I’m snot-hanging, knee crawling drunk, dialing numbers for local strip joints and trying to call ex-girlfriends a touch tipsy and listening to southern rock:
I still think the Allman Brothers live at Ludlow Garage is one of the greatest albums ever made.
danielx
We gonna do some of this electric wine, and be back in a little while….
Little Boots
love that you’re still awake, if you are.
danielx
Also, too – God’s Own Drunk, and a fearless man.
…so was that still.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Tunch and the piglets are probably laughing at you.
Little Boots
I think I like drunk John.
dp
Something happened that is too weird not to share.
My laptop crashed, and I reloaded iTunes, and I had zero history, so I decided to play it start to finish to see how long it took. I kind of have a lot on it — 11,000+ songs.
Here’s the weird part. By sheer coincidence, I started it on my brother’s birthday, September 29. I finished it earlier tonight, March 23, which is my sister’s birthday.
I feel I may have to start a religion or something.
I may be a touch tipsy as well, but all the facts in this post are true and correct.
Satanicpanic
I’ve become a regular on friday nights at a local bar but couldn’t make it there this week. The other locals have been monopolizing the juke box with schmaltzy 70’s love songs for the past couple weeks and I’m thinking I might have to find a new bar. Dive bars should be either Classic Rock, Country or YMMV Hip-hop.
spaceman_spiff
That’s OK. I’m snot-hanging, knee crawling drunk, dialing numbers for local strip joints and trying to call ex-girlfriends myself. Oh, & listening to Nirvana..FWIW
John Cole
@Little Boots: Of course I am awake.
I’m really not that drunk at all, I just had a bottle or so of wine. I’m just energetic because I napped for an hour this afternoon AND had tea after 4 pm, so I am wide awake.
And really, any chance I get to listen to Waiting for Columbus at ear-bleeding volumes, I take. Period.
Omnes Omnibus
@danielx: And he commenced to do the bear dance….
specialed
I love Allman Bros 2nd Set, I’ll have to check out Ludlow Garage
Bnut
Since I moved to Nashville I have been exposed to more music than I ever listened to normally (my sister’s fiance is in the industry, so I get a lot of passes and whatnot). The local radio is really good. I’ve really come to like Fitz and Tantrums, Gotye, and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.
Little Boots
@Satanicpanic:
it’s true. no joke. dive bars have got to take the juke box selection seriously.
Omnes Omnibus
@dp: Weird. September 29 is my saint’s day and today is my niece’s birthday. It’s like we are twins.
Little Boots
@John Cole:
I think that’s a good rule.
spaceman_spiff
And right now my wife is on the couch, in front of the TV, fast asleep in front of Saving Private Ryan
Satanicpanic
@Little Boots: It’s one of those internet connected ones so they’re finding what I can only guess were the B-Sides to Endless Love and One, Twice, Three Times a Lady. There’s a time and a place! Personally, I want to hear old honky tonk, George Jones, I’m not even that country, it just fits.
Steeplejack
@Cole:
You’re talkin’ my language now, bro’. Allman Brothers rule. I have actually made the pilgrimage to Duane’s grave, which is close to that of Elizabeth Jones Reed, “loving wife of Briggs H. Napier,” in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia.
Also, too, for the linkage hat trick, one of my favorite lesser known gems of Southern rock: Les Dudek, “Old Judge Jones.”
Corner Stone
@spaceman_spiff: Ok. Step away from the wife. Slowly…carefully…find a nice patch of floor and just pass the fuck out on it.
Blanket would be nice. But not necessary.
kdaug
Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Convoy.
Little Boots
@Satanicpanic:
which makes sense.
there have to be rules, dammit.
Bnut
Ok, question. Any riders on here? Took my first motorcycle class last weekend, taking the medium class next weekend. I’m tired of driving the damn Z71 everywhere, I need to save some gas and it’s already pretty much a tow vehicle for the food truck so I would like to save some it’s miles. I’m looking at an 07 Rebel 250 for $1500 atm. Any thoughts on it as a first bike?
