The Cult

[FunkyMonkey]

THE CULT - ?HD? Sweet Soul Sister - Live HELLFEST 17/06/2011, Clisson, France -tinaRnR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5FF8aTZA4

Wild Flower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLE0p19JIQ

Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHi-I_hqYU

[Falcon]

With recent escalated interest of Ian's prior band to The Cult, Southern Death Cult - original members Ian, Aki Nawaz, Buzz Burrows and Barry Jepson have made available T shirts
through this portal:

http://www.mamstore.co.uk/SouthernDeathCult

For those not familiar with the band, give them a google - a very interesting story. 

[Falcon]

With recent escalated interest of Ian's prior band to The Cult, Southern Death Cult - original members Ian, Aki Nawaz, Buzz Burrows and Barry Jepson have made available T shirts
through this portal:

http://www.mamstore.co.uk/SouthernDeathCult

A % of proceeds from sales will be donated to a Native American charity of Ian Astbury's choice.

[Falcon]

An interesting photgraphic view of The Cult can be viewed below, tons of stuff I've never seen.

http://thecultbiografia.blogspot.com/2011/03/cult-friends-part-two-history-of-cult.html

[Falcon]

The Cult starts production of studio album 9 today in LA with producer Chris Goss.

No release date announced just yet - more to follow.

[Falcon]

From The Cult's twitter, Ian being his mystical wolfchild self:

Studio Day One building it slowly already chills in the room ....

[FunkyMonkey]

KYUSS LIVES! Frontman Performs With THE CULT At Italy's SONISPHERE (Video) - July 3, 2011

KYUSS LIVES! singer John Garcia joined legendary rockers THE CULT on stage on June 25, 2011 at the Sonisphere festival in Imola, Italy to perform the classic THE CULT song "Love Removal Machine". Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=160218

[Falcon]

KYUSS LIVES! Frontman Performs With THE CULT At Italy's SONISPHERE (Video) - July 3, 2011

I saw that a week or 2 ago, absolutely brutal - very hard to watch.

It's too bad, Garcia's biggest influence has been Ian and it would have been cool to see him nail it.

[Falcon]

More from The Cult's twitter:

"Nailed a new song in the studio on the second Anniversary of the passing of Dash Snow the gloves came off today nothing to prove raw power ..."

And from Johnny Tempesta:

Things are going good. Yesterday was more or less setup day. I have two different kits set ups so I have some variety. Got the White Tama Bubinga kit and the Ludwig Stainless steel kit. Trying out tons of different cymbals too.

[Falcon]

Billy Duffy will be taking part in The Alarm's Mike Peters "Love Hope and Strength" event coming up in Hawaii - details here:

http://www.thealarm.com/archives/17348

Come and Join Mike Peters in Hawaii for Kauai Rocks 2011 and celebrate 30 years of Mike Peters and Alarm history at a special Love Hope Strength Foundation concert on Tuesday August 23rd where Mike will be joined by such musical luminaries as Billy Duffy, John Oates, Donavon Frankenreiter, Shawn Colvin and more. Alarm fans who make the journey to Hawaii will have the opportunity to help choose the songs Mike performs throughout the day and take part in shaping an up close and personal performance event that will honour 30 years of Mike Peters and The Alarm songwriting history that began with 1981′s ?Unsafe Building? and continues to the anthemic signature tune ?Love Hope & Strength? of modern times.

[FunkyMonkey]

Any idea what this is about...from Sebastian Bach:

me & billy talked abt a song i did w the Cult thats gotta come out?@AJCeli: @BillyDuffyandAJ and @sebastianbach http://t.co/FOaAmBR?

https://twitter.com/sebastianbach/status/97815538427887616

31 Jul via Twitter for iPhone

Warning, some people may find the photo offensive.

[Falcon]

Any idea what this is about...from Sebastian Bach:

me & billy talked abt a song i did w the Cult thats gotta come out?@AJCeli: @BillyDuffyandAJ and @sebastianbach http://t.co/FOaAmBR?

https://twitter.com/sebastianbach/status/97815538427887616

Warning, some people may find the photo offensive.

Yep, he  demoed a song with Ian called "Indian" during the "Ceremony" sessions in late '90, the song appeared on the record sans The Savage Animal. 

And yes, I find the photo quite offensive - although maybe not as offensive as the following, notice the footwear on BD....

 http://yfrog.com/kh7wuhij

[FunkyMonkey]

Yep, he  demoed a song with Ian called "Indian" during the "Ceremony" sessions in late '90, the song appeared on the record sans The Savage Animal. 

So the song will probably never surface, you hope.

 
And yes, I find the photo quite offensive - although maybe not as offensive as the following, notice the footwear on BD....

 http://yfrog.com/kh7wuhij

Imagine he's off to the beach -- at least he's not wearing your open toed man shoe.

[Falcon]

So the song will probably never surface, you hope.

There's always a possibility it will, Beggars Banquet (The Cult's former record co) has used the bands back catalog as cash grabs many times over the years - multiple reissues, box sets etc
so never say never - althought I hope never.

Imagine he's off to the beach -- at least he's not wearing your open toed man shoe. :ihi:

I've tried but it doesn't work, I've seen this footwear fashion faux paux behavior before from Billy and hid it for years only to finally cleanse my soul of the shame I've been carrying and face my demons head on (well, foot on) with the picture linked above.

[FunkyMonkey]

Imagine he's off to the beach -- at least he's not wearing your open toed man shoe. :ihi:

I've tried but it doesn't work, I've seen this footwear fashion faux paux behavior before from Billy and hid it for years only to finally cleanse my soul of the shame I've been carrying and face my demons head on (well, foot on) with the picture linked above.

Well, at least you've come to terms with it.   And we could talk about Ian's footwear - but I have the feeling that would be an entirely different discussion.

[Trist805]

I'm waiting for my copy of Beyond Good and Evil (2001), in the mail.   Matt Sorum on drums!

[Falcon]

I'm waiting for my copy of Beyond Good and Evil (2001), in the mail.   Matt Sorum on drums!

If you like heavy riff driven rock music, it's a good listen all the way through - very chunky.

They do sneak a ballad in there called "Nico" and it's a full on clunker.  Skip at all costs.

[Falcon]

Well, at least you've come to terms with it.  

It's been a long hard road but it's a cross I'll have to bare.

Imagine the personal hell I've had to endure knowing my favorite all time band once collaborated with The Savage Animal and the epitome of guitar slinger frequently wears flip flops.

I should sue for mental anguish with a side dish of pain and suffering.

[FunkyMonkey]

It's been a long hard road but it's a cross I'll have to bare.

I didn't know it was that serious.

Imagine the personal hell I've had to endure knowing my favorite all time band once collaborated with The Savage Animal and the epitome of guitar slinger frequently wears flip flops.

Then these are two subjects I'll try to avoid in this thread.  The Savage Animal and flip flops that is.

Unless I see a photo of Sebastian in flip flops.  That, I can't promise.

[Falcon]

Then these are two subjects I'll try to avoid in this thread.  The Savage Animal and flip flops that is.

Please do, I've suffered enough already.

Back onto Cult news, Chris Wyse finished up bass tracks for The Cult's new record last week and
Cult touring guitarist Mike Dimkich has entered the twitter world @michaeljdimkich - he's an extremely witty/sacastic guy, very much worth a follow if you're into such things as the twitter..