I wore the shit out of this album. I miss albums. Bigass covers. Artwork. Big piece of vinyl stamped into a huge disc. "be careful with that!!" Shit.I say we ditch cd's and go back to vinyl. That shit rocked.rock opera type album from an awesome heavy rock band. Cool song. Probably a big reason why I have holes in my eardrums:People used to bag on Goeff Tate for being too operatic. I ...
Woohoo! I get to go to Austin to see Queensryche again (the forth band to see twice this year!!!) and I scored backstage passes from the fan club! I get to hear Operation Mindcrime 1 & 2 live again!!! YES YES YES!!!WOOHOO!!OK, so when they came to Houston Geoff Tate and Mike Stone did a meet & greet at Mancuso Harley-Davidson. I was so dumb-struck that all I could say was "Thanx for the gr...
Being an astute observer of humans and social groups I have, probably relatively late, come to the conclusion that we are seeing several growing pains and interesting phenomenon unique to MOG growing up.1) Death Cab For Cutie - has created the MOG-nomenom of swaming where a bunch of people join MOG in the hopes of (perhaps vainly) interacting with their musical heroes.Swarming temporarily will ...
So, what is the favored portable music player out there? My guess would, quite obviously, be the iPod, Apple's amazing little player that holds some ungodly amount of market share, like 83%. But, the Zune is coming out in a month of so, we may have a competitor, everybody says. But here's my opinion - if you say it's a competitor, it's not. The only thing that's gonna dislodge the iPod fro...
Alright, so I thought I had something for each letter turns out Q was a tough one. Nobody has turned me on (yet) to a band starting with the letter Q but awhile back Mogger Darmuzz and I were talking about how great this album was which made me go through my bins and dig out my cigarette burnt jewel case of "Operation Mindcrime" and revisit the days. So in a sense Darmuzz reintroduced me to th...
I wore the shit out of this album. I miss albums. Bigass covers. Artwork. Big piece of vinyl stamped into a huge disc. "be careful with that!!" Shit.I say we ditch cd's and go back to vinyl. That shit rocked.rock opera type album from an awesome heavy rock band. Cool song. Probably a big reason why I have holes in my eardrums:People used to bag on Goeff Tate for being too operatic. I ...
Looking back, to my proggier more introspective phases of music fandom, I end up at the place that I really started.. "Queensrÿche":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensrÿche... the so called thinking man's Heavy Metal. Listening back now, I hear how over produced the music was, and also how long it took to get to the point of their songs. Not that it's all that bad, but hey, I haven't got the ...
This Saturday is Record Store Day 2009 all across the United States and 16 other countries. It's the third annual event which celebrates the independent record retailer with special vinyl and CD releases along with other promotional products, in-store appearances and everything from cook-outs to parades.Let's face it, folks. Digital downloads are the big thing but doesn't it just feel good t...
Woohoo! I get to go to Austin to see Queensryche again (the forth band to see twice this year!!!) and I scored backstage passes from the fan club! I get to hear Operation Mindcrime 1 & 2 live again!!! YES YES YES!!!WOOHOO!!OK, so when they came to Houston Geoff Tate and Mike Stone did a meet & greet at Mancuso Harley-Davidson. I was so dumb-struck that all I could say was "Thanx for the gr...