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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> Jeff Lynne<span style="font-size: small;"> - </span>yay or nay</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> In what respect? Like his production, kinda hate his music.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith: </b><span style="font-size: small;">Yeah screw</span></span> him as an artist solo or with ELO (b<span style="font-size: small;">esides <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_BaPSlfZjM" target="_blank">"Living T</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_BaPSlfZjM" target="_blank">hing</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_BaPSlfZjM" target="_blank">,"</a> dig<span style="font-size: small;"> that one<span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, we both agree he eats nut<span style="font-size: small;">. </span>This is about his production. Obvio<span style="font-size: small;">u<span style="font-size: small;">sly there's the </span></span><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-petty-mn0000612716" target="_blank">P</a><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-petty-mn0000612716" target="_blank">etty albums</a><span style="font-size: small;">. They're</span> good but would have been better without him<span style="font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /><br />Michael Anthony:</b> But sound better than the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I" target="_blank">Dick <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>ubin stuff</a> don't you think?</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> </span>Rubin had to produce crud <span style="font-size: small;">("Yo<span style="font-size: small;">u Don't K<span style="font-size: small;">now How It Feels," maybe<span style="font-size: small;"> the best off "Wil<span style="font-size: small;">dflowers," blatantly <span style="font-size: small;">rips off <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF0j6-iCYI" target="_blank">Wilco</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF0j6-iCYI" target="_blank">'s </a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF0j6-iCYI" target="_blank">"</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF0j6-iCYI" target="_blank">Too Far Apart</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF0j6-iCYI" target="_blank">"</a>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. If Rubin had the <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>Full Moon Fever" stuff to produce it woulda been <span style="font-size: small;">SC<span style="font-size: small;">HWEET</span></span>.
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><b>Michael Anthony:</b> I love the Lynne stuff on "Full Moon Fever,<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> it's just a limp album. And then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BJXwNeKsQ"><span style="font-size: small;">"L</span>earning to <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ly</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BJXwNeKsQ">"</a> </span>is amazing sounding, no?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">No<span style="font-size: small;">,</span></span> I hate that tune. Especially since the <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>oo <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ighters repurposed it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Goo</span> <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ighters repurposed it twice (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0">"<span style="font-size: small;">L</span>earn to <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ly"</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkiLR5Ehys">"<span style="font-size: small;">W</span>heels"</a>). </span>What about how he ruined The Move.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. S</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>m</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ith: </b>What'd <span style="font-size: small;">he do? D<span style="font-size: small;">ress them in Commie <span style="font-size: small;">out<span style="font-size: small;">fits and derail their entire career like <a href="http://floridasdying.com/catalog/images/NewYorkDolls-RedPatentLeatherLP.jpeg">Malco</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://floridasdying.com/catalog/images/NewYorkDolls-RedPatentLeatherLP.jpeg">lm McLaren did</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://floridasdying.com/catalog/images/NewYorkDolls-RedPatentLeatherLP.jpeg"> to the New York Dolls</a>?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Move was rad psych pop, <span style="font-size: small;">two</span>-minute short <span style="font-size: small;">'</span>n<span style="font-size: small;">'</span> weird singles, then Lynne started contributing and it got limp like ELO. Basically it turned into ELO, which isn't that bad but <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>ove was tigh<span style="font-size: small;">t<span style="font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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I think fever has some solid tunes (<span style="font-size: small;">"F</span>ree <span style="font-size: small;">B</span>allin<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> being way overrated) but the lite approach wasn't the way to go I don't think. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"G</span>reat <span style="font-size: small;">W</span>ide <span style="font-size: small;">O</span>pen <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>egs<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> is a mess no matter who produced it. <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>ersonally I think Lynne made it worse<span style="font-size: small;">.</span>
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<b>Michael Anthony:</b> Eddie bated when he finished high school<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When you're rippin' light Petty, it's all downhill.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">H</span>e went to Hollywood, slurped up some goo. <span style="font-size: small;">W</span>hat if "Fever<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> had a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZY">more raw approach like <span style="font-size: small;">Ru</span>bin did with the <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>ash stuff</a>, not exactly the weak stab he made on the shitty Petty album. <span style="font-size: small;">"R</span>unnin<span style="font-size: small;">' D</span>own a <span style="font-size: small;">D</span>ream<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> is fine but the rest have that Pringle-ish acoustic sound that is on EVERY SINGLE JEFF LYNNE TUNE EVER<span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br /><br /><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Can't see it. Rubin on <span style="font-size: small;">"<span style="font-size: small;">F</span></span>ull <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>oon<span style="font-size: small;">."</span>
Haha<span style="font-size: small;">.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">G.E. Smith:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just some more robust <span style="font-size: small;">and/or direct approach,<span style="font-size: small;"> that's all I was thinking. But,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> OK, you have Lynne down as a win here<span style="font-size: small;">. W</span>hat about in Traveling Wilburys<span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span>I think his production is the right call there but his inclusion is a major violation.
