Half of my heroes on one magazine cover+lily allen… awesome.

I was looking back on all our posts and I realized that we REALLY love Dave Grohl. There seems to be something Dave Grohl related posted almost every day. Why?

Why the hell not?

Until this morning, I had no idea the Wall Street Journal reviewed music.  They even have a rock critic–Jim Fusilli–and he’s got a story in today’s paper about Them Crooked Vultures (TCV), the latest “supergroup” featuring Dave Grohl (Nirvana & Foo Fighters) on drums, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) on keyboard/bass, and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) on guitar and vocals.  A supergroup, for those who don’t know, is kind of like the 07-08 Boston Celtics.  Garnett, Pierce, and Allen all made names for themselves leading separate teams but for whatever reason they all donned green jerseys in 07-08 and made opponents cry in the process.  But this isn’t basketball, it’s music.  The formula for success is much different.  Adding big names to the same group usually doesn’t have a cumulative effect.  It might have worked perfectly for say, Cream, but TCV’s self-titled debut album is bit of a let down.

Although he wasn’t impressed by TCV’s live performance, Fusilli says that the songs off their studio album are “built from the bottom up,” and that “he can’t think of a supergroup that stands on such a solid platform.”  First, what exactly does it mean for a song to be built from the bottom up? And what would a top down song sound like?  Second, I agree that the band stands on a solid platform.  As far as I can tell, the group only has one problem, but it’s a big one: Josh Homme’s voice is awful on all of the tracks except for “New Fang.”  It’s dull. It drones.  It wanders through most of the album without direction, which is sad because the musical accompaniment from Grohl and Jones is first class.

Esse é o bom e velho ROCK mas é fresquinho e barulhento!

John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) no baixo, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) na voz e guita e Dave Grohl (Nirvana e Foo Fighters) na batera!

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Them Crooked Vultures at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle on November 21, 2009.

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No One Loves Me & Neither Do I:

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• Review & Photos: Seattle pi
• Review: The Seattle Times
• Review: Examiner.com
• Review: Crosscut.com

Um comandou as baquetas no disco mais importante dos anos 90. Outro é líder de uma das grandes bandas deste início de século. Ambos estão entre os artistas mais talentosos, versáteis e prestigiados da atualidade. Junta-se a eles o ex-baixista da maior banda de rock dos anos 70. E os três juntos resolvem fazer música. Assumindo ou não o rótulo de “supergrupo”, a verdade é que este encontro entre Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) e John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) é um dos pontos altos desta década musical e vem dar uma esquentada num ano pra lá de morno no mundo rock. Restava saber, então, se este primeiro disco do Them Crooked Vultures (algo como “urubus desonestos”) conseguiria corresponder a todas as expectativas criadas em torno de seu lançamento.

Na primeira faixa, “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I”, já é possível sentir todo o clima que acompanha praticamente todo o disco, até os últimos acordes. Muito peso e distorção nas guitarras, muitos riffs conduzindo as melodias, letras carregadas de testosterona e sarcasmo. Em poucos trechos, a fórmula se alterna, como na nebulosa “Interlude With Ludes”, que mais parece saída de um disco do Tom Waits. Os melhores momentos vêm com a seqüência “New Fang” e “Dead End Friends”, onde encontramos a perfeita combinação entre a crueza do hard rock clássico e a pegada mais melódica do rock alternativo atual. Em outras faixas, como em “Spinning in Daffodils”, esse equilíbrio é deixado de lado em favorecimento de um som mais agressivo, mas que acaba tornando a “barulheira” um tanto despropositada e desvaloriza os vocais de Josh Homme.

