Quanto amo il mio negozietto di cd usati. Purtroppo ormai si sta buttando quasi totalmente sul nuovo. Le nuove tecnologie portano ad un acquisto sempre minore di cd e di conseguenza il mercato dell'usato è sempre meno fiorente. Nonostante questo ancora qualche cosa riesco a trovarla e proprio ieri mi è capitato tra le mani questo Ep della band di quel mattacchione di Les Claypool.
Cominciamo col dire che è un disco composto da sette cover più due tracce live. Inoltre ci sono dei contenuti speciali, tra cui lo splendido video di The devil went down to Georgia".
Il disco è del 1998 e alla batteria c'è Brian Mantia.
La cover meglio riuscita è certamente "The family and the fishing net" di Peter Gabriel ma anche "Behind my camel" dei Police non è per niente male. Invece non mi ha molto convinto "The thing that should not be" dei Metallica.
Inoltre i Primus si auto citano in una versione più cupa di "Too many puppies" e Claypool da il meglio di se in "Silly putty" del grande Stanley Clarke.
Le due tracce live sono la sempre ottima "Tommy the cat" e "Bob's party time lounge", registrate al Kaiser Auditorium il Capodanno del ?98.
Che dire, non un disco fondamentale, ma certamente una chicca per gli appassionati di uno dei gruppi migliori del pianeta.
Track list:
- Scissor Man (XTC)
- The Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel)
- Silly Putty (Stanley Clarke)
- Amos Moses (Jerry Reed)
- Behind My Camel (The Police)
- Too Many Puppies (remix)
- The Thing That Should Not Be (Metallica)
- Tommy the Cat (live)
- Bob's Party Time Lounge (live)
Elenco tracce testi e video
04 Amos Moses (03:11)
Amos Moses was a Cajun.
And lived by himself in the swamp
Hunting alligator for a living.
Knock 'em on the head with a stump
The Louisiana law's gonna get you, Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp, boy
Now everybody blamed his old man
for raising him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy,
his Daddy would use him as alligator bait
Tie a rope around his waist,
throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait on the Louisiana bayou
Just about 45 minutes
southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana
There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam
and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son that could
eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth.
They called him Amos Moses
Now folks in South Louisiana
said Amos was a helluva man
He could trap the biggest, meanest alligator.
He only had to use one hand
That's all he got left
'cause the alligator bit him. Ha ha!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
Just about 45 minutes
southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana
There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam
and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son that could
eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth.
They called him Amos Moses
Here comes Amos
And you should have seen his pretty wife, Hannah
Well, the Sheriff got wind that
Amos was in the swamp hunting alligator skin
So he hid in the swamp, I'm gonna get you boy.
He never did come out again.
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?
Sure can get lost in the Louisiana bayou (3X)
06 Too Many Puppies (03:01)
Too many puppies are being shot in the dark.
Too many puppies are trained not to bark.
At the sight of blood that must be spilled so that we may maintain
our oil fields.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies are taught to heel.
Too many puppies are trained to kill.
On the command of men wearing money belts that buy mistresses
sleek animal pelts.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies with guns in their hands.
Too many puppies in foreign lands.
Are dressed up sharp in suits of green and placed upon the war
machine.
Too many puppies are just like me.
Too many puppies are afraid to see.
The visions of the past brought to life again,
too many puppies, too many dead men.
07 The Thing That Should Not Be (06:46)
Messenger of Fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for Father, roaming free
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Crawling Chaos, underground
cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
fallen city, living death
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
stranger eons Death may die
drain you of your sanity
face The Thing That Should Not Be
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
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