Soothing Soul Suckers

Soothing Soul Suckers is moving

2009-02-09T19:12:00.003-07:00

Bored with Blogger's options.

Now at

www.soothingsoulsuckers.com

Come check it out.

If the link doesn't work just cut and paste. Not sure why it reverts to blogger.

More Montana Metal

2009-02-07T15:54:00.003-07:00

From Bozeman via Baltimore is one man black metal band Reverie. Well worth a listen.

2/6/09 Playlist

2009-02-07T13:42:00.002-07:00

Cop Shoot Cop-Surprise, Surprise
Magma-De Futura
Pink Floyd-Dogs
Thin Lizzy-Bad Reputation
Bob Dylan-Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Frank Zappa-The Gumbo Variations
Neil Young & Crazy Horse-Don't Spook the Horse
Lou Reed-Dirty Boulevard
Boris-You We're Holding an Umbrella
Mary My Hope-Suicide King
Suishou No Fune-Your Tears Drop From the Sky
Manowar-March for Revenge (By the Soldiers of Death)
Motley Crue-Piece of Your Action
Nifelheim-Storm of Satan's Fire
Celtic Frost-Nocturnal Fear
Solar Anus-Living Hell
Bloodrain-Will of Baphomet
Midnight-Cross Held High
Mercyful Fate-Night of the Unborn
Witchfinder General-Burning a Sinner
Deicide-Crucifixation
Destructor-Tear Down the Heavens

Procreation of the Wicked

2009-02-06T11:59:00.002-07:00

Snagged Celtic Frost's "Morbid Tales" out of a pawn shop a couple weeks ago. Probably going to throw down something off that tonight. I'm on 9-midnight MST as usual. Have a request? Drop me a note here or call me at the station 406-994-4492. Not sure what else I'm going to dig up. I also picked up Cryptopsy-None So Vile at the pawn shop so something off that.......Hopefully, I can pull it together today. I have a lot to do before the show that is not music related. I need a robot to do that dumb shit for me. If not before the show, there is plenty at the station for me to pick from. I'm thinking about going a little more towards the metal. At least that is my mood right now. See how it goes at showtime.

Lou!

2009-02-05T09:04:00.004-07:00

Lou Reed is the man.

It looks like Lou is going to release all sorts of goodies through his website.

Here is the deal straight from the source:

We have formed a recording unit Called BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE. We intend to put out different types of my music - from industrial to meditative to songs and all subway stops in between. Our first release is a live recording of 2 great nights live at the REDCAT in L.A. THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE. You can download it at various qualities as per your download taste. We include some pics by me. We will be putting it out as A2X CD soon - CREATE!
--Lou Reed

The first release is an experimental piece. If it is anything like the one with John Zorn and Laurie Anderson then it is going to be killer. I just ordered my copy of this new one. It is available in digital and physical formats. Since I am old school I got the CD. That comes with digital too though. You have a choice of flac or high quality mp3. Hell yeah Lou! Keep em' coming!

Scream for me Christchurch!

2009-02-04T12:25:00.003-07:00

One of my good friends is going to see Iron Maiden in Christchurch, NZ this month. I am f'n psyched for him. I've seen the Irons three times but not since 1999. I am one jealous bastard.

Live at Sun Flancisco!!!

2009-02-03T10:10:00.008-07:00

Finally picked up this CD/DVD set. Boredoms-Live at Sun Flancisco. The damn thing runs for close to 60 bones. I found a listing on ebay for $27 including shipping and I jumped all over it. I went to this show at the Independent in San Francisco with my man Mark in PDX (now DUB) and his buddy. I had no idea it was being filmed for a release when I was there. What a great time and I am happy as a pig in shit to have it in the collection.

At the show I picked up this kick ass print made by Eye.

It hangs in my daughter's bedroom and it officially makes her the coolest kid in Montana.

To all Boredoms fans (especially Z in Ontario)-----GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck all the Dumb Shit

2009-02-03T08:46:00.001-07:00

This is all I've got to say.

OK, I've got some more shit to say.

