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David Gilmour’s BBC Interview How He Get His Guitar Tone
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Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard on Focusing On The Negative
Paste: What did you used to covet that you’ve learned to live without?
Ben Gibbard: I don’t know if it’s necessarily that. I think it’s a struggle that a lot of musicians, or artists, have. There are a number of years through the growth of this band were I found myself focusing more on the people that didn’t like us than the people that did like us. Or the accolades that we weren’t getting, rather than the ones that we were. It’s the old adage of the band that is critically lauded curses the fact that they don’t have commercial success, and the band with commercial success wishes they had that critical acclaim. So I think that over the years, I sometimes was looking for validation in a lot of the wrong places. And certainly over the past few years, I’ve started to really focus on how unique our story is, how much people care about this band, and what a valuable part of my life it’s been. And I do not want to squander the time I have left or concern myself with the people that never cared for what we did, if that makes sense—being concerned about the awards we didn’t win.
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While Steely Dan is driven by the core two members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, those two alone don’t make up the band. In fact I think the proper way to think of Steely Dan isn’t even really as a band. Instead I think that Steely Dan was an aesthetic carefully curated by Becker and Fagen and that aesthetic is one that relied on intense perfectionism, unique lyricism and a rotating roster of talented session musicians.
The Greatest Debut Metal Albums of All Time
Heavy metal music was known to have developed in the late 1960’s and in the early 1970s especially in the UK. Today there are numerous bands belonging to this music genre. Because of the popularity of metal bands universally, several subgenres of heavy metal music developed such as the Thrash Metal (Metallica, Anthrax were some of the popular bands in this category), Death Metal (Morbid Angel, Napalm Death), Black Metal (Mayhem, Burzum), Power Metal (Hammerfall, DragonForce) etc. in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The 1990s witnessed the rise of several currently famous bands such as Linkin Park, Nirvana, etc.
So, Chelsea Palace which is one of the leading phone casinos brings to you a compiled list of the all-time greatest debut metal albums.
Best Debut Metal Albums of all time
Every decade would have witnessed the best and the worst metal bands making their way up and down the ladder of fame and success. Taking that into consideration, here’s the list of a few best debut metal albums of all time:
‘Welcome to Hell’ by Venom
The legendary debut album of the famous English heavy metal band ‘Venom’, it was released in December 1981. At the time of its release, it re-defined the meaning of the word ‘cataclysmic’ and had greatly influenced the then-emerging thrash metal style. It, in fact, created a whole new world pain for ‘metaldom’ and so was almost like a threat to the Death and Black Metal styles.
‘De Mysteriis Dom Sanathas’ by Mayhem
Another stunning debut by a metal band was the ‘De Mysteriis Dom Sanathas’ by the Norwegian Black Metal Band Mayhem. This deadly debut album is still considered to be influential in the black metal scene. Also, it remains to be the only album of this band to feature Aarseth and Varg Vikernes.
‘Bonded by Blood’ by Exodus
An iconic debut album of the famous Bay Area Thrash Metal Band Exodus that largely revolutionised the Thrash Metal segment of Metal music. It also holds the record of being the only full-length studio album of Exodus to feature the Late Paul Baloff on vocals. In 2008, it was re-recorded by the band and re-released as ‘Let There Be Blood’ featuring mostly new band members.
‘Sorrow and Extinction’ by Pallbearer
This album is yet another extraordinary debut made by a Doom Metal Band. In the final acknowledgement list, you would notice that they have expressed their gratitude finally not to their family or close ones or anyone whom we would thank in a normal case, but to the legendary Black Sabbath band which has greatly influenced Pallbearer. The main asset of the band in this album is their sharp and a steely sense of a dynamic intuition which makes this album worth listening to.
‘Blasphemy’ by Fallen Angel Of Doom
This 1990 debut album of Fallen Angel Of Doom became quite legendary for the ‘death grunting’ in a more animal-like manner which only blurred the ability to comprehend the songs, which in fact, became a trendsetter. This album was one of the major influencers for the War Metal segment of Metal Music.
Colin Linden And Luther Dickinson Join Forces On ‘Amour’
Colin Linden and Luther Dickinson pair their roots guitar talents for Amour, due out February 8 via Stony Plain Records. The album was produced by Linden, recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, and features a backing band dubbed The Tennessee Valentines of Dominic Davis ( bass), Bryan Owings (drum), Fats Kaplin (violin and accordion), and Kevin McKendree (keyboards).
