Rock N Roll

Sound City and the Analog vs Digital Debate Like many of you, I recently watched the Sound City Documentary Dave Grohl put out. It’s a given that I found it entertaining, afterall its overflowing with good Rock n Roll! I’ve also heard the film discussed on many various talk shows, interviews, and podcasts as well as reviews. Most of the discussions focus on one of two story arcs. The first arc is the story of the Neve board Dave bought from Sound City when they closed. In this arc much of the Sound City sound is attributed to this unique Neve console. Dave Grohl goes as far as to say that he wouldn’t be where he is today if it weren’t for that board. The discussion during Grohl’s appearance on the Marc Maron podcast certainly centered around this story. The second story people are quick to latch on to is the analog vs digital debate. A large chunk of the documentary revolves around big bad Pro Tools coming along and ruining both Sound City and the quality of modern music. Sound City was an analog studio. Period. Everyone who recorded there tracked to tape. Most of the artists featured in the documentary were tracking live as well. These great artists are then compared to those tracking everything separately in Pro Tools before editing the crap out of it to creat an artificial performance. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-xEr489gHY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w;=500&h;=281] Dave Grohl continues to be awesome. Him and Taylor Hawkins dressed up in vintage Rush atire and performed overture at Rush’s induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Hilarious. As a side note, I continue to be jealous of much rock n roll goes on in Dave Grohl’s life. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Thrice Anthology Studio Version I made a playlist with the studio versions of Thrice’s Anthology track listing. They are one my favorite bands and this covers a lot of their material. Check it out. Spotify [spotify id=“spotify:user:benjer712:playlist:6S9RTzTpwhAWFzKS3jrZXA” width=“300” height=“380” /] Rdio https://rd.io/i/QU4U3DN_tLY

Heavy Trash Hitting the Spot I discoverd this band tonight thanks to Mog’s great recommendation engine. I love me some rockabilly and Heavy Trash has a really unique take on it with equal parts rockabilly and garage rock. [1] [spotify id=“spotify:album:34cThQgcOXrwVhz97Z1Z6y” width=“300” height=“380” /] http://mog.com/m/album/11292839?ci=40000 Heavy Trash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ↩

Old School Memphis Belle This for all of you who used to yell Shameless at us. [spotify id=“spotify:album:30gb8zZjJiQewU4p80dQUR” width=“300” height=“380” /] https://rd.io/i/QU4U3CJA03I iTunes

[audio https://open.spotify.com/album/3P7tKJN5tkkyFrvLRjir6t?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio] [spotify id=“spotify%3Aalbum%3A3P7tKJN5tkkyFrvLRjir6t&view=coverart” width=“500” height=“580” /] Memphis Belle’s last ep, No One Gets Out Alive, is now available on Spotify. I have no idea why the artwork is sideways but life goes on. Check it out if you want to hear me playing guitar in a past life. You can also find it on iTunes if you’d like.

The new Rolling Stones single is great [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnmxe7yRQ0&w;=500&h;=375] Album of the day. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

[audio https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/34617621/stream?client_id=3cQaPshpEeLqMsNFAUw1Q?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio] [soundcloud url=“http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/34617621” params=“visual=true&liking=false&sharing=false&auto_play=false&show_comments=false&continuous_play=false&origin=tumblr” width=“100%” height=“500” iframe=“true” /] Album of the Day.

[audio https://open.spotify.com/track/7c13Xlndg43PnSzpHRD11d?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio] [spotify id=“spotify%3Atrack%3A7c13Xlndg43PnSzpHRD11d&view=coverart” width=“500” height=“580” /] This album is great. In fact its amazing. Its got groove and that old school energy that can’t be faked. Check it out. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/boys-girls/id498509882