Gruhak: It's internet speak for "Rockin Out"

                Welcome once again to The Bones, loyal viewers!  Quick announcement:  We’ve officially broken a thousand hits!  Thanks guys.  Really.  That’s awesome sauce.  Keep on coming by and keep on sending out the links.  This is all you!

                I was mucking about on the interwebs today when I stumbled across something marvelous.  Not something cool.  Not something pretty good.  This shyte is flipping MARVELOUS and I don’t know why I haven’t heard of these guys before.  It’s a little band called Gruhak  and I know next to nothing about them.

                On the facebook, my friend told me that she had never ever heard a Led Zeppelin song.  This was a travesty that I felt must be righted, so I went straight on over to the youtubes and I did a quick search for some of the essentials.  (The Immigrant Song, Ramble On, Misty Mountain Hop and the like.)  On a search for the Immigrant Song I found these guys.  A cover of a Led Zeppelin song?  Yeah.  I’ve never heard one of THOSE.  (Rolls Eyes)  But I’m all about music and the picture looked like my buddies rocking out in their garage so I just had to click it.

                It’s not every day that I’m surprised like this.  (Like really pleasantly surprised.)  But this was one day where I would feel that glee.  The only thing that I can say is “solid.”  Not just a solid representation of the song, but a solid band.  I flipped through some other covers of theirs and you can just tell that either these guys had recorded about eighty billion takes of this, or they worked REALLY well together.  I’m choosing to believe the second part. 

                They do covers of other bands and I’m going to be honest, that singer is versatile.  If you ever happen to read these words, man:  I salute you.  I salute your guitarist too.  I salute you not only for your skill, but for your honesty about what you do.  Right on one of the videos I watched, I think it was one of the Led Zep ones, a viewer commented something to the lines of “Dude.  That solo was great.  Better than the original.  How did you do it?”  The guitarist replied with “I was feeling lazy that day, so it’s a dumbed down version of the original.”  Then he actually posted the chords in the response.  That is a freaking musician.  THAT is the kind of people that I like to see.  None of this big headed prickish snark that you get so often, just a guy that (I assume) enjoys what he does and is just having a good time with it.  Maybe I’m wrong, but in this case, I’ll be happy being wrong.

                I know I just picked out the guitarist and the singer, but the WHOLE freaking band is solid.  Great energy on their videos and either well rehearsed or very skillful.  Can it be both?  Maybe it can.  I especially love that in almost every video they’ve got cigs hanging out the corner of their mouth as they play.

                They have a website.  It’s at the bottom.  Go to their youtube channel first.  Tell me that that singer doesn’t capture that mouthful of gravel that Morrison sings with on those Doors covers.  And don’t be afraid to dig their original work too.  It’s not half bad.

                Fantasy will set you free,

                                -Costello 

Gruhak Youtube Channel:   http://www.youtube.com/user/Gruhak

Gruhak Band Page:  http://www.gruhak.com/

Opening up a can of Awesome.

                Did you hear that?  Those were crickets chirping.  How about we drown out that sound by opening up a can of awesome?

                Yeah, it’s been a while and I’d like to take this time to apologize for my absence.  Between moving, getting back to the grind in Flint, and various other projects I just kind of let this beast slip through the cracks.  Fear not.  I’m raising the jolly roger once more.  I’ve decided to take the Bones off of hiatus and add a little more structure to it.  The blog will now be updating twice a week: Mondays and Thursdays.  As always, previous articles will be kept up here for your enjoyment and amusement, just click the tabs, or scroll down depending on what screen you’re viewing.

                Back to the grind!  What’s been up internet?  Summer’s in full swing right now, the birds are chirping, the sky is blue, and for once Michigan isn’t a total hoe-bag.  (Audible Squee!)  Of course the summer has brought with it quite a bit of new and interesting things both musically and otherwise.  The first of which has been chomping at me for several weeks now.  Have you guys heard this Adele chick?  I’d like to start this off by saying that modern popular music is generally something I avoid at all costs.  It’s financially driven rubbish for the most part and I just can’t bring myself to like something that was engineered to make money, but this…  I guess I feel dirty saying it, but I really enjoy this.  The girl is from Europe, but sings like she’s from the glorious south.  I don’t mean Hank Williams south, I mean John Lee Hooker south.  The big hit song right now is called Rollin in the Deep.  Very good.  To whoever came up with this: well done.  You have pleased me.  More importantly though, I really appreciate the public actually liking it.  It’s not every day that a song with such real bluesy feeling gets airtime here.  It’s even rarer that such a song is listened to during said airtime.  Well done.

                On to other news.  I heard through the rumor mill that the band Halestorm had broken up.  This was of course from the knowledgeable gentleman that works at a t-shirt booth.  After checking not only their facebook and myspace pages, but also their official band page, I have yet to see any real trouble lurking.  Of course, maybe t-shirt man knows something that the internet does not.  It’s happened before.

                I’d like to take this time to further expand my nerd-apeal.  I’ve been playing the new installment of American McGees Alice, which is quite the fine game, indeed.  I would like to take this moment to voice a bit of outrage, however.  When I press the A button, you’re supposed to jump.  When I tap it twice, you’re supposed to jump higher.  Here’s an idea:  Why don’t you do that?  Maybe then you wouldn’t have died eighty billion times and you could have saved both me AND you a good hour on that last level.  Beastly!

                 

                Well that’s our show today, thanks for reading.  As always I’d like to remind you that this blog is spread largely through word of mouth, and google.  Hey google readers.  What’s up?    I’d also like to point out the fact that the more followers that I have, the more validated I feel.  My life has meaning thanks to you lemmings.  You’re sweet hearts.  Really.  Click that follow button for me will ya? :)

                Toodles Folks.  See ya Thursday.

                                -Costello