Brooks

Fantastic show in Durham NC! Vai did a great job playing Fripps parts, and inserting his own licks/solos in a few spots, masterful. Belew sang great and did his cool noisy licks. Levin & Carey were fantastic. Good sound, too (might could have been a tad brighter, maybe it was our seats). I grew up listening to this era of KC, it was a thrill to see this show. The only non Discipline/Beat/Three Of A Perfect Pair tune they did was Red (I'm not a fan of other eras of KC, but I was Hoping to hear Starless & Epitaph). "I WISH YOU WERE HERE TO SEE IT"!!!

I usually dont like stuff like this, but thats cool looking. Meet George Jetson!

Got my BEAT tix for Oct 2! Made this playlist to school my pals who are going but aren't that familiar w/ the tunes;

I saw Mike w/ Dethklok;

Roth's playing is fantastic, I wore out Tokyo Tapes & Virgin Killer as a kid. I later bought a few UJR solo albums that were unlistenable. Another guy like Yngwie, Vai etc who greatly benefits from a collaboration songwriting situation.

Shawn Lane's stuff is hit or miss for me, but ran across this recently, which is pretty damn ccol; The album I watched Charlie Hunter record live in 2018 came out in November; Read Rob Halfords CONFESS!, which sent me down a JP rabbit hole;

Tal is from right here in Greensboro NC

Went down an early era RHCP rabbit hole this week, I was obsessed with their punk funk 80s albums back in college.

Just read Cowboy Song; Phil was mad about Robbo's no show and wasn't going to let him participate at all. It was Gorham who convinced him to let Robbo in at the end and dub a few solos.

Brooks Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 8:22 AM to kiz Keeping w/ the VOL 4 theme, I recorded this V4 classic live in the jam room this week w/ one of those handheld Tascam things w/ the built in mics. Guitar was my pal Dave's Echotone w/ GFS pups, run thru a Pod Go into the power section of a Quilter 101 feeding a 1x12 Creamback loaded cab. I'm also on vocals, Kolton from Generic Hustle is on bass, with new guy Donovan on drums. EDIT - We've been getting together for fun a few times a month since October, kicking around some Sabs/Mountain/ZZ Top/Thin Lizzy/Metallica/Rick Springfield, etc

Ya know, Kiz asked if I liked the new cover, I thought it was "the Victim", I completely forgot about that pic, haha

Glad you liked it. My fave is The Church Within. Even better IMFO is the Spirit Caravan compilation The Last Embrace. I think Wino shoots himself in the foot by changing the name of the band each time he swaps up rhythm sections, as he's the main man (Vocals, guitar, songwriter).

this is really great, and timely;

Johnny this kicked up on my Pandora jazz channel, very cool version & lineup

yeah, I pretty much only spin their covers nowadays, or maybe ride the lightning

Holy crap I wore this album out in 9th grade. Went thru a brief punk listening phase w/ this, Ramones, Buzzcocks, and Telefones (local DFW band) back then.