1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Welcome everyone to episode 395 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And for this episode, Jeremy Weltman is back to talk about releases that came out in the month of July. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 In the month of September, yeah, life kind of gets in the way. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 I haven't been able to knock this one out until now. 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:30,000 But here we go, Jeremy and I discussing July 2024. 6 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:03,000 So the next two episodes are going to be essentially Jeremy and me discussing new music. 7 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 New music is important to me. 8 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Like I've said in the past, if you follow the show, I dedicate these shows to the lazy listener that says that no good music has come out in 40 years. 9 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Who say, hey man, I have so and so's last album. 10 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Their last album came out in 91 and they've released 27 albums since and they've because they've checked out. 11 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Doesn't mean that you have to check out. 12 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 So I hope that you enjoy these conversations between Jeremy and myself. 13 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 I have a lot of fun talking to him or any of my patrons, to be honest with you. 14 00:01:47,000 --> 00:02:01,000 And this goes beyond Jeremy being a patron because he's become an integral part of the podcast and helps me do these shows once a month. 15 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 I don't like crying or complaining or stuff. 16 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 He's stood all the time. 17 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Comfortable with the small knit family that we do have now. 18 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:25,000 It's better to have people that are into the show and like to interact with you instead of having millions of people that couldn't give a crap about you and are just looking to tear you down. 19 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And at least I know that the people that do follow really enjoy what I do. 20 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 If not, they wouldn't be sticking around all this time since 2009. 21 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Folks is when I started doing this. 22 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,000 So it's been 15 years and. 23 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Yeah, it. 24 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 It still boggles my mind that a lot of times people will say, and this isn't referring to my show. 25 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Hey, man, you guys are the only ones that talk about new music. 26 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 And we've been talking about new music for 15 years here. 27 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 We've been introducing people to new bands. 28 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 We've been into interviewing people. 29 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,000 We've been letting people know that their favorite artists have just put out. 30 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Another new album or they have a new track coming out. 31 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 I can't play music like I used to. 32 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Sure, I could if I wanted to. 33 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 But then I risk getting kicked off of Spotify. 34 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I risk getting, you know, if there's any ramifications down the road, I don't want to mess around with any of that stuff. 35 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 So and I've had episodes kicked off of Spotify as a result. 36 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:50,000 But up there on Patreon, I post videos daily. 37 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 So there's new music to check out all the time. 38 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 And I'm not asking for a ridiculous amount of money. 39 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 I'm asking for two bucks a month. 40 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Your voice gets heard when it comes to choosing what the next Patreon specials will be or the next patron specials will be. 41 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Haven't done one of those in a while and look forward to doing a few between now and the end of the year. 42 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Folks, we're almost in October, so it is almost the end of the year. 43 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:25,000 So these episodes with Jeremy and myself will help you guys compile your year endless and will help you guys. 44 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Determine what albums you missed out throughout the year and what maybe you should check out. 45 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:39,000 If you go to signalsfromr's.com and you scroll down on the home page, the monthly albums review, 46 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:46,000 you'll find the last three episodes right there that are based on this specific topic. 47 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,000 And oh, yeah, you can click on here for more monthly album and find out the rest. 48 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 So Jeremy and I have you covered. Hope you enjoy our banter. 49 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Hope you share this with your friends, share it on social media. 50 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Support the show. Pick up merch. Do whatever you can to help us out. 51 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:29,000 All right. Thank you so much. And here we go. 52 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Welcome, one and all, to the latest edition of Signals from Mars. 53 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I'm your host, Victor, and joining me is Mr. Jeremy Weltman. 54 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Jeremy, how are you today? Yeah, good. Thanks, Victor. 55 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Nice warm day here in the UK. And you're in the home of metal, as usual, which is the United Kingdom. 56 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 How are you doing? You've been away. I've been away. 57 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:58,000 This is the first time we've recorded since June, maybe. Yeah. 58 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,000 June, maybe May. I don't even remember. But this is just like riding a bike. 59 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Jeremy and I are back in September to talk about July releases. 60 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:16,000 So we've still got August coming your way, which we still have not recorded either. 61 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:23,000 But yeah, we're going to recap some of what came out over the summer here. 62 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And starting out on July 5th, which we had releases from Kissin Dynamite, 63 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Visions of Atlantis, Ordin Ogan. I hope I said that right, Brad Doll. Ordin Ogan. 64 00:06:41,000 --> 00:07:01,000 OK. Tommy Vex, Nictifobia, Kryptos, Zastor, the Triceratops, Octoploid, 65 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Mine Road, EPs from Palmar, Detroit, reissues from Slayer, Clutch and Fallujah, and a live album from Slayer. 66 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Jeremy, what did you listen to this week? 67 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Yeah, so I began by listening to the classic rock sounds of Kissin Dynamite, 68 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:28,000 the German band that, as you know, emerged on the scene in 2006, producing albums consistently every two years now. 69 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 And this is their eighth studio album. It's called Back with a Bang. 70 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Nothing unexpected with this one. It's very solid, glitzy, sort of classic rock, hair metal music. 71 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Twelve songs on it. It's very proficient. The singer Hans Braun, I think his name is Hans Braun, Hans Braun. 72 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Sounds a little sort of old school Bon Jovi. 73 00:07:51,000 --> 00:08:00,000 He sure has the sort of rock star looks that might appeal to Mrs. W. But is it any good, I hear you cry? 74 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Well, yes, there are some fine melodies and choruses. It's all sort of kind of throwback stuff, nothing new. 75 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 But it's a very enjoyable listen, nevertheless. So that was quite good. 76 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 And I then moved on quickly to Decimator by Kryptos, which I think you mentioned to me, Victor. 