mastered <i><b>Cowboys From Hell</b></i> and added some pretty electric live shit with it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I move on to anything stupid, lemme thank Blogger. <i><b>Thank You</b></i>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are so fucking awesome. One inebriated moment had me seriously contemplating I should've chosen Wordpress, but things here are done so dirt cheap, and I get to be paid!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIJLavWfCCAuJKUjmlqQzvL73iB7MmKUixTLh-9FoJvlCohLHQgIWDmkWa70D6p2aFEOUesIRiU3T3tUPcMBoylTCW6jBHwz0yW2c-nKsaMgmtUvAlO1MksCxsAQLXurrMjxh5M8FaiQ/s1600/Blogger-Black.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIJLavWfCCAuJKUjmlqQzvL73iB7MmKUixTLh-9FoJvlCohLHQgIWDmkWa70D6p2aFEOUesIRiU3T3tUPcMBoylTCW6jBHwz0yW2c-nKsaMgmtUvAlO1MksCxsAQLXurrMjxh5M8FaiQ/s200/Blogger-Black.png" width="147" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know there aren't many of you regularly following this ambitious attempt of a webmag, but I am grateful. As hell. Some of you may be from the upper echelons of the biz, though I am pretty much sure most of you are my damned dearest, most loyal friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sure owe you all lots of explaining big time, as with regard to why I have started doing this. By now, I would have replaced that Inaugural Post link in the Shortcuts widget with this one here. Originally I was to label that previous link as "Often Edited Inaugural Post", so I could, from time to time, add bits and pieces of excuses for changing themes as my archiving progressed. But I guess I'll just make a separate post here as it adds more content, more traffic, more hits, more ad clicks and more people pissed. At least I know by that one last bit, I have come.. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">victorious</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisUwRkUFFVRDag0RM-L4yW99JRxBefFIrFtSio-Qpl4O2MeJhLpIoV5lSLvoRguGiVqXD1LPeAqTroP-twEv2zZIeDTZdo1SiQMmNQ38jBpUoSbQhaEU_4yx_8co4csU4mmSadioQbRr4/s1600/victorybaby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisUwRkUFFVRDag0RM-L4yW99JRxBefFIrFtSio-Qpl4O2MeJhLpIoV5lSLvoRguGiVqXD1LPeAqTroP-twEv2zZIeDTZdo1SiQMmNQ38jBpUoSbQhaEU_4yx_8co4csU4mmSadioQbRr4/s320/victorybaby.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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1. sleeps upside down to prolong his life<br />
2. has snorted his own father's ashes<br />
3. survived falling out of a coconut tree only to get up, board a jet ski, and knock himself out again<br />
4. has told Mick Jagger to fuck off privately and publicly<br />
5. gets his blood changed like the oil in a fucking chevy<br />
6. has been punched out by chuck berry and lived<br />
7. has tried every drug known to man and is living proof that the D.A.R.E. program is a crock of shit<br />
8. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cannot be killed by conventional weapons</span><br />
9. has been rocking for 40+ years<br />
10. has been known to drink, smoke, sing, and play the guitar at the same time<br />
11. once threatened an interviewer by sodomy by bananna<br />
12. casually flicks cigarette butts at his screaming audiences<br />
13. has called Frank Sinatra a motherfucker<br />
14. has had orgies with a mars bar<br />
15. claims drugs aren't his problem, cops are<br />
16. has been arrested 10 times<br />
17. could use his face as a baseball mit<br />
18. kicked Ronnie Wood in the ass for being sober and constantly makes fun of his newfound sobriety<br />
19. was awake for nine days straight( drugged of course). When he finally fell asleep he fell face first onto a amp and broke his nose<br />
20. When the end of the world comes all that will be left is dirt, cher, roaches, and Keith.</span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then there's </span><a href="http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/avenged-sevenfold-rule-america/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metal Hammer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - 're-tweeting' of course.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some say it was the death of The Rev that had propped up the curiosity and therefore the sales. I'd say there was some hardwork too! And the sweat off the previous records has paid off as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truly we no longer care if Metal gets to be on the charts again, we'd listen to it and love it no matter what. