Speaking Of Hellas Covers

February 7, 2018 by Steve Moyer

Here’s one that’s definitely grown on me over the years. The noisy guitary chorus with the Keith Moon drums doesn’t feel right at first and takes some time to get used to. But what the hell. . .

Guilty Pleasure

February 4, 2018 by Steve Moyer

This entertains me way more than it has any right to:

Tres Hombres

January 28, 2018 by Steve Moyer

When we did our Top 50 albums of all-time a couple years ago, I’m sure this was on my list. Drove around to it today, reinforcing its greatness.

ZZ Top is sort of like AC/DC in that the early stuff (pre-MTV beards, spinning fuzzy guitars and electronic drums) is so superior to the just passable later stuff. The good/mediocre dividing line for AC/DC is Bon Scott.

Tres Hombres as a unit proves a fine example of the abomination of playlist shuffle.

Here’s an underrated classic. Try driving around to this and not drumming the steering wheel. Peter talks about swing a lot and this song has it.

Good Or No Good?

January 25, 2018 by Steve Moyer

There’s a lot of Springsteen love on this site and I figured this might be something them lovers ain’t heard, since Bruce didn’t let Kevin Rowland include this on his album of covers (that infamous album with Rowland in crazy drag) due to Rowland’s lyrical changes.

Found this while searching for Janis Joplin at Hellacopters gigs.

My apologies to all the other Remnants for not commenting (posts have been extra interesting and comment-worthy lately), but my comment tool is broke – no kidding – and Peter is working hard to fix it.

It Was Reet Petite

January 24, 2018 by Steve Moyer

We’ve discussed Kevin Rowland and Dexys here before, maybe too much. This is fucking bizarre. The high-stepping bass player, the worried accordion player, the fiddler who just won’t sing with enthusiasm, Bob Geldorf on acoustic guitar. . .

In typical backwards fashion, I’ll confess that Too-Rye-Ay led me to Moondance.

Saw Me In A Mag

January 16, 2018 by Steve Moyer

It’s an annual happy day today as my Fantasy Baseball Guide magazine arrived in the mail. Though I’m neither kissing a man nor smoking a fag in this year’s edition, it made me think of this Wire Pink Flag classic.

Every forming hardcore band that could hardly play covered this in the early 80s.

Thank you Peter Kreutzer and his superhero alter ego Rotoman.

Why Can’t My Musical Tastes Grow Up?

January 13, 2018 by Steve Moyer

Stumbled into this tonight and I love most everything about it:

3) The musical equipment

2) The video premise (beautiful chicks just hanging out in your backyard listening to you play)

1) The guitar solo (about every wonderful guitar solo cliché known to man in two wonderful solos).

My apologies to the rest of the website.

Goodbye Motorhead

January 12, 2018 by Steve Moyer

Guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke died of pneumonia today and Motorhead joins another fave The Ramones as a band with no living members from the real lineup.

Oh well.

Here’s the opener from the iconic Ace Of Spades.