Video Tune of the Week for 07/27/09 -- King's X, Dogman

This'll be a quicky (man, I'm getting tired of not having much time to write -- looking forward to a life if I can find one in the next few months).

I found this video of King's X on YouTube -- a performance on the Jon Stewart Show. I didn't know they had made it big enough to make these sort of appearances. They've always struggled, regardless of their talent and their first six albums' label (Atlantic).

This made-for-TV recording blows, by the way. King's X has a truly bigger-than-life sound in person. I can't even hear Jerry Gaskill's (drummer) voice.

Dogman grooves big time. The whole album. It introduced a sound for them that was pretty new, including a much dirtier distortion sound.

Okay, I'm off for now. Until next week,
The Educated Fool

Video Tune of the Week for 07/20/09 -- King's X, Pray

As some of you know, one of my all-time favorite bands is King's X. I did a many-part review of King's X on my old blog, at the end of which I decided they were done. But that was before XV, the most recent album and from which this video is taken.

These guys are fab as far as I'm concerned. That bass is a 12-string, by the way, and Doug Pinnick gets an awesome tone out of it. I'm glad he's playing it again!

I should also make sure to let you know that I've seen these guys live a few times now, and they sound EXACTLY like they do on the CD. All three guys sing, and they don't dub over in their recordings. And when Pinnick plays his 12-string, they don't need a rhythm guitar when Ty's doing his leads. It's really something to see them live, I'm telling ya.

Make sure to click that HQ button!

Okay, I gotta go. The next 30 days are really important to the folks who live in this apartment and I'm busier than ever.

Until next week,
The Educated Fool

No Tune Today -- Watch the CFL!

I won't be posting a tune tonight because I just don't have the time.

BUT, I am posting a little note to any of you who might be interested:

Watch the Canadian Football League! It's a great game to watch (3 downs, very talented running backs and wide receivers, and a larger field with huge endzones), and every game is archived from beginning to end AND without commercials!

A number of the CFL games can also be watched live as well as archived (but with commercials) on ESPN360.