Wolfmother (665 hits)
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Submitted by Nuclear Pannerplant (View user info) at 2007-01-10 09:53:19 EST
""The Darkness are obviously hamming it up, they're so over the top," declared (Wolfmother) drummer Myles Heskett. "I think they're trying to be funny. We're not about that. We're just playing the music we like. We don't have any control over how other people perceive us." - arbitrary wolfmother douchebag, 2006.
The first part may be true, but the Darkness are doing a hell of a lot better job at imitating Spinal Tap than wolfmother are doing "paying tribute" to classic rock. The whole concept of a band like wolfmother can be related back to a million shit talk conversations about what the line up of the perfect super group would be. The correct answer is (of course) Jack Bruce on bass, John Bonham on drums, Hendrix on lead guitar, Eric Clapton on rhythm guitar and Jim Morrison doing vocals. You'd probably disagree, but that's OK, it's shit talk. The difference between a million other conversations and the one Wolfmother obviously had to kick off the band was wolfmother decided the ultimate lineup would be themselves. I don't know what the band consider themselves as, but they are definitely not a classic rock band (which every fucking radio station apart from triple J seem to have labelled them). Classic rock was not being advertised as "classic rock" in the 60s and 70s, it's not a style. If in 30 years people are still listening to wolfmother (or even recognize the name), not only will I proclaim them to be a classic rock band, I'll also fist my own asshole. In 30 year's time if you still remember who wolfmother are, ask anybody else in the world what they think of them and they'll probably think you've fucked up the name and are talking about Steppenwolf.
Wolfmother have always denied everything they've stolen from real bands. Here's another quote:
"I don't have any Zeppelin albums," Heskett told Texan paper the Star Telegram.
How many Zeppelin tab books has your band got? Tell your guitarist to go have another glance, the riff in your track "Woman" sounds nothing like the one from "Whole Lotta Love", for starters it's in reverse and the timing is out, at least you got the exact three notes and the chord right. Also, I liked what you did with All Along The Watchtower. Hendrix's cover was much too flashy for my taste, psychedelic wah blues solo? Nigger please. I liked what you did with it, cut it down to four words and rewrote the rest of it with watery lyrics, slapped a fucked up version of the intro of "Won't Get Fooled Again" onto it and then sang over it with your trademark "Ozzy Osbourne" vocals.
Structured guitar solos? Way too "square" and "complicated" for the likes of wolfmother, they've said they like to "mix it up" and make "every show different". The wolfmother "experience". Their jam band vocal breaks often result in them getting so riled up they pretend to smash their equipment before setting everything back on its stand. Hard. Core. The sound of Hendrix's pickups hanging out of the charred guitar body and scraping the stage floor has got nothing on the relief the audience must have felt knowing that the man hours and raw materials gone into crafting wolfmother's equipment was not casualty to a stunt as cheap as smashing equipment on stage.
I remember seeing wolfmother at Big Day Out in 2005, and I must say, their stage presence was incredible. At the bare minimum equal to Angus Young's. The guitarist jumped off an amp stack, stumbled, stopped playing as the audience held their breath, then awkwardly resumed playing.
This is also the third year the band are riding the coattails of their debut album. I'm glad they don't think of themselves as a zeppelin, sabbath or cream copy, because then they might feel some sort of pressure to work hard enough to produce groundbreaking albums as fast as those bands did. Were they on track with any of those bands they would have around four albums released by now. People often defend wolfmother on the basis they only have the one album, which isn't a clear enough portrait of the band's potential. This is what I imagine their second album with consist of, based on what I would be doing were I to form a band with the sole intention of hosing the greats and making a lot of money:
The guitarist will invent a new tone, involving the neck pickup of his Gibson SG and the tone dial rolled down to, let's say 1/4, with his marshall amps running hot and loud. It will be called "Lady" tone and appear on about 1/3 of the new album's tracks.
A song about greek or roman mythology, ie: Tales of Brave Achilles.
The shitty live version of Communication Breakdown they performed at the UK rock and roll hall of fame induction for Jimmy Page. To be honest, nobody can expect ANY modern band to live up to Zeppelin's performances of it, it was Zeppelin's song, plus they were performing it with only 3 members and the guitarist was performing the job of both Page and Plant. That being said, their performance sucked way more ass than even the shittiest of cover bands' versions. Judge for yourself, and be sure to check out Tony Iommi's reaction at 2:10 : http://youtube.com/watch?v=e1ckLSZYZE4
More fabulous mythological iconography on their cover art.
The guitarist will hire a psychedelic artist to paint one of his Gibson SGs.
This band is just cashing in on the current obsession for "retro". Emo fags wearing zeppelin shirts because hot topic say's they're cool. Look at this fag:
http://img.hottopic.com/is/image/HotTopic/159813_hi?$product$
Wolfmother is just a shitty pop band on par with whatever other top 40 bullshit is being diarrhead all over the commercial airwaves at the moment. Their music is shit and hollow, and the guitarist's image is on loan from the Eric Clapton collection, circa 1967.
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Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2007-01-10 21:34:17 EST (#)
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Wolfmother is just a shitty pop band on par with whatever other top 40 bullshit is being diarrhead all over the commercial airwaves at the moment. Their music is shit and hollow, and the guitarist's image is on loan from the Eric Clapton collection, circa 1967.
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Ahahaha. I hope D_R doesn't see this. He loves Wolfmother.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-01-10 19:06:27 EST (#)
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They sure do suck a lot.
Submitted by pannerplant (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:38:08 EST (#)
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Who gives a shit about anything. If you give a shit, then you do. If you don't, -2 this because it's irrelevant. What do I give a shit about whether you get something out of what I've written, I could care less.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:31:13 EST (#)
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Valid argument, but who really gives a shit?
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:13:52 EST (#)
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fuck you, alter.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:03:50 EST (#)
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alter
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2007-01-10 12:38:46 EST (#)
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this appears to be 100% correct
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:48:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:45:17 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:17:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:03:46 (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:07:15 (#)
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While I agree with just about everything you said here, I reckon Wolfmother aren't all that bad; their album is pretty good to get drunk and stupid to.
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They did a fucking AWFUL version of communication breakdown for Zepp's induction into the rock and roll hall of fame a week or so back. He is no Robert Plant.
I like the album however - even if it is relentless plundering
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Yeah, you gave me the that.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:11:47 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:03:46 EST (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:07:15 (#)
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While I agree with just about everything you said here, I reckon Wolfmother aren't all that bad; their album is pretty good to get drunk and stupid to.
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They did a fucking AWFUL version of communication breakdown for Zepp's induction into the rock and roll hall of fame a week or so back. He is no Robert Plant.
I like the album however - even if it is relentless plundering
Submitted by Cadrach (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:15:10 EST (#)
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But Wolfmother is pretty sucky.
Submitted by Cadrach (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:09:50 EST (#)
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You used the N-word.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:07:15 EST (#)
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While I agree with just about everything you said here, I reckon Wolfmother aren't all that bad; their album is pretty good to get drunk and stupid to.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-01-10 10:02:24 EST (#)
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I'm feeling a lot of negative energy coming from this post.