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November 27, 2004
The Clarion Call of Rock 'n' Roll's Everlasting Triumph
Recently heard busting rhymes over the "99 Problems" beat, Richard Allen just popped up on the McSweeney's website with a humorous piece called Seven Questions for the Guitar Solo From "Stairway to Heaven." As interviews go, I'd have to say that's quite a 'get'. I can only dream that Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer might one day fight it out for the chance to interview the thunderous drum intro from "When the Levee Breaks". (Q: "How did it make you feel when you heard "Rhymin' and Stealin'" for the first time?")
Speaking of rock 'n' roll's everlasting triumph and people who love Led Zeppelin, the Black Taj song "Woke Up Tired" (6.99 MB) is one of the hottest things on Bandwidth, so download that monster jam already. Sadly, we may never hear another recording from this particular incarnation of Black Taj, which consisted of Dave Brylawski (Polvo, Idyll Swords) on guitar and vocals, Grant Tennille (Idyll Swords, Jimi Hendrix Inexperience, Prayer Flags, Kinko's) on guitar and backup vocals, Steve Popson (Polvo) on bass, and Thomas Atherton (Jimi Hendrix Inexperience) on the drums.
Black Taj is not the only track on Bandwidth to feature a Polvo alumnus, as there's also a track from Libraness, aka Ash Bowie (Polvo, Helium). "Sykes Temple Lane" (7.56 MB) is a really nice instrumental that starts innocently with warm pitch-bending bluesiness before taking some dark and unexpected turns over the course of 5 and a half minutes. I'm a big fan of most any song that features trombone, so I give this Libraness track even more points for the sliding horn sounds. If you like this Libraness track, I highly recommend the Libraness full-length Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells that came out on Tiger Style in 2000. It's got some vocals and a little more song structure to it...and the whole thing has a really great early 90s Polvo feel to it.
Posted by Tim at November 27, 2004 05:52 PM