Versatile hard rock quartet, All Them Witches, thrive on contrast. Now six records deep into a tenure that began in 2012, Ben McLeod (guitarist,) Charles Michael Parks, Jr. (bass/vocals,) Robby Staebler (drums,) and Allan Van Cleave (keys) are unremittingly forward-looking. There is a ferocious energy and rhythmic nuance to the band that delivers devastating guitar riffs in a raw blend of progressive, bluesy, neo-psychedelic rock.
The band has relentlessly toured since inception, performing at festivals including Voodoo Music & Arts, Bonnaroo, Forecastle Festival, and Pukkelpop; while also sharing tours with acts such as Mastodon, Ghost, and Primus.
All Them Witches’ most recent record was recorded in Abbey Road and released September 4, 2020 on New West Records. They continue to hone their unique meld of crafted songwriting and spacious grooves on the road with 30+ date tour this winter.
They cast their music like a magic spell over me.. every song is a mystical, transcendent journey through soundscapes.. Easily the best band I've heard since the 70's.
As a big fan of Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion and Dax Riggs I don't know how i missed out on these guys for so long.. Glad i did find them in 2024 tho!!!
For one thing let me say im not for communism but capitalism has a few snags.. A lot of the problem is that with capitalism, which isn't all like unfair game and I still don't trust communism, but it allowed people to succeed and some were so successful that now a lot of the economy is taken up by so few businesses that consumed so much of the market and think like anything about the economy just about takes money but so much of the money is sidelined being hoarded up by that few percent that got so much of it so really all that money is dead in the water till they spend it and they aren't spending it on the poor side of the economy so much as to keep the money circulating. So literally a bunch of the life blood of a currency based economy like this , being the money, the tickets to everything, they're sitting there not doing anything so that those few can stay rich and when they do spend it a lot of times it's going to very rich brands and people who kind of do that again.. Remember like the renaissance where a lot of rich people's money went to a sort of well, renaissance, from rich patrons and it wasn't all a golden age but it did get more of some things done because it let money into the economy and while people have to have money to do anything there has to be money there to do anything with... Really need to do something better than money as a means to everything though, I think so anyway.
I think the world needs to get past money as the means of doing everything. The economy is based first and last on what makes money and it's creating a lot of waste, they want to keep it rolling out to sell more and from oil to the chemical industry it's gradually changing the chemistry of the world and that's not good for biology as we know it. It's not profitable so much to clean up or properly dispose of things and compare an economy that starts and ends with trying to make money with one that just there on needs and i don't think everyone would even have to work full time to sustain civilization but i don't know everything. Plus when money is so necessary the people who keep more have more to be like power but it selects for people that keep it and that doesn't do so much for everything, i mean money doesn't count for much till it's spent on something so to stay rich is to sideline all this money that's so key to everything. People kind of have to screw everything else to stay rich but then people that would do things that are needed don't have the money so much. Plus like get this. They keep pumping things out, like i said from oil to chemicals to teddy bears it's adding up but it isn't profitable to stop at enough or make something to last and it's cheaper to throw it away and burn or bury it or dump it that to dispose of it right. And how is civilization going to keep going and growing or expanding to space at the price on things in terms of money.. I know currency streamlined trade back thousands of years ago but it's got these catches to it that just aren't sustainable.. Plus, if you want to go to heaven think of the part where it said those who conquer the beast, the antichrist, they go to heaven and the mark of the beast, the sixes, are in order to buy or sell and dealing a blow to money as we know it might count for credit against the antichrist and more than zero credit on conquering the antichrist is enough to count I'm pretty sure. One reason for my comments but seriously, if people were good enough they could swing it with no currencies then like money's not an object and if they aren't good enough then money might be preserving some problems like that with people because yeah it streamlines trade. I don't know how much longer things can carry on till most people die if people can't do things that we could do just don't get money for it. You trade money for anything else anyway right?
Waves happen in a lot of figures and it can show in a lot of things going on. Rich times poor times, free times oppessive times. Population growth and shrinkage. Migrations to and migrations from.. more religious and less religious. Which religion is gowing up or down while others are going up or down... good and bad talent in governments. Stuff like that.
Something average on average is what we're getting. The baby boom is getting old now so who gets elected?? Older people is a stronger possibility. From one card to the next card, other side of middle is common.. So from Trump, big on border security, to biden so weak on border security it fits those odds.. Think like a black card one to red card two maybe red card three maybe black card four... When it goes red card to black card next or black to a red next let's call it a flip... Flips happen but not every time.. Trump was a flip to red from Obama's blue, but obama got two terms and was a flip the first time he won from Bush's red who also got two terms, after Clinton's blue for near two terms and trump got one term before a flip to Biden's blue... Think like clubs to diamonds to clubs to hearts or something.
