OFF: Orange Goblin

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 06/06/2006 23:41, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> 	I figured that the sound of _The Big Black_ and _Coup de Grace_ 
> was down to people's reactions to _Time Travelling Blues_. Whether 
> people liked it or not, almost every review I saw said "and it sounds 
> like Lynyrd Skynyrd", 

A reaction which always confused me since _TTB_ doesn't really sound 
very much like Skynyrd!

> or in extreme cases "What is this supposed to do 
> for me that any Montrose LP doesn't?" (I saw this comment on a different 
> list at the time TTB came out; only reason I ever checked out 
> Montrose... )

;)

> 	But anyone who's seen Orange Goblin will know that their 
> front-man at least is somehow convinced that they're a heavy metal band, 
> so I suspect that they were trying really hard to sound more dense metal 
> and less seventies groovy clearlight with the follow-up, and then stuck 
> with it alas...

Yeah, I know -- I just think there are bands that do dense heavy metal 
better than I've heard OG do it, but they had a better line on Martian 
truckstop groovefest than most. (Much in the way I think there are 
better electronica and techno bands than Hawkwind, but beating them at 
pulsar warpdrive space rock is tough!)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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