streaming at their MySpace - now, I'm listening through very crappy computer speakers but it sounds kinda WAY more interesting than I would have thought:
http://www.myspace.com/badbrains
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)
Eh.
Bad Brains: RFI/D
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)
Hey let's stop talking abt the new Stooges and start anticipating the new BAD BRAINS, even.
― Mike Dixn, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)
I'm listening to an HR set from last month and wondering what the hell happened to him. He seems to now have some volume back which is better than clips I saw of him fronting the Bad Brains a couple of years backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjQDkkWugMwhich I hadn't watched since seeing it once but thought he had been pretty much mumbling throughout. Certainly lacks any of the dynamism that I was familiar with from him fronting the band 20 years earlier. The rest of the band seem to be delivering quite intensely and he's standing there limply rocking from side to side.
It's like he's forgotten how to sing or something. He used to have a pretty great voice that he'd shaped into something more aggressive. Is that working the voice against its inherent soulfulness coming back to buite him or did something happen psychologically? He doesn't look well in that Chile video and sounds like he's barely functional on this solo set from last month.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 14 January 2016 10:17 (ten years ago)
http://hrdocumentary.com/
watch this trailer for a long-delayed (but possibly coming soon?) documentary. HR has had some pretty heavy problems for years
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 14 January 2016 11:06 (ten years ago)
Yeah, looks interesting. Hope it happens. Would like to see if there was any further insight. Thanks.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:11 (ten years ago)
A friend of mine who was very close to him thinks it's schizophrenia and the typical pattern -- he gets meds, get better, stops taking meds because he feels great, gets worse.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:25 (ten years ago)
Yes, definitely. Saw him "perform" January 2nd at a benefit concert. He had a quiet sing-song barely legible voice and his constricted body movements almost looked post-stroke. Sad, very sad. I saw him with the Bad Brains in the early 80s, and his changes are more than age.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 January 2016 17:45 (ten years ago)
RFI&I: Have a clear memory of reading an interview in which they talked about their love of Gentle Giant and Budgie but this was in pre-internet days and can find no mention of this on the intraweb. Wondering if anyone else can confirm or deny.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2019 03:08 (seven years ago)