Posts Tagged ‘The Chain’

The WARLOCKS – ” Cleopatra “

Posted: May 7, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Since forming 22 years ago, Bobby Hecksher’s psych rockers the Warlocks have enjoyed a career as turbulent as the circumstances under which they were born. As well as enduring the chaos that was the Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols saga (portrayed vividly in the film Dig!), Hecksher was rejected by Weezer. What else to do but form your own band?

But things didn’t get any easier. The Warlocks have worked their way through record labels and indeed band members like Pac-Man with little balls. Two years ago, Hecksher told us that he was unsure about the future of the band. But here we are, pandemic be damned, enjoying the release of the band’s tenth studio album.

As with the last two, the album is released through local label Cleopatra (the grey vinyl is a nice touch), and this time there’s a concept running through it — a story of a Bonnie and Clyde-ish couple on the run, called Rocky and Diamond. Not that you’d necessarily know if you weren’t told. This isn’t a rock opera; rather, the storyline lends some lyrical subject matter which, in truth, resonate in the current environment anyway.

“I’ve been reading lots of articles about our justice system” Hecksher said in a press release. “I’ve also been watching a lot of real-life/fictionalized prison TV series. All these young adults are caught committing very low-level crimes, but they end up getting these huge bits of their lives taken away from them. The ones who have money usually fair better.”

He has a point, and he makes it well on songs such as the touching “Dear Son,” “We Don’t Need Money” (with its enduring, repeated “rock and roll” refrain) and “Sucking Out Your Soul Like a Son of a Bitch.” Musically, the album is typically adventurous, droning Warlocks fare. The melodies are there, but they’re buried and require some effort. The ’60s psych/Madchester blend is still hypnotic. This is The Warlocks at their magical best.

The brand new studio album from L.A.’s premiere psych band, The Warlocks!
This ambitious album tells a single story, of two star-crossed lovers who commit a bank heist together, over the course of 10 gorgeous, densely layered guitar tracks spiced with keyboards and reinforced with powerful bass and percussion grooves!.

Available from April 3rd on CD, limited edition coloured vinyl in your choice of PURPLE or SILVER, and streaming in all digital stores.

 

The WARLOCKS – ” The Chain “

Posted: April 4, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The brand new studio album from L.A.’s premiere psych band, The Warlocks! ,The Warlocks started because of the their mutual love of all things Rock and Roll. We love a lot of the 60s, 70s and some 80s inspired music. We are not a retro band though. We all always try new stuff and from time to time hit something great.

This ambitious album tells a single story, of two star-crossed lovers who commit a bank heist together, over the course of 10 gorgeous, dense layered guitar tracks spiced with keyboards and reinforced with powerful bass and percussion grooves!, Holy shit, I have a few versions of we don’t need money on demo and unreleased recordings, but how cool to hear it fully formed! love that heavy fuzz bass and beat. amazing! Love the whole thing.

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The Rough Justice of The Warlocks’ The Chain, The longtime L.A. psych-rockers’ tenth studio album is released on April 3rd, 2020
“Creamy, dreamy, glass breaking-style storytelling” is how Bobby Hecksher describes the psychedelic-rock sound of The Warlocks’ tenth full-length studio album, The Chain, on Cleopatra Records.
“We’re telling a story this time,” Hecksher says about the album’s ripped-from-the-headlines concept, which he says had been percolating for a few years before it suddenly came to him with the delirious intensity of a fever-soaked dream, like that “out-of-body experience you get at a show when you’re drenched in sweat and suddenly feel so alive.”
That concept, Hecksher says, is based around “a Bonnie & Clyde-ish twenty-something couple who rob a bank but get caught and then are cast down the bottomless pit of our justice system. The main characters, Rocky and Diamond, come from different means and thus have very different outcomes. It’s a loose collection of ‘you got fucked and swept under the rug’-type feelings revealed amid happy songs about their relationship, provided as a kind of relief
Band Members
Bobby Hecksher,
JC Rees,
Jason “Plucky” Anchondo,
Earl V. Miller,
Chris DiPino,

Will be available on both CD and limited edition colored vinyl in your choice of PURPLE or SILVER! vinyl
released April 3rd, 2020

FLEETWOOD MAC – ” The Chain “

Posted: September 15, 2016 in MUSIC
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Relive The Explosive Drama Of Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 Tour With Footage Of The Band Tearing Up ‘The Chain’ | Society Of Rock Videos

A 111-show, ’round the world affair, Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 Tusk tour was as ambitious as the album it supported and every bit as dramatic as the behavior the band engaged in behind the scenes. By the time the tour wrapped in 1980, the band had already seen a physical altercation between ex-lovers Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and saw each member of Fleetwood Mac “barely able to stand the sight of each other” – but when they got onstage each night, they used that tension and anger to fuel some of the best concerts in recent memory, each show rising to a fever pitch and leaving fans wondering just how the hell Fleetwood Mac could possibly upstage themselves the following night.

The Tusk Tour nearly ended Fleetwood Mac, with tensions coming to a head following an instance where Lindsey Buckingham actually threw a Gibson Les Paul at Stevie Nicks at the tour’s end.

One such song that sent both the band and their audiences into a frenzy that tour was “The Chain,” the angry declaration of unity featured on 1977’s global hit album Rumours; in the performance you’re about to see, Lindsey Buckingham is a man possessed as he takes the lead, Stevie Nicks looking on from beside him with her signature tambourine and bandmates Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood following Lindsey’s lead and forming one cohesive unit almost like – yep, you guessed it – links in an unbreakable chain.

With its thundering bass line and searing guitar solo, these rock legends leave it all on the stage in this electrifying performance and for just a few moments in time, the drama they’d face once the curtain fell on yet another explosive Fleetwood Mac concert doesn’t matter; when you’re bound together by this kind of talent and energy, why should it?

REIGNWOLF – ” The Chain “

Posted: July 29, 2014 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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this is REIGNWOLF and a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain played by one man