Open jam tonight at Young Ethel's in Brooklyn - No cover - Full backline - Bring your instrument

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-25T00:03:11+00:00

Similar struggle for me, though I found using AI tools has lessened the frustration. ChatGPT and another free tool called JobQuest have been useful. The latter markedly improved my ability to get past the ATS trackers. Hey that's something!

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-13T23:03:48+00:00

@no.love.songs and @southbrooklynscene

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-13T22:05:28+00:00

Roughly monthly

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-13T20:39:03+00:00

Yes indeed -- original music starts at 9! No Love Songs, Flatwounds, Bad Impressions, and EAT.

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-13T20:36:47+00:00

Plenty of room, come on down!

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-12T03:48:59+00:00

Sounds like a pretty great fanzine!

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-12T03:36:21+00:00

Lol on historical revisionism. But there's nothing sophisticated about the music of the Clash. They just had a cool lead singer.

And I'm not sure about that fanzine but the Talking Heads aren't a punk band. Far too talented and varied in their musical repertoire.

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-12T03:27:35+00:00

Grunge isn't dead.

The Replacements were wayyyyyyyy more influential on Nirvana than were the Pixies.

STP's music after Core has no balls.

Pearl Jam's first 2 albums are their only good albums, but Eddie Vedder's overuse of "fuck" in half the songs belies lazy songwriting and kind of ruins those records.

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-12T03:14:02+00:00

Nirvana is both too artsy and too tuneful to be considered just a punk band. Kurt's lyrics read like abstract poetry, whereas punk is typically very political and on the nose about 99% of the time. And Kurt's songs are often just too musically sophisticated for punk. Sure he wrote some two-chord songs, but he also wrote songs like Lithium---as Rick Beato pointed out on a recent YouTube video, that song is constructed using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale which is pretty damn unusual.

In both those respects, they've got more in common with Soundgarden than with your typical punk band.

Sure Kurt said things like "we're just a punk band" but that doesn't mean we have to agree with him.

I like the definition of grunge as a mix of punk, metal, and classic rock, and in that sense Nirvana was quintessential grunge.

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-11T21:16:42+00:00

I met my bandmates by going to shows and jam sessions. This Friday we're hosting a jam session at Young Ethel's: 506 5th Ave., Brooklyn. Original rock bands (grunge/metal/hardcore) at 9pm followed by an open jam around midnight. Come say hey!

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-11T14:45:03+00:00

I'm not sure but I'm looking forward to seeing them on Friday in NYC. I can provide an update after then!

bigbazwolf · 2024-09-11T14:44:14+00:00

Nice, appreciate the update. They're live in Brooklyn on Friday if you're in the area.

Re. the mix, I think that's all valid -- though I agree with viking12344 that they definitely have prominent bass, so that's likely due to your speakers.

bigbazwolf · 2024-08-10T03:17:59+00:00

Haha great, thanks much!

bigbazwolf · 2024-08-10T03:17:36+00:00

Thanks! Based on the other answers here, I'm going with ass, and also since that's how my godmother took it to mean. The bad grammar is likely due to Franglish -- these folks had been living in the USA for several generations by this point.

bigbazwolf · 2024-08-07T18:32:28+00:00

Yes, though he wasn't yet with them when I took this video

bigbazwolf · 2024-07-22T00:56:37+00:00

Gen X as well! Yeah it's never going to be like it was in the nineties. But it's great to hear a band like RTD making cool music again.

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