<br /><b><br />Michael Anthony:</b> Even as an 8 year old <span style="font-size: small;">I</span> was like who's that guy pretending to be cool with all those legends. Sad thing is he was actually the studliest one<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">G.E. Smith: </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It</span>'s like putting <span style="font-size: small;">J</span>immy <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>arter or <span style="font-size: small;">B</span>ush I on <span style="font-size: small;">Mount </span>Rushmore. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">M</span>aybe that was the argument. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">H</span>e was like the <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>liff <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>ee of the staff while the others were burnouts
like Roy Halladay<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">or R.A. Dickey.</span></span></span><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> You don't like the plinky acoustic layers man? GBV ripped that on<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmVpr8-7Yg">"</a></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmVpr8-7Yg">Girls of Darryl <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>trawberry<span style="font-size: small;">.<span style="font-size: small;">"<br /></span></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Y</span>ea I love it on <span style="font-size: small;">"S</span>trawberries.<span style="font-size: small;">" </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I love it on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU"><span style="font-size: small;">"H</span>andle <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>y <span style="font-size: small;">B</span>alls with <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>are</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU">"</a> <span style="font-size: small;">too</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> I just don't l<span style="font-size: small;">ove it on EVERYTHING.</span></span></span></span><br />
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</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Michael Anthony: </b></span></b><span style="font-size: small;">You think all those dudes kind of ragged on him during it all.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span>Like at least during the video shoot<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Like all standing around, then Orbison starts singing, "one of these things just doesn't belong here" from "Sesame Street<span style="font-size: small;">."</span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">G.E. Smith: </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Or the other dudes circle jerking on his stupid ass fro<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>T</span>here's a doc where
they have footage of all of them together it's pretty Bad A. There's no circle jerk. <br /><br /><b>Michael Anthony:</b> I bet they never laughed at any of his jokes<span style="font-size: small;">.</span><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> Maybe they were trying to elevate him to their level. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bet <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>etty was the ring <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> You think he's racist on top of it all? Like <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>ting and Costello?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">G.E. Smith: </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Ab</span>solutely.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">A</span>nyone with glasses like that is clearly a racist<span style="font-size: small;">.</span><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Haha fuc. He's racist against not looking like a piece of shit<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span>Clapton<span style="font-size: small;"> t<span style="font-size: small;">oo.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />G.E. Smith: </b>Y</span>ou think Clapton ever tr<span style="font-size: small;">ied</span> to cover up his racism with his tunes<span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Yeah, when he circled back around and went full racist with that mid<span style="font-size: small;">-<span style="font-size: small;">'</span></span>90s faux blues album<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>G.E. Smith:</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Y</span>ea that's what I was th<span style="font-size: small;">inking</span>. <span style="font-size: small;">H</span>e was actually being racist while trying to make up for being racist<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> Check that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7zoudZMxVE"><span style="font-size: small;">"M</span>otherless <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>hild"</a> video, <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>lapton goes all out<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>G.E. Smith: </b>What about Lynne and the Beatles shit. <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>ike does he deserve to even in the </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynne AND Petty were among those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y">destroyed by Prince at the </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y">'04 </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y">Rock Hall.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">same building as even one Beatle? Lynne co<span style="font-size: small;">-</span>produced Harrison's <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/cloud-nine-mw0000193612"><span style="font-size: small;">"C</span>loud Nine.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></a><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Michael Anthony:</b> He's considered among the five or so best producers of all time - do you think it's because of who he worked with or because of merit<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">G.E. Smith: </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">W</span>ell you know what I think. I think even his good work would still be great without him touching it<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>I</span>t's like a pointless layer of gloss that he puts on in many cases<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michael Anthony: </b>Haha. <span style="font-size: small;">"C</span>loud <span style="font-size: small;">Nine"</span> was the forerunner to <span style="font-size: small;">"F</span>ull <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>oon.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> Kind of puts it into some perspective now.
I still love <span style="font-size: small;">"<span style="font-size: small;">L</span></span>earning <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>o <span style="font-size: small;">Fl</span>y,<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> but yeah he sniff<span style="font-size: small;">s.</span></span></span></div>
G.E. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773736596913452042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-31593326577016860612013-05-07T11:25:00.000-04:002013-05-07T11:28:29.339-04:00Of Monsters and Men would like to invite you to the Polk party, the party with the Polk<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently, HBO was auctioning off its wardrobe for <a href="http://hbowatch.com/carnivale-comes-to-hbogo/" target="_blank">"<span class="st">Carnivàle."</span></a></td></tr>
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I’ve tried to not be a hater. Having kids who love pop radio
will do that – you find yourself digging stuff like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU" target="_blank">BOB</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN6VR92V70M" target="_blank">Taylor Swift</a> and
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7Hlg75Mlo" target="_blank">Neon Trees</a> when you probably would have pooped all over it as a snobbish college
newspaper music reviewer.</div>
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But sometimes the old
venom, that evil juice that once made me rage over Dave Matthews, starts to
boil up again. Like when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKfrgqWcv0" target="_blank">Mumford & Sons</a> played “Saturday Night Live” last year.
It’s not horrid, but it’s sneaky and subversive. Yes, these heart-throb Brits play instruments that you don’t typically find on a Billboard hit. But the
writing is still typical Billboard fare, albeit weaker than some of the best
stuff. Don’t try and sell me bluegrass or even New Grass when it’s really just
Katy Perry dressed in old-timey clothes and played with banjos and fiddles
instead of heavy synths and guitars.</div>
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This old-timey thing is definitely a trend. The next big
shit to come out of nowhere was <a href="http://thelumineers.com/" target="_blank">The Lumineers</a> (not <a href="http://luminariesmusic.com/" target="_blank">the Luminaries</a>), a band of weird looking folk
dressed, yet again, like it was the 1840s. Only this time the underlying pop
element was replaced with some faux indie-emo thing, complete with yelps
designed to sound like a railroad song or “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, only it
ends up sounding like a small dog with rabies.</div>
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The website Funny Or Die was all over this just last month in a pretty funny <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/321558bb86/mumford-sons-vs-the-lumineers-which-is-the-better-band" target="_blank">"Which Is The Better Band" feature</a>. </div>
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Which leads us to <a href="http://www.ofmonstersandmen.com/" target="_blank">Of Monsters and Men</a>
which, besides having an insanely bad and pretentious name, represent the worst
of the bunch because they unabashedly rip off both in terms of look, feel and
sound, complete with the very same clothes from when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk" target="_blank">Polk was president</a> and the
very same yelping deployed by the Lumineers.</div>
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Please, some one tell me the difference between <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4" target="_blank">THIS</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BC_uQEEmM" target="_blank">THIS</a>.</div>
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Again, it’s not that any of the three suck on ice. They all
play well, sing well and form a tight unit in a live setting. It’s the obvious
factory-like ways of the music industry that’s so annoying. Did the suits
encourage Of Monsters and Men to go shopping at a retro mid-1800s store? Where
would you even find such a store? What about the hey-ho yelping? There’s no way
that’s a coincidence.</div>
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Of Monsters and Men will be at<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004A53D8429D3C?artistid=1687536&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=2" target="_blank"> Philadelphia’s Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing on June 8</a>.
