[kj] RE: Foos, Nirvana, whatever

Alexander Smith vassifer at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 8 16:49:42 EST 2006


He also played in a latter-day incarnation of fabled Washington D.C. 
hardcore band, SCREAM -- who, it has been said, rocked.

Alex in NYC


On Sunday, January 8, 2006, at 02:45 PM, Rob Martin wrote:

> Tim
> I've got to press you further - what rock cliché stuff.
> Can you give me any examples?
> I've got plenty of rock cliché stuff in my collection - Krokus being a 
> band
> completely made up of rock clichés - but I got into them before I 
> sussed
> that one out.
> I'm not going to be Dave Grohl's sole defender here but I do happen to 
> enjoy
> almost everything he's done so far. I must have very simple music 
> tastes.
> Are there any major albums he's helped to produce other than from these
> bands below?
> Nirvana
> Foo Fighters
> Queens of the Stone Age
> Killing Joke
> Tenacious D
>
> Regards
> Rob Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:56:50 -0000
> From: "Tim Bucknall" <tim.bucknall at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [kj] RE: Foos, Nirvana, whatever
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
> 	<gathering at misera.net>
> Message-ID: <003401c6145b$604f5870$c6887ad5 at Tim>
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>
> its my honest opinion, they were popular when colour & shape came out 
> and i
> loved that
>
> too much rock cliche stuff now
>
> maybe the foo's really needed Pat Smear, although i didn't rate his
> contribution to nirvana
> something just changed, lots of people  i know when off them  after 
> pat went
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Martin" <robmartin at bluebottle.com>
> To: <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:38 PM
> Subject: [kj] RE: Foos, Nirvana, whatever
>
>
>> Tim
>> If this is your honest view that you don't like what the Foos have 
>> done
>> recently, that is up to you but I don't agree with you at all 
>> personally.
>> The more I play the latest couple of albums, the more I appreciate 
>> them.
>> I'm
>> not saying they are better than their earlier stuff - they are 
>> different.
>> Why people have to continually compare stuff, I don't know.
>> No offence mate but it just sounds like the usual "they are popular 
>> now so
>> they are now shit".
>> That was my view with Adam and the Ants when I was a kid and they put 
>> out
>> Kings of the new frontier.
>> It is true with some bands still - they get popular and start pumping 
>> out
>> pop-shit for the masses rather than put out the music they actually 
>> wanted
>> to do.
>> Call me Mr. Naive if you want, but I don't believe Dave Grohl is 
>> putting
>> out
>> his new stuff to sell more. It's not as if he has toned down the 
>> guitar
>> sound or cut down on his screaming. As iPat once said, the production 
>> on
>> the
>> new album is outstanding and that is probably putting some people off 
>> -
>> they
>> want the more basic sounding production.
>> Unfortunately for them, not many bands would stick with their original
>> production options when they have the option of using the best 
>> equipment
>> and
>> producers.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rob Martin
>>
>>
>> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:09:46 -0000
>> From: "Tim Bucknall" <tim.bucknall at btinternet.com>
>> Subject: Re: [kj] Nirvana
>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
>> <gathering at misera.net>
>> Message-ID: <002701c613ad$29ef5ae0$585d7ad5 at Tim>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> foo's 95-97 = great
>> foo's after 97 = crap
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Tinsoldier645527 at aol.com
>>  To: gathering at misera.net
>>  Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:49 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [kj] Nirvana
>>
>>
>>  Could you say that a little louder please?
>>
>>  In a message dated 07/01/2006 16:46:51 GMT Standard Time,
>> crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>>    I'm a Nirvana fan.
>>    Anyone who prefers Foo Fighters must be defa as a bat!
>>
>>  Forests are falling,there's smoke in my throat
>>  Machine over man,and the mass over mind
>
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