The EB basses are really good, at least the old ones are. They have great low end. They don't have any 'ping' in 'em at all, so that is probably why they are not in fashion.

I used to know every note of all the bass and guitar of a good part of Love it to Death. I can't remember doing that w/any other record.

Mark Hansen wrote:I don't think I'd buy anything new by them, their schtick seemed to be getting a little thin on the last thing I bought by them, but they're fun in a stupid way.

Yeah, I agree. I think that I have a soft spot for them too since they were one of the first bands I ever saw live as a kid. Getting shot in the face with a gallon of fake semen and blood when you're 13 leaves a lasting impression, you know?

Mark Hansen wrote:I forgot MM was dumped by Dita. Make him even more foolish in my eyes. I thought she dumped him because of his drinking, more than cheating on her. Why the fuck would anyone cheat on her? I have the feeling she is up for just about anything, what more could you want?

She's quoted as saying, 'It was difficult, because I was trying to get him help for his problems, and eventually I realized that he didn't want help. I wasn't supportive about his partying or his relationship with another girl, and as much as I loved him I wasn't going to be part of that.'

Regardless of my opinion of Dita, I truly despise any man that cheats on his wife.

I haven't seen it, but apparently there is a video off of his new album where he's making out with Evan Rachel Wood, who was the girl he cheated on her with, in a replica of Dita's bed that she used to share with Manson. Fucking unbelievable.

ChristopherM wrote:I haven't seen it, but apparently there is a video off of his new album where he's making out with Evan Rachel Wood, who was the girl he cheated on her with, in a replica of Dita's bed that she used to share with Manson. Fucking unbelievable.

I've heard he's also trying to convince people that he and Wood were actually fucking in the footage that's used in the video. Because, i dunno, that's what he needs to do to shock people now, i guess. Sure?

ChristopherM wrote:I mean, who the fuck would cheat on Dita?!? What a fucking idiot.

exactly...good lord, that woman is something. He also broke up with Rose McGowan, no slacker in the "this-woman-is-so-hot-she-must-be-an-extraterrestrial" sweepstakes.

Manson had some really catchy songs, though. I'm a youngster of 21 so I am biased. I have never really listened to note one by Alice Cooper, though there are some who say that I should. therefore, I will not vote here.

Alice Cooper is the paterfamilas of the clan that Manson is basically a footnote to.

The ACB's Greatest Hits album is in my regular rotation.

I believe that I am inbetween Boombats and Zom-Zom in age. I will be 34 in a few weeks.

Boombats, you will be over 30 and unhip sooner then you realize. You will overhear some kids talking about some genre you've never heard of and when you run home to your record collection you will realize that there is nothing in it newer then 7 years old. That happened to me when I first heard the word "emo". At the same time the decade you went to junior high in will become fashionable and retro and you realize what a bunch of idiots the younger kids today are because you remember that decade and it wasn't all that and a bag of chips.

I'd like to express to the kids today that ladies strectch jeans, big white gym shoes and stupid muppet haircuts as look stupid and retarded as they did in the 80's. You don't look like the Beastie Boys circa 1986 so stop it. And what's with the mopeds? Get a real fucking bike you twerps.


As for the poll I started-

I bought Billion Dollar Babies on LP the other week and it came with the billion dollar bill poster.

Melvins covering "Dwight Fry" is what got me interested in Alice Cooper. Seeing the schmucks in Marilyn Mansons band signing autographs at Tower records in Boston in 1994 all dressed up and looking stupid in the daylight was all I needed to know about them.

Usually I disregard bands that use theater as part of their act. It usually covers up bad songs and bad performances. An exception to this is the mid 70's Alice Cooper Band.

I vote Alice Cooper.

I heard some girl in Frisco do a solo acoustic cover of "Is It My Body" last year, and it's one of the hottest musical moments I've ever been privy to.

Bob Dylan once noted in an early 70's interview that Alice Cooper was one of his favorite lyricists, if that means anything to you.

Sadly, I never saw the original Alice Cooper Band live. I first saw Alice in '79, touring From the Inside, his post-rehab opus. His band featured Davey Johnstone, Elton John's guitarist, and they put on one hell of a show. The Babys oopened, and there's no way I can communicate to you how great they were, so much more rockin' than their records.

I saw Alice again, opening for the Stones at Churchill Downs last fall, and his set was probably 2/3 stuff from his early records. He had a young, enthusiastic band, including twin lead guitarists (both playing Gibsons), and he let them stretch out--they even did an extended jam on "Black Widow." His new songs are as bad as anything Quiet Riot ever did, but he has sense enough to milk the good stuff. And not just the hits--he played "You Drive Me Nervous," too.

Not Croop.

I've never seen it, only heard that it might exist...didn't Salvador Dali commission a 3-D hologram of Alice sometime in the early 70s? It would make sense in a bizarre sort of way.

EDIT:

http://www.abcgallery.com/D/dali/dali219.html

And here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5472800895

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:I heard some girl in Frisco do a solo acoustic cover of "Is It My Body" last year, and it's one of the hottest musical moments I've ever been privy to.

This sounds like it would be really good. I could see a lot of his songs being played unplugged, and sounding great.

I never really thought about it much, but I agree, a lot of his lyrics are good, and funny as hell, yet very ominous.