Check out this studio clip from Slayer----http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-video-slayer-studio

Best fucking metal band to have walked God's dead Earth.

SSS On Facebook

2009-02-02T17:12:00.004-07:00

When it comes to these social networking sites I am basically clueless. I hate myspace because it is loaded with garbage and the pages load too slowly. So, I decided to make a Facebook page for the radio show just to see what it's all about. Link up with me at the Soothing Soul Suckers group or under my user name "Af Nk".

Next Year's Super Bowl Entertainment

2009-02-02T07:35:00.002-07:00

There has to be some sort of antidote for the cheese doled out by the pseudo Springsteen last night. Help bring back real rock and roll to the festivities. Let's dig up the skeletal remains of G.G. Allin and let the Murder Junkies play while the fans molest the corpse.

Bring Out Your Dead!

2009-02-01T16:25:00.011-07:00

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The guy in this picture will not be attending the Super Bowl today.

That's because he has been replaced by this dead-ass doppelganger.

Sure, some of the songs will bear a similarity to the first guy. But trust me, the guy in the second picture is the man performing them. A man who sold out his band, his fans and himself when he married some actress and moved to L.A. in the 80's. Sorry people, Bruce Springsteen died during the making of the Born in the U.S.A. album. Some of his songs made the album like "Darlington County" and "I'm On Fire". The doppelganger took over and gave us "Cover Me", "Dancing in the Dark" and every piece of shit album that came out after that.

Here's hoping his balls explode in front of a worldwide audience. If that happens make sure you are listening to this instead.

Lumpy Money Review

2009-01-31T10:23:00.002-07:00

I got my copy of Lumpy Money earlier this week. Not a bad offering from the Evil Empire (aka the Zappa Family Trust).

The gems of this set are the orchestral Lumpy Money and "How did That Get in Here?", the extended piece which opens disc 3. I could do without Disc 2 however. It includes an unreleased mix of Lumpy Gravy from 1984 which includes the obligatory 80's drums and bass and the out of print but cheaply found remix of We're Only In It For the Money from the original Ryko issue of the CD. Maybe it will grow on me. The WOIIFTM does have better sound than the old disc so........we'll see. It's not horrible, it just isn't as good as the original. Also, included is a mono mix of WOIIFTM. I like it. Some people think mono sucks. I am not one of them.

The packaging is kind of cheap but unlike the Mofo Project set the package does not turn into a disc eater. I pray to Satan every time I try to remove a disc from the jaws of the Mofo set. Overall, I give the release a Pitchfork style rating of 8.2.

LS mf D!!!

2009-01-31T10:18:00.002-07:00

Sent to me courtesy of the Beatmaster.

Can't embed this one so here's the link--->LS mf D!!!

Life Sex & Death. An early 90's metal band who's schtick was having a homeless person named Stanley as the lead singer. Sure, Stanley was a bogus gimmick but he was a good front man and the band could rock. We saw these guys at the Phantasy Theater in Cleveland. Stanley may not have been a real homeless dude but he was still pretty gross.

1/23/09 Playlist

2009-01-31T09:02:00.002-07:00

Finally back in the saddle after getting power cord number 3. Here is my belated playlist post.

Soundgarden-Ugly Truth
Grand Funk-Got This Thing on the Move
Bob Dylan-Isis
Frank Zappa-Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo
Sleep-From Beyond
Red Sparowes-Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through the City Walls and Everyone Reveled in Their Ignorance
Buckethead-Ed's Rhapsody/Midnight Dance/Jars
Kim Doo Soo-Deja-entendu
Axiom Funk-Pray My Soul
The Cure-The Same Deep Water As You
sunn O)))-Orthodox Caveman
Neil Young-Powderfinger
Magma-The Last Seven Minutes
Lou Reed-Doin' the Thing That We Want To
Jane's Addiction-I Would For You
Noxagt-Soft Sugar
Manowar-The Power of Thy Sword
Mastodon-Pendulous Skin
Kreator-Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue For the Elite)
Danzig-Blood and Tears
Samael-Macabre Operetta
Megadeth-Hangar 18
Metal Church-Gods of Wrath
King Diamond-The Candle
Melvins-Spread Eagle

Thanks to the guy who requested Metal Church. That song was a blast from the past to the old Z Rock days. To those who don't know, Z Rock was a syndicated metal station out of Dallas. We got it for a year or so in Cleveland in the mid-80's. It was tits. I don't know if I had heard that song more than one or two times since 1986 but I knew every word.

