Moaar cowbell!!! Danko \m/
LOL, I was there...Las Vegas Crypt Keepers (Cool guys)were on the bill, and was hanging with Danko that night,Danko Jones, saw them live 12 or so years ago. Opened for Andrew WK. funny show.
Thanks for the songs, both are great! I love the heavy acid sound of Contact. I’m a bit of a sucker for fuzz which is the key to These Shadows. Two really different sounds from them. Definitely will pick them up on vinyl.
The bass line in Contact brought this to mind:
While the first thing I thought of when listening to These Shadows was this:
Maybe not the exact right song, but it reminds me of a fuzzed out Brian Jonestown Massacre (video may not be appropriate for work)
Excited to see some action in this thread again
Interesting takes on it. Looks like you go back as far as I do with music. You won't hear a Tommy James and the Shondells reference very often. How I loved growing up in the 60's 70's and having one after another amazing album to listen to EVERY WEEK. You could hardly keep up, and with a catalog that people have been listening to, mostly, ever since. Pop music, anyway, will never hit this halcyon high tide moment again.
I'll leave you with a boundary jumping track from one of the best Topanga Canyon bands that inspired so many instrumental bands since the 60's NSFW lyrics. Its weird, Its Spirit. This is still awesome to listen to on a good audio system. Whole album was a real moment in time.
Were you into Hard rock in the early days? early 70's
Not many people remember Dust,Black Sabbath Black Sabbath title track was a lullaby to me from the start. Its hard to grow up with mind blowing stuff like that and not have it shape you in some way. Early Zep, BOC, Yardbirds, Animals, Kinks, Iron Butterfly, King Crimson, all of it. Actually a lot of what I list is precursor metal, or hard rock. But yeah I followed it up with a constant diet in the early 70's.
I was into some hard stuff as early as early Creem. From even a young age I really zeroed in on some heavy stuff. Its like I was 5-10yrs old and could experience radical music without the drugs. Although that came in handy later.
Not many people remember Dust,
Marky Ramone before he went onto the Ramones....underated band, and his skills on the kit were killer on the album, and now he's over looked, cuz he really kicked ass back then.
get that 70's groove on