No entanto, mesmo quando não é sua voz que mais aparece nas músicas, é a guitarra de Homme que faz o papel principal em 80% do disco. Mais ou menos assim: Dave Grohl e John Paul Jones comandam a cozinha e o líder do QOTSA serve o prato. Um prato com aquele gostinho de deserto californiano, muito mais do que de pub londrino. Portanto, aos fãs de Led Zeppelin, é válido o aviso de que, neste disco do Them Crooked Vultures, não reconhecemos a ex-banda de Jones em muito momentos, que não na levada de “Scumbag Blues” ou nos dez segundos iniciais de “Elephants” (onde, em compensação, é quase possível imaginar Jimmy Page entoando o riff da guitarra). À falta dessa influência mais óbvia do gênio criativo de Grohl e Jones pode ser creditada uma das poucas falhas incômodas dessa estréia do grupo. Sorte deles que o gênio de Homme também não é pequeno.

Além do mais, o simples fato deste encontro ter se concretizado já é um baita presente para o público. Afinal, grupos de rock haviam virado lenda há uns 30 anos – pelo menos, segundo a noção eternizada por Led Zeppelin e The Who, nos anos 60 e 70, onde um grande grupo era formado, antes de mais nada, por magníficos instrumentistas. O Them Crooked Vultures traz de volta, se não em seu som, ao menos em sua formação gabaritada, um pouco desse espírito saudosista, que valoriza mais um palco cheio de boas performances, do que um cheio de roupas bonitas e efeitos especiais.

Se Grohl, Homme e Jones ainda não mostraram todo o estrago que são capazes de fazer como um trio, este primeiro disco apresenta o Them Crooked Vultures, ao menos, como uma cartada promissora, de onde ainda podemos esperar algumas boas doses de decência musical. Pois se o rock, de fato, está morto, esses três “urubus” dão aqui um bom exemplo de como tirar proveito de sua carne podre.

artista: Them Crooked Vultures
álbum: Them Crooked Vultures
lançamento: novembro de 2009

Nota: 7,5

En este capitulo repasamos temas en directo de los siguientes grupos:

Kiss, Black Sabbath, Halford, Them Crooked Vultures, Motorhead, Sacred Reich, Machinehead, God Forbid, Life of Agony, Street Sweeper Social Club, Helloween, The Cult

Tambien sa habla sobre lo siguiente:

Eric Carr, Freddy Mercury, Azkena, Kobetasonik, Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, Heaven & Hell, Rudolf Schencker, Metal Mike, Winter Songs, Talking Metal, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zepplin, Angel City and other Cities Live 1991, Dave McClain, Doc Coyle, Joey Z, Tom Morello, Boots Riley, Michael Kiske, Ozzfest

El podcast se puede descargar en formato que prefiere desde aquí:

O escucha online aquí:

Acho que nunca falei de música aqui no boteco, só de música de comercial, mas tava na hora, afinal boteco sem música não é boteco,porra!

Sabe quando você pensa que chocolate+sorvete+biscoito+nutella daria uma coisa ótima e disso se tem absoluta certeza!?Pois é, os músicos às vezes pensam assim… Ainda bem!

Porque ai acontecem àquelas bandas muito fodas, nem que durem só um verão!

Pensando em me fazer feliz mais uma vez é o John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) e Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) resolveram fundar o Them Crooked Vultures.

Josh nos vocais, Dave na bateria e Sr.Paul Jones no baixo e afins…

A bando virou meu hot sex, mas disso eu já sabia, afinal eu gosto dos moços e das bandas… Mas o seguinte,quem não for afim de QOTSA não vai gostar do TCV,afinal a voz do Josh Homme é super característica,fazendo com que a banda lembre mais com o QOTSA,mas tem uma pegada muito Led,meio psicodélica em algumas músicas e logicamente a pegada destrutiva do Grohl na bateria é phyna e baphônica.

O primeiro cd do TCV já saiu na Gringa,não sei se está em prateleiras tupiniquins e já está pelo mundo virtual há tempos!

Fikadika!

Demorou, mas tá saindo minha resenha sobre o disco de estreia do Them Crooked Vultures. Confesso que desde que fiquei sabendo do surgimento dessa big band, fiquei ansioso para ver o que ia sair de lá. Acompanhava diariamente as notícias, ouvia sem parar os trechos de 20, 30 segundos que eles disponibilizavam das músicas. Até postava de vez em quando aqui sobre a banda.

