Soothing Soul Suckers

When it comes to staying in Bozeman I’ve got to get in where I fit in.

SSS later today. 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. MDT as always. Click on the KGLT icon to the right to listen. Not sure what’s going down tonight. I’ve got to get the show together. If you’re listening feel free to call me at 406-994-4492.

Hail and Kill!

Got back from camping in Idaho yesterday and saw this:

Available now from Southern Lord. I’m really looking forward to hearing this one. Hopefully Slasher Sylvan has this for Friday’s show. If not, I’ll have to wait to play it later in the month.

If you deny the power of the Loaf on Bat Out of Hell you can kiss my ass.

That sweaty round bastard, Jim Steinman, Todd Rundgren and a chunk of the Boss’ E Street band made the best rock opera, musical or whatever you want to call it ever made. When you listen to the Loaf’s deliver he’s feeling it and the band matches his every mood.

Growing up near Cleveland in the 70’s it was impossible not to be subjected to a massive dose of Bat. Released on the Cleveland International label (based in Willoughby, Ohio) and heavily supported by local radio it all I can remember hearing in 1978. My mom had the 8 track and with my sister they wore the shit out of it. I have a clear memory of including “2 Out of 3 Ain’t Bad” in a dig directed at my cousin during a family camping trip. The Loaf was everywhere. I’ve owned and disowned the 8 track, tape, LP and CD countless times in my life but like a post-nuclear cockroach it always finds a way to wriggle it’s way into the stereo. Right now I have a CD burn but I find myself digging around for it so often I might as well enshrine it in the collection where it can be displayed.

Loaf, you son of a bitch. I want you, I need you but there ain’t no way I’m ever going to love you.

Woke up with the Hawkwind tune (You Shouldn’t Do That) I played on Friday night in my head.

Fuckin’ hippies.

Here’s a band who decided to get back together and do it without living off past glory (unlike My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Jane’s Addiction and a handful of other lame ass retreads). Portishead not only managed to make an album that holds up with the old stuff, they had the guts to try something different.

“Threads”, my favorite track off of Third.