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I'm ready for KXM....I'll buy anything dUg puts out...

I'm still hoping for another King's X album at some point. As much as I've enjoyed many of these side projects over the years I really think there is some magic that happens when Dug, Ty & Jerry get together that can't be duplicated with any other lineup.

S.D. wrote:

I'm still hoping for another King's X album at some point.  As much as I've enjoyed many of these side projects over the years I really think there is some magic that happens when Dug, Ty & Jerry get together that can't be duplicated with any other lineup.

I agree. I like and own all the side projects, but there's something magical about King's X.

Kings X rules   

S.D. wrote:

I'm still hoping for another King's X album at some point.  As much as I've enjoyed many of these side projects over the years I really think there is some magic that happens when Dug, Ty & Jerry get together that can't be duplicated with any other lineup.

This - really hoping for a new King's X album in the near future!

Anybody hear if Dug and Bruce Franklin ever plan on doing another Supershine album?

That is easily my favorite Dug side project CD.

Curious to hear how the KXM project will differ sound-wise from the Pinnick, Gales, Pridgen project. Less bluesy? Heavier rock?

Interesting.

Sounds promising!

Svengo wrote:

Anybody hear if Dug and Bruce Franklin ever plan on doing another Supershine album?

That is easily my favorite Dug side project CD.

I listened to that album yesterday for the first time in about 5 years. I liked it very much.

From the KX Facebook page:

King's X wrote:

dUg Pinnick had to be rushed to the hospital last night after our show and is going to require further surgery and recovery from his hernia. We regret we will not be able to play the show tonight in Springfield, Virginia. We'll keep you posted on dUg's health. Thank you to everyone who came out to our shows the last couple of nights and to those who were planning to come tonight!

Wow, hoping it's not serious.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Wow, hoping it's not serious.

If it's hernia related, it's serious. People I know who went said he had to sit down and let the crowd sing the last 2 songs, then had to be helped out of the meet and greet to be rushed to the hospital. If the surgery he had recently is having complications, that's not good.

I think it depends on the type of hernia but if it's related to the surgery, yeah, that could be bad.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Wow, hoping it's not serious.

If it's hernia related, it's serious. People I know who went said he had to sit down and let the crowd sing the last 2 songs, then had to be helped out of the meet and greet to be rushed to the hospital. If the surgery he had recently is having complications, that's not good.

I was at the show and you could just tell that he was in some serious pain!!

Get better dUg..

New jam from Ty's upcoming album, Nobody Wins When Nobody Plays.



Excellent tune. Album comes out December 16.

Ty seems to be injecting some more groove and edge into his solo stuff...I noticed it on the last one and especially on this track.

I'll be interested to check it out. I like Tabor's solo stuff but generally I end up liking about half of each album, I put together a little compilation playlist in iTunes of the tracks from his solo albums that I dig.

He had to move..........

New Ty song sounds great!

Why is this not in the HoM subforum?  

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Why is this not in the HoM subforum?  

No idea, but I'm tired of moving things and then hearing people bitch about it, so it can stay where it is.

S.D. wrote:

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Why is this not in the HoM subforum?  

No idea, but I'm tired of moving things and then hearing people bitch about it, so it can stay where it is.

Well, if your moderating made sense maybe people wouldn't bitch. =)

Eyesore wrote:

S.D. wrote:

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Why is this not in the HoM subforum?  

No idea, but I'm tired of moving things and then hearing people bitch about it, so it can stay where it is.

Well, if your moderating made sense maybe people wouldn't bitch. =)

Jesus Chrysler says "HI".

Megaforce Records will release GRINDER BLUES' self-titled debut album on August 19. The powerhouse trio teams KING'S X legend Doug Pinnick with two gritty, hard-rocking (and Emmy-winning) roots music MVPs, Jabo Bihlman on guitar and vocals and Scot "Little" Bihlman on drums, percussion and vocals.

"Grinder Blues" is like a shot of adrenaline to the heart of the genre. Its 10 original, high-voltage songs sizzle with daredevil virtuosity and rock with unrestrained energy, blasting a sound minted in the urban canyons of Chicago and the swamps of rural Louisiana during the 1950s into the present thanks to rumbling guitars, freight train rhythms and Pinnick's virtuoso licks and elegantly gritty rock 'n' soul voice.

"The idea for the music was to stay away from the clichés and rock out," Doug explains. "If we felt like we were heading into any songs that seemed like standard blues lyrically or musically, we made it a point to veer in the opposite direction."

"Doug was particularly enthusiastic about moving into the blues; it's a whole new direction for him," says Scot, who, like his brother Jabo, is a longstanding fan of Doug's work.

"A heavy, twisted take on the blues is something we all felt Doug was born to do. He's the most soulful vocalist, a blues singer, really," adds Jabo. "Even with KING'S X and his other projects, it's always Doug's soulful, thundering vocals that push the music over the top."

Produced by Miles Fulwider and Barry Mork, with mixing by Miles, Barry and Doug, "Grinder Blues" was written collaboratively by the band. Pinnick aimed to keep the music "simple and fun," while exploring new directions. The lyrics are traditional, an homage to the old blues heroes who came before them. Recorded almost entirely in a drop-C tuning, the band "wanted the sound to be unique and heavy, like nothing anyone had ever heard in the blues vein," says Jabo.

"The whole production angle we took was to push some boundaries sonically and musically that one associates with 'the blues' or 'rock n' roll,'" says Fulwider. "We set out to pull and push typical blues 'axioms' to see what we could come up with on the other side."

GRINDER BLUES will be on tour in 2014.