I noted in my last post that the footage of Zappa on Deney Terrio’s “Dance Fever” had been removed from YouTube. Managed to find a version anyway — hideous quality, but pretty cool nonetheless. Frank appears on the panel (“I thought they were very sincere and I gave them a 96...
The extended fade involves a major sound shift from recording studio to church, where Dave uses the organ to transform the melody into what sounds like something out of the hymnal. I interpret the music as a wordless dig at the façades embedded in various faiths, but I’m an atheist, s...
YouTube - Guns_N_Roses_Fan Two Fans Die During Guns N' Roses' Monsters of Rock Performance (1988) Guns N' Roses' debut albumAppetite for Destructionwas just over a year old by the time they played Monsters of Rock in August of 1988. But, it had just gone to No. 1 earlier that mo...
The recent HBO comedy “The Righteous Gemstones” focuses on a rich televangelist family that swindles and recruits members around town. Charleston’s North Charleston Coliseum stands in for the family’s megachurch, Gemstone Salvation Center. ...
YouTube - AKA Spook Churches Are Burnt Down in Norway (1992) In June of 1992, the Fantoft Stave Church, located in Bergen, Norway, was burned down. It was the first of a string of churches that were destroyed due to arson by black metal musicians, though the burning of Fantoft Stave ...
The Emerson family moves to a California beach town, but soon realize something is not quite right with their new surroundings. Young Sam Emerson (Corey Haim) is warned of the local vampire population by a pair of odd siblings known as the Frog brothers. The more vocal of the brothers,...
Going to a Behemoth show is a lot like going to church: there’s communion, a thurible, but one element is noticeably absent: God. Mainman Nergal is a devout Satanist, Hellbent on spreading the message of the Lord of Light with Behemoth as his vessel. The Polish act’s live show draw...
Going to a Behemoth show is a lot like going to church: there’s communion, a thurible, but one element is noticeably absent: God. Mainman Nergal is a devout Satanist, Hellbent on spreading the message of the Lord of Light with Behemoth as his vessel. The Polish act’s live show draw...
YouTube - AKA Spook Churches Are Burnt Down in Norway (1992) In June of 1992, the Fantoft Stave Church, located in Bergen, Norway, was burned down. It was the first of a string of churches that were destroyed due to arson by black metal musicians, though the burning of Fantoft Stave ...