Let’s review the rules, which are simple and nice:
No potshots allowed at all the obvious targets in this clip. Rather, say something nice about the band, their performance, and anything else you may see, hear, or feel while watching this video. If you don’t have anything nice to say, that’s OK; Rock Town Hall still offers the occasional thread to post a snarky comment.
Thanks.
The most useless, ego-centric website ever? Is there a market for Eno stuff we don’t know about?
I believe that you, my friends at Rock Town Hall, would be best able to help me truly appreciate this man’s quest for glory and understanding. Is he a true believer? Is he above the law? Is he yet another obsessive rock nerd? You be the judge:
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
This week’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In find Mr. Moderator in a particularly mellow mood. What’s that line from that Clash song, “Who gives you work, and why should you do it?” Sometimes a Townsperson’s got to sit back and reflect on the week that was—and the week that sometimes seems it will ever be. We’re taking tonight’s episode “under glass.” Enjoy.
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Excluding bands in matching suits, how many examples of bands performing (live or on video) in uniform can we cite? Also excluded are bands merely posing for a cover photo in uniform (eg, XTC on a few covers) and bands in non-functional costumes (eg, KISS and GWAR). The uniform(s – they need not be matching) must be related to a profession.
I’ll start with the following video, which I’d never seen until the other day: Continue reading »
Spring is in the air, which reminded me of this old post. It’s a time for spring cleaning as well as a time for getting on your hands and knees in the garden, pulling out weeds and getting real dirty.
This post initially appeared 3/20/08.
Here’s a real simple set of questions:
1. Name a band/artist you’re pretty sure you’d like better if they had a bath – that is, if they took a little better care of their presentation, be it more thoughtful arrangements, better sound, more focused Look, etc.
Meat Puppets‘ first two albums were interesting enough for me, but it wasn’t until they “took a bath” for the making of Up On the Sun that they really clicked for me. (Shortly thereafter they’d scrubbed themselves up too much, but that’s another matter…)
2. Name a band/artist you’re pretty sure you’d like if they loosened up a bit, if you and your friends could scuff up their brand-spankin’-new white sneaks a bit.
Crowded House was in this category for me for a number of years until someone finally scuffed up their sneaks over the course of their third and fourth albums. There were outright holes in their canvas Docksiders by the time of the excellent Together Alone.
This is only a test: surely, you can identify the guitarist on the far right, the guy playing the Telecaster.
