frankwhite

When Nirvana played the Venue (now sadly closed) in Edinburgh way back then, they did an interview with one of my (then friend's) mates who worked for a local radio station.

Consequently, they stayed in a flat in Lutton Place in Edinburgh overnight... (which belonged to said mate at the time)

...I was staying in that flat that night - having gone round for a "smoke", but was so stoned out of my tits that I didn't find out they'd been there till a few years after - when all the fuss arrived with the suicide and Mr Cobain was worm food.

Can you imagine how crap that feels now!!!!!?

I'd loved to have met them! It's my only (nearly) claim to fame!!

Don't do drugs, kids.

you just got added to the list of coolest people i've ever spoken to list...somewhere just behind Zint on here....and shades.

nirvana wil (and you can carve this on fucking stone tablets) be remembered as one of the greatest bands of all time like every band thats remembered as great and not because the lead singer died or they came at the right time or they spearheaded a revolution or because they changed attitudes and all the other bullshit that is assigned to great bands, it will be because of the end product, the GREAT fucking music. problem is we're still too close to the 90s just like people in the punk rock movement in the 70s were too close to the 60s to properly understand just what the beatles and the stones gave to music to properly respect them. we recognise the times too well, they arent glossy enough yet no matter how hard rolling stone try. but time will tell, mark my words (cuz i am a prophet) wow, i'd have to swallow my own puke to say that out loud

live tonight sold out is pure divinity....i've seen it sooo many millions of times i doubt you'd believe me if i told you...i adore the performances of breed and endless nameless on/in it.

Nice. I thought I'd found them all, so I was delighted to find this'un.

Love, of course, the Morrissey style Top of the Pops performance... I'd only ever found it on uTube.

i liked the one with the english talkshow dude where they do territorial pissings when they were supposed to be doing lithium, it was just so striking...how close together (in proximity they are) the rage and pace of the song y'know? they just tear thru it, wreck the instruments...its just so natural, all up to the little stumble kurt does when walking offstage (you can tell im a fanboy) and the fact that territorial pissings is shorter than Lithium so the host is left with like....god knows how much time to improvise comedy before the show closes....its just great art y'know, so powerful concise and...real.

live tonight sold out is pure divinity....i've seen it sooo many millions of times i doubt you'd believe me if i told you...i adore the performances of breed and endless nameless on/in it. i cannot praise kurt cobain and nirvana enough, there are no words.

hah, nah man Christer is a stupid name in english

no it dont, its fuckin...original. what would you rather bob or dave of steve? best names are original. like Axl

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

my top 3 are so much better than those man

and then Christer wakes up face down in a bowl of cornflakes and realises that he's been dreaming hows this, your top 3 might not have existed had the beatles not done what they did

why do you allways call me "Christer"

and yeah offcourse, The Beatles is like Jesus for rock n' roll, totally agree

i dunno, i've always done that since a kid, just given people weird little names. it annoys the right people and amuses the right people. i guess its a way or remembering, who knows? i used to call you Christopher and that bothered you too, make your mind up!!!!

you know my real name actually IS "Christer"?

seriously??? no it aint, Christer aint a name!! (is it?) i made it up!!! you cant say thats a name!!! its kinda like hulk hogan was the hulkster

it is man I think its originaly from Sweden

yeah nice try i know americans have the trademark on stupidity but i aint buying that!

im seriouse man!!!

My former username was "Christer_Axl"

I changed it to Chris cus it sounds much cooler in english

i just googled it, you're fucking right too!!! i look like a HUUUUUUUUGE dick now dont i? hmmm, oops

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

my top 3 are so much better than those man

and then Christer wakes up face down in a bowl of cornflakes and realises that he's been dreaming hows this, your top 3 might not have existed had the beatles not done what they did

why do you allways call me "Christer"

and yeah offcourse, The Beatles is like Jesus for rock n' roll, totally agree

i dunno, i've always done that since a kid, just given people weird little names. it annoys the right people and amuses the right people. i guess its a way or remembering, who knows? i used to call you Christopher and that bothered you too, make your mind up!!!!

you know my real name actually IS "Christer"?

seriously??? no it aint, Christer aint a name!! (is it?) i made it up!!! you cant say thats a name!!! its kinda like hulk hogan was the hulkster

it is man I think its originaly from Sweden

yeah nice try i know americans have the trademark on stupidity but i aint buying that!

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

my top 3 are so much better than those man

and then Christer wakes up face down in a bowl of cornflakes and realises that he's been dreaming hows this, your top 3 might not have existed had the beatles not done what they did

why do you allways call me "Christer"

and yeah offcourse, The Beatles is like Jesus for rock n' roll, totally agree

i dunno, i've always done that since a kid, just given people weird little names. it annoys the right people and amuses the right people. i guess its a way or remembering, who knows? i used to call you Christopher and that bothered you too, make your mind up!!!!

you know my real name actually IS "Christer"?

seriously??? no it aint, Christer aint a name!! (is it?) i made it up!!! you cant say thats a name!!! its kinda like hulk hogan was the hulkster

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

my top 3 are so much better than those man

and then Christer wakes up face down in a bowl of cornflakes and realises that he's been dreaming hows this, your top 3 might not have existed had the beatles not done what they did

why do you allways call me "Christer"

and yeah offcourse, The Beatles is like Jesus for rock n' roll, totally agree

i dunno, i've always done that since a kid, just given people weird little names. it annoys the right people and amuses the right people. i guess its a way or remembering, who knows? i used to call you Christopher and that bothered you too, make your mind up!!!!

