BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???

Subject: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:12 PM

What then hail...

I was gonna put this up in highbrow-burg but it'd fall off the bottom with a "1" beside it so...

AC/DC

Metalica

Junkyard

Tesla

Brittney Fox

Tangier

Guns 'n Roses

etc., etc., etc...

Know what I mean???

B~ (closet head-banger)...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:16 PM

Bon Jovi ... OH YES

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:19 PM

Seether is another one that I crank up loud ... ever hear Fake it

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:22 PM

Seegar???

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:23 PM

SEETHER
have a listen

seether

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:38 PM

Ain't my style... No durge... No down beat... No drive...

I mean, you strip off the decibels and these guys, ahhhhh, are playin' bubble gum...

But what do I know???

I mean, the true headbangers come from a tradition of the 60's underground groups like Ten Years After, Spooky Tooth, Climax Blues Band, Humble Pie, etc...

Just MO, of course...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 08:59 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 09:22 PM

No.........

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 09:28 PM

Come on, Bill, don't be in denial... I saw that AD/DC 8 track tape under the seat of yer van at Glen Echo...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:17 PM

I use to listen to AC/DC, and old Metallica, and a few others....but I was more into the punk scene.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:22 PM

Well, okay... Punk is cool, too, A-gin... But no dirge to it...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:49 PM

The benefits of getting older is you don't need high end speakers anymore. Since hear'in many of the frequencies is long gone, you can just jack up the sound to make up for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:46 PM

Absolutely! But I'd call Bon Jovi cock rock, not metal.

I am really quite impressed by Archenemy, and am currently babysitting my daughter's boyfriend's CD and vinyl collection. So far of those I previously did not know I quite like Alien Ant Farm, and White Zombies.

Bands which members of my daughter's first band now play with and to which I sometimes listen are Zocalo, Datura (I think there's a US band by this name as well, but this is the UK one), Endless Summer (again more cock rock than metal) and I have not yet heard her former lead guitarist's new band Fur.

How loud? Well, in my drawing room my 180 watt Hifi also feeds a 750 watt PA rig...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:52 PM

PS on Saturday I shall be attending a jam session with Andy Bright's Chosen Few - my stepdaughter used to go out with him and they are a very good heavy-ish classic rock band. I expect to give my mandoplank an airing complete with distortion pedal - a couple of hundred watts of solid body mandolin and a distortion pedal really clears out the earwax! I'd quite like to upgrade to a mandobird viii or a mandocaster - or a custom solid-body mandolin but cannot justify the money since I now only rarely take the mandoplank out these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:54 PM

Oh, I nearly forgot a band I make a point of seeing when they gig nearby, well worth investigation, Sons of Alpha Centauri. I've done PA for them a couple of times.

On the other hand, the highly regarded Inbreds (and another band from the same stable, Kingskin) are simply crap!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:25 AM

AC/DC is my favourite band, they have a good tribute band Hells Bells who are great in their own right.

Metallica is wonderful and most of the above listed bands. I liked punk too including Industrial punk. My youngest son loved grunge and I admit to sneaking a listen to his Nirvana Nevermind, I loved it.

Basically anything loud.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:48 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:51 AM

Ah, Guest - I see you liked the Heavy Metal Kids -


"His head fell off, his head fell off..."

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Stu
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:14 AM

I love rock and metal.

AC/DC - especially the Bonn Scott years

Iron Maiden - first saw them in 1983 (!)

Jethro Tull

Zep and Percy

Lots and lots. I tend just to stick Planet Rock on the DAB these days and let the music come to me.

Love Joe Bonamassa's stuff too, especially the album Sloe Gin.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:23 AM

OK try this version, the one I listen to
seether

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:41 AM

I know I know not pleasant lyrics ... but catchy tune and something different ... but the old hillybilly says it is bubble gum and I have to accept it ... cause he knows more than me

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:27 PM

Much improved, Oldster...

Hey, ya'll UKers...

And Catherine Wheel fans??? Devlins???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:57 PM

Seether Remedy

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:08 PM

video is very sick and disturbing but they sure can head bang

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: J-boy
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:12 AM

I'm more into punk than metal but I do like me the ole Black Sabbath and Hawkwind. Lemmy!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 03:01 AM

Talking of our Lemmy the advert he appears on, I think it is for a lager shows him in a ordinary spit and sawdust bar singing a folky slowed down version of 'The Ace of Spades' it is so simple it's brilliant. Pity it's for lager though.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 04:48 AM

I must admit the idea of learning that version of "Ace of Spades" has occurred to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:56 AM

Not really sure where I sit on that one. I've probably in later life gone against head banging because of other beliefs but I still like the Rolling Stones musically... Nothing is ever simple.

