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Originally posted by urgeok
I'll have to keep an eye out for Dead Moon ..
Neil Young is a source of national pride here in Canada. (despite the fact that he hasnt lived here in years)
I have a signed book by his dad Scott Young - a well known author here.
re Husker Du .. Zen Arcade and a few others are in my vinyl collection as well ..
you definately have to check out Soul Asylum - 'made to be broken' .. 'clam dip and other favorites' .. 'hang time'...
You wont recognize them as the Runaway Train guys ..
Thats when i stopped listening to them ..
Saw them twice .. both times were the loudest concerts i ever saw - ears rang for 2 days later ..
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Yeh definatley check out Dead Moon and let me know what you think (If your a Neil Young or AC/DC fan you'll love that shit! + all their stuff is available on vinyl which is a bonus). Its a pity Neil Young's sick :( hopefully he'll pull thru ok. I was bummed out enough about Johhny Cash passing away let alone my favorite singer songwriter Neil biting the bullet. I didn't know his father was an author, what kinda stuff does he write? He seemed pretty cool on the Jim Jarmuch documentry Year of the Horse (I really dug how he thought the band was getting better and better cause not many people agree with me on that). Yeh I was reading an article somewhere that those Soul Asylum albums were kick ass I'll have to give them a day in court, its a pity when bands start off amazing and turn into a dull, run of mill, mainstream piece of shit. Speaking of old indie bands did you ever get into any of the old New Zealand bands like The Clean, Tall Dwarves, 3Ds and HDU (Basically what is known as the "Flying Nun" sound), ect? There from my hometown of Dunedin and have seemed to be quite influentual on the overseas indie scene. Pavement and Sebadoh in particular were really into them and sometimes cover their songs. Steve Albini (Big Black, Shellac, producer of Nirvana's In Utero) has taken HDU under his wing in New York. I think that's the loudest gig I've ever been to ear shattering turn your body to jelly kinda shit! It's strange a band this good is barley recognised in their own country and gets more accailm overseas :confused: you'd think it'd be the opposite. But I'll keep an eye out for some of it on LP and maybe we can do a trade or something because I imagine a lot of that stuff would be hard to find on vinyl over there. I never used to like Husker Du till I got a SST compilation called The Blasting Concept which had a song off their Metal Circus EP..... the song kicked my ass and I've been a die hard fan since.
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Dead Moon is currently my favorite band and I love the Sonics quite a bit too.
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Cool to hear knife_fight! I missed seeing Dead Moon (and the FUCKING MELVINS!!!!!! :( ) live over hear a couple of years ago and am still kicking myself in the ass for it. I really respect that they come over here and do heaps of date because most band seem to ignore NZ like its not important enough or something. There both really amazing bands, especially The Sonics they wrote some crazy music easily one of the coolest 60s garage bands. I've been listening to quite a lot of the 13th Floor Elevators' first album latley Roky Erikson was a really out there dude. I've been trying to find some of his solo stuff after hearing his track on the Return Of The Living Dead sountrack.