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But ain't it cool to have the flag waived again? Especially if it's Eminem that's being crushed, and with a band of an Old School touch on the helm doing just that! </span><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm aware I'm not ahead by a damn sight in doing this review even if I got this record on it's first day of release. And as seasoned readers most of you may well be, you know for a fact there's really nothing proverbial to say if you have only been listening to tracks you just got a few days ago. Not even if you had looped the songs non-stop. So at this point, it's only initial impressions. And I bet those are what you may be wanting for if you're reading this right now. Unless you enjoy that 'song-opens-with-a-thunderous-explosive-stick-count-ends-in-an-apocalyptic-bassdrum' kind of bullcrap, I'm not doing that. It's a waste of time, that kind of literal horseshit account. Hear the tracks in Amazon preview for fuck's sake rather than have somebody describe them to you in words.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believed to be the heaviest record to date from these Huntington Beach rockers, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for me stands in a laterally different category with their past releases. Heavy is relative. Arguably I can't label this effort as such. If it's one thing, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is their saddest record so far. Even If I had not known the passing of The Rev, I could and probably would have stated that there's the sad signature in this record. Still not convinced? Give me one song, just one song from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> where we can unanimously concur that they just went out there and played for the fun of it. Something like they did with Bat Country from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City Of Evil</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or Scream from the self-titled one. Quite noticeably, there is not one 'fun' song in this record. Predictable to an extent, of course, losing Jimmy just recently. And let me just add, having been a huge follower of their behind-the-scenes videos, that I'm pretty much sure The Rev was the happiest camper in the pack. So abandon all hopes of fresh radio-friendly hooks and stripper tunes, there are just none in this new output.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPyeAtd14V0yXSZrJO9bl5YGcb9nIvb-tF_R-4OG9b90jA5wFm0UHwMCyCnoMsjJob7WBNFAIhlohTaI0P3zF5skyA9_Xftho-OFNpyyuqVpNxrDsNdqHIafKhfidD5dUYI1cBs4ZXG0/s1600/revolver.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPyeAtd14V0yXSZrJO9bl5YGcb9nIvb-tF_R-4OG9b90jA5wFm0UHwMCyCnoMsjJob7WBNFAIhlohTaI0P3zF5skyA9_Xftho-OFNpyyuqVpNxrDsNdqHIafKhfidD5dUYI1cBs4ZXG0/s200/revolver.gif" width="151" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The loudest buzz going on with respect to initial reviews is how much of a resemblance this record is to the early Metallica sound. And that is what I want to objectively tackle. Too many haters seem to disagree but cannot prove that there's nothing Metallica-esque here. True, it may be, that it all sums up to one's perception. But I'll give it a try. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No painstaking scrutiny needed here, but it should be made clear whether we refer to the 'rig' or the 'riff'. Some tracks do, on occasion, sound like it used the same rig or set-up with the ones used in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master of Puppets</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, though I doubt there were any ESP's but there's no mistaking in the depth of distortions. The amps, the environment, lots of other factors may be the same. Even the clean guitar employed on the song 'Victim' is evidently Hetfield-reminiscent. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with regard to the 'riff', well that's a different subject. As much as I hate to stride on these grounds, I will have to name a few. The song 'Buried Alive' embarked on to its heavy part with something that sounded like the 'Orion' main riff, and by the outro I seriously thought they were flagrantly quoting 'Ride The Lightning'. I hear also, 'My Apocalypse' via the same </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Death Magnetic</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> style palm-muted chugs in the rhythm filler of the solo to 'Welcome To The Family'. One thing that is not Metallica thrash here is the song 'God Hates Us'. Albeit with a familiar title, conversely it doesn't translate to that Slayer song. The main riff rings to me like another thrash song that has even got something synonymously resonant of the title -Death Angel's 'Lord Of Hate'. If you have noticed anything even remotely Pantera about this song, or any other track for that matter, name it. Otherwise you're just another Wiki junkie who happens to have taken M.Shadows' word for it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With their efforts altogether, they have given us once again a full-on barrage of dark, fuck-this-world, furious songs and sad ballads that conjure up images of a funeral pyre, slow processions and a stormy weather farewell rites to a friend. Not wishing tragedy to befall anyone, but this sure is a great record to carry anyone through his darkest days.