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Thursday, February 28
Truth in advertising
by
Mike
on Thu 28 Feb 2008 06:21 PM EST
I just discovered Best Blog Ever today. Truth be told, I think I had discovered it a while back, but I had promptly forgotten about it afterward. Maybe I was just overstimulated at the time. So, I figured I had better blog it myself before I forget about it again.
I just noticed that the word "blog" is kind of like the words "smurf" and "jank." You can use it as a noun, verb, adjective or whatever as many times as you want in the same sentence and whatever you write just magically makes sense. Kind of.  Bring your French Existentialist and His Dog to School Day, 1956 Sunday, February 24
Mixtape Mixdown: 25 Favorites (15 through 11)
by
Mike
on Sun 24 Feb 2008 11:07 PM EST
15: "Witching Hour" by Venom (from the 1981 album Welcome to Hell)
Anyway, "Witching Hour" is the first Venom song I ever heard. Back in 1989 or so, I was really into Exodus after having seen them play on the Headbanger's Ball Live Tour. For a while there, I was listening to their Fabulous Disaster album non-stop...even at school between classes – until my ridiculous homeroom teacher made a big deal about me bringing my Walkman to school (Yeah, thanks a lot, loser...It's a good thing I'm not the bitter type). One day, a guy from my English class (or maybe it was called American Lit that year) told me he had just gotten a hold of the Combat Tour Live: Ultimate Revenge home video and that it had about 4 Exodus performances on it (from a Paul Baloff-era show at the old Studio 54). Also included on the video were performances by Slayer and by Venom. I knew Venom by their name only and I wasn't really too psyched about seeing or hearing them, but when the guy loaned me the video, he encouraged me to check them out. Going on 20 years later, I still have my dubbed copy of Ultimate Revenge. In fact, I just watched it again last week. So, the first time I watched Ultimate Revenge, I had no idea what I was in for with Venom. After a few Exodus cuts and a Slayer performance, they were up next. The first of 2 Venom cuts was a lip-synced video for "Witching Hour." I think it was a single version of the song, because it's just a little bit different from the Welcome to Hell LP version (although the LP version is just as good). I hesitate to be so clichéd to say that I was "blown away," but it might just be the most apt description in retrospect. Their intensity and stage presence was just so HUGE and leading the way was the ugly, growling Cronos. Something about the way the video was shot made Cronos look larger than life, menacing and incredibly evil. There he was, singing about all kinds of nasty things and in between verses, he was dancing around like some kind of demon and it was just sooo awesome. My favorite shot from the video is of Cronos pounding his bass yelling "Witching hour!" for the last time before Mantas starts tearing up the amplifiers behind them. Venom is still a mainstay in my CD collection after all these years, but I don't listen to them when the kids are around. When I'm all alone, I do like rattling the windows with the best of their old stuff and the new stuff too. Thomai bought me the MMV box set for Christmas a couple of years ago...The right Christmas gift for so many reasons. Hail Venom!  The video for "Witching Hour" is available on YouTube, but I wouldn't recommend it if you're easily offended. 14: "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix (from the 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love) lyrics I wasn't a Hendrix fan before I met Thomai. In fact I probably only knew a few of his songs when I first met Thomai in 1993. One of our first really lengthy conversations was on a day in which I found her trying to write the lyrics to the Hendrix song "Fire" in one of her school notebooks. She told me she really liked the song and that she wanted to learn the lyrics so she could sing along when she heard it on the radio. It would become a running joke between us that despite her best efforts, she could never really get the lyrics down. I had heard Skid Row's cover of "Little Wing" on their 1992 EP of covers B-Side Ourselves and I really liked it. I think Thomai must have had a CD anthology of Hendrix songs (or maybe I bought one after I found out that she liked him) and while we were dating, "Little Wing" became "our song." It was the song for our first dance at our wedding. ...and yes, dear...I wrote three times as much about Venom as I did about "our song."  13: "Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest (from the 1980 album British Steel) lyrics
