Confessions of a Fanboy

I know I’ve mentioned it before but only Tom seems to take me seriously: Zwan is the best thing Billy Corgan has ever done and “Ride a Black Swan” is the best song he’s ever written.

This song never fails to inspire me, to elevate me, to make me want to explode. Glory. [...]

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More news from the world of my iPod!
We already covered where I started this morning: Deftones, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Zwan. The day got a little more varied as things went along: Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and then I set one of my ’90s playlists on random and a lot [...]

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I wish I got into all that psychobabble and analysis and shit because I’d be curious what it says when you begin your day with Deftones.
I woke up this morning in the mood for some big guitars, yet I don’t feel all that angst-y. Still, for some reason I needed to hear “Digital Bath” [...]

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I’m going to have to work a second job or this site is going to have to start producing some actual royalty checks. With my mouth I curse the music industry while I simultaneously hand them huge wads of my cash. I admit the absence of any semblance of logic in this. [...]

Filed under: Billy Corgan, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Joe Satriani, Muddy Waters, Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Petty, U2, Zwan | 3 Comments »

Let’s get something straight right out front: this is not intended to be any sort of definitive “Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” It’s not even intended as a “Greatest Guitarist of This Era.” Here endeth the disclaimer.
I love the guitar. I love guitar-heavy music. I have heaps of admiration for those [...]

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Sir Saleski has, for three years and counting now, written the excellent Friday Morning Listen column on his own site and Blogcritics. Beginning this year, he brought that column to TheMondoProject. The idea behind the column, according to him, really is as simple as the title. The columns are rarely pre-ordained. They are about whatever [...]

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