E agora tive tempo de parar pra ouvir o tão falado album com atenção. De início estranhei um pouco. Esperava algo mais Led Zeppelin, e veio uma coisa muito Queens of The Stone Age. Não que eu não goste do QOTSA, é uma das minhas bandas preferidas, mas eu não imaginava que o som dessa nova big band teria tanta influência do Josh Homme. Não que isso seja ruim. Pelo contrário, o Josh é um dos meus músicos prediletos.

Mas agora, depois de ouvir pela vigésima vez o disco, indo e voltando do trabalho, deu pra sacar a força do som. De fato, não é uma música fácil de ser ouvida. Principalmente pra quem não curte ou não teve muito contato com os trabalhos anteriores do grupo. Mas depois de sentir a complexidade da parada, a gente tira o chapéu.

Esse disco é uma obra primorosa. Bem trabalhado, você percebe que foi feito por músicos de verdade, cada um ali com mais de 15, 20 anos de experiência (só o vovô John Paul Jones tem 40, desde o primeiro lançamento do Led Zeppelin em 1969). Melodias bem elaboradas, uma excelente harmonia, com certeza é o melhor lançamento do ano.

Tomara que a banda dure!

Them Crooked Vultures – Nobody Loves Me & Neither Do I

Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends

Them Crooked Vultures – Scumbag Blues

¿Recuerdan los níveles “bonus” de Street Fighter 2, en donde en un minuto uno debía reventar un automóvil para ganar puntos? Nunca olvidaré la sensación de esos dedos pulgares enrojecidos por la caimanera con que uno despedazaba sin piedad los vidrios y carrocería del auto. Bueno pues mientras escuchaba este disco quise estar en una situación parecida, reventando a mansalva algún objeto inanimado. Así de bueno es.

Partiendo de lo obvio, una reunión entre el bajista de Led Zeppelin, el guitarrista de Queens of The Stone Age/ Kyuss, y el baterista de Nirvana/frontman de Foo Fighters, no tendría porqué salir mal. Ahora, pasado el hype del asunto y luego de darle play al disco es clarísimo que la banda no viene con pretensiones de reescribir la historia de la música. Sencillamente son 3 tipos sumamente talentosos que se pusieron a jammear, se sintieron bien y decidieron echar a andar el proyecto. Como era de esperar, los riffs de Josh Homme son pegajozos y con una energía brutal, la línea de bajo y los arreglos con teclado de John Paul Jones son precisos y dotan al disco de texturas interesantes, mientras que la batería de Dave Grohl nunca había sonado tan inspirada y fuerte.

No one loves me and neither do I, comienza el disco de una manera calmada y hasta podríamos decir medio panzoneada, pero a mitad de canción la cosa se pone buena y no se detiene durante 70 minutos. Sobresalen algunos temas ridículamente buenos como Bandoliers, Gunman o Scumbag blues, pero el disco en general es bastante sólido a pesar de que se siente un pelo más largo de lo que debería.

Me parece que escucharlo puede generar dos reacciones: o te sientes lleno de energía y necesitas expulsarla de una manera violenta, o te sientes como un niño con camisa blanca en medio de un bar plagado de strippers, mientras un hombre de bigote te desviste con la mirada. En mi caso, estoy buscando un bate para luego ir al estacionamiento más cercano para reventar algunos vidrios y faros.

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Non, Josh et Dave n’est pas le nom d’une nouvelle série ! Les Josh et Dave en question ne sont autres que Josh Homme et Dave Grohl. Quoi, vous ne voyez pas qui ils sont ? Bon bah, un récap’ rapide alors !