Linden and Dickinson recruited a host of Nashville talent as guest vocalists on the new disc, including the legendary Billy Swan, who sings lead on “Lover Please”, a song he wrote, which was recorded and became a classic hit for Clyde McPhatter, as well as songbirds Rachael Davis and Ruby Amanfu, plus two of Linden’s Nashville TV series buddies – Sam Palladio (“Crazy Arms”) and Jonathan Jackson (“I Forgot to Remember to Forget”).
“These are songs of sentimental, romantic love,” says Colin Linden. “They come from country (“Crazy Arms”), blues (“Honest I Do”), rock ‘n’ roll (“Lover Please”), rhythm and blues (“What Am I Living For”), and folk music (“Careless Love”). I think that is a pretty good read on what Americana really is. ‘Careless Love’ is the ‘ID’ of the record—a traditional song of love, longing and regret. I view the entire album as a soundtrack for romance and romantics everywhere, bound together by melody and atmosphere.”
Amour is the first collaboration between Colin Linden (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, TV show Nashville) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars, Black Crowes) and consists of classic love songs from the Americana world. Both Linden and Dickinson are true veterans of roots music, having played with and produced some of the biggest names in the business, while displaying the mantle of countless awards and accolades to reflect that.
“Most of these songs I have known my whole life, and they reached me in the same way,” says Linden. “I mentioned the idea of recording them as a collection to my friend Luther Dickinson, who said it was a good idea—and that it would be cool to work on it together. Luther is not only a master musician, but also an artist with a great vision and a soulful, wonderful human being.”
“Colin and I are fellow guitar-slinging, peace-loving, freedom-fighting romantics who jump at any and every opportunity to play guitars together,” adds Luther Dickinson. “Our only problem is not erupting into joyous laughter as the music unfolds. In the spirit of brotherly love and old-school ancient sonic explorations, Colin and I both plugged into a shared guitar amp that you can hear in the middle. Our individual amps are spread out, and though you can hear the different guitars popping thru here and there, it’s hard to tell who is playing what, and that only adds to Colin and my Amour fest.”
“As time and fate would have it, all of the mighty folks who joined us were also moved by these songs,” explains Linden. “Blessed by one of our heroes—and the composer of one of these songs—Billy Swan, we felt like we were on the right road in doing this album. It was a band of angels we were joined by; Luther suggested we call it The Tennessee Valentines, based on the beautiful song and these glorious spirits. But the real story is the love story in the songs.”
Amour is Linden’s second album for the label since Stony Plain re-signed the nine-time JUNO Award-winning singer/guitarist in 2015 and released his acclaimed Rich in Love that same year. Stony Plain was also the home of Colin’s first studio album, The Immortals, in 1986.
Colin Linden continues to be a very much in-demand musician, having played on Gregg Allman’s 2011 Grammy-nominated Low Country Blues, as well as Grammy-winner Rhiannon Giddens’ album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, and Diana Krall’s Glad Rag Doll. He’s also produced 125 albums, was the musical director on the hit TV show, Nashville and toured as guitarist for Bob Dylan, Bruce Cockburn, Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant and, among many others.
In addition, he was the featured guitar player on the PBS-TV special saluting gospel music, In Performance at the White House, backing such stars as Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, and Shirley Caesar. In recent years, he’s also played on the soundtracks for a number of feature films, including Inside Llewyn Davis, The Hunger Games, R.I.P.D. and the acclaimed documentary, A Place at the Table. In 2015 he was the music director for the special tribute to legendary Sun Records founder Sam Phillips at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
A genuine renaissance man of roots music, Colin is also a member of the highly successful trio, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, who released the highly acclaimed album, Kings & Queens, in 2011, which teamed the band up with such guests as Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Patti Scialfa and Holly Cole. That disc was followed by the Kings & Kings album in 2016.
AMOUR TRACKLIST
01 Careless Love (Instrumental)
02 Don’t Let Go
03 Honest I Do
04 Careless Love
05 Crazy Arms
06 For The Good Times
07 Lover Please
08 What Am I Living For
09 Dearest Darling
10 Forget To Remember To Forget
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