12: "It's My Life" by Kiss (from the 2001 Box Set) lyrics When The Box Set was released in 2001, it was quite a big event for me. Kiss has been my favorite band since I accidentally discovered them in 1983 or 1984. Long before we had a VCR, my mom would occasionally "record" television shows using an audio cassette recorder. She would put the tape recorder up next to the speaker of the television to capture the audio from shows like "Mork and Mindy" and I would listen to the shows again and again. One time, she had recorded a strange special about the history of music. The show featured an actor playing the part of Thomas Edison and he was introduced to a string of musical acts from the 1950's up to the present day (which I guess would have been 1978 or so, judging from the "current" acts that were profiled...One of them was Sha-Na-Na). My mom only taped a handful of the acts off the show and very little of the dialogue. It was a really odd collection of acts on the tape, including the Mills Brothers performing "Hold That Tiger Rag" and Don McLean performing "American Pie." At the very end of the tape was a medley of Kiss performances (much later I found out that the medley was drawn from an Alive II promotional package. You can find it on a lot of bootleg collections of Kiss material). So, as it happened one day in '83 or '84, I was listening to the cassette in my bedroom and when I got to the Kiss medley (Detroit Rock City/Rockin' in the USA/Love Gun/Shout it Out Loud), I was totally and completely hooked. By a strange coincidence, around that time I had also come upon an advertisement for the Kiss solo albums in an old issue of Marvel's John Carter, Warlord of Mars, so I spent a lot of time listening to that medley and drawing their faces over and over again. Just a few years earlier, I had been scared to death of Kiss! "It's My Life" is something of an out-take from the Psycho Circus sessions. It's a great song for a lot of reasons, but mainly because the lead vocals are shared by Gene and, of course, Ace Frehley. As an Ace fan, this is a big deal to me. Ace does a great job on the second verse and his solo is full of vintage stuff – material that Bruce Kulick one referred to as "Aceisms." I used to crank this song a lot on the weekends and I played it so often that K. learned the chorus at a very young age. One day, Thomai said to me: "The day K. says those words to you for real, you'll be crying." She's probably right. 11: "Ballad of Dwight Fry/With Teeth" by Melvins (from the 1991 album Lysol) lyrics pt.1 | lyrics pt. 2  I think I bought Lysol in 1994 or 1995, more or less based solely on the two-sentence description I had read in a C/Z Records flyer. I had heard The Melvins before and I was something of a fan, but I was truly unprepared for what I would experience when I listened to Lysol. One of the most striking things about the CD packaging is the cover image, which is based on Dalin's remarkable sculpture "Appeal to the Great Spirit." The CD was just over 30 minutes and it was only one track (I was convinced there was something wrong with the disc the first time I noticed this). There was no track listing on the packaging and despite the fact that I had purchased a new copy of the CD – shrink-wrapped and all – the album title "Lysol" had been blacked out with magic marker (I'd get the scoop on this sometime later). It was really a weird package, for sure. Anyway, I remember that day well, because I put it in the CD player and turned it on for a quick listen...and then 30 minutes later, I really couldn't believe what I had heard. The whole thing was just incredible. When you get down to it, I suppose I could have just claimed the whole album as a "favorite song" if I wanted to, seeing as how it's just one big continuous track. But there are six distinct cuts and these days the names of the cuts are well known to fans."Ballad of Dwight Fry" is actually an Alice Cooper cover and I am glad to have squeezed an Alice song in on this list, even if it's not his original version (Check out Alice performing the song live at Montreux in 2004). "Ballad" is the fifth "song" on Lysol and it's something of the climax of this quasi-concept album. The Melvins truly make this song their own, with slow, sludgy vocals and a slow, pounding tempo. It's my favorite Alice song, too, but I have to give a nod to "Go to Hell" and "Teenage Lament '74" as well. If "Ballad is the climax, then "With Teeth" is surely the denouement of this tour de force. With tremendous thundering riffs and percussion and lyrics that are virtually incomprehensible, the song is a undoubtedly a Melvins classic. If you've never, ever heard Lysol, you're really, really missing out on an amazing experience. Saturday, February 23
They’re not bad...
by
Mike
on Sat 23 Feb 2008 11:08 AM EST
...they just look like they’ve been bad.