Comp is temporarily fucked

2009-01-29T12:07:00.001-07:00

Need a new power cord (again). Will update with my playlist from the last show when I get a chance.

P.S. Igor, you bastard!

Radio Show Tonight

2009-01-23T10:33:00.006-07:00

Heading out to Bozeman later to do the show. Probably going to play something off this....

One of the best rock albums of all time. Before they added the infernal "Railroad" to the name. Kicks ass all the way through.

If you are up for listening go to www.kglt.net and click on streaming audio. Soothing Soul Suckers will be on at 9 p.m. Mountain time until midnight. I'm digging through my personal vault so I've got a bunch of stuff I haven't heard in a while on tap.

Bob Dylan Isis Live 1975

2009-01-22T09:49:00.001-07:00

The definitive version of Bob Dylan's "Isis" performed on the Rolling Thunder Revue. It makes the album version sound dead in comparison.

Ooo Hoo It's Halloween

2009-01-21T18:01:00.008-07:00

Corpse Paint. Fucking ridiculous. This picture was taken by Peter Beste and is included in his coffee table book (ha ha ha wtf!) True Norwegian Black Metal. This picture cracks me up. The look on that woman's face is priceless. What an idiot that guy is. I think he is from the band Gorgoroth. They are cool and all but the schlock value is high with that stupid look.

If i'm going to be digging some corpse paint it's going to be this guy. King Motherfucking Diamond. I like black metal but blow me grim Norwegian douchebags.

America Fuck Yeah!

2009-01-20T10:14:00.001-07:00

Watching this Triumph of the Will-esque inauguration. The theme song for this day is obvious.

Freedom with their exception

2009-01-18T19:14:00.004-07:00

"Eye of the Beholder" by Metallica has been in my head today. To me, the lyrics of the song not only refer to how governments limit free speech but also how internet message boards often turn into a dictatorship with an army of sycophants guarding the gates. Generally boards deteriorate over time because of ego and cowardice. The argument for harsh speech regulations is that a board is private therefore free speech does not apply. O.K., I don't argue the legality of the issue but anyone with a little self-respect should be able to handle the opinion of others. Popular or otherwise. The only instances I ever interfere with speech is removing spam or deleting personal info that is posted without consent. Anything else is fair game unless I am directed by law to remove it.

A common version of the internet dictatorship is opening a board with a famous person as the draw. Too many boards ride the jock of a famous person to build a private cult of personality. These places should be smashed.

Do You Want What I Want?
Desire Not a Thing
I Hunger after Independence Lengthen Freedom's Ring

......and 13 makes 1329.

2009-01-17T19:28:00.004-07:00

Important Records will soon be issuing the first disc of Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds. 13 Merzbow CD's in 13 months that will be housed in a neat bamboo box. So, move over Merzbox, Merzbow CD housed in a marble box, egg, wooden case, collaborations with Richard Pinhas, Boris, and hundreds of other releases.

Honestly, how many Merzbow albums does one person need? I have Merzbeat, and the Boris collaborations. I'm sure there some others I would enjoy but man, talk about overkill. I would love to meet the person who has all of them---probably only Masami Akita comes close.

Sell some energy drinks with this shit

2009-01-16T18:07:00.004-07:00

Ice Cube and hip-hop in general suck right now. But there was a time long ago where the music and the man had importance in our society. Before "Are We There Yet?", Lil' Wayne blogs on ESPN and "Puff Daddy's" glammed up bullshit version of rap there was this classic.