Yutsano
I will break out the Zac Brown band here. I’m serious. Don’t push me here folks.
Little Boots
@Yutsano:
and I will break out Nu– okay, I won’t. I don’t want Omnes to kill me.
Southwest of Heaven
Live at Ludlows Garage, shit yes.
I was working in a chain CD store in 1990 when I first heard that. Lo-fi, right from the sound board, raw as it gets. What a great set. The entire second disc is Mountain Jam for 44 minutes complete with dual drum solo. Enjoy yourselves!
freelancer
@Bnut:
Wear a goddamned helmet and layered clothes. When I worked in the OR, all the trauma surgeons called them “donorcycles”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bnut: How big are you? A modern 250 is good enough for most people as an in town bike. If you are bigger or may do many highway miles, a bigger bike might be needed.
ulee
I’ve been listening to Sweet Home Alabama on youtube. Love the backup singers. Neil Young says its a great song..no real rivalry.
Little Boots
actually, neil young might be nice right about now.
Corner Stone
@Bnut: Do you weigh 140lb or less?
Then the 250 anything is not for you.
Just Some Fuckhead
Oooh, let’s make it a dance party.
nellcote
A real dive bar has Sinatra on the jukebox.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Let’s keep it old-school and Southern fried tonight, pardner. I know you got some suitable nouveau country up your sleeve.
Wet Willie, “Grits Ain’t Groceries.”
Bnut
@freelancer: Yes, yes, yes. I have a great helmet, full leather, combat boots and a good truck to drive in the rain and for long trips. I appreciate the sentiment, but I have read the bike forums and seen the pics of things that can happen. I know I’m not invincible (something I wish someone had told me before I joined the Marine Corps), but I also am going to do this, so…
@Omnes Omnibus: @Corner Stone: I weigh about 200 atm, fighting weight is about 180.
danielx
@Bnut:
No advice on bikes, I gave them up after an incident involving a brutal amount of tequila and near as dammit straining myself through a chain link fence. I’m younger than that now…
Little Boots
@nellcote:
I suspect you’re right, but there’s something about southern rock that just fits.
MattR
@Little Boots: John Mulaney agrees
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
God, it took them forever to get around to actually doing the song. How ’bout “Everything Thatcha Do”?
Little Boots
not sure this is southern rock, but I love it, and it fits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
Satanicpanic
@Bnut: Good songs there (Ok, I wasn’t too into the middle one) I swear I’ve heard that Black Joe Lewis song somewhere before.
Corner Stone
@Bnut:
Yep. That’s what all the families say. After.
Seriously man. I had a GSXR 750 that I loved so much. And never loved more than the day I sold it.
freelancer
@Bnut:
No I know, I sound like my mom, and as Pacino says in HEAT “You can get killed walking your doggie!” We all pay the piper at some point.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bnut: A 250 is too small for you. You might want to look for a well maintained, used 500. I personally don’t like sport bikes or cruisers. I am a fan of straight-up classic bikes. They are more versatile.
Little Boots
Bnut, you seem younger than your years.
you really do.
and I’m jealous.
Trinity
Best.Cole.Evar.
(Trinity +4 Woo!)
nellcote
Well, ok then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
I miss Hammond B3s
PeakVT
@Bnut: I had a bike for a while, but it end up scaring me b/c I was cheap and bought a crappy one. So, whatever price point you pick, make sure it’s in good shape. IIRC the Rebel has an incredibly low C of G, so it’s a good starter bike.
Steeplejack
Robert Palmer, “Sailin’ Shoes.” Produced by Lowell George, with pieces and parts of the Meters and/or Little Feat backing.
Little Boots
@Trinity:
it kinda is.
Little Boots
johnnie’s in a good mood.
Petorado
Cole, if you think Ludlow Garage is cool, try the Allman’s doing a Robert Johnson song. Haven’t found it on any album, but it’s as good as they’ve ever been.