Bitches Brew

You said that 6 months ago... for some reason I listened, and every time I walk into a CD shop I look for it.

Still searching...

I recommend it wholeheartedly, with no introduction or any of that bullshit necessary. Nothing compares anyway. Hope you can find a copy someday.

i couldnt find one so i just ended up downloading it off of god knows where but the problem is it was all as just one file so its like...one big track, i got no idea where one ends and the other begins so i just listen to it as one big thing to just wash through me. used to happen to me a lot when i was younger and i used to get people to copy stuffs onto tape because i was too broke to buy the shit so i'd have these albums and only years later actually discern song from song and put names to them. In Utero i had like that. come to think of it, how do i even know that it is what it is?

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

my top 3 are so much better than those man

and then Christer wakes up face down in a bowl of cornflakes and realises that he's been dreaming hows this, your top 3 might not have existed had the beatles not done what they did

1) the beatles

2) the beatles

3) the beatles

4) the beatles

5) the beatles

Buddy Holly.

nevermind the bollocks - the sex pistols

the white album - the beatles

beatles for sale - the beatles

meet the beatles - the beatles

let it be - the beatles

abbey road - the beatles

help - the beatles

a hard days night - the beatles

please please me - the beatles

revolver - the beatles

rubber soul - the beatles

Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band - the beatles

cut - the slits

raw power - the stooges

funhouse - the stooges

John Lennons entire recorded output

my minds gone blank.

I love Perfect Day.

You do know thats about herion, right?!?!

yeah, it feels like it's about a drug.. I feel that way about my pot so yeah, I imagen that, and always said that it had to be about a drug.. plus it's the theme of Ren overdosing in trainspotting.. love that movie

maybe try Heroin by The Velvet Underground? kind of like perfect day but not really, builds into a kind of crescendo. and if you like trainspotting you might want to check out The Panic In Needle Park.

thats not the Pacino movie where he plays an addict and falls in love? If so, i'll pass.. I love Pacino, but that movie was so borning.. if not, please.. tell me some about it.. will check thats ong out also.,.. I really like how it's just mellow and relaxed and his voice is just like... relax man.. it's gonna be ok... that song and movie, is the only thing that's ever made me wanna try heroin.. just couldnt put that spike in me though, ya know?

yeah the pacino movie about heroin. i understand what you mean in a sense about boring but...it nails the reality of junk y'know? Trainspotting is so stylised, its a kind of a lie almost, like Sid and Nancy, that whole redemption ending with the boisterous Lust for Life playing, tell you that it'll all be okay in the end, that aint the reality of Junk, junk is foul and Panic In Needle Park captures it, the silence of it, the garishness of it, the boredom of being in these empty rooms with people sucking their fucking souls into droppers man, that movie nails it for me. its like...how movies should be, its like reality, there are extended sections with like...silence in it, its really a moviemakers movie in that sense. it really capture new york too and not the glossy version. i even love the color of it, its so...real. and the desperation of it y'know how by the ending the girl is the one whoose the bad guy because she rolls over on him. the hustle is in there, the smarts, the lowlifes, all of it. Trainspotting is a very fashionable, very witty, very...stylised movie for the 90s with smooth Sick Boy and his discourses on James Bond and psycho Begbie and his mania and dopey Spud and the intelligent Renton who you imagine could have been anything but, as is the case with most junkies he drifted into junk for lack of a better more appealing option and Tommy with the HIV, its like...not realistic, its like someone trying to teach you a lesson y'know, very school-roomy, the AIDS lesson. dont get me wrong i love the movie but a lot of movies are hinged on their ending and in this one Renton's walking off into the sunset with a future in his swimming mind but its not always like that. in fact its rarely fucking ever like that with junk. if ever at all. Panic In Needle Park ends with him coming out of jail, having had her fuck up his life and walk past...ignoring her and her following...and after a while him letting her catch up, after all she fucking did to him they're still there. in needle park, waiting to die, thats fucking real man. like i always said i dont to be lied to and i believe the junk movie with truth is Needle Park. and the role reversal there is great because in the begginning he's the junkie with a view to becoming a pusher so HE'S the bad guy and gradually you got him onto the business angle and HER becoming the junkie that she's yelling at to shape up and when she gets to ratting on him then the roles are reversed, shows what junk does to you man. its the grittier darker more honest movie. i REALLY like it. i dunno if you seen it or just tried and got turned off, i had to watch it a couple of times for it to really sink in with me but i think it is great. i just knew that first time when i saw it, it was like "shit im watching something here".

another good junk song is Chinese Rocks by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers but its nothing even close to being like Heroin or Perfect Day.

I love Perfect Day.