 Domino and Stupsi wait patiently behind the gate as the plumbers
visit our house for the third week in a row. Tuesday, February 12
Mixtape Mixdown: 25 Favorites (20 through 16)
by
Mike
on Tue 12 Feb 2008 10:32 PM EST
After starting this series of articles last week, it started to sink in that a lot of my favorite bands won't be represented in my "25 Favorites" list. The missing parties include folks from my "top tier" of all-time favorites like Rage Against the Machine, Anthrax, and Helloween, as well as great acts like Slade and The Darkness. But this list is really as tight as I can make it and these selections are truly my favorites of all time. On with the countdown!
20: "Withered and Died" by Elvis Costello (ghost track from the 1995 Rykodisk reissue of the 1984 album Goodbye Cruel World) lyrics For years, I only knew of the Elvis Costello cover of this song. I first heard it in 1997 when I bought the Rykodisc reissue of Goodbye Cruel World. When I came across Richard and Linda Thompson's album I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight some years later, I was pretty surprised to find the original song because I never even knew that the Costello version was a cover. Linda Thompson's performance was very nice, as was the rest of the album, but I was always drawn back to the Elvis Costello version. Some years later, I would sing this song to baby Z. when she was just a newborn. It's kind of a strange song to sing as a lullaby, but on afternoons and evenings in the Spring of 2004, I used to take Z. out in our back yard and rock her to sleep sitting on our swing. As I held baby Z. in my arms, I would look at our neighbor's tall trees and watch them sway back and forth against the spring sky and I would think of this verse from the song: Once I was bending the tops of the trees/Kind thoughts in my head, kind voices to hear. So in a very odd way, I will always associate this sad, sad song with one of the greatest times in my life.  19: "Prelude/Angry Young Man" (Live) by Billy Joel (from the 1987 album Концерт - Concert: Live in Leningrad) lyrics I have been a closet Billy Joel fan ever since my sister bought his Greatest Hits double LP back in 1986 or so. I remember going to a record show with my pal "Nate the Great" when I was in college and kind of admiring the fact that "Nate" was so open about how much he liked Billy Joel. I think he even bought some kind of big promotional poster featuring Joel that day. Because I have always been drawn to "edgier" stuff like metal and punk, I kept my fondness for Billy Joel a well-kept secret for many years. I started buying Billy Joel albums en masse in the late 1990s after his catalog was remastered and Thomai bought me a handful of his stuff for my birthday one year. Concert was one of the ones she got for me and I was especially taken with the way the concert kicked off: First with the thunderous "Odoya," then the fierce "Prelude," followed by the painfully honest song "Angry Young Man." I found a lot to identify with in the lyrics of "Angry Young Man." Years later, I remember listening to this on a long drive and K. affectionately referring to the song as "Daddy's song." Nice. Concert is an amazing album. Billy Joel's performance of "Back in the USSR" gets an honorable mention as one of my all-time favorites that didn't make the top 25. Baby Z. loves Joel's cover of the song so much that when I tried to play the original Beatles version one day, she told me to turn it off and play the "real Back in the USSR"! This is, by the way, probably the only "favorite songs" list where you will ever find Billy Joel rubbing elbows with the likes of the Sex Pistols and Venom. 18: "Afterglow (of Your Love)" by Quiet Riot (from the 1993 compilation album The Randy RhoadsYears) lyrics As I mentioned in my recent article on the untimely passing of Kevin DuBrow, I have been a Quiet Riot fan since 1983. I really enjoy all of their stuff whether it's new or old, with the exception of the material from the period of DuBrow's absence. I was really excited when DuBrow was finally able to release The Randy Rhoads Years compilation in 1993. The Japanese Quiet Riot albums had always been out of reach for me, commanding up to $200 for a single LP at record shows (although I did ultimately shell out a fair amount to get both Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II on CD around 2003). So back in '93, I hadn't heard any of the Rhoads era material yet and when The Randy Rhoads Years was released, the stuff was every bit as good as I had expected it to be. "Afterglow" was a favorite of ours back when Thomai and I were dating and we even played the song at our wedding reception. It's worth mentioning here that my favorite Quiet Riot song is actually a cover of a song that was originally writen and performed by DuBrow's favorite band, Humble Pie.
