OFF: Re: Dio, Maiden, etc.

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:22:55AM -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> On 21 Sep 2008, at 11:19 , mike coleman wrote:
> >my Trouble cds if necessary....
> >bring back eric
> 
> Ah, Trouble!  _Manic Frustration_ is my favorite of theirs, I think ....

	Now I saw them at this year's Roadburn, and they were a very odd 
band. Some tracks absolutely rocked, and some were terribly terribly 
stale and weak retread stuff. I mean, I was alternately going "this lot 
are DULL, I'm going after this track" and then "hey, this is f-in' ace" 
and then "what happened? Where did the good stuff go?" In the end I went 
to see a Peruvian band called La Ira de Dios who were much much more my 
thing, like a very angry red-hot version of `Brainstorm' done by a metal 
band for most of a set. But Trouble, they had quality control issues the 
like of which only Hawkwind have ever rivalled IMO. Yours,
							   Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk