[reply]WALL OF VOODOO!!!
Ahhh, every once in a while I run across someone else that knows who Andy is. God bless you.[/reply]
Man that smmystown tape I ripped for you was dark as fuck!
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grmpysmrf
Since most of his stuff now is via iTunes or some such digital faggitry I haven’t really been picking it up, but I’ve been listening to a lot of it as he makes tracks accessible on his FB and such.
I don’t know if you do FB, but he’s been fairly attentive lately on his account and has been doing some cool stuff . . . http://www.facebook.com/#!/AndyPrieboy?fref=ts
“Seven Days in Sammystown” and “Sins Of Our Fathers” are two CD’s that I could not imagine life without.
I’ve never seen him perform live, and I hope he eventually crawls out of his cave and decides to do some gigs again, but he’s told me he has no plans to.
I didn’t hear the one he recently did…either 2009 or 10 I believe…you heard that one?
And as for the stuff from 2 or 3 years back . . . it’s cool, but more in the goofy vaudevill Rodgers/Hammerstein vein again. I heard whatever tracks were released at the time “Hearty Drinking Men”, “Pricks”, “Bands”.
I really like when he has that oddball mix of extreme raw emotion and subtly awkward goofiness. It makes the “comedy” seem almost like a mask and the pain that much deeper and darker. “Who Do You Think We’re Coming For?” just moves me like nobody’s business, as does “Wine Red and TV Blue”.
His cover of Paranoid just seemed like a wailing cry of dark desperation or something. I’ve not heard anything so lovely in a long long time. Anyway, I’m hoping it’s a harbinger of things to come.
I don’t do itunes or Facebook…maybe I will grab it at some point and check it out…I’m curious about White Trash Hits the Lotto also…
I don’t do itunes or Facebook…maybe I will grab it at some point and check it out…I’m curious about White Trash Hits the Lotto also…
I found someone that had a taped copy of it from one of the long-running Largo performances. She wanted to upload it but Andy told her not to (she said he was very polite about it, by the way).
A year or two back there were a handful of really cool performances he’d done. Different interpretations he’d done of his various songs and so forth. Most of that is gone also, except for the stuff that, I assume, is owned by others (like the Conan O’Brien performance).
There’s one number from “White Trash” that they performed on the Conan O’Brien Show. I’ll post it later if you don’t find it. I wish I’d have seen the show when it was playing, but that was before everyone had internet and it flew under my radar even though it was well in my driving distance.
I also highly recommend his book “The Psycho Ex Game”. Like him, it is dark and dryly comical. And it blurrs a lot of the lines between fiction and autobiography. Very interesting.
Can we talk about Sabbath again for a minute? I genuinely don’t get the love for Master Of Reality and Sabotage like most do…sure there’s some great cuts, but the production and writing on them are so ridiculous…
But then again, I am a fan of Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! so what the fuck do I know…
But then again, I am a fan of Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! so what the fuck do I know…
Yeah what the fuck do you know?
Just talkin shit. Technical Ecstasy was pretty good. It fuckin had “Dirty Women” as the closer! One of my all time faves. I actually hope “It’s Alright” gets played at my funeral. Speaking of that one, Axl did a shitty cover of it on the Live Era album.
Speaking of Sabbath covers, any Ulver fans on here? They covered “Solitude” and it’s one of the most depressing things I’ve ever heard.
“It’s Alright” … Axl did a shitty cover of it on the Live Era album.
I actually like this cover and didn’t know it was a cover, he always played it as the warm up intro for November Rain in concert.
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply]“It’s Alright” … Axl did a shitty cover of it on the Live Era album.
I actually like this cover and didn’t know it was a cover, he always played it as the warm up intro for November Rain in concert.
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
Dude,you need a Sab history lesson…although I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t even know it’s a Sab song upon first listen being that Bill Ward sings it…
Yeah, it’s one of the LEAST Sabbathy songs there are. Sounds more like something you’d find on a WINGS album. There’s a couple decent tracks on “Tecnical Ecstasy”. I love “Never Say Die”, though (“Junior’s Eyes” being one of my all time faves). The album has such a funky vibe to it, and many of the tracks have that hurried sense of urgency, like they all knew they had 5 minutes to get the album done before retreating back to their respective caves and praying for sweet merciful death to befall one another.
Never Say Die fucking rules…Johnny Blade!!! People shit on it because of it’s experimental nature…apparently many don’t like saxaphones with their Sabbath!!! I loved the kind of strange avant-garde bent of that record and I’ll always wonder where it would have taken them…
Technical Ecstasy is cool too but it suffered from Iommi taking the production helm and plus it has for me what is the single worst Sab song in history which is “She’s Gone”…what a maudlin dreary piece of shit song…
[reply][reply]“It’s Alright” … Axl did a shitty cover of it on the Live Era album.
I actually like this cover and didn’t know it was a cover, he always played it as the warm up intro for November Rain in concert.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Dude,you need a Sab history lesson…although I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t even know it’s a Sab song upon first listen being that Bill Ward sings it…[/reply]
I’m only familiar with the paranoid album and a few other songs here and there. Never been one much for sabbath… weird to hear its alright played by somene other than axl. I think axl plays and sings it much more fluid.
Late,
grmpysmrf
[reply][reply][reply]“It’s Alright” … Axl did a shitty cover of it on the Live Era album.
I actually like this cover and didn’t know it was a cover, he always played it as the warm up intro for November Rain in concert.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
Dude,you need a Sab history lesson…although I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t even know it’s a Sab song upon first listen being that Bill Ward sings it…[/reply]
I’m only familiar with the paranoid album and a few other songs here and there. Never been one much for sabbath… weird to hear its alright played by somene other than axl. I think axl plays and sings it much more fluid.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]
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With the exception of “Technical Ecstasy” (I don’t even own a copy at this point) I consider all of the Ozzy albums as ESSENTIAL Sabbath.
Back to Master of Reality – the songs are terrific, and the album flows really well from one track to the next (something that early Sabbath is really great for, sometimes to such an extent that you never know the track titles even) but . . . The production? Yeah, it’s raw and crusty. I don’t know if Gilligan and the Skipper recorded it with some string and a couple coconuts or what. I used to always defend it’s roughness as if that’s some street-level mark of badassery or something, but nowadays, YEAH, I’d love if they could clean it up with some remastering or something.
Master got the deluxe edition treatment, so I’m sure it’s remastered.
Master got the deluxe edition treatment, so I’m sure it’s remastered.
Awesome! Thanks! I’ll look for that. I never stay on top of these things. Still spinning my scratchy originals with their lame ass single sheet inserts . . . .
I got that big black box set with all the remastered Ozzy era albums…the cleaned em up nicely…
Masters of Reality fucking owns,btw…
I got that big black box set with all the remastered Ozzy era albums…the cleaned em up nicely…
Masters of Reality fucking owns,btw…
Nice! That’s the one that came out about 9-10 years back, right? I remember seeing it, but couldn’t really justify paying $100 or however much for a bunch of CD’s I already owned.
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I got that big black box set with all the remastered Ozzy era albums…the cleaned em up nicely…
Masters of Reality fucking owns,btw…
Nice! That’s the one that came out about 9-10 years back, right? I remember seeing it, but couldn’t really justify paying $100 or however much for a bunch of CD’s I already owned. [/reply]
Yeah,that’s the one…I only had the Sab stuff on the original vinyl at that time so that’s how I justified droppping the bread to get it…it’s a good boxset…
Here’s version of Children Of The Grave with different lyrics. From disc 2 of the deluxe edition of Master Of Reality.