What are you listening to right now?

[Guest]

Blondie - Parallel Lines (My fav tunes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QRk6fOLYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfcAZLOpDIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MsWYJU7ZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udi0-Fhw7g4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdCpi4qTNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1HKICB69s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A62VPyfRrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtM9xyItVhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-KH2WI4Gzw

[BIG MIKE]

Babe,

My favourite Blondie record was Eat To The Beat mostly because it has Union City Blue, Shyla, Atomic and The Hardest Part, all great songs. i think the reason those in the New York punk scene didn't like them was because they were too pop sounding, they had some good stuff though:

I didn't like the Deep Purple Glenn Hughes years either. They did have a couple of really good rock songs with him around like Burn but they were far and few between. Overall their sound changed so much, they became a soul/funk band which I hated. I could never get into the type of sound they had during those years, just really bad IMO. And I agree Hughes high pitched screeching and catter walling was like fingernails on a chalk board LOL

Dio is an acquired taste I will give you that. I never did mind his dungeons and dragons vocals though because he was such a good singer it didn't really matter to me what he sang because he did it so well and his lyrics were vague a lot of the time which helped. He has a song off his first solo album Holy Diver called Invisible where there seems to a verse or two about a transgendered person. The song appears to be in 3 parts about 3 different people. Many think the first section is about a gay female, the second about a transgendered person, and the last seems to be about him. The running theme seems to be about broken families and people leaving home early for various reasons, at least that's what I took away from it. But that's the great thing about songs and their lyrics, everyone can take their own meaning from them (if they are vague enough). This video had the lyrics on the screen. It's a great song, and I loved Vivian Campbells guitar work on the first two Dio albums, stellar it was:

[Photo Mann]

Groove Lounge . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHc-...=RDjvRHcSVav68I like it but I prefer Al Puchino.

[Rockheart]

Ultra classics

[Photo Mann]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjYt2qNwmg

[Kisa]

[Photo Mann]

Lord a mercy . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qur7ebaUryw

[Photo Mann]

Lord a mercy !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qur7ebaUryw

[Guest]

Highway Star - Glenn Hughes and Steve Vai

Hi Mike,

I liked the Mach lll (Coverdale - Hughs) days. I liked the soul and funkiness of that line up - IN THE STUDIO.
On stage, though, Hughes kind of bothered me by over-singing/screaming.
I think he was a bit too strung up on coke to have been a team player who really should have just played bass guitar and just sang his vocal parts. I don't know why he was so "willing" to try to...sort of..."outdo" the lead vocalist with the high note screams (like Gillan would have done, maybe).

Even though i liked Mach III, i wasn't a big fan of Coverdale's voice in Purple. I liked him more in Whitesnake when his voice was really developed, but i was never really a Whitesnake fan.
Mach III, for me, it was the funkiness that kept me listening – i like funky stuff. That was the funky Purple - and they still rocked.

I recently heard a version of Highway Star with Steve Vai on guitar and Glenn Hughes on vocals, and if that's how purple could have sounded back in the day with Hughes as lead vocalist, i don't know why they ever hired Coverdale.
Hughes can scream and sing. And we all know how important it is for a rock singer to be able to scream like a girl, as if he's running for his life, or from the barber's chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrpz0-hSbw

With Hank Davison & Friends - Real Live (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgMWQyIfkiw

And again, Mr Hughes is great in the studio, but once he's on stage and feels supercharged, he overdoes it with the screaming and ruins it for me.
I'll listen to the studio versions, then.

Enjoy,
Babe,
xoxo

[Guest]

Badfinger. A sad story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TOcw7taBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk57K4OGrAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dquH8tn6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBS_1vGwpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJ9...id=P-zNJf2aq_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonFZjuyc6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6N3hPY9gLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x1MZEDQbtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAu3ijigeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8MAVEV7q0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53QAuOoSgc

[BIG MIKE]

I am going to this: http://heavymontreal.com/blog/the-2014-lineup-is-here/

[Guest]

Hi Mike,

That's going to be quite an event...a loud event.
I only know four band names on the poster.

I hope you have a head-banging good time.
"Bang your head!...on that nail!...til it makes you wail!...wail!...wail!...wahhhhhhh____ail!!."

I think many of the singers in those bands sound as though they could be characters on Sesame Street or the Muppet show.

Cookie Monster would be a pretty good singer.
Imagine heavy thrash metal behind his voice. Sounds like a hit to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxDpW8kiBeM

Elmo is pretty cool, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ttYAUMZ1o

They've got it covered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCJfCP_ISM

Babe,
xoxo

[Guest]

Deodato 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoYXBA6chE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teLelbj0dg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LppCI6uDuXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYA469Td6Uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CynBrweG-L4

[Guest]

Mary Had a Little Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9MFxxobUcY

[BIG MIKE]

Babe,
xoxo

Babe,

I'm not really all that interested in the bands with the cookie monster vocals. I truly believe that ruined heavy metal and prevented it from staying and progressing as a popular form of music. Although I enjoy all types of music, back in the late 80's I was really into the thrash scene when it came to metal as well as some of the lighter stuff. The bands I'm interested in seeing that are playing Heavy Montreal:

Metallica
Slayer
Anthrax
Overkill
D.R.I.
Exodus

The above bands are the reason I will be going to this...they remind me of my youth and they are still great bands! With all due respect to the Sesame street gang and their vocal abilities LOL I much prefer Animal from the Muppets on drums!