Sugartooth

I bought a guitar magazine in the mid-nineties that contained a mix CD.  The CD was entitled Peaceful Greasy Feelin'.  The CD is now stored in an attic a long ways from where I currently live.  Most of it was garbage, but I pulled out a few songs that I thought were good and put them on a blank cassette tape.  One of those songs that stood out to me was "Booty Street" by Sugartooth.  I looked around for a CD of theirs but never was able to find one.  Now that almost anything can be found on the Internet I decided to search for them.  I can't find the song "Booty Street" anywhere on-line but I found some other songs, and they all sound really good.  Looking on Amazon it appears that the band has only released two CDs, the first being a self-titled CD (1994) and their second being Sounds of Solid (1997).

Most of my searches for the band also bring up Tool, and I think this is because the Sugartooth singer, Marc Hunter, at times sounds similar to Tool's Maynard.  A review for the their self-titled album compared their music to a mix between Led Zeppelin and 90's grunge.  I can easily hear this mix.  They sound like they should be from the 70's on "Booty Street" but their sound doesn't fit that era at all.

They never received a big following but opened for big name bands in the 90's.  The fame they did receive mostly came from being featured on an episode of  Beavis and Butthead.

I'd suggest searching for the actual song "Sold my Fortune" on youtube because it sounds better when you actually get to hear the song instead of Beavis talking.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live Intro Jams

John Frucsiante

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a very diverse band and blend many genres of music - rock, pop, jazz, blues, rap, hip/hop, ska, and funk.  Listening to their evolution over the years is pretty cool.

I've never seen them play live, but I know someone who has and he said they were amazing!

I have their Live at Slane Castle DVD, picked that one up for a buck in China. That gig starts off with an amazing jam before ripping into "Can't Stop", one of my least favorite Peppers songs.  I did a search for them on youtube and it appears that they usually start shows with an intro jam.  Here are a few those jams.  Enjoy.



FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 06

Video from Green Fest in Indjija,Serbia, 26/06/2007.

From Live at Slane Castle.Click here to buy.

Which intro jam do you like best?

Collection of Intro Jams!!!

Injected - Burn it Black

I was given a copy of the Scorpion King Soundtrack when it first came out almost ten years ago.  I was familiar with many of the bands on that soundtrack, but some of them were new to me, one of those new bands was Injected.  The Injected song on the soundtrack is "Burn it Black".  I really liked the song, but I have never heard any of their songs or heard of them outside of this one soundtrack to a movie I've never even seen.





Now, I can quickly and easily find out more info. about little known bands like Injected.  All I have to do is search for them on youtube or pandora or wikipedia and I can usually find out some good info. and even hear their songs.

Here's Injected playing "Burn it Black" live.  I don't think it's as good as the studio version, but here it is anyways:

INJECTED was a great hard rock band from Atlanta. After many, many years of owning the Atlanta rock scene, they signed a major label deal and put out the album Burn it Black (produced by Butch Walker) in 2002. They spent that year traveling the country rocking arenas, clubs, and everything in between, converting many unsuspecting audience members into hardcore INJECTED fans. 

The next few years were spent working on the follow-up to BiB which was to be called The Truth About You. But changes at their label left the band with no support and few options. Under the circumstances the band members decided to go their separate ways. 

From - Shanon -  the webdude - from INJECTEDfans.com

Iggy Pop - Passenger

I had never listened to Iggy Pop.  However, I am a big fan of the Rollins Band.  Someone told me that I should look up Rollins speaking on trying to top Iggy Pop, and how no matter how hard he tried to beat Iggy, he couldn't show him up.  If Rollins wants to beat a guy on stage, I would think he could do it if he wanted to, but he can't beat Iggy no matter what he tries or how hard tries doing it.  Here's some videos of Rollins speaking on trying to beat Iggy on stage.

So after watching these videos, I thought maybe it would be worth buying an Iggy CD. I went with Lust for Life since I found it used. I wanted to get a Stooges CD instead, but they were all new and listed at full price.

To my surprise most of the songs sounded like David Bowie.  I even thought I heard David Bowie singing on some of the tracks.  I checked the notes and Bowie actually wrote the music to most of the tracks, and Iggy just wrote the lyrics.  So the music on Lust for Life didn't meet my expectations from hearing Rollins speak on the man, but I've watched some live videos and Iggy does fit Rollins' description in some cases.


The song that stood out to me from Lust to Life was "The Passenger".  Here's a video of "The Passenger" from Youtube edited together with old school Hollywood clips: