[kj] The Only Poll That Matters - T.B.'s Favorite Albums of '06

[TB]

"Robert Mallett" wrote:


> seeing Van Halen in 77 musta been monster.


I may have mentioned this here previously, but I was just about out of High 
School in '77 and a buddy of mine who was a couple years older was always 
trying to get me to go see various young bands that were doing the club 
thing in Hollywood and Van Halen was one of them. Finally, they played a 
local club called the Golden Bear Inn here in Huntington Beach on a 
weeknight and I went with my fake ID to get in. I'd guess there was maybe 60 
people there that night. The thing that stuck out first and foremost was how 
fuckin' loud they were. David Lee Roth was pretty funny, dressed up in disco 
bell bottoms while Eddie had this rusty old WWII hollowed out huge bomb 
standing on end with his effects rack inside it and played with his back to 
the audience much of the show. About half their songs were covers of other 
70's bands but as I had virtually no idea, I spent months afterwards at 
record stores looking for tunes they played like "Walk Away" (actually a 
James Gang tune) that I thought were Van Halen songs. Lot of stores had no 
idea who they were seeing as they didn't have an album out.


> there is a lot of downtuned and metal core shit around, but a lot of gems

> keeping popping. I just bought the new Krux album II (members of 

> Candlemass)

> and it's killer. I have all of the Mastodon albums but for some reason 

> they

> haven't connected with me yet. I guess perserverance pays off. I agree the

> Lamb of God singer sucks, and looks like a jock on crack.


I saw Lamb of God once, around the time they had just released their first 
album supporting Anthrax (their last tour with Bush) at a fairly small House 
of Blues club and thought the band was really tight and powerful. But the 
singer had the stereotypical Cookie Monster vocals going (at times he 
sounded like a stuck pig) and seemed pretty fucked up and actually puked a 
couple times onstage.


> Have you tried any of the doom/stoner doom bands like Cathedral, Electric

> Wizard, Grand Magus ? I suspect you'd love em.


I'm interested in picking up something by Electric Wizard, someone else has 
recommended them to me as well - any specific albums to start with?

T.B.