No one is spared. Not Whitey, not the hood, not the U.S.A., not women.....nothing. Ice Cube lays it all to waste on this 70 minute rant against society. The song I picked out was singled out as racist (which it kind of is) and hateful. The man was pissed when he made this album and I don't blame him. I'll take a pissed off Black Panther attitude over the over-marketed bullshit that masquerades as hip-hop today any-fucking-day-of-the-week.

Put this one in your ear.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mausoleum

2009-01-15T09:43:00.005-07:00

Let me tell you what a piece of shit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum is.............

I grew up in the Cleveland area. This building was promised to the city in the 1980's and they finally got it in the 90's. Cleveland is a hardcore rock and roll city. The radio is saturated with stuff like Creedence, Humble Pie, Alice Cooper and Pearl Jam. The clubs get good bands coming through and the bigger venues get all the dinosaurs. The city may be a decayed turd pile but a lot of great music comes through town. Which brings me to that glass pyramid of crap.

What kind of Rock and Roll wants to be enshrined in glass? Does Rock and Roll cost $22 just to look at a napkin Janis Joplin used to wipe a booger? 95% of the inductees are either dead or walking among us as musical zombies playing their classics robotically for $100 a seat. Sure, it's a tourist draw for a city that has little more to offer than crime and corruption. But at the same time Cleveland is killing the very music it is representing.

Rock and Roll does not live in a museum! It lives in a bar that reeks of smoke and stale beer. Where the band is playing for the gas money it took to get them to the gig and the crowd is ready to forget a shitty work week by drinking themselves into oblivion. Joints are passed around the crowd, the music is loud, some people get rowdy and get tossed but everyone has a good time. That is fucking Rock and Roll! Cleveland actually has that in abundance to offer. Yet they parade this bullshit, circle-jerk tribute to the days of yore around as legit. Rock and Roll lives and breathes in the city limits but the pyramid where the mummies are kept is the focal point.

I saw one of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" shows where he goes to Cleveland. He went to the museum and felt the same way I do. Tony is a Ramones fan. Is there anything about that museum that screams "Motherfucking Ramones!!!!!"? Hell no! It's a sanitized, ball-less, facsimile of Rock and Roll. I saw the Ramones just outside of Cleveland in 1988. That crowd would have shit all over the museum.

My man E once said to me, "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't about Rock and Roll, it's about the suckers who bought Rock and Roll". Want that glass dump to be Rock and Roll? Burn it to the ground and piss on the ashes. THAT is Rock and Roll!

O.K., rant over. I actually enjoy several of the "inductees" to that shrine of the dead. One of the guys getting in this time is Cleveland's own Bobby Womack (or Bobby Wonton as we called him at the record store I used to work at outside Cleveland). The guy is honored to be inducted so I won't piss on his parade.

If I were to do a different type of radio show I would probably do a Soul show. My favorite type of Soul music is often ignored by Whitey. Sure, Whitey will listen to the upbeat stuff like Motown and Aretha Franklin's "Respect". I like the slow jam (as you might have noticed with my Zapp post). Bobby Womack made one of my favorite slow jams. It was remade surprisingly well by K-Ci and Jo Jo in the 90's but I'm going to the source. This is "If You Think You're Lonely Now".

Suicide Kings

2009-01-14T08:52:00.003-07:00

Lost in the Jane's Addiction, Sisters of Mercy, Cult, Love & Rockets era of the 1980's was Atlanta, Georgia's Mary My Hope. These guys didn't make it big although I have no reason why. I saw them in 1988 or '89 open for the Godfathers at the Ritz in NYC. They killed it. I had their CD "Museum" for a while and lost it to the sands of time. A few years back I found it on a budget rack for 99 cents at Hastings in Bozeman. It's still a damn fine rock album and it's held up well over the years. I checked on Amazon and apparently the album has gained a little value over the years. So maybe there are people out there discovering them. Here's a track from Museum called "Communion".

Neil Young Fork in the Road video

2009-01-13T10:56:00.005-07:00

Posted on youtube by Shakey's people. A goofy video to go with a goofy song. Unlike the one on his website, this time it's the whole song. Check out Neil's sweet Ipod in the vid.

Ancient Chinese Secret huh?

