Saturday, March 22, 2014

IS THAT ARAMIS?

The hippies that live in the complex behind mine are having a field day. I've been subjected to their awful sing-a-long beat on the drum renditions of what they think folk music is for the past several hours. Might be that Dev-whatever. (This guy. Is that not a hippie version of Fred Durst?) So that's the current breed of bonehead I have to contend with. While all their unshaven blissed out crap is going on, I'm undergoing treatment with an aural antidote. Imagining I am far, far away, in a dank club, wingtips on, pack of Pall Malls and a Hamms (from the land of sky blue water motherfucker), not even paying attention to all the jiggling up on the stage. I'm here because off-key hippies, particularly those who can't keep a beat, would never dare cross the threshold. (Just remember, from the land of sky blue water motherfucker.)

Sounds pretty mean spirited, huh? I exaggerate. Barking aside, these instrumentals, commonly referred to as one type of "shaker" or another, really are the antithesis of what I've been hearing.

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2 comments:

Espen E. said...

Hi Tom. Your living hippie nightmare (as described) should be over by now I guess, but my deepest sympathies all the same!

Checked out the Dev dude (link), as I only knew of him by name, thinking "how bad can it be?"… but yes, it was BAD bad – and kept getting degradingly worse as I (in masochist mode) subsequently clicked a few related Banhart clips. Still trying to forget. Will steer well clear in the future!

I once broke into a neighbors empty apartment where a CD had been hiccuping at full volume for some stretch of time… the same bleating passage of a soul horn break (JB?) in strange irregular blasts, over and over (and over! and over!). I actually thought the moron was in there, practicing some kind of monophonic keyboard/sampler contraption, but after 7-8 hours of hearing the same "sample", I grew wise - and took appropriate action (could of course have trashed his stereo and looted his record collection, but I wasn't thinking straight, so I just turned the CD off and climbed back out the window I came in).

Stay sane! Espen

April 1, 2014 at 2:36 AM
Tom G. said...

You're a braver man than I am. I couldn't get through that one Devwhatever video. I couldn't believe that that was the guy that critics were so gaga about. Juxtapose that with the Sonics, or Link Wray, or someone like that and he just seems like a oh-so-precious circus clown. Yeesh!

April 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM

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