Sawgrass Stan
Just got done for the night, and I’m out of the studio and celebrating with a bottle o’ Bass and the prospect of getting paid. Recalled Wisc.Repub state pol managed to beat a DUI/etc. charge by blaming it on the DFH unionized Po-lice, who musta had it in for him. The jury bought it. (TPM, but you read it already.)
Guess I’d better have another Bass or two. At least I’m not planning to drive.
Bnut
@Corner Stone:@Corner Stone: I’m not hot dog. And I’m well aware of my mortality. But your advice is [email protected]Omnes Omnibus: What do you mean by classic? I don’t want a sport [email protected]Little Boots: Thanks?
Also, scored Jack White tickets at Ryman Auditorium. Fuck yeah.
wasabi gasp
@Bnut: My sister started on a Rebel. She was petite and the bike fit her well, but even she grew tired of its lack of power. Before long, she got a bigger bike.
Mnemosyne
For some reason, our local rock oldies station has been playing .38 Special a lot, so now I remember that they have some really good pop songs, like this one and this one. Other than that, not a big fan of the subgenre.
Little Boots
does john mellencamp work?
human wheel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWMmxyKOR0&ob=av2e
Petorado
@nellcote:
Effing iTunes won’t let me buy that without buying the entire disk. Gah! One of the best songs I’ve ever heard.
Little Boots
I kinda wish John would check in.
is that needy?
Omnes Omnibus
I know this will probably get me banned, but Little feat has never done anything for me. Nothing against them, but they leave me entirely meh.
Satanicpanic
@Little Boots: Are you worried that he’s injured himself in another round of nude mopping?
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
you have no soul.
it’s official now.
Bnut
@Omnes Omnibus: Sorta feel the same about Humble Pie.
Never had a comment moderated. Because I responded to 3 posters?
Little Boots
@Satanicpanic:
a little.
but wait, pics?
dead existentialist
@Steeplejack: Psst. Come with me.
Trinity
Stella!
Artois, that is.
Alison
@freelancer: It probably makes me weird but that is my favorite line from that movie. Something about him, especially as that character, saying the word “doggie”. My ex and I used to use it constantly as an inside joke, whenever someone would say “You could…” or “You might…” with some Bad Thing following, we’d throw out that line and cackle away while everyone else stared at us like the nutjobs we were.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I am a lawyer.
@Bnut: No argument from me.
ulee
@Little Boots: With chronic alcoholics, one must learn to live with their erratic behavior and unexplained absences.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Hearing .38 Special always makes me think of “Saturday Night Special,” which should be one of their songs. I have a mild Lynyrd Skynyrd aversion because of the ubiquity of “Free Bird” in my younger days. Ngrr!
On the mellow side of Southern rock, Marshall Tucker Band, “Heard It in a Love Song” (apologies for the weird video).
Little Boots
@Bnut:
if only you had a beard.
otherwise, BANNED!
Little Boots
@ulee:
true.
wait? is that directed at him or me?
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I believe he is straight. Why would he need a beard?
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: You fergot your rimshot. :)
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
apparently he wants one.
I don’t get it either.
Satanicpanic
@Trinity: DAmnit I am out of beer. Only have vodka left.
Little Boots
@Satanicpanic:
this is not a tragedy.
ulee
@Little Boots: It is directed at Cole and 90% of Balloon Juice commenters, not excluding myself.
Little Boots
I should sleep, but I won’t.
why does this site wake me up?
Satanicpanic
@Little Boots:
Uh, I haven’t seen them
freelancer
@Little Boots:
Yes. This is like the third consecutive weekend that this has been pointed out to you. You’re an amusing contributor, but you seem to hang on the word of everyone that responds to you. Let’s change the playbook and try a little self-confidence.
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
Srsly? You wouldn’t be my dixie chicken? : (
Little Boots
@ulee:
knew I liked this place for some reason.
Sawgrass Stan
@Petorado: Fantastic. Absolutely! One of the two R.Johnson tunes I can play (not for public consumption), and DB does some nice things on the lower frets. RJ plays mostly on the 12th fret with a muted bass drone on the original, but uh– blah, blah, blah– sorry.
