Savanting The Idiot

Savanting the idiot welcomes their 2nd guest. Lead singer of South Florida Metal band Double Barrel Justice , Jorge Emilio Ramos. https://www.facebook.com/doublebarreljustice

Death Metal Douglas is amused by horoscope parodies scribed by a would-be mystery woman in the Broward New Times while innocuously showboating and gloating on making the front cover of said publication. Turns out he knows the "music" writer who is some "guy" who slams The Mars Volta's stunning debut who gets a dress down of his own and rightly so. The Duo spars about liberating musical riffs & concepts a la Led Zep's "Achillies.." vs. Heart's "Barracuda". Rip-off tunes are mulled over and Soundsational Sense gets his mojo moving on a crusade to credit drummers fairly in regards to songwriting and publishing. Death Metal struggles tenaciously to get through a story but this is not an easy task to navigate through SNS’s hyper aggressive commentary. Death Metal powers through in regards to fellow bassist Mark Andes' (Spirit, Firefall, Heart) "triangular" relations to the Spirit vs. Led Zep ("Taurus" vs. "Stairway..") lawsuit . DMD gets accused online of being Lars Ulrich (we just can't get enough this guy apparently) because he dared to defend Lou Reed's collaboration with Metallica. As always mental rot rears it's ugly head as the conversation devolves into Cory Feldman and Anthony Fantano's "Needle Drop". PS: Link to the referenced article that DMD graced the front cover of . In all his st8 caucasian manly glory . https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/the-je-ne-sais-quoi-of-dmd-6316890

7.) "I learned it from watching you" DMD makes some corrections about Morbid Angel from podcast 5 so the S FL metal mafia does not hunt him down like a dog . As the duel segue into a double bass drum talking frenzy. Did The Circle Jerks invent thrash? Was Cactus the first band to really use double bass when Keith Moon the first to throw a TV set out of a hotel? John Bonham to Carmine Appice "I learned it from watching you". Later on John gives Carmine a "lesson" about mud sharks. Is Sting actually better than Geddy Lee? Sence makes sense about appropriating ideas for drums the same way we learn the alphabet. Also genetics are discussed from everything to driving cars to traditional grips on snare drums. DMD goes into the 50th anniversary of The Stooges "Funhouse". SNS ponders the Beach Boys/Charlie Manson connection then puts the "ass" in astrology because everything happens for a reason. It's all about magnetic pulls, bitches!

Sence & Doug Welcome their first guest to the show. Guitarist/Artist Gery Klappert. Gery goes way back with Alex Blue on drums/vocals with Azur while pondering the idea of starting a group from the ground up as ultimately preferable to joining someone else's band. Ensembles without bassists are debated as well and Gery's guitar centric mindset mined mainly through the power of Jimi Hendrix realized. Age differences and generations dealt with. Spoiler alert. Gery K. born in 1988, Soundsational in 1974 and Death Metal in 1968 making him the resident old fart of the crew. We find out Gen X has four years pre Death and four years post Sound. "Groovy" as they say. DMD unwittingly showboats a friendship with Brent Hinds of Mastadon. Fishing for ratings he exploits any situation thrown his way so watch out, snookums! The spiel moves toward Toxic Masculinity rearing its beautiful head once again in an obscure name choice by SNS "The Phallic Principle" and the process of picking a moniker that is imaginative enough to avoid another prissy, pissy pants group and their pesky attorneys composing the letter nasty. And speaking of nasty Alex gets off performing near strip club Scarlet's with neighbors and happy endings. One could wager he's in tha dog house as he gets home. Addiction and genuine sickness are acknowledged. "The worst drug. Musicians buying gear is like a drug! There is no rehab for it." Gery describes a Motorhead covers w/ Mudknuckles (feat. Ray of Load on lead vocals) at Churchills and having 3 days to learn the set. All this with his wife in the hospital! Talk about pressure. Sence describes a "he who shall not be named" circumstance as subject matter devolves into naked haircuts and what not. (P.S. This is the show Gery described https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAly8PpzV6U)

Headcave talk persists as Death Metal finds another band with the same name. Explains how selling tapes for six months before playing live built up a very large following. Is the drummer Tim and guitarist Larry of Primus too serious onstage? Why the fuck do they never smile when Les's lyrics go far beyond lowbrow? Les is phenominal on bass but is Florida's own David Pastorious the best bass player in the whole wide world? Queens of the Stone Age or Them Crooked Vultures? And how did ROR fit in with stoner rock or classic rock. Did the internet destroy music? Or did the internet save music? How is it that younger people are better musicians than ever at this point when real music does not make the the Top 40? Is there even a music industry and what do the charts mean anymore? Major labels, toxic masculinity and the media. Oh My! Click your heels, watch it disappear realizing there is no place like home. Young people don't do cable TV so will it die? More importantly will it kill the current media that is far more toxic than masculinity can ever be. We sure hope so!

The Rock Box makes it's aura known as Sense goes out on his own, brothu! Sense's father "you know I could come get you" Sense "you could come try and we'll see how this goes" Soundsational has an uphill battle keeping the place clean and finding work. Hones his chops with local rockers and gets blown away by Load as did most of South Florida in the early 1990's DMD unabashedly boasts and brags about bagging groceries with future Helmet drummer John Stainer at Publix in Plantation. Witnesses Stainer's transformation firsthand from cover band drummer to fellow hardcore punker which ultimately culminates into a full-on brawl at a Plantation High Battle of the Bands in 1986. Upon his triumphant return to South Florida in 1999 Motel 666 is formed as Doug joins Sean and Chris Chavez (Human Buffet, Blowfly). From there DMD explains his early band Headcave in Huntsville AL and how it became the largest drawing group (300 peeps!) of that town's history as he left the Army in 1991.

Soundsational Sense lays the groundwork of what will be the best podcast in the land! With a little history and context. DMD talks possibly way too much about the saxophone for comfort. What is this? Dad get me a saxophone! Easter cards with rabbits playing sax? What a nerd?!! Sound S gets his freak on with marching band drumming and jazz band. Death Metal starts on geetar. Later it manifests itself to an amp and effects pedals to emulate U2. These two guys riff out history on early bands and gigs. Sunglasses at night damnit! Sha Na Na first album?! NERD!!! From Hendrix at Woodstock, asshole soundguys, Hip-hop culture and why punkers liked Guns N Roses before anyone.

Sense pops and locks with Hip-hop early on and it's influence. A la Krush Groove, Run DMC and Fat Boys. What's not to love!! Things go downhill with Def Leppard talk and click-track drums ruin rock for a time. Hanoi Rocks and Guns N Roses get their NY Dolls and Aerosmith sleaze on to save rock. They in the process along with thrash and grunge kill hair metal thank Allah in all his benevolence and glory. Could our buddy Rich Kennedy get his ass beat or kick someone's ass over being a Clash fan or a Led Zep fan back in the day? DMD headbangs with metalheads at a Duran Duran concert. Is it true? AIDS takes all the fun out of dating for DMD yet he was too clueless to know as he thought his prude sisters and fellow South Plantation schoolgirls were behind the curve for the most part. No Trend's "Teen Love" is dissected and comes too close to home for comfort.