When I Grow Up...

I wanna be Dave Grohl.

Fucker gets to play with everyone from Led Zep to Lee Ving. Here's the Foo Fighters dressing up as Rush circa 1978 (last nite at the rock n roll hof)- dig the white robes:




and Keith (aka Johnny Bob Goldstein) Morris and the other guys (Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Bill Stevenson and the Descendents' Steven Edgerton) restoring my preferred era of Black Flag launched their tour:



and of course the Ozzy led Black Sabbath just released their first song in 35 years:




the 1970's are back muthafuckas!

Been A long Time Since I ...

... Rock And Roll

Perfect songs #3 - Collect the set!


No apologies to the Velvet Underground. THIS is the greatest song ever to be called ROCK AND ROLL

Black and Golden Boys

What more (well, aside from THE GIANTS being it it!) could you want for a Super Bowl? Great game that went down to the wire (I wish the Cardinals woulda had another minute to work with). Madden and Summerall on the b-cast. And The Boss doing the halftime thang. Springsteen rocked it, cut down the verses to get more songs in and even did a crotch cam shot.


Congrats to the Pittsburgh Steelers and my Iron-City dwelling pal Al.

Wait till next year! The Giants will be back!

Toonage:
Jack Black & The Foo Fighters - Back In Black (live 12/31/07)
The Hives - Back In Black
AC/DC - Back In Black
NOFX - Golden Boys



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Now playing: Meat Puppets - Disappear
via FoxyTunes

Gimmie Noise

Yeah I Know I Look Like Hell
Smokin' And Drinkin' I'm Feelin' Swell

Favorite Thing - The Replacements

(my buddy Jeff took this picture of the Replacements at Maxwells in 1986!)

Caterwaul Of Sound v 4.0 tonite. Can't fucking wait. The rock must be unleashed. It's hard to get our little gang of fuck-ups together, due to work/family/etc; so when we do, it's a beautiful thing. None of this stuff tonite, but we'll make up for it, I suspect.


(edit) - and we did- I got to play a longer and more psychotic version of Interstellar Overdrive than Syd Barrett ever did. And I played it on guitar... and I'm a bass player!

Here's some bands ripping the shit out of other band's classics.

Toonage:
Yo La Tengo - Favorite Thing (Replacements)
The Polyphonic Spree - Lithium (Nirvana)
Rancid - Cheat (The Clash)
Lunachicks - Noise Annoys / Promises (Buzzcocks)
Pennywise - Touch Of Grey (Grateful Dead)
Foo Fighters - Gas Chamber - (Angry Samoans)

Feliĉan naskiĝtagon

Today is the meat in the sandwich day between the slices of bread of Mrs. Nomad and Br'er Nomad's birthdays. How's that for a bizarre alliteration. Especially since they would be such different types of bread. One would be an Artisanal Crusty Sourdough (in only good ways of course) while their counter-part most definitely is of the sensible Whole Wheat varietal. In other words, 2 quite dissimilar personalities. I have never been of the view that opposites attract, so that should be a clue as to which side of the shoppe I was baked in.

So, in tribute to the two people who have had to share either a bed (by choice) or a room (by birth) with me for most of my life, I dedicate the following tunes to them. And you might be surprised as to which songs are preferred by which of em.

Toonage:

Abba - Fernando

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Foo Fighters - All My Life/My Hero/Times Like These/Best Of You/Everlong (Live Earth 6-07)

Bruce Springsteen - 41 Shots (live)

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (live VH1)

Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Ramones - Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns (from the Simpsons)

The cold and Foo Fighter season

Was the best career move of Dave Grohl's life when Kurt Cobain fellated a shotgun? I'd vote yes.

Grohl went from being the drummer of a band that couldn't ever be considered a good long term bet to being the leader of the Foo Fighters, a band certainly capable of "classic rockdom".
The bearded one has been able to mesh the quiet to loud dynamic of Nirvana with arena rock and has been churning out radio friendly alt rawk for over a decade already. Hey, what's not to like? Power crowds, great hooks, powerhouse drumming? This shit's in my dna.

Considering that Grohl got his start in DC hardcore, it's been one long strange trip. But good for him. He's travelled in some cool circles; jamming with folks like Queen and Lemmy and he gets extra points for playing a Dead Kennedy's tune on Mtv.

And the missus digs the heck out of the Foo Fighters, so it's all good.

We'll see em tonight, as the Foo Fighters play the big room, the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.

Toonage:
Foo Fighters - Danny Says (Ramones cover)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acoustic -Live on Howard Stern)
Foo Fighters - Tie Your Mother Down (Live w/ Brian May and Roger Taylor)
Foo Fighters - Gas Chamber (Angry Samoans cover)

Make Mine Marvel!

When I was a kid, you could either be a DC Comics loyalist or a Marvel Comics true believer. We were all firmly entrenched in the Marvel camp.

I absolutely loved the old EC comics like Tales From The Crypt and Haunt Of Fear. But they were collector's items by the time I was a kid. The reprints are great however.

Spiderman, The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four and The Silver Surfer had it all over the DC stable. Besides, Superman was a giant pussy and never killed anyone. And this was before Batman became "The Dark Knight" and became more of a vigilante. But Marvel had The Punisher and he was actually looking to shoot the bad guys. And Marvel wasn't afraid to kill off characters like Spiderman's girlfriend Gwen Stacy. Of course, then they had to clone her and Aunt May must have almost died about 300 times, but still; Marvel kicked ass. And Doctor Strange was THE acid comic. He's even on the cover of Pink Floyd's Saucerful Of Secrets

And, the girls in Marvel comics were ridiculously hot (yeah- I know they weren't real; but when you're 14 years old...)

I like the current threads in Spiderman alot... he absolutely kicked the shit out of Kingpin a few issues back and seems to be going into a "vengeful retribution" phase.

Now that I have kids, I get to relive my old comics plus check out the new stuff. The Marvel Zombies line is bad-ass, if a bit silly. Some of the Marvel character movies have been disappointing as well. But, all in all:

MAKE MINE MARVEL!

Toonage:

The Jam - Batman theme

Ramones - Spiderman

Queen - Flash

Foo Fighters - My Hero (acoustic)

Down By Law - Superman

Goldfinger - Superman

The Incredible Hulk TV Theme