Music and DISCUSSION Thread

[pwnytailjoe]

Where were you and what were you doing when this all went down?

Panorama City, just got home from work and watched it unfold live on TV. About 9 pm a line of about 50 police cars started driving up and down the side streets.
Panorama City is where we would see Ernie C from Body Count Christmas tree shopping and stuff with his wife and kids. Just down the street and around the corner was Sound City and same neighborhood where Ed Powers was filming his Bus Stop Tales and Dirty Debutantes vids. I'm glad I left but I kinda miss it.
Weird time to be alive

 

[Amarok]

Does anyone remember The Ramones on the Sha-Na-Na show?
I wouldn't have believed it without proof, but here ya go. NYC FTW.
Fifties Greasers meet Seventies Punks.
Watching Joey trying not to crack up was hilarious. I would have loved to see the other takes.

 

[Psychobilly]

Does anyone remember The Ramones on the Sha-Na-Na show?
I wouldn't have believed it without proof, but here ya go. NYC FTW.
Fifties Greasers meet Seventies Punks.
Watching Joey trying not to crack up was hilarious. I would have loved to see the other takes.

I mean, if you think about it, the Ramones have said they played 50s style "Rock" but sped it up so the songs ended up shorter. Even MC5 used to be greasers so there's a lot of Rockabilly in the Punk bands that came around first.

If you take Johnny Cash, add in the Damned, stir in some Night of the Living Dead, and set it to simmer over GBH and Jerry Lee Lewis, you have Demented Are Go

 

[Amarok]

I mean, if you think about it, the Ramones have said they played 50s style "Rock" but sped it up so the songs ended up shorter. Even MC5 used to be greasers so there's a lot of Rockabilly in the Punk bands that came around first.

If you take Johnny Cash, add in the Damned, stir in some Night of the Living Dead, and set it to simmer over GBH and Jerry Lee Lewis, you have Demented Are Go

Oh no doubt, it's a natural pairing, especially as both SNN and the Ramones always used a good dose of humour in their acts(have you seen the Rock'n'Roll High School movie?). It was still a real pleasure for me to see them together though.

I loved the Sha-Na-Na tv show as a kid and grew up on 50's rock'n'roll but wasn't able to appreciate a lot of the guest stars at the time. I've been watching some of the clips and episodes on YT and it's so fun.


As to rockabilly and punk and camp/schlock all combining into psychobilly, hell yeah, that was about an organic a progression as can be, though you need a bit of Alice Cooper and Arthur Brown in your equation from the MC5 era, imo. .

Just like with Anthrax and PE and the crossover between rap and metal, where angry young outsiders found common purpose despite disparate backgrounds, some genres just go together.

 

[Psychobilly]

Love Rock n Roll High School! PJ was in that movie too! The girl from the original Halloween

And yeah Alice Cooper needs to be in there too, as does Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

The name of today show is like the Ramones song

 

[Hugh Jass]

Wore this album out when I was in high school - Started thinking differently about SNN after they performed at Woodstock

 

[Hugh Jass]

Another great band who wore their 50's influences on their sleeve

My fantasy baseball team was called 96 Decibel Freaks for years...

 

[spyralout]

But we can fix ourselves.

RIP Dimebag Darrell

 

[Jewels]

the crossover between rap and metal,

They didn't get much love around these parts, but I dug Body Count.

And don't get me started on Sesame Street

 

[Amarok]

Body Count.

Body Count was my gateway to rap. A bud gave me their first release on cassette and T's 100% metal attitude instantly grabbed my attention.
I related so hard to There Goes the Neighborhood. There was a point where almost every restaurant and coffee shop in town had a rule designed to keep me and my crew of teenage headbangers out. We got jumped at parties, girls wouldn't look at us, and we could understand discrimination at a visceral level. The anger at being unfairly singled out and excluded was something that I understood.

From there I got into his older stuff and loved his intelligent outlook and his morals and his desire to make things better.
Then it was on to NWA, PE, etc and somehow a small town Canadian honkey became a rap fan.

 

[Psychobilly]

He also did a song with Six Feet Under too. Love that dude

 

[Amarok]

 

[Amarok]

Written during the previous millenium. Mommy's pills may have changed, otherwise still applicable.

I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium so ineffectual

 

[Amarok]

My kinda country folk:

 

[Psychobilly]

I like Hank Jr's Son myself

 

[Hugh Jass]

Wore out that CDB record - Macon, GA was pumpin' out the great tunes back in the early 70s
Was always into the Capricorn sound - Marshall Tucker, Cowboy, Sea Level, ABB - a little jazzier, maybe, than Nashville or Austin.
(good thing you posted that one on this thread, as one Forrest Richard Betts plays dobro on LHCB)

 

[Hugh Jass]

A surprisingly faithful cover... never saw it before!

 

[doober]

What do y’all think about this?

I love it.

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I'm a little late on this one, but I think that song at that moment is awesome ? Loved that movie.

How about this one from Bruce and Tom Morello ?

 

[Amarok]

I like Hank Jr's Son myself

I'm a fan of all three generations.

 

[Psychobilly]

I'm a fan of all three generations.

I don't hear Junior much, but his Dad and his Son are both on multiple playlists of mine.