77 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Yes. 78 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Yeah, you did. A band from India formed in the late 90s that are self-styled pioneers of India's modern heavy metal movement, apparently. 79 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Because obviously I didn't know very much about them before until you put me onto it. 80 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,000 This is their seventh album. It treads a familiar path of, you know, quite sort of tight riffs, strained vocals. 81 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 You'd expect to hear on sort of hundreds of these 1980s new Wobham bands. 82 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 It has a bit of a sort of a nice sort of real comforting glow about it as well. 83 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,000 It's sort of good to hear something that sounds like this. 84 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 And it's a real sort of solid throwback material, I think. 85 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Unlike many bands out there, it has enough grit and edge to be relevant as well. 86 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I think that's kind of why you sort of pointed me towards this band. 87 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And so, you know, although it's sort of rather straightforward type of music, it's quite simple with sort of the melodies and lyrics. 88 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 You know, it was pretty good. So, yeah, that was a good suggestion by you. 89 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Then after dipping into sort of a few death and black metal albums during the week and wondering what, you know, I was going to choose for my album of the week, 90 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I came across something really interesting. It was called Tomorrow's Sky by a band I've not heard of before called Mine Road from Dublin, Ireland. 91 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Apparently, they went on hiatus for a while. 92 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Some of the band members emigrated to Australia and the US and they came back in 2019, apparently. 93 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:58,000 There are definitely sort of US, Aussie and Irish influences all mixed in here on a really good hard rocking album. 94 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I guess you can sort of think Slash, think Phil Campbell, think Black Star Riders rock and roll, that kind of music. 95 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,000 So I really quite enjoyed that one. And that's my pick of the week. 96 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Excellent. Yeah, for me, I listened to the Kryptos, which, again, I don't remember. 97 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,000 I don't remember if it came out in July or June, actually. 98 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:31,000 It may be one of these albums that because I received the promo, the dates may have changed. 99 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:40,000 I don't remember. I listed that. I listened to the Ordyn Ogan as well. 100 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Those are the two that kind of stood out to me the most. 101 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 There's one track off of The Order of Fear, which is the Ordyn Ogan album called Moonfire, 102 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 which I've listened to quite a lot while on vacation. 103 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It was kind of in steady rotation there. There was a few songs that were in that rotation. 104 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,000 But I think I'll have to go with Decimator from Kryptos because I think it's got more songs. 105 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:16,000 It's got like five or six songs that I really enjoy. The Order of Fear has like two songs that I really like. 106 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:25,000 The rest is kind of paint by numbers, symphonic rock. It really isn't that big of a deal. 107 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:33,000 So yeah, that's going to be my pick for July 5th. Cool. 108 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:43,000 So July 12th, we had new albums from Mr. Big, Unearthed, Tim Montana, Northbound, 109 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Wind Hearts Wake, Wind Waker, Deep Al Brindle, Van Helge, I don't know how you pronounce that, 110 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Palace, Spectra, Plutocracy, Plutocracy Planet, Ver and Zidde, American Overdose, 111 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Butterside, Turin and Obscure, live albums from Amorphis and Nicolo, Kotzev's Nostradamus, 112 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:36,000 reissues from Testament, they reissued their first two albums, reissue from Candlebox, 113 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,000 and a day to remember, the 15th anniversary of Homesick. 114 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Now, what did you listen to for this week, Jeremy? 115 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Yeah, so this week I sort of stuck with Frontiers for a hat trick of albums. 116 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,000 First up was the poppy rock sounds of a band from London, England called Palace. 117 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I don't know if they're from sort of Crystal Palace area, but anyway, 118 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 they've released three albums prior to this, I believe. 119 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I thought I'd hate it, but this band can certainly write an 80s soft rock tune with great melodies 120 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,000 and choruses as well, so of course it won't appeal to the average death metal fan, 121 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:18,000 but don't dismiss it if you like hook-laden 80s tunes with that unmistakable 80s keyboards and drums. 122 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 It verges a little bit on new romantics occasionally, but just about steers clear, 123 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:29,000 and hell, can these guys write good songs, so you know, it's certainly worth an hour of my time or just less. 124 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 I also dug into the Mr. Big album called Ten. 125 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:39,000 This band obviously dates back to 1988, and to be honest, never really made that much of an impression on me, 126 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 but it does have Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert involved, 127 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 so it's a band certainly worth checking out, I think, because of the names there. 128 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:53,000 It's really quite a listenable offering too, I think, but it's on the softer side of hard rock and metal as well, 129 00:13:53,000 --> 00:14:01,000 and it does have some fairly well-crafted songs, but overall, it wasn't completely taken by it. 130 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 My favourite, the lot really, was an album called Hypnotized by Spectra. 131 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 This was a really enjoyable melodic offering. 132 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 This time it's a band from Brazil. 133 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:19,000 It appears to be their second album. It follows on from their debut, Overload, in 2021. 134 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:27,000 These guys can really play. They've got a really great vocalist too, who's worked with Jeff Scott Soto, who we know, 135 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 and added to that is, you know, there's some really good production. 136 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 It really sort of raises the songs into, you know, what I call the premier league, 137 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 because often, you know, you can listen to these sort of bands and, you know, you think, oh, they're OK, but they're nothing special. 138 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,000 And I know sometimes we criticise Frontiers really for putting together sort of makeshift bands and releasing stuff that is a bit forgettable, 139 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,000 but when they do get it right, they get it right, and Spectra are a really decent melodic rock outfit, you know, I really like them. 140 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 So, yeah, that's my album of the week. 141 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:06,000 OK, I got to listen to the Mr. Big album 10. 142 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:13,000 This can fall under the Black Country Communion, where the. 143 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Parts should give you something different, in my opinion. 