Good morning, let's start with last week. There weren’t many good new releases last week, but that’s somewhat to be expected when the main releases I was expecting were anniversary re-releases. There was a fantastic new track off the new Blue Oyster Cult album called “Train True” and Jimi Hendrix had a good “new” performance of “Foxy Lady” from Maui in 1970, from an album expected in November. It was good to see the origins of Linkin Park, but nothing holds a candle to the great emotional resonance Chester Bennington made during his days making music for Transformers and his final album with Grey Daze. The Doors were all right, but not as good as their contemporaries around that time like Hendrix, Santana or John Lennon. Nonetheless, there were good tracks that I was glad to hear and put into playlists so I can access them down the line. I guess not every week is going to be amazing, is all.
Anyway, this week has two key
releases on tap, but I’m not going to mention one of them because I’m already
listening to what appears a previous MP3 release of it to determine if it will
make a good Christmas present. Also, I
don’t want the knowledge of it to get out as a Christmas present. I think my Brother will enjoy this, though
he’s probably unfamiliar with the artist.
I heard of this musician back at my old Church (he also has fans at my
current one) and he’s a British Classic Rock keyboardist and Christian who’s
collaborated with Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. I’m not going to mention any more, he might
be able to figure it out just from that, though I hope he doesn’t to keep
himself surprised. If the MP3s on
Spotify correspond to this release, it will be a good collection of new
versions of classics and some songs I don’t think either of us have heard
before. Merry Christmas, Andrew.
The other release I am anticipating
on Spotify is a live Allman Brothers release called “The Final Note,” likely
the last concert Duane performed with the band before his fatal motorcycle accident
in late 1971. If you’re unfamiliar with
the band or Duane Allman, I can sum them up as such:
In the late 1960s, the landscape of
rock and roll was changing as bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath began
forming in England. In Georgia, US, brothers
Gregg and Duane Allman started a unique blend of country and rock and roll
behind Gregg’s songwriting, vocals and keyboards and Duane’s intense
slide-guitar work. Dickey Betts provided
another guitar line, which created the “dueling lead guitar” element of
Southern Rock which would be carried by bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band also had two drummers, like The
Outlaws or The Charlie Daniels Band after them.
Duane’s intense work, famously highlighted in 20-minute live
performances of the song “Whipping Post,” became legend, to the point that Eric
Clapton, fresh from the split of Cream, hired him to help make his “Derek and
the Dominos” album, “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.” Duane duels with Clapton and provides the
“bird cry” guitar sound at the end of the famous track “Layla,” but didn’t
accompany the band on tour because Eric was hooked on heroin at the time. Another interesting note is that Duane disapproved
of the term “Southern Rock,” since rock and roll originated in the South, so to
him, it was like calling it “Rock Rock.”
While touring with the Allman Brothers Band, recording several live
albums throughout 1971, Duane sadly crashed his motorcycle one night, ending
his life.
This ended the Allman Brothers band
being Brothers and also ended Derek and the Dominos, sinking Eric Clapton into
a depression he wouldn’t recover from until Pete Townsend gathered a special
concert in 1973, inspiring him to record “I Shot the Sheriff” and the album 461
Ocean Boulevard the following year. I can’t
imagine how devastating it felt to lose his guitar brothers of Hendrix and
Allman so soon to each other, but he was able to keep going through the 1970s
with his friends at his back and make a great career with “Wonderful Tonight”
as well as patch up his friendship with George Harrison. Revisiting his, Chester Bennington and Chris
Cornell’s careers on this past week of World Mental Health Day, reminded me how
tough life can be and how sometimes people like me may express ourselves in
unusual ways, but it’s because we feel things so intensely. I posted this picture of a Mii (avatar
character for Nintendo system) of Chris Cornell when I was aware Mental Health
Day had happened.
The man truly had a God-given voice
and a great sense of humor, and I would love it if he could’ve said something
funny/awkward during this time of such intense stress. This is a man who made swearing in public
hilarious, he could certainly make our stress of politics and COVID have a bit
of levity in them. Instead, we have to
bear with a lack of levity, forced to live with a sense of “just stand by,
maybe things will be better in a few weeks with the election.”