But it might end up being Lumineers or Mumford & Sons. Who will even know
the difference?</div>
popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-29882641953747732622013-05-04T06:00:00.000-04:002013-05-04T09:36:56.694-04:00Paging Delaware venues - it's the 1990s calling; they want theirheadliners back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boys to douche, BTD, OMG ... the Hanson family.</td></tr>
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A friend at work is obsessed with <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hanson-mn0000949780" target="_blank">Hanson</a>. That's right, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE" target="_blank">"MMMBop"</a> kids from the early 1990s, not to be confused with fellow '90s act <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nelson-mn0000861600" target="_blank">Nelson</a>, because that would mean they had two <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1W6-ErrHls" target="_blank">sick</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLggqjddKM" target="_blank">songs</a> instead of one <a href="http://spongebob.nick.com/videos/clip/sponge-bob-ear-worm-clip-1.html" target="_blank">Ear Worm</a>, or the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbcqgXh5-4" target="_blank">"MMM MMM MMM MMM"</a> guys, the <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/crash-test-dummies-mn0000108679">Crash Test Dummies</a>, also from the early 1990s (This really happened didn't it. Holy shit).<br />
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As in, she is big into the stuff they put out after their debut smash containing the one-hit wonder. As in, she still goes to see them in concert. As in, she says that they don't sell these days because they are "ahead of their time," and she says this completely straight-faced, leaving me feeling like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez9zSW-gIcA">Ron Burgundy after he finds out that Veronica Corningstone wasn't joking about wanting to be an anchor</a>.<br />
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Anyway, at 6 p.m. May 11, <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130503/ENTERTAINMENT02/305030020/Hanson-anchors-Wilmington-Flower-Market-s-lineup">Hanson will be headlining the music portion of this year's Flower Market in Wilmington</a>. And, yeah, while it's cool they got a nationally known act, it's a nationally known act that hasn't been relevant for two decades, unless you count the three times that small voices in the music press tried to sell us the bullshit that they made some decent music as grown-ups. Yeah, right.<br />
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What's really telling is that this Hanson-obsessed co-worker is NOT EVEN GOING TO SEE THE HANSON FLOWER MARKET SHOW. Which means they are beyond irrelevant. What the hell, Flower Market?<br />
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I can't decide whether the FM's choice of headliner is better or worse than an upcoming show that Dover Downs has just started promoting in earnest: <a href="http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=1720267&cobrand=doverdowns2" target="_blank">Keith Sweat on Sept. 20</a>. Really? <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/keith-sweat-mn0000767016">Keith Sweat</a>? We're going to start seeing his mug on a giant billboard just south of Wilmington, finally replacing the <a href="http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/bozscaggsmusiccommunity/Album%20Art/1971BozScaggsBandback.jpg" target="_blank">Boz Scaggs</a> one that stayed up there three weeks after his recent show?<br />
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I was so blown away at hearing about this upcoming gig that I rushed to group text-message the three people who would find this most amusing:<br />
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<b>Me: </b><br />
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<b>Col. Wilma Deering:</b><br />
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Oh snap! Let's go!<br />
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<b>Dr. Elias Huer:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/wm-A10302B0000062389R/keith_sweat_make_you_sweat_official_music_video/" target="_blank">You say no! I say yes! Girl I bet I can make you sweat.</a><br />
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<b>Princess Ardala:</b><br />
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Is he related to Nicky Sweats?<br />
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<b><b>Dr. Elias Huer</b>:</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFH4AiqqY4X9ftDfiDubD4o1Uw2k8e79AOGNhjpZ9GXYheayqSmLrayXO2FXOz6FhCXqyvxiS_D2sqJ3dX5dI6Xj5f0cZIeHWoCKyczs1uMek2wu3X-E-dXLBE_SrKdxRG2eP3_RqFMWA/s1600/mgid+uma+video+mtv.com+46894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFH4AiqqY4X9ftDfiDubD4o1Uw2k8e79AOGNhjpZ9GXYheayqSmLrayXO2FXOz6FhCXqyvxiS_D2sqJ3dX5dI6Xj5f0cZIeHWoCKyczs1uMek2wu3X-E-dXLBE_SrKdxRG2eP3_RqFMWA/s320/mgid+uma+video+mtv.com+46894.jpg" width="320" /></a>Keith <a href="http://www.themedicalquestions.com/fitness/why-do-you-sweat-out-of-your-butt.html" target="_blank">"Butt" Sweat</a>.<br />
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<b>Me:</b><br />
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Keith Buttsweat in <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a>.<br />
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<b><b>Princess Ardala</b>:</b><br />
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I thought he was dead?<br />
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<b>Me:</b><br />
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One of the Kriss Kross kids just died. The Grim Reaper makes you ... jump jump.<br />
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<b>Col. Wilma Deering:</b><br />
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I just saw these. You guys are nerds.<br />
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<b>Dr. Elias Hunter:</b><br />
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Wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy wack.<br />
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<b>Col. Wilma Deering:</b><br />
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Important question: Is he being buried backwards? <br />
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Only a Keith Sweat concert at Dover Downs could elicit such gibberish. So, thank you, Dover Downs, and, thank you, Flower Market. You have made my weekend, and that is very sad.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-18235487012172925362013-05-02T06:00:00.000-04:002013-05-02T08:58:05.772-04:00As unstoppable as Gallagher's watermelon hammer, Tressels smash their way into The Note<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From left: </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brendan Floyd, Andrew Fullerton, Brian Sarkisian, Mickey Turner, and former drummer </span>Tom Giachero.</td></tr>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Tressels, the
pride of Drexel Hill, Pa., are the kind of dudes who are barely impressed that
you have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Valentine" target="_blank">Greg "The Hammer" Valentine's</a> number in your cell phone.
