This A list band made a recent surprise appearance. The supposedly sober singer of the band was anything but. Hopefully they are not planning on touring soon because he won't live through it.
Mr Violet took one of the Violet jrs to see Green Day in concert a couple of years back. Said it was one of the best gigs they'd ever seen. This was pre BJ's rehab.
@TTM just dont like their songs in particular. I love Pearl Jam, Nirvana etc. but never Soundgarden...I am still trying to figure out Google Circles! LOL its just me Bee and now Sherry (yay!) lol
Soundgarden was my favorite. Used to run in to Nirvana before they hit it big and everyone but Grohl were really nice. Will never forget getting lunch at the Broadway Grill while Kurt was ordering breakfast and getting bitched ouht by Courtney for ordering bacon. After making him call the waiter back to cancel the order for bacon, a shotgun seemed the only answer. If it were me I'd have aimed at her instead....
Awesome story, Queen! Thanks for sharing! There are a lot of people that think Love was literally involved in the shooting. If I remember well, I think even Love's dad thought so. Such a tragedy
I love Soundgarden, and Chris Cornell's solo stuff was great too (Can't Change Me); and I effing LOVED Audioslave's first album. I can't understand how you could not. Derek! Splain it!
Queen, what, everyone BUT Dave Grohl?? What do you mean?
TTM if you can find it check out Chris Cornell's acoustic solo album, it's my favourite! He does Soundgarden, Audioslave, solo and cover stuff. His cover of Billie Jean is all kinds of awesome.
@K---shush! @Reno---I wish I had an appetite after drinking--you people are lucky! I am force feeding myself some toast. and took a protein vitamin. @Queen--wow I love all that stuff--you are lucky! I met Courtney and Melisa Auf DuMaur once after a Hole show--they were nice and talked some serious smack about Winona Ryder! lol. Like Mean Girls in a band...
To the Canadian Contingent O T, does anyone else get the ad for Mod shoes on the posts? Their slogan is " aboot " sale. I think y'all have skewed the ad sale..:-D
I was with friends and we went to the bar at the top of the Space Needle (sadly, no more). They showed up and sat at the next table. Tiny space. We hung out for a bit. Maybe it was a bad day but Grohl looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there and when he spoke it was one or two words. Terse. Not a happy guy. Kris was oddly charming in a nerdish way. No CL so Mr. C seemed more relaxed. Could a lso have been the drugs.
Love Audioslave. Never was much love for Soundgarden but those were some of the best concerts I ever went to. And a dear friend who passed loved them a lot so I guess there's a sentimental attachment.
@Sugarbread--I saw Kings of Leon play last month--they are on tour.
@Queen----when I picture the Seatle music scene to be just like when they would go to shows in the movie Singles. I am fortunate to have seen some great bands in small venues before they made it big. Something I really cherish!
That she is crazy and would date every indie musician under the sun but as soon as the guys would be asked about it and they stated yes I am dating her she would freak-out-break up with them-yet stalk and do things like call them 100 times and hang-up. Meanwhile it was her that would get her publicist to set her up with the guys in the first place.The name Ryan Adams was an example...
I was 15 when I met them and my best friend was/is obsessed with WR and that was the first question to come out his mouth. I was kinda embarrassed but I love ol Wino too so it was good gossip and surreal at the time. Those girls like to gossip!
My idea of somebody with an insane voice would be either Matt Barlow (formerly of Iced Earth) or Zak Stevens (formerly of Savatage). Those dudes can SING!
@Star---yeah I do LOVE many of of her movies do. It was Melissa that did most of the talking FTR --Courtney was in lala land and sorta just popped in mid-thru conversation and called her a cunt lol --I wanted to chat more with Court but she had NO interest and was very scary
@Derek: Your story is sooo much better! Courtney is INSANE! I have friends who met her at the Comedy Central Roast taping, where she was an incoherent shit show. But I have friends who used to work at the House of Blues, and she's scared some of them for life. I'd be too afraid to approach her, based off of some accounts of these run-ins. Court's drug regimen and stance is on par with Exene but Exene isn't a violent psychopath
It was some common knowledge about Winona, aka "Wanna Ride Her", that she was very pushy about musicians, especially musicians into a steady relationship. She had her eyes on Beck for years. When, a decade ago, he broke up with his girlfriend, because she had cheated on him, she phoned him minutes after she heard about it. They dated for something like two weeks, but it seems that Beck, like many others, had issues with her kind of possessiveness and craziness. The stuff about keeping it a secret Derek mentions may be a good explanation. I had heard about her various dalliances with Ryan Adams, Adam Duritz and a few others. She also tried to have an affair with Jakob Dylan for years.
