What song is it you wanna hear?

[The AD]

Paul Weller is the man. He's been making good music for a long time now and shows no signs of slowing down.

[buildakicker]

https://youtu.be/k_uHkAngzHw

[::: :::]

Thought of sticking this in the "should I stop drinking" thread but thought maybe here was better

Try not to sing along

[The AD]

The real AD (archdruid), Julian Cope, covering Roky Erickson's "I Have Always Been Here Before."

[TomCrac]

https://youtu.be/k_uHkAngzHw

FKNA, another great album.

[Meadow Skipper]

Gonna get all seasonal, because i deeply respect Darlene Love:

[iceman]

have you heard her new album? she still sounds great.

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on a completely different note,





Happy Kwanzaa! (is it Kwanzaa yet?)

[east or bust]

Really want to see these guys live.

[~mikey b]

http://youtu.be/6yZA4TC_pt4

[iceman]

Four-song clip from the movie "Black Wax", Gil Scott Heron at the Club I helped build out and worked in for 4 years until it closed, the Wax Museum Nightclub i Dc, the best club in the country (in my mind at least!) at the time. Capacity was 2000, we had way over that in there a few times.

The part where he's walking around with the wax dummies is in the storeroom across the hall. The whole place was actually a real wax museum before we took it over and all the wax dummies were just left there, we put a bunch of them up all over the club. The dummy they show during "Whitey On the Moon" we actually hung over the main bar right after that.

https://vimeo.com/77944109

Before the place was a wax museum it was called the National Aquarium, and the stage where they're standing was a huge tank where they had performing dolphin shows. When we opened the club the reverb from the huge open tank under the stage was terrible so somebody came up with the idea of filling it with ping pong balls and so under the stage was literally like a couple million ping pong balls. Why ping pong balls? No idea. But it did work. The acoustics in that place were insane.

[Buster Highmen]

[iceman]

Niagra Falls, you say?

[Meadow Skipper]

[iceman]

I'm a fan. A bit newer one I like:

[iceman]

[iceman]

[creaky fossil]

The acoustics in that place were insanely bouncy screechy and tympanic membrane-assaulting.

Fixed from aural memory.

Though not as bad as when I saw Living Colour at Villanova's gymnasisum in 86/87 era. Nor as bad as Modest Mouse at Univ MT Copper Commons in early 00s.

Would like to see these guys in a sonicrefractiondivebar:

(Smithereens Blood & Roses)

Yep, Especially for You is a great album.

[iceman]

Well it took a while to get it dialed but it sounded good to me. The problem at first was the stage, they couldn't have any low end because the thing boomed like a bastard until they got the ping pong balls in there. Creaky, have you seen the documentary that WHUT recently produced on the Bayou? Pretty decent. Saw it for the first time the other night. Although one of the sound guys claimed that place sounded great and it sucked ass, so...

It has a bit in it with Eva Cassidy's (final?) performance when she was using a walker, pretty affecting.

This isn't from that, but hey.

[creaky fossil]

I think the Bayou was better for musicians/groups whose primary attack wasn't sheer volume. I saw a few Richard Thompson shows there in the 2d half of the 80s and in the early 90s where I thought the place sounded great. Also saw that old hippie retread band New Potato Caboose there a couple times, they weren't bad and they sounded fine. I wouldn't have wanted to see Bob Mould/Sugar there, though.

Honestly I'm kidding about the lousy sound of Wax Museum, it's not like original 9:30 was an acoustic engineer's most pleasant vision of a soundstage and that was obvious from the first show I went to there. It didn't stop me from seeing many, many more at the same place.

But I am serious about the Living Colour/Villanova show, and the Modest Mouse/Griz U show.

I'll look for the WHUT documentary. Thanks for the idea. About the two different views on it, I think any setting can be made to work, it just depends on how loud you want to go, how much of that loudness is oriented toward the treble end of things, and how much muck you can tolerate in the end result. If I had to play music loud in tight right-angles-everywhere spaces, I'd go for the bass-heavy end of things. Melvins, Flipper, etc.

Unless I wanted my audience to have tinnitus quickly thereafter. Then I'd really turn up the higher pitches to 11. Make their ears bleed.

[Meadow Skipper]

Killer guitar, understated but killer:

[Buster Highmen]

[johnweekly]

I used to hear all type of songs. As a professional writer in admission essay writing service, to get relax i used hear songs. Music makes everyone happy and relaxed.

[skiballs]

[patxi]

[iceman]