"Of course you do. Who doesn't?" was something to the effect of what
percussionist Mickey Turner actually said in response to this actual revelation
made outside of Mojo 13 in Holly Oak sometime in 2007. </span><br />
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30-somethings, some of whom are married and settled down, still break stuff and
get slammed and rock every ounce of sweat out of their bodies when they play
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Andrew "Butch" Fullerton and lead ax man Brian "Dirtman"
Sarkisian have been playing together for some 15 years, the last eight of which have been as Tressels along with co-founder Turner. This core is all that remains of the "classic
lineup," but they're soldiering on for what some might say is the prime of
their recording output - the ongoing "American Trilogy" that is now
on part two, "American Midnight."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier this week,
in advance of their show with Nine Days and 20 Minute Tango at <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/228107?__utma=1.1850606380.1367496545.1367496545.1367496545.1&__utmb=1.2.10.1367496545&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1367496545.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=38761635" target="_blank">9 p.m. Saturday May 4 at The Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester, Pa.</a>, Fullerton took some time to answer an onslaught of questions from First State Rock,
including some that have actual substance and a point to them.</span></div>
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State Rock:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
On “American Trilogy” you guys really seem to be going for it, between the
production, the photo shoot, etc. Is there a renewed sense of urgency here? Are
you taking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYQDsZljAOY" target="_blank">The Big Shot</a>?</span></b></div>
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Fullerton:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We've been around
long enough now that we've had the opportunity to work with some really good
people, and we felt going into this that the songs and the story we were trying
to tell really deserved some extra attention. During "Midnight," our
engineer Dan gave us a "you're putting too much pressure on yourself"
talk, but I think the end result was worth it. I'm not even sure "the big
shot" really exists, but if it does, then yes, this is the record where we
put it all out on the table.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You guys aren’t in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIfQipkkOqs&playnext=1&list=PLBB1BE63C8F9D7293" target="_blank">Rolling Stones</a>
territory age-wise just yet but you’re no spring pups either. Have you noticed
any differences with the day after the show? Anything else?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our show has always been pretty physical, and we've learned
over the years how to better prepare for that, but I think the hardest part a
lot of the time is going back to your day job the next day, especially after a
great show. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Other than the core of you, Big Dirty
and Mickey Reds, you guys have had some turnover recently. How has that affected the
band, both positively and negatively?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We used to let it
affect us negatively, because even now it seems that people jump ship right
when we are gaining momentum, but I think we've learned to embrace it and
realize that we will never ever have a steady lineup. It's also fun to branch
out and play with new people, it helps you re-learn your songs and rejuvenate
stuff that may not have worked before. However, someone quitting your band
always stings, more so at this level because there's hardly any money, it feels
like the only reason we are doing this most of the time is because we love it
and enjoy each other's company. When someone quits it feels kinda like they
just don't want to be your friend anymore, or they don't like your songs.
There's an element of self-sabotage in every musician, and it comes out at the
worst times.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roth or Hagar? ... Um, is that Extreme guy still an option?</td></tr>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> One thing that plays in your favor is
that the singer is still in the house. Is it even possible to continue without
the original lead singer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don't think so,
except for AC/DC.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Related: Van Hagar or Van Halen?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I used to be staunchly Van Halen, then they did that
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfQ-hV3WtA" target="_blank">"Tattoo"</a> song, and DLR rocks the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OjsTXhh7yHmr6Smp2yx2pTtFWASppYIlyQkTyeTy0BTzJ9ruytXileOaw9ERRduORu0KlO78PzrwVPLJn1O5tjJtphTi3jjTEgMKNqweF3VT23G-f2WbSWJ_hSlAQ6bGeQLb6tfB1SI/s1600/DLR.jpg" target="_blank">headset mic</a> now. I've warmed up to
Van Hagar over the years.</span></div>
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always used alter-egos, and that always makes me think about you guys as
characters, like wrestlers. If you all were classic WWF-ers, who would you be?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I think Big Dirty would be like Shawn Michaels, you know, the "women want him, men want to be him" type.
Mickey would definitely be the crowd pleaser like Stone Cold. I always thought
of myself more as The Brooklyn Brawler, or <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwmVsZHgc8N7BtjgozlN5UxHZz2rNssoLnPEc30fIhy_c3FxVpTQsJqiKandbAgr7g94IA5RQBy0hcwQs5FhU01LUObdT0R-7NhYgDfup5Ho60LcwvqxAhmbiUKEpU93eeiA2I2UrnAY/s1600/barrryhorowitz.jpg" target="_blank">Barry Horowitz</a>, the perennial jobber
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You guys are known for your epic live
shows, some of which have taken place at The Note, where you’ll play Saturday.
Where does the Note rank on your list of favorite venues.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Note is a great venue, and we're looking forward to
playing there again. They're definitely one of the best places we've ever
played, and West Chester has always been great to us, even back in the Rex's
days. I remember though, when we got the opportunity to play The Khyber for the
first time that felt like we had made it. That was always a great place to
play, Mickey got wrecked and went stage diving. I hear they're going to start
doing music again upstairs, which is amazing.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And since this is a Delaware-based
blog, tell me about the Good Ol’ Days at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mojo13delaware" target="_blank">Mojo 13</a>. How does Mojo Main compare?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We've had some rowdy nights at Mojo 13 too. Near fistfights
in the parking lot, I smashed my guitar, we left Santa behind. It's been part
of the new Tressel initiation to play Mojo 13. We've never played <a href="http://www.mojomain.com/" target="_blank">Mojo Main</a>, I
think the first time will be in July with <a href="http://grahamrepulski.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Graham Repulski</a>. We will initiate our new
drummer Matt Orlando there!</span></div>
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band vehicles online, the Bandcamps, the Reverbnations, etc. I feel like
they’re all cool in their own way, with new bells and whistles, but it seemed
to me like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theplayerstobenamedlater" target="_blank">MySpace</a> did a better job of bringing bands together, and now that
feels lost. Can you speak to that?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those sites are great for, what's that yuppie buzz word, oh
yeah "building your brand," and they are a total necessity, but
I think the best way to network is the good old show swap. That's how we met
our pal Alex Vans, we've played a bunch of shows with him now, he did his
record at the studio where we did "Sunset" and "Midnight,"
and his guy mixed and mastered our record. Even with a really huge, sparkly,
online presence, you still have to go out and do the work. </span></div>
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always been those sick long-play jammers, like “Brothel Blues,” “Prison Wine,”
“Denim Jacket”…but every once in a while you’ll throw out some power pop tune, like
the oldie “Motorcycle” or the more recent <a href="http://thetressels.bandcamp.com/track/nothin-but-your-love" target="_blank">“Nothin’ But Your Love.” </a>Where do
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That's me, I'm a
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> What’s up with <a href="http://thetressels.bandcamp.com/track/stolen-kiss" target="_blank">“Stolen Kiss.”</a> Granted,
it’s a Big Dirty track, but even outside of that it’s just kind of out of left
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My brother works for Sherwin-Williams and had given Big
Dirty some swatches to check out colors for his apartment. I guess him and Mick
got drunk one night and saw one of the colors was called "Stolen
Kiss," so they immediately had a title, and I know that "me and my
bank account" line had been kickin' around for awhile. They left it on my
voicemail that night. I wish I still had it, that would be great on the
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some covers. What are some of your favorite songs to cover and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We've been doing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bWdWZLSTio" target="_blank">"Young Lust" by Pink Floyd</a>
lately. It's a little weird for me because I don't play guitar on it and I'm
not sure what to do with my hands, but it's great because I can just watch the
rest of the boys jam out and be proud of how sick my band is now.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> On a related note: Doobie Brothers:
Yay or nay?</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> What’s some side things, other than
beer and smokes, that the Tressels are into. You guys dig scrapple? Are you all
RBI Baseball dudes or more into Techmo Bowl?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scrapple yes. I think our bass player Fuzz is most active in
his non-Tressel related activities. He plays in the Loyola University Alumni
Jazz band too. Our new drummer Matt plays in a bunch of different bands. None
of us have really had any </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hobbies </span>other than drinking and playing rock music.
