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[pepperoniparadise]

1970

[karihighman]

[vivernia]

[ranger-ribbons]

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[vintagecase]

[primal--scream]

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 25, 2008, Over the Edge was released on DVD in Australia.

[thebowerypresents]

Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Deliver at Brooklyn Steel

Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade – Brooklyn Steel – October 22, 2023

The Frog Brigade are the jam-band-iest of Les Claypool’s many thrilling projects. Or they’re a jammy band with a love of funk, prog, psychedelia and Frank Zappa that would be surfing the big waves out near the edges of sanity anyway but just so happen to get their marching orders from Claypool. (That is, not unlike all the musical projects the relentlessly quirky, generationally talented bassist puts his name on.) Either way — or, more likely, both — they’re a force, and what a treat to have them back, 20 years after their heyday and any semblance of regular touring — and in midseason form, to boot. 

At Brooklyn Steel on Sunday, the Frog Brigade were on the attack. As in most of the shows during this year’s reunion tour, this one housed a full, go-for-it, manic-jammy full reading of Pink Floyd’s Animals. But what came before and after the Floyd excursion over the course of two sets and nearly three hours was just as delectable. And maybe marching orders isn’t the right way to describe the Claypool effect on a band like this. Claypool himself would seem like the command-and-control boss of this outfit but in practice he’s more the chief creative officer, giving like-minded creators enough room to be their zany selves in the framework he’s created. 

This version of the Frog Brigade is assembled and plays like a Frankenstein’d version of the original — many of the same players, yes, from the heady days of ought-three, but also coconspirators from other Claypool bands like the Claypool Lennon Delirium (whose other namesake, Sean Lennon, now has the guitar chair for the Brigade). Sax sorcerer Eric “Skerik” Walton is here, and so is Mike Dillon, the percussion-and-vibes madman. Keys are handled by the prog-inclined Harry Waters (son of Roger), and Paolo Baldi, the Claypool regular and former skins-man for Cake, is on the drums. Together, as in all Claypool bands, they create a cauldron of sonics to which the listener and concertgoer aren’t so much witnesses as they are plunged in, the band driving up the intensity using aggressive, nudging rhythms, often sinister (but not untender) melodies, and free reign to, y’know, beat and blow shit up. This year’s repertoire overall is polyglot Claypool, and on Sunday, that meant plenty of Brigade cuts, but also tunes from Sausage (“Riddles Are Abound Tonight”), from the Holy Mackerel, from the Delirium (“Blood and Rockets”), and from the Bucket of Bernie Brains (a fizzy “Thai Noodles” in the encore), plus covers as varied as Prince Buster (“One Step Beyond”) and the English Beat (“Mirror in the Bathroom”).

The Pink Floyd stuff? Yeah, totally fun, as advertised. I could listen to Claypool and Co. pillage their way through “Sheep” for hours (and their “Dogs” is just as on point). But no matter what it is, these guys kick up a mighty groovy racket. Late in the second set came “Precipitation” (from the Holy Mackerel back pages), which built to a whirring, stab-syncopation solo-fest around its “Rain, rain, rain” refrain. “Hendershot,” another Claypool staple, had a bit of ragtime piano from Waters thrown in before it became a surf-rock adventure, Skerik’s sax screaming over it. The tale of “David Makalaster” (both parts!) had the band at a steady-rolling chant, pushing, pushing, pushing its stabbing rhythm.

There’s a tendency to call this music wacky but that kind of misses the musicality in it, especially when each of these songs gets a healthy work-through. The six of them don’t for a second lose the collective sonics — if you really listen closely, you hear them playing off one another with subtle asides, even when one of them is blasting away out in front of the jam. —Chad Berndtson | @Cberndtson

Photos courtesy of Dana Distortion | distortionpix.com

[krinsbez]

Pulptober Roundup, 12th-14th

I am not best pleased with myself, but I am very pleased with our participants!

Pulptober 12th: the Character is The Punisher, the Theme "Veteran Justice". Two pieces today:

-@themailedfist-blog shared a though on and art of the day's Character.

-@haldrada-art created an excellent original art of the day's Character.

Pulptober 13th: The Character is Hellboy, the Theme "Hero With Good Publicity". Again, two pieces today:

-@themailedfist-blog shared some lovely arts of the day's character.

-@haldrada-art provided us with a wonderful original art of the day's character.

Pulptober 13th: the Character is Arsene Lupin, the Theme "The Lawless Bringing Law". Four pieces today!

-@oldtvandcomics noted that they had completed the Arsène Lupin -L'Aiguille Creuse (Arsene Lupin: The Hollow Needle), a Lupin novel by Maurice Leblanc

-@themailedfist-blog shared some art and a thought about The Goon, who fits the day's Theme.

-@haldrada-art continues to put me two shame by once again giving us two separate original arts. One of the day's Character, and another of The Goon and Franky, who fit the day's Theme.

Thank you to everyone!

[davealmost]

Singles

[headbandsandflats]

okay i know everyone said season 2 was the fnl season i had to “get through”, but i am legit five minutes into season 4 and i’m sad and i hate it and i want to go home. i am notoriously bad with change (i haven’t gotten more than four episodes into the third season of the crown bc i missed claire foy and matt smith too much), so seeing so many cast members no longer in the opening credits is killing me. and coach has no team!!! and no field!!! and matt is still in dillon and delivering pizzas!!! (did i cry no matt!!! out loud at my tv when i saw him get into that car? you know i did.)

it’s so crazy that fnl lasted three seasons and ended with the trashiest wedding in all of texas and we made no new friends and never saw coach in red!!!

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Flashback Theater 🎥...Singles (1992) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #drama #singles #bridgetfonda #campbellscott #KyraSedgwick #MattDillon #billpullman #eddievedder #ericstoltz #chriscornell #RIPChrisCornell #JamesLeGros #jeremypiven #timburton #PaulGiamatti #PeterHorton #TomSkerritt #christophermasterson #DebiMazar #90s #dvd #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsasflashbacktheater

[rulesofbloodshed]

My Favorite Voice Actor in Left 4 Dead 2 on my Notifications 🥹💕

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Listen me and my flock of one-person inflatables are having a GREAT TIME right now.

(But also let me tell you; the feeling of getting comments on the rarest of rarepairs feels like I'm converting people to a cult. Come get yourself kicked in the heart by yours truly, I promise it'll be fun!)

Reblog and put your rare pair in the tags/comments! I want to see the depths people will go to create, for the most random two characters in the most obscure media.

[jmunneytumbler]

I Opened Up 'The Book of Clarence'

I Opened Up 'The Book of Clarence'

Book ’em, Clarence (CREDIT: Moris Puccio/Legendary Entertainment/TriStar Pictures) Starring: LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, RJ Cyler, David Oyelowo, Michael Ward, Alfre Woodard, Brian Bovell, Teyana Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Nicholas Pinnock, James McAvoy, Chase Dillon, Babs Olusanmokun, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chidi Ajufo, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom…

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 25, 2008, Over the Edge was released on DVD in Australia.