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />My love is strong, with you there is no wrong, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Together we shall go until we die. My, my, my. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look... see. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles, <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be <b>you</b> and <b>me</b>.</i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">That's because there's really nothing much to write about them, and I mean no sarcasm in that. Quite literally, there's virtually nothing to be found significant after almost two months of searchin' the web. Official site is on 'htm-test', their MySpace account is nothing more than a plain media player.. the only thing you find in Wiki is their line-up, written in, well maybe, Swedish. The album I downloaded did not even have the proper title, <i><b>Passion for Flower</b></i> was how I grabbed it. Hardly even my Glam guru friend Harry knows anything about this band, and he knows them all- from the least important foxy posers during the Sunset Strip heydays up to the most legit musicians from this recent uprising in Sweden. Yes, there are more than a just a couple of 'glam revivalists' from Sweden. There's a revolution going on, and I'll write about that one soon.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm glad that on this note, there's something new I can hand on to Harry that he doesn't know yet. It's another matter if he'll dig this or not. Consider yourself lucky, I will not be writing about this band if this shit ain't worth your time. This record has been playing from start to finish on all my long road trips as of late. Hell N' Diesel, as I would put it, is the flipside to this whole Swedish Sleaze stew that's been emerging. Somewhat like Guns N Roses was to the whole L.A. scene. Not because they don't sport the whole shitty fashion sense that these new bands from Sweden seem to still replicate (in point of fact, save for the pop metal lead singer, it's Crazy Town I do observe in them), but for the sole reason that Hell N' Diesel is the most aggressive-sounding from the lot. It may be a phenomenon, or some observable fact for them to be an antithesis to the scene in which they came from. But then again it may be strategy if the chronicles of GnR history were to be the basis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't even sing all the tracks in this record yet, so I guess it's just that initial gut feel about something that's genuine that made me admire this recent offering. And there's not even a killer First Track to strap me on an Acme warhead through the entirety of the album. Let It Die, which is clearly an attempt to be accessible to the younger fans, just don't get me off. I skip it, as a matter of fact. It's not modern but just rap metal. And a plain one at that. The rest I can say modern though, with very much prudent use of synths and keyboards without getting too Reznor-ish. </span><br />
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</div>rawhidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08338905119364546344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395023105612016062.post-81355035032211757632010-06-29T15:08:00.006+08:002010-07-01T23:14:23.373+08:00Zakk Wylde guitar giveaway!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter how shitty-sounding your guitar is, aesthetics work at the end of the day.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess I'm trolling here no matter how much I hate debates. I still hold on to my opinion, don't get me wrong, the guitar should sound fine. But isn't playing in front of many people the reason why we started rockin' at all? Club or arena, for damn sure I want my guitar mean-looking as hell if I am to shake my ass in front of people!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Point is, if I have all the money in the world, I can get good guitar brands with quality sound. Now the issue is not the quality, but the 'type' of sound. And yes, of course, the looks. If I want to play blues straight away, I'd get a Strat. And not just a Strat, but a Road-worn Strat. But I'm not your full-on blues guy, I also play metal rhythm. Now we should be talking Dean, or ESP in that regard. But no matter how many designs I look into, I still go back full circle to Zakk Wylde's Bullseye.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always have been drooling over the bullseye design. It defines everything I love about Zakk Wylde -his playing, his attitude, his 'wrestler' stance, his fist-pumping, muscle-flexing, saliva-spittin', water-sproutin' antics and most of all, his blindingly fast pentatonics. He rips those leads and you're caught in a hypnotic trance. It's the same effect when you look into the rings of the Bullseye pattern!