Favorite solo act from King's X

TrogDawn wrote:

I liked Ty's first two solo albums a lot and also the Platypus stuff, but I always felt that the glut of side projects these guys did were effectively the death of King's X for me. I've personally never recovered from it and I've never been able to recover the excitement that I once had about them.

Try again. The Metal Blade years have lots of good stuff on them...and you need to listen to "Ogre Tones"...best album since "Dogman"...

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And I call dibs if you dislike it.

Don't hold your breath!

I nabbed it...and it's quite good....need to digest it further....

Eyesore there is another copy there I can grab for you....but you are so far in cd debt to me...I hate to pile more on.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Try again. The Metal Blade years have lots of good stuff on them...and you need to listen to "Ogre Tones"...best album since "Dogman"...

I've heard just about everything from those years and nothing stuck with me. I've just lost interest. I do have a burn of Ogre Tones, but I have yet to listen to it. I'll get around to it someday...

Oh and on a side note...don't worry about those Stooges burns you promised me, I found them both used.

Shiney wrote:

I nabbed it...and it's quite good....need to digest it further....

Eyesore there is another copy there I can grab for you....but you are so far in cd debt to me...I hate to pile more on.

Dude! I got a Zodiac Mindwarp CD today, and a Black Halos CD. Interested? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?

Eyesore wrote:

Shiney wrote:

I nabbed it...and it's quite good....need to digest it further....

Eyesore there is another copy there I can grab for you....but you are so far in cd debt to me...I hate to pile more on.

Dude! I got a Zodiac Mindwarp CD today, and a Black Halos CD. Interested? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?

You're not going to offload quality like Z and the Black Halos are you. For shame if you do.

rattpoison wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Shiney wrote:

I nabbed it...and it's quite good....need to digest it further....

Eyesore there is another copy there I can grab for you....but you are so far in cd debt to me...I hate to pile more on.

Dude! I got a Zodiac Mindwarp CD today, and a Black Halos CD. Interested? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?

You're not going to offload quality like Z and the Black Halos are you. For shame if you do.

Yup. The Black Halos went to Shiney, Zodiac Mindwarp is up on eBay. The Black Halos seem cool, but sounds like typical punk to me. Plus I owe Shiney! Haha. The Zodiac disc just isn't that good. I don't even need to listen to it more than once.

May Cobalt Stargazer strike you down in your sleep blashphemer.

rattpoison wrote:

May Cobalt Stargazer strike you down in your sleep blashphemer.

You ever heard The Steppes?

No. Care to fill me in?

rattpoison wrote:

No. Care to fill me in?

They appear to be an Irish band. I picked up a CD by them called Harps And Hammers yesterday. It had that look, you know. But I figured they were some kids doing the retro thing, but it turns out they've been around since the early 80s. There's very little info on them out there, though.

The style is an odd mix of 70s rock and 80s power-pop, even a little pysch, but it's done really well. Seems like a band a few of you here would dig. Check out these songs for two distinct styles:

The Land Of Hope
Key To My Heart

More here: http://www.myspace.com/thesteppesnowonmyspace

I'm really digging this album.

Good find. This stuff is awesome, primo garage! It's very based in the 60's but it's got a kind of 70's rock thing running through it. I see they were signed to Bomp which is pretty much a guarantee for bands being good.

rattpoison wrote:

Good find. This stuff is awesome, primo garage! It's very based in the 60's but it's got a kind of 70's rock thing running through it. I see they were signed to Bomp which is pretty much a guarantee for bands being good.

Definitely a good find, but I'm assuming the majority of their discography is on vinyl, which sucks for me. Haha.

You never know Bomp might clean out the vaults like they usually do and reissue it.

TrogDawn wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Try again. The Metal Blade years have lots of good stuff on them...and you need to listen to "Ogre Tones"...best album since "Dogman"...

I've heard just about everything from those years and nothing stuck with me. I've just lost interest. I do have a burn of Ogre Tones, but I have yet to listen to it. I'll get around to it someday...

Oh and on a side note...don't worry about those Stooges burns you promised me, I found them both used.

I suck.... Sorry. I need to quit promising burns of stuff...I had one guy get REAL mad at me about it...I felt horrible...

Listen to "Ogre Tones"...

News:

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Legendary hard rockers KING'S X have changed the projected title of their new album to "XV" from the previously announced "Go Tell Somebody". The CD will be released through InsideOut Music on the following dates:

U.S.: May 20
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: May 16
Rest of Europe: May 19

"XV" was recorded and mixed at Wireworld Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Michael Wagener (SKID ROW, ALICE COOPER). This is the second KING'S X album in a row with Wagener manning the boards. Pleased with the results of 2005's "Ogre Tones", the band headed into the studio more prepared and creative than ever before.

"We really enjoyed working with him on the last album," guitarist Ty Tabor said shortly before entering the studio to record the new CD. "There was no pre-production on anything and we were pleased with how it turned out. This time, we're doing some pre-production, some writing together and we're going to try to outdo ourselves. We're going in this time with a complete and prepared attack."

Glad they changed the title (I thought Go Tell Somebody was dumb), but XV is also crap to me. I have album titles that signify the chronological number that the release may be (i.e. Def Leppard's X for their 10th album, Staind's Chapter V for their fifth album, etc). A pet peeve of mine, I guess.

But it's just a name! So I can't wait for this one.

Eyesore wrote:

I have album titles that signify the chronological number that the release may be (i.e. Def Leppard's X for their 10th album, Staind's Chapter V for their fifth album, etc). A pet peeve of mine, I guess.

This is like the IVth time you mentioned this.

spectrefate wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I have album titles that signify the chronological number that the release may be (i.e. Def Leppard's X for their 10th album, Staind's Chapter V for their fifth album, etc). A pet peeve of mine, I guess.

This is like the IVth time you mentioned this.

5cr3w y0u, tu88y!

Yeah - Fellow KX freak, Brent, filled me in on that. It's no surprise. Inside-Out seems to never be on the ball.

I like the new title...I DON'T like the new release date...

New album cover...

Looks pretty metal for them.

When is the release date?

May 20

What's with the cross AND pentgram, dUg?

SAXON1500 wrote:

What's with the cross AND pentgram, dUg?

He goes both ways. And, yes, the pun was intended.