144 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 But. Yeah, they've. 145 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,000 They've got songs here and there that I enjoy, and there's like one song that I think is really good off of this album. 146 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:37,000 The rest is. I've heard all before, you know, there's kind of no need for this for me personally. 147 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I'm not a big fan either. Got to listen to Juniper by Northbound. 148 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000 It is a pop punk album. 149 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Kind of run of the mill pop punk, nothing out of the ordinary. 150 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Plutocracy Planet, self-titled album. 151 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Got to listen to that. It's a mixture of a bunch of different things, 152 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 but doesn't really do enough to kind of stand out. 153 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:14,000 And then the other one that I listened to is American Overdose with artificial infection. 154 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That's self-released and it's a mixture of industrial and symphonic. 155 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Metal, to be honest. 156 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,000 There isn't really anything that sticks out to me this week to say this is my album of the week. 157 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:40,000 For me, it was kind of a down week, nothing that absolutely sucked, but nothing that. 158 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Really stood out to say, oh yeah, I, you know, I put my seal of approval on that one. 159 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Yeah, that could happen. Yeah. Yeah. We've had that happen a few times in the past. 160 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 So moving on to the 19th. 161 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:04,000 We had new albums from Deep Purple, Paul Diano's War Horse, Orange Goblin. 162 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,000 The Chris Slade Timeline. Wow. That's one that I really want to listen to and I totally forgot about. 163 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 That's what vacation does to you. 164 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Patriarchs in Black, Rivers of Nil, Her Heads on Fire, Flat Black, 165 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:26,000 which features Jason Hook, former guitarist of Five Finger Death Punch, 166 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Sable Hill, Ceremony of Silence, Worshipper, Ruby Ate the Fig, 167 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:41,000 The Stabbing Jabs, EPs from Calling All Captains and Tracheotomy, reissues. 168 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:50,000 There's one, two, three, four reissues from In Flames, one from Mr. Bungle and one from Pussifer. 169 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:58,000 So Jeremy, we overlap on a few of these this week. What's your opinion or what stood out to you? 170 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:07,000 So, yeah, I checked out Paul Diano's War Horse first of all, obviously the former Iron Maiden frontman with his self-titled album. 171 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Plus it mentions that it's with Madaraqa and Poopy, presumably some contractual obligation there with the two relatively unknown Croatian musicians. 172 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,000 But they do the best on it. But I don't know why they have to be mentioned. 173 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:32,000 This isn't terrible, but it comes close on too many occasions for my liking, on too many songs. 174 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 I mean, for one thing, I think Diano really struggles with his voice. 175 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,000 I don't think he ever had a very strong voice. But obviously when he's a young man and with Iron Maiden, 176 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,000 it had that sort of nice punky feel. I think he lets it down a little bit on the mix and production, 177 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000 which are not quite right to my ears as well. I think it's done on the cheap. 178 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:58,000 The website notes that they spent two years perfecting this album, but the songs, although they're not actually lacking in melody, 179 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:05,000 they're mostly quite basic and the lyrics are a lot to be desired. The cover song Precious has something about it. 180 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:11,000 So maybe they should have done more of that than dated old school metal stuff. 181 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:19,000 So maybe it's just best really listening to a deep Depeche Mode album than picking this up because I wasn't very impressed. 182 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And I didn't expect to be. So my second album of the week was more rewarding, I think. 183 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:31,000 It was Strange Desires by Her Heads on Fire. This is a sort of indie post-hardcore band, 184 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 a quartet featuring members of other bands I've not really heard of. 185 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I couldn't find anything at all on where they're from, this band. They're either from the US or they're from England. 186 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:51,000 But I have no idea. It was very typical indie music of the 80s and 90s. It had sort of occasional glimpses of Oasis there. 187 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:58,000 They had some good songs at varying speeds. It was well worth my time listening to it. 188 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:05,000 And hopefully the listeners out there will find something in it, even if it's not in the normal sort of hard rock and metal sphere. 189 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:16,000 It was worth listening to. I really couldn't fault the album of the week, even though it's not spectacular, but it is very interesting. 190 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:24,000 It's the album Equals One by Deep Purple. I think it's worth remembering that the band was actually formed 56 years ago, 191 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:32,000 which is almost my age. I was two years old when they were formed. They're still featuring the original drummer Ian Pace. 192 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:38,000 They have Mark II, Purple, Star Wars, Roger Glover and Ian Gillan in the band still. 193 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Their recent albums have been sort of fairly loose affairs, various members sort of unleashing their creative juices and just sort of playing whatever they like, really. 194 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:56,000 This is no exception. It's sort of an eclectic mix of boogie, blues, soul, full influences, you know, all sort of a bit of prog there, a bit of rock, you know. 195 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:03,000 It's all very quintessentially purple, though. It's got that sort of distinctive keyboard sound, which is now the domain of Don Aery, 196 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:10,000 who, by the way, like Gillan, Glover and Pace, is in his late seventies now. You have to remember how old these guys are. 197 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:16,000 It's not a metal album at all, and the rockier moments now are sort of few and far between these days, 198 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:22,000 but you do get real heaps of outstanding melodies, really super production on their albums. 199 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And it's my choice of the week in what I think is really a super year for British rock music. And long may it continue. 200 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 All right. So real quickly, her head's on fire is from New York City. 201 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Oh, there we go. Thanks. You solved the puzzle. 202 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 There we go. Yeah. 203 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:51,000 So I got to listen to two of those three. I listened to the Paul D'Anno. 204 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,000 So the first track War Horse is OK. Yeah. 205 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,000 The Depeche Mode covers the best song on the album, I think. Precious. 206 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Totally agree. Why on earth he decided to cover Tequila is beyond me. 207 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I was thinking, first of all, recovering alcoholic all these issues with alcohol in the past. 208 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I'm like, he's got a song called Tequila's. This doesn't make sense. Like, OK, but let me let me let me give it a listen. 