Rival Sons - Face of Light.... Holy shit, amazing music.

This band was shown to me by a great friend, he saw them in concert and then the lucky bastard met them after! I think I’m in love with this bands music. They have a great shot at changing music, and they’ve got this great old school meets new school rock and roll sound. Fuckin hell yes. Rock on guys, this one will be a favorite for years to come.

Moment of Clarity, give it a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BKKr_CAAI&feature=related

This is just fucking brilliant. We need to help out with getting this world in order again and getting rid of these corporate assholes.

Smells Like Teen Spirit.

This cover kicks ass!

"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."

---

- Voltaire

"You didn’t join a band to make a million bucks. You did so to shake things up. Freak out the straights. Fight the man. Fuck all the rules until they bent so far backwards they broke in two."

---

- Mick Wall

Love Her Madly

So I basically started this “blog” (if that’s what you would like to call it) to talk about things, put music I like out there, artists, poets, painters, writers, among many others who listen to the muses. (No not that slightly annoying British rock band) I titles the post after my favorite song by “The Doors”. I recently got into them over the summer because one of my great friends got me interested in them, the music, the mystery, the myth, the poetry, the tragedy….among other factors of the band. Regardless….this post is mainly about me feeling like complete and utter shit today.

I have this girl I love, and yes I know what many people are thinking. “Oh shit, another 18 year old who thinks they know what love is.” Well I say fuck that, because despite my age, I do know, I do feel the love, and I can also feel the thundering pain in the pit of my chest. Love has really gotten me down, and all I’ve been able to do is hide from it.

I feel like this is me venting about problems, hardly anyone will read this (As I predict for the next little while till the music thing kicks off). Regardless, I need to get this shit off my chest. Things have been feeling like I can’t talk to anyone anymore, not even my friends some times, and when I DO talk to them I hold back information some times. I haven’t had a full on open and enthralling conversation in months.

Getting off topic here.

I went by my old high school (I graduated, somehow….spent too much time playing guitar and skipping class) and saw her. She was stunning. My jaw was on the ground, and I was taken aback. She is two years younger than I am, and I fell in love with her completely. I feel like I should hold back information here, but you know what? Forget that. I just know that things need to change.

So many things about her intrigue me. Her personality is beautiful, her eyes captivate and draw me in (for the short time I dare look, for fear of many things) and I feel a soft look from her eyes. I love the way she talks, I love the way she looks at me, I love the way she smiles with this glint in here beautiful eyes. I could banter on about this woman for hours, and never get tired (in fact I have) so I guess something there.

It can be safely assumed that I am an Idiot for not doing something sooner, but hey lets be honest here…I’m a sensitive musician who has a fear of rejection. I’ve been hurt in the past, and its painful to remember. I have such confidence in everything else I do, but when it comes to women…I  freeze some times. Its mostly just the “Oh no! What if she rejects me? What if she doesn’t want anything to do with me? Oh god damn, what if it ruins our friendship? What do I do?” Yes this is my thought process some times…idiotic I know.

Man I’ve been talking for ever on here.

To anyone who does read this….hello.

Anyhow….its 3:59…now its 4:00 AM here in Mississauga.

I think I should get to sleep, long day of heartbreak and song writing…oh…then my stupid part time job (I loath working at a grocery store to support the music career).

Its now 4:01….I’m off.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

oneweekoneband:

Rebirth

Part II: The Words Never Look Back

Before I got into Curtis I was a huge fan of Buddy Guy. The first of the great bluesmen I listened to feverishly, he proved to be the gatekeeper to a whole new world of classic musicians like BB King, Muddy Waters, all the way back to Robert Johnson and everyone in between. Guy’s late career renaissance made him easy to love. His 2005 record Bring ‘Em In was a critically ignored, but hugely pleasurable collection of mostly familiar covers, all thrashed-out by Guy’s supreme fret work. With its squeaky-clean production and multiple guest appearances from his famous friends, Bring ‘Em In seemed groomed for Grammys in the same way as Ray Charles’s Genius Loves Company, which walked away with eight awards just the year before.

But the album wasn’t the runaway success Guy had perhaps hoped it would be. That triumph for him came just last year with his fascinating autobiographical piece Living Proof, which was the anti-Cash’s American Recordings if there ever was one, with Guy joyously celebrating his life as a 74-year-old man. Still though, Bring ‘Em In had its fans, and I was certainly one of them. I listened to that record a lot, partially because it was one of the few CDs I really dug that I was permitted to play in the clothes shop I worked in at the time, but mostly because Guy was in such fine voice, and it was a wonderful showcase of his splendid blues guitar work.

It was a big surprise then when I first spun Curtis Mayfield’s 1971 album Roots and discovered Bring ‘Em In’s opener ‘Now Your Gone’ was a Mayfield original. Up to that point, smoking blues jams was not something I associated with Curtis. But his willingness to try his hand at different music styles was an important factor that shaped his early solo output.

His second record outside of The Impressions, Roots was a convoluted collection of melody-less, overly-produced tracks, most of which tread the same lines as he busy 1970 single ‘(Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below We’re All Going To Go’. But ‘Now Your Gone’ was a highlight, and a true original among Curtis’s extensive back catalogue. A total blues workout, it actually benefitted from the grittier production. Opening with an extended drum solo, and propelled by rough riffs, a murky base line and Mayfield’s prickly falsetto, his version of ‘Now Your Gone’ makes Guy’s spotless production sound almost childlike.

Guy actually injected ‘Now Your Gone’ with more melody than the original song, finding corners of the tune he could lean into to soften it up. Curtis pushes each line of the verse out quickly, almost manically, as he inhabits the character of the scorned lover whose other half and best friend have run away together. “I could of died,” he convincingly wails. Not a natural blues performer, Mayfield’s range impresses, almost defying the nickname he would later become known by: the gentle genius.

Roots is actually well remembered by most. Final track ‘Love To Keep You In My Mind’ is its best song, and far closer in sound and theme to his future work. But it’s an important document in Curtis’s development as rarely again did he experiment so wildly.

tumblrbot asked:

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Well I would say my Guitar…but it has a soul.