Reignwolf

Thanks Brando.....yeah, very talented guy indeed. Listening to "In the Dark" right now.

Good stuff! 

Brando
Saw this guy (Jordan Cook aka ReignWolf) opening for Black Sabbath in Canada 2 weeks ago (Winnipeg, MB). Incredible talent and performer- here's a Rolling Stone article - http://www.rollingstone.c...0124/reignwolf-0788447
Recording at Dave Grohl's studio when he's done this Sabbath tour.

(Sabbath was outstanding by the way - Ozzy on key and coherent, Iommi and Butler masterfully shredding, And drummer Clufetos eliminating doubt about why Bill Ward stayed home.)

He held up a banner saying Sharon is a &*%^?

Hi,
 
Enjoyed that listen a lot. It's nice to see something more individualistic, than simple mainstream copykat stuff!
 
I was thinking during the playing that this had very strong feels of both Jimi and Stevie ... and we hope for a lot more, because that one piece was very nice.

Brando

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Enjoyed that listen a lot. It's nice to see something more individualistic, than simple mainstream copykat stuff!
 
I was thinking during the playing that this had very strong feels of both Jimi and Stevie ... and we hope for a lot more, because that one piece was very nice.

Glad you enjoyed it. Agree about the Jimi/Stevie influence as well as White Stripes/Jack White. Minimalistic live - bass, drums and guitar. He did 1 song solo - him on kick drum and guitar up front. Then he went to the drum kit and played both drums and guitar. A lot of his early festival gigs were just him, his guitar and his kick drum.

I've said all along that the only way to make a mark in this business is to do something different, daring and off on its own trip and there is no doubt in that one piece of the qualilty of all three of those.
 
I think that the influence of Jimi/Stevie/Jack are a bit in the background, as it has more of the grunge explosions, which is nice within its proper context, but very boring when it was done by too many other bands that were all show and not enough go.
 
I really hope this guy takes off. We need more off the charts stuff that can't be pigeonholed in the hit charts. I, myself, am quite tired and bored with Balky Sabbath and it's over all, over rated material, though one has to appreciate the early work of theirs and it's place in rock history. But for me, it was better media exposure and advertising than it was that great. There were far more bands out there that did "heavy" far better all over Europe and also in the US, that never got the attention and appreciation that they should have, if BS had not taken so much of it.

Rain

Brando

Moshkiae
Hi,

Enjoyed that listen a lot. It's nice to see something more individualistic, than simple mainstream copykat stuff!

I was thinking during the playing that this had very strong feels of both Jimi and Stevie ... and we hope for a lot more, because that one piece was very nice.

Glad you enjoyed it. Agree about the Jimi/Stevie influence as well as White Stripes/Jack White. Minimalistic live - bass, drums and guitar. He did 1 song solo - him on kick drum and guitar up front. Then he went to the drum kit and played both drums and guitar. A lot of his early festival gigs were just him, his guitar and his kick drum.

 
You're in Canada, you may have heard of our pal Steve Hill from Montreal. Great bluesman.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsnYEHtzp84
 
Last time I saw, he had added a drum stick behind the headstock and used it to play a cymbal. 

Hi Rain - Yes I have his Solo Recordings album from (i think) 2012. Love him for more traditional blues. Montreal is a treasure house for artists - Incredible output - and I confess that as an anglophone (my wife is from Western Quebec, but is also an anglophone), I have only been exposed to a small fraction of Montreal's artists. 
I see the similarity to Reignwolf (one man band) - Mr. Cook struck me as more Hendrixian - I expect him to start a fire. LOL.
By the way - I don't know if you noticed the Habs logo on Ozzy's mic during the latter part of the press conference.Strategic no doubt. Ozzy for sure is no hockey player. As a lifelong Habs fan, it made me smile just the same - GO HABS GO!

Rain ...
Language barrier is a pain in the neck and unfortunately, my fellow Quebecers often don't seem to realize that a language that cannot be used to communicate fails to meet its foremost objective. We're recruited so early on and taught that it's us against them (French vs English) and instilled with an obsession w/ our identity and how distinct we are and how badly we were treated...
...

This has been the issue in "pop music", which is the worst and most ethnocentric group of people I have ever met!!!!!
 
The big issue with top ten and pop music is that you think that it is good, and the best, and you have never heard anything else ... and we were telling people this in 1969/1970 when the European progressive/experimental scene was taking off in a huge way, while San Francisco and LA and NY were too busy getting ripped senseless and killing themselves, and the media in America loving it, because it helped get rid of those dopers! And help their belief that drugs were evil!
 
The funny thing, was that in Santa Barbara, was cool with all the foreign stuff that my old roommate was playing, even though both KCSB and the other FM station used to intentionally make fun of all the foreign music that was played at KTYD, something that even the folks  at KTYD could not handle ... Christian Decamps singing in Fench? Giacomo singing in Italian? That band was singing in Spanish! Oh my gawd ... that was German? Alan Stivell singing in what? ... Celtic? ... can't have that fake Celtic stuff! Wait a minute, was that Mika singing in Japanese?
 
But so many of those bands got huge ... but we had an issue ... at one record store:
 
Owner - Who is gonna buy that stuff?
Us - Anyone.
Owner - How many people listen to your show?
Us - Well, you can go after the numbers, but we just beat KMET and KLOS and the other Santa Barbara FM station is playing religious PSA's ... you can get those publications by calling the FCC.
Owner - But if I stock it no one will buy it!
Us - How do you know? You don't have any of these in the bins. Not even Tangerine Dream!
 
In the end, all it did is hurt people's ability to even realize there is more music out there than we can possibly EVER conceive, understand, or EVER hear! America is way TOOOOOOOO isolated from foreign countries and languages, to the point that most cable providers STILL don't allocate services to the Spanish Speaking folks, as an example, and it is said that it is over 25% of Americans now? You really think that 25% of Comcast or Time Warner channels are in Spanish?
 
Heck, I even have a Canadian band named "CANO" that is outstanding ... but no one ever heard of it! Beautiful album "Au Nord du Notre Vie" (name by memory, might be incorrect).