209 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:30,000 And then all of a sudden. He's the song starts and I'm like. 210 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 This is the song from the Pee Wee Herman movie. This is Tequila. 211 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,000 This is what Paul Rubens would come out and dance to on the Gong show in the late 70s. 212 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:48,000 I'm like, oh, my God, seriously made zero sense to me. But then. 213 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:55,000 What else? I listed the Patriarchs in Black that had some really cool songs on it as well. 214 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Listen to the Deep Purple. I was I was driving to the Limp Bizkit concert when when we were listening to this. 215 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,000 And my youngest son says to me, this isn't bad, but. 216 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:19,000 I think it's kind of boring. I said, son, it's it's British hard rock. 217 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:25,000 It's a bunch of guys in their 70s. They're doing what they can. 218 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:32,000 The true standout to me is Simon McBride on this album because his solos are fantastic. 219 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 They're a lot. They're a lot better than what I expected. 220 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:45,000 So he's got some really like balls to the walls, fiery solos on here where, you know, I'm not the hugest, the purple fan, 221 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 but I don't recall Steve Morris doing those types of solos. 222 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:59,000 I think he wanted to steer so far away from Richie Blackmore that he kind of didn't do some of that stuff. 223 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:07,000 And I think Simon McBride is has fit in really well and and bringing that aspect back to the band. 224 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,000 What else did I listen to here? Oh, well, it would be my pick of the week. 225 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:18,000 It would be Science, not fiction by the British band Orange Goblin. 226 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:24,000 I've been a fan of theirs for such a long time. Great. 227 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Stoner Rock, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal, however you want to categorize them, just powerful, huge riffs, great melodies. 228 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:44,000 They remind me a lot of the Quill because they've kind of drank from the same kind of fountain that Black Sabbath Fountain. 229 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:51,000 And you can always count on at least half of an album being really good and memorable. 230 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:59,000 So this week, my pick is Orange Goblin with Science, not fiction. 231 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Awesome. So let's let's move on here to the last week in July. 232 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:15,000 And I kind of miscategorize this funny because I listened to a live album almost right off the bat here. 233 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:24,000 But anyway, studio albums from category seven, the debut album that features John Bush, 234 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Jason Bittner from a Shadow's Fall. He just left Overkill, 235 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Michael Orlando, Phil Demmel, who's best known for Machine Head and Violence and Jack Gibson, who's best known for Exodus on bass. 236 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000 New albums from, let's see, Bisto, Blanco. 237 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:51,000 But I think that's the wrong date because I remember not being able to find the album. 238 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Verney, which is I just mentioned Overkill. That's Dee Dee Verney from Overkill, his new solo album. 239 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:10,000 New albums also from Dream Evil, Disloyal, Duskwalker, Iron Flame, Skalled, Mountaineer, Wizard Tattoo, 240 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Beyond All Hope. 241 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 How the hell do you pronounce this? 242 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Oh, Orison Space Collective. 243 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Reissues from Sacred Rake, which I have in a box behind me, which I have not opened yet. 244 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Actually, same with the category seven. Reissue from Bad Brains, King Buzzo, EP from El Nino, 245 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:46,000 and live albums from Ghost, the soundtrack to Right Here Right Now, which is a live album in concert per se. 246 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:53,000 And Pete Townsend, live in concert 1985 through 2001. 247 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Jeremy, what did you listen to this week and what stood out to you? 248 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Yeah, so just a couple for you really. The first one, I listened to Metal Gods by the Swedish metal band Dream Evil. 249 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,000 For the most part, I thought this was kind of bog standard heavy metal, sort of cum power metal. 250 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Good production, some Judas Priest kind of edges to it. A singer that is really well suited to this type of music. 251 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:25,000 And overall, I thought it was a reasonably enjoyable listen, shorter being a real standout. 252 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Though it did point me to some of their early releases and it was worth the time digging in, 253 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,000 because I kind of liked their debut album and one or two other bits and pieces along the way as well. 254 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,000 So yeah, they're quite an enjoyable band, but nothing spectacular. 255 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:47,000 My album of the week, though, just sort of moving straight onto that, because I didn't listen to a lot in this week, 256 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:54,000 was the Right Here Right Now, the original motion picture soundtrack, the live album from Ghost, which I thought was really good. 257 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,000 I mean, this is a band I've slowly sort of come to appreciate in recent years, 258 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 particularly their latest studio album, which I thought was outstanding. 259 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:10,000 There are a smattering of songs from that particular album on this, and what you get is a really sort of good best of package. 260 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:17,000 There's 18 songs, one hour, 30 minutes set, packed full of really great songs, played well. 261 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Whatever the studio trimmings may have been done to kind of improve it, we don't know. 262 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:29,000 But whatever you think about how Ghost the band has kind of risen to become a sort of really strong premier act in recent years, 263 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:36,000 you can't get away from the fact that they're real performers with a unique sound to their output. 264 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,000 I've seen them actually twice myself and once in a tent at Leeds Festival, 265 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,000 and again on a bigger stage supporting Metallica at Manchester City's Ground. 266 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:52,000 They're really good. It's a reputation well deserved, and I really enjoyed this album. 267 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 It's one you can play and play again. 268 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000 I guess in a different time zone, a different sort of era, 269 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:06,000 maybe we'd be talking about Ghost along with UFO, Thin Lizzy, all those great live albums, 270 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,000 because I think they kind of missed out on that era. 271 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,000 And if they don't be as massive as those bands, 272 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:22,000 it's only because they're just at the wrong time period, but they deserve it. 273 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 So I got to listen to the Ghost album, 274 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:33,000 and I just want to dovetail with what you just said, because I think the album is great. 275 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:41,000 I think your assessment is really good because you listen to a lot of live albums nowadays, 276 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:49,000 and they sound so homogenized, they sound boring and slow, and like the band is just filling a contract. 