Results for Bad Wizard

  • Dark Side of the Death Star (or How I Wasted Eleven Months of My Life)

    by James Greene, Jr.July 9, 2008Comments (10)

    White Zombie’s landmark 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 certainly seemed like the type of sample-heavy rock freak-out that would align perfectly with a wild, outer space adventure starring Mark Hamill. Also, I figured it would be pretty cool watching Darth Vader parade around to all those bad-ass metal riffs. That alone might keep me from dozing off in the middle of said experiment. The following evening (read more)

  • What Would You Do if I Showed You the Chords...

    by Max MobleyJune 25, 2008Comments (5)

    Paul McCartney said to me recently, “My god, you know more about our material than anyone else does simply because your work has been more recent.” (read more)

  • The Arm of Fun

    by Max MobleyJune 18, 2008Comments (4)

    With vinyl, music becomes tangible, certainly less ephemeral. When it slides out of the sleeve, it’s like you’re holding the song in your hands, don’t drop the song, man, they shatter. (read more)

  • Charles Manson: When I Get to the Bottom

    by Brian BrownJune 11, 2008Comments (40)

    Dennis Wilson called Manson his Wizard and the two became very close, swapping girls, songs, and religious ideas. Wilson meanwhile championed Manson to the elite music establishment by opening all sorts of doors for him, dropping him off, guitar in hand, at the hippest gatherings and playing his demos to whomever would listen. He even used Manson’s ideology in interviews. Suddenly the surfing, All-American, beefcake Beach Boy was talking about fear (read more)