El bajo de Andrew Wood a la venta

Andrew Wood bass for sale

Este bajo, que pertenecía al líder de Malfunkshun y Mother Love Bone,  Andrew Wood, está a la venta, en la página oficial de Malfunkshun en Facebook

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This bass, which belonged to late Malfunkshun/Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood, is going up for sale, per the official Malfunkshun Facebook page.

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En un día como hoy pero de...

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En un día como hoy pero de 1990, Mother Love Bone dieron su último concierto en The Central, (Seattle)

En un día como hoy pero de 1984, los Melvins dieron su primer concierto, en Olympia, Wash.

En un día como hoy pero de 1992, en el Loft (Berlín) , Pearl Jam hace una cover a Neil Young de Rockin’ In The Free World por primera vez. Durante los bises Eddie Vedder dice “sólo una cosa, que es muy clara: No somos el sonido de Seattle. Hay muchos sonidos de Seattle”.

En un día como hoy pero de 1992, Pearl Jam toca en el Civic Center en Pensacola, Florida. Es el aniversario del asesinato de Pensacola, con beneficios a Rock forChoice. Eddie Vedder dice la audiencia… “Todos esos hombres tratando de controlar los cuerpos de las mujeres realmente me sacan de mis casillas. No saben lo que es real. Bien, soy feo, y mi nombre es realidad”

En un día como hoy pero de 1984, Girl Trouble hacen su primera aparición pública tocando en la batalla de bandas en el  Fort Steliacoom Community College enn Lakewood, Wash.

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In a day like today but in 1990, Mother Love Bone play their final show at The Central, in Seattle.

In a day like today but in 1984 The Melvins play their first show ever, in Olympia, Wash.

In a day like today but in 1992, At the Loft in Berlin, Pearl Jam cover Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World for the first time. During the encore Eddie Vedder says “Just one thing, so it’s clear: We are not the sound of Seattle. There are many sounds of Seattle.”

In a day like today but in 1992, Pearl Jam perfor at the Civic Center in Pensacola, Florida. It is the one-year anniversary of the murder of Pensacola- based abortion provider Dr. David Gunn, with benifits going to Rock for Choice. Eddie Vedder
tells the audience… ”All these men trying to control women’s bodies are really beginning to piss me off. They’re not in in touch with what’s real. Well, I’m ugly, and my name is reality”

In a day like today but in 1984, Girl Trouble makes their debut appearance, playing a Battle of the Bands show at Fort Steliacoom Community College in Lakewood, Wash.

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Aquí os pongo un curioso vídeo de Mother Love Bone

Concierto completo de Mother Love Bone de diciembre de 1988 (Central Tavern)

Mother Love Bone en un barco xD

Chris Cornell habla sobre Andrew Wood y Mother Love Bone

“Andy was just starting to come into his own in terms of his talent and what he would have offered as a songwriter and a personality to music,” he says. “I think that their albums, to this day, have been hugely influential in rock music. I almost felt like the Seattle bands that came into prominence kind of smashed what was happening in commercial rock music. Just destroyed it. And it’s come back in the form of nostalgia, but it has never come back in a vital form.

"Andy estaba empezando a aumentar en el sentido del talento y de lo que podría ofrecernos como compositor y dar personalidad a la música" dice " Pienso que sus albuns, en estos días, han sido muy influyentes en nuestra música. Siento que las bandas de Seattle han sido de gran importancia en lo que ha acontecido en la industria musical. La destryó. Y eso viene en forma de nostalgia, pero nunca va a volver de manera vital

“I think that Mother Love Bone could have been, in a sense, the bridge between commercial rock of that moment and Nirvana, for example. I think it could exist in either world effortlessly. And none of the rest of us did that. It might have changed how things ended up, instead of this absolute about face departure from what commercial rock was to what it became. If you were White Snake, you couldn’t be influenced by Nirvana and somehow include that in your subsequent releases in any meaningful way that was at all authentic. It’s impossible. But I think Mother Love Bone could.”

Creo que Mother Love Bone podría haber sido, en esencia, el pueten entre el rock comercial del momento y Nirvana, por ejemplo. Pienso que podría haber existido sin esfuerzo. Y ninguno de nosotros podría hacer eso. Puede ser que haya cambiado la forma de las cosas terminaron, en lugar de este absoluto sobre la partida de cara a lo que el rock comercial fue lo que hizo. Si eres White Snake, no podrías estar influenciado por Nirvana y de alguna manera que lo incluya en sus versiones posteriores de una manera significativa que estaba en todos los auténticos. Es imposible. Pero creo que Mother Love Bone podría. "

CROWN OF THORNS por Shawn Smith

Pearl Jam tocando Crown of Thorns (Mother Love Bone)

Entrevista a Andy Wood

La dejó en Ingles, muy larga para traducir (Llamadme vago si queréis xD)

