Comments on: Your Phone’s Off The Hook, But You’re Not http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/ Los Angeles based mp3 & music blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Deb http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-133844 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:05:48 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-133844 I lived in LA from 1980 to 1984. I was 21-25 and worked as a cocktail waitress at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwood_Club" rel="nofollow">Starwood</a>, a now-defunct Hollywood club where X were frequent headliners. To this day they are my all-time favorite band ever. I must have seen them 30 or 40 times and they were always unbelievably exciting. It was a great punk scene at the time in LA--not only the bands you mentioned but also the Germs, the Circle Jerks, the Adolescents, the Go-Gos (yes they started out punk!), Black Flag, as well as more power pop oriented groups like the Plimsouls, the Motels and Oingo Boingo (Danny Elfman's old band). I have had a crush on John Doe for 28 years (love his solo folk stuff, too) and how can you not admire Exene, a supremely ugly woman who somehow married two of the most gorgeous and talented guys on earth, Doe and Viggo Mortenson. I lived in LA from 1980 to 1984. I was 21-25 and worked as a cocktail waitress at the Starwood, a now-defunct Hollywood club where X were frequent headliners. To this day they are my all-time favorite band ever. I must have seen them 30 or 40 times and they were always unbelievably exciting. It was a great punk scene at the time in LA–not only the bands you mentioned but also the Germs, the Circle Jerks, the Adolescents, the Go-Gos (yes they started out punk!), Black Flag, as well as more power pop oriented groups like the Plimsouls, the Motels and Oingo Boingo (Danny Elfman’s old band). I have had a crush on John Doe for 28 years (love his solo folk stuff, too) and how can you not admire Exene, a supremely ugly woman who somehow married two of the most gorgeous and talented guys on earth, Doe and Viggo Mortenson.

]]> by: aladambama http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-133804 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:39:17 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-133804 "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" is probably the single greatest recording produced in the 1980s. A blast furnace of brutally honest, balls out rock 'n' roll. The sad part is that, if anything, the lyrical concerns are even truer today than they were 20+ years ago when it was released. "I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music ... you know ... the British Invasion." Nothin' but net. “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts” is probably the single greatest recording produced in the 1980s. A blast furnace of brutally honest, balls out rock ‘n’ roll. The sad part is that, if anything, the lyrical concerns are even truer today than they were 20+ years ago when it was released.

“I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music … you know … the British Invasion.” Nothin’ but net.

]]> by: Satisfied '75 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130321 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:06:06 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130321 oh, dont worry - Im having my own fat tuesday oh, dont worry - Im having my own fat tuesday

]]> by: Ryan http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130164 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:40:31 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130164 Yo AD- Its Mardi Gras day and no New Orleans music? shame shame. I've been rockin out to Dr. John, Fess, Eddie Bo, Galactic, Rebirth, etc. all day. You're slackin man. Yo AD- Its Mardi Gras day and no New Orleans music? shame shame. I’ve been rockin out to Dr. John, Fess, Eddie Bo, Galactic, Rebirth, etc. all day. You’re slackin man.

]]> by: CHW http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130035 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:27:55 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-130035 X, the Blasters, Los Lobos...Slash Records was responsible for introducing them all. Big kudos to that label. X, the Blasters, Los Lobos…Slash Records was responsible for introducing them all. Big kudos to that label.

]]> by: El Payo http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129872 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:24:07 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129872 For me X was and still is the greatest band to ever come out of the U.S.A. and is right up there with The Clash for greatest band of all time. I grew up in L.A. in the eighties I can tell you that if you wanted to hear X or The Blasters you had to listen to KROQ or 91X and pray that they'd play something in between bouts of Depeche Mode, etc. Usually it was "Blue Spark" or "The Hungry Wolf" but every now and then you'd get a DJ like Moscow Eddie (Danny Elfman) or even The Poorman playing something like "The Unheard Music." I was too young to be 'allowed' into the punk clubs where X played and far to young to drive there, so I had to wait a few years before I ever got to see them live. And they were far better than I ever could have hoped. Still are. For me X was and still is the greatest band to ever come out of the U.S.A. and is right up there with The Clash for greatest band of all time.

I grew up in L.A. in the eighties I can tell you that if you wanted to hear X or The Blasters you had to listen to KROQ or 91X and pray that they’d play something in between bouts of Depeche Mode, etc. Usually it was “Blue Spark” or “The Hungry Wolf” but every now and then you’d get a DJ like Moscow Eddie (Danny Elfman) or even The Poorman playing something like “The Unheard Music.”

I was too young to be ‘allowed’ into the punk clubs where X played and far to young to drive there, so I had to wait a few years before I ever got to see them live. And they were far better than I ever could have hoped. Still are.

]]> by: gorjus http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129846 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:00:14 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129846 Fantastic post. A friend just turned me on to this site and this confirms that he was damn right. Can't wait to catch them on tour . . . I hope they get further South then just Dallas! Fantastic post. A friend just turned me on to this site and this confirms that he was damn right. Can’t wait to catch them on tour . . . I hope they get further South then just Dallas!

]]> by: Aaron B. http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129748 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:18:06 +0000 http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/02/05/your-phones-off-the-hook-but-youre-not/#comment-129748 great post ! when I first moved out here from a small town in Texas 7 years ago, a girl I was seeing at the time [I move fast], huge X fan, let me borrow this cd along with WILD GIFT, and UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN. And I believe it was the 2nd or 3rd week of being in LA, but hearing those records, and the place I was living, getting lost in LA the first week I moved, I understood what LA was 'neath the hollywood neon lights.' great post ! when I first moved out here from a small town in Texas 7 years ago, a girl I was seeing at the time [I move fast], huge X fan, let me borrow this cd along with WILD GIFT, and UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN. And I believe it was the 2nd or 3rd week of being in LA, but hearing those records, and the place I was living, getting lost in LA the first week I moved, I understood what LA was ‘neath the hollywood neon lights.’

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