I love mashups — they blow my mind. Imagine two or more of your favourite songs smushed together to form a new song that challenges your brain. Imagine the beatles jamming with Guns and Roses or ACDC hammering it out with Smokey Robinson, clearly these are unholy alliances. Yet, mashups are so right. What follows is some great musical mashups done by amazingly talented artists. In no particular order, here is what would be on the MaxPower Birthday Mashup Album » Read the rest of the entry..

A long time ago, an age in fact, I wrote a post called ‘Top 10 Dirtiest ACDC Songs’. Since then, I have had several blog incarnations and had lost the text. Sad. But Lo, a fortitious email brings word of said long lost post! Seems I was smart enough to submit it to blogcritics. Seeing as how I wrote it, I now place it in its rightful home here on maxpower.

In the interveening years, my appreciation for ACDC has only deepened. They truly rocked SARS stock. So with a new appreciation, I present a redux of the original — Top 10 Dirtiest ACDC Songs.

ACDC is indeed one of the greatest live rock acts to be seen, full stop. You can’t help but smile pump your fist when you hear the chorus of ‘caught with your pants down.’ Recently, I was pondering life, wondering how these guys could be so successful and it hit me! Steps to success: 1) simple blues based hard rock, 2) distortion, 3) schoolboy outfit, and 4) crazy voiced singers. Sheer genius! Its like they are in a rock n’roll band singing about sex, drugs, and rock n’roll… What moxy!

Anyway, I was listening to ACDC and came up with this short list of their best innuendo filled rock numbers. Each song is listed with a small choice lyrical excerpt. For those of you not familiar with ACDC, I’m not making this up. Drumroll please….

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What would happen if Guns and Roses teamed up with the Beatles? I think it would sound like this….

Jimmie James from www.djjj.tk made this litte number. His website stinks, but he’s certainly got an ear. Who knew that GnR and the beatles could work so well together? Its ironic that I would hear the beatles jam with GnR before ‘Chinese Democracy.’

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Mashups are getting better and better. With Trent recently releasing a single for the remix / mashup crowd some odd combos were sure to happen. This is one of them, except its really good. Check it out at: nathanchase.com

Update: 17/05/04, check out this little mashup too. It will make your mind explode.

Chris Anderson of the Long Tail blog has neatly summarized a few media statistics by meduim (which is the message). For example, music sales where down 21% last year. So what does this mean? Who knows, but in conjunction with this smackdown of an article by Michael Geist entitled, Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience » Read the rest of the entry..

Do you think Vanilla really glows when the lights are off? » Read the rest of the entry..

At first the Dave Mathews band was good. Then it was everywhere, the corperate mofo’s made sure that you couldn’t go through a day without hearing dave once. This ruined dave. Many started to believe that dave and his band sucked ass. Then it became a fact, dave and his music really do spew crap from their instruments. Then metaphor became reality when dave literally crapped on people. To be fair, it was dave’s crap, but it wasn’t dave who did the crapping. The story of dave and his ironic crap is now complete.

Band Driver Pleads Guilty To Dumping Waste

I consider myself fairly knowledable regarding rock n roll, however, I have never heard of buckethead. Buckethead is a guitarist who has worked with a ton of people and is apparently pretty good. Buckethead wears a KFC bucket on his head. I came across his name for the firt time while reading a NYT story about the Guns and Roses album, Chinese Democracy The most expensive album never made. [No reg required version @ Houston Chronicle]

Here is a brief excerpt from that story, bold added for emphasis:

[Axl] accompanied Buckethead on a jaunt to Disneyland when the guitarist was drifting toward quitting, several people involved recalled; then Buckethead announced he would be more comfortable working inside a chicken coop, so one was built for him in the studio, from wood planks and chicken wire.

Here is Buckethead’s bio from Artist Direct:

Buckethead is one of the most bizarre and enigmatic figures in American underground and experimental music since Parliament-Funkadelic birthed their bevy of cosmic characters in the mid-’70s. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist best known for his virtuosic command of the electric guitar, Buckethead is one of the instrument’s most recognizable contemporary innovators, his rapid-fire riffing, near-robotic fretwork, and idiosyncratic lead lines combining elements of Yngwie Malmsteen, Adrian Belew, Slayer’s Kerry King, P-Funk’s Eddie Hazel, and avant-improv artist John Zorn’s Scud-attack sax abuse. His first group, the San Francisco-based metal-funk combine the Deli Creeps, was a regional success, but disbanded before they could release anything. Buckethead’s solo career has been more productive, thanks mostly to the motivation of Zorn and Bill Laswell, the latter of whom Buckethead has also recorded and toured with in Praxis. Laswell has also produced a number of Buckethead’s solo albums (including Dreamatorium and Day of the Robot ) and included him on more than a dozen one-off recordings with the likes of Hakim Bey, Bootsy Collins, Anton Fier, Jonas Hellborg, and Bernie Worrell. In addition to releases including 1998’s Colma , Buckethead has also contributed soundtrack material to such films as Last Action Hero and Street Fighter, returning in 1999 with Monsters and Robots.

Sean Cooper, All Music Guide