Kirk Hammett wrote:The radio doesn't bother to grace us with the band names of what is playing, anyway. -Pulls a face- Frankly it annoys me. They used to, but not anymore.
Tell me about it... I eventually had to catch a few words and ask around people who know their classic rock a lot better than I to find out what it was. A few days later they
finally play a
different version and announce it as "Eric Clapton playing the Cream standard "White Room" " or something like that.
Kirk Hammett wrote:I generally get music off friends, recommended stuff, whether it's well known or totally obscure, or off movies or other places, like video games sometimes which have amazing orchestral pieces. I also get bands off other bands
for example, I got UFO off Slash from Guns n Roses.
A lot of what I get are CDs with some connection to other stuff I own... e.g. I got my Roy Montgomery CD because he wrote some of the better songs on the Pin Group CD, which I got because I found out it that Pin Group were yet another Peter Stapleton group and that Peter Stapleton co-wrote most of the Terminals songs, and I've been a fan of the Terminals ever since I saw "Uncoffined" on "Radio with Pictures" some time around 1987... I miss "Radio with Pictures", by the way... it ran from the late 1970s until the late 1980s on Sunday nights and was a predominantly "edgy" or "alternative" music show.
A lot of my musical tastes were formed while I was at high school (1981 - 1985), which was a fairly dire time for pop music... the biggest selling song of 1981 was a godawful thing called "Stars on 45", about which the less said the better. That seemed to drive a
lot of people into seeking out alternative music... in that year two posthumously released Joy Division singles each debuted at #1 in the charts, and The Clean recorded their first single for something like $50 and watched it sell enough to make the Top 20.
Kirk Hammett wrote:You can recommend what you like to me, it'd be hard for me to get a hold of a lot of it though, but I could always try Youtube, they have a lot of obscure stuff on there I've noticed. Weird stuff. haha! That way I can hear it and decide whether a CD is worth buying I guess.
I'm always wary of recommending music to people in case they go to all the effort to track down the stuff I like (which tends to be rather obscure) just to find out they don't really like it after all. Currently the rock CDs I've been really enjoying have been: 3Ds, "The Venus Trail"; Buzzcocks, "Singles Going Steady"; The Clash, "London Calling"; Doublehappys, "Nerves"; Hunters and Collectors, "Under One Roof"; Jethro Tull, "Very Best Of"; Joy Division, "Permanent"; King Crimson, "Red"; Metallica, "Black Album"; Midnight Oil, "Head Injuries"; Schnell Fenster, "OK Alright A Huh Oh Yeah"; Straitjacket Fits, "Melt"; Toy Love, "Cuts"; Verlaines, "Over the Moon". (This is just the "rock" lot... I also listen to a lot of more pop sort of music and a lot of weird sort of stuff...)
Kirk Hammett wrote:Ahhh White Room. Classic song that. And he didn't play it when I saw him. Damnit!
I've honestly never been a great fan of Eric Clapton, although his work with Cream is all right... I can appreciate intellectually how talented he is, but for some reason his music doesn't reach my heart. I can't explain it and it's not meant to be a slight on his talent. What I like most about Cream are Jack Bruce's songwriting and Ginger Baker's drumming.
Looks at how far he's gone off topic... oops, sorry about that... I must stop getting into conversations about music...
No, thanks! I like my old corny music; bring on UFO/MSG, Deep Purple and Status Quo, Dire Straits and Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden and Kiss! If you bring Wolfmother over I will break the DVD!
