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MELISSA BLOCK: Let’s talk about that board. It’s a Neve 8028 soundboard and that was the studio console at Sound City. What was so great about it?
DAVE GROHL: Well, you know, that was a great era for recording equipment. The late ’60s and the ’70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles.
The homie sent over the new music video and single from Austin indie rock band Animals On TV. Called “MTV 2095” the synth pop drenched garage rock single draws on music from the ’60s and into the early 2000’s. MTV 2095 addresses the future in a fun way referencing “digital Japan,” as a stand-in for an exotic future destination.
The homie sent on over the new shoegaze rock single and music video from Los Angeles based The Know. Called “Used to Be” the track is all about the complexities of romantic relationships that were especially heightened during lockdown. “Used to Be” thrills with reverb heavy guitars, velvety vocals and seductive synths.
One of the most original and creative albums of the 90’s. Musically creative and never a dull moment, OK Computer has aged incredibly well.
After Ice Cube left N.W.A over a financial dispute, his former group attacked him on their 100 Miles & Runnin and Efil4zaggin albums, likening Cube to American history’s most infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Cube responded with the extremely graphic “No Vaseline,” an exposé on Eazy E and Jerry Heller’s (N.W.A’s manager) shady business tactics, littered with gay and racial slurs.
No it isn’t.
Sid Vicious was just as incompetent as you’ve heard, unable to tune or play his bass, but he wasn’t chosen for the band for his musicianship.
The Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren fancied that he was making some sort of artistic statement through the look and style of the band as well as through their music, and he thought Sid represented the sort of nihilistic, destructive force he wanted punk to be. Plus he was a good looking lad (under all the hairspray and the sneer) who oozed danger and looked good with his shirt off.
Baroque pop artist Niagara Moon has just unleashed his latest track “Bad Vibes” and video. The song is a parody on paranoia and a satire on superstition, with how fear can lead to believing misinformation. His music is reminiscent of Beach Boys meets Thom Yorke with a Willy Wonka lens.
The homie sent over the new video and single from dream rock artist Polartropica. Called GIVE THEM HELL (Serial Killer Slayer), the song is inspired by bad b$#(*& that fight back when faced with kidnappers, predators, serial killers, and folks attacking seniors. The single fuses pop punk, garage rock and electropop for an empowering anthem of self defense.
The Wall of Sound fulfilled Owsley’s desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring system.
After Stanley got out of prison in late 1972, he, Dan Healy and Mark Raizene of the Grateful Dead’s sound crew, in collaboration with Ron Wickersham, Rick Turner, and John Curl of Alembic, combined six independent sound systems using eleven separate channels, in an effort to deliver high-quality sound to audiences.
Vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and piano each had their own channel and set of speakers.