You do know thats about herion, right?!?!

yeah, it feels like it's about a drug.. I feel that way about my pot so yeah, I imagen that, and always said that it had to be about a drug.. plus it's the theme of Ren overdosing in trainspotting.. love that movie

maybe try Heroin by The Velvet Underground? kind of like perfect day but not really, builds into a kind of crescendo. and if you like trainspotting you might want to check out The Panic In Needle Park.

guns n roses, on their WORST day, with one guitar and axl, fuck it, with an upside down bucket to tap on and axl rose would piss all over maiden until they quit rock n roll and became golden shower porn stars and hung out in mens room waiting for the rain to turn yellow so they can go outside again. but it dont really matter cuz you're gonna find out for yourself

you have the coolest mom in the world dude :):) i do that OCD thing too, did it with the stones and zep.

wheres the option for "i just listen to what sounds good"?

its a case of looking for more stuff that sounds good.

ALWAYS diversify. see when you concentrate you learn the intracacies of a certain thing, but when you diversify it opens your mind further with an entirely new format. once you got the grasp of one thing, a year or so later you'll venture back to it naturally, depending on how much you truly like it, y'know what i mean? if you dont naturally float back to it something in your kinetic inclinations is pulling you in the other direction. the more you diversify the more you see and it gives you a wider scope to say, y'know, more options to pick from. thats how i operate anyway. diversity is ALWAYS better, you can pick up on concentration later in life but while your young its cool to diversify because people who tend to lean towards concentration as the months and years go by you get entrenched in the snobbery of that genre (and each genre has its own) and it makes it harder to diversify when you're older. did you ever notice that? people who concentrate tend to get stuck in the rut of concentration whereas diversity is a beautiful thing because it gives you lots of little hints to expand on in the future. ALWAYS diversity. its always better to understand more, diversity makes a better person out of you, music is relative to cultures and ways of life and it expands your mind and understanding of the world and those around you imo.

Elvis.

The King could sing anything.

couldn't have said it better. everybody thinks of Elvis and they think of songs like "Hound Dog", "Suspicious Minds", etc. those songs are great and have great vocal performances, but there are so many songs, especially from the '60's that not many people nowadays know about where his voice and his vocal ability where just mind-blowing. songs like "Indescribably Blue" and many others.

it's sad that such a great performer is being reduced to a joke because of all the cheesy imitators. you say "Elvis" and people think of some lard ass eating a jelly donut. Elvis was only overweight for about a year and a half and he wasn't that fat. his face was swollen and bloated and he had a gut from his compacted bowels, but he wasn't huge like people make him out to be.

exactly! so many people shit on elvis and for what? for a start, in the words of John Lennon "before elvis, there was nothing" and what did he do wrong, joined the fuckin army? so?!?! he wanted to and he did it. he came back and made movies that everybody says they always thought sucked but hold on a fuckin second, someone was watching them, he was one of the highest grossing (and for a while THE highest grossing) star of the 60s, not only that he showed promise as an actor. Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Flaming Star, King Creole these were good performances. and they say the majority of his movies sucked well they werent supposed to be citizen kane, they were fucking lighthearted movies and thats how they came across. after all, what is cinema if not escapism? he was the first big controversial star, widely hated for that hip swivelling shit and people trying to ban him because it was N word music, i remember this interview and they're asking him SUCH stupid questions like "do you beat up your mother?" and "do you smoke marajuana before a show?" and he's answering them so gracefully and politely. he was as generous as the day is long and spent untold amounts of his own money on others and those around him and sure you can say people scammed him and they did but thats ignoring the basic nature of the man and where he was coming from. he got into the whole drugs debacle and that was stupid so says all and sundry but you got to remember, there was prescedent before him, he didnt have the lessons of old to learn from. a consummate performer, a great voice, an absolute legend, playing his heart out to his last days. love the guy.

Sid wasn't learning

he wasn't even trying to learn

he's the stu sutcliffe of punk rock, and idk why he's so idolized

Steve Jones and Paul Cook state that when sid first joined the band was the best time because he was REALLY trying.

There is a quote by Lemmy I think it was something like.(Im totally paraprashing here I cant remember it exactly)

Sid wanted to become a better player so he walked up to Lemmy and said I can't play bass and Lemmy looked him right in the eye and said I know

Anyways happy birthday

thats true too Rotten and Vicious used to sell speed to Lemmy, little known fact.

if you listen to the american gigs Sex Pistols you can hear some VERY poor bass playing going on.

I love the pistols, don't get me wrong. The bottom line is Sid was a beginner for most of his career, and wasn't very good. It's ok. Being a member of a great band and being an influential musician are not mutually exclusive to being a GOOD musician. I love the Pistols, really I do, but Sid was a pretty shitty bassist.

i totally agree, the reason i said you can hear some very poor bass playing on the american gigs is because popular opinion is that he was unplugged the whole time there, which he wasnt. agreed totally, he was an AWFUL bass player but be fair, we're judging the guy by pro-standards and he'd only been learning a few months. Sid was a begginer for ALL of his career

Best voice means something different from best singer.

thank you, silver dollar for the man on balcony, goes by the name of OD Blues