17: "Sanctuary" (Live) by Iron Maiden (from the bonus disc of the 1995 reissue of the 1984 album Live After Death) I saw Live After Death on home video at a friend's house back in 1988 or so and I was totally hooked. I knew a couple of folks who had the video and I borrowed it a few times here and there before I finally bought my own copy. "Sanctuary" was the final number on the home video and I have always thought of it as just a humongous, incredible metal performance in every possible way, from Bruce Dickinson's incredible vocal range to the blazing guitar solos of Adrian Smith and Dave Murray (note the very effective use of fingertapping and tremolo in Adrian's solo). When I bought the cassette version of the performance, I was disappointed that "Sanctuary" wasn't on the tape, because it was actually the final number from the home video and it was by far my favorite performance from the show. It wasn't until the 1995 re-release of Live After Death on CD that I finally got my hands on a high-quality audio recording of "Sanctuary" live, as it was included on the bonus disc of the reissue. The cut on the Live After Death bonus disc was originally a B-side to a single and it is a slightly edited version of the performance on the home video. One afternoon in 1997 or 1998, I actually destroyed a large pair of tower speakers while cranking this song. We lived in a new development that wasn't really well-inhabited at the time, so I could get away with opening all the windows and blaring music for several hours each afternoon. On the particular day in question, I was apparently overcome with my appreciation for the tune and I turned up my stereo volume higher than I ever had before. I think I was well into the song before the end came – a loud pop, a sizzle and then everything went pretty much quiet from there. I can still remember smelling a hint of electricity and a bit of smoke in the air as I disconnected the speakers from the receiver. It was every bit as cool as it sounds. Man, those speakers were expensive. Horns up! 16: "Get Back" by The Beatles (from the1970 album Let It Be) lyrics It wasn't until the Anthology television series of 1995 that I finally started to appreciate the Beatles. Let It Be is said to more or less chronicle the break-up of the band, but it's really my favorite album by The Beatles. I prefer the versions of songs on Let It Be to some of the alternate takes that were used for singles. "Get Back" is really great on Let It Be because it is more or less a "stripped down" performance. The vocals and guitar stand out well,and this is probably because there isn't a lot of reverb, echo or studio polish in the tracks. Billy Preston's organ solo especially shines on the album version. It's kind of surprising that I have a "Paul song" instead of a "John song," but what can I say? It's a great song! Thursday, February 7
Honors from SovLit.com
by
Mike
on Thu 07 Feb 2008 06:01 PM EST
 Today, I received word that greeklish.org has been honored as SovLit.com’s “Comrade of the Month” for our section on Soviet Heroine Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya:The Story of Zoya & Shura "Here, comrades! Why do you look so gloomy? Be brave. Fight on, fight on!" Seventeen-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was one of the most endearing Soviet heroes from the Great Patriotic War. She was a member of the partisan resistance movement in the western USSR and took part in sabotage and reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines. She was captured and tortured by the Nazis, but she bravely refused to give up any information. For her stubborn heroism, the Nazis sentenced her to the gallows. Unbowed, before her execution, she taunted her captors: "There are two hundred million of us! You can't hang us all!" Zoya's brother, Shura, who fell in battle near Koenigsberg, was also recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union. Zoya and Shura's mother, Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, memorialized her children with her book, The Story of Zoya & Shura, the entire text of which is now available on-line. For posting this text and honoring these two great Soviet heroes, Michael Bessler and greeklish.org are recognized as SovLit.com's Comrade of the Month. (click here to see the original article from SovLit.com) It is a distinct honor to receive this recognition from such a prestigious website as SovLit.com. SovLit.com is an outstanding project that serves to provide important resources to workers and students. We extend our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to SovLit.com as well as to our readers and supporters around the world. Aluta continua! Wednesday, February 6
Adventures in eBaying: The big one
by
Mike
on Wed 06 Feb 2008 11:28 PM EST
One evening in mid-January, I pulled up eBay on my computer and I started running my daily searches for various items of interest when I stumbled upon what would surely be the jewel in my small collection: A genuine, Soviet-era bust of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. The piece was cast in aluminum and bigger than a small "desktop" bust or statuette but not so big as to be a life-sized replica. At the time, I had figured it might be about the size of the bust of La Pasionara that I had purchased some time ago. The representation appeared to be based on the memorial statue of Zoya K. in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). I was astonished to find this item up for auction, as it seemed to be more spectacular that anything I could have ever imagined. The starting bid was kind of pricey – more than I'm accustomed to spending on eBay stuff, for sure – and since the bust was located in Ukraine, shipping would be rather costly. Moreover, I figured that other collectors would surely be as interested such an outstanding piece and I doubted that I could really "hang" with some of the high-rollers of eBay. Over the years, I have seen some pretty wild finishes on auctions for rare Soviet items. Nevertheless, less than 24 hours into the auction, I put my fist bid down – a decent bid, at that – but I pretty much figured I would lose in the end.
