I was driving up the upper Hoh road last Saturday with this song just pounding through the speakers in my rig. The song Is by an outstanding, obscure Swedish hard rock/heavy metal band called Spiritual Beggars. I found myself singing alternative lyrics to the song in my head on one of the most glorious (and if you've read my other posts, scary)Hoh river mornings of all time, for some reason I feel compelled to post them. Actually if I could just introduce this band to one person who thinks they are as awesome as I do (well, one more person )it will be worth all the tomatoes in the world about to be thrown my way...if you'd like me to Email or IM the actual song to you I'd be happy to, I only changed a few key words...

Never see the sun above
I dig in the oars
Sunshine washes the gray away
It kissed my brain
Mountains make me lose my breath
I feel alive
Now I feel humility
and at peace in the mind
Now the lungs of the universe
Are the lungs of my soul
I can feel it
I can sense it
Hallelujah Fish the Hoh
Monday morning you enter hell
Not me I'm not a fool, I work like a wh***
Haven't fished the Hoh
Monday morning I open an eye
and lay back in bed
arms so heavy I can't get up
Friday will come
Now the lungs of the universe
Are the lungs of my soul
I can feel it
I can sense it
Hallelujah Fish the Hoh
Hallelujah Fish the Hoh!!

...one more time down the board and I'll let it go.

A prophet is never appreciated in his own time...

I'll pass on buying the record, but bring it along if we ever fish together, and we'll pop it in.

So can I just pick this CD up at the mall? Besides that one song, are there at least 2 other 'good' songs?

I don't justify spending $18 on one song. Unless of course, it is a killer song. Not many times has this happened.

I'll check them out though. I blast Disturbed, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, etc. all the time.

'neck

Sorry, haven't figured out how to paste in links yet:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...2049337-7178358

You won't find this in the store, worth every second of the wait!!

Every song is strong, I haven't been excited about a band to the extent that I am excited about this one since I heard "Breakin' the Law" for the first time!!

I always have the speakers at max when the beat up boat follows. Buzzo, of course, is lead guitar of the Melvins, another obscure band who scoffed at any capitalistic chance for radio notoriety. Also, Slipknot, Slayer, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Obituary, Primus, Sepultura, Soul Fly (tribal anadromous rhythms mixed with smash riff), but also some NOFX, Gas Huffer, and Social Distortion. Of course, nothing beats Jimi at Winterland or Carlos in Japan, 1974 (Lotus).

HT

I was kinda expecting George Thoroughgood and a rewrite to "I drink alone". I'll leave that up to someone else.

I check them out on www.audiogalaxy.com . if you like that loud,fast, punk s**t check out aus-rotten,
chaus 88, the brawlers, the oi scouts. Ben

I have over 25G of AG Files. More addicted to that site than this one even. All of Spritual Beggars songs can be downloaded for free from this website!!!

Same username there as here, drop me a line sometime....

ya all right

Here's the real rock.

Turbo Negro from Norway. Check out the Apocalypse Dudes album.
The band Sweet Water kicks a## too...

I usually make up all new lyrics to fit the fishing situation at the time. Sometimes its an upbeat rock tune, others its a sad country song...
but it is all original Craven

Anyone who winds up checking out Spiritual Beggars, post a short review?

I lost my appetite for new music completely about ten years ago, right about the time Seattle bands were oversaturating the music scene. Then I discovered this relatively obscure band Kyuss, who I remember hearing about, remember hearing about the shows they played in Seattle but never went to because I had written them off as being a 'hair band with the last name of the singer' type band (see Winger)....

Kyuss shred and nobody noticed. If you are in to Sabbath type heavy rock or just good hard driving music then check out the cool,cheap three CD set from Amazon (not a sales pitch, you can find the same deal from other internet CD stores)...

Anyway...I am a huge Sabbath fan and there have been all kinds of retro Sabbath type bands coming out in the last few years, here are my favorites: Kyuss, Spiritual Beggars, Electric Wizard, sheavy, Grand Magus, The Quill, Big Elf (Beatles meet Sabbath, really cool!), Church of Misery

If you check any of these out please post,

ROCKFISH,

I checked out the Turbonegro you mentioned, they're pretty damn cool even though I am not much of a punk (some might argue otherwise). Try checking out the Hellacopters, Gluecifer and Entombed for a little more northern European punk flavor...

Its true. Kyuss rocks.

hard to beat sabbath, though

Craven originals rock the boat...with hyterics!
Craven...all you need now is a band...we both know someone that strums a mean clipboard! :p

FJ...out.

I like my metal fast and tight, like the shine of a hot native fish taking line in clear water, like the raw beauty of a metallic bikini on a woman in the sun, and the music of the speed metal band Testament. You might look at the song "Disciples of the Watch" and notice the potential for changing the words to fit a fish theme, Disciples of the Rod!

Haha...I love Testament...really sad about Chuck's cancer though...

How about "Fishing Gods" to the tune of Metal Gods...

Wielding the rod comes the one combination that always seems certain to bring down the rodtip for me etc....

wow, i didn't know so many on this board actually listen to good music!!!

"Helter Smelter"

How about you Heavy Metal?? We need some more Rock/Metal songs to convert to a fishing theme....