Mickey makes some amazing art work.</span></div>
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the making of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XgSxAVhF7vI"><span style="color: blue;">“Wolves”</span></a>? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FSR:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>In all seriousness, in that video,
Reds says he wants the band to go on and on, with young Tressels inheriting the
band. That’s wishful thinking, but how long do you really think ya’ll will keep
on doing this?</b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fullerton:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> There have been at least three times
during our eight-year history that we've seriously thought about packing it in.
It always comes down to "Do we still like playing music?" and the
answer so far as always been "Yes." And for me as a songwriter, I
always ask, "Do I have anything else to say?" And the answer has so
far been "Yes." Now, it sometimes is a test of wills, when everything
else in our lives goes wrong we always turn to The Tressels. It's important to
us, and we've outlasted venues, rival bands, marriages, and friendships. Come
to think of it, it's actually kind of unstoppable. When we get too old or one
of us dies, we'll just sell the name to someone else, like Gallagher. Yes, The
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<![endif]-->popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-27800806890796077152013-05-01T06:00:00.000-04:002013-05-02T15:49:04.591-04:00Hump Day Chat: Fleetwood Mac's "Mirage" is the "Teen Wolf" of '80s Rock Albums<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's
chat with Michael Anthony of <a href="http://clevelanddoesnotrockblog.blogspot.com/">Cleveland Does Not Rock</a> centers on
Fleetwood Mac's massively underrated 1982 album, "Mirage" ... among
other things. Unfortunately, the closest The Mac gets to us this year, sans Christie McVie,
is the <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004A3DA166A17A?artistid=735087&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&tm_link=artist_msg-0_00004A3DA166A17A" target="_blank">Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y.</a> on June 19 and the <a href="http://concerts.livenation.com/event/1D004A369D6B62C2?tm_link=artist_msg-0_1D004A369D6B62C2&crosssite=TM_US:735087:237654" target="_blank">Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, N.Y.</a>, on June 22.<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith</b>:<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> What
about Fleetwood Mac's "Mirage." You got me into that and I really dig it,
but after letting it soak in I have some other thoughts too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: I
like the lack of bloat, the lack of pretense, the economy of the
writing. Although I really f*ckin wish <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceeiNPv6hrU">"Holiday Road"</a> was on there</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. Feel like it was the right move for them, and not typical of a big name release of that era</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. Side A is amazing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6KQ3qJipRc" target="_blank">"Book of Love"</a> feels so simple and immediate but if you dig deeper there's a lot there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: I'm
amazed by the lack of good McVie tunes on there. I think she's their
best writer, and even though she did the slammer "Hold Me" with Buck those other tracks are shit</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. You think she was lost in <a href="http://i2.listal.com/image/4193064/600full-mick-fleetwood.jpg" target="_blank">Mick's beard</a> around this time? Does that explain "Mirage"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Oh weird I usually kind of hate her tunes, and "Hold Me" alone - which I love - makes this her best effort in my book</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrdmsunZKlE" target="_blank">Love in Store"</a> is decent I guess but she sounds like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1mhwwsAzU" target="_blank">Nicolas Cage in "Vampire's Kiss"</a> in the other ones. </span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">What strikes me about the album is the fact that it doesn't really sound dated</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Yea
not that any of their stuff does, but you'd assume that this would.
Especially surprising is that its kind of been forgotten as a key Fleetwood Mac
album. You'd think a rawer rock sound with big power pop singles would
have generated it more love over time</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. I
don't think "Don't Stop" is dated, just bad. "Go Your Own Way" sounds a
little bit like an early '80s feminine product commercial, so I guess in
that respect it's more cutting edge than dated.</span> <span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span>Since it came out, when... '76? Four years ahead of the feminine product commercial jingle curve</span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey Tweedy: "Mirage" is a great to play, not to rip off.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: I
hear some pretty distinct things that influenced current artists on
there, especially, oddly enough, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9DiT2a7J8&playnext=1&list=PL66F4DA2B4AD8F146">"Empire State."</a> Doug Gillard copies the
outro solo almost note for note on the relatively obscure Guided By Voices track <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Jgo3EybSE&playnext=1&list=PLAW_5mZ0P18scz816dzP9kRjCrQvbDZUN">"Of Mites and Men."</a> I feel like shitty recent Wilco apes a lot on that too, especially
the bass line.</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Yeah
man I'd put it right up there with <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/rio-mw0000009815">Duran Duran's "Rio,"</a> Misfits' "Walk Among Us" and The </span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="st">Descendents' </span>"Milo Goes To College" as far as 1982 albums that influenced me</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. But
is it bad that <a href="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b389/DavidFricke/nerd-1.jpg" target="_blank">indie rockers </a>turn to soft rock influences? I mean, yes,
this is good songwriting and all that, but you gotta think that drawing
from elite soft rock will ultimately result in even more watered down
stuff, right</span>?<br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>:</span> I do, and it did. You into that cornball Nicks tune "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhSxmO94vlE" target="_blank">Straight Back"</a>? Sounds like it was designed to go over the credits of some '80s flick. L</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">ike a bad sports movie</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. Now THAT sounds dated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Can't argue with that. What flick though? "Teen Wolf"? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1zCfXhA3og">"Wildcats"</a>?</span> <span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: P</span>robably
more "Wildcats" ... that had a more serious angle to it, relatively
speaking. I mean the main character didn't morph into a wolf at will. By
the way what do you think <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMyuv3wkTJs" target="_blank">Teen Wolf's</a> rod looked like?</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> Do you think it got bigger when he morphed?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wolf: Better on court or in sack?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Nah smaller actually but really hairy, which added girth / texture</span>.<br />
