NATRA AND RIKK'S POPGEAR AND BEER FUCKIN' DRINKIN' FEST

[POJO_Risin]

Realize this though Rikk...and I firmly believe it...

if Becker stuck around...and continued writing the music...

who knows what would have happened next...who knows...

Becker was right out of Eddie's book...a free flower...

certainly not covered in the technical aspects (even though he knows that part of it as well)...

but he could bring it...speed...power...

what I like about that album...and I like the entire album...front to back...is that Becker goes across the board...blues...rock...it's all there...and he does it with a flick of the pick...so to say...

[Rikk]

Originally posted by POJO_Risin
Realize this though Rikk...and I firmly believe it...

if Becker stuck around...and continued writing the music...

who knows what would have happened next...who knows...

Becker was right out of Eddie's book...a free flower...

certainly not covered in the technical aspects (even though he knows that part of it as well)...

but he could bring it...speed...power...

what I like about that album...and I like the entire album...front to back...is that Becker goes across the board...blues...rock...it's all there...and he does it with a flick of the pick...so to say...

I agree. It loses some of the pretensions of the first two albums. That said, I just think Dave didn't let him write enough. There are great moments on that album. Incredible ones. But he should have let the band run it a bit more that time. Funny how much I've grown to love SKYSCRAPER the past few years. But I'll always know that it is also a Dave-show...not a band album at all. If A LIL AIN'T ENOUGH were too, Becker would have shined. Dave should've given the kid a whole album's worth of great, raw guitar compositions and just thrown his vocal on it. Becker could have been a worthy replacement for Eddie if the format (guitarist writes most of the music, singer comes up with the groove, arrangements and vocals) stayed the same.

I don't think YOUR FILTHY LITTLE MOUTH was a bad album. I just think it also had moments and had losses. I really like the blues swagger of SHE'S MY MACHINE...but it also makes me miss Becker.

[MAX]

Heh! Heh!

*cough* *cough*

Where'd ya get this shit?

Ohhhhhhhhh.................

[POJO_Risin]

It's easy to pick EEAS...or the DLR Band album (it seems to be everyone's choice who doesn't want to pick the obvious)...

I've always liked ALAE...for a couple of reasons...

I'm a HUGE solo Vai fan...his playing ooozes it's owness...

but I hated him with Roth except for a couple of obscure songs...not obscure...but not most people's favorites...like Goin' Crazy...Shyboy (not even a Roth tune)...those kinds of songs...

I liked DLR Band...thought he recaptured a lot...but...it felt...I don't know...like it needed a couple of more months to fester...it was like eating the Turkey a half hour before it's finished...still good...damn good...but...also...a bit tough...

Becker's style fit Roth...mainly because I get the impression he fucking listened to him while he was writing...unlike Vai...who you know did his own damn thing...and crammed it in there...(not quite like that...but you get my drift)...

Becker could play in whatever style Roth was groovin' to that day...

[Rikk]

Originally posted by POJO_Risin
Becker could play in whatever style Roth was groovin' to that day...

Shit...I gotta listen to that one a little closer. I guess the songs just don't jump at me as much on it. The production bothers me a bit. But now I really gotta relisten to it.

It's funny, but I actually prefer SKYSCRAPER to EAT 'EM AND SMILE now. I certainly didn't before. But man, listening to DAMN GOOD, KNUCKLEBONES, HOT DOG AND A SHAKE...even JUST LIKE PARADISE...fantastic stuff that sounds more like creative writing and real collaboration instead of the rather forced sound I get on some of EEAS. That said, SHYBOY rocks harder than anything VAN HAGAR could have even comprehended.

As for DLR BAND, I agree that it's rather rough. I also think SLAM DUNK is kinda contrived. But I also like the fact that it's musicians just sitting around making a garage indie record. It's not like the punk I love so much. But it's raw. LITTLE TEXAS will always be my favorite Roth solo song and among my favorite tunes he ever sang. It is possibly the most swagger-inflected, raw, heavy thing he ever put down on oxide. And KING OF THE HILL is like getting kicked by Gert Frobe. Holy shit, fatboy...where did you come up with that chorus??

[POJO_Risin]

<img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300216195.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" alt="I'm Max's favorite movie because he's Gayer than Rock Hudson pumping Liberace!">Yo...Max...shouldn't you be watching your favorite Eastwood movie???? You son-of-a-bitching, piece of shit Denver Broncos fan? Jesus H. Christ...LOOK AT BERT JONES' JERSEY YOU JACKASS...HE PLAYED FOR BALTIMORE!!!!!

and is it me...or did Jake Plummer start looking a little like Christ...

of course...he wasn't...because no way Christ would be as shitty as Plummer is at QB...

Why Bert fucking Jones????

He was outstanding at good regular seasons...

Oh, and the Broncos may need to start looking for another coach...seriously...I have a hunch that Shannahan may end up in San Fran next year...and perhaps Holmgren to Denver?

just a thought...

[Rikk]

LMFAO!!

Soon MAX is gonna tell us that this is his favorite Eastwood movie...

[MAX]

I'm going to watch some sort of an Eastwood movie before bed just so I can blow this place open next week you evil fucks!!!

STEP ASIDE!!!!

BOOM!!!!

[Rikk]

Originally posted by MAX
I'm going to watch some sort of an Eastwood movie before bed just so I can blow this place open next week you evil fucks!!!

Good. You watch this one...



...and I'll watch this one...

(actually, i watched this sucker a few nights ago, and remembered how great it fucking is)

[MAX]

Originally posted by POJO_Risin
Oh, and the Broncos may need to start looking for another coach...seriously...I have a hunch that Shannahan may end up in San Fran next year...and perhaps Holmgren to Denver?

just a thought...

I always knew you were one mean son of a bitch but that's downright cruel. We'll see cos I used to be a ruthless bastard as well. Give me time and I'll lure.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by MAX
Gggive mw time and I'll lure.

You been drinkin'?

[MAX]

Originally posted by Rikk
You been drinkin'?

Is this fun my "friend?"

[POJO_Risin]

Yeah...I can see it now...here's the Eastwood movie you're going to watch...lmfao...you've seen it so many times...you're convinced that short dude IS Eastwood...<img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301978587.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" alt="If you put you cursor on this you sick fuck, it means you are a little girl trapped in a faggot's body...">

Fuck Yentl dude...that's just wrong...just not right...

take a gut check...

[Rikk]

Originally posted by POJO_Risin
Fuck Yentl dude...that's just wrong...just not right...

take a gut check...

If you close your eyes halfway, she looks like that awful looking chick in the new Robert DeNiro flick...you know, the one called I'M OLDER AND MAKING COMEDIES NOW, PART II?

[Rikk]

Originally posted by MAX
Is this fun my "friend?"

Ah, bitter bitter.

I'll quote the late (cuz he hasn't done anything in a long time) great Dabney Coleman..."Woman are no damn good."

We'll be fine when you get over this, MAX. And if you're not, my nervous system will be calmer.