scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
kel wrote:I hit Youtube, and realize I UPLOADED IT THREE YEARS AGO.
fiestaware wrote:^That collection is the cassette Peter used to hand around in the '90s, no?
fiestaware wrote:In related news, I acquired a small number of tracks someone entitled Field Day Sessions including an alternate mix of 'Things That Make No Sense', instrumentals of '13 Seconds Under Water' & 'La Penita' among other scraps, plus some practice tape jams. Idk why these never made the compilation tapes that used to circulate.
jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
Well, that's how I started out as a pre-teen buying cassettes of bands I heard on the ball, so of course I dig it. I wish they'd done that video Junkyard-style
jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
Well, that's how I started out as a pre-teen buying cassettes of bands I heard on the ball, so of course I dig it. I wish they'd done that video Junkyard-style
When I saw Junkyard in 1989, very shortly after that video came out, the singer did the same half-assed somersault move off Chris Gates' back as he does at 2:32, lol:
I also remember that when I saw Dag the previous summer when they came through Detroit on the Field Day tour, I wore an Underdog t-shirt exactly like the one Brian wears in that video, and he actually stopped me when I walked past him to tell me how cool it was. So I'm pretty sure he got that fashion-tip from me.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:scannest wrote:Always loved that song. It was on the short list of Dag tunes we considered doing with the Gerunds, but Peter wasn't having it.
Yeah, when I interviewed him in 2008, he told me something like that he was fine with that song, but he's just not the right singer for it and that it reminded him of '80s arena rock or hair metal or something like that. Obviously, I disagree. I've always loved it.
I love the song too, but he isn't wrong about that... that tune could have easily sat in random rotation on Headbanger's Ball in 1988 if they had bothered to do a video for it.
Well, that's how I started out as a pre-teen buying cassettes of bands I heard on the ball, so of course I dig it. I wish they'd done that video Junkyard-style
When I saw Junkyard in 1989, very shortly after that video came out, the singer did the same half-assed somersault move off Chris Gates' back as he does at 2:32, lol:
I also remember that when I saw Dag the previous summer when they came through Detroit on the Field Day tour, I wore an Underdog t-shirt exactly like the one Brian wears in that video, and he actually stopped me when I walked past him to tell me how cool it was. So I'm pretty sure he got that fashion-tip from me.
I remember seeing that video and hearing that song a ton of times on my high school's radio station right when it came out (I was in 9th grade then), but I was today years old when I found out BB was wearing an Underdog shirt because back then, I had no idea who they were (didn't find out until probably '92 or something) and I've loved them (Underdog) for 30 years. I didn't realize the follow-up single was a Skynyrd cover back then, either. More innocent times.
version sound wrote:Man, Junkyard really sucks. I would say that BB should be ashamed of that stuff, but I definitely remember a time circa 1988/89 when punk rock seemed very stale and bands like GNR and Circus of Power seemed exciting. In that short period, I probably would have joined a fucking L.A. hair metal band too, had I been given the opportunity. Thank god for the misfit girls I met around that time who steered me down a different path…
jaybird wrote:“dudes, punk rock is fuckin over, and I just wanna get paid for playing my guitar... no way I could do that playing in Dag Nasty, but I can with this band".
jaybird wrote:version sound wrote:Man, Junkyard really sucks. I would say that BB should be ashamed of that stuff, but I definitely remember a time circa 1988/89 when punk rock seemed very stale and bands like GNR and Circus of Power seemed exciting. In that short period, I probably would have joined a fucking L.A. hair metal band too, had I been given the opportunity. Thank god for the misfit girls I met around that time who steered me down a different path…
When we saw Junkyard in '89, my buddies and I cornered BB at the bar for a bit and more or less gave him the "WTF, dude, hair-metal, really?" bit... his more or less verbatim response was" dudes, punk rock is fuckin over, and I just wanna get paid for playing my guitar... no way I could do that playing in Dag Nasty, but I can with this band".
That said, I do think Junkyard was significantly better than the typical outfit for that sort of thing... more Motorhead-ish than most of the bands in that year's crop of LA hair-farmers.
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