In my late teens, I finished a night shift on a Friday morning, my mate picked me up in his Morris Marina and we drove from my house to St Austell in Cornwall, over 300 miles. I made him play Thick as a Brick on cassette tape all the way. He was begging for the tape to be changed by the time we got there.
New to me @Biff and worth a listen… will dig out their album and have a bit of a “rabbit hole” evening I think!
Checked out the Black Siren selection on iTunes, they only have 3 tracks on there, and 1 is an instrumental version of one of the others… Shane really.
Saw these on TV last night, one of my all time favourites. Seen them many times live back in the seventies and the amazing thing is they just don't seem to have aged one bit !
Lately I have been listening to Mike Campbell's side band "The Dirty Knobs" also like Peter Frampton's last 2 albums and the instrumental one, "Frampton Forgets The Words" is classic.
Some might point the “fretboard masturbation” finger, but feckin’ hell they’re good. Steve and Billy showing off and then sliding effortlessly into unison playing (about 6:20)… pretty awesome!
Tool at their creative finest, Prison Sex is a critique on how domestic abuse is much more likely to create an abuser than a “normal” childhood. The video contains no graphic violence or sexuality… but does portray a sinister and uncomfortable visual to the less restrained lyric. Musically talented would normally be enough for most people, but Tool also retained creative control over the visual elements and Adam Jones (guitarist and art director) does an amazing job here, like a Tim Burton film but is actually unsettling rather than just gothic.