The Allmans always seemed to be playing somewhere in So. Fla. when I was in High School, and I’ve always regretted that I didn’t sneak out to see them more often.
One more Bass, and I’m going to go put that box in an open D, and then listen to that wind howlin’….
But the Allmans never seemed to be “Southern Rock” to me. All the other SR bands seemed more stuck in a genre rut. Maybe it was the Allman’s feeling for the blues. Maybe just good luck with song choices….
Little Boots
@freelancer:
oh, don’t be a bitch. we’re all having fun here.
Steeplejack
Can’t forget the Atlanta Rhythm Section: “Spooky.”
And, hey, I used to live in Doraville!
eemom
@Just Some Fuckhead:
A fuckie sighting! A fuckie sighting!
[blooort] [bloooort]
Bnut
@Little Boots: Please?
ulee
@freelancer: I agree with Little Boots. Don’t be a wet blanket.
Little Boots
see, try to get into the spirit of the thing, like bnut.
Steeplejack
@Satanicpanic:
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
MattR
Widespread Panic covering Bloodkin’s “Can’t Get High“. Not the greatest version, but watching La Bamba groove makes it worthhile. And the closing verse is pretty cool too
Steeplejack
@dead existentialist:
Nice Robert Palmer link. I like all his stuff, especially pre-“Addicted to Love.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
One of my favorites off Double Fun.
nellcote
Oh, that Lowell George
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VcBBhMVhpE&feature=BFa&list=PLB2F63C19613554E9&lf=results_video
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: In the words of o Kate Pierson, “I’m just asking.”
Satanicpanic
Is everyone here west coast? Or just insomniacs?
Bnut
@Little Boots: Still waiting for someone to pull one of these.
Satanicpanic
@Steeplejack: It isn’t now. But tomorrow morning it will be.
Little Boots
@Bnut:
stick around, it’s a question of time.
John Cole
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
@Satanicpanic:
there is a way to deal with that,you’ve got to throw fire in the hole and deprive it of oxygen.
sammy johns chevy van does that quite well.
Steeplejack
@Satanicpanic:
NoVa night owl here.
dead existentialist
I think I’ll kill myself.
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: No. I love NOLA, but the rest of the south confuses me. Okay, NOLA confuses me too, but it is worth it. And I haven’t done the Bourbon Street thing in 24 years.
ulee
Where is John? He started this whole thing. I do not understand where John has gone. It is strange that John is not participating in this drunkfest.
freelancer
@Little Boots:
We are having fun. I’m watching a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, attempt at a psychological thriller called 88 minutes because a very fun podcast called “How did this get made?” covered the movie in their last show. This movie blows chunks. But it does have Amy Brenneman, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski turning in their attempts at decent performances, and Racetrack from BSG gratuitously nekkid in the first 10 minutes.
It doesn’t make the film any less stupid, but it helps.
Petorado
@Sawgrass Stan:
Happy to please!
Another pseudo southern rock classic was Sealevel – 54 Back then, southern culture seemed to have moved to a post-racial phase. Lee Atwater had other ideas at the time.
Little Boots
don’t love it, johnie.
it’s no weight.
is weight southern rock, by the way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
Little Boots
@freelancer:
actually that sounds hilarious.
enjoy.
trollhattan
Hello, Montana. Are you missing this guy? Well, you can bloody well have him back.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/03/man-jailed-after-sacramento-airport-screening-leads-authorities-to-stash-of.html
Rampaging Ronnie Reagan on a Ritz, we have enough homegrown wackos, we don’t need any imported, m’kay?
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Well played.
ETA: But let Levon take it all.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
merci.
Little Boots
but I’m honestly curious.
what exactly IS southern rock?
Satanicpanic
@Marcellus Shale, Public Dick: oh jeez
Steeplejack
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, “Midnight in Harlem.” (It’s got a little B-3 for that person upthread.)
