Green Day "Bullet in a Bible"

Well I'm sitting at my desk listening to Green Day's Bullet in a Bible.

How did this band go so unoticed for 12 years. Brilliant stuff. If you ain't seen the DVD concert at Milton Keynes, UK go treat yourself.

From the opening bars the band has the whole crowd behind them. The audience know every word to every song. Terrific stuff.

I'm 51 in 10 days time and still rock to this music. Mind you I also like lesser known bands from the 70's such as Budgie, King Crimson etc.. My favourite band would be Ten Years After, Alvin Lee sure can rip up the blues.

My favourite single track would be Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit". Now where's my stash :D

Definitely off topic eh ?.

The first time I heard Green Day was their album "Dookie" back around 1994-1995. A really great album.

I reckon Billie Joe would have to be one of the better song writers of our time for sure.

I do like the early greenday stuff. Can't say I'm a fan of their newer stuff tho.

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Originally Posted by garythepenman

Well I'm sitting at my desk listening to Green Day's Bullet in a Bible.

How did this band go so unoticed for 12 years. Brilliant stuff. If you ain't seen the DVD concert at Milton Keynes, UK go treat yourself.

From the opening bars the band has the whole crowd behind them. The audience know every word to every song. Terrific stuff.

I'm 51 in 10 days time and still rock to this music. Mind you I also like lesser known bands from the 70's such as Budgie, King Crimson etc.. My favourite band would be Ten Years After, Alvin Lee sure can rip up the blues.

My favourite single track would be Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit". Now where's my stash :D

Definitely off topic eh ?.

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Give me some Early (85) springsteen or tommy and the shondells or Joan Jett....

If they have screaming guitars...I'm there.

RT

Another recommendation is Jethro Tull's live DVD Living with the past, has all of the greats plus a few lesser known ones. Martin Barr is still some mean guitarist. And when they play "Hunt By Numbers" the whole place rocks. Literally. Turn up the vol and enjoy.

Gary

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Originally Posted by garythepenman

Another recommendation is Jethro Tull's live DVD Living with the past, has all of the greats plus a few lesser known ones. Martin Barr is still some mean guitarist. And when they play "Hunt By Numbers" the whole place rocks. Literally. Turn up the vol and enjoy.

Gary

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Stevie Ray Vaughn and John Lee Hooker They make the hair on the back of neck stand up and give me goose bumps...same with hendrix and the older santana.....

I don't know if you mean "unnoticed" by yourself, or by the rest of listeners, but they've been pretty big for quite a while. I guess I first heard their stuff in 1994. "Dookie" was their breakout album in that year. I bought "Nimrod" in 1997, too.

I'm a big fan of the "1990s rock." Nirvana, Soundgarden, Silverchair, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, etc.

Then there's the older rock. I've got hundreds of old LPs in my collection. You name it, I've got it.

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I don't know if you mean "unnoticed" by yourself, or by the rest of listeners, but they've been pretty big for quite a while. I guess I first heard their stuff in 1994. "Dookie" was their breakout album in that year. I bought "Nimrod" in 1997, too.

I'm a big fan of the "1990s rock." Nirvana, Soundgarden, Silverchair, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, etc.

Then there's the older rock. I've got hundreds of old LPs in my collection. You name it, I've got it.

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Got anything by Legs Diamond?

RT

Gary - My daughter turned me on to GD back in the eighties. Good stuff.
btw, I saw Tull in concert a couple of times in the seventies at the Forum.

JL - agree on SRV

I have all SRV's recordings (I think) and I find each one absolutely brilliant. His style and tone has not been equalled since he died.
Having said that John Mayer's early acoustic stuff is pretty impressive and his version of 'Lenny' on his live DVD is outstanding.

Music from Big Pink by The Band. Man am I showing my age!
$10 for a baggie!:D

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Originally Posted by randydance062449

Music from Big Pink by The Band. Man am I showing my age!
$10 for a baggie!:D

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Been there, done that. It gives a totally different meaning to the word "lid"!

BTW, that's one of the greatest ALBUMS ever put on vinyl! And I have the album, 8 track, cassette and CD.

RT (can you say Captain ZIG ZAG?)

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Originally Posted by garythepenman

Well I'm sitting at my desk listening to Green Day's Bullet in a Bible.

How did this band go so unoticed for 12 years. Brilliant stuff. If you ain't seen the DVD concert at Milton Keynes, UK go treat yourself.

From the opening bars the band has the whole crowd behind them. The audience know every word to every song. Terrific stuff.

I'm 51 in 10 days time and still rock to this music. Mind you I also like lesser known bands from the 70's such as Budgie, King Crimson etc.. My favourite band would be Ten Years After, Alvin Lee sure can rip up the blues.

My favourite single track would be Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit". Now where's my stash :D

Definitely off topic eh ?.

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You brought a tear to a middle aged mans eye
King Crimson`s 21st century skitsoid man Alvin Lee`s I`m comming home Hendrix Joplin Ahhh the woman the drugs the music I`ll have to put on Hendrix`s machine gun now and piss the whole family off as I sit in the corner with half a gin on my face and head slowly moving to the beat,I gotta go now ,I`ll blame you of course
Kind regards Pete
PS A :cool: time when people could really play and sing Jeff Beck ,Jimmy Page Janice Joplin and Grace Slick Blackmore etc

We must get together and have a rock night.

I've just watched / listended to Led Zep's Achilles Last Stand. Plant and Page at their best live in 1979 Knebworth.

