Monday, 30 March 2009

American Idiot: La Redecouverte.


Je me souvient encore comme, en 2004, j'ai entendu le maintenant culte American Idiot de Green Day. Avant l'ecoute, j etait carrement sceptique. J'ai grandi avec les clash et no fx. Voila pour mes references. Pour moi green day etait un groupe bien rigolo qui me faisait rire le temps d une passage de 3 minutes a la radio. Pas moyen qu'ils aient un message ou le moindre poil de cul d ambition. Comme blink182, ils etait simplement du bonbon punk.

Puis vint american idiot. Je n arrivait pas a y croire. Le meme groupe qui avait commis dookie (un super album de bonbon punk s'il en est!), etait arrivé a maturité et avait pondu une merveilleuse synthese de ce qui a pu se faire dans la scene punk californienne, en y ajoutant des neuronne et un poil d'agilité musicale. L'album affiche son ambition dans son son henaurme: c'est fAit pour etre joue fort dans un stade, ecrit comme une musicale de broadway, et en 13 chansons ca resume les sensations de tout une generation.

Premiere impression:
A La minute ou je pose le casque apres avoir ecouté l album (oui l album, d un trait. comme il faut quoi), je me demande quand est ce qu'il vont en faire une production live. je veut voir des acteurs dans les personnages. au cine, a la scene, m en fout. C'est "the wall", pour la generatio apathie.

Production:
encore une fois: Henaurme. Malgres cela, tout le monde est audible, dirnt et sa basse on une chouette presence, qui donne une base solide et agreable au spectre sonore. j aime bien la facon dont on entend les changement de position sur le manche. subtile mais sympa. La caisse claire de tres cool est claquante sans etre assourdissante (ceux qui ont eu st anger aux oreilles peuvent comprendre). La section rythmique est donc dans son ensemble bien en place, super sérrée, bondissante, toute ce que j attend du duo keupon. Maintenant on ajoute le milliard de guitars et la ca devient gigantesque. heureusement on a le potard de panning pour distribuer ce beau monde (combien d overdub???). si on se concentre a gauche ou a droite on entend des petit details laissé la comme des friandises pour le nerd que je suis!

Piste preferee: Homecoming part IV. parce que c est Rocky horror a fond.

Piste moins preferee: are we the waiting. trop faite pr le stade. bon texte.

Fiche Technique:
American Idiot, sorti le 21 sept 2004 (Reprise Records)
Produit par roducer Rob Cavallo etGreen Day.
Durée:57:16

La Note du docteur Flo: 12/10!
english version of the review is here

Monday, 23 March 2009

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

On a beau savoir

On a beau savoir,
On fini toujours pas se demander.
Si c'est si beau de savoir,
Moi je prefere esperer.

Une Etrangère sous mon toi

Une Etrangère sous mon toi
des histoires plein la tete
Un enfant rêve d'etre roi
Pourquoi faire? Pour Être.

Quand la peur insoumise
se glisse sous mon toi
quand elle fait a sa guise
comme elle est belle, parfois.

Elle su se faire tempète
pour faire voler mon toi
Elle a ses armes prêtes
Et moi, je n'ai que toi.

Alors moi, pietre va-t-en-guerre
Je me bats pour mon toi
pas avec la manière
mais avec le coeur, chaque fois.

Pourquoi?

Pour quoi?
-Parce que c'est ce Qu'Il fait.
Mais Qui fait quoi?
-Ceux qui font ca.
Quoi ca?
-Mais Ceci, par Ici et par La.
Ou ca?
-Ben Ici. Mais aussi La!

Oui....mais Pourquoi?

Friday, 13 March 2009

Josh Freese is one of these Drum wizards that can play session drums for everybody from sting to the vandals. recently he released his second solo effort "Since 1972" (his year of birth, for you who wondered). The album is available on his website packaged with different goodies, ranging from 7bucks to 75grands. have a look:

$7

  • Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15

  • CD/DVD double-disc set
  • Digital download

$50

  • CD/DVD double-disc set
  • T-shirt
  • “Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Signed drum head and drumsticks
  • Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)

$500 (limited edition of 15)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Signed cymbal and sticks
  • Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)
  • Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and “all you can eat” shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks
  • Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his car
  • Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
  • Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
  • Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino
  • Signed DW snare drum
  • Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
  • Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Josh writes a song about you and makes it available on iTunes
  • Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the YouTubes
  • Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
  • Get drunk together. If you don’t drink, we can go to my dad’s place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
  • Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on Since 1972

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour
  • Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
  • Twiggy from Marilyn Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles in Long Beach for dinner
  • Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)
  • At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours … take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour
  • Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)
  • Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals’ old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
  • Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts and Legends” tour. (Separate rooms … no spooning.)
  • Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on ‘em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)
  • Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again … couples welcome and discreet parking available)
  • Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)

  • Signed CD/DVD and digital download
  • T-shirt
  • Go on tour with Josh for a few days
  • Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
  • Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
  • Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
  • Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
  • If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
  • Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
  • If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
  • Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna


So for those of you who cant wait for a foot massage and raw lasagna, better start saving!

Talking about drums, i'm considering getting a new kit. Starclassics B/B are now available in hyperdrive shells. They Sound killer and Look stunning, check em out!

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Revolutionary Road: Un American Beauty pour les années 50.


Sam Mendes revisite l'amerique surburbaine, cette fois ci au passé. Mais comme dans "beauty", mendes mets l objectif la ou ca fait mal. Derriere les jolie "white picket fence", la maison de reve, le boulot placé, bref derriere la tranquilité apparente, le quotidien tue le couple.

Ca commence comme dans un compte de fee, frank et april s'aime. April est une reveuse, future actrice. Frank est libre, charmeur....flash forward et on est dans un theatre amateur ou april se defoule. pas de boulot pour l actrice, devenue femme au foyer depressive. Frank le charmeur est devenu le mari agressif, que le boulot routinier a fini par rendre fou. La routine, ou on peu rever de paris, mais la realité est autre, les promotions ramenent toujours les reveur au port.

ca rapelle furieusement carolyn et lester, le couplde d'american beauty. c est superbement joué par le couple le plus mythique du cinemas teen des annees 90; dicaprio est terrifiant, winslet est a ce crever le coeur. Le rest du casting fait un boulot impeccable. Kathy bates est detestable en mrs givings Michael shannon (le fils simplet de mrs wheeler) vole la vedette a tout le monde le temps d'une scene qui remet la verité a sa place dans le couple wheler.

Mendes pourait facilement foirer la sauce et nous servir un melo. Heuresement il a le bon gout de retenir son monde et son sujet, ce jusqu'au bout. Les derniere images de April sont absolument dechirante. Et nous rappelle que notre quotidien fait de petit bout de rien du tout, peut etre une force insurmontable, un tsunami qui nous cloue au fond sans jamais nous laisser remonter. a Mediter.

Revolutionary Road: Sam Mendes, avec K. Winslet et L. Dicaprio. 20/20.