Metal Reviews

I just got back from seeing Nomeansno and they're the best so it was great.

One word review of Hiromi's Sonicbloom: fuck.

Why do jazz musicians even bother making studio recordings? It's almost always like a castrated version of how the song sounds live >.>

Because they want to document what they do, I guess.

There are a lot of jazz albums that don't sound castrated. But then, a lot of those artists I haven't seen live so how could I tell...

I mean like recording-wise... why not just record themselves playing live? Hiromi basically played all the songs from Beyond Standard, but I'd much rather listen to a live recording of the set I saw last night than the studio album. And from what I've heard (which is very little) live albums are way better than studio albums when it comes to jazz.

The applause and audience noise bothers me on live albums. I prefer live DVDs anyway, where I can actually see what's going on, so the audience noise doesn't bother me so much.

Well, jazz musicians do record "live", just not in front of an audience. i.e. they play things together and spontaneously rather than each recording their own parts. There are some incredibly intense jazz studio recordings. But yeah, it should really be seen live for the right effect.

I never really started appreciating Jazz until I learned a bit about playing it anyways. Same with Classical music.

Maybe I just like longer solos and improvising which is usually what happens live.

Have any of you guys seen Al Di Meola live? I'm seeing him Tuesday.

Never have. Sounds like fun!

Lucky bastard.

I know! 3 awesome shows in 11 days. I'm afraid after this I won't be able to see a decent one for like 2 years :[

Al Di Meola kinda sucked. He basically soloed a bunch and I started to get bored and wondered if it would be funny to cheer at an inappropriate time, then we left at the intermission.

Vader and the Amenta are coming in November.
YAY!

Just found the setlist for the JP and Whitesnake tour if anyone else is going.


01. Rapid Fire
02. Metal Gods
03. Breaking The Law
04. Grinder
05. United
06. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
07. Living After Midnight
08. The Rage
09. Steeler
10. The Ripper
11. Prophecy
12. Rock Hard Ride Free
13. Victim Of Changes

Encore:
14. Freewheel Burning
15. Diamonds And Rust
16. You've Got Another Thing Comin'

Going on Thursday! Thanks for ruining the surprise.

Only 7 out of 16. I like knowing. Sorry.

Kinda weird there is no Painkiller stuff... Diamonds and Rust live will be cool. And now I know what to make a playlist of for the drive.

Debating whether I should go see The Slackers live tomorrow.

So Judas Priest was fucking amazing. Didn't love the setlist beyond British Steel but it worked. I never realized how flamboyant Halford really is. His leaning over wasn't as bad as I expected either. Whitesnake was pretty awesome too when they were playing their hit tracks. The opening band wasn't worth the time. I simply texted my woman the whole time they played.

Traveling to Wacken on Monday so will be seeing many bands next week including Sarke, Onkel Tom, Whiplash, Endstille, Pentagram, Running Wild and many more.