Oh Robert Fripp - King Crimson..brilliant.."Neurosurgeons scream for more"

This Saturday night we're having a bit of a shindig..pot luck dinner thing for my b'day. I get to choose the music.

Might just warm everyone up with Black Sabbath..Supernaut..(Vol4)

Gary

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Music from Big Pink by The Band. Man am I showing my age!
$10 for a baggie!:D

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They say that a sure sign that you are getting old is when you don't have to enter a music shop to buy the albums you want cause they are all in the bargain bins out the front.:D

No, the worst thing is when you get into the elevator, you're tapping your feet and whistling along to the tune wondering "hmm, that sounds familiar" when all of a sudden you realize what it is... and the last time you heard it was at 100+ decibels with screaming guitars out of a stack of refrigerator sized speakers in some squalid little hole in the wall drunk out of your mind with a half naked redhead who didn't even have a name wrapped around you... and now... it's elevator music.

-- Gary F.

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No, the worst thing is when you get into the elevator, you're tapping your feet and whistling along to the tune wondering "hmm, that sounds familiar" when all of a sudden you realize what it is... and the last time you heard it was at 100+ decibels with screaming guitars out of a stack of refrigerator sized speakers in some squalid little hole in the wall drunk out of your mind with a half naked redhead who didn't even have a name wrapped around you... and now... it's elevator music.

-- Gary F.

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Yes but OH the mammeries sorry the memories
with this spell check I can`t get used to USA spelling
Regards Peter

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Yes but OH the mammeries sorry the memories
with this spell check I can`t get used to USA spelling
Regards Peter

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And then there was the uncanny xmen. Euwww trying to forget those memories :o

I always feel like I was born in the wrong decade. When I hear the live recordings of hendrix, springsteen, joplin, or the old blues guys Albert King, Muddy Water, BB King, John Lee Hooker (one of my favorites, also love Stevie Ray Vaughn, even though its not classic blues...Country music is the one of the only genres of music left that has some blues sound to it and still tells a story....I feel so damn out of place...hell I like guns made of steel, I shave with a straight razor, and I like single malt scotch and old muscle cars, I defintely was born in the wrong decade....sigh....that old blues guitar...I could just imagine myself sipping a single malt at the bar of an old smokey blues club listening to some insane blues riffs......only they dont exist anymore...and even if they did, it seems that the talent has just faded away in favor ot slutty girls in tight skirts or boys who are mad at their parents for something or other...

Nah, they still exist and the talent still exists too. Get yourself out to some blues clubs and see some of the smaller live bands. Listen to the indie music scene and you'll hear some real talent, not just the mass produced record label stuff.

-- Gary F.

Blues aaahhhh....

I was in Chicago a while back and visited Kingston Mines blues club in North Halsted.

What a night, boy is there talent out there or what. My ears ached the next day.

Some of those lead guitarists are sadists for sure, really make your ears bleed.

Brilliant stuff. Try to check out Alvin Lee, TYA playing "slow blues in C" live.


Gary

Try the Black Keys too. They do some pretty good blues-inspired stuff, they're indie so they might be a bit tougher to find. They do have a website as well.

-- Gary F.

Well Im going to have to start posting cities I am in on this thread and seeing if anyone knows any good blues clubs around the area.

This thread made me go out and by some blues CDs I got a great double CD set of muddy waters live....man it just blows my mind.....What a great CD!!!!!

Also got a 2 CD set for John Lee Hooker, but havent had the chance to listen yet, been to busy with muddy waters!

Please don't forget: The Iceman - Albert Collins, the blues wonder - Mr. Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall 2 (Eric Clapton backing guitarist), his dad, Doyle Bramhall, Ronnie Earl (great one), Chris Duarte (you should hear his "shiloh") and so on... see, SRV will live forever :)

Nenad

The White Stripes are another group to check out, if you haven't already. They're all about storytelling in music and in addition to writing lots of country and blues influenced songs of their own, they cover the greats: Son House, Robert Johnson, Blind Willy McTell, etc.

The Black Keys are pretty good, too. Another two-piece. I own records by both bands and have seen them both live, and I think the White Stripes are superior.

I far prefer the Black Keys. The white stripes are "too known" IMO, and aren't nearly as good as their billing. It's like Babe Ruth said "nobody goes there anymore because it's too busy". Whenever someone plays WS I'm like "yeah, been there, done that, got the T-shirt" but when I crank the BK they are all "Wow, who's THAT?"

-- Gary F.

"Too known," huh?

Just because a band has made their mark, doesn't necessarily mean they've lost anything along the way. This "I liked them before they were popular" attitude is not a good one.

"Been there, done that"? Are you serious? Is that a California thing?

I own records by by both bands, and the reason people say, "Who's that?" when they hear The Black Keys is because their songs aren't that great. They've got some really awesome riffs and all, but the guy's slurred vocals aren't going to take them anywhere fast.

Jack White has proven himself to be the superior artist.

Too each his own. I find the white stripes to be repetitive and derivative. I like fresh stuff that I haven't heard on every street corner blaring from every speaker. I lived in Lawrence for a year and I heard white stripes often enough to the point where I threw up in my mouth a little every single time they came on. I grew tired of them rapidly... and no, it's not a "california" thing.

-- Gary F.

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Originally Posted by JLStorm

Give me some Early (85) springsteen or tommy and the shondells or Joan Jett....

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I'd have to second that. I recently rediscovered Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" album. Great originals as well as cover songs.

Dan

To each his own, indeed.

I'm a huge Neil Young fan.