On two positive notes, tomorrow I’m going
to begin Actions-Tober, a lineup of action movies and related action-like
movies throughout this month into next, mainly to keep myself busy and make
some joyful times. Here’s the lineup as
of now, a couple of the days’ movies have significant reasons I will get into
in blog posts on those days.
10/16-Godzilla 1984, Shin Godzilla
10/20-Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla, Godzilla;
Tokyo SOS
10/21-Godzilla; Final Wars
10/23-WWE Extreme Rules 2019
10/27-Wonder Woman
10/28-Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous
Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
10/29-Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason
Lives
10/30-War of the Gargantuas
10/31-Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, Godzilla vs.
SpaceGodzilla
11/3-Godzilla vs. Mothra 1964, Godzilla; King of
the Monsters 2019 (Godzilla’s 66th Birthday aka “avoid the current
events even if it’s a good day” Day. It
should also be noted the second film involves a blasphemous false king who
claims rulership of the planet while fulfilling prophecies from the Book of
Revelation and is ultimately ended by the alpha male and alpha female of nature
for attempting to destroy the world.
Just a little bit of hope for the election and the times to come)
Another is that of this morning, I finished one of my themed Best of Years Playlists by owning all the MP3s in it, in this case Party Rock 92. Here's the music in the playlist:
1.)
Achy Breaky Heart-Billy Ray Cyrus
2.)
These Boots Are Made For Walking-Billy Ray Cyrus
3.)
Never Thought I’d Fall In Love With You-Billy Ray Cyrus
4.)
Some Gave All-Billy Ray Cyrus
5.)
Lounge Act-Nirvana
6.)
Breed-Nirvana
7.)
Come As You Are-Nirvana
8.)
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
9.)
Into The Void (Sealth)-Soundgarden
10.)
Outshined-Soundgarden
11.)
Crazy Train (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
12.)
War Pigs (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
13.)
No More Tears-Ozzy Osbourne
14.)
Road To Nowhere-Ozzy Osbourne
15.)
I Don’t Want To Change The World (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
16.)
Time Machine-Black Sabbath
17.)
Feed My Frankenstein-Alice Cooper
18.)
Even Flow-Pearl Jam
19.)
Once-Pearl Jam
20.)
Alive-Pearl Jam
21.)
Black-Pearl Jam
22.)
Love Buzz (Live)-Nirvana
23.)
Negative Creep (Live)-Nirvana
24.)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)-Nirvana
25.)
Breed (Live)-Nirvana
26.)
School (Live)-Nirvana
27.)
Hands All Over (Live)-Soundgarden
28.)
Outshined (Live)-Soundgarden
29.)
Hey Stoopid-Alice Cooper
30.)
Wind-Up Toy-Alice Cooper
31.)
Tears In Heaven-Eric Clapton
32.)
Layla (Acoustic)-Eric Clapton
33.)
Weight of the World-Ringo Starr
34.)
Porch-Pearl Jam
35.)
Mama I’m Coming Home (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
36.)
Black Sabbath (Live)-Black Sabbath
37.)
Bark At The Moon (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
38.)
Hunger Strike-Temple of the Dog
39.)
Pushin’ Forward Back-Temple of the Dog
40.)
Say Hello 2 Heaven-Temple of the Dog
41.)
Party With the Animals-Ozzy Osbourne
42.)
Light Out Of Black-Rob Halford
Party Rock 81:
1.)
Diary of a Madman-Ozzy Osbourne
2.)
SATO-Ozzy Osbourne
3.)
Over The Mountain-Ozzy Osbourne
4.)
Suicide Solution (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
5.)
Believer (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
6.)
Crazy Train (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
7.)
Paranoid (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
8.)
Mr. Crowley (Live)-Ozzy Osbourne
9.)
The Mob Rules (Demo/Film Version)-Black Sabbath
10.)
