Thursday, May 7, 2009

Quiz #170 - Probot "Shake your blood"

That should be fairly easy :)

This quiz valid until Thursday - May 14.

UPDATED:

Dave Grohl has voiced his appreciation of heavy metal numerous times over the years, whether it be trying to convince his Nirvana bandmates to have Sepultura open shows on the In Utero tour or playing with the Foo Fighters alongside Slayer, Pantera, and Black Sabbath at Ozzfest 1998 in the U.K.. But he was never so exuberant about his metal fixation until he issued the all-star project Probot in the early 21st century.

[source]

On the album, Grohl teamed up with heavy metal vocalists from 1980s and 1990s bands who influenced his musical tastes while he was growing up. Similar to 1995's Foo Fighters, Grohl wrote all of the music and performed most of the instrumentation. Each track on the album features a different lead singer including Lemmy, Max Cavalera and King Diamond.

A single would be found in the track "Shake Your Blood." Although Grohl recorded most of the instruments himself, Lemmy performed his own bass and wrote the lyrics to "Shake Your Blood." He noted, "I wrote the lyrics in about ten minutes. . . It's rock & roll, you know. It's not one of those complicated things." The song bears strong resemblance to Lemmy's style and was considered "a terrific Motörhead clone" by Adrien Begrand of PopMatters.

The "Shake Your Blood" music video was filmed in November 2003 and released shortly thereafter. It features an appearance by 66 women from the Suicide Girls adult entertainment website. In the video, the band is represented with Dave Grohl on drums, Lemmy on lead vocals and bass, and Wino (who sang on the Probot track "The Emerald Law") on lead guitar. Lemmy regarded the performance as "just like a tour in the '60s, when things were a lot more fun."

The video gained significant airplay upon its release on Headbangers Ball and is ranking #2 in the list of the best metal videos of the new millennium in a vote carried out by MTV2.

[source]



Probot "Shake your blood"
Album "Probot" - 2004

This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170
This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170
This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170
This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170
This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170
This Blog Rocks. Do You? Quiz #170

6 comments:

Dr_Rock said...

Probot - Shake Your BloodYou do like your non-Motorhead videos featuring Lemmy, don't you? ;-)

Cassandra said...

Motorhead - Probot

objectValues said...

Motorhead.. but i can't tell the video :(

Gavozdita said...

probot-shake your blood

Tina said...

To Dr. Rock, yes, I like setting people up. It's fun, look at Dragos here, he learned two bands already thanx to my "misleading" :)

By the way, you should get in touch, next time I'm in UK I'm bringing gifts. Or maybe just a beer :)

And welcome to Gavozdita :) Well done.

objectValues said...

:)) Thanks a lot Tina can't wait for the next one