Jan 132008
Where were you when the big moment finally arrived?
If you’ve gotten this far you’ve earned the right to post something about how the headless-guitar-playing guy was “actually quite good,” or perhaps you’d like to fill us in on something obvious regarding the Sales brothers having played on some of Iggy’s best-known Bowie productions. Even dim memories of watching The Soupy Sales show are welcome!
I know this isn’t the slam dancing post you’d been contemplating, but it’s the best I can do on short notice.
I’ve never had the urge to get up on a stage, especially just to jump off of it into the arms of a bunch of sweaty kids. But I liked Tin Machine’s first album. Reeves Gabrel may have a strange approach to the guitar, but I like the first Tin Machine album way better than anything Stevie Ray Vaughan did with Bowie.
Hunt and Tony Sales were also the rythym section for Bob Welch after he left Fleetwood Mac and formed the band Paris. I’m pretty sure no one heard their first self titled album outside the band and their families, but Big Towne 2061 is a pretty cool album, and Soupy’s kids sound pretty good on it.
Soupy’s kids are Iggy’s LUST FOR LIFE rythm section. They’re great! Reeves Gabrels used to play with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the Glenn Branca Guitar orchestras. The credentials were all intact, and maybe this should have been better, but this felt old and out of touch when it happened. Still, I’m not saying it’s good, but I had the 2nd album on cassette, and I liked it. “breakfast music for terminators?!?” WEAK!