We're Getting the Band Back Together

Finally some video from Soundgarden's not so secret show at the Showbox in Seattle on April 16.

Chris with grunge hair-Check
Kim with gray beard-Check
Doc Martens all around-Check
Ben with low slung bass, a couple extra Lbs. and bad attitude-Check
Matt having way more fun then he'll ever have in Pearl Jam-Check
High Vocal Notes!..Real.. live.. and un- auto-tuned High vocal notes from a 45 year old man-Check
Way Back Deep Cuts from their first full length album Ultramega OK-Check

way cool.........

Days of Excellent Excess and Exile

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Get This

Raw Power: The Deluxe 2 cd version is out. As a matter of fact, its been out since April 13, so what the fuck are you waiting for?
David Bowie's original mix is cleaner, less distorted..and a bit too soothing for me. I kept waiting for the prim and proper golf claps from a British roundhouse after every song..unlike Iggy's mix where you're fearing for your life or jonesing for illicit action after every song... but I had never heard it, so I'll just say I'm glad to have it. I can't knock Bowie for it, he basically saved Iggy's life in the mid 70s then threw him a huge bone by recording and having such a huge hit with Iggy's China Girl in '83. Plus as you'll hear in the above video, he was only given 2 days to mix the album.

I really love the live show from Ga. included in this set...so raw..it takes the soundman/or James Williamson..(can't really tell whose fault it is)....three songs to get any live guitar level...and Iggy just vamps...makes fun of the crowd and..its creation of a genre right in front of your ears.... the punk meets the/ is the Godfather.

Just go get it.

Sly Stone's Coachella Trainwreck

The mighty keep falling. Sometimes they tumble into an abyss of abuse, confusion and delusion until paranoia and anger take over their lives. The brain can only take so much, until it becomes untethered from the network where creativity and coherent thought end up rolling around like tumbleweeds in grey matter. Such is the case of Mr. Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone.  Sly Stone, along side James Brown and George Clinton, is responsible for funk.
Without him, there would be no Prince, no Talking Book, no Soul Train, no Flea slapping his bass(Thanx Larry Graham) He's that important. With the Family Stone he gave us classic albums like Stand and There's a Riot Goin' On. Then the drugs (that he used to carry from gig to gig in a violin case) took right over. He lost it all and we lost track of him. Now after years of secluded unknowns he has emerged...doing sporadic gigs since 2007. These "gigs' have NEVER gone as planned. He either leaves the stage mid gig, shows up 3 hours late...or starts, stops and switches songs while performing them.

At Coachella last weekend, he basically gave the crowd one of the most bizarre train wreck shows ever recorded. This You Tube video is just a taste of what went on. Feel free to seek out more video of the event. I've never seen anything like it.  I don't know whether to laugh, cry or be angry.  I don't think he does either.

Get Well, Bret

Bret Michaels went to the hospital on thursday complaining of a headache. As it turns out, the doctors found, he was suffering a brain hemorrhage at the base of the brain stem, and has been in critical care since.

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 Hospital doctors are still trying to find the cause of the subarachnoid hemorrhage which plagues the former Poison front man and VH1 reality star, but so far, they've come up with little. This comes less than a month after the 47-year-old was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy.

Geez, I sure hope his bandana wasn't glued on too tight.  In all seriousness, I wish Bret a speedy, painless recovery. I have had excruciating headaches and with every one, I thought it was an aneurysm, stroke, hemorrhage or tumor. 

Cue "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as this post fades out.