@Lady---yeah especially being so young when I met her! SCARY lol---we won a radio contest and it was awesome yet terrifying. Melissa was REALLY nice though. She approached us as we stood in the corner awkwardly. I still have an old photo with her arm around us. So sweet. @Angela--yeah very bizzare cause I think she is so beautiful..
Maybe Dave was just having a bad day.... QueenAnne's statement is seriously the first ever I have heard about Dave not being nice.
I never liked Nirvana but am all about the Foo Fighters. And STP was the shit right around the time they did unplugged and Scott Weiland was gorgeous. Pearl Jam was great for the fist 2 albums and then they got all righteous.
The Singles Soundtrack is still in my top 5 favorite albums EVER.
This is BJ Armstrong. So sad. Love him. Green Day actually hasn't played in awhile but I think Enty is referring to the SXSW set of their side project, the Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Billie Joe's drugs of choice are booze and benzodiazepines (namely Klonopin) but I've heard he also likes pain pills. Booze and benzos are a rough scene. Puts the person in a much more severe blackout. So sad. Hope whoever this is gets better
Kinda O/T... Even if I was not a fan of Hole, it would be hard for me to buy into the insinuations made by Enty & many others that Courtney--no matter what demons have plagued her since childhood (& us in her adulthood)--was directly or indirectly responsible for her husband's death.
Aside from Love's frequent paranoiac behavior & the Batsh*t Crazy thing, has anyone suggested a convincing motive that would drive her to pick up a shotgun & blast Cobain's head off?
As for her dad, if you know anything of Courtney's terrific parents--his creepy speculations--at the very best are on a par with the credibility of most Michael or Dina Lohan public statements about their eldest daughter.
@bflo it's like you're speaking for me. STP was much better live than PJam. And yeah, PJam lost me after their 3d album. So glad Scott didn't Put himself 6 feet under (yet). He's so creepily zexy to me :)
Green Day?
ReplyDeleteI hope not Steve Tyler and Aerosmith
ReplyDeleteGreen Day is a better guess for the ranking, I hope the wee Billy is doing bettet
ReplyDeleteNot Green Day! Waaaaaaa.
ReplyDeleteNo clue but Morning everyone!
ReplyDeletesomebody that played SXSW ---Soundgarden did. Can't stand them but they are A list right?
ReplyDeleteDerek, how can you not stand SOUNDGARDEN???
DeleteStones?
ReplyDeleteHey Steamy! Hey Derek! How are you guys and everyone else??
ReplyDeleteDerek, when's your date, fella??
Book club!
DeleteNot SXSW, Sydney
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3949487.htm
hey lady---this evening. kinda hung but feelin better. Nothing better than Orange Crush and some Jann Arden to get me through the day! lolll
ReplyDelete@Derek Protein, protein and more protein. Eggs, or cheeseburger always gives me the cure!
DeleteMr Violet took one of the Violet jrs to see Green Day in concert a couple of years back. Said it was one of the best gigs they'd ever seen. This was pre BJ's rehab.
ReplyDeleteWhat was my point? None I think.
DeleteI <3 u, Violet. We can be queens of the pointless comments!
Delete@TTM just dont like their songs in particular. I love Pearl Jam, Nirvana etc. but never Soundgarden...I am still trying to figure out Google Circles! LOL its just me Bee and now Sherry (yay!) lol
ReplyDeleteLove Pearl Jam! I used to kick it with one of Vedder's brothers back in the day. That whole family has done a lot of really great charitable work
DeleteGoogle Circle is hard y'all.
ReplyDeleteSoundgarden was my favorite. Used to run in to Nirvana before they hit it big and everyone but Grohl were really nice. Will never forget getting lunch at the Broadway Grill while Kurt was ordering breakfast and getting bitched ouht by Courtney for ordering bacon.
ReplyDeleteAfter making him call the waiter back to cancel the order for bacon, a shotgun seemed the only answer. If it were me I'd have aimed at her instead....
@QueenG, was it bacon- your health or bacon- vegetarian eat a face? Just curious... :-\
DeleteAwesome story, Queen! Thanks for sharing! There are a lot of people that think Love was literally involved in the shooting. If I remember well, I think even Love's dad thought so. Such a tragedy
Delete@QueeneAnne Grohl wasn't nice ?!? Isn't he known as the nicest man in rock and roll. Please say it ain't so :-/
DeleteI love Soundgarden, and Chris Cornell's solo stuff was great too (Can't Change Me); and I effing LOVED Audioslave's first album. I can't understand how you could not. Derek! Splain it!
