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Why does it seem to you that you've read somewhere that I said Rollins is a good guy? It seems clear to me that I would never want to find myself in front of him when I’m about to struggle in those whirlpools described in the review. Try to connect your brain better when you read, pixies :)
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Pixies starts from a wrong assumption; Rollins hasn't created a world in his own image and likeness. This is a world he doesn't like, but he does nothing to change it. It's a bit like those old loner assholes who wait for the end because they know they are out of place in this world. In fact, he is one of those obsolete loner assholes who face life as if it were death and death as if it were life.
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Well, Alessioiride preceded my intervention by a little. I don't know if "fascist" is the right word; Rollins is like an animal being hunted in a false and hypocritical society made up of assholes, little assholes, and big assholes. He is sincere in a wild and ancient virility that has now been lost. For this reason, he is neither the type to sit in a circle singing "we can change the world," nor the type to play the clown waving a spiked club like Burzum. I don’t know if he has all his marbles, and honestly, he makes me uncomfortable; all the people who seem genuine make us uncomfortable, we who are the product of mediations and compromises.
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but look Giona, if you take the recent Conspiracy Theories by Phil Miller in Cahoots, you're not straying too far from the work that Zappa did back in 1972 with the Petit Wazoo concert... and we're talking about 36 years ago...
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...and already :) just heard the guitar solo in "The Fourth Way"...taken straight from the sessions of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar by Uncle Frankie...
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Well, honestly, in that album I remember little Canterbury and a lot of Zehul, less pushed to the limit. And anyway, Zappa is always relevant, it depends on how you use it :)
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Well dear Giona, I believe the only misleading thing is the rating you gave to this record. An acquaintance had me copy the previous album, assuring me it was Canterbury Jazz meets Zappa... he hasn't shown up since because he knows I'm still looking for him for that flop. Boring and impersonal, at least on that album, never listened to it again. Now it’s also possible that they’ve created a masterpiece with this one, for heaven's sake, anything is possible, even that Roma might still win the scudetto :)
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@uglypanda just so you know, that story about Claypool auditioning for Metallica to replace Cliff Burton is true. However, I've never heard that he was a "student" of Stanley Clarke; rather, he's a huge admirer of him. Larry Lalonde, on the other hand, took lessons from Joe Satriani. The fact that the first album was a live one was due to a lack of money to go into the studio, and indeed, following the success of that record, they were able to make Fizzle Fry. Among the "bass-driven" bands you mentioned, I would exclude I Love You, which is much more metal, and maybe I would include similar Californian acts like Mind Over Four, Limbomaniacs, Lock Up, and the tanned 24-7 Spyz...
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You say it has aged rather poorly? We should ask Henry Rollins's opinion, who covered "Do it" in '89 and it was one of his live staples, and I remember that Death of Samantha did it too. "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" is worth the price of the record on its own.
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Well! We need to see what an honest record means for this guy; I don't think he means sufficient, considering he gives it a 5. And that disclaimer about the hard-to-attract group on first listen seems rather ambitious. The hallmark of Primus, on the other hand, is precisely to make an impact on the first listen. Regarding Herb Alexander being self-taught, I don’t think that’s surprising for a rock drummer, and he wasn't a novice either; if you take a look on YouTube, you can see him behind the drums for Major Lingo, a soft rock band from Arizona. Suck on this was quite a blow and a big surprise at the time; it was a live album because they didn't have the money to go into a recording studio. Without the frills, you say? I think Claypool added those...