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first the good news:

TJ KIRK - TALKING ONLY MAKES IT WORSE (live)- 90's neo jazz supergroup w/ charlie hunter, will bernard, john schott, & scott amendola. loved their 2 out of print cd's, but this live cd is my fave; raw, ballsy, and really shows their warped sense of humor. the groups name comes from "T"helonius monk, "J"ames brown, and roland "KIRK"; these smartass amazing players take music from these 3 artists and combine them in a twisted stew of jazz, funk, rawk, surf, and silliness. loved the unexpected riff medley in monks "epistrophy" that races thru quotes from aqualung/ain't talking 'bout love/barracuda/blackdog/ironman/cat scratch fever! will bernard gets some twisted sounds, fuzzy scratchy trippy. i love this cd!!! best cd purchase since scofield's uberjam. if you remotely like jeff beck/ jazz/ funk/fusion/humor in music, buy this immediately.

AUDIOSLAVE - OUT OF EXILE - i like these guys, and this cd is better than the 1st. they have moved in a more tuneful classic rawk direction, and it works. yes, tom morello still does the weird sounds, but not on every single tune. i love chris cornells voice, at least in the studio.

now the bad news:

i traded cd-r's w/ some kids on the stonerrock.com board; sent some c.o.c./zz top/sco/mmw/trad jazz, and recieved a bunch of crap in return. i love black sabbath/kyuss & some obsessed/spirit caravan/c.o.c., so i wanted to check out some of the "stoner" bands that get lumped in w/ these greats; unfortuantely i got:

HIGH ON FIRE - BLESSED BLACK WINGS - i've read several good reviews of this, WTF!?! truly awful. frenzied sloppy riffs, horrible yelled monotone vocals, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

BLACK SABBATH W/ ROB HALFORD (live board recording, ozzfest 2004) -

this sounded like a good idea. ozzy got sick last year, rob filled in for a show (he also did so at ozzys ~92 "retirement" show when dio refused to open for ozzy). anyhoo, rob sounded wrong, and believe it or not had more pitch problems than ozzy ever had! whoda thunkit.

C.O.C. - IN THE ARMS OF GOD - raliegh nc homeboys, loved thier ~94 classic "deliverance", dissappointed w/ everything before and after. some cool riffs, but ehhhhh.

ORANGE GOBLIN - TIME TRAVER BLUES (and 2 another albums i can't recall the name of) - a few cool riffs/tunes, but more bad vocals. why do these guys think that bad to mediocre vocals will cut it? same as the fu manchu stuff i got awhile back (sorry, stike).

UNIDA - (live, & a studio album i can't recall the name of) -

i was really looking forward to this, as ex-kyuss vocalist john garcia (whose voice i dig) fronts these guys. but, unida strikes me as the opposite of orange goblin; good sounding vocals, bad riffs/tunes. sigh...

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HFC Best of Vol. 2 in the cd player right now, Tobe just finished and Track#5 Decievied Me Rob J is in the first verse. :D

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John Stewarts audio book, America. Bought it for the drive to NY last week.

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AUDIOSLAVE - OUT OF EXILE - i like these guys, and this cd is better than the 1st.

You're the first person I've heard say this. I really like the first CD.

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Joe Walsh ~ But seriously folks...

Crash Test Dummies ~ God shuffled his feet

The Bears ~ Rise and Shine

Tommy Keene ~ ten years after

Johnny Winter ~ Captured Live

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Among other things... I just happened to find an album on my iPod, which I'd purchased around 2001 or so and forgotten about, called "Education in Rebellion" by Union Underground. They were sort of blurring the line between Alice in Chains and nu-metal, maybe closer to AIC in retrospect. I remember liking the album then, but assumed it would not have stood the test of time. But I've been spinning this album and I'm surprised - these are very good, heavy songs IMO. This album got some airtime back when with "Turn Me On Mr. Dead Man", and then the band slipped into obscurity. Wonder what happened...

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Ted Nugent: Free For All.

Heading out to see Ted up in Phoenix tonight - he's got "Wild" Mick Brown on drums and Barry Sparks on bass.

Should be a killer show - I saw him in Chicago in '98 and '99 and he kicked ass all over the place.

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:D

right now im listening to the voices in my head.... :o:P;):D

they cant make up thier minds let alone mine...

Sir Douglas :D

Randy :P

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I've got some Getaway Car, some AM Radio and some Shazam spinning.

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Chris Brooks- The master plan

Brett Garsed - Big sky and Uncle moes space ranch.

Neil Zaza - Sing, Melodica and staring at the sun. (How the hell could I have overlooked this guy all of these years... Great guitarist!!)

Starbreaker- self titled

Soul Sirkus - self titled

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Fu Manchu's (Godzillia's) Eating Dust, hey Brooks wanna borrow it? LOL.

Also spinning at work is disc 2 of the Buck Owens box set, the first B52's album, and X's Under The Big Black Moon.

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Jake E Lee, Retraced (pretty damn good)

Rory Gallagher, Blueprint, Jinx (both awesome)

Michael Schenker, Heavy Hitters (disappointing)

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I'm listening to 3 Time/Life "Classic Jazz" compilation sets given to me by a co-worker: Jazz Masters, Jazz Greats and Jazz Legends. I love these because they provide a wealth of instrumental tunes that my band can use. We often start a set out with an instrumental before the singer comes up. The jazz tunes provide a little something different than playing Little Walter or George "Harmonica" Smith instrumentals.

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Fu Manchu's (Godzillia's) Eating Dust, hey Brooks wanna borrow it? LOL.

gotta say that outta all the "stoner rock" bands i didn't like, fu manchu was the best, ha.

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A New England local band called Waltham.  Great power-pop, if you like that sort of thing.  Check out the MP3's.

Waltham

Cool! I just saw this on eMusic.com. I'll give it a listen!

For years I've heard people talking about their favorite self abuse songs, so I finally compiled an iTunes playlist:

She-Bop - Cyndi Lauper

Dancing With Myself - Generation X

The Stroke - Bily Squier

I Touch Myself - Divinyls

Pictures of Lily - The Who

Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks

He's My Best Friend - Jellyfish

Rosie - Jackson Browne

Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes

Turning Japanese - The Vapors

Girl of my Dreams - Bram Tchaichovsky

Get A Grip - Semisonic

Palm of Your Hand - Buzzcocks

Pump it Up - Elvis Costello

Close to Me - The Cure

Vibrating - Robyn Hitchcock

Pink Thing - XTC

and a few others. Very inspiring! :D

-Jonathan

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I've been listening to the following:

King Crimson - Discipline

Fleetwood Mac - Roumers

Iommi - the 1996 Dep Sessions with Glenn Hughes

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The new Triple (Was since woodstock since I bought a triple album) from Michelle Shocked.

Great !!!!

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The Pretenders-Live at Paris Theatre, London(bootleg), Pearl Jam-Lost Dogs, Rory Gallagher-Big Guns, Aquarium Rescue Unit-Lawrence, Kansas 1994(bootleg).

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