[kj] [Bulk] Re: Austin

[Brendan]

I'm sure everyone in the free world has seen this already...but this is Mike
Patton's spontaneous response to hearing Wolfmother (Wolf Bitch?) at some
festival...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THV23g3z5qU


-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: Monday, 22 February 2010 9:38 AM
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] [Bulk] Re: Austin

6 years ago - SIX YEARS AGO - I heard it accurately said that we are 
currently in "the throwback era of music."

And that seems true to this day. Bands are judged in terms of who they 
are "throwback" to. Who cold you say the Beatles or the ex Pistols were 
a "throwback to? Who were Siouxsie and the Banshees a "throwback" to" ou 
can be a music nerd and cite very specific rare bands, etc. And ou could 
argue tenuously Chuck Berry, yadda, yada re: the Pistols. But come one.. 
But I think you all know what I mean. May punk bands like Career Suicide 
and Government Warning go to the lengths to reproduce the studio sound 
quality of the early 80s bands, so if you were to hear them you might 
think, Oh wow, this si some early 80s hardcore band I'd never heard before.

Everyone wants something that harkens back to Joy Division (Interpol, 
She Wants Revenge), or classic early 80s hardcore (Career Suicide), or 
post-punk (Arctic Flowers, The Estranged), etc. No band is 
influence-free, and some bands are able to take the most of a melange of 
their inspirations and sculpt it into something new, but it does still 
feel like the music world in general is very much in "throwback" mode. 
Even mainstreamier bands like Wolfmother are praised about ho they 
"harken back" to Led Zeppelin.

--Oliver


Steve Hackett wrote:

> not me..

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

>     *From:* Brendan <mailto:bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

>     *To:* 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'

>     <mailto:gathering at misera.net>

>     *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:54 AM

>     *Subject:* Re: [kj] Austin

>

>     Come on who else's gonna back me up here?

>

>     **tumbleweed**

>


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