What band is this?
November 18, 2011 11:00 AM Subscribe
What band is this? 5 or 6 years ago at a work site, we were listening to someone's mix tape. There was a kind of lonely, mournful song, solo male vocals with a gravely voice. I asked who the band was, and the answer was something like "Sixteen Cylinders." I forgot about it all until recently. I haven't been able to find an appropriate cylinder-related band via google, youtube, or last.fm. Any idea what I might have heard?
Best answer: Sixteen Horsepower? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlFP2CBOhDs
posted by michaelh at 11:11 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by michaelh at 11:11 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Gotta be 16 Horsepower. I went to high school with Dave, the lead singer, so feel free to ask for all sorts of embarrasing anecdotes.
posted by scody at 11:13 AM on November 18, 2011
posted by scody at 11:13 AM on November 18, 2011
Would it be inappropriate to ask for all of them? Maybe you've written on the subject of Dave Edwards before somewhere? Sorry for Chatfilter, but I would really like to hear about this.
posted by michaelh at 11:23 AM on November 18, 2011
posted by michaelh at 11:23 AM on November 18, 2011
Here's a few. Not so much embarrassing, I guess, as "I knew him before his image became his image." I was hanging out with one of his looong-ago former bandmates (pre-16 HP) in Denver recently and we were giggling a little about how he has this very "Fire And Brimstone/I Spent My Youth Goin' From Town to Town in a Wagon with My Grandpappy Preaching the Gospel" image, which is not really how we remember it.
posted by scody at 11:56 AM on November 18, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by scody at 11:56 AM on November 18, 2011 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Nthing 'Gotta be 16 Horsepower.'
Fans might also like their current bands, Wovenhand and Lilium (the former has Edwards, the latter doesn't).
posted by box at 2:18 PM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Fans might also like their current bands, Wovenhand and Lilium (the former has Edwards, the latter doesn't).
posted by box at 2:18 PM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Yup, that's it! Thanks, y'all!
He's a lot younger and less haggard looking than I'd pictured when I first heard him.
Scody, I wouldn't mind hearing more stories...
Box, I'll check out those bands too.
posted by moonmilk at 4:43 PM on November 18, 2011
He's a lot younger and less haggard looking than I'd pictured when I first heard him.
Scody, I wouldn't mind hearing more stories...
Box, I'll check out those bands too.
posted by moonmilk at 4:43 PM on November 18, 2011
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posted by nebulawindphone at 11:10 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]