[screamingskull]

if you're into hippie looking guys, then he's not bad looking.

 

 

 

 

he has interesting style.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by screamingskull

 

he has interesting style.

God help us if they bring back conscription!

[screamingskull]

I kinda feel sorry of the guy, he's like 40 years too late for is scene. He's living in Topanga Canyon which was THE place to live in like 1966, but now??? it's just full of guys who have made a load of money from computer software.

[uhler]

i used to like his old records. now i find him annoying as hell.

[SugarMountain]

I would still like to live in Topanga, listen to Neil Young all day and pretend it was the 70s

[screamingskull]

can i come?

[super_charger]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

folk is not really a "sound" as it is pushed here in america.

bluegrass is folk. hawaiian music is folk. polka is folk. delta blues is folk. gypsy music is folk.

Indeed, those are regional examples of folk but my point still remains that folk is essentially music that anyone can make by themselves with just a guitar (or harp or ukulele) and isn't supposed evolve the way other music does like when people say about an artist 'wow, he's really pushing the boundaries'.

But I wouldn't say that Devendra's music is an example of the hippy soft shit that you were complaining about as he incorporates more than one of the above styles into his records as well as some rock influences like T-Rex.

[demonrail666]

Artists like him sort of astound me. I just wonder who they actually appeal to. It's like Nathan Barley played totally straight.

[SugarMountain]

I know exactly what you mean, And thats what I though about him initially but I think he's the real deal, His last two records are hardly folk records

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Well, I don't think stuff like sun city girls, six organs, james blackshaw, jack rose, etc. has anything to do with the rest of that "freak folk" scene.. cuz, you know, that stuff's actually good. Haha.

I just think everyone should listen to every John Fahey and Robbie Basho album on repeat for a few months.

i made no indication that those bands are part of the "freak folk" movement, just that they have some folk influences in their very wide ranges of sound.

on a side note: i realize that my explaining my position i sounded like a pretentious dick, and i apologizee, so ill just say that the freak folk artists do not have any appeal to me for the most part.

[Everyneurotic]

kill all hippies.

This Banhart guy can surely cause a stir.

Originally Posted by screamingskull

if you're into hippie looking guys, then he's not bad looking.

 

he has interesting style.

Oh, c'mon! Only Angus Maclise could get away with things like the above.

[Green Magnesium]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

kill all hippies.

I held your above comment up to a mirror and got this.......

.hippies all kill


unsettling to say the least

[super_charger]

 

People keep making fun of the way Devendra looks but don't have a problem with these guys? Wait...isn't that Devendra on the left?

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Artists like him sort of astound me. I just wonder who they actually appeal to. It's like Nathan Barley played totally straight.

it amazes me that this guy sells thousands of records and somebody like Teenage Panzerkorps (arguabley the most awesome band since Harry Pussy) only sell about 500

http://www.myspace.com/teenagepanzerkorpsrules

[Savage Clone]

Originally Posted by super_charger

People keep making fun of the way Devendra looks but don't have a problem with these guys? Wait...isn't that Devendra on the left?

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's CHOUT.

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

kill all hippos.

Oi, leave those damn cuddly animals alone!

 

[ALIEN ANAL]

oh look he is having lots of fun here
and he had a shave

:P

 

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

it amazes me that this guy sells thousands of records and somebody like Teenage Panzerkorps (arguabley the most awesome band since Harry Pussy) only sell about 500

http://www.myspace.com/teenagepanzerkorpsrules

Oh my word, I can't rep you again, but thanks - they really are amazing.