Hockey Teams + Music Videos = Hilarity

I'm sure any internet person who regularly visits this here blog has figured out that I'm a music fan.  If not, you should probably learn how to read.  But what some of you may not know is that I'm also a big hockey fan.  I also like to laugh.  Sometimes all three of those things combine, and it's pretty awesome.  I've decided to share some of my favourite hockey music videos with y'all.

The 1986-87 Calgary Flames present: Red Hot

Wow.  Just wow.  The soft focus nicely compliments those beautiful 'staches.

The Leafs Are The Best

It's funny 'cause they're not.

I Just Want To Play Hockey

As a Winnipegger, this is embarrassing.

Hope you all enjoy these as much as I did, and go Canucks!

Pancake Mountain

My brother just showed me a video that I thought was worth sharing on here.  It was from an episode of the kid's show Pancake Mountain, and featured a performance by the Melvins. Typically not very kid-friendly music.  It quickly became apparent to me that this show had some wicked guests on there, but many of them very not the kind of guest you'd expect to find on a kid's show.  Here's a couple videos.

The Melvins

Andrew W.K.

Some notable ones that I couldn't find videos of include:
George Clinton
Cypress Hill
The White Stripes
Wolfmother
Robert Randolph
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

for a full list, see Pancake Mountain's wiki page.

Garage a Trois

Looking back on my posts, I realize it's been a long time since I've written about a band that I like, so here it goes.  Also, Al and I were out on a school assignment tonight, so there was no Behind the Beat.  Sorry!

Garage a Trois (apparently also known as GAT) is a band that I have known about for a while, but never really started listening to until a few weeks ago.  I first checked out their music when Behind the Beat was doing a show where Al and I were supposed to find songs by bands we had never heard of before.  Well, I got a little lazy during the week before the show, and I didn't actually find many new bands.  I took the easy way out and just looked for some of my favourite artists' "other bands".  Stanton Moore has been one of my favourite drummers since the first time I heard Galactic, so I figured one of his other bands would be a safe bet.


I went on YouTube and was instantly impressed by GAT.  How often do you hear someone rock a vibraphone like Mike Dillon can?  Not often, that's for sure.  I was drawn in by their hooky vibe riffs, unconventional drum beats and wild saxophone sounds.  And I do mean wild.

GAT is a quartet made up of Moore, Dillon, a dude called Skerik on sax and keyboardist Marco Benevento.  For four people, these guys make a lot of sound!  They started out as a trio in 1998 (Moore, Skerik and 8-string guitarist Charlie Hunter), when they recorded a (mostly) improvised EP called Mysteryfunk.  The studio time was initially meant to record Moore's debut album, All Kooked Out! but he managed to record two albums in that time.  Both albums recorded during this session were done live-off-the-floor with no overdubs.

They added Dillon to the lineup and took the show on the road.  They became pretty popular pretty quickly, probably due to their ability to mix a variety of genres, from jazz to electronic, into an original, eargasmic sound.  They recorded their next two albums (Emphasizer in 2003, and Outre Mer in 2005) with this lineup, both of which were more produced and planned than the first EP.


Hunter left the band shortly after (my minimal research hasn't answered "why?" for me, yet) and they continued touring with a number of bodies filling the spot.  In December of 2007, Benevento became a permanent member of the band.  The current lineup recorded Power Patriot in 2009, which I recently ordered from Amazon (good luck finding a GAT album in Winnipeg) and it hasn't come out of my car's CD player since.  I drive a lot.


Check out some vids, yo!  These are all from the same concert, during New Orleans Jazz Fest 2010, at the Louisiana Music Factory.  All the songs they play are from Power Patriot.  There's a whole bunch more videos from that venue that are worth checking out in the related section on YouTube.


A couple of my favourite songs from the album, Electric Door Bell Machine and Fragile.  I have to make a video montage for school, and I'm using Fragile for my background music.  I'll post it on here in a couple months when it's done.