Josh Homme, c’est le chanteur du célébrissime groupe Queen Of The Stone Age(dit aussi QOTSA).Actif depuis 1997, ils nous ont sortie il y a 2 ans Era vulgaris(comprenant la chanson ‘Make it wit chu’). Vous avez pu aussi les entendre sur le jeux Need for speed underground II avec In my head(tiréé de Lullabies to Paralyze). Mais avant QOTSA, Homme a vu sa carrière lancée par le groupe Kyuss dont la durée d’existence ne fut que de 6 ans. Mais Homme ne s’arrète pas là, en 1998 il forme Eagles of death metal avec Jesse Hughes. Il participe aussi à l’album Lickers last leg de Goon Moon, composé d’un certain Jeordie White.

Dave Grohl, il n’est autre que le batteur du groupe ayant lancé la mode des cheveux gras, Nirvana. Et donc, après avoir défoncé ses toms, après la mort de Kurt Cobain, il revient en 1995 en fondant les Foo Fighters pour cette fois-ci pousser la chansonnette et j’ai envie de dire : quelle voix ! Personne n’a pu passer à côté de l’album Echoes, silence, patience and grace où ‘The Pretender’ ouvre le bal.

Le rapport entre ces deux messieurs ? Ils viennent de nous sortir une nouvelle formation : Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme reste au chant et à la gratte. Dave Grohl, lui, retrouve sa caisse claire. Et le bassiste alors ? John Paul Jones. Qui c’est ? Le bassiste de Led Zeppelin. Vous l’aurez compris Them Crooked Vultures, c’est le rassemblement de 3 grandes pointures de la musique ! Le cd éponyme est sorti le 17 novembre. Et ça sonne comment ? Bah ça dépote mon pote ! De la guitare qui entraine(jusqu’au bout de la nuit?), de la batterie qui s’emballe! Petit point noir : ça penche un peu sur du QOTSA. C’est pas à mettre entre les mains d’un fan du groupe !

Meekko.

"You can't really imagine Dave would ever drop an F-bomb from this photo"

So, what’s a good way to get people to buy your greatest hits collection? Sure, it’s a good place for new fans to start, but how do you get people who already own all the music your band has put out to rebuy songs they already own? The answer recently has been to put a few new singles on a ‘greatest hits’ CD, more as an attempt to get more buyers than pre-emptive wishful thinking (though they do often end up being hits in their own right in the marketing push of the greatest hits collection). Now, Foo Fighters have done the same, writing 2 brand new songs, Wheels and Word Forward, for their 2009 Greatest Hits collection.

‘Wheels’ was the first new single to see the light of day, and is actually has a slightly different feel than you would normally get from an electric Foo Fighters track. It has a little bit of a southern rock swagger to it, and it dominated by a jangly lead guitar, rather than the distorted rhythm you would usually expect. While it is a little reminiscent of the work of Tom Petty, to reduce it to that wouldn’t do ‘Wheels’ justice. It’s Foo Fighters putting something a little bit new in with all their hits, and it’s a welcome addition to their catalogue. Lyrically, it feels like a bit of a homecoming for Foo Fighters, which suits the greatest hits idea well. It’s almost saying, “Ok, here’s our greatest hits, we know it’s not a new album, but we’ll be getting on to new stuff soon. For now, lets just chill out and look back on everything that’s gone well so far.”

Both these songs seem to hark back to the work of earlier artists, but not in a lazy way. They almost seem like a tribute, be it intentional, or just a coincidental sign of those bands influences. What I mean by this is, if ‘Wheels’ takes cues from Tom Petty, then ‘Word Forward’ is a love letter to The Beatles and their song A Day In The Life, at least in the opening verse. This song feels much more like you would expect from Foo Fighters. The soft verse, loud chorus format, the build to an ecstatic climax, the song along chorus, it’s all here. Again, this seems to scream, “we’re not done yet” and rightly so. If this is an indication of what’s to come, then Dave and the boys can’t stop now.

Wheels: 7.5/10

Word Forward: 8/10

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The Nirvana drummer was recently interviewed about the bans’ performance at the Reading festival which has just been released on DVD. “We rehearsed [for Reading] once, the night before, and it wasn’t good,”said Grohl. “I really thought, ‘This will be a disaster, this will be the end of our career for sure.’” For the full interview, please follow the above link.