2009-01-13T10:05:00.007-07:00

I'm giving up one of my secrets today. For those of you who buy music in forms other than 0's and 1's there is a great place online to buy some truly bizarre and often great shit.

Weirdo records is great. Angela, who owns the shop, comes up with some really cool stuff to post online. From the way it sounds she has many, many more items laying around as well. Her service is top notch. Check it out.

Mom, I gave the cat some acid

2009-01-12T09:52:00.007-07:00

Remember Happy Flowers? I never forgot them. I still love them to this day. Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly Charred Infant helped get me through the 80's. They were horribly great and played wonderful tunes such as "Angry Meal", "My Frisbee Went Under a Lawnmower" and "My Name is Pudge". I got their 20th anniversary DVD-R a few years back and got number 1 of 100! Woo hoo! I rule! That DVD is in a second printing of 50 copies currently so I guess there are only 100 plus fans of the band these days. Oh well, fuck everyone else!

They have a myspace page with a band history and some songs. The page hasn't been logged into since 2007. Looks like they are still my kind of guys.

Lumpy Money

2009-01-11T10:50:00.003-07:00

Coming soon. The 40th Anniversary set of Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy" and "We're Only in it For the Money". A 3-disc set that includes the original orchestral score for Lumpy Gravy that was only released on 8 track. These two albums are the first two parts of a trilogy that ends in Frank's last finished work "Civilization Phase III". I'm pretty jazzed for it.

1/9/09 Playlist

2009-01-10T13:21:00.002-07:00

Thin Lizzy-Angel From the Coast
LSD March-Moeru Pyramid
Boris-Mass Mercury
Dengue Fever-One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
Kawabata Makoto & The Mothers of Invasion-Fripian Flipped Over Niffy Their King Of Frippery
Pink Floyd-Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Bob Dylan-Man in the Long Black Coat
Mark Kozelek-If You Want Blood
Boris with Michio Kurihara-Cloud Chamber Pt 1
Birchville Cat Motel-Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
Magma-Africa Anteria
Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention-Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Neil Young-Don't Take Your Love Away From Me
Manowar-Die For Metal
SSS-I'm a Man
Bathory-Valhalla
Built To Spill-Hazy
Lou Reed-Men of Good Fortune
Metallica-The Shortest Straw
Electric Wizard-Return Trip
Les Rallizes Denudes-夜の収穫者たち

The Time to Strike is NOW!

2009-01-09T08:48:00.002-07:00

Tonight I'm on the air starting at 9 p.m. MST. Click the link under my profile to listen if you are up for it. When I organize my set list I usually bounce around my LP's, pull some stuff there, go into my room and stare at the CD wall for a bit, gravitate towards the stacks of CDR's laying around, and then possibly bring my Ipod or my laptop. When I'm on the air I usually have a sketch in my head how I want to show to flow and I piece the music together like a painter. Laying down track after track but sometimes making adjustments if it isn't working out and sometimes even doing a 180 when I'm not happy with the show. So I never really know exactly how it's going to turn out.

One thing that does not vary is my pick for the top of the 11 o'clock hour. I call it the "Manowar minute", which is not accurate really since, "No one tells a man how to play, it just ain't that way". So Manowar takes as long as necessary. I know some of the wimps and posers out there are weeping on their pillows when Manowar starts blasting through the speakers. No one will hear their cries. Hail to the Metal Kings!

Fork in the Road

2009-01-08T08:46:00.002-07:00

There's a new Neil Young song up on his website called "Fork in the Road". Not sure if it's the whole thing since it seems to fade out early. He's been playing a lot of new material on the road lately so maybe a new album is coming soon.

Doctor, K.K. Null fucked up my hearing!

2009-01-07T08:17:00.003-07:00

He really did. The bastard. It was the summer of 99'. Some freak who was into Whitehouse and shit like that asked me if I wanted to go. At the time I had no idea about "noise" music but I was familiar with K.K. Null's kick ass band Zenigeva. Although the dude was a bit of a creep I had nothing better to do so I went along. I'm drinking a 40 driving to the show in this guys beater and right as I finish he goes, "Get rid of that bottle". We're driving on the freeway so I tell him I'll pitch it when we get to the show. He grabs the bottle and tosses it out the window. Where it lands or who it hits I have no idea. Right then I'm thinking to myself, "What the fuck did I just get myself into?".