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guns N' Roses Family Tree</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">released on the Argentina record label Music Brokers Arg., May 2010.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are all too familiar with long-standing bands which have become somewhat like 'revolving doors' for different members, you might have ended up going to forums and sites trying to see who's the bassist, guitarist, or even singer for a particular point in a band's career. Say you've got numerous Whitesnake albums, and you have been impressed with the second lead guitar solo of this one song, but dunno of it's Doug Aldrich or Vivian Campbell who's playing (Doug has become some sort of replacement for every band Vivian has ever been to that he almost kind of replicated the 'delivery' of the latter), then you end up tracing the band's 'Family Tree'.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They're scattered all over the internet, those Family Trees. Whitesnake, DiO, Def Leppard and even to some degree, yes, Guns N' Roses. Not that they have really been a 'revolving door' band for the <i>better</i> part of their career, but some crazy-ass fans just kept on documenting its members and session musicians off of their Sunset Strip days up to the present Entropy of a line-up. You might not all be willing to agree that the current line-up is still GnR, but great band they may be, I, as well, belong to the camp which prefer them better left as "Axl & Friends". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I have originally intended to write this online resource for friends who have stopped researching on new material, I found the urge to write this and inform them of this 'must-download' stuff. Problem though, is that if you're probably one of them GnR die-hard fans with too much time on your hands, you must have amassed enough mp3's of your heroes that you may find nothing new in here.. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Save for, maybe, the original studio version of Nice Boys. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nonetheless, I reluctantly loaded my iPod with this double album and duplicated some of my other files in the process. I noticed I already have some of the tracks from my <i>Roots of Guns N Roses</i> - Gilby Clarke and Fred Coury re-mastered, L.A. Guns studio recordings, <i>Tribute to Aerosmith</i>..etc..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But I'm having mighty grand time comparing the quality of those same tracks. My eardrums may be all too hammered but I figured right off the bat that the ones from this Family Tree compilation seem to have been quality mastered before distribution.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I may just as well end up saving the tracks from this record instead.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tracklist: </b></span><br />
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<b>CD1</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">1 Anything Goes - Hollywood Rose<br />
2 Welcome To The Jungle - Gilby Clarke, Tracii Guns & Kevin Dubrow (Quiet Riot)<br />
3 No More Mr.Nice Guy - Slash & Roger Daltrey (The Who)<br />
4 Sex Action - L.A. Guns<br />
5 Sweet Child O Mine - Gilby Clarke<br />
6 Killing Time - Hollywood Rose<br />
7 Elected - Duff Mckagan, Matt Sorum, Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) & Billy Duffy (The Cult)<br />
8 My Michelle - L.A. Guns<br />
9 It’s So Easy - Tracii Guns, Gilby Clarke & Fred Coury (Cinderella)<br />
10 Last Cigarette - Hollywood Rose Feat. Teddy Zigzag</div><div class="MsoNormal">11 You’re Crazy - Gilby Clarke, Tracii Guns & Stevie Ranchelle (Tuff)<br />
<b>12 Nice Boys - Guns N’ Roses (Rare Track – Original GnR Lineup)</b><br />
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13 Pour Some Sugar On Me - L.A.Guns<br />
14 Rocker - Hollywood Rose<br />
15 Mr. Brownstone - Bang Tango Feat Tracii Guns & Gilby Clarke<br />
16 Toys In The Attic - Tracii Guns & Stephen Pearcy (Ratt)<br />
17 Jailbreak - Hollywood Rose Feat Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones)<br />
18 Used To Love Her - Gilby Clarke, Tracii Guns & John Corabi (Motley Crue)<br />
19 Gypsy - Slash & Tommy Shaw (Styx)<br />
20 Wanted Dead Or Alive - L.A.Guns<br />
21 Patience - Gilby Clarke, Tracii Guns & John Corabi (Motley Crue)<br />
22 Don’t Cry - Spike (Quireboys), Tracii Guns & Gilby Clarke<br />
23 Shadow Of Your Love - Hollywood Rose<br />
24 Lay It Down - Stephen Pearcy (Ratt) & Tracii Guns<o:p></o:p><br />
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Now if only you can show me that one golden link to a fine copy of those <b>Rumbo Tapes</b>...<br />
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