Been kind of obsessed with Porridge Radio. Have I said that?

trey wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:33 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:20 pm

This is awesome. I need to come back to Chicago when the stars align and the bands I wanna see are playing. Thanks for sharing, Randall.

I love you, trey.

After watching quite a bit of the auction yesterday,

https://www.youtube.com/live/lOYPOgbDzv ... fH2NbNo_kx

and getting a little bit (and absurdly) emotional when his pink Jackson (with the autograph Tina Turner carved into it with a butterfly knife) came up, I'm currently running through Jeff Beck's 70s stuff while alone in my office. Man, I would have loved to have seen some of these bands live.

enframed wrote: Been kind of obsessed with Porridge Radio. Have I said that?

Right there w ya - both recent records are excellent - many things to like

…and a new ep out soon!

Metallica - Garage Inc. Disc II.

Why did you start to suck so badly? Fuck you, Bob Rock.

Last night I threw the new vinyl reissue of The Clean's Modern Rock on the turntable, for the first time. It was remastered by their sound guy Tex Huston, from the original tapes. If this album had been put out by Bad Boy Records with a picture of P. Diddy on the cover, holding baby oil and gesturing to his junk, I would have still bought it--that's how much I like this music. To be honest, though . . . while this had always been my favorite full-length by the band (once I'd heard them all), not having listened to it in its entirety for a while, I was almost skeptical of this opinion at first. I mean, people say a lot of things about a lot of things, and sometimes it's good to interrogate one's own views. But the thing was . . . as the record played on, it kept building, getting better and better. Credit here is due to multi-instrumentalist Alan Starrett, who added a lot of fine dynamic production elements, but this is a great outing by the trio. Something about it remains hard to pin down. It's not entirely "indie rock." To call it sixties-influenced "neo-psychedlia" doesn't quite capture it either. "Post-punk" is inadequate as well. All I can say is that it's a very colorful record, pleasant to listen to, with ebbs and flows, lots of hook-y dynamic numbers, never boring and not innocuous. HAVE YOU HEARD THIS BAND? Recently? The record still holds up. And the new pressing/mastering is ace.

One of my favorite albums of all time.