I love David Lee Roth. Dave and Sammy Hagar are doing a “Former Singers for Van Halen” tour, which is funny enough… But this quote is awesome:
When asked why Gary Cherone, the other former Van Halen singer, is not on the bill, Roth joked that the former Extreme frontman was busy doing “The Vagina Monologues.”
Hehehehe… I forgot my headphones today, which is going to be a problem. :)
Wow, I thought you hated rock/hard rock for some reason. Not sure why I thought that. Not a Roth fan myself, but just discovered yesterday I’m a Nirvana fan. Always thought I hated them, then Amy brought home the Unplugged in NY disc, which is just incredible, especially the Leadbelly and Meat Puppets covers. I’m amazed – what was I missing the whole time they were popular?
Other music stuff – almost got rid of the Momus album I bought when you were here , then put it on for one more listen last week, and for some reason it clicked this time – I’m loving it and keeping it. So… thanks ;)
Wow, I thought you hated rock/hard rock for some reason. Not sure why I thought that.
Neither am I…. I can definately appreciate a good rock album.. There are quite a few in my collection… There are even more that I just haven’t purchased yet… In fact, several of my favorite bands are ostensibly rock bands…
Of course, it very well could be that I am a music pessimist these days… I haven’t heard much good music over the airwaves these days, and when I do hear a good song, it generally turns out that the rest of the album blows…
Not a Roth fan myself,
Don’t get me wrong, Van Halen has some wonderful albums, but what I like about Roth is his attitude… He is still stuck in the 80s, and it makes me smile whenever I hear his mouth open….
but just discovered yesterday I’m a Nirvana fan. Always thought I hated them, then Amy brought home the Unplugged in NY disc, which is just incredible, especially the Leadbelly and Meat Puppets covers. I’m amazed – what was I missing the whole time they were popular?
Don’t worry, IMHO, that album is much better than their studio recordings… Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Nirvana is crap, but I don’t understand some of the attention they recieve..
[…] I’m loving it and keeping it. So… thanks ;)
No problem… Sometimes he takes a little while to register, but every album of his I have heard cracks me up, and at the same time impresses me with his musical talent… He should write jingles…. :)
Do you keep up that CD list religiously? Seems like a lot of work. I’ve been tempted to do similar in the past, but am afraid I’d fall off the wagon after a while – there’s sort of a constant flow of incoming and discards through here.
You’re not alone in thinking there isn’t much interesting music happening these days. The fact is even being recognized by the industry itself – I’ve seen some pundits actually admitting that part of the falling revenues problem is due to the shortage of inspired musicians today.
Momus jingles… I’d love that.
Do you keep up that CD list religiously?
A few months (perhaps weeks?) ago I realized that my collection was getting around 300 CDs I figured I was at a “no turning back” point.. If I didn’t start catalogging my CDs I would never start… So I now keep a Productive spreadsheet containing the data you see on that webpage. I do a “Save as” html from Gobe and then I run a script which does some simple regex magic to strip out the <html> and <head> blocks (since I include this html into my php template), make all the tagnames lowercase, strip out unnecessary style tags, etc. The script then does an scp that copies the file over to the server.
I think I have been doing a good job of keeping it updated… My trick is to not put CDs into my CD rack until they have been entered into the spreadsheet.. I am pretty anal about how my CDs are ordered in the rack, so it is a consious effort to place it.. This way, I leave the new discs on my desk until I enter them… Since I am also anal about the neatness of my desk, this doesn’t take too long. :)
Momus jingles… I’d love that.
Momus…. He is wonderful…. If you can find a ripped copy of it, look for the track “Walter Carlos”, which is the track off of “Little Red Songbook” that got him in lots of legal trouble[1]… The song is about how Wendy Carlos[2] should get in a time machine, go back in time before her sex change, and fuck herself. This song is pure genius…
[1] and had the track eventually removed from later prints of the album, and also caused him to create the “Songs Forever” project in which people paid him a commission for a song about them on the album, and that money paid his legal bills
[2] Awful electronic composer made famous by his soundtracks for movies like Clockwork Orange and Tron, as well as some awful albums like Switched on Bach, who had a sex change, became Wendy Carlos, and retitled any prior work under the name Wendy instead of Walter…
Very nice system – I love building custom-purpose scripts and things like that. We’re at about 2,000 CDs and 450 LPs, so it would be a ridiculous task to catalog everything now (and would be even lower on Amy’s priority list than mine, I can guarantee ;) so I doubt it will ever happen.
Productive for Windows, or do you still keep a BeOS machine around?
I heard about the Carlos fiasco when Momus did the Terry Gross interview a while back. I was confused at first because I thought they were talking about Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics, which is tied up in my mind with the poet William Carlos Williams, so Wendy Carlos seemed like a blend of those. Anyway, when I heard “Switched on Bach” I remembered… had that record in the 70s. It is truly uly uly bad.
[…] so I doubt it will ever happen.
That was the real reason I started now…. I knew that if I let it go too long it would never happen…
Productive for Windows, or do you still keep a BeOS machine around?
Productive for Windows…. I have a BeOS partition, but I never boot into it anymore… My motherboard sound isn’t supported in Be, and I have yet to determine support for my new video card (GeForce4).
My guess is that I will probably remove my last BeOS partition soon… :(
I remembered… had that record in the 70s. It is truly uly uly bad.
Don’t say that around
Jerronimo and I don’t share many aesthetics … ;)
Scratch that, we’re down to around 1300 CDs. Simplify, simplify.
I’m sorry to say I never got to see Van Halen when David or Sammy was with them – but then again, I was just able to understand music when David left, and I was just starting to really like music when Sammy joined. I did, however, get to see them when that retard of a singer (Gary) was with them. They rocked, he sucked.