<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: </span>The ladies always seemed pleased</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Yeah chicks were big into bestiality in the '80s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: E</span>ither that or body hair. Explains <a href="http://firststaterock.blogspot.com/2013/04/burnt-bizkit-jonesin-for-more-tom.html">Tom Jones</a>, Paul Stanley etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: Hey </span>speaking of hairy pricks, back to Fleetwood Mac ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">I imagine Buckingham shaved his chest hair into a likeness of himself, but, y</span>eah, fly this thing home. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span>Michael Anthony</b>: </span>Overrated or underrated?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: </span></span></span>I dunno. Underrated because they're overrated?</span> <span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">But
then there are some hipsters who pretend to like Mac, which makes them
overrated because they were overrated and then underrated.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buck's appearance on "SNL" showed he was kinda cool.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span></span>You think Buckingham is happy with his place in rock</span>?<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span>He seems like he might be an egomaniac but the fact that he never took Fleetwood Mack to elite Dino rock levels shows some restraint</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">He is definitely very pleased with himself and that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2rBXc_3Hw" target="_blank">stupid ass guitar</a> he plays</span>. But yeah, he's aight, and he doesn't try and pimp new material. He knows no one wants to hear some crock of shit</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span>Michael Anthony</b>: </span></span>I
feel like it was a conscious decision on their part not to be turds
about their legacy. Which makes them underrated, even though they're a
little overrated</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: T</span></span></span></span></span>hey're overrated as an important band, but underrated as songwriters and musicians </span><br />
<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">just
like Teen Wolf was underrated for his sexing ability but overrated as a
basketball player. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing should surprise when Michael Anthony's in the house.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Yeah how did he not score 200 points? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>G.E. Smith</b>: </span></span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Not really a great all around player. P</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">lus look at his competition, a bunch of honkies.<br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span> </span><b>Michael Anthony</b>: </span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Lot of goal tending.<br /></span></span><br />
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and fun without much substance on the surface but boasting some nice
thick meat under the fur.</span><span style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"></span>G.E. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773736596913452042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-38103060463244545382013-04-28T06:00:00.000-04:002013-04-28T06:00:00.863-04:00Burnt Bizkit; Jonesin for more Tom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's too easy to rip Limp Bizkit.<br />
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Pounding on the Led Zeppelin of rap-metal was <span class="st">cliché</span>d before people even started doing it.<br />
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Yeah, of course they sucked. Yeah, of course dudes who chanted out the words to "Nookie" were gargantuan douche bags. Yeah, of course Fred Durst was a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UQ_ZhC-1CU">talentless blob of skin and bone</a>. Yeah, of course that guitarist guy looked like a f*cking jackass with all that paint all over his face. Yeah, of course their contribution to music was to make every other band and solo artist sound so much better because of the stream of awful shit spewing forth from the stage every time they played. <br />
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But so what? Their fans are their fans, their music is their music, why bother taking shots?<br />
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Because they're still around. Limp Bizkit should not still be together, playing and making music. Of course saying things like this just fuels Durst's fire, so he'd probably just flip the middle finger and start humping at whoever said such a thing. Just like he does here in the video for <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/gold-cobra-mw0002131900">"Gold Cobra,"</a> a single from the 2011 album of the same name.<br />
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What the shit? Why are you so mad Durst? It's not our fault that you're an old man pretending to be a kid. It's not our fault that you could put all of the big jugs and hot cars in the world in your video and it still wouldn't change the fact that the only reason you get laid is because you're a rock star.<br />
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If you have to stick around, and play shows, like Wednesday's <a href="http://tlaphilly.com/event/02004A68BCC59A63">sold-out gig at the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia</a>, just play "Three Dollar Bill Ya'll" from front to back and embrace the nostalgia. Don't make new stuff. You're embarrassing yourself. Seriously. Stop.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go ahead, bite my chest hair: T.J. in his prime.</td></tr>
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One guy we don't mind having around is <a href="http://www.tomjones.com/">Tom Jones</a>. This guy can and has crooned everything, from bawdy originals to cornball covers to whacked out collaborations (pairing up with Art of Noise to cover Prince's from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdb0mfp6TQE">"Kiss,"</a> covering <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4kVUIcBOpA">"Hot Legs"</a> with Tina Turner), and as far as I'm concerned he can keep on doing it until the day that he dies. Shit, he can keep on doing it after he dies - they can just stuff him and wheel him around and play classics like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-geZFZ6K2tU">"What's Up Pussycat"</a> while his dead, hairy-chested body sits there in all its glory.<br />
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I mean, we're not that far from that right now. <a href="http://celebzter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tom-jones-04.jpg">Have you seen this dude lately</a>?<br />
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But yo, the 72-year-old (!!!) is actually tackling serious material now, having a real-deal renaissance a la <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLiTpBfpQM">Johnny Cash</a> in the twilight of his life. Not surprisingly, music execs aren't getting it, as one called Jones' 2010 album "Praise & Blame" <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/tom-jones-new-album-praise-blame-called-sick-joke-vice-president-island-records-article-1.466085">a "sick joke,"</a> even though it's freaking rad as hell. On his <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/spirit-in-the-room-mw0002348561">latest album</a> he does Leonard Cohen's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWiPFT0v2c">"Tower of Song."</a> He does Blind Willy Johnson and Richard Thompson.<br />
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It's no longer about witnessing a Cheese Fest when Jones plays out, as he will May 17 at the Theatre of the Living Arts. Could actually be a cool show for all the right reasons. Go <a href="http://tlaphilly.com/event/02004A84CEB37D0B">here</a> to buy tickets.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-20911237772630592062013-04-25T12:08:00.001-04:002013-04-25T12:08:39.378-04:00Evangelina and the Boys: Hold the pepperoni, bring the rock at Extreme Pizza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You say it's weird to have a show at a joint like <a href="http://wilmington.extremepizza.com/zgrid/themes/43/intro/index.jsp" target="_blank">Extreme Pizza</a> on Wilmington's recently revived Lower Market Street area (or <a href="http://www.flyingkitemedia.com/features/lomawilmington0322.aspx" target="_blank">LOMA</a> for short). <br />
