Reposted from WFMU:
[quoteFrom the LRS site: Legion of Rock Stars pioneered Pure Pleasure, in which the band listens to recordings of classic rock and pop songs on 30dB noise-blocking headsets, and then plays along. Freed from the shackles of practicing, LRS focuses instead on bringing the excitement of a large stadium rock show to the intimate arenas in which it performs.[/quote]
The YouTube links are the best...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQ6f3nDFhE
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXmYO2ZxIU
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)
Aw hell, here's the core dump:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=fibbox&p=r
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)
Instant improvement of that Simple Minds song there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)
Yay, these guys are friends of mine! Once in a great great while you can catch one of their gigs in LA.
― eater, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)
I was just about to start a thread on these guys - their take on Party Rock Anthem is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84Wo0J5cF8
In many cases I prefer their take - songs I heard on the radio or elsewhere where I immediately thought of the LRS version include: Sultans of Swing, Jump, Mother (their take on Mother is definitive), the Macarena, Dreamweaver, Mmmbop, and Hips Don't Lie
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)
i don't want to bump this thread into oblivion but i've been listening to nothing but LRS lately and it is breaking my brain, you guys need to hear some of this
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)
their version of Mother is so good and it gets taken down off youtube so much
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:31 (twelve years ago)
so do a lot of their videos! but they upload them onto so many sites that you can find the ones they took down through google
"Mother" is definitely a favorite of mine because A) it syncs up with the video so well and B) you don't even realize something's wrong until the vocals come in
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:43 (twelve years ago)
this one made me cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYpFpQgvIw
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2013 00:51 (twelve years ago)
dying at the "WHERE DO WE GO NOW" part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztUUiuQXsvI
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:58 (twelve years ago)
Nobody asked for it, but these guys are a bona fide feature:
http://critterjams.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/legion-of-rock-stars/
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Thursday, 23 October 2014 03:18 (ten years ago)