RIP: Mother Love Bone recorded Shine in five days, as compared to over three months for Apple. Is there a very noticeable difference?
ANDREW WOOD: Yes, definitely. There were some mixes that were sent to us, and we sent them back to be remixed; and there was still, like, four or five songs that still had to be remixed again. Now it's all settled and ready to be pressed. Apple is nearly an hour long. (t may not even fit on one side of a cassette, so beware, kids, when taping at home [laughs].
RIP: Did MLB lose any of its grunge?
A.W.: I don't know. Did we have any grunge in the first place? I guess there's still a little grunge in the guitars from the Green River days. We didn't lose any of the grunge we needed, but we may be right in throwing some of the ugly grunge away. It's called stale grunge. RIP: Do you wish there was more funk in MLB?
A.W.: I'm pretty content with the sound right now. I think I'm a bit more mellow than anybody else in the band. The whole set is pretty mid-tempo. We're not like a real "head swinging" type of band. When time off from MLB allows, I might make a record, and my
brother Kevin [who played with Andy in Malfunkshun] will be my guitar player.
RIP: Andy Wood goes solo?
A.W.: No, it won't be called "Andy Wood" or anything. It'll have some weird name, so it'll be kinda disguised. RIP: Let's talk about some of the songs on Apple. A.W.: "Stardog Champion" is a kinda...fake, kinda patriotic rock anthem of sorts. That's gonna be the first single and video. When I wrote "Holy Roller," I didn't even know what a holy roller was. I just thought it was a cool term. Actually, I was thinking of a Paul McCartney and Wings song "Let Me Roll It." I don't know why it made me think of holy rollers. "Captain High-Top" is just a total rock propaganda kinda thing. I kinda see "Heartshine" as our "Achilles' Last Stand" of the album. It's long and real powerful. I was kinda depressed about leaving Malfunkshun for a long time. Still am, kinda. I feel like, you know, I left them stranded. I've got a brother besides Kevin who, ah, is kinda insane in a way, and he makes the whole family worry about him, so "Heartshine" is a little about both of my brothers.
RIP: "Mr. Danny Boy° is obviously a slam on Danny Thomas.
A.W.: Yeah, I don't know why we decided to do such a mean thing to Danny.
RIP: But you did.
A.W.: That's right. No offense to Marlo. I still like her from ThatGirl[laughs].
RIP: "Come Bite the Apple," is there any significance to that?
A.W.: That's a meaningful song. It's a "Crown of Thorns" type of song. The lyrics are personal, whereas some of the songs have absolutely nothing to do with me. "Apple" and "Crown of Thorns" are probably mostly about me. It's kind of a synopsis of the whole past year. I'm lucky to be sitting here.
RIP: Do you write all the lyrics?
A.W.: Yeah. Nobody else has really brought any in. I think I'd find it hard to sing someone else's lyrics. I've got a guitar but I've written most of my songs with keyboards as of late. I wrote "Stargazer" on guitar. I don't really consider myself a songwriter but, rather, a guy who makes up music. I don't know chords. I don't know notes. I can't even tell the guys in my band what I'm playing. I can't say, "Well, it's G-A-C-D," or whatever. They have to come and watch me and figure it out.
RIP: You taught yourself to play guitar and keyboards? A.W.: Yeah, just kinda making up my own method of playing. That's been my whole thing. It seems as of late -I'm not going to name names or anything-but there seems to be some people who are real concerned about who their fans are, which doesn't make any sense to me, because they're all basically rock fans. We want them to be our fans. We don't want to draw any kind of lines.
RIP: Are those the only two instruments you play, guitar and keyboards?
A.W.: I play wrinkle-neck trouser snake, guitar and keyboards...l also play Nintendo.
RIP: Do you ever worry about hitting writer's block? A.W.: I'm not too worried about it, though it definitely
happens. Writer's block...I've never had that problem. When I have my keyboards around, I could definitely write a song a day. I've got so many old songs, I could go find an old one that I like if I can't write a new one. RIP: There are a lot of references to the group Queen in your lyrics.
A.W.: Queen's probably my favorite band. Queen, Kiss and Elton John. I'm kind of a hybrid of all those things that influenced me the most when I was growing up. RIP: How old are you?
A.W.: Twenty-four.
RIP: You just got out of rehab.
A.W.: The old 28-day business. I have a weekly follow-up every Monday night.
RIP: Obviously you feel a lot better now that you're clean.
A.W.: Yeah. Still though, it's a total struggle. When you first get out, you're on this pink cloud, and it's pretty easy. After a while things start getting more real, and you have to just stay straight a second at a time. RIP: Do the other guys in MLB still get stoned?
A.W.: No! That's one lucky thing about this band. I was the druggy until I went in for treatment. We've got some people in the band that I don't doubt are alcoholics. The day Bruce quits drinking will be the day monkeys fly out of my butt, like on "Wayne's World." Luckily no one was into the drugs as much as I was, so I don't have to worry about them staying stoned, even though I'm not doing it anymore. Ever since I've known Stoney and that's been years, he's never smoked pot. RIP: Stoney?
A.W.: I know, with a name like Stoney. It's just his normal name: Stone. They all enjoy their beer. God, that's the thing: Back when I was taking all those drugs and everything, I thought the other guys were so damn boring. I thought, What do these guys do for fun?
RIP: Will this upcoming tour present any problems for you, like temptation?
A.W.: We all decided that on the upcoming tour there will be no alcohol at all on the bus. If they want to drink, they'll have to do it inside the clubs.
RIP: Is there any particular member of MLB that you seem to connect with the best?
A.W.: It's weird, 'cause it fluctuates. Sometimes I feel like me and Stoney are a team, partners in crime. And then me and Jeff have a lot of the same musical interests too. We're both kinda jocks in a way. I'm a video jock, whereas he's an actual jock. Then me and Greg are both Capricorns, so we get along well. Besides practicing five times a week, none of us spend that much time together.
RIP: Maybe it's better that way.
A.W.: Yeah. I mean, we'll be spending a lot of time together real soon.

Mother Love Bone

Videos de Mother Love Bone... pero con una música no demasiado apropiada al video creo yo xD