Cover of Depeche Mode’s “Lie To Me.” This cover originally appeared on COMA Music Magazine’s 2012 covers compilation Tainted Candy, which is a free download here: http://coma-online.com/?p=18036 Enjoy. 🙂 Fucking weird, by the way – noticed that YouTube has slapped black bars on the sides, even though the uploaded video […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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![Taime Downe, Faster Pussycat live [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fasterpussycat.jpg)
Not gonna bother doing the usual album list crap. After all, those “what I’m listening to this week” posts are more accurate on that front [skipping it this week due to Christmas, even if I’m listening more to Danzig than any Christmas music]. Instead, I figured I’d rattle off some […]
Weird little thing I noticed in the last few days: So I’m working on “Mr. Brownstone,” and we’d been over the verse and chorus riffs in my guitar lesson. I meant to scribble it down while it was still fresh in my mind but then I got sidetracked on my […]
Hey, only 8 days later instead of a month! Anyway, been a bit of a weird week, here are the tracks that stand out in my mind from this week’s listening: L.A. Guns: “Nothing Better To Do”: Bassist Kelly Nickels’ fun little ditty, always loved this one [and fuck, I […]
First, a side note: so many people will call a guitar a “she,” supposedly because of the curves. But really I think this convention stems from it being mostly guys who play guitar, and the vast majority are straight, so it makes sense that if they were going to anthropomorphize […]
![Aerosmith live [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/songanddanceblog.jpg)
[I keep calling these “this week” but then forgetting to post more than once every month or 6 weeks… Oh well…] First off, since I was up til 6:30am today on an L.A. Guns listening kick, here’s the official video for “Rip and Tear”: A little schlocky as any music […]
Like the title says. Of course, like the sign behind Keef’s head says in the photo, patience please. Although I can assure you that a new maQLu album will come first, long before a drug-free America ever will. This time around I decided no arbitrary release dates to cause me […]
![Hanoi Rocks live [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hanoireadingblog.jpg)
Saw Andy McCoy posted a couple of these clips on his Facebook page, absolutely love Hanoi Rocks, plus the energy in the show is kick ass even if the footage quality isn’t the greatest, so I figured I’d repost their whole set: [Note: there’s a minute or so with video […]
So I have my new-to-me 1986 Gibson ES-175. It’s pretty damn sweet, and while I originally planned to get a black one—what can I say, I like everything to color-coordinate easily—I ended up with an alpine white one that’s pretty much identical to one once played by Izzy Stradlin. And […]
Obsessed with this track at the moment: Aerosmith – “Darkness”: Imperfectly perfect. Human music, not robot crap. So fucking sick of presets. Preset drums. Preset synth patches. Fuck your backing tracks too. Gimme music made for human ears by human beings. Give me something with a soul and emotion. Let […]
So, with the Guns N Roses love of my youth now coming back with a vengeance, and being that I live in the twilight zone, I’ve started having some interesting freak coincidences coming up. There’s the vintage 1980s Gibson ES-175, virtually identical to one of the many GnR guitars from […]
Noticed something I never noticed before tonight: in the shot of Izzy Stradlin from the cover of GNR Lies, he’s got his pick between his thumb and forefinger and his cigarette between the middle and ring fingers. Talk about efficiency, or at least 80% efficiency. (And at least it’s not […]