The next day – much to my horror – I saw that someone had already bid against me. I was still the high bidder because the competing bid was only a couple of dollars. But still, this was enough to throw me into something of a panic. A quick consultation with my pal Randy – a kindred spirit of sorts – revealed that Randy himself was the party responsible for the new bid. As a general rule, we try not to bid against each other, but the seller of the bust had made the listing a "private" auction, so users could not see the IDs of their competitors. Because Randy is such a great guy, he kindly said he would not bid against me any further and he urged me to do everything I needed to do to win the sculpture. We would correspond and talk by phone several more times over the agonizing week that followed, and each time we "chatted," Randy would share words of encouragement and support. I tried everything possible during the 6 or 7 days of the auction to stay calm and to avoid obsessing over whether or not I would end up with the bust, but I was pretty much a basket case at every turn. I even tried an old "thought-stopping" technique I learned as a counselor in which I would wear a rubber band on my wrist and snap it hard when I felt myself obsessing. The short blast of pain kind of forces one's mind to "re-set" itself, thereby temporarily breaking repetitive or obsessive thought cycles. The auction was set to end on a Saturday afternoon and by the morning of that particular day, I had two rubber bands on my wrist (a fat one and a thin one) to provide me with varying levels of pain whenever I needed to change my focus and stop spiraling. But nothing really worked. In early afternoon on the last day of the auction, Stupsi had slipped out into our garage and tried to make a break for outside as the big overhead garage door was coming down. I chased her out into the garage and tried to stop her from slipping under the door. I barely managed to stop her from getting crushed under the door but I got my leg caught under the heavy door in the process. It hurt like hell and Thomai thought I had been seriously injured. The whole time I sat on the couch with the girls trying to decide if I needed to go to the hospital for a broken leg, I remained fixated on the impending end of the auction. With an hour left to go, I limped upstairs to play several rounds of Fire Pro to try and keep my mind off the end of the auction. I couldn't relax, though, and I ended up returning to the computer with about 20 or 30 minutes left to go so I could watch the finale in real time.
