Hey I'm Chris Broderick of the band Act of Defiance.
What's up everybody, I'm Henry Derek from the band Act of Defiance and this is What's in My Bag.
First we have Darren Aronofsky's 'Mother.'
This is my kind of movie. This is fun for the whole family right here.
Fun for the whole family?
It's like a psychological horror film of sorts
but I think the general consensus on this was 'disgusting.'
Maybe I'll borrow that from you.
Well now you have to see this.
I'm gonna start off with this.
I love coffee and of course I love Iron Maiden.
Yeah we're coffee whores in this band.
Absolutely.
Y'know when we're on tour, we're brewing three or four pots of coffee a day at the very least.
This'll probably be all used up in about a year. It'll be done.
Well don't break it. We have all these wild parties and stuff so...
I'll do my best. Coffee parties.
Concrete Blonde 'Still in Hollywood.' And it's true, we're still here. You guys are still here.
So this is a collection of rarities and b-sides.
I originally bought this on cassette in Milledgeville, Georgia at the Hatcher Square Mall.
Y'know growing up in a small town, I remember just
going to the music store and being disappointed every time.
Discovered this band. This has been one of my favorite bands ever since.
Criminally underrated, this band.
This includes the very best Leonard Cohen cover I've ever heard.
'Everybody Knows,' which was on the... what's that Christian Slater film? It doesn't matter.
'Pump Up The Volume.'
Yeah I think it was included in that but I could be wrong.
She's such a rockstar y'know. You see her in interviews and everything
and she's just has attitude for days.
We work and we do our thing, but
we will also take a whole Sunday and just y'know play 'In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida' for 45 minutes
which we did actually, last Sunday.
So this is Chick Corea solo piano music.
I've always been a semi-passive fan of Chick Corea's
and I love solo piano and standards, jazz standards
so this made absolute perfect sense.
I can't wait to tear it out of this little thing here.
They'll take it out of the thing for you and everything at the register.
I'm getting this for the book because I have all the music. This is Washington Phillips.
This is kind of... I don't want to say gospel, but it is gospel.
I know it's gonna scare a lot of people but he was a blues man from Texas.
He made his own instrument that was almost like an autoharp.
I forget what it's called. It might actually be called a Manzarene.
I've never heard anything like his sound.
It's just one vocal, y'know him playing this weird instrument. It's amazing.
This is Meshuggah's 'I.'
This is one of their few CDs that I don't have.
When I first stumbled onto Meshuggah, it was almost like hearing a band
that would compose music that I thought I was gonna compose before I had composed it.
Y'know I related to the music so much.
And I had heard them when I was about to go on and play this show locally, in Colorado where I grew up.
The front-of-house guy had started playing their music on the PA before we went up and played.
I couldn't go on, I had to find out who it was, who they were playing.
So I ran out to the front-of-house guy and I asked him.
And I started following them ever since then.
Y'know I really don't need this. This is kind of silly.
This is Coil, 'A Cold Cell In Bangkok.'
Coil is, I should say were, an industrial electronic band
but they were very experimental in their later years.
It's originally recorded, I don't know, maybe 2008.
But yeah it's only one side as you can see.
But what's cool is 100% of the profits from this release will be donated to the Thai Children's Trust.
And again this is something I don't need. It'll just sit on the shelf forever. But it's pretty.
Byzantine. This was a band that I've wanted to pick up forever.
They had a release during the time of our initial release
and I'm always curious how does our CD sound compared sonically
compared to other bands and stuff like that.
And Byzantine was one of those bands that I think was really up there in terms of sonic quality.
Oh yes, 'Thor and Friends.' The almighty Thor.
Not to be confused with the Canadian artist known as Thor. I do enjoy his stuff too.
But this is Thor from, I guess he's mostly known for his later work in Swans
one of my favorite bands of all time, and Ben Frost, Smog, Bill Callahan.
He's an amazing musician and I like his hairy arms very much.
I like his hat.
I hope you've got some heavy metal in that bag.
Not at the moment.
I am ditching metal for a moment and I'm going flamenco.
This is one of my all-time favorite guitarists Paco de Lucia.
Unfortunately he passed away about two, maybe three years ago now.
I think I was able to see him the last time that he played here in LA, at the Disney Concert Hall.
Oh wow that's cool.
Yeah he never lets you down, y'know, he's such a phenomenal guitarist in the flamenco idiom.
This is 'Breadwoman & Other Tales' and this is Anna Homler with Steve Moshier.
Anna Homler is a performance artist. I think she started the early eighties
but then she ventured into music.
The cool story about Breadwoman is that
apparently she was influenced by the population of homeless women in downtown Los Angeles.
The story is, she saw this character and she was transformed in a way
and she wanted to incorporate this character into her work.
The crazy thing about Ana is that she developed her own language that she sings in
and it sounds eerie and unlike anything I've heard.
This is an artist that I feel like more people need to discover.
Now back to the metal. This is by Havoc.
The riffs on this CD are crushing.
The guitarists are really good, the drummer is phenomenal
the singing is great. Everything is good on this CD.
If you like thrash and you want to hear a newer thrash band
Havoc is definitely the way to go.
Yeah they're one of the few newer bands in that genre that I think are killing it.
Yeah, absolutely. And plus
they're from my hometown of Denver, Colorado, so props to you guys.
Here we have William S. Burroughs. I've been on a crazy Burroughs kick lately.
I was reading 'The Place of Dead Roads' on tour and it got me wrapped up in his whole crazy world.
This is a reissue on Superior Viaduct
and I think this originally came out in the late 60s on ESP-Disk.
There's no one like William S. Burroughs. Not only as a writer but his voice, like as a character.
Finally he is caught in the act of digesting the Narcotics Commissioner and destroyed with a flame thrower.
The court of inquiry ruling that such means were justified in that the Buyer had lost his human citizenship
and was, in consequence, a creature without species and a menace to the narcotics industry on all levels.
I always think about guys like this and what they would do otherwise.
They'd just be certifiably insane.
I definitely want to say the drugs helped him greatly.
Just for the record, Henry is not advocating any sort of drug use.
No, no, unless it produces great work.
Sean will be very proud of this one. This is the newest Judas Priest CD/album called 'Firepower.'
A really strong critique of a lot of thrash bands, especially legacy thrash bands like this
was that they couldn't come up with anything that was as good as their earlier releases.
Y'know, you heard that time and time...oh but it's not as good as 'Screaming For Vengeance' or whatever .
At least the song 'Firepower' that I've heard really harkens back to
just the strength and the power that they had in the eighties.
So I guess that's it.
Cool, thank you guys so much, really appreciate it.
Sure, thank you.
Thank you, yeah. It was really fun.