I suppose of my own works Karen is the closest I got...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,crowsister
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:57 AM

Hayseed Dixie are amusing. Bluegrass versions of classic metal.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:36 AM

Bobert, your headbanger tendencies are a big part of what fuels my crush on you. ;-)

I just saw Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie a coupla weeks ago. AWESOME show.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:23 PM

The first band I can describe as head-banging would be the Yardbirds, mainly because of the string of guitar heroes that fronted the group, like Clapton, Beck, and Page, who all seemed to explore amp distortion while with the band.
In the sixties, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Cream, Tull.
In the seventies, Thin Lizzy, Roxy Music, Tommy Bolin, Deep Purple, Lou Reed.
In the eighties, Van Halen, Journey, Bob Mould's projects like Husker Du, the Pixies.
In the nineties, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Sugar, Live.

Since 2000, nothing really grabs me, and a lot of headbanger stuff has degenerated into croaking-vocal death metal or aimless thrash. I saw part of a Korn concert on television and thought it was pretty much lacking any basic song structure, and to me volume minus structure equals noise.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:44 PM

Just received a DVD of Robert Plant's Band of Joy on the TV a week ago - I'm more interested in the great Buddy Miller.

I saw the "New Yardbirds" at the London Marquee before they became Led Zep!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,crowsister
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:54 PM

Have a soft spot for early 60's/70's Metal/Rock, but totally didn't get it in the eighties/nineties when it lost the experimental edge in favour of predictable formula, dreadful T shirts, greasy hair and acne. Grunge was genuinely interesting for a little while.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: GUEST,crowsister
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:00 PM

I bought this on vinyl at around 18: deep purple in rock

It's still great of course. I'm around twenty years older now, and still wondering what happened to metal?

Maybe someone should send me a "mix-tape"? Seriously!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:40 PM

Geeze, Becca (bobert blushes)...

Hey, ya'll... Here's my favorite bluesy han-banger band : Black Crows!!! Love 'um...

But just a few others:

Tonic: Kinda SoCal-ish but they can get down with it purdy good, too...

Mother Loves Bone

Stone Temple Pilots

Perfect Circle

Widespread Panic

Hey, any Phish-heads??? The first loud concert I ever took the P-Vine to was a Phish concert... She hated 'um... I loved 'um...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:40 PM

Hey, how could I have forgotten Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Humble Pie, Boston, and Captain Beyond? I mean, what was I thinkin?

yeah, crowsister, that was the Deep Purple unit after the departure of Richie Blackmore and after Tommy Bolin joined as lead guitarist. Ian Gillan was always one of my favorite Rock singers, along with Paul Rodgers, Steve Marriott, Lowell George (Little Feat),Steve Perry, and Brad Delp (of Boston).

Tommy Bolin was a member of Zephyr, The James Gang, Deep Purple until finally venturing on a short solo career before overdosing. Great potential never fully realized.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 06:40 PM

I mentioned Humble Pie, Eje...

Little Feat??? Not a head banger... But I loved 'um anyway...lol...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Janie
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:10 PM

My son has been trying to help me understand all the nuances that have evolved in describing Rock music for 4 years now. I get particularly confused by the metal appellations. Hair Metal? Glam Metal? Thrash Metal? Heavy Metal?

It's all "hard rock" to me.

I like and still listen to a fair amount of rock music, compliments of my teenager and his iPod plugged into the car sound system.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:18 PM

Hi Bobert,

yeah I know ol Lowell wasn't a headbanger. I was namedropping my favorite singers when I mentioned him.

Not sure that Phish would be head-bangers either, bro, or Widespread Panic. I would put them under the Hippie Jam-band heading, offspring of Jerry G and the boys.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:31 PM

Hippie Jam Band??? Yeah, that's me, too...

Actually, Feats is still puttin' out a little good music now and then... I really didn't mind Craig Fuller... Weren't Lowell but not bad...

Not to worry, Janie... It's all rock 'n roll... Some just rocks harder...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 11:23 PM

You all have truly inspired me!

I just took a sledge hammer, and completely destroyed my toilet / water closet.

So much for banging the head to pieces.

Now I've nowhere to piss!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: olddude
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:38 AM

LOL can't stop laughing Art .... sorry for your dilemma   LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:59 AM

The Ramones

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:25 PM

Art,if you are a true headbanger you'll just piss out the window.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Head Bangers Down Here (music)???
From: TopcatBanjo
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:13 PM

Ah yes. Here's just a small selection....

Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Bon & the bagpipes

Blackfoot
Blackfoot - Train, Train

ZZ Top (up to & including Eliminator, so up to about 1983)
La Grange

and one of my favourite bands ever, the criminally underrated and soulful Texas power trio, King's X, still going strong after 20 years!
King's X - Over My Head

Not so much newer stuff that I like, either I'm getting old or rock isn't really rock any more (a bit of both?) but I like these guys:
Black Stone Cherry
I've definitely always had a liking for Southern Boogie which may have been a clue to my later love of bluegrass...

Let's rock!!