The bust made it from Ukraine to Ohio just under two weeks, thanks to an efficient and conscientious eBay seller. I unpacked it after work last Friday. For a few days, I kept it on our kitchen table while I prepared some space in my library room. The girls are pretty impressed with the piece and I have to say that it is a truly magnificent piece of statuary. The details are remarkable, from the quilting on Zoya's coat to the barrel of her rifle and the piece of scarf that flies above her shoulder. The piece is truly the "brass ring" of my years of collecting. We sat at the dinner table for a while on Friday night talking about the bust. K. was particularly interested in where the bust came from and where the real Zoya lived during her lifetime, so we talked a little and we got the globe out of the library to look up Ukraine, Russia, and other relevant places. She told me that she didn't know of anyone else with a dad who collects such cool stuff – and teaches his kids about it, too! It is nice to be appreciated at so many levels.  Monday, February 4
Mixtape Mixdown: 25 Favorites (25 through 21)
by
Mike
on Mon 04 Feb 2008 08:35 PM EST
This time around, I've expanded my list to my 25 favorites. Many of my top favorites will never change, but the order has shifted a little in the top 5 over the past few years. Expanding the list size gives me a chance to give extra props to selections that I could have easily overlooked had my selection been more limited. The list is really a selection of my favorite "rock" songs, because it would be kind of difficult to work favorites like Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed" by Phil Ochs, or Billy Bragg's rendition of "The Internationale" into a predominantly metal, punk and pop collection So, for what it's worth, here are numbers 25 through 21 of my "25 Favorites." 25: "Lose this Skin" by The Clash (from the 1980 album Sandanista!) lyrics I discovered Sandanista! Late in my high school years and I have always thought of it as The Clash's most outstanding effort. The album was an early political education for me, for sure. It might seem kind of strange that the only song by The Clash to make it into my top 25 list features a front man other than Joe Strummer, but Tymon Dogg is just great on this track. "Lose this Skin" never fails to lighten my mood, because even though the lyrics are a little dark, they seem to speak a bit on self-empowerment and struggling on when things are tough. Joe Strummer, who is one of my all-time heroes, will make it into the countdown later. 24: "The Road I Must Travel" by The Nightwatchman (from the 2007 album One Man Revolution) lyrics | video Tom Morello is one of my favorite artists and activists. He would certainly be in good company with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs. The first time I saw the video to this song, it brought tears to my eyes. The second time the video came on, I brought the kids over to the television and we danced and sang along. "The Road I Must Travel" is now a mainstay on our long road trips. You haven't heard this song until you hear belted out from the lungs of a three year-old little girl.  23: "Crazy Train" (Live) by Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads (from the 1987 album Tribute) lyrics This is the only Ozzy song in my "25 Favorites" list, but it is not the only Randy Rhoads song in the list. I think some folks might quibble over whether or "Crazy Train" is really the best example of Randy's work, but the solo is pretty remarkable – actually better than the studio version, I think – and the vocals seem to have a lot more emotion than the studio version. I like the fact that the solo is not overly complex or flowery but it has just enough twists and turns to make it truly special. And what a riff! Absolutely one of the best metal riffs of all time! My kids go absolutely nuts when I crank this song. Horns up! 22: "Rush" by Big Audio Dynamite (from the 1991 album The Globe) lyrics | video I have loved Big Audio Dynamite since I first heard the song "E=MC²" back in 1985. That was long before I knew anything about Mick Jones or The Clash. The Globe is probably Big Audio Dynamite's biggest-selling album, but it's actually not my favorite albums by them. That distinction goes to the wonderfully eclectic Tighten Up, Vol. 88. Starting in 1990, I bought most of Big Audio Dynamite's albums in one format or another, but it was amazingly 2003 or so by the time I picked up The Globe. I had caught bits and pieces of the song "Rush" from time to time over the years, but I still remember the day I bought The Globe very well, because I went straight out of the record store and put the CD on in my car right away. I turned it way up and I remember thinking, "Wow. I have never really heard this song until now. " I remember thinking that the song had so much going on and that it fit together so well. In the weeks following the arrival of Baby Z., K. And I would listen to the songs "Rush" and "The Globe" every day when I drove her to and from school. Great, great times.  21: "Venom" by Venom (from the bonus disc of the 1996 album Cast in Stone) lyrics It was pretty exciting when the Kiss reunion was announced back in 1996, but in my mind, the Venom reunion in 1996 or 1997 was just as big of a deal. I first discovered Venom in 1989 – more on that in a later entry on this list – and metal was never the same for me after that. Cast in Stone was a tremendous effort as Venom's "comeback" album and even though the reunion was short-lived, the original trio put forth some solid new material. But probably the best part of Cast in Stone was the bonus disc in which the band re-record some classics. "Venom" is the final song on the bonus disc and I had never heard the song until I got the Cast in Stone album. From what I understand, Venom closed their shows with this song in the early days and at the end of the song, they would completely trash their entire stage set. It kind of sounds like they do the same at the end of the studio version. "Venom" is unlike a lot of Venom's classics in that it is a slow, grinding tune instead of a Black Metal shred-fest. It has that HUGE Venom sound complete with growling vocals by Cronos and a wailing, shrieking Mantas guitar solo. This song really gets me going! Hail Venom! More to come! |
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