We get to the show in some desolate area near downtown Columbus, Ohio. The venue is some fucked up art gallery and the admission at the door is $6.66. We go into this room where there are some chairs set up and I look at the 15 or so people there to see the show. One dude looks like he might nod off and die right there. There is a couple who look like they might kidnap and molest children for fun. I sit down with dude and wait. The opener is some laptop noise fuckery outfit in which a guy plays something made out of pvc pipe. It sucked. K.K. Null comes on with some old-ass analog contraption with a stick attached to the thing that he wiggled around and made sounds. The tones that came out of this machine were brutal and loud. I'm thinking to myself, "This little guy wants me to kick his ass, doesn't he?". I'm watching him to see if he is doing this to piss me off but he is sincere and totally into the fucked up sounds. So I decide that it is a test of wills. This fucker is not going to break me. I'm gritting my teeth and staring him down. It's a stalemate for about 40 minutes and then *POP*! Something in my right ear gives up. It was like when the devil laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet. I had lost. I left and sat in the parking lot waiting for the show to end. My right ear has never been the same since. Years ago I had a professor in a studio engineering class that described the same thing happening to him during a harmonica solo by Magic Dick at a J. Geils show. I guess hearing protection wasn't rock and roll enough for me then.

Here's a bit of Null for you. A different noise set-up but pretty harsh nonetheless:

I've gained an appreciation for the genre over the years but had I known what I was in for back then I would have brought a set of ear plugs. "Noise" wasn't a big enough clue for my dumb ass.

Boris-Cloud Chamber/Live at Wolf Creek

2009-01-06T07:49:00.012-07:00

After a long streak of great albums Boris has finally hit a speed bump. Cloud Chamber, limited to 1500 copies, is the latest album from Boris with Michio Kurihara. The album that comes to mind that seems closest to this one is "Sun Baked Snow Cave", an album that I would not rank among the best of the Boris catalog but also one that I enjoy. Cloud Chamber is instrumental and uses the loud/soft dynamic that Boris and many other bands have experimented with in the past. Sometimes it works, in this case it doesn't. I'm a guy who will happily throw on any of the "The Thing Solomon Overlooked" albums or one of the "Vein" records so experimentation is often a good thing for me. Maybe it's the guitar tones, maybe it's the song structures but something did not click for me this time. Maybe it's a grower.

On the other hand, Smile-Live at Wolf Creek rips. A live set from 2008 released on CD in November, it features the U.S. running order of the album with a few other cuts mixed in. Disc 2 completely slays with a continuous run of some of the longer tracks on Smile that cranks the guitar riffage up to 11. Set this one on max and kick back. Highly recommended.

Both of these albums can be found at Inoxia.

"Kiss my ass!"

2009-01-05T12:44:00.003-07:00

Thanks to Kill Ugly Radio for bringing this one back around in my brain....

I hadn't watched this in a long time. It was surprising how antiquated the show seemed. The set up was two old dudes moderating a battle between Frank and a square. It's basically a 2.5 vs 1 battle with the main moderator taking a semi-impartial stand. The odd thing was that when the two old dudes gave the summary they kind of took Zappa's side in the debate. Whereas Zappa was arguing against government censorship and the square was a proto-Hannity. The two old dudes, who obviously hated rock and roll, settled on letting the music industry regulate itself with the half-assed hope that rock and roll would clean itself up. Zappa's 4th album "We're Only In It For The Money" was heavily censored on some editions, including in the U.S.. Zappa may not have liked it then but he went along with it and even reissued the heavily censored version in 1995.

Zappa seemed to detest being on the show and wouldn't even look any of the guys in the eye. The exchange the title of this post is taken from is the gem of the piece though. If you have the time to burn I recommend the clip.

