#troy gregory

[metal-sludge]

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM (1981 - present) | CREEM, November 1988.

[metalkilltheking]

1988. No Place for Disgrace

is the second album by Flotsam and Jetsam, This marked the band's first album release through a major label, Elektra Records, and was also their first album with the bass guitarist Troy Gregory, who had replaced Jason Newsted when the latter left the band in 1986 to join Metallica. Despite not playing on the album, three songs on it were co-written by Newsted.

Classic album,  great stuff. The band is great and this album can be heard in repeat. highly recommend this album for  thrashers, and Flotsam fans that i'm sure they already have it.

Highlights: "No Place For Disgrace", "Hard On You", "Escape From Within"

Kelly David-Smith   dward Carlson  Eric A.K   Troy Gregory   Michael Gilbert

[vinylspinning]

Prong: Prove You Wrong (1991)

Nowadays I pretty much worship every note Prong committed to tape during their brief, early ‘90s peak, but at the time of its release, I felt their third long-player left something to be desired, writing in the All-Music Guide that: 

On Prove You Wrong Prong began to allow a little more melody to trickle into their oppressive urban noise-scapes, but the album lacks some of the fresh spark that made the breakthrough Beg to Differ so unique and enticing. 

Not that there’s any sign of this to begin with, as the trio gets right down to business with brutal opener “Irrelevant Thoughts” – its tribal drumming and supersonic guitar effects literally stomping on the listener’s brain. 

Ensuing cuts like “Positively Blind,” “Hell if I Could” and the title track sound like scathing attacks on the emerging Generation X complacency, and the latter’s scratchy riff is a wonderfully perverted twist on Led Zeppelin’s “Celebration Day.”

New bassist Troy Gregory (ex-Flotsam and Jetsam) took over lead vocals for “Brainwave,” one of the disc’s few outright surprises, along instrumental “Territorial Rights” (part psychedelia, part world music), and a storming cover of The Stranglers’ “Get a Grip on Yourself,” which hipped metal-heads like me to the Prong boys’ roots in “cooler” styles like punk, hardcore and noise rock.

And, while two or three songs might have been discarded before the CD era demanded padded track-listings, fact is that the album’s first single, “Unconditional” – at once catchy and sonically devastating – was probably the best thing they ever wrote (too bad second single, “Pointless,” mimicked its structure and rhythm).

So, as I listen back now, I hear so many extra nuances that actually did differentiate Prove You Wrong from the ascetic, virtually fat-free perfection of Beg to Differ. 

Guess they proved me wrong ... 

And Tommy Victor and company really reinvented themselves over the next three years, by embracing industrial metal on 1994’s Cleansing.

More Prong: Beg to Differ, Cleansing.

[rp-kat]

Flotsam And Jetsam - The Master Sleeps

1990

[rp-kat]

Prong

1991

[blackrockandrollmusic-blog]

Hiawatha Bailey - I Wanna Be Your Dog

[natcaprock]

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a Birdman Stage at Bluesfest ... since the Birdman site has gone blogspot I'm just going to post some of the photos that were once there on Tumblr. Here are The Dirtbombs doing their thing back in the day.

[dorkysomniloquist]

Someone recorded the majority of the Slim's show. You're welcome.

The new album can't come out fast enough. I feel kind of sick with wanting it now.