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The "No Duh!" Files

March 23, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Apparently it takes a study to determine what I certainly knew at 14, what a certain 13 year old rocker grrrl I know definitely knows and every teen who knows the lyrics to War Pigs knows:

Iintelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.

Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent “metalheads” are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.

This is for all those teenagers, past and present, who listened to metal for reasons other than cause they wanted to be cool. You know who you are…

That’s Bon Scott, the original lead singer. And, check out the banjo style guitar solo that Angus rips out of his SG through a stack of Marshall’s. Nice.

Them Belly Full

January 17, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Cause Bob Marley knew the score back in 1974.

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na;
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na;
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na;

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

Them belly full but we hungry.
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough.
You’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance.

We’re gonna dance to JAH music, dance.
Forget your troubles and dance.
Forget your sorrow and dance.
Forget your sickness and dance.
Forget your weakness and dance.

Cost of living get so high,
Rich and poor, they start a cry.
Now the weak must get strong.
They say, “Oh, what a tribulation.”

Them belly full but we hungry.
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough.

We’re gonna chuck to JAH music,
chuckin’.
We’re chuckin’ to JAH music,
we’re chuckin’.

A belly full but them hungry.
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough.

A hungry man is a angry man.
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough.

A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Holiday Heroes

December 25, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

David Bowie… Heroes. Happy Holidays.

from the vaults…

December 20, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The Who… “Young Man Blues”. 1970. One of those times when they really were the best. It’s a glorious noise with power and purpose. Play it LOUD!

Johnny Was

December 16, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Stiff Little Fingers cover Bob Marley’s tune Johnny Was… sheer genius.

Woman hold her head and cry,
‘Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died
From a stray bullet.

Woman hold her head and cry;
Explaining to her was a passerby
Who saw the woman cry (cry)
Wondering how can she work it out,
Now she knows that the wages of sin is death, yeah!
Gift of Jah is life. (life)
She cried: Ah-um, I – I know!
“Johnny was a good man,” I – I know! (never did a thing wrong)
“Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good,
good, good, good man”, (Johnny was good man)
she cried – she crie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ied!

Wo-ooh! Woman hold her head and cry,
As her son had been shot down in the street and died
Just because of the system. (system)

Woman hold her head and cry;
Comforting her I was passing by.
She complained, then she cry:
Oh-ooh-wo-ah, cry (ah-ah), yeah, I know now (ah-ah),
no I know, I know now: (Johnny was a good man)
Said I know, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. (Never did a thing wrong)
Ah! Ah! (Johnny was a good man)
Can a woman tender care, she cried, (Never did a thing wrong)
Cease towards the child she bear? (Johnny was a good man)
Wo-ho-ho-ooh! Woman cry, woman – (Never did a thing wrong)
She cried, wo-oh! She cried, yeah! (Johnny was a good man)
Can a woman tender care
Cease towards the child she bear? (Never did a thing wrong)
Wo-now, cry! (Johnny was a good man)

the only band that matters…

December 9, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The Clash… covering Sonny Curtis’ I Fought the Law… into the weekend with a little kick in the pants.

Shake for me

December 7, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Howlin’ Wolf… cause it’s hump day. Shake it!

writing to reach you…

December 6, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Travis for Maria…

Leonard Cohen and U2

November 30, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Tower of Song…

(c/o Cursor)

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on
Im just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song

I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank williams hasnt answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
Im very sorry, baby, doesnt look like me at all
Im standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they dont let a woman kill you
Not in the tower of song

Now you can say that Ive grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And theres a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the tower of song

I see you standing on the other side
I dont know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
Well never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I dont know when Ill be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But youll be hearing from me baby, long after Im gone
Ill be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the tower of song
Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on
Im just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song

The animated parts of the video are an early form of rotoscoping, which Ralph Bakshi experimented with in the Lord of the Rings animated films. Richard Linklater recently used digital rotoscoping for both Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. It’s come a long way.