Boredoms-Vision Creation Newsun
I still have stuck in my head this one snippet from the only time I bothered listening to a Boredoms CD (almost 20 years ago).
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
(He was shouting “Acid Police” in some Pidgin version of English over and over. It was retarded, but certainly memorable as it stuck in my head FOREVER.)
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Boredoms-Vision Creation Newsun
I still have stuck in my head this one snippet from the only time I bothered listening to a Boredoms CD (almost 20 years ago).
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
(He was shouting “Acid Police” in some Pidgin version of English over and over. It was retarded, but certainly memorable as it stuck in my head FOREVER.)[/reply]
Hahaha…oh yeah,they certainly aren’t for everyone…the particular album I mentioned was a departure from that though…way more accessible…
Hahaha…oh yeah,they certainly aren’t for everyone…the particular album I mentioned was a departure from that though…way more accessible…
I have sort of fallen off the Boredoms train, after a period of being pretty enthused about them and their related projects. Living in Osaka for a while and being at the center of all that certainly helped; I played often at the club ‘Nanba Bears’ that is owned by Yamamoto Seiichi and had regular run-ins with all the auxiliary members. Never really saw Yamatsuka Eye unless he was playing a show though.
At some point though I think that the direction Eye took the band in was a little too close to orthodox hippie-dom for me (think the “as many drummers as possible” incarnations of the band.) Before I left Japan, all the interviews I was reading with him were infused with these really confused, incompatible spiritual concepts.
He eventually moved to the city of Nara because they had cleaner drinking water there; also it is well-known in the country for its population of domesticated deer that play in traffic and steal people’s ice cream cones and such, the lovable little scamps…
Living in Osaka for a while and being at the center of all that certainly helped; I played often at the club ‘Nanba Bears’ that is owned by Yamamoto Seiichi…[/reply]
That’s about as awesome as it gets. Nanba Bears has a fearsome reputation…even way down here in sunny old Melbourne.
I still have stuck in my head this one snippet from the only time I bothered listening to a Boredoms CD (almost 20 years ago).
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
AAASSEEEEDDDD!!!
PPPOOOOOLLLLLEEEEESSSSAAAAHHH!!!
(He was shouting “Acid Police” in some Pidgin version of English over and over. It was retarded, but certainly memorable as it stuck in my head FOREVER.)
Yeah, Acid Police! Taken from the album Chocolate Synthesizer. Great album.
I was obsessed with The Boredoms in the late 90’s when they were arguably at their peak. I remember being at a New Years rave way out in the country on top of an alarmingly high plateau in the Blue Mountains of outer Sydney. Completely e’d off my tits! At about 5am, As the sun was coming up, the dj suddenly played Vision Creation Newsun. The crowd went fucking apeshit. It was the single greatest musical event I have ever witnessed.
A friend of mine saw them in Osaka in the early 90’s. They played completely naked in a small club that was generally reserved for disco. The cops shut in down and there was a riot. The band made a run for it out the back door and escaped in their van which was painted up like the Scooby Doo Mystery Wagon.
I have just about everything the Boredoms ever released including the all the sideprojects: UFO Or Die, Hanatarash, Omoide Hatoba, Puzzle Punks, OOiOO, Audio Sports, Nani Nani…
I have just about everything the Boredoms ever released including the all the sideprojects…
I always thought the Boredoms were a side project of Merzbow. I never followed any of the bands, but I think I read that in a magazine article about 20 years ago and never had any reason to challenge it.
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I have just about everything the Boredoms ever released including the all the sideprojects…
I always thought the Boredoms were a side project of Merzbow. I never followed any of the bands, but I think I read that in a magazine article about 20 years ago and never had any reason to challenge it.[/reply]
Nah…they are both Japanese,that is the only connection…
That’s about as awesome as it gets. Nanba Bears has a fearsome reputation…even way down here in sunny old Melbourne.
It should, there’s very little like it that I’ve experienced. Though I don’t think I saw any artists from Oz play there - the heavy hitters like Oren Ambarchi generally got booked in nicer spaces like Cafe Independants in nearby Kyoto.
There’s no bar there (maybe if you’re lucky you can get a beer from a cooler when you pay your entry fee at the door). The space is SMALL, underground (literally), dark and powered by a P.A. with maybe twice the power that is truly needed for the room. There’s always this weird air of tension in there that is truly hard to describe, it just ‘feels’ like the kind of place where insurrectionary plotting would be going on.
The best thing is that, despite their reputation for booking the most un-commercial acts available, they still will have these hilarious ‘variety’ nights there where they just cram together 4-5 bands on a bill from conflicting or incompatible music genres. Anyone who can pay the “noruma” (Japanese term for pay-to-play) can join in on the fun. I still remember a night playing with a friend’s Painkiller-esque combo, in which we went on directly after a totally clean-cut band of Weezer knock-offs whose parents had come to see them play…
Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Bad Brains-Quickness
Black Flag-My War
A friend of mine saw them in Osaka in the early 90’s. They played completely naked in a small club that was generally reserved for disco. The cops shut in down and there was a riot. The band made a run for it out the back door and escaped in their van which was painted up like the Scooby Doo Mystery Wagon.
People often forget just how radical those guys were in their prime, in terms of committing acts that could have seriously destroyed their lives for good, or guaranteed that they had zero opportunities for re-integrating into ‘normal’ society if their art fell out of favor.
When Eye was fronting Hanatarash, had he succeeded in actually setting venues ablaze with the molotov cocktails he wielded, he could have been sentenced to years of hard labor or even DEATH.
Yep. It’s right there in Article 108 of the Japanese Penal Code, which states "“a person who sets fire to and burns a building, train, tram, vessel or mine actually used as a dwelling, or in which a person is actually present, shall be punished by the death penalty or imprisonment with work for life or for a definite term of not less than 5 years.”
Metallica - …And Justice For All
This record is like a time machine that takes me back to being 17 years old and driving to the convenience store to play Mortal Kombat and sneak looks at Penthouse and drink Crystal Pepsi.
Metallica - …And Justice For All
This record is like a time machine that takes me back to being 17 years old and driving to the convenience store to play Mortal Kombat and sneak looks at Penthouse and drink Crystal Pepsi.
What an album, absolute metal mastery, i don’t give a fuck if the bass can be heard or not.
Nirvana unplugged
Happy birthday Kurt ( would of been 48 )
What an album, absolute metal mastery, i don’t give a fuck if the bass can be heard or not.
Great stuff.
All of the first four records are simply perfection.
Nothing bad can be said about them.
Nothing.
led zeppelin
bbc sessions
Hey Revco, have you picked up any of the Zeppelin reissues?
If you want some good zeppelin get a hold of the lost miixes ep vol.1 - 7 then your talking…good stuff…
Hey Revco, have you picked up any of the Zeppelin reissues?
Led II so far. I’ll probably buy more though. The later releases interest me more.
Hey Revco, have you picked up any of the Zeppelin reissues?
I picked up IV and Houses Of The Holy. I had more or less worn out my old copies of these two gems - the cd cases were all cracked and the discs scuffed. The local cd warehouse had a big sale on and the Zep reissues were going cheap. I managed to score both for a measly $240. Not bad considering they were originally $200 each.
Over the weekend, listened to
Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers And Queers
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang
Elliot Smith - XO
Mars Volta - DeLoused In The Comatorium