Random Music Thoughts

[axolotl]

Adam Duritz Is Just Happy to Be Anywhere

A soulfully earnest singer whose folk-rock band stormed the charts in the age of grunge and irony, the Counting Crows frontman became both an overnight icon and an easy target—and throughout his band’s rise and fall, he kept quiet about his struggle with mental illness. At 60, he’s found some...

www.gq.com

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nick Cave confirms he too gets mixed up with Nicolas Cage

Nick Cave has confirmed he also gets mistaken for Nicolas Cage, recalling a story about posing as the actor at a bar in Brazil.

consequence.net

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sometimes, life gets in the way and it takes me multiple hours to listen to a 40 minute album.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The bits in here about Lou Reed are amazing.

“There's no chance to ever play together again.” Dave Navarro unloads about Jane's Addiction and the shocking night when Perry Farrell attacked him onstage

The guitarist shared his remarks with Guitar Player while discussing his best and worst moments onstage

www.guitarplayer.com

 

[axolotl]

Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder honors Bruce Springsteen with song My City of Ruins in apparent dig at

Spoiler

Velveeta Voldemort

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MSN

 

[Unsomnambulist]

A Guide to the Many Faces of Scott McCaughey

Where to start with the man behind The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, Baseball Project, and so many more.

daily.bandcamp.com

 

[axolotl]

The sounds and songs of Iceland's melting landscape

Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to studying the ice on Iceland's highest peaks.

www.bbc.com

So how do you listen to a glacier? Every movement that a glacier makes creates a sound, says Vlasis. A glacier flows down a slope under its own weight, and cracks and rumbles can be heard as the ice shifts and moves. "It has rhythm, it has tempo, it has dynamics," he enthuses.

"In glacial ice there are bubbles that are almost like an archive, with their memory of past atmospheric composition. And when that ice melts, you can hear the air bubbles popping and fizzing and squealing as they melt into the water and the pro-glacial lakes."

 

[Ojai Sam]

John Fogerty / Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years – SuperDeluxeEdition

superdeluxeedition.com

Here is a new release that I won’t be buying: John Fogerty revisiting the old CCR hits. This is not to be confused with CCR Rrvisited, the splinter group formed by those survivors of Creedence who happened not to have the name Fogerty.

Everyone knows that John had bumpy relationships with his ex-band mates, his former record label and his past music publisher. So now he can shake a few bucks out of the Fogerty faithful and simultaneously stick yet another thumb in the eyes of Doug, Stu and Saul.

John always maintained that he was the genius who told everyone else exactly what to play and how to play it. Maybe that’s true, but the fact is that he achieved international superstardom as 25% of a group that he frequently denigrates. They sold millions of records through the record company that he now hates.

For his sake, I hope John achieve some measure of peace with his past before he dies. But it seems more likely that in spite of his many blessings, he will retain a misplaced sense of aggrieved entitlement right up to the end.

 

[axolotl]

John Fogerty / Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years – SuperDeluxeEdition

superdeluxeedition.com

Here is a new release that I won’t be buying: John Fogerty revisiting the old CCR hits. This is not to be confused with CCR Rrvisited, the splinter group formed by those survivors of Creedence who happened not to have the name Fogerty.

Everyone knows that John had bumpy relationships with his ex-band mates, his former record label and his past music publisher. So now he can shake a few bucks out of the Fogerty faithful and simultaneously stick yet another thumb in the eyes of Doug, Stu and Saul.

John always maintained that he was the genius who told everyone else exactly what to play and how to play it. Maybe that’s true, but the fact is that he achieved international superstardom as 25% of a group that he frequently denigrates. They sold millions of records through the record company that he now hates.

For his sake, I hope John achieve some measure of peace with his past before he dies. But it seems more likely that in spite of his many blessings, he will retain a misplaced sense of aggrieved entitlement right up to the end.

Then, I suppose this is as good a place as any for this recent article about CCR.

The brutal story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Tom Fogerty

Creedence Clearwater Revival embodied the spirit of the south with their brand of swamp-rock. However, guitarist Tom Fogerty had a truly tragic end to his life.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

 

[Ojai Sam]

Then, I suppose this is as good a place as any for this recent article about CCR.

The brutal story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Tom Fogerty

Creedence Clearwater Revival embodied the spirit of the south with their brand of swamp-rock. However, guitarist Tom Fogerty had a truly tragic end to his life.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

Key quote:

“People around them would say, ‘They’ll patch it up eventually.’ But eventually came and went. Death doesn’t wait for reconciliations.”

 

[axolotl]

Key quote:

“People around them would say, ‘They’ll patch it up eventually.’ But eventually came and went. Death doesn’t wait for reconciliations.”

The first part of that very paragraph is what has me scratching my head.

Tom moved to Arizona to chase peace, but the old wounds followed him. John stayed in California, still recording, still wrestling with his own past. They were on separate coasts, but the silence between them was louder than ever.

When I see gibberish like this, I wonder whether it is AI-generated.

 

[Ojai Sam]

The first part of that very paragraph is what has me scratching my head.



When I see gibberish like this, I wonder whether it is AI-generated.

If that is AI, it has achieved an astounding level of banality in such a short time.

 

[axolotl]

If that is AI, it has achieved an astounding level of banality in such a short time.

When you said astounding level of banality, why did I think of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem?

 

[Nickyboy]

When you said astounding level of banality, why did I think of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem?

I don' think I have ever read the words "Adolf Eichmann" and "banality" in the same sentence before.

 

[axolotl]

I don' think I have ever read the words "Adolf Eichmann" and "banality" in the same sentence before.

The mind works in mysterious ways, its blunders to perform.

Actually, my first thought was of Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil, and then I thought of Eichmann.

 

[Ojai Sam]

The mind works in mysterious ways, its blunders to perform.

Actually, my first thought was of Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil, and then I thought of Eichmann.

My synapsis fire the same way yours too. That’s a scary thought. For one of us.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Jim Morrison Is Alive And Living In Syracuse, Documentary Claims​

https://www.stereogum.com/2300386/jim-morrison-is-alive-and-living-in-syracuse-documentary-claims/news/

If you call that living.

 

[axolotl]

If you call that living.

Yeah. He could go for an upgrade and take a train to Rochester.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Or...

 

[axolotl]

Or...

I doubt that he wants to get hitched at this point.