ReplyDeleteQueen, what, everyone BUT Dave Grohl?? What do you mean?
Steamy, first book club tomorrow, woot woot!
TTM if you can find it check out Chris Cornell's acoustic solo album, it's my favourite! He does Soundgarden, Audioslave, solo and cover stuff. His cover of Billie Jean is all kinds of awesome.
DeleteThanks, katy, I will! I love his stuff, his voice is insane
DeleteWhat's the book club book? I just read the Greg I "The Quiet Game" after reading about it here -- awesome book.
Delete@K---shush!
ReplyDelete@Reno---I wish I had an appetite after drinking--you people are lucky! I am force feeding myself some toast. and took a protein vitamin.
@Queen--wow I love all that stuff--you are lucky! I met Courtney and Melisa Auf DuMaur once after a Hole show--they were nice and talked some serious smack about Winona Ryder! lol. Like Mean Girls in a band...
TTM--I think I was really young when the Super Unknown album came out and the local Radio here plays Black Hole Sun waaay too much for my liking..
ReplyDeleteTo the Canadian Contingent O T, does anyone else get the ad for Mod shoes on the posts? Their slogan is " aboot " sale. I think y'all have skewed the ad sale..:-D
ReplyDelete@Steam---no but they really want me to buy a pair of lady sandals covered in daisies..
ReplyDeleteI was with friends and we went to the bar at the top of the Space Needle (sadly, no more). They showed up and sat at the next table. Tiny space. We hung out for a bit. Maybe it was a bad day but Grohl looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there and when he spoke it was one or two words. Terse. Not a happy guy. Kris was oddly charming in a nerdish way. No CL so Mr. C seemed more relaxed. Could a lso have been the drugs.
ReplyDeleteLove Audioslave. Never was much love for Soundgarden but those were some of the best concerts I ever went to. And a dear friend who passed loved them a lot so I guess there's a sentimental attachment.
ReplyDeleteKings of Leon. Caleb followel- has been shipped off to rehab twice.
ReplyDeleteKings of Leon - hands down
ReplyDelete@Sugarbread--I saw Kings of Leon play last month--they are on tour.
ReplyDelete@Queen----when I picture the Seatle music scene to be just like when they would go to shows in the movie Singles. I am fortunate to have seen some great bands in small venues before they made it big. Something I really cherish!
@Derek - What did they say about Winona?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that, Queen.
ReplyDeleteI also picture Seattle to be exactly like Singles, and I LOVE that movie. No disbusing us of this notion, Queen!
That she is crazy and would date every indie musician under the sun but as soon as the guys would be asked about it and they stated yes I am dating her she would freak-out-break up with them-yet stalk and do things like call them 100 times and hang-up. Meanwhile it was her that would get her publicist to set her up with the guys in the first place.The name Ryan Adams was an example...
ReplyDeleteI was 15 when I met them and my best friend was/is obsessed with WR and that was the first question to come out his mouth. I was kinda embarrassed but I love ol Wino too so it was good gossip and surreal at the time. Those girls like to gossip!
ReplyDeleteNever saw Singles. Or Sleepless. Did see the Elvis movie at Seattle world s fair.
ReplyDeleteOkay time for Werther opera broadcast. Later TTM , Derek.
I never cared for Soundgarden either. Or Nirvana. What?
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome, Derek. Never been a Wino fan.
ReplyDeleteHave fun, Queen!!
LowKey, what??? It's like I don't even KNOW you!
My idea of somebody with an insane voice would be either Matt Barlow (formerly of Iced Earth) or Zak Stevens (formerly of Savatage). Those dudes can SING!
DeleteThanks, Derek. Wino seems to be super secretive about her relationships. I think the whole media frenzy with Depp scarred her for life.
ReplyDelete@Star---yeah I do LOVE many of of her movies do. It was Melissa that did most of the talking FTR --Courtney was in lala land and sorta just popped in mid-thru conversation and called her a cunt lol --I wanted to chat more with Court but she had NO interest and was very scary
ReplyDelete@Lady---thats awesome! Yeah they are rad.
ReplyDeleteHow can you like PJ and not Soundgarden?
ReplyDeleteHaven't heard Temple of the Dog?
Cornell/Vedder?
Hunger Strike
Say Hello To Heaven
@Bacon
ReplyDeleteOh man, Temple of the Dog.
Epic. Cornell & Vedder blend their voices so well.
How about Alice In Chains guys ?!?