Steeplejack
@Marcellus Shale, Public Dick:
“Chevy Van”?! You have just beshat this thread.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
okay, that is hilarious.
Bnut
@Little Boots: Guitar focus, hard to differentiate between that and blues rock. I think “genres” are largely made up at this point anyway. Like what you like.
BigSouthern
Two of the best playing guitar today – Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks – doing acoustic “Old Friend.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauECrCIYl8
Little Boots
and you know what else?
I like John.
he can be difficult, but he can also be fun. and he runs a great site.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
It can be done Southern–by Little Feat, even.
Trinity
@Satanicpanic: Unacceptable!
Actually, this is my last beer. :(
But there is a liquor cabinet. :)
And Cole is killin’ me with the tunes.
Little Boots
@Bnut:
what would you say is southern rock, other than lynyrd skynyrd or allmann brothers? the band? neil young?
Sawgrass Stan
@Petorado: thanks, still waiting for the vid to load, but I’ll assume it’s worth waiting for.
BTW– I’ve got two close friends who are astonishingly talented musicians, and they can barely make a living playing down here. Gigs at clubs pay the same, or less, that they did ten years ago. “Don’t quit your day job” has always been the rule, but both of these guys are real pro’s– books, session dates, decent press– but they get less club work than ever. Are good local musicians getting work where you all are, or is it just here in benighted Scottland?
Satanicpanic
@Trinity: I’ve kept my mouth shut, but I’m just not into southern rock. Or classic rock. Just not my thing. And I’m enjoying my vodka. +5
freelancer
@Little Boots:
I’d say Neil Young counts.
Little Boots
@freelancer:
I would think so, too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Neil Young is Canadian. All of the Band except Levon Helm are Canucks as well (I believe).
Bnut
@Little Boots: Yes to the Band. Young strikes me as more folk rock, same with CSNY.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
that is hilarious.
somehow wrong, but somehow right.
MaxxLamge
Trivia corner! Amaze your friends!
Oteil Burbridge, the current Allman Brothers bassist, appeared in the Peter Sellars film “Being There”, as one of the thugs in the “message for Raphael” scene.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
@Steeplejack:
its almost the perfect faux sensitive guy 70s singer songwriter style song, no?
Little Boots
I totally agree with you, theoretically, bnut, but this seems like the epitome of southern rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221mohEolWc&feature=related
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Southern Rock would include, in my opinion, Lynryrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, the Marshall-Tucker Band, and the like.
@Steeplejack: God, that is good.
MattR
@Little Boots: You can’t really classify Neil. I’d say the Band has a southern sound even though they largely lack the heritage (everyone other than Levon Helm is Canadian). I kinda want to call them folk rock, but there is too much screaming guitar. For southern rock, I’d go .38 Special, Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band, Little Feat, Molly Hatchet. (EDIT: I’d add the Black Crowes as a more modern example. Also, IMO, southern rock has a bit more of a country twang to the guitar than blues rock)
Little Boots
or maybe that really is folk. that would work too.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
“Southern rock” is rock by bands from the South, heyday (starting) in the ’70s. Strong beat, blues-inflected and usually featuring the distinctive sound of the Gibson Les Paul guitar. (Almost all of the links I have put up tonight have that.)
Little Boots
@MattR:
maybe he is just what he is.
folk rock does seem a lot closer.
Trinity
@Satanicpanic: I cannot argue with Vodka.
+5 and counting???
For the record, I am a 40 year old black girl from the suburbs this is what i groove to on nights like this…it’s a personal problem.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
No, no, no.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
that’s totally folk rock, isn’t it?
Sawgrass Stan
@Bnut: CSNY were folk-rock, but Young never quite seemed comfortable with the style. He always had–has!– an appreciation for the joy and sorrow that loud distorted guitars can bring. I don’t always like him, but he doesn’t pigeonhole easily.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Yes, yes, yes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Good sweet Christ, no! Wonderful song, but not southern rock.
