MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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Ok it’s Halloween so I guess I have to post my favorite shock rocker of all time. I got to see Alice in concert in La Crosse WI and what a great stage show, blood and body parts all over. I kept thinking the clean up crew was gonna be busy the next day, what a mess, Lol. Funny thing years later Alice played outside at the Fort McCoy military base as part of their Army Concert series. They would bring in some great bands to entertain the troops that were training there. I was working on the base at the time and sometimes I would sign up for clean up duty in exchange for free tickets to the show. I couldn’t go that night because I was working 2nd shift maintenance at the base that night and took some extended breaks to sit in a nearby parking lot and listen to the music and the crowd and being thankful I wasn’t cleaning up the next day. A great showman with some great music.
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After posting a clip of Jim Stafford in another forum I remembered Jim had a big record about some creepy crawly things that he somehow thought would win the affections of a lovely girl. I really liked this record back in the day and it is still very cool. A song fitting for this thread is Jim’s monster hit from 1974, Spiders and Snakes
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Jung, I listened to the Duo Sessions II through some good headphones last night and in the first song, Everybody’s Talking, Mona is playing Papa Rudi’s Hofner bass. Watching the video many times I never noticed how good the bass sounded in that recording. Maybe too many other distractions in the video like the vocals and Lisa’s finger picking, but with just the audio track that bassline really stands out. In the Livestream Mona used the Hofner on Paul’s song For No One and stated she is new to the bass. For being new to the bass she is a very fine player. I would urge anyone following this forum thread to go listen to just the audio.
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I’ve always loved Dr. Hook and The Medicine show, especially their first few albums before they cleaned up their act. They had songs that could tear the heart out of your soul or make you laugh out loud. They were basically a country band that was wild, wooly, sweaty, and usually stoned but the band was amazingly tight and very talented. Here’s a very politically uncorrect tune from their second album called the Freaker’s Ball.
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Yeah he put on a great show when I seen him. I think I counted 7 or 8 murder victims including Alice himself being decapitated by the guillotine. Not counting the many dolls that got sliced up during Billion Dollar Babies, it was a great show.
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Jurgen, yeah it sucks you have to be of age to watch the video, it is just a battle between the Alien and Sigourney Weaver. I like that guitar, I remember KISS used a few specially designed guitars. I found a picture of on of Gene Simmon’s basses that is signed and in the Smithsonian institute.
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Jung, I love all your eloquent words to describe this music. To be honest I’m pretty much at a loss for words, especially after listening to Duo Sessions II 5 or 6 times now. I’ve heard most of these songs many times already but when they play back to back it is something magical. They are only getting better and that kind of scares me, Lol. I am ready to take all my other cds to the Goodwill and tell them I’m just not going to need these, they are just collecting dust.
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Yeah Chris, that is exactly what I’m talking about. Back in the day, before cable TV, MTV, and of course the internet all we got was the recorded music on records or tapes and the music really had to stand on it’s own without the distractions of the videos. Don’t get me wrong because I love watching Mona and Lisa play on their videos and usually watch them a few times to catch what they are doing with their instruments and vocally. But, when the music alone turns me on and makes me replay it to hear everything, that is something special. I spend a lot of time working on projects outdoors with my phone tucked in my shirt pocket and headphones, listening to the club jukebox. Many times I stop working to replay a song just to hear a harmony or a guitar solo. I have never heard a song that I don’t like. I can’t even say that about the Beatles.
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Yeah David, Jim’s best songs weren’t very heavy lyrically, he had a sense of humor in his songs. I can remember a couple other of his songs called Cow Patty and My Girl Bill. He was another one of those country boys that could really play a guitar and was a great entertainer.
I like all the songs about swamps and bayous of the American Southeast. The songs about voodoo and black magic to me they were as freaky and scary as ghosts or aliens. Here’s another one you might remember David from a Louisiana boy named Jerry Reed and a monster hit called Amos Moses. When your Daddy uses you for Alligator bait, yeah that’s kind of creepy, nice parenting, Lol.
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Thanks Jurgen, I was waiting for this one to come up. That was a great movie theme song and a very big hit for Ray Parker Jr. Very funny and very iconic movie. If no one posted this before Halloween I would have posted it, thanks
Sigourney Weaver was in a lot of cool horror and Sci-fi movies. Here’s a clip from Aliens, also in the 80’s. It’s funny how the special effects that seemed so real back then are kind of mild by today’s standards. I see the whole movie is available for free on YouTube. It might be a good one to revisit on Halloween. The link says the video is restricted so it may not work in this forum.
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David, That video made me laugh and brought back a memory. I actually did that once. Me and a friend was driving in Madison WI one time in his old beat up car. I believe we had gone there for concert tickets, anyway his wipers didn’t work and it started raining, not hard but enough to be a nuisance. We tied a piece of speaker wire to each side and took turns pulling them back and forth. I haven’t thought about that in years. Thanks for the video and the memory.
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Here’s a similar guitar that I know nothing about. I just remembered watching this video with Roy Clark and Jim Stafford. This is a very fun rendition of Dueling Banjos by two very talented guitar players.
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It seems like every time he plays a note or hits a switch that his house lights flicker. I too would worry about shocks. Some of the tones sound good and it would be fun to play with. It does make a lot of irritating noises too. I’m glad Paul didn’t use it to record Band On The Run. I bet you could use it for a metal detector too.
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That’s a good song Jurgen, I don’t remember The Hooters but they have a very good sound. I agree with Jung about bands in the 80’s. In the new century it seems if you have a half way decent voice you can have a hit record using computer generated music. Actually, you don’t even need a good voice, that can be digitally produced too. Of course there are exceptions, and I’m very thankful for artists like Mona and Lisa that produce outstanding music with hard work, talent and pride.
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Hi Jurgen, It sounds similar to metal music to me. I don’t understand the German language which is ok because I don’t understand half the language in American heavy metal music but I do like the beat and the music. Very cool, thanks.