277 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,000 And with Right Here Right Now, some of these songs are sped up, they're played a little differently. 278 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:02,000 So it's kind of what we used to get when we listened to Strangers in the Night and Live After Death, 279 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,000 and Kiss Alive 1 and 2, where it's a different take on the albums. 280 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000 And you kind of don't care if they were touched up in the studio, 281 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,000 because the feel, the energy is there, and it makes you remember the actual live show. 282 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:27,000 So this is kind of the first live album in a really long time that I listened to on a consistent basis. 283 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000 I listened to this album quite a few times while on vacation. 284 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:40,000 So this is a really, really, really good album. 285 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:47,000 The Sacred Rite album that I mentioned that I received, Heel, which is a reissue, that's a good album. 286 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:59,000 That was their last album before they released Awakening in, I think, 2019, if I'm not mistaken. 287 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:05,000 Not a bad album, not their strongest, but still has some really good material on it. 288 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000 The Verney Dreadful Company album is really cool. 289 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000 It's Dee Dee doing Ramones and Misfits and stuff like that. 290 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:19,000 So if you're into that kind of music, Dee Dee does it justice. 291 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:27,000 And my pick of the week, it could easily be The Ghost, just like you. 292 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:34,000 But I'm going to go with category seven just because I've listened to quite a few songs off of this on vacation as well. 293 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Like I said, this is the quote unquote supergroup with John Bush and a bunch of other people. 294 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 There's some really good music on here. 295 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Mike Orlando is usually shredding all over the place. 296 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000 And the whole band is great. 297 00:31:51,000 --> 00:32:02,000 This will finally give him, I think, an outlet for a lot of the Anthrax material that he hasn't played in many years. 298 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,000 But I'm curious to see, I mean, they're signed the Metal Blade. 299 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Is this a one off? If this is going to be a band that, yeah, they plan on recording two, three albums. 300 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Is this a we'll wait and see after we go out and tour? Is there a demand? 301 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:28,000 I don't know. I'm interested to find out where they're going with all of this. 302 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,000 But definitely check it out. And it sounds nothing like Thin Lizzy. 303 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:38,000 I'm sorry, but they originally said this is like them doing Thin Lizzy. 304 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:44,000 Yeah, I don't know. This is kind of more like John Bush doing thrash again. 305 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000 It's more what it's like to me. But what do I know? 306 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:59,000 So real quickly here, let's just recap some of our picks here for the week of the fifth. 307 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000 You picked Kissing Dynamite, is that right? Yeah, that's right. 308 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:11,000 OK, I picked Kryptos with Decimator. No, I picked Mine Road. 309 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Kissing Diamond. Sorry, Kissing Dynamite was the first one I mentioned, but Mine Road. 310 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,000 Yeah. OK. My mistake. Mine Road with Tomorrow's Sky. 311 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,000 OK. The second week, I didn't pick anything and you picked. 312 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,000 The next one was Spectra Hypnotized. OK, cool. 313 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Nineteenth, you went with Deep Purple. Yeah. 314 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:43,000 OK. And I went with Orange Goblin, Science Not Fiction. 315 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:48,000 And then for the last week in July, the 26th. So it was Ghost. 316 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Yeah. And I went with Category 7, but that Ghost album is great as well. 317 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:00,000 So you can't go wrong with with either one. 318 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000 So let's see here. Jeremy's always great about sending me 319 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:11,000 different items to discuss. And unfortunately, my browser kind of just froze. 320 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:18,000 So I got to look at the points that you sent on my phone. 321 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Yeah, I can remember them. So. 322 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Let's see. Your first point here, our gigs. You have Lincoln Park, Rock Witch. 323 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Yeah, because obviously you went to see a gig in the US. 324 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,000 So interested. Well, I think everybody else would be interested just to hear how you got on there. 325 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:48,000 But that was actually Loserville. Loserville was Corey Feldman. 326 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Nate No Face, Bones and Lincoln Park. 327 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,000 Not Lincoln Park. Why do I keep saying Lincoln Park? Limp Bizkit. 328 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Yeah, Limp Bizkit. Yeah, yeah. 329 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:09,000 Everyone is going around posting the worst guitar solo of all time, which is Corey Feldman. 330 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Folks, I got to see it in person. 331 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Corey Feldman is doing his whole 332 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Michael Jackson thing. 333 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Nate No Face was a guy with a sampler 334 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000 just like barking into a mic. 335 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Nate No Face or not Nate No Face. Bones was three different rappers 336 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 that did all types of like 337 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,000 they did everything from dark wave to some synth pop to just some flat out 338 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000 hip hop and rap. 339 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,000 And then Limp Bizkit came on. Limp Bizkit did not disappoint. 340 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000 My youngest son loved it. 341 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 At one point, they invited everyone who was under 12 to go up on stage with them. 342 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 And he was like, Dad, I'll see you in a little bit. 343 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,000 And I said, you're not moving from my side, my friend, because we didn't just fly 344 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000 3000 miles for you to get lost in a concert. 345 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,000 So come on. It's a once in a lifetime thing. 346 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:26,000 Yeah, I understand. It's also once in a lifetime that I would be 347 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 headed if I got home and didn't come home with you. 348 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,000 So, yeah, we'll stick with the show. The show was good. It was entertaining. 349 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000 As Mark Striegel said, I think that they're leaning into the whole 350 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Loserville thing, into the whole I mean, the last album was called Limp Bizkit Sucks. 351 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000 They're really kind of leaning into all that. 352 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,000 And I got to tell you, I think with Lawnseeds, 353 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000 PNC Bank Art Center in New Jersey, I think it's somewhere between 25 and 30 354 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,000 that fit in there. And it was pretty full. 355 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000 I would say it was 90 something percent capacity. 