28 September 2010
Neglect
Oh god I've neglected the blog! Here go read this, it's interesting and written by somebody else: Sigur Ros: Homage or Fromage?
07 September 2010
Happy Birthday Mr. Sexton!
One of my all-time favorites turns 40 today! And while I have to admit that I don't listen to much 311 anymore these days (and really, aside from a few tracks, most everything after Transistor was fairly wince-inducing), but I can still see what hit me so hard from basically age 10 - 18 or whatever. And here it is 2010 and they are still a band, which says...something.
This solo is from 1997, the hey-day, when Mr. Sexton still played OCDP drums, when OCDP drums weren't yet completely infatuated with Travis Barker, and when Chad's snare drum didn't sound like a real nasty post-Maine Lobster Fest fart. Listen to those open rolls! And the stick flip near the end! All that drum corps influence really shines through here. Terrible video, but just listen:
This solo is from 1997, the hey-day, when Mr. Sexton still played OCDP drums, when OCDP drums weren't yet completely infatuated with Travis Barker, and when Chad's snare drum didn't sound like a real nasty post-Maine Lobster Fest fart. Listen to those open rolls! And the stick flip near the end! All that drum corps influence really shines through here. Terrible video, but just listen:
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