ETA: Here’s why.
Little Boots
@Trinity:
actually that’s sort of wonderful, in a lesbiana way, but wonderful.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
yeah, again, folk rock?
freelancer
@Omnes Omnibus:
For whatever reason, I was under the impression he was from Tennessee. It’s probably from a story he told about where the song Old Man originated from, but now that I looked it up, he was talking about his ranch in Cali and has nothing to do with Tennessee.
Memory is baffling, please tell me it get’s better.
Omnes Omnibus
Deleted. Oops.
MattR
@Little Boots: It really depends on which Neil Yound album your listening to.
Little Boots
just trying to get the distinctions.
Bnut
@Sawgrass Stan: Like I said, genres are increasingly stupid. Look at what has happened in rap music. It’s less than half as old as rock, yet people struggle to classify different artists at this point. Also, much like race in people, music classification is used by others to either support or tear down those who are “different”.
Omnes Omnibus
@freelancer: I can’t help you there. As time goes on there are more memories to process. Sorry.
ETA: And now to bed.
Kris Collins
Very long-time lurker, can’t remember if I have ever commented, but whatever, this reminded me of my greatest “brush with fame.” It was circa 1974 or 75 not quite sure now, I was on the road with my then husband in our crappy lounge-lizard type dance band (you know, covers of Doobie Brothers and the Captain and Tenille.) We were in a very nice Sheraton Inn in Buffalo rehearsing one afternoon when this guy with long blond hair came into the bar. We played for a bit, he invited us to join him for a beer, we had a nice chat. Turned out to be Greg Allman, recently married to Cher, in town to take the cure. Lovely man, brilliant musician, one of my best memories. I also ran into Cher later that night in the ladies room, very nice, insanely skinny. I know this sounds nuts but would I make up the Buffalo Sheraton Inn? As somebody says in a better fantasy than this, “you can look it up!”
Little Boots
but what is this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs3PCDM8Eg&feature=related
ulee
Little Boots knows that Neil Young and everyone but Levon Helms from The Band is Canadian. This is hilarious theatre.
MattR
@freelancer: Neil was born in Toronto but moved to Winnipeg as a teen where my mom remembers watching him play high school dances and then small clubs where she also saw folks (pun intended) like Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez
EDIT: Mom was also at the Newport Folk Festival where Dylan got booed for going electric. God I hate her ;)
Little Boots
@Kris Collins:
you are a lucky lady. particularly tonight.
Little Boots
@ulee:
no he doesn’t.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
This thread is practically a CliffsNotes version of Southern Rock for Dummies. Did you listen to any of the songs?
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Neil Young is sui generis. He worked with Devo in the mid-70s. Don’t try to pigeonhole. And now I really am going to bed.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
I did. don’t be angry.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
I’m starting to think he was.
MattR
@Omnes Omnibus: And Rick James before he (Neil) joined Buffalo Springfield.
Little Boots
good lawyerly use of sui generis by the way.
Satanicpanic
@Trinity: to each their own. The confident I’ve gotten in my own music playing abilities (which are still, sadly, not that developed) the less I judge people’s choices. On any given day I’m likely to be driving my car listening to cheesy Top 40.
MattR
Even though the heyday of Southern Rock was the 70’s and this is the Black Crowes in 1995, it feels like the perfect example of southern rock to me.
dead existentialist
@Trinity: Yes it is “a very personal problem,” but this place is a cesspool of personal problems so you’re probably good.
I threatened suicide up-thread, and everybody acted like I was dead or something.
Fuck, I’m drunk +
Little Boots
I still miss john, and I do not need a lecture about that, bitches.
piratedan
@Little Boots: well it really IS a regional thing and while Neil Young can sing about it and may even claim to understand it, it’s almost one of those “you have to have lived it” kind of things. It’s a pretty decent list of bands that are either “southern rock” or have southern rock influences. Certainly bands like Little Feet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, Lynard Skynard but its more than just those headliners, you have a whole 2nd and 3rd tier of bands and even spanning generations if you want to consider groups like The Black Crowes and Georgia Satellites. Also, people who have a foot in this camp (i.e. I admit it, I reached my maturity cutting my teeth on this stuff) can get tetchy about it. Especially by claiming that Neil Young is a Southern rock musician when he’s spent a fair amount of his time writing songs that are less than favorable about the south (If you care to advocate on behalf of Lynard Skynard and their opinion of him).
