What up what up what up!?!??! Its late - I'm down in the basement. All the machinery is whizzing away. The washer is washing, the cooler is cooling, the dehumidifier is de-humidifying... Its quite loud. Not as loud as The Kills were on Cinco De Mayo though!!! 2nd time me and The Wonderful Loving Fiancee caught The Kills at 1st Ave in downtown Minneapolis. They put on a SHWEEET show for a two man get-up. Or I should say one man and one lady get-up. I'm not sure what is so appealing about a female lead - I was obsessed with No Doubt growing up and now many of my newest favorites revolve around female leads... Anything Jenny Lewis touches, The Dead Weather (Alison Mosshart overload?!) Metric, Portishead, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's... Men - you need to step your game up. With that here are some snapshots from Thursday night:
Speaking about No Doubt get me all nostalgic. I remember going down to Warehouse Music, 6 or 7 blocks down my street and picking up Tragic Kingdom with Dane and Ben. That album is a BEAST. Seriously, go back an listen to that thing right now. The horns, the funk, Gwen, its almost too much. Tony Kanal's bass playing was something I'll never forget. His bass jumps out of that record. He's always moving and slightly changing his lines, its very 'Flea'. Its the little changes that make the lines so great, an extra note here, dropping a note on that verse, a moving pattern before the hook drops. Little moments in the music that make that one 4 second segment a little more special than the 2 minutes before it and the 2 minutes after it.
ToneKrusher Smith occasionally does another podcast called "GrownMan Business" - He forwarded me an episode that I was apart of awhile ago so now I'm sharing it with y'all! Its childishly funny.
| Grown Man Busines Ep. 3 |
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