356 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:13,000 So a lot of people are still into Limp Bizkit, regardless what others will say, 357 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000 regardless how other people will poo poo the band. 358 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000 It was entertaining. I enjoyed it. 359 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,000 I knew all but two songs. They covered. 360 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,000 They kind of covered Bon Jovi and they covered Rage Against the Machine. 361 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:37,000 So there you go. How about for you? You went to Rockwich then. 362 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Yeah, just before I say that, it's cool that you went with your son because I've been to a couple of shows with my daughter, 363 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000 just me and my daughter. Those are the ones you remember. 364 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 So, you know, in years to come, they're just fantastic. 365 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000 Yeah, so I went to Rockwich, which is in Northwich, which is where I live. 366 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:00,000 It's on every year. It puts on a lot of small bands, you know, mostly almost entirely from the UK. 367 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000 They're on the sort of classic rock circuit, all young bands. 368 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:09,000 And I they have a sort of acoustic night the night before, but I didn't go to that. 369 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:15,000 I went with my wife to the main show. We went early evening and it starts at 12 midday. 370 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000 So there's a lot going on all day, but we thought we wouldn't last and we were doing other stuff. 371 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 We went sort of late afternoon, early evening. 372 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:29,000 We got in and I think Ash and Reach were a band playing and we sort of caught their last song. 373 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,000 And then a band called A Priori came on and they were pretty good. 374 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,000 Typical sort of nice melodic heavy metal. Really like them. 375 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:47,000 The best band that we saw, well, we saw the Karma Effect, which were a bit of a black rosy type band. 376 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,000 I really liked them. My wife didn't find them entertaining at all. 377 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:58,000 So that was interesting that, you know, I bought the album and she didn't like it. 378 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 But then we both really liked the next band on, which was superb. 379 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,000 They were the second to last band on called The Virgin Marys. Just two guys. 380 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 So they're a bit like Royal Blood, a bit like... 381 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Who's the other band with the two? Oh, White Stripes. Yeah. 382 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:19,000 So, you know, that sort of thing, really. They use a lot of effects to help it along, but they don't often make a noise. 383 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:25,000 They were absolutely tremendous. If you ever get a chance to listen out for them, they're really good. 384 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:31,000 And it was just there was a headline act on as well, which is just... I forgot the name of. 385 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,000 We saw a few songs by them. They're very much an ACDC type band, but really good at it. 386 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,000 The name will jump out in a minute. But we had to go at that stage. We had to get home. 387 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000 And they actually came on an hour late because it was all running a bit late. 388 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000 It was getting on past midnight and we had to go for various reasons. 389 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000 So, yeah, but it was... What we saw was amazing. It was cheap to go. 390 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,000 The crowd was great, you know, small crowd, all the bands mixed with you. They were selling lots of merch. 391 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000 Fantastic. Really enjoyed it. Cool. 392 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:14,000 And by the way, my oldest son wanted to go see... was Bush, Jerry Cantrell and Candlebox. 393 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000 He wanted to see Jerry Cantrell play. 394 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:23,000 And I found out that he was only playing, I believe, like eight to ten songs and was only playing about half an hour. 395 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:29,000 And I said, yeah, let's just wait until he comes back with Alice in Chains. 396 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:36,000 So because that's what, you know, the material that he enjoys the most by that. 397 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000 All right. So dynamic pricing. 398 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:48,000 Dynamic pricing is something that a lot of people are really annoyed about in the States. 399 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Bruce Springsteen was kind of the first guy that really reap the rewards of that. 400 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:05,000 So a guy that was a real meat and potatoes type of guy and, you know, a fan's artist, per se. 401 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000 This last tour, I guess he's looking to finish off paying his mansions or something. 402 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:19,000 And dynamic pricing is coming to effect where the prices just keep going up and up, 403 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:25,000 especially on seats that are closer to the front of the show. 404 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:31,000 I know that when I picked up the Limp Bizkit tickets, 405 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:45,000 they were offering discounts on certain seats for that show and for like 50 different shows that were going to take place this summer. 406 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,000 So there, well, there. 407 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000 The government, the U.S. government is kind of going after them. 408 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:58,000 So I'm assuming this is why they did that. It was not of the kindness of their heart. 409 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:11,000 But the dynamic pricing kind of came from Ticketmaster and from Live Nation as a way to gouge fans, especially post COVID. 410 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:20,000 So it isn't kind of being looked upon very favorably in the U.S. 411 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000 How about in the U.K.? 412 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:30,000 Yeah. So the reason why I kind of mentioned this, Oasis were having their sort of ticket sales last weekend, you know, for the reform band. 413 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:39,000 And they originally were at, I think, £160 for, you know, inclusive of all the fees or whatever. 414 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000 And so, you know, we were all sort of sitting there. 415 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Everyone in the country was really sitting there trying to get tickets for the what was I think 12 shows. 416 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,000 And then they added a few more. And then apparently some people got through. 417 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000 And when they got through, they doubled the price as they were, you know, trying to get the tickets. 418 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:05,000 And so they were facing this dilemma immediately because obviously you've got like a minute or two to decide whether you want to take that ticket. 419 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:14,000 And they'd been on all day, these people, and realized now that they're having to pay double for the ticket that they thought was going to be 160 quid. 420 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000 So it's well over £300 for the ticket. 