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

[Robert Mallett]

Nice snapshot of Van Halen; would've loved to have seen that, especially as 
I bought the album as soon as it came out the following year.

It's impossible to pick out one single Wizard album as they are all - in my 
opinion -  outstandingly brilliant and should be judged as one single body 
of work, even if they are diverse from one another in the extreme. However, 
if forced to recommend an 'initiation' (well chosen word there!) I would say 
give Dopethrone a shot followed by Come My Fanatics. It seriously helps if 
you smoke weed, which sounds dead corny I know but you'll see what I mean. 
Loud and late at night, preferably on your own - then you should see what 
the fuss is all about. Live they are immense, even without Mark Greening's 
drumming and Tim Bagshaw's evil bass. But check out Cathedral too; the last 
album Garden of Unearthly Delights is total genius.

Is the Lamb of God vocalist a junkhead? that would be reason enough to push 
the eject on the guy.

Cheers,
Bob
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Subject: Re: [kj] The Only Poll That Matters - T.B.'s Favorite Albums of '06



> "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.

>

>

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