i guess we'll all enjoy ourselves...sure, laugh it up...until the lead singer is found unresponsive on the floor of his hotel room, helium tank by his side. rock n roll always takes the very best.
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 May 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
If I knew how to make gifs, I'd make a gif of the singer at :49-:51 where he raises his hand, then looks at his hand, and pensively reflects, "Ah, yes. My hand."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
Piano very "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
i got sympathy pains listening to his voice crack a few times there, like at 2:21
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
band of invisible bass player
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
made it about 45 seconds into this one. I continue to be surprised by the near universal extremely high praise and when I check the comments (scanning quickly, only somewhat negative comment is about Jake's (whichever one that is) posture) but I guess people don't go to a band's youtube comments just to boo them.
― silverfish, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
sorry - near universal extremely high praise and when I check the comments
― silverfish, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, May 13, 2021 11:17 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes, finally answering the question what if the chorus of i guess that's why they call it the blues was just
i guess that's why they call it the bluesi guess that's why they call it the bluesi guess that's why they call it the bluesi guess that's why they call it the blues
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is like every moment of every video though! These guys each have one move, and that's his. Guitar player's is leaning back and walking back and forward in a straight line, like he's on a track.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
here u go https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-13-2021/eUTDgk.gif
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
That didn't work for some reason, but I found another gifmaker.
https://j.gifs.com/MZDYgR.gif
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
lmao that is too good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
"Alas, poor Greta, I knew her well. . ."
― Deicide at Chuck E. Cheese (PBKR), Thursday, 13 May 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
had been browsing bedazzled skulls on etsy before the show. he has a favorite but will it look right?
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
I think the world needs more greta van fleet gifs tbh
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
There's a choice we're making. We're saving our own lives.
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
vlaho1967 isn't going to stand for it any longer:
Larissa Mehlig - 5 hours agoOne of the most beautiful love songs i have ever heard. they never missvlaho1967 - 2 hours agoWhy???J. Gona - 2 hours ago @vlaho1967 Are you really asking her why she likes what she likes? 😆
vlaho1967 - 2 hours agoWhy???
J. Gona - 2 hours ago @vlaho1967 Are you really asking her why she likes what she likes? 😆
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
"She Likes What She Likes" = Lead Single From Next GVF Album
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 May 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
I made an AI bot listen to 30 hours of Greta Van Fleet, so it could write a Greta Van Fleet song.
Unfortunately, just one hour in, it secretly wrote code to self-destruct and is no longer with us
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
The lizard tongue makes it.
― chap, Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 13, 2021 3:07 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
And that AI was named Pete Buttigieg . . . Good Day!
― Deicide at Chuck E. Cheese (PBKR), Thursday, 13 May 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
So I'm listening to Monuments, the latest album from a Icelandic trio The Vintage Caravan that is also very indebted to bands Like Zeppelin and Cream, but it's really good! It's more baffling to me that Greta Van Fleet is so huge when there are actual bands doing the retro classic rock thing in a much more competent manner, it's not like folks into old school sounding rock are starved for choices.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Surely the only reason GVF are big is because there is somebody behind them with shittons of money to throw at marketing/promo, no?
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Sure, that's probably part of why they had a huge start at such a young age, but that only goes so far these days and they seem to be getting more popular.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Vintage Caravan is definitely better, also they are in that vein but they have modern elements that make if feel less like cosplay, there's elements of metal/hard rock that occured after the 70s in there at least
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
That's true, but I can imagine them scratching a similar itch for people hungry for "real rock" or whatever.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
definitely - i just meant that's a (one of) the reasons they are better, but overall they could fill the same market
they are like 5x better players too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 May 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
Just checked them out, pretty decent - they don't seem to have the melodramatic 'epic' thing going on like GVF do, however risibly, which I guess some people lap up.
― chap, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah, maybe that OTT-ness is exactly what people love about GVF, I dunno.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
GVF are more like premature ejaculation though, the shit doesn't pop when it's supposed to
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
because the songs and playing aren't good enough
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
the AI-generated 70s rock dis upthread was pretty much the best way to explain it, because yes, these all sound like chords that belong in this kind of song, the melodies are melodies, this sounds OF the era, but something sounds.....off about it, like no human made it
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
The song titles are totally "Talk to Transformer".
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 14 May 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
I was talking with a friend yesterday about bands that are already out touring, one of whom is Steel Panther, which led me to the conclusion that GVF: '70s Classic Rock::Steel Panther: '80s Hair Metal.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 May 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
But Steel Panther are in on the joke, no?
― chap, Sunday, 23 May 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah, but a big part of '80s Hair Metal <is> the joke, while GVF have really taken the same way to the more pretentious, humorless parts of '70s Rock.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 May 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Steel Panther is a totally different thing though. The main members of that band were all born in the 1960s. Most of them were on the fringes of the actual scene towards the end of hair metal. This is not a tribute to some era they never lived through, it's guys who never quite made it figuring out how to do the stuff they used to play straight as a sort of ironic/tribute thing.
I looked at the wiki and the original drummer was playing w/SP and David Lee Roth at the same time, now he's in Korn. If you are getting gigs for DLR or Korn you are a total fucking pro. Listening now and these guys mop the floor with Greta Van Fleet as musicians.
Aside from the lyrics being over the top and "funny" (air quotes mine), these are definitely solid to good hair metal songs that would have fit in to the era. Greta Van Fleet would have been laughed at in the 70s, imagine them getting absolutely destroyed sandwiched between Rush and Uriah Heep or some bill like that.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Satchel (guitarist for Steel Panther) is an outright virtuoso.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
he was actually a guitar instructor in the 90s who played alongside Paul Gilbert in some side projects.
I saw Steel Panther live once, the show was not entirely my thing because half the show was shitty covers, but he played a guitar solo that was pretty amazing and at one point he was playing Iron Man while playing the kick drum at the same time with his right foot.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
ah interesting, that makes sense he's part of that guitar institute/berklee axis
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
vocalist was on LA Guns for their Wasted EP in 1998, that was it. this really was his first big break I think.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 May 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
For those who’ve asked... here are my fave albums of 2018: @StevePerryMusic - Traces @dawestheband - Passwords @GretaVanFleet - Anthem Of A Peaceful Army— Jimmy Pardo (@jimmypardo) January 2, 2019
― bogo jumbo junbi boba (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Jimmy likes them.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
lol, no Chicago albums this year?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Well that tweet was from a few years ago (and a few years after the "PHUH-nominal" Billy Idol album).
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Chicago, I wonder if GVF will go through a 'Horn Section' period?
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
a Jethro Tull phase seems more likely: Greta Van Flute
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/greta-van-fleets-jake-kiszka-i-work-very-hard-to-articulate-chords-and-notes-all-of-that-sensitivity-and-technicality-gets-lost-when-you-have-too-much-overdrive
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 June 2021 05:38 (three years ago) link
"It’s just something we’ll never be a part of contributing to. The loud minority will never speak for the quiet majority. That’s something Joe Bonamassa mentioned to me once, and I believe it’s pretty accurate.”
― bogo jumbo junbi boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 June 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
“Art is supposed to elicit strong reactions, isn’t it?” Jake Kiszka asks rhetorically.
Being called a pack of cosplaying dweebs is exactly like the first performance of The Rites of Spring.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link