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You say it would be odd to be munching on one of Extreme's signature pizzas, which go by names like Peace In The Middle East, Mr. Pestato Head, Pandora's Box or <a href="http://vimeo.com/36379145" target="_blank">Poultry Geist</a>, while taking in a set of sultry tunes merging alt-pop with a variety of other sounds by <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/evangelina" target="_blank">Evangelina and the Boys</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evangelina has a new side band, and they're called The Boys.</td></tr>
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You say a pub-type place, like Dead Presidents or the Del Rose Cafe, is more appropriate for that sort of thing.<br />
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Well maybe you weren't around Newark in the mid-1990s, when Jam'n & Java was one of THE spots to catch live music.<br />
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Or maybe you forgot about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4&list=PL09473BB418873E7E" target="_blank">one of the most amazing moments in music video history</a>, a moment so amazing that whenever I see it again, I still can't believe it.<br />
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And, if you don't have a kid, you probably never saw <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648204/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">"Lemonade Mouth,"</a> and in that case you never saw the scene where Dante's Pizzeria is the only place that will let the banned kids' band play. True, the pizza place show got a bit out of hand, but still:<br />
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But Extreme Pizza has become a sneaky cool place to catch a show, and it's not quite like Dante's or Al's restaurant on "Happy Days." It's a swank, relaxing, low-lit establishment where the typical Wilmington Yuppie douche faction is surprisingly non-existent.<br />
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Evangelina and the Boys perform at Extreme Pizza, 201 N. Market St., Wilmington, on Friday April 26. Singer song-writer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chadmichaeljervis" target="_blank">Chad Michael Jervis</a> opens at 8 p.m. Best part: It's free. Visit Extreme Pizza's <a href="http://wilmington.extremepizza.com/zgrid/themes/43/intro/index.jsp" target="_blank">website</a> for more info.popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-60673388534172036502013-04-24T06:00:00.000-04:002013-05-01T10:45:56.556-04:00Hump Day Chat: Geeking on Midnight Oil, and The Punk vs. The Godfather<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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As has become custom here at First State Rock, Michael Anthony of the rock hall blog <a href="http://clevelanddoesnotrockblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cleveland Does Not Rock</a> joins our very own G.E. Smith for a random chat about rock music, some of which pertains to the Delaware Valley music scene. Or maybe not. Here goes:<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>You into the vid for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE">"Power and the Passion"</a> by <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/midnight-oil-mn0000405903">Midnight Oil</a>? It came on VH1 Classic's "120 Minutes" the other night. That video and song scares the shit out of me. What the f*ck is wrong with that <a href="http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/02/13/1225829/901327-news-image-garrett-20100213.jpg" target="_blank">Peter Garrett</a> guy?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>Haha yeah man. His moves seem to be a mistake.<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>They're more exaggerated in that tune. Like as if it's great or something. It sounds like dung.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony:</b> Isn't it a little weird how no one cares about them now? Unless you live in AUS. I don't know why but I dig 'em. I'd never listen to 'em but it's pretty good. The singles at least. I bet the album tracks are ass. You into <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0">"Dead Heart"</a>?<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>Yea I love "Dead Heart," and I like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKcjpSWmm0">"Dream World"</a> even better. I'm actually pretty into them. At least I used to be. I saw them in concert during all that Greenpeace shit and I have three of their albums. There's some not so bad deep cuts, like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyeiWXEXjTU&playnext=1&list=PL0599FFFB1C76F67A">"Stars of Warburton"</a> on "Blue Sky Mining."<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>I thought maybe you started hating them. Like I hate Elvis Costello now.<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>Who do respect more, Costello or Sting?<br />
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</b><b>Michael Anthony: </b>Haha I hate Elvis relative to how much I loved him in the past, but I wouldn't go so far as to compare him to Sting (whose <a href="http://www.sting.com/tour/index/">"Back To Bass: 2013"</a> tour comes to the <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15004A31D6015EF9?artistid=723578&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1" target="_blank">Pier Six Pavillion in Baltimore</a> on June 12, and the Borgata in Atlantic City from June 13-14). You think they're even comparable? Sting has no <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOriRS63ao">"Oliver's Army."</a> Not even close. Both racist, both play soft rock now, neither ever played punk rock.<br />
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</b><b>G.E. Smith:</b> Yea definitely. I guess it comes down to who is more of a Fake Punk. Who is more longing to have punk roots and who fails worse in that department.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>I don't think either tries now. Maybe both were just unwittingly shoehorned into punk/ New Wave but were really just aching to be adult-contemporary losers all along. At least Midnight Oil has the <a href="http://www.petergarrett.com.au/">radical politics</a> going on. You ever see how <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/capricornia-mw0000663273">their most recent album cover jacks Wire</a>?<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith:</b> Who, <a href="http://www.midnightoil.com/">Oil</a>? What year did that come out?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>2002. Similar cover to <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-bell-is-a-cupuntil-it-is-struck-mw0000652048">"A Bell Is A Cup."</a><br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>You think that <a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8088908662_4180a3549d_z.jpg">bald asshole</a> dresses as Fred Krueger for Halloween?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>Yeah. Or <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bcdCsaM-rNTwQGgCTl2kwbbr6y1D_8-EbzT3xCXSVo8_4gH-cYw2JyPqGd5qWkJj9mNsdNz1e7z0rlUnr9WWoA5ePCHuM-rIZY-RwbYPLH4xanqK7hhm5M7XbpvzDCxmQTW9QrvXhIYW/s1600/DSC_1554.JPG">Slender Man</a>.<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>You think Oil could have gone the Kiss/ Alice Cooper/ Misfits route?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>You think if <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWx5Rh_f8Y">Garrett</a> did a reverse Kiss people would like him better with makeup on?<br />
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<b>G.E. Smith: </b>You think him and his band ever jam naked in the desert?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony: </b>Just him. G.E. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773736596913452042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-35900215663527050202013-04-23T06:00:00.000-04:002013-04-23T06:00:09.892-04:00Rock and Roll PB&J: Soraia, Tony Travalini at Mojo MainFor some reason, there are certain things that bring comfort to your life. Someone else might think they're mediocre, or even shit, but to you they restore order amidst the chaos. They're things like this:<br />
