Get Off Your Knees, Generation X

Sure, we're mocked, erased, ignored, and discarded, but guess what? We had the Nineties, and a lot of us also had the Eighties. 

We had the bloodiest pits, the craziest raves, the shoe-iest gazers, the gnarliest grungesters, the cutest manic pixie dream girls. 

WE HAD THE FRIGGIN' X-FILES, BITCHES.

So we win and motherf**kers lose.

Watch King Crimson Play Every Note That Has Ever Existed and then Invent Some New Ones.

Fripp sez, "Alan Holdsworth, Alan Schmoldsworth. I'll show you how to play a million notes a second without hammering or tapping."

Don't be fooled by the impassive demeanor. I saw Fripp do a Frippertronics show at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center back in the day. He reduced thousands of stock brokers to tears. Very odd duck.

"FraKctured" is a sequel to "Fracture" from the John Wetton lineup. It took that chap 22 years to learn the latter. It will probably take him 44 years to learn the former.

I used to listen to this stuff when I was working on a particularly-complex vector rendering that needed maximum left-brain input. I recommend the practice.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock

Stoner Rock AKA Stoner Metal AKA Doom Metal AKA Sludge Metal AKA Whatever. The names don't matter one single bit. What matters is this: do you ROCK or are you schlock?

These dudes ROCK.

Joe Strummer, Twenty Years Gone

 

Joe Strummer died two decades ago today and I have no idea how that could be twenty years ago now. What has changed? The world in many ways seems to have become trapped and frozen somewhere along the way. 

Beat the Holiday Blahs with the Ultimate 70s Party Playlist

Dreading another deadly-boring holiday party? You need to get the people off their little demon boxes and get them all singing and dancing and feeling grateful to be alive with the best of Seventies Pop, Rock 'n' Roll, Funk and R&B.

THIRTEEN HOURS OF HAPPINESS AND JOY, PEOPLE.

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The Most Influential Musician You Never Heard Of

Genius is a curse, not only because it shares a driveway with madness but also because it often falls prey to that most insidious of demons: boredom. This is an occupational hazard particularly for musical geniuses.