Takimag on the idiotic protests against Death In June’s recent US tour. Hell, I recall back in 2002 friends of mine were going to head down to Seattle to see Boyd Rice playing with Death In June, and the bastard antifascists got some sort of ordinance passed to keep Boyd […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Band is called Grease Helmet, with lead guitar from none other than Andy McCoy, best known as the mastermind behind Hanoi Rocks. (And for anyone who has no idea what I’m talking about, Google it. Jesus.) Hanoi was of course one of my very favorite bands when I was a […]
Tee hee! Kathy Shaidle sets her snark sights on Neil Young, and she’s dead-on of course. Loverboy or Neil Young… ick. Makes ya appreciate Nickelback [at least their porn-y hard rock tunes] by comparison.
Well, after finally figuring out the right strap length or my guitar (namely, the longest possible, via trial and error in figuring out what annoys my right wrist the least combined with a dose if What Would Slash Do? in consulting old GNR photos and video footage) I noticed that […]
![Izzy Stradlin, 'Baby Rann' music video [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/izzyscreeencapforblog.jpg)
I suppose I ought to be giving a rat’s ass about the new NIN single, but it’s not doing anything for me. And if we had a time machine and took these two tracks back to 1994 Trent, I think it’s safe to say they would have been trashed, not […]
So I guess someone went on an uploading spree for indie electronic stuff on YouTube, including a couple of mine. Dude linked to my CDBaby page and did credit me based on the Google page descriptions, so no skin off my nose, but I guess other artists got pissed because […]
Broke my first pick today, strumming a bit too hard for the cellulose pick to take on an acoustic version of “Tell Me.” Guess I should remember to use Tortex for the harder songs.
“Der Herr Gott nimmt, der Herr Gott gibt.” So far in the last 24 hours I have one set in the fall confirmed and another looking pretty likely but I won’t know for sure for a month on that. This comes on the heels of me realizing that I’m getting […]
Apparently I’m back on the chart at CKXU this week: Malfeasance was #7 on the electronic top 10 at CKXU in Lethbridge.
Construction time around the jam space, therefore street parking is all fucked up. And to make matters worse this week we’ve got film folks on site, so all the spaces in the back lot are full. So, I find a spot a block away, get out, and promptly trip over […]
Decided that it might be fun to try something a little different and pick up an acoustic guitar. Of course, me being me it has to be an acoustic electric so I have the option to plug in. Previous attempts to learn to play guitar never worked out, but this […]
I was going to write a long and detailed post about what happened to me earlier this week but fuck it, this isn’t a diary. Long story short: I just about died on Tuesday stuck under an overturned kayak before I’d learned to self-rescue. No exaggeration: I couldn’t free myself […]
Requesting your own music on a radio show is the musical equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation: You’re the only one who gets off, and you’re gambling with your future prospects. Especially when the DJ knows it’s your band and you’re acting like it’s a regular request. “Well, I was thinking of […]