Country Girl-Black Sabbath
11.)
E5150-Black Sabbath
12.)
The Mob Rules-Black Sabbath
13.)
Heavy Metal (Take A Ride)-Don Felder
14.)
Heavy Metal (Film Version)-Sammy Hagar
15.)
Veteran of the Psychic Wars-Blue Oyster Cult
16.)
I Must Be Dreamin’-Cheap Trick
17.)
Reach Out-Cheap Trick
18.)
Open Arms-Journey
19.)
Mother, Father-Journey
20.)
Escape-Journey
21.)
Keep on Runnin’ (Live)-Journey
22.)
Don’t Stop Believin’-Journey
23.)
I Got A Line On You (Live)-Blackfoot
24.)
Hooked on Music (Live)-Pat Travers
25.)
Stevie (Live)-Pat Travers
26.)
Boom, Boom, (Out Go the Lights) (Live)-Pat Travers
27.)
Godzilla (Live)-Blue Oyster Cult
28.)
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Live)-Blue Oyster Cult
29.)
Roadhouse Blues (Live)-Blue Oyster Cult
30.)
Black Blade (Live)-Blue Oyster Cult
31.)
Unchained-Van Halen
32.)
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)-AC/DC
33.)
I Love Rock and Roll-Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
34.)
Crimson and Clover-Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
And also Party Rock 86, which covers music from 1985, 1987 and my brother's birth year of 1986, effectively the heyday of Hair Metal. It also ends with two tracks from the epic 1980s movie Highlander and includes two songs from the film Maximum Overdrive:
Party Rock 86:
1.)
Rainbow in the Dark (Live)-Dio
2.)
Rock and Roll Children/Long Live Rock and Roll/Man on the Silver Mountain
(Live)-Dio
3.)
Good Enough-Van Halen
4.)
Dreams-Van Halen
5.)
Why Can’t This Be Love?-Van Halen
6.)
Sweet Child O’ Mine-Guns N Roses
7.)
Nightrain-Guns N Roses
8.)
It’s So Easy-Guns N Roses
9.)
Rocket Queen-Guns N Roses
10.)
Out Ta Get Me-Guns N Roses
11.)
Whole Lotta Rosie (Live)-Guns N Roses
12.)
Paradise City-Guns N Roses
13.)
Is This Love-Whitesnake
14.)
Still of the Night-Whitesnake
15.)
Here I Go Again-Whitesnake
16.)
Bad Boys-Whitesnake
17.)
Rock of Ages Medley-Def Leppard
18.)
Hysteria-Def Leppard
19.)
Pour Some Sugar on Me-Def Leppard
20.)
Rocket-Def Leppard
21.)
Animal-Def Leppard
22.)
To Hell with the Devil-Stryper
23.)
Free-Stryper
24.)
Livin’ On A Prayer-Bon Jovi
25.)
You Give Love A Bad Name-Bon Jovi
26.)
Wanted Dead or Alive-Bon Jovi
27.)
I’m Down-Aerosmith
28.)
Dude (Looks Like A Lady)-Aerosmith
29.)
Rag Doll-Aerosmith
30.)
The Last in Line/Children of the Sea/Holy Diver (Live)-Dio
31.)
Who Made Who-AC/DC
32.)
Sink the Pink-AC/DC
33.)
Yankee Rose-David Lee Roth
34.)
Shy Boy-David Lee Roth
35.)
Instruments of Destruction-NRG
36.)
Shot in the Dark-Ozzy Osbourne
37.)
Killer of Giants-Ozzy Osbourne
38.)
Lightning Strikes-Ozzy Osbourne
39.)
Walk in the Shadows-Queensryche
40.)
Gonna Get Close To You-Queensryche
41.)
Screaming in Digital-Queensryche
42.)
Neue Regel-Queensryche
43.)
Walk in the Shadows (Live)-Queensryche
44.)
Talk Dirty To Me-Poison
45.)
Gimme The Prize (Kurgan’s Theme)-Queen
46.) Who Wants To Live Forever-Queen
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