any of you headbangers into The Darkness?

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 21 Nov 2003 12:54 pm

The Darkness

Fair Warning: it ain't country...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 21 Nov 2003 2:58 pm

Well that sure brings me back to my old days.
A great tenor singer, maybe not castrati but not far. He sounds trained too.

Mellower than Drowning Pool my last hardcore rock purchase after hearing something on a movie sound track.

Love the industrial strength wall of Marshals too LOL. Reminds me of early Queen crossed with several California bands of the same type.
I also always liked double lead harmony guitars.

Not bad, they're right for the market.

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 22 Nov 2003 1:49 am

Somewhere between Led Zep and Queen, but with a little more humour.
One of our lecturing team has played on the same bill with them - good guys who know their music and can play it.
Cheers
Dave

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 22 Nov 2003 9:12 am

Well that sure brings me back to my old days.

yeah, that's the ticket! When our guitar player played the CD for me on his car stereo after a gig I felt 16 again

I also made the castrato connection...

fun stuff.

He's goin to see 'em in Baltimore, lucky stiff...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 22 Nov 2003 3:25 pm

I have played a few gigs not far removed, back when.
We were more often less "metal image" effected, and a lot more philosophical in a read between the lyrics sort of way. But certainly rocking.
And who doesn't love a 1000w PAR in the face and 2,500 screaming people out there somewhere!

One group was very close to signing with Warners, when there was a personell accident and that was that. Around the height of the Pretenders / Joe Jackson period.

My ears don't like the decibles anymore, but I still like the music from time to time.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 22 November 2003 at 03:27 PM.]

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 23 Nov 2003 8:28 am

Yeah...Queen, with a little Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, and Metallica thrown in, that's how I read it. High energy noise bordering on music.

(I had to say something like that...Dave sort of expects it!)

Now, could we please have some Jimmy Day/Jerry Byrd clips on "Snakenet"? (Turnabout is fair play, isn't it?)

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 23 Nov 2003 7:57 pm

If I owned the copyrights I'd post some of the Jimmy Day clips I have in a heartbeat... but I don't. so I can't. So I won't.

noise bordering on music

there you go again Donny

A phrase I have used myself, but I was describing the steel guitar pyrotechnics of Speedy West ( no flames please, no Disrespect intended... I admired his incredible ability to make "noises" musical )
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Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 25 Nov 2003 8:14 am

I like them, though they seem as generic as can be. But if ou wanne see REALLY cool dudes, check this out!

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Colin Keyworth · Post by **Colin Keyworth** » 25 Nov 2003 1:42 pm

Guys it's great to see this post on the forum.The Darkness are the best band to come out of England at this time.At the moment we are in the grips of pop idol(american idol) so the charts are about to be flooded with more manufactured rubbish.Great to see you guys taking an interest.I play country but i'm a rocker at heart(you can take the boy out of rock but you can't take rock out of the boy)

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David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 25 Nov 2003 2:05 pm

Very strange, I rarely watch music channels on TV and suddenly there I was face to face with
The Darkness. Right out of the blue, bloddy strange wot!

And these other guys... well oh my
And least they are anti evil.. I think, either that or they don't know what their name means LOL. Boston is a huge college town and so the bands run the gammut.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 25 November 2003 at 02:10 PM.]