The Official Royal Carnage KING'S X Thread

[Papa Josh]

Sitting down to do my review of drummer Jerry Gaskill's solo album, Come Somewhere and I thought I would start a thread to one of my favorite bands EVER and one of music's most important artists, King's X. Discuss the band, individual member's projects, etc.

These guys are responsible for creating a sound that many loved, many hated. Wanna know where bands like Alice In Chains stole the original blueprint? Wanna know why everyone from Vernon Reid of Living Colour to Richie Blackmore and god, the list could go on, loves KING'S X??

 

[NAD]

I've heard one song off the Dogman album many years ago and that dude had one of the most wicked bass tones I've ever heard that I'll never forget.

That's all I can say.

 

[lizard]

one of the most criminally neglected bands in rock history.

 

[Papa Josh]

Very, very criminal. Glad to see that they placed in VH-1's greatest 100 bands of all time, though.

They are one of those bands that everybody talks about, most people that have heard them love them, but they don't sell any records.

 

[JayKeeley]

I've even seen them live supporting Dio.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

one of the most criminally neglected bands in rock history.

yet ANOTHER good thing out of texas :Spin:

 

[lizard]

any novice listeners could do far worse than to pick up King's X Best of CD for a taste and go from there.

yet ANOTHER good thing out of texas :Spin:

and ZZ Top's Tres Hombres.

 

[Allure of the Earth]

I saw them with Dream Theater a couple years back, pretty tight live.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Either Gretchen or Dogman.

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Any of you King's X fans like Galactic Cowboys?

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Never bothered to check out.

 

[Papa Josh]

I have every Galactic Cowboys album. Phenomenal band live, seen them a few times live. On their last tour they had this young drummer that was just AWESOME.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Man, Papa's good at these official threads...

Man, "Gretchen..." was one of my absolute favorite albums in high school along with "Operation: Mindcrime" and "Edge of Thorns"... And it's a goddamn crime that I haven't listened to it in a long time. I'm floored once again, great great great album 9/10. "Pleiades" is probably their best song.

 

[unhinged]

I've even seen them live supporting Dio.

was that the last in line tour?

i might have seen them if so,,,,or maybe queensryche did that

I bought my first kings x album a couple of weeks back: 'black like sunday'
is this a good measure of them?
I didn't really get into it, but there were some cool parts