The Foo Fighters will finally be on VH1 Storytellers this Friday, November 27th at 11/10c on VH1. Earlier this week on KROQ.com we mentioned how Dave explains the song “Word Forward”. here’s some video:

Happy Thanksgiving !

The Kicknote chart-toppers this week were Justin Bieber, Them Crooked Vultures, and Ke$ha.

Justin Bieber is a 15 year-old Canadian pop singer who has a deal with Island Records. His first full-length album just released last week. Bieber has been in the news recently because of a borderline riot at a Canadian mall involving hoards of teenage girl fans. Single to check out: “One Time.”

Them Crooked Vultures is a supergroup consisting of Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). Their debut album was just released on Nov 17th. Single to check out: “New Fang.”

Ke$ha is a pop/dance artist out of Los Angeles, making her third appearance in the top 3. She first burst onto the music scene with an appearance in Flo Rida’s “Right Round.” Single to check out: “Tik Tok.”

Dave Grohl (Foo Fightes), Josh Homme (Queen’s Of The Stone Age) és John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) közös zenekara idén robbant be a köztudatba, majd néhány koncert után első lemezét pár hete jelentette meg. Az album eladási statisztikáiról még nem is érkeztek hírek, a trió azonban máris a folytatást tervezi, mondván, annyira jól érzik magukat ebben a zenekarban, hogy akár szünet nélkül készek belevágni egy másik albumba…

“Úgy érzem, még csak most szívtuk fel magunkat igazán, miért akarnánk leállni?” – tette fel a kérdést Josh Homme, míg Jones így reagált: “Mindannyian úgy érezzük, hogy még nagyon sok van bennünk“.
Megszólalt Dave Grohl is, aki egy ígérettel harangozta be a következő lemezt, és elmondta: a második album még energikusabb lesz, mint az első volt.

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 I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Foo Fighters’ ‘Greatest Hits’ will be seen as a major milestone for Dave Grohl’s band, maybe even the end. Them Crooked Vultures could become more than a pleasurable side-project.

Last year, when the Foo Fighters were in London Led Zeppelin fan Grohl had Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones step on stage to perform two Zeppelin classics with Dave back behind the kit. Then earlier this year the ever-active Dave Grohl gave himself a special 40^th birthday present. He invited John Paul Jones and Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme to meet him for a “blind date” at a medieval banquet, for some old fashioned jousting, bonding and a jam. The Zeppelin fuelled Them Crooked Vultures album is the result. Already they’ve said they’re keen to record a second album.

Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled first album is what it had to be, quick and easy, Dave taking a back seat at the kit, letting Josh Homme take the lead. Otherwise it would be second-hand Foo Fighters. John Paul Jones, like Dave is a happy collaborator. For his part, Jones has said that after making the Them Crooked Vultures album he’s not interested in the much-muted Led Zeppelin reunion. For a moment back there he and Jimmy Page were auditioning replacements (?) for Robert Plant who’s having too much fun recording and touring his Grammy-winning union with Allison Krauss to think about Led Zeppelin.

Obviously there’s unfinished business here. More Them Crooked Vultures. What more can Dave do that he hasn’t already done with the Foo Fighters? Maybe the next Vultures album will change the line-up. Dave and John Paul are guaranteed to be there. Josh is also keen. Imagine if that other “busiest man in rock” and Led Zeppelin disciple Jack White got involved! THAT would be too much to hope for!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Nirvana’s “Reading Festival” and “Bleach’s 20th edition”, both albums are amazing as Nirvana always is. After listening to these albums, I’m sure everyone wonders what it will be like if Kurt Cobain is still alive.

If Kurt was still around today, Nirvana will still not be together ’cause before Kurt’s death, Nirvana was about to break up anyways.

You just wonder what Kurt would think of the Foo Fighters music. Do you think he would love it or would he hate it?

