Amazing performance by Living Colour

shar-vell Dan said:
Wasn't about you Bro. Maybe the beer is distorting your facts.
I like the band, they are solid. Are they my favoriets ? Maybe not but i respect their contributions to music.
The Hwy 30 beer joint reference was about a band i was in that played those. Its great if you like drunk folks w/ Smith & Wessons giving you shit during a 3am loadout.
So over "bar bands" at least around here. Most allow indoor smoking [still] at this point i need all the lung i have left.
Lung disease is real.
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Sorry for being a dick. For whatever reason, your comments rubbed me wrong. But I think I took it wrong. My apologies.
 
I'll never forget the first time I heard COP, I was so sure that Kerry King was playing lead guitar on the song that I went right to the notes on the CD looking for the King of uncontrolled whammy to be credited somewhere. I was wrong. Listening to the other tunes on Vivid, it was clear that this guy had a style he was embracing, and I thought it was cool. He would go off the fucken rails in a solo, but often would circle back with phrases that would be oddly melodic with strong groove,,like a guitarist with one foot in a bad acid trip. I remember trying to cover this song one time in a band years ago,,,and I was having trouble coping the vibe of the solo. The singer at the time would say,,just play a bunch of notes all over the place while spazzing out with your whammy bar,,,,but it was more than that,,it was hard to get the feel right,,the vibe. Vernon isn't everyone's cup of tea, but for me,,, I like listening to a guitar player who colors outside the lines like he does. I also like players who perfectly execute every note.
 
squealie said:
By all the standards of angry white boy metal edgelord, Vernon sucks. And this performance wasn't great. His sound was shit, and I don't even think he knew where he was in the song half the time.

But Vernon and this band has done some amazing shit. The first album was a bombshell. Front to back fantastic. On the second record, 'this is the life' is just epic. A true rock and roll expression of struggle and groove.

Vernon's ugly-ass rock playing is a treasure. I love it.
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I need to explore more of their stuff. I loved that first album.
 
  1. I still enjoy playing this song in my band every gig. It is fun to play and who bothers with trying to cop the solos he did? Its a mess. I can do a messy solo of my own haha.
  2. Vernon Reid wins the award for largest unnecessary pedalboard by a huge margin.
  3. Saw them open for the Stones in 89. I thought it was a weird pairing.
  4. Back then I thought (and still do) that 24/7 Spyz with Jimi Hazel was a much better funk rock band and should have been bigger. Jimi Hazel was more inventive to me and wrote better grooves. But Living Color had a better singer and better backing / label etc.
  5. I do not know why Vernon Reid played the Black Sabbath thing. He seemed superfluous to the event.
 
LanierP said:
I'll never forget the first time I heard COP, I was so sure that Kerry King was playing lead guitar on the song that I went right to the notes on the CD looking for the King of uncontrolled whammy to be credited somewhere. I was wrong. Listening to the other tunes on Vivid, it was clear that this guy had a style he was embracing, and I thought it was cool. He would go off the fucken rails in a solo, but often would circle back with phrases that would be oddly melodic with strong groove,,like a guitarist with one foot in a bad acid trip. I remember trying to cover this song one time in a band years ago,,,and I was having trouble coping the vibe of the solo. The singer at the time would say,,just play a bunch of notes all over the place while spazzing out with your whammy bar,,,,but it was more than that,,it was hard to get the feel right,,the vibe. Vernon isn't everyone's cup of tea, but for me,,, I like listening to a guitar player who colors outside the lines like he does. I also like players who perfectly execute every note.
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That's a very good description of his style ! His solos are not rehearsed nor composed, he just jumps in the cold water, improvises and does it in one take every time, just like jazzmen, but with a rock feel. I really like it. He explains it in the video quoted above.

JohnnyGtar said:
The first 2 albums, Vivid and Times Up are the best ones IMO.

This link takes you to playlist for the entire album.

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Third one, "Stain", is great too IMHO !
 
Jack Luminous said:
That's a very good description of his style ! His solos are not rehearsed nor composed, he just jumps in the cold water, improvises and does it in one take every time, just like jazzmen, but with a rock feel. I really like it. He explains it in the video quoted above.



Third one, "Stain", is great too IMHO !
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Yeah, good point. There was an alternate version of the Stain CD that had 3 different guitar solos.

Leave it Alone is one of my favorite LC tunes.



I forgot the Biscuits EP!

 
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