I like everything I've heard (admittedly not all that much) by The Afghan Whigs. I've heard of the Twilight Singers and Grant Hart.
Yeah, Grant Hart's the less prolific of the two Husker Du songwriters, but his work is great. He would really profit from having a producer, instead of doing it himself. Grant needs an editor.
Twilight Singers are Greg Dulli's post-Afghan Whigs project, and they're great. I hired a new tech last week from Cincinnati, and I mentioned I was listening to the Whigs from Cincinnati. His eyes popped open, and he said they were his favorite band, and he went to school with Greg Dulli. This guy's brother also filmed
Twilight Singers - Bootleg, surreptitiously. The Twilight Singer's manager saw it on the net and thought it was so good he bought the rights and released it commercially.
Work's been cool lately, with my new tech and I trading bootleg shows and videos and engaging in fanboy discussion of Afghans minutiae, happy to find kindred fans of a much underrated and ignored group. Bit of unknown and embarrassing trivia about Greg Dulli for other fans - when he was in high school, he fronted a Lynyrd Skynyrd/Southern Rock tribute band. Ain't it awful when guys you went to high school with expose your youthful folly.
Man, I've got a '51 Fender Deluxe amp that I saved from being thrown in the trash - my wife and I were organizing an older guy's warehouse, and he said there was an amp somewhere, it didn't work as far as he knew. I found it - it was dust-covered, black, and I saw the chicken beak knobs and thought "Whaaa?", wiped away the dust and saw Fender on the top. The guy's kid had spray painted the amp black over the Tolex to make it look like one of the newer '60's Fender amps. My wife found a metal plate under a box, and it was the missing nameplate fromthe front of the amp - "Fender, made in Fullerton California".
It's a
motherfucker, once the tubes warm up. Scotty Moore used the same model to record "Hound Dog" with Elvis.