rtx or hagerty?

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yo, children--which is the most promising and stimulating post-royal trux project: neil michael hagerty's howling hex, or jennifer herrema's rtx?
give it to me, baby!

― chowder grrl, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

RTX!!!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

but tell me why, please! thank you!

― chowdergrrl, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

BOTH.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Well, NMH has released like 12 different albums since the last Royal Trux, and they just keep getting better (though I haven't heard the newest one yet). RTX...Transmaniacon has a few cool songs, but I'm not entirely sold on them yet.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Can I say neither? I love Accelerator and Cats & Dogs, but I'm done with Neil and Jen apart from that.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Neil's more prolific, interesting, and just plain better, but let me wait until Jennifer releases her book before I decide.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

like AC and DC, like peanut and butter, the boogie without the yelp is like a dog w/o a bone.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

dumb question - hagerty by a light year, for obvious reasons - dude is one of only about eight or nine actual musical geniuses I can think of offhand

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

dumb answer, for obvious reasons

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I think I know which reasons.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

roger adultery OTM

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

yes, roger adultery is truly otm. all-night fox is, against great odds, hagerty's best album in years. he should be declining at this stage, but he's attained a new peak with this one. album of the year contender, for certain.

― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

From howlinghex.com:

"If you are familiar with my earlier work: currently a counterfeit version of a band I folded in 2000 is making the rounds.
I have nothing to do with this, although they are attempting to give the impression that I do. I should add that I also have nothing to do with any White Lion reunion, contrary to recent bulk emails."

Add: Neil's funnier and has a better website than RTX.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

SHe stood us up: she was stuck somewhere in Paris when she had to perform. :-(((

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

The RTX album is way way better, though I'm really impressed by the production on both, for totally different reasons. I think mainly I love Herrema's voice way better than Hagerty's voice (or even his guitar playing (!)), and since I'm not cool, I prefer Herrema's songy songs to Hagerty's riff-repeat songs. I am so seriously obsessed with the RTX album, STILL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I heard "Delta Dawn" today and realized that Jennifer kind of sings like Tanya Tucker. (She's not as good a singer, tho.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 18 July 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

RTX WOULD LIKE A DIFFERENT DRUMMER.....FROM LOS ANGELES, ORANGE COUNTY AREA. NEED TO ATTEND REHEARSALS AND AVAILABLE TO TOUR....RESPOND TO KALIFORNIA@TRUXROX.COM.THANXXX

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i have had like four different people today talk to me about this, outside of ILX (where it was also posted on nzebrd.)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

hagerty is the obvious choice.. i remember seeing him open for wilco and i was too nervous to chat him up.. but those first two solo records he put out after trux broke up blew me away and will always be classics.. rockslide.. man.. what a killer track.. i like that rant off the hex site.. ill have to check that out.. ive been too afraid to check out the rtx lp.. dont know to expect..

― Gwolfcow, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

RTX WOULD LIKE A DIFFERENT DRUMMER.....FROM LOS ANGELES, ORANGE COUNTY AREA.
http://www.thebrodybunch.com/gallery/albums/BigJapan/stevensteam%20011.jpg

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha - that was worth doing a rightclick-"View Image."

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I actually dreamed last night that Hagerty and Herrema were the final act (not headlining; more like an afterthought) of an outdoor rock festival. (In the alternative present-day of this dream, they were still playing together very occasionally as Royal Trux, while also doing their solo stuff.) The car radio was broadcasting the festival live as we slowly drove onto the festival grounds, and the Trux were announced before we could get there (Neil made some kind of sarcastic comment from the wings that made it onto the air). But somehow I joined the small crowd just in time to see them start the first song. Neil was playing acoustic guitar, and Jennifer was, uh, still cool.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

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