jackhammer

This journal is so damn good. One of the most personal and honest on MB.

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Flower Child

I'm so happy you like. Am going to put some reggae in here soon just for you.

Urban Hat€monger ?

David Essex is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.

Not his music , but his acting.

Two of his movies , That'll Be the Day & Stardust are probably my favourite music related films. Essex plays a rock n roll wannabe called Jim Mclean. Loads of musicians were involved in those movies too like Keith Moon , Dave Edmonds , Ringo Starr & Adam Faith all have major roles in them.
Stardust is my favourite of the two.

That'll Be the Day is about Jim Mclean leaving school & having loads of dead end jobs while he dreams of joining a rock band. He goes to work at a fairground & meets up with Ringo Starr's character and then basically goes around shagging anything in a skirt. at the end of the film he gets married & goes to work at his family buisness.

In Stardust he packs in his job & leaves his wife as the band he's involved with start to get popular, He ditches the singer & takes over the band and then they become huge. Then the drugs & the sex & the pressure from the record company to deliver more hits gets too much, He fires the band, changes his musical direction, makes a rock opera about his dead mother , buys a huge castle in Spain and then becomes a drug addled recluse in there.Finally he agrees to a TV interview in which it's obvious he can barely construct a sentence and then he suddenly dies of a heart attack.

You really ought to see them

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Flower Child

Well you've talked me into it. You should look into being a movie critic/reviewer. I think those descriptions deserve to be on the backs of the movies Besides it sounds good--Siskel, Ropert, and Urban Hatemonger.

Urban Hat€monger ?

The only flaw in your wonderful plan is that I hardly watch any movies

If I did start reviewing them it would probably look something like this......


The Dark Knight by Urban Hatemonger
Couldn't be arsed watching it, It's probably a typical Hollywood CGI crapfast anyway.

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Flower Child

Two songs by Lynyrd Skynyrd, because they have been one of my favorite bands for a long time even though most of their stuff has been played to shreds. But these two songs I am reviewing have really flown under the radar and they deserve some praise.

SONG: Was I Right Or Wrong
ARTIST: Lynyrd Skynyrd
ALBUM: Second Helping



Starts off with a bang. Loud poweful electric guitars right at the beginning, typical Skynyrd sound, and then it trails off with a wammy bar into the steady guitar riff that will continue throught the song. Ronnie Van Zant tries something a little different with his vocals in this one. He has almost a mumbly whisper for the first half explaining the story line (which is pretty interesting). But my favorite part is when the song hits the 2 minute mark and its pauses slighty. Then the huge guitar jams start and Ronnie belts out the chorus, adding all these vocal pitch changes here and there. And the song just keeps going on awesomly from there, and eventually returns back to the original guitar riff. If I hadn't heard the next song I'm going to review, I would have thought this is as Southern Rock as you can get. I haven't met anyone yet who has not thoroughly enjoyed this song.

SONG: Four Walls of Raiford
ARTIST: Lynyrd Skynyrd
ALBUM: Legend



In this song, Skynyrd goes traditional. If this doesn't say the South, then I don't know what does. This song will keep you wrapped up in the story it is telling and Ronnie Van Zant sings the part so believably you can't help but feel his pain. I'm not sure which of the band members played the guitar in this one, but they played it so slow and wangy it sounded like something you would hear a guy playing on his old hot porch in the South way back in the day.

Flower Child

SONG: Come Mek We Run
ARTIST: Pablo Moses
ALBUM: Revolutionary Dream

I discovered this beauty in Jackhammer's Reggae Intro thread, and it has been in my 2nd favorite song of all time ever since. It was one of those songs where I listened to the first 3 seconds and was in love with.

The beginning...oh.....what beginning. That opening (trumpet?) has this vintage-y exotic quality about it. I can't get enough of it, its so original. And during that time they throw in all of these high pitched (guitar?) whines which complements the slow laziness of trumpets beautifully and gives it that great reggae sound. Just when you get in the groove (which is inevitable) Pablo Moses sings out "Run run run run...run.....run..." I love how he draws them out at the end, and his next few lines are so full of beautful little details like the soft "yea ha ha" he gives after a few lines and also the short and quick percussion parts add so much. Its little things like that really get me into the groove of the song. During most of it, I have no idea what he is saying or what any of it means. There are alot of Jamaican words that are intermixed with the lyrics that make it hard to get a good grasp of the meaning, but I don't even think understanding it is neccessary for this song. Its beautiful rhythm and slow sensuality makes it a wonderful song to dance to. If you want it, you can get it off of my compilation a few pages back.

Flower Child

SONG: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
ARTIST: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
ALBUM: Foggy Mountain Breakdown



Definelty a guilty pleasure for me. I don't expect many people to like this but, I just can't help but review it.

Hillbilly? Yes.
Entertaining? Also yes.

One of the fastest and most difficult instrumental pieces in bluegrass history. If I ever decided to have a high speed chase from the cops, I would have this BLARING. This song just takes me to a different time and place. I can picture the whole group of bluegrass musicians in my head, jamming it out on somebodys old porch. A very short piece of music, but it packs so many notes, chords, strings and sounds in each second it will blow your mind. It has a great banjo slide note in there that is most recognized in the song. These men and their band members had so much talent in what they did and made a huge impact on the world of bluegrass.

My dad can play the banjo part. Yeah, you heard it.

Flower Child

SONG: Long Gone Day
ARTIST: Mad Season
ALBUM: Above

YouTube - Mad Season - Long Gone Day

Recorded in 1994 with a very dynamic combination of musicians. Vocalist Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees), guitarist Mike McCready (Pearl Jam and others), Vocalist Layne Staley (AIC), Barette Martin (Drummer for Screaming Trees) on bass John Baker Saunders (The Lamont Cranston Band) and a very good sax player named Skerik.

They tried a very different approach with this song. Bongos, saxophone, piano, and bass were strong factors giving it a feeling of jazz. Added with Mark Lanegan's deep, heavy vocals instantly turns the song into a dark, depressing mood. Lanegans vocals are so effortless. He doesn't make it seem like he is singing a song to an audience, it feels more like he is singing to himself what is going on in his head and what he is thinking. He adds a beautiful drifty line of lyrics right before Staley joins in on vocals. When Staley makes his presence known, he adds a burst of energy to the song and, unlike Lanegan, who keeps his voice pretty steady and deep thoughout the song, Staley fluctuates his voice up and down, loud and soft. These two contrastings styles cooperate wonderfully together. And the sax solo in the middle gives the song a wild, almost spiraling downward effect. A few more powerful bursts from Staley and the song is over.

jackhammer

Nice review. If you want to hear music with a Reggae vibe but has that sensual vibe then you really should listen to Fat Freddy's Drop, Trinity Roots and The Black Seeds.

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