[youtube T62302eK_-4]Okay, so this isn’t really a legitimate music video, it’s a youtube mash-up, but I think it’s hilarious. Hall and Oates’ ‘Maneater’ synched up to a series of Danzig videos. The guy that edited this did a pretty solid job, too bad Danzig never had a saxophone player.
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[youtube yP8QhblSkRI] Morphine has become somewhat of a legend since mysterious frontman Mark Sandman died onstage at a relatively early age in 1999. They have been dubbed with creating ‘low rock’, but really what they did as a band is make jazz more accessible to a general audience; specifically garnering high marks with the independent/alternative rock community of the 90s. Although their music sounds nothing like most of the 90s alternative rock, they were more closely followed by the alt-rockers than the jazz fans.
’Buena’ is the first song from their second album, 1993’s ‘Cure for Pain’. It is a good example of their unique sound, featuring Mark Sandman playing slide-bass, Dana Colley on sax and Jerome Deupree on drums.
[youtube VBsbCMIyG6E] No Quarter is my favorite Led Zeppelin song by far. It was on their fifth album Houses of the Holy, which is considered by many to be the last great Led Zep album; or at least the end of the ‘classic’ era of Led Zeppelin. I like this transitional period best because I think they showed the most emotion and just the right amount of expirimentation here. The riffs in this song are pretty hautning and I think this song was the pinnacle of Jimmy Page’s career as a guitarist. This is a live video from 1973 and you can tell by the amazing ad-libbing that this is a band that really knows how to play together. They seem to use the original composition as a blueprint, particularly vocalist Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page.
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The Eagles of Death Metal are really only two guys: Palm Desert rocker Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss fame. Despite the name, they are not a death metal band. They have a very tongue-in-cheek classic rock sound, they are more or less a parody of popular garage-influenced 70s rock like Canned Heat, Mountain, Iggy and the Stooges, etc.
Their first album, ‘Peace, Love, Death Metal’ was sort of a sleeper hit; they did not become a huge success but gained a cult following and the songs from this album are very often favored for movie soundtracks and commercials. The subsequent album, ‘Death By Sexy’ was still solid but not quite as good as the first, and they are working on a new album called ‘Heart on’.
I didn’t know that the Black Crowes were still around, but apparently, after some line-up changes, they have just put out their first studio album in seven years entitled ‘Warpaint’ and ‘Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution’ is the first single.
The Black Crowes have never been a very original band, their goal from inception was to sound like classic 70s Southern rock in the same vein as the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Grateful Dead, Molly Hatchet, etc. and they have built a large, cult-ish following by doing this remarkably well. For another band that was heavily influenced by 70s Southern rock, check out the video I posted by the band Sleep.
This song seems to blend in with the overall sound of the Crowes and it sounds like they are sticking to what they know. The video appears to be a photo montage of the band taken over the years; all the black and white photos along with their outfits make it look straight out of the 70s.
