BAND RELATED QUESTION 3

The other day I saw a Primal Scream interview on MTV and their bassplayer looked a hell of a lot like The Stone Roses' bassplayer. Can somebody confirm or deny it's that guy?

BAND OF THE WEEK 3: THE AFGHAN WHIGS

This is one of my favourite bands of all time since about 95 when I saw their set at the Pinkpop festival on TV. Immediatly their raw mix of rock, r&b and soul struck a chord with me and instantly Greg Dulli became my first true rock hero, even more so than sid vicious or kurt cabain ever were. For the next two years or so I was pretty much obsessed with the band and I taped every live set on tv or radio until I got more involved with hardcore and gradually lost touch. I missed the black love album but got back into it briefly when 1966 came out. In 2002 I saw gentlemen in the discount bin and my love for the whigs returned with full force and within a couple days I bought all their albums.
My top 3 would be:
1.gentlemen
2.1966
3.black love
the older work is great too but their last three albums are defenitly the best. Below is a video from one of their songs on the pinkpop fest. I just to watch this shit over and over and over. Watch him smoke while singing.
The second is from a song of the black love album and it's at some german fest after the release of 1966 when the band started getting smoother and smoother. They toured with a huge backing band with back up vocalists, keyboards and horn players. Watch how Greg Dulli gets some punk thrown out, it's awesome. I could talk about this band forever but I don't feel like typing so just sit back and watch.

BAND OF THE WEEK 3: THE AFGHAN WHIGS

This is one of my favourite bands of all time since about 95 when I saw their set at the Pinkpop festival on TV. Immediatly their raw mix of rock, r&b and soul struck a chord with me and instantly Greg Dulli became my first true rock hero, even more so than sid vicious or kurt cabain ever were. For the next two years or so I was pretty much obsessed with the band and I taped every live set on tv or radio until I got more involved with hardcore and gradually lost touch. I missed the black love album but got back into it briefly when 1966 came out. In 2002 I saw gentlemen in the discount bin and my love for the whigs returned with full force and within a couple days I bought all their albums.
My top 3 would be:
1.gentlemen
2.1966
3.black love
the older work is great too but their last three albums are defenitly the best. The video I will post here is from a song of the black love album and it's at some german fest after the release of 1966 when the band started getting smoother and smoother. They toured with a huge backing band with back up vocalists, keyboards and horn players. Watch how Greg Dulli gets some punk thrown out, it's awesome. I could talk about this band forever but I don't feel like typing so just sit back and watch. Make sure you also check out some of their Pinkpop set, it's on youtube.

Mark is awesome...

...and offcourse I already knew he's awesome but every other day he proves it again. So today he got me this, it's awesome:

NEW FEATURE 2: BAND RELATED QUESTIONS THAT KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT

My question about the killers got answered, thank you colin. So it looks like that question marks the birth of a new feature: band related questions that keep me up at night.

So yeah, last night another one popped into my head which kept me up. What the hell is wrong with that guitarist from London Beat, who is that guy? Are London Beat still together or has that guitarist moved on to bigger, better things?

check him out, he's the blond guy:

VISA

Today I got word my visa will be granted. Now I gotta go pick it up at the american embassy which is gonna be a huge pain in the ass plus that's gonna hurt my wallet again. but when it's all taken care of I'll be able to stay on tour for a year straight. it's kinda scary but tours for this fall are gonna be amazing.

Question

do the killers actually have a synth player? If so, why isn't he/she in any of their videos?

BAND OF THE WEEK 2

Sorry I'm a bit behind on this weeks band of the week, I been partying at White Mark's place, London and Sittard last weekend so I hardly been home. On top of that they gave me the night shift at a potatoe factory so I work all night and sleep all day.
This week's band of the week is not actually a band but it's DJ/producer DJ SKINHEAD.
DJ SKINHEAD shook the world in the second half of the nineties with his track Extreme Terror, which was faster and more importantly way loouder than anything that was going on in the hardcore/ gabber scene at that moment. DJ SKINHEAD was an alias for Oliver Chesler, a New Yorker who also produced tracks under aliases such as DJ Cybersnuff, DJ Silence, Horrorist and The Narcanosis but most important is the fact he runs Things To Come Records, one of the most respected techno labels.

Since there's no real video of this song you'll have to do with this video of these two young gabber kids dancing to this song. I recommend listening to the song all the way through, it's brutal as fuck.



Links of interest:
Things To Come Records

VOKUHILA

Vor Kurz Hinten Lang

proof germans are among the world's most crazy people.

mliw @ jerry's pizza

NEW FEAUTURE: BAND OF THE WEEK

I'm starting a band of the week feature on which I will share my love for certain bands with you guys. Here we go!

DUNE

Obviously taking their name from Frank Herbert's sci-fi series Dune took the world by storm with the release of their 1995 single Hardcore Vibes, but it wasn't until they added vocalist Verena Von Strenge, a former background dancer, that Dune finally caught my eye as a serious force in Raveland. Their songs Rainbow To The Stars, Hand in Hand and of course Million Miles Away From Home, written for Star Trek's 30th birthday are all still engraved in my eardrums as the best ravesongs ever written. What always appealled to me that amongst the 'happy hardcore' wave of that era, Dune always managed to have a certain melancholy, or sadness buried just underneath the surface that only became apparent after more than one listen. Ofcourse, this is in most part due to Verena's unbelievably clear voice.



1997 started off with a big shock for Dunefans worldwide, Verena decided to leave the band. Luckily just before she left they recorded a coverversion of Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever, which was somewhat of another shock since it feautured no synths, no beats and Verena's voice wasn't pitched at all. It was just the London Session Orchestra and Verena. The single reached top of the charts worlwide but after all that Dune's fame quickly dwindled. Verena left, weak singles, other member leaving, Verena's solo career failed, she came back, more weak singles and now in 2006 Dune is still around, however they haven't really been in the public's eye for almost ten years.



I still have fond memories of being sixteen and waking up with Rainbow to the Stars or Million Miles Away From Home, so I will rejoice the world by posting one of their videos below. I strongly suggest to check out Youtube for more amazing Dune material.



DUNE WEBSITE:

I laughed...

when I read this. it makes a lot of sense.

“Americans just aren’t gullible enough to believe that they came from a fish”

Another new project

I will soon be recording a bunch of new songs I wrote under the name of Sjarmpie Gazastrook. It will be kinda like Johnny Jordaan but opposite. Musically it will be comparable to Wesley or Jannes, or Franske Bauer.
Here's some titles (lyrics will be posted later when all the fuzz is over):
-Met m'n kanon naar libanon
-Israel, ze komen wel (terug)
-schieten, schieten, schieten op die israeliten
-beiroet ist kaput

this post must make no sense to non dutch speaker.