Me? Knowing Kurt Cobain’s musical style, of the type of music he likes. He mostly liked dark punk music, stuff like the Meat Puppets to the Pixies. Mostly stuff that we never heard of back in those days.

I would think Kurt would hate the Foo Fighters. He might think they are too pop and silly for Kurt to listen to. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Foo Fighters, I think they are great. The Foo’s are different from Nirvana. Kurt would feel uncomfortable with Dave’s songwriting. Sorry Dave, but I think Kurt is rolling in his grave about the Foo Fighter’s music.

It’s just something I can’t see Kurt getting into and can’t see him enjoying it.

I think Kurt would like Courtney’s music with Hole and her solo stuff, ’cause I believe Kurt helped launched Courtney’s career. Hole was already formed way before Kurt’s death. I also read that Kurt collaborated with Courtney in Hole on a few songs for the single, “Ask For It”. Knowing Kurt Cobain’s sense of humor, I’m sure he would make fun of  the Foo Fighters.

Kurt was an amazing singer and songwriter. Even though all of his songs in Nirvana had a few easy chords for each song, they were still amazing to listen to ’cause Kurt had his own style writing these simple songs.

Nirvana deserves to be Hall of Famers, definitely, but their first single “Love Buzz” still has four more years to go to be eligible. They are getting close to 25 years, don’t worry, they’ll be inducted soon.

Kev

No more music reviews for a few weeks. I’ve found what I’ll be listening to for the foreseeable future. It’s almost too ridiculous to be real and pretty much a rundown of my favourite bands from ages twelve to twenty-four. Dave Grohl, drummer for Nirvana and I guess the Foo Fighters too, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, probably the single greatest influence I’ve ever had for playing bass (when I was first learning I would play along to Zeppelin I and II to emulate every one of his lines) and Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age frontman, Desert Sessions creative mastermind and the best guitarist playing today. That’s Them Crooked Vultures. The super group to end all super groups.

Oh Jesus.

As to be expected, the riffs are gigantic, the drums and bass are heavy as Mac trucks, the lyrics irreverent and the vocal melodies as catchy as anything. Every one of the tracks on Them Crooked Vultures is a straightforward foot stomper, usually broken into massive instrumental climaxes and with each bar packed with as many impressive instrumental licks as possible without completely giving in to total overindulgence (Mind Eraser, No Chaser possibly possessing the highest volume of squealing guitar fills a song is capable of supporting).

It’s difficult to write about only a few outstanding songs but its easy to identify a few tunes as good indications of the album’s sound. The stupidly catchy refrain of New Fang, the disorienting tempo of the most Zeppelinesque track, Elephants and the nearly indescribable quality of the guitar work (from Homme’s always fantastic store of unique tones) on the recurring chorus of Scumbag Blues all serve as great examples of the album’s feel.

There’s enough variety here to make Them Crooked Vultures a consistently interesting listen too. Interlude with Ludes neatly breaks up the album a little after it’s halfway mark, cleansing the palette with its conspicuous absence of massive guitars and pounding drums and bass — before once again breaking into the heavy, broken-glass blues of Warsaw (or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up).

The choice to let the ear breathe is a smart one and is reflected even in the sporadic rests dropped throughout songs. It shows the same understanding that made Queens of the Stone Age’s Songs for the Deaf so great — turn the volume down on your listener for thirty seconds so that the next attack sounds fresh again. Attention to dynamics make a hard or heavy record retain shelf life and ensures that complete album play throughs are actually enjoyable, unlike, say, The Locust, a band that’s interesting but impossible to listen to at full volume for an hour. It’s an effect that Homme has deftly employed on every one of his albums and it’s one of the reasons that this album works as well as it does.

I could gush more but I won’t. If you’re a fan of one of the contributing artists, and most likely you are, then give this one a listen. It’s probably the best straight-up rock album coming out this year and one that is nearly impossible to take out of the CD player (or iTunes playlist for you fancy types).

And I was joking. I’ll stop listening long enough to write more music reviews but I won’t like it.

— Reid