Dugout




The title track itself!  Power Patriot

Off Topic: Self Publishing

So you wanna publish a book, eh?  Well, I'm no expert, but if you want my advice, self publish.  I say this for a few reasons, but mainly, it's control.  As with most things in life, you are loosing a decent amount of control over the situation by signing a contract, in this case with a publisher.  At any point in time, the publisher can say "nah, this sucks" and you have to either rewrite that part, or start all over again.  Doesn't sound like a good time to me.  You will have to meet your publishers expectations, and follow their guidelines, which can often take the fun out of writing.

You may have written a book that you think is totally super awesome, so you send it out to a number of publishers.  What happens when they all tell your shit's weak (sometimes in more polite therms) and they don't want it?  You feel dumb and stupid, that's what.  Oh yeah, and your book doesn't get published.

I have no problem with teamwork, collaborations, business partners, or any sort of joint work, but when it comes to something like writing and releasing a book, I think it's a "if you want it done right, do it yourself" sort of situation.

But hey, what do I know about self publishing?  It's not like I write on a regular basis or anything.  (that last part was sarcasm, I write a lot)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to publish this post (see what I did there), get some food in me and go see The Sadies!  I've posted videos of them before, but I'm going to post another one, because they are good at stuff and I always post videos on my blogs.

Behind the Beat "Before They Were Famous"

So we had another stupid night with the ustream, so there is no video, once again.  If I can ever figure out how the hell to get them online, you'll be the first to know.  Obviously, by the title of the show, we were playing songs by famous people, but that they recorded before they were famous.

PLAY LIST
Eminem - Infinite
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy, Where's Daddy
Strontium 90 - Electron Romance
Fleetwood Mac - Merry-Go-Round
The Tragically Hip - Small Town Bringdown
The Black Keys - She Said, She Said
The Quarrymen - That'll Be The Day
Genesis - Harold the Barrel
Scream - Gods Look Down
Kyuss - Allen's Wrench
Green River - Swallow My Pride
Classified - Why

Al and I will be out reporting for our radio class next Wednesday, so we won't be doing a show next week.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but we'll make up for it by doing a wicked sweet show the following week, promise.

Behind the Beat "White Out!"

 

just ignore the ad at the beginning and hit the red arrow, then the green arrow

So we had some technical difficulties on the show tonight, but the biggest problem was our ustream.  The feed kept cutting out briefly, which caused the recording to stop randomly.  This is why there is some parts with the video missing, and I added in the songs that got parts cut out.  After the first song we talk about it screwing up, but I fixed that for this video, so ignore that part.  Also the last song didn't work out live, so I just added the video at the end

Tonight we finally did our White Out on Behind the Beat, a show where every song we play has Jack White in it, which we have been talking about doing since we started the show.  We decided last week that we were going to do this tonight, so it was just sort of a coincidence that The White Stripes announced that they were officially done this morning.  I'm surprised we didn't talk about that more...

Being a huge fan of White, I have heard just about every song he has ever written.  But what I haven't heard are a lot of his collaborations he does, so preparing this show was a lot of fun for me, since I got to hear a bunch of stuff I had never heard before.  It was tough to choose which songs to play in a one hour show.  So tough, in fact, we ended up going past the hour, but not as long as we had expected.  The last song we wanted to play was one we were doing off of YouTube, and it decided to be an asshole and make us look stupid.

PLAY LIST

The Upholsterers - Pain (Gimme Sympathy)

The White Stripes - The Union Forever

Jack White - I Fought Piranhas

The Raconteurs - You Don't Understand Me

Jack White & Conan O'Brien - 20 Flight Rock

Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White - Portland, Oregon

The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba

The Raconteurs - Together

The Rolling Stones feat. Jack White - Loving Cup

The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo

Wanda Jackson feat. Jack White - Thunder on the Mountain

The White Stripes - White Moon

Tune in next Wednesday at 8 pm for our "Before They Were Famous" show.