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zircona1 wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:06 am

Wood Goblin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:39 am The latest episode of What’s in My Bag features Dave Pirner. It led me to look up Soul Asylum’s Wikipedia page, and I was reminded that he’s been the only original member in the band for more than a decade.

(I’m not particularly a fan of Soul Asylum either way.)

I thought about going to see Soul Asylum last year. I had never seen them, and Let Your Dim Light Shine meant a lot to me in high school. But with Pirner the only original guy left, and them not playing much from that record, I decided not to.

Edit: I enjoy those What's in My Bag videos.

Y'all figuratively kill me sometimes...

enframed wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:54 am

Iancee wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:41 am

enframed wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:49 am RKL is doing a small tour of California.

If there was ever an award for “bands that don’t and never mattered” RKL would be in the top 5. Hated them and their dumb schtick back in the day… seeing a bunch of mid 50s dudes revisit that shit now in 2025 would be painful beyond belief. Who the fuck would actually go???!

They should probably have it at a skater's house (with a half-pipe in the back) in Goleta, cuz that's abut how many people will go.

RKL’s bass player rips. I’ll go see ‘em just to watch that guy do his thing.

RKL were really big in Europe. They were a pretty ripping band. The follow-on bands were generally awful, i.e., Mad Caddies and Lagwagon.

Anyone seen Slayer post Hanneman/Lombardo? I’m tempted since I’ve never been.

Gramsci wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 5:00 am Anyone seen Slayer post Hanneman/Lombardo? I’m tempted since I’ve never been.

Not since 2014. That was a good show, though, I'd definitely go if you've never seen them.

I listened to one of their recent live sets. It was kinda loose and Tom sounded a bit tired, but Bostaph is back behind the kit. He's still a great drummer.

Slayer tickets purchased. Mastodon and Anthrax are also on the bill. But the Mastodon guitarist quit today so…

I love Flipper, at least until Will Shatter died, and I like Pissed Jeans, including that last LP.

But I'm not sure if this new lineup of the former should be filed under "legacy" or "state fair":

Punknews.org wrote: The current iteration of the band includes founding member Steve Depace on drums, along with Matt Korvette of Pissed Jeans on vocals, Kelli Mayo on bass, and John Kelly on guitar.

Not even Ted "dreadlock grandpa" Falconi remains. Someone needs to hold Steve DePace hostage till he agrees to release the oft-booted 1982 Gone Fishin' rough mixes and outtakes on vinyl...

I brought Pissed Jeans "Night Minutes"/"Throbbing Organ" 7" as a blind item way back when. Will always fuck with 'Fantasy World." And I seem to like any song I hear, but every single time I catch them live they turn me off. Every time. Bro vibes. Beats the fuck out of me, but that guy shouldn't be fronting Flipper.

rsmurphy wrote: I brought Pissed Jeans "Night Minutes"/"Throbbing Organ" 7" as a blind item way back when. Will always fuck with 'Fantasy World." And I seem to like any song I hear, but every single time I catch them live they turn me off. Every time. Bro vibes. Beats the fuck out of me, but that guy shouldn't be fronting Flipper.

One of the first times I saw PP Pants, they were opening for a Flipper reunion gig (early days of that, when Bruce Calderwood was hooked up to electrodes and Steve DeMartis from Bad Posture was on bass). And they were great. 2005? My first impression of Jeans was that they were a well-scrubbed millennial record-collector (as opposed to filthy old drug-abuser) take on stuff like Flipper, No Trend, Drunks w/Guns, and Stick Men w/Ray Guns. So I kinda get the choice of Korvette as frontman.

He never struck me as a bro (hell, the band even went thru a quasiwoke phase circa Why Love Now), but he does make no bones about being into clothes and fitness. Extremely clean-cut but awkward, at least in the early days of Pissed Jeans. He's cockier and less bizarre now, but I still dig his shtick, even though I haven't seen him perform in about three years.

Still, Flipper w/only the drummer remaining and their version of the kid who replaced Steve Perry in Journey is a pretty weird thing.