@Derek: Your story is sooo much better! Courtney is INSANE! I have friends who met her at the Comedy Central Roast taping, where she was an incoherent shit show. But I have friends who used to work at the House of Blues, and she's scared some of them for life. I'd be too afraid to approach her, based off of some accounts of these run-ins. Court's drug regimen and stance is on par with Exene but Exene isn't a violent psychopath
ReplyDeleteIt was some common knowledge about Winona, aka "Wanna Ride Her", that she was very pushy about musicians, especially musicians into a steady relationship. She had her eyes on Beck for years. When, a decade ago, he broke up with his girlfriend, because she had cheated on him, she phoned him minutes after she heard about it. They dated for something like two weeks, but it seems that Beck, like many others, had issues with her kind of possessiveness and craziness. The stuff about keeping it a secret Derek mentions may be a good explanation. I had heard about her various dalliances with Ryan Adams, Adam Duritz and a few others.
ReplyDeleteShe also tried to have an affair with Jakob Dylan for years.
Yeah, I miss that kind of spontaneous collaboration (Santana captured the same in the late 90's) AJ.
ReplyDeleteIt was a wonderful tribute to their friend.
@Bacon
DeleteThat it was. Feeling old suddenly. Damn it.
@Lady---yeah especially being so young when I met her! SCARY lol---we won a radio contest and it was awesome yet terrifying. Melissa was REALLY nice though. She approached us as we stood in the corner awkwardly. I still have an old photo with her arm around us. So sweet.
ReplyDelete@Angela--yeah very bizzare cause I think she is so beautiful..
Singles IS seattle
ReplyDeleteSingles IS seattle
ReplyDeleteQueen anne hill is the best
ReplyDelete#Representbitches!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Dave was just having a bad day.... QueenAnne's statement is seriously the first ever I have heard about Dave not being nice.
ReplyDeleteI never liked Nirvana but am all about the Foo Fighters. And STP was the shit right around the time they did unplugged and Scott Weiland was gorgeous. Pearl Jam was great for the fist 2 albums and then they got all righteous.
The Singles Soundtrack is still in my top 5 favorite albums EVER.
I LOVE SOUNDGARDEN!
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
Except...
"Follow me into the desert, as thirsty as you are..."
@Kassandra
DeleteCrack a smile and cut your mouth and drown in alcohol ....
I'm from Seattle too. My favorite 90s Seattle band was a smaller band called Poor Old Lu.
ReplyDeleteThis is BJ Armstrong. So sad. Love him. Green Day actually hasn't played in awhile but I think Enty is referring to the SXSW set of their side project, the Foxboro Hot Tubs.
ReplyDeleteBillie Joe's drugs of choice are booze and benzodiazepines (namely Klonopin) but I've heard he also likes pain pills. Booze and benzos are a rough scene. Puts the person in a much more severe blackout. So sad. Hope whoever this is gets better
My bad, green day have played recently but that doesn't change anything about the answer; still BJA
DeleteNIN and Soundgarden are touring this year.
ReplyDeleteNever liked Soundgarden, but love Chris Cornell. And Hunger Strike with Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready on guitar, historic.
You won't find anyone in Virginia with a bad word to say about Dave Grohl.
Kinda O/T...
ReplyDeleteEven if I was not a fan of Hole, it would be hard for me to buy into the insinuations made by Enty & many others that Courtney--no matter what demons have plagued her since childhood (& us in her adulthood)--was directly or indirectly responsible for her husband's death.
Aside from Love's frequent paranoiac behavior & the Batsh*t Crazy thing, has anyone suggested a convincing motive that would drive her to pick up a shotgun & blast Cobain's head off?
As for her dad, if you know anything of Courtney's terrific parents--his creepy speculations--at the very best are on a par with the credibility of most Michael or Dina Lohan public statements about their eldest daughter.
@bflo it's like you're speaking for me. STP was much better live than PJam. And yeah, PJam lost me after their 3d album. So glad Scott didn't Put himself 6 feet under (yet). He's so creepily zexy to me :)
ReplyDeleteI can't with the SG haters- Chris and co love toronto and I haven't missed an SG or CC acoustic show in the last three years.
ReplyDeleteChris puts in an amazing solo performance- anyone who is a fan of his voice must catch one.
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ReplyDeleteLove AIC and and STP as well- shame that Scott is such a mess.
ReplyDeleteGreat minds Nolesgirl :)
ReplyDelete@Urban LOVE AIC as well.... really wish I could've seen Layne just once.
Green Day have just been in Australia headlining Soundwave Festival. Haven't heard any bad reports. Definitely not them.
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