421 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:23,000 And so it was it's caused a ferrari here. The government's got involved. They're looking into it. 422 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Ticketmaster, to be fair, say that it's nothing to do with them. 423 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:35,000 They say that it's to do with the promoters, that presumably what is happening is the promoters are saying to Ticketmaster, 424 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000 listen, if there's demand, we want to double the price. 425 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000 And Ticketmaster are just saying, yeah, no problem. Whatever you want to do, we'll do because, you know, we take a cut of it. 426 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:51,000 So, you know, what are they going to say? Oh, no, we won't do that for you because, you know, we're not going to we can, you know, 427 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:56,000 we're shutting ourselves out of the extra cash that we're going to get because I don't know what the cut is. 428 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,000 But, you know, Ticketmaster are going to take that percentage, whatever it is. 429 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:08,000 So who knows? The band themselves, the members of Oasis, obviously Liam and Noel Gallagher, 430 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,000 they're saying that they have nothing to do with it whatsoever. And you can understand that's probably true. 431 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:18,000 I mean, they have management, they have promoters, they have people that they just speak to on a Sunday about, you know, 432 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:24,000 how's it going? And they leave them to it. So, you know, I would imagine the band themselves have never set the prices 433 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,000 and don't even know what the price is, as long as they get paid the 10 million or whatever it is, you know. 434 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:39,000 So it's a terrible thing. I think the problem is I heard just after this happened with Oasis, a Spanish football team does it as well. 435 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:45,000 I don't know which one, maybe you know, or you can find out that I think it's one of the biggies. 436 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,000 And apparently they're doing it as well, where they're raising the price in terms of demand. 437 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000 So if this is a thing that's really taking off, you know, where do we stop with this? 438 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:03,000 Because it means that anything that people want to buy, you know, if you wanted to go, say, to the Champions League final, 439 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:10,000 you can imagine, you know, that's a big sought after occasion, or you wanted to go and see, I don't know, ACDC next time they tour, 440 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,000 because it's their last tour, or what about the last Black Sabbath concert? 441 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Could be next year with Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi and Giza Butler and Bill Ward, who knows? 442 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000 You know, they might play three or four songs together, then it's a bit of Ozzy with Zach Wilde or whatever. 443 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:31,000 And who knows, if he's only going to play one or two shows, there's a huge demand for that. 444 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,000 They could, you know, charge whatever they like. 445 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,000 Yeah. So the team is Valencia. Yeah. 446 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:47,000 And the funny thing is, it'll just give fans more reason to hate the owner, Peter Lim, 447 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,000 who they've been wanting to get rid of for years. 448 00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:03,000 You see, the issue is really it's not the price, it's changing the price while you're in the process of buying it. 449 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000 Yeah. That's the issue. 450 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:12,000 Well, I think both are really an issue, because I mean, this is with the case of Valencia, they're a shit team. 451 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:26,000 They're a team that has a big name, but has been close to relegation ever since Peter Lim got them, you know, since he purchased the team. 452 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:37,000 So it makes no sense to do that with concerts, with some of the hotter tickets. 453 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:43,000 Listen, everyone needs to make a living. Just depends on how much, I guess. I don't know. 454 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:50,000 Yeah. But the thing is, if you know in advance what the ticket prices are, you can decide whether you want to go or not, 455 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 you know, whether you can afford it or you don't. 456 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:59,000 And also you can check out all the various tiers of prices and you can decide you might go for the cheaper ticket rather than the more expensive ticket. 457 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:05,000 But I just think if they're changing the prices as you're waiting and you've been on the line for three, four hours, 458 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:12,000 because seriously for the Oasis, everybody, the whole country was sitting there for the whole morning. 459 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,000 It was a whole Saturday morning. It was mad. 460 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,000 You as well is what you're saying. 461 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:26,000 Yeah, yeah. I was doing it. My daughters were all on. They all had two devices on at the same time. 462 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,000 We were taking it in turns to go and make coffees. 463 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,000 It was, you know, the whole procedure. And of course, we didn't get any. 464 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:40,000 But we, you know, we hear about these people who were faced with this situation. 465 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:47,000 And of course, it's not fair because you've got two minutes to decide, OK, I was going to pay 160 quid. 466 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:54,000 But now do I pay that 300 quid? It's not right. 467 00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:00,000 So the members of the Reunited Oasis, I'm looking at it right here. 468 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:06,000 So it's Nolan Liam Gallagher, obviously. Yeah. 469 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:13,000 Paul Bonehead, Arthur's, who is the second guitarist on the first few albums. 470 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:18,000 Paul. Googsy. Yeah. 471 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:25,000 McGuinn. Yeah. I pronounce it. Was it McGuiggin? Yeah. McGuiggin. OK. 472 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,000 Was he with the band early on as well? Yeah, he was. Yeah. OK. 473 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:34,000 And the drummer is Tony McCarroll. Was he also with the band early on? So is this? Yeah. Yeah. 474 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:41,000 OK. So this is like the second like the Mach 2 version of Oasis. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. 475 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:47,000 I know the. But when they were selling the tickets last Saturday, they didn't announce the rest of the band members. 476 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:53,000 It was just Noel and Liam. But that didn't matter because everybody just wants to see them anyway. 477 00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:00,000 Well, the other thing, too, is I'm sure that they're going to lean in heavily to the first two albums. 478 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:09,000 Yeah. Maybe there'll be a track. I mean, what are they going to play? 479 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:15,000 All my people right here right now. Yeah. And they tend to play. 480 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,000 What's that one? The Importance of Being Earnest off the like the fifth album or whatever it is, 481 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:27,000 because it's that's Noel singing it. So it gives Liam a rest. It's quite it's quite a good song. 482 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:36,000 And then they'll play one off the newest album, the one Digging Your Soul, Dig Out Your Soul or whatever. 483 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:42,000 Because there's about three songs at the beginning that are quite groovy. Yeah. Yeah. So they might play one of that. 484 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:46,000 Yeah. But yeah, you're essentially right. It'd be off the first two, stroke three albums. 485 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:55,000 Most of the songs. Yeah. First two are huge. So I saw the reissue for Definitely Maybe yesterday. 