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| 2010-02-15 | Ah, Forbidden Fruit...Tasty | |
| Ah yes, the taste, the aroma, the gloriousness of finding something new and the wondering if "gloriousness" even a real word and if it isn't why the hell not? So in the past few month the bootleg world has see some new Beatles. Well, not new, since the Beatles haven't been around for forty some odd years (duh,) but new in the sense of a lollypop. Sweet and tasty. Oh, any not to forget: sticky. Where is this leading? Rockband. No, not the video game, how about the remixes from the video game. You see, to make the Beatles Rockband work, the producers had to go back to the multi-tracks tapes and make mixes where the different instruments are separated out. So when the game is played and you don't hit a note at the right time, nothing plays. Normally during a game this means you suck, but in the case of Beatles Rockband, it means you get to hear a Beatles tune without the guitar, or the bass, or the drums or the vocals. In other words, leave it up to the bootleggers to record all of those isolated tracks separately and go to town like dude with a two for one hooker coupon. New mixes, newly heard instrumentation and BAMM BABY, your two for one coupon just turned into an orgy...free of charge. So lets talk about one in particular release today. The Beatles - Abbey Road - The DVD - Rockband and More. This isn't a remix project per say. What an enterprising bootlegger did was play the game in sort of a test mode that won't kick you out if you suck. The advantage? You get to hear the new remixed version of songs from the album Abbey Road. You get to watch the new animated visuals from the game. You get to hear a butt-load of studio recording of the Beatles yapping and noodling before kicking into a tune. Lastly, you can download it from the web for free instead of having to get you teenage kid to play the game all the way through so you can enjoy the cool new mixes. Sweet...and tasty. |
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| 2009-04-30 | I'm Living in a Hell Hole | |
| Tap into America dude - Oh ya, we're talking the return of Spinal Tap - again! Unwigged and Unplugged and frickin’ awesome (though you have to say it like that furry dude from BOLT.) Yep, that was my month. Sitting in the tenth row, listening to the boys from Spinal Tap do their unplugged version of some of my favorite songs of all frickin' time (minus a drummer since they couldn't get the insurance to cover one.) Gave me a chub and a half I tell you and dammit I haven't found a bootleg from their tour yet. Kinda pissing me off, but I have faith in the taper community that somebody will come through and when they do - bamm baby!!! Until then, out there in the boot world is an audience recording from Spinal Tap's first tour back in 1984 from Wolfgang's in San Francisco, 8-25, 1984 to be exact. It sounds like shit, it’s got no bottom end, there are some stupid-ass female types talking while the band is playing, and some dude triumphantly announces he has to take a piss right after Tap finishes Hell Hole…but it’s Spinal Tap and fuck it, I’ll just squint my ears, pretend it’s bad AM radio and jam on the air guitar while yelling “I’d like to sink her with my pink torpedo.” |
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| 2008-12-31 | Oh The Weather Outside Is F@#ked | |
| Ya, I know, it's supposed to be "Frightful", but Christmas is over and this is my time and my words, so I'll just say what I want. Why? 'cause last week I had over a foot of snow to dig out of and we'll just say the snow outside my house is like my Ex. Totally hot to look at, but once you're in it, you're fucked. Massive mounds that are so inviting and once you're between them, you're fucked. Just a gorgeous covered landscape with all the curves in the right places and once you hit one of them you're fucked. Beautiful textured sprawl laid out in front of you, that once you dive into, you're fucked. Could I go on? Sure, but really I look at the snow like the old HR Pufnstuf TV show. I hear that music "Come and Play With Me" and want to go play, only to know that when I get out there, some lightning bolt is gonna hit my ass and I'm fucked. So what did I do while inside? Why download some new bootlegs. What else. New to the stack was a kick ass Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, boot from August 21, 1999, Germany Calling. Sure the sound is a bit sterile, since it's a soundboard, but Joe sounds mint and it's a great 11 tune set and it made the "stuck in the house" time suck less. As for the snow, well I really I love the snow, love driving in it and love tubing, sledding and pretty much everything about it. So why am I peeved? Well I could't find my damn snow shovel so I'm projecting and really, what's wrong with getting fucked? |
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