Satanicpanic
@dead existentialist: Dude, I thought that was just a comment on the music choices.
Steeplejack
@Trinity:
A “bridge” song for you: William DeVaughn, “Be Thankful for What You’ve Got.” Another old-school classic from the ’70s. (But not “Southern rock”!)
Little Boots
omnes? hey, hey, my, my?
piratedan
the video is nonsensical, but the tune kicks ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBAwV1kmNBY
Sawgrass Stan
@Bnut: Uhh… Word(cough)! I agree, as long as we’re talking about artists that don’t want to be confined to a single style–or label. But some artists very happily self-select their “labels.” Look at the artists that want to be known as Blues musicians, or Jazz, when those categories aren’t anywhere as rigid as they used to be. I don’t have a problem imagining Neil Young partnering with a major Blues artist for an album, but I can’t see him doing an album of Standards……..
Wait— that could be awesome! Ramp up the distortion!
BTW– When the Band was still Levon and the Hawks, they hooked up with Levon’s boyhood radio idol Sonny Boy Williamson for some back-alley jams, and made some tentative plans to be his backup band. Sonny Boy spoiled it all by dying. (Robert Palmer, “Deep Blues”)
Little Boots
@piratedan:
thank you. that’s actualy really helpful. which is kinda nice around here.
MattR
@dead existentialist: Geez. I missed that. Hope it was a fleeting feeling and nothing more serious. If not, please talk to someone (immediately if need be, or in the near future otherwise). Things can get better even when that seems impossible. If you can’t find someone, let me know and I’ll give you my email address.
Little Boots
@Steeplejack:
thank you, bitter.
Steeplejack
@dead existentialist:
Yup! Check your nym, dude.
Little Boots
de, come on, stop. just show up and have fun.
dead existentialist
@Satanicpanic: Well it was. I was just seeking attention.
Yer right, I’m not going to kill myself. Tonight’s playlist will.
Little Boots
@dead existentialist:
so, be amusing, at least.
Steeplejack
Forgot the Kentucky Headhunters: “Big Boss Man.”
(Little Boots: Les Paul guitar solo at 2:10.)
Satanicpanic
@dead existentialist: Have some Black Lips Goodnight
piratedan
@Little Boots: np, amongst others on the list….
Molly Hatchet
Nantucket
Rosington-Collins Band
The Outlaws
Ozark Mountain Daredeveils
Mountain
and if others need to pile on, they can do so… just saying that the genre does have some overlap with country and western and western rock and even some of the southern beach music.
Little Boots
@piratedan:
Outlaws.
I could not remember the outlaws. thank you.
Little Boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjqlx8eSfQ
Steeplejack
Southern, but not “Southern rock”: Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Hit ’Em Up Style.”
dead existentialist
@Satanicpanic: Sweet!
MattR
So now that we’ve defined southern rock and described Neil Young, let’s try and categorize the Velvet Underground. (Just found this cover of “Oh! Sweet Nothin'” by the Black Crowes)
Petorado
@Sawgrass Stan:
Hard to say if any local bands are making money. One that’s making great music probably isn’t. Bless the starving artists, for they will go into the afterlife having created stuff the rest of us wish we had.
Sawgrass Stan
@dead existentialist: like some of the other folks said, we’re here to help if you need it. But as far as being drunk, well, dude, just look at the title of this thread. This probably ought to be called “It’s Friday Night and Are Those Twelve Steps or Am I just Seeing Double??” John C’s asleep with His Animals by now, and i’m off to kick the animals off my bed so I can sleep with my wife.
piratedan
@MattR: ummm… fucking Bizarre seems to be the best categorization I can make for them, will that do?