486 00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:07,000 And it was I I'm looking at it through my contact lenses, which I should have my glasses on so that I could see small print. 487 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:15,000 But I could make out one hundred sixty nine ninety nine for the issue. And I'm like, yeah, that's a bit much. 488 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:23,000 Yeah. Love the band. Love a lot of their music, but not that much. No. 489 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:30,000 Yeah. So last thing that we were going to touch upon here is a testament. Yeah. 490 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:35,000 You wanted to know what. What I want for a New Testament album. 491 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,000 Yeah, because I think we've kind of touched on this a little bit in the past. 492 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,000 We've talked about Testament, obviously, over many shows in the past. 493 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,000 They've turned up in sort of the best of years shows that you do, 494 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:53,000 because I just wanted to know what you think a testament really as a band in terms of an album. 495 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,000 So not not in terms of seeing them live or their greatest songs. 496 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,000 But what do you think about their albums? 497 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:08,000 I think that their albums are all pretty solid. I like some more than others. 498 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:16,000 I think that they were on a hot streak between Formation of Damnation, Dark Roots of Earth and Brotherhood of the Snake. 499 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,000 I think the three of those albums are tremendous. 500 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,000 I think Titans of Creation is a step behind those albums. 501 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,000 So my biggest fear is that I already know that they're not working with Andy Sneep. 502 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,000 They're saying that Andy seems to say that he's busy with Judas Priest, 503 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:42,000 which I'm not sure that I'm buying because he still worked with except he's still working with other bands. 504 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,000 I think it's Testament wanting to try to take the reins again. 505 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,000 But that's what I think the difference is between Titans of Creation and the others. 506 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:57,000 It's. Songs aren't bad. But they're not great. 507 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,000 Those other three albums have great songs on them. 508 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,000 That's the difference to me. 509 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:09,000 Yeah. I mean, I think Dark Roots of Earth is my favorite. 510 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,000 And I obviously like the title track. 511 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,000 So not the soundtrack, but the first track, Rise Up, which I think is. Yeah. 512 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,000 It is. There we go. Same. 513 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,000 Massive. It is. Oh, we both have the DVD edition. 514 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,000 OK. Yeah, it's great. So, yeah, I agree with you. 515 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,000 This is a great album and I really like Rise Up. 516 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,000 I wish you'd do more of that kind of song. 517 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:40,000 And apparently this album, according to the band, is going to be more brutal in its sound. 518 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,000 So they're going for a really, really heavy sound on this one. 519 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,000 But I hope they don't lose the melody as well, because that's what makes Testament great. 520 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:54,000 But why I asked the question was, I think the last two albums, 521 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,000 I really only like about five songs on each album. 522 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,000 And then I think they fade a lot. 523 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:05,000 I think that the second half of the albums really fade for me. 524 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,000 And I almost don't like them. 525 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:14,000 I kind of think they're kind of thrash metal, but there's no direction to the songs. 526 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:19,000 I think they're better when they do really melodic thrash songs. 527 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:26,000 And they've got a bit of almost melody to them that you can get into, 528 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,000 whereas I think they just go on a bit. 529 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:35,000 So I'm hoping that they bring out an album where they've thought about the songwriting a little bit more. 530 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,000 Because I think that's the problem for me with Testament. 531 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:44,000 I really like them when they're great, and I love certain songs. 532 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:57,000 But I've found that they've do a cover again on this new album. 533 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:04,000 But whether that's just a throwaway track at the end of the CD, I don't know, because they've done that before. 534 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:10,000 They've done it a ton. 535 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,000 I mean, they did more than one, I think, on Dark Roots of Earth. 536 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:21,000 I'm just looking now. Yeah, they did Dragon Attack, Animal Magnetism, Power Slave. 537 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,000 Yeah, those are. And over the years, they've covered Aerosmith as well. 538 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,000 Yeah, they did. 539 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:34,000 They did the four. So they've, you know, Judas Priest, they've covered as well. 540 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,000 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited to listen to it. 541 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:45,000 It should be good. Again, it should have a few songs on there that are still good and powerful. 542 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,000 Yeah, I mean, they're great musicians. They've got a new drummer this time as well. 543 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,000 So that's another interesting aspect to it. 544 00:54:51,000 --> 00:55:02,000 Yeah. And I don't know if they were going for a heavier direction because they had Dave Lombardo in the band for a minute and then a tour. 545 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,000 And then he was gone. 546 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:14,000 But so they have Chris Dovis in the band now. 547 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:27,000 He comes from another thrash band, and I don't remember which, but hey, listen, if they have him in the band, that means that he can play the part. 548 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:33,000 So it should be should be interesting. 549 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,000 Let's see. He's from Boston. 550 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:49,000 And okay. So it looks like his audition tapes are online. You can actually see them on YouTube. 551 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:56,000 All right. I'll have to check that out later. Cool. Awesome. 552 00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:06,000 So Jeremy and I will be back for probably the next episode following this, where we're going to talk about August releases, which we'll record in a few days. 553 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:12,000 Give us some time to catch up on some of those albums. Jeremy, thank you for joining me once again. 554 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:21,000 Thank you to anyone that's listening or watching the replay or the first play of this because we are pre-recording it. 555 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:34,000 Thank you for your support. Don't forget the merch store, which we have available with a bunch of different t-shirts, caps, bucket hats, sweatshirts, so on and so forth. 556 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:52,000 On that note, we bid you farewell and we will see you next time right here on Signals from Mars. 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