Not much to this song, pretty simple and repetitive lyrics, pretty consistent beat, etc, etc. but it’s a good one to cool off to during this long, hot summer.
Penguin Prison – Fair Warning (Disco Bloodbath Remix) by Penguin Prison
Penguin Prison’s debut full-length will be available this fall on Downtown Records.
Falling down the wormhole that is YouTube, I was revisiting some Vinnie Vincent Invasion songs after hearing of the former Kiss guitarist’s legal troubles. I’m not sure of the time period of the band Warrior, of which Vincent was a member (founder?) of, but I stumbled across a demo for the songs “Boyz Are Gonna Rock” which would later appear on the Vinnie Vincent Invasion debut album.
While there are very similar guitar intros and solos in both versions of the songs – and the chorus is nearly identical – the verses (both lyrically and structurally) are completely different.
Here’s the Warrior demo version.
Here’s the version that appears on the Vinnie Vincent Invasion album.
It got me to wondering why there was such a dramatic change between the original and the officially released version. Did Vincent decide the first version wasn’t something he wanted to release? Did the other members of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion bring their own thoughts and ideas to the songs? Did somebody at a label tell Vincent that he’d need to update the song to make it more marketable?
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Happy 43rd birthday to one of the most bad ass singers in the metal genre, Mr. Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual, etc.).
My buddy David sent me a link that had this video on it this morning. Lil’ Pantera fan rocking out like his life depends on it!
Did Weezer start this “Paranoid Android” cover madness? Not sure why, but as of late this song has been popping up all over the place including a pretty cool YouTube mashup version where dozens of people recorded themselves playing the song and then somebody taking bits and pieces of each performance and making one video out of it.
A few weeks ago I checked out Matthew Mayfield as he kicked off a short run of tour dates in Columbus, Ohio (drove 12 hours from Alabama just to play the show) but he didn’t cover “Paranoid Android” that night – didn’t even know he had it in his back pocket. But, here is his pretty faithful-to-the-original version.