Little Boots
outlaws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjqlx8eSfQ
MattR
@piratedan: That’s better than any other word I’ve thought of.
Little Boots
ghostriders in the sky.
quick post something before omnes gets here.
Sawgrass Stan
Petorado: Just hope the really talented folks can keep up their morale and keep playing– being a musician is usually a great way to almost starve to death. However– there are a bunch of old, retired swing musicians who like to get together and play the old charts at the community center in my little village. They’re still pretty good, and you’ve got to hand it to a guy who can still swing with an alto sax even though he’s using a walker. And thanks for the links; very much appreciated. You are a man of taste.
Good morning, all!
Little Boots
actually, for Omnes in his not bitter mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0sAgm9Vz50
piratedan
@MattR: sorry to be so flip Matt, I love my tunage but I’m also a firm believer in that what works for me may not work for you, as such, I do my best to not get pissy about anyone else’s musical preferences. Strictly a ymmv kind of thing.
MattR
@Sawgrass Stan: My sister followed up quitting her job and going back to school with marrying a musician. You can imagine how thrilled my parents were by that combination. But her husband is a great guy, she now has a PhD and a job that gives them both health insurance (and the latter was really always my parents biggest concern)
@piratedan: I am not a VU fan and I was also being serious. I couldn’t think of a good single word description for them. And “bizzare” really does work as well as anything else. (EDIT: I do like “Loaded” but it’s also the least Velvety of their albums – which is probably why I like it)
LosGatosCA
Could be. Of course Live at the Fillmore East IS the best album ever made.
And if you find the Nazz version of Hello, it’s Me, on the jukebox you are in a true dive bar. If the beer is Carling black label in long necks for 45 cents, then its happy hour in the Twilight Zone.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I’d have to be far beyond “drunk” to listen to “Southern Rock”. I’d need to be either “asleep” or “unconscious”.
Clime Acts
I believe Little Boots is a spoof sock puppet.
But whose spoof sock puppet is it…?
aangus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4-4ifhixg&src_vid=0_8-Fm1vfw0&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_152180
aangus
@Clime Acts
LOL!
aangus
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWJFC_ock8
aangus
En haut!
aangus
Oh yeah….
Did I forge my favourite Allman Bros.
Blue Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC5s3nzVzo
Raven
Little Feat was an LA band. . .and not SOUTH LA.
DaveinME
That there is the truth!! Mountain Jam from that album is simply one of the best!!
RL
Here’s some great new Southern rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLUWmdk7ks&feature=youtu.be
john patrick
We twelve hours different here in Taiwan, but it’s that time of the evening here for me. Which means it’s time for my alltime jezbout unconscious vid – “Wonderin'” by Neil and the Shocking Pinks.
S. cerevisiae
Lord have mercy on my soul, how many chickens have I stole?
Jebediah
@Bnut:
I know I am wicked late here, but if you are still around I wanted to throw in my two cents about your bike choice. As a few people have pointed out, a 250 is on the small side for someone your size, but modern bikes do squeeze more power out of each cc. For a first bike anyway you don’t want gobs of power, not until our riding skills, reflexes, and instincts are up to it. And if you just use it to commute, (not to go racing through canyons etc.) you might never feel the need to get a bigger bike. But a smaller, less expensive bike is always a good idea until, after several thousand miles of riding, you start to figure out what you like about riding and thereby figure out what your ideal second bike would be. I vote “yes” on the Rebel. (As long is this particular one is mechanically sound, of course.)
Not to be a nudge, but helmet-jacket-gloves EVERY TIME and pay attention to your tires’ pressure and tread condition, since you only have two. And accept the fact that you will hit the deck at some point. We all do.
Welcome to two-wheel world – have fun!
piratedan
@Raven:@Raven: granted, but their music transcended many genres and a great amount of their early work dealt with southern themes (hell, even wiki has them with a southern rock label, amongst many others)