Posts Tagged Foo Fighters

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9ES290: A Woman Looks At Him Angrily

by on July 28, 2023 at 11:08 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

So a while ago they renamed the famous Montreal venue ‘Metropolis’ to the MTelus, because Telus bought the venue. A few things on that. First of all, I mostly just still call the venue “Metropolis” and when I don’t I call it “mmmmm… Telus…” as though I just ate Telus and it was delicious. I feel much the same way about “Elon Musk X” or “Elon Musk says Twitter is X now.” Or whatever.

 

Like sure, maybe if I had kids they would eventually call Twitter “X” in the same way that I call… I don’t know, what’s something that had a name and then was renamed to something else and our parents still call it something else.

 

DORCHESTER.

 

Ok, so maybe that only makes sense if you live in Montreal. René Levesque Boulevard used to be called Dorchester (and it still is in Westmount). The street was renamed in 1987, and now if anyone calls it Dorchester you look at them funny. I went to college in 2000 and only ever knew the street as “René Levesque” – so let’s say that Papa Elon has a good 10 to 12 years before “X” overtakes “Twitter” in the parlance of the common chum.

 

Will Twitter be around in 12 years? Let’s find out together. I’ll wait.

 

Keith got to see the Foo Fighters to a crowd of about 3700 people at the Verdun Auditorium. He sang “Everlong” with his high school band and his wife walked down the aisle to an acoustic version of the song. Either you know why seeing that band in that venue is a “big deal” or you don’t care.

 

Moving on.

 

Over on Garbage Time we take a look at the Rolling Stones’ setlist from “Voodoo Lounge” only to realize that none of us are really big fans of the Rolling Stones. Jon debates whether or not he should convert Dragon Mountain to 5e (and maybe just settles on converting White Plume Mountain instead). Finally, Keith tries to stump the boys with some of the best riddles The Riddler has tried to stump Batman with. If that sounds cool then show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time!

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9ES278: It’s All Billy

by on January 27, 2023 at 11:29 am
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that would easily collect an entire deck of cards in Alice in Borderland Season 2 is back with another podcast for your ears.

I’ve always had a soft spot for some deathmatch based fiction. From Running Man to Battle Royale to Death Race 2000 (to name some of my favorites). There is something immediately gripping about watching contestants face off to the death. There’s something even more compelling when the game is not just about killing your opponent but about besting them in some other game of skill or wits but someone’s life is still on the line.

Dark? Sure, but boy will it glue me to the television set.

The collective zeitgeist also apparently agrees, considering the megahit that was Squid Game.

I may be in the minority here, but I prefer the two seasons of Alice in Borderland over Squid Game. Of course Squid Game has a lot more to say about class division and the wealth gap but Alice in Borderland has cool anime style characters being cool. Somehow the challenges of Alice in Borderland (and the fact that there is no clear end game/reward for clearing the games) pulled me in. It’s a lot less bleak in that sense. They’re just stuck in there playing these games.

Speaking of games, how about that Dungeons & Dragons, eh? Boy, Hasbro must be excited that a new trailer for the movie dropped to push down all those news articles about them mucking about with their Open Game License. Hell hath no fury like a bunch of angry nerds scorned.

Let’s quickly go through the list of times a mega-corporation has meddled with something beloved and made it better.

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Moving on.

There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

 

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

 

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time, we spend most of the episode talking about Marvel Snap. Seriously, why isn’t Jon playing Marvel Snap yet? We also talk about tires and lightbulbs so you know it’s a good one.

 

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Washington, Washington

by on July 21, 2015 at 8:46 am
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Listen up. I’m about to go to Taiwan for nearly 3 weeks but I’ve set it up so that there will be Perspicacious Geek posts every week that I’m gone. Why? Because I love you. Each and every single one of you.

That being said, this post, of the three upcoming is by far the biggest cop out.

As you may have heard on the latest 9ES, Jon and I went to the capitol city of our neighbours to the South: Washington, D.C. to see the Foo Fighters and a million special guests for the 4th of July. My garbage millennial (hang on, I’m 32, am I still a millennial?) attitude had me being a little disappointed that Obama wasn’t at the concert (or maybe he was and didn’t feel the need to come out and address the crowd and if that’s the case then thanks for nothing Obama). However, absence of seeing the leader of the free world in person it was a pretty great trip. Here are some highlights that I actually thought to take a photo. Do not expect much and also my phone makes purple dots in photos. DEAL WITH IT. Oh and spoilers, the absolutely best photo of the bunch is the one at the bottom, feel free to skip the rest of my bullshit and head on down.IMG_20150703_195550 ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Tuesday’s Coming: Endings are important

by on February 9, 2015 at 9:49 am
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Movies, Music, Tuesday's Coming, VAGRANTS

I’ve got a list of movies to watch that feels like it’s never-ending. In a way, I guess it really is never-ending, because it’s also ever-expanding. That’s the nature of loving movies – you keep finding out about other ones you want to see. Unfortunately, this situation causes some movies to get stuck on the list, and never get watched. So once in a while, I make a point of watching something I heard about years ago.

I remembered hearing Dave Grohl talk about how obsessed he was with his Neve board at some point, and that he was making a movie about it. Being a sound guy, I was curious about this, but I failed to keep up with news of the film’s production. Until yesterday.

Sound City got released in 2013, and watched by me in 2015. It’s a documentation of the legendary Sound City Studios, where hundreds of incredibly important records were created, ranging from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours to Nirvana’s Nevermind. The studio itself would have failed and closed early if not for a few bold investors (and some incredibly dedicated staff) who brought the place to life and kept it afloat for decades, well into the digital age. In 2011, after facing significant financial issues, the studio ceased commercial operations and sold off a bunch of its gear (notably, the Neve board Grohl loves so much), and is now privately run by Fairfax Recordings.

Sound City's late owner, Tom Skeeter. Photo © Sound City Studios

Sound City’s late owner, Tom Skeeter.
Photo © Sound City Studios

By all accounts, this is a really interesting film, stacked to the nines with recording anecdotes and wonderful insights into specific musicians’ careers and experiences. However, the film changes direction suddenly, without warning, at the time of Sound City’s demise in 2011 – now focusing on Grohl’s personal studios, where the Neve board now lives, and on a series of recording sessions organized by Grohl as some sort of tribute to the studio that no longer was. This segment goes on for way longer than it needs to, and becomes an unnecessary epilogue to an otherwise perfectly fine story.

The movie’s not even that long, clocking in at under two hours, but it could have been done in a cleaner way, and that’s a bit of a bummer. If it’s meant to be a film about one man’s obsession with a particular audio tool, that’s one thing, but if it’s meant to tell the story of one of the industry’s greatest recording studios, that’s another.

Anywho, I’m off to watch more music-oriented documentaries. Got favs?

-Al

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