From what I get, this sounds like a sort of live aid for metal-hardcore veterans without the aid, and of course the songs were recorded at Grohl’s studio 606 in the Los Angeles valley, on the famous Sound City mixing board, according to Kerrang
Of course, since OFF!’s song are very short, they make complete little movies around them, but this is just kids’ play for grown men,… or the whole thing may just have been a good excuse to announce that OFF! is playing Coachella this year?’
OFF! played a long list of songs, but they are so short!! And, mid-show, a girl had already started to rip the huge setlist off the stage… ‘Ask, don’t take’ said Keith Morris while stepping on the large setlist duct taped on the floor… ‘Don’t be a republican,… or a democrat!’
Man, was the line really long!! I didn’t really expected it, I saw them at Vacation Vinyl when there were 20 people on line, but I guess all this Black Flag nostalgia has found its way to OFF!
Lonesome Valley 2003 – Carlene Carter – With the help of Vince Gill, Carter mourns her mother the only way she knows how on this moving testament to faith and passages in this update of the 1969 song – B+
Carter Girl – Carlene Carter – Mining her Carter Family history for material, she finds it and sounds better than she ever has on this excellent collection of Carter Family songs plus a coupla ringers. Also, while we knew Vince Gill would be up to the task, so is Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson vocal additions – Album Of The Week – A-
“I have absolutely no idea what we would be doing if we weren’t playing music. Strangling squirrels up in Griffith Park? Strangling kids at the beach?” you cant help but want to scream, ‘How about growing up?’
They are enraged, they want to crush everyone against the wall and disintegrate the world, your neurons included, but sometimes you need a little bit of OFF! in your world. It may sound like some good all-fashioned hardcore, but damn it’s efficient, and Greg Ginn should feel sorry