It's A Long Road

2009-01-05T08:24:00.003-07:00

For Gen. Custard/3 inch horse/Ben:

From Canadian Dan Hill. Probably best known for his tender ballad ""Sometimes When We Touch"" or his duet with Vonda Shepard ""Can't We Try". Nothing quite touches the soul of a man who can't find his place in society like "It's a Long Road".

Tattoo this song on your heart when you take your quest with John J.

Master of the vocoder

2009-01-04T08:19:00.002-07:00

Not sure if they would ever make it on my show but one of my favorite slow jams comes courtesy of Zapp and Roger (or just Zapp). Roger Troutman made a career out of using the vocoder, a machine that manipulates speech into electronic signals, as a vocal instrument. Supposedly, the first use of the vocoder was Kraftwerk's "Autobahn". Other easily recognizable songs with the vocoder include ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" and "Mr. Roboto" by Styx. Neil Young infamously made an album loaded with vocoder songs called "Trans". Roger Troutman started the band Zapp with his four brothers. Bootsy Collins produced the first Zapp album which spawned the classic "More Bounce to the Ounce". Roger eventually became the face of the band with his brother Larry quitting Zapp to become Roger's manager. Zapp had several R&B hits including "Computer Love", "I Want to Be Your Man", and a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard it Through the Grapevine". Roger went solo in 1991 with little success but by then Zapp songs were being heavily sampled in rap music. Roger Troutman's last big song was with 2Pac on "California Love". Sadly, in 1999 Roger was murdered over a business dispute by his brother Larry who then committed suicide.

One of the last songs recorded by Roger Troutman under the Zapp and Roger name from the "All the Greatest Hits" album--with help from Shirley Murdock on vocals-- "Slow and Easy".

Montana Muslim Black Metal

2009-01-03T09:44:00.003-07:00

WTF???? You say?

Yep. You read it right. Bozeman, Montana has a prayer rug carrying black metal messiah. Zebulon Kosted (or Rachid Abdel Ghafour as he is known these days).

Check out Zeb's music at the ol' myspace---->Zebulon Kosted

The Adventures of Ementeht-Re

2009-01-02T07:54:00.003-07:00

I picked up this bad boy recently.....

The Magma box set. It contains all the Magma studio albums and a 2 CD set of rarities and alternate versions of released songs. For the uninitiated, Magma is the band led by drummer, singer and keyboard player Christian Vander. Magma music falls under a sub-genre category called "Zeuhl". Zeuhl music generally incorporates elements of jazz, rock and classical. Zeuhl is also sung in a made-up language. Magma lyrics are mostly in "Kobaian", an extraterrestrial language. One of the bands I think that sometimes has a comparable sound is Weather Report but even then there is not a strong resemblance. Christian Vander's great influence in music is John Coltrane and there are elements of Coltrane's music found in Magma as well.

Here is a live version of "The Last Seven Minutes" off the 1977 album "Attahk". This version is taken from the Mythes & Légendes vol.3 DVD which was recorded in 2005.

Hola Bastards

2009-01-01T18:43:00.007-07:00

Welcome to Soothing Soul Suckers.

The intention of this blog is to talk about, listen to and obey the subliminal messages in music. I hope those of you you stumble upon this blog enjoy the never ending quest for music as much as I do.

I do a radio show on KGLT located in Bozeman, MT. KGLT is an independent station that serves Bozeman, Helena and Livingston in southwest Montana. Independent means that I can play whatever the hell I want within FCC regulations. You can tune in to my show online at www.kglt.net every other Friday from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. MST. There is also a link to previous playlists available for you to view for my show as well as all the other shows.

I specialize in music that acts as the soundtrack to the residue LSD that still floats around my brain. I imagine my audience as acid casualties, captive second shift workers and pissed off bluegrass fans. Judging from the calls I get I'm probably not too far off.

I will be posting music and videos of my favorite tunes as soon as I figure out how the hell this blog shit works.

Here is my initial shot across the bow.

Boris-Flower Sun Rain

From the Japanese version of Smile. Not quite as good as the one on the U.S. version but still good enough.