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If you were going to come up with a local concert equivalent of this, it'd be something like <a href="http://www.mojomain.com/event/259561-kind-creatures-soraia-gang-newark/" target="_blank">Friday's (April 26) show at Mojo Main</a>, where Philadelphia-based Soraia will be joined by Tony Travalini and the Still Lifes. Back in the day (and by back in the day I mean five years ago), you could find these two acts at the original Mojo, Mojo 13 in Holly Oak, pretty regularly, playing alongside acts like Dead Loretta, She Slash He, <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/index/thetressels" target="_blank">The Tressels</a> and, well, <a href="http://varnish.freemusicarchive.org/music/Von_Hayes" target="_blank">Von Hayes</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soraia.com/home.cfm" target="_blank">Soraia</a> is led by lead singer Soraia Mansour, who sort of resembles that beautiful and horrifying fire lady on <a href="http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Melisandre" target="_blank">"Game of Thrones."</a> They'll be pimping the superb tunes from their latest album, "In the Valley of Love and Guns." In addition to the always steady <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TonyTravalini" target="_blank">Travalini and his Still Lifes</a>, there's also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KindOfCreatures?group_id=0" target="_blank">Kind of Creatures</a>, an up-and-coming new (and by new we mean, like, they just played their first show last month) band with some pretty interesting sounds going on. Definitely check out their set.<br />
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The bands Tone and Gang Age round out the night of music, which begins at 9 p.m. Admission is $5, and tickets can be purchased in advance at <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/259561?wrKey=3D75A79A801A1F09D9436059B4197FC0" target="_blank">Ticketfly</a>.<br />
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Everyone was going around on Saturday, as they do every year, Tweeting and Facebooking and commenting "Happy Record Store Day." Why? What was so happy about it?<br />
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According to me, it sucked. It sucked because Rainbow Records, the last record store on Newark's Main Street, is closing down at the end of June. Great. F*cking great. Main Street has 14 pizza places, 65 bars, 10 boutique clothing stores, 24 <a href="http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/">ice cream joints</a>, and 745 restaurants. And three parking lots. BUT AS OF JULY NO RECORD STORES. This is a college town. What the f*ck?<br />
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It sucked because of Metallica. Thanks, jackasses, for your Great Stand against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster">Napster</a> and the music pirates of the world. You did justice by millionaire douchebag rockstars, like yourselves, everywhere who didn't want their sex and money train derailed by music fans. The real tragedy is that Lars Ulrich, maybe the dumbest man alive, actually had a point: Free downloading of music DOES hurt recording artists, who can't make money if people aren't buying it. Unfortunately, by vilifying people who just love music, you only emboldened them to find new ways to continue "stealing" it, and at a higher rate. There's a way for this to work, it will just take someone with more smarts than the braintrust that is Metallica.<br />
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It sucked because of the record industry, which had a brief glimpse of sanity in the early 1990s before turning inspired alt and indie-rock acts into cash cows, which eventually killed great bands like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34u4S04fDYE">Superdrag</a>, and then ushered in rap-metal, and then boybands, and then faux-indie rock, and then castrated rock like The Shins, and then The Killers, and so on. The industry controls what's popular like the government controls what party is in power (what?).<br />
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It sucked because of fans, who have become too confused or too lazy or both to delve deep into the outer reaches of the Internets to find and discover great new bands. Clearly there's a need for band sites like the <a href="http://bandcamp.com/">Bandcamps</a>, and the Facebook, and the <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/index/thetressels">ReverbNations</a> or whatever other MySpace replacements are out there, but there are now TOO MANY options for fans. They can't find what they should be finding. The f*ckfaces at snob clubs like Pitchfork only contribute to the confusion.<br />
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It sucked because of MTV, and then MTV2, and then VH1, and then VH1 2, and now VH1 Classic, all of which started out as channels that just played music videos and then started stuffing programming which stuff that had nothing to do with music. That spectrum ranges from "I'm A Pregnant Teen, I Love Evil Clowns, But No One Knows It" on MTV to airings of movies like "Fletch" on <a href="http://www.vh1.com/music/vh1classic/main.jhtml">VH1 Classic</a> that have NOTHING to do with music at all. You can say, well, anyone can watch whatever video they want on YouTube. Well, they don't. And you can say, well, no one makes videos anymore. And I'd say, well, that's the problem. For all its negatives MTV did some amazing things for music, introducing bands like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVVtNnHeEg">R.E.M.</a>, The Replacements, Jane's Addiction and various acts on "120 Minutes," introducing rap to mainstream society on "Yo! MTV Raps," keeping metal alive on "Headbanger's Ball" and making Mark Mothersbaugh famous. Today, the latter gives parents everywhere joy on a daily basis via "Yo Gabba Gabba," which actually helps promote music through the appearance of cool bands on the show.<br />
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It sucked most of all because it's reality. No one wants to buy CDs or tapes or vinyl anymore. Maybe the labels and artists could contribute to help indie stores stay open. Maybe artists could treat releases like Cracker Jack boxes and put special prizes in each one, like codes to downloads or special artwork or even those little comic book thingys they put in the actual boxes for the caramel popcorn treats with the peanut shit.<br />
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And maybe someday it will come back due to the retro factor. Until then, we'll just follow along like little sheep and download the latest Lumineers single on iTunes. Yay. Does the fun ever start?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-31940213669336251522013-04-19T11:01:00.002-04:002013-04-19T14:30:14.545-04:00Do the creep: Graham Parker & The Rumour at The Queen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8DvH1uvjSC18nl3B2hAmzZQP7OomE-fYhyeZhqb3Fnxoz5ownEbkzCq0YR5Z3AzuFjXw8t4W89Z8aYqnhOfmgbPXu0ej4GMUD5HZuoVoZdyUPoz5uYKC0HZElGHl301Yp2ZrSuxmJXE/s1600/graham-parker-angry-young-man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8DvH1uvjSC18nl3B2hAmzZQP7OomE-fYhyeZhqb3Fnxoz5ownEbkzCq0YR5Z3AzuFjXw8t4W89Z8aYqnhOfmgbPXu0ej4GMUD5HZuoVoZdyUPoz5uYKC0HZElGHl301Yp2ZrSuxmJXE/s320/graham-parker-angry-young-man.jpg" width="320" /></a>My brain just melted trying to decipher Graham Parker from Marshall Crenshaw. <br />
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Now is Parker is the gangly geek who wrote and sang the sweet single "Someday, Somewhere," or is that Crenshaw?<br />
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Is Crenshaw the sickly looking geek-in-denial who is constantly lauded for nothing in particular, or is that Parker?<br />
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Old age is a bitch. Heck, sometimes I can't separate between Marshall Crenshaw, Graham Parker or <a href="http://grahamrepulski.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Graham Repulski</a>.<br />
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But thanks to the Internets I think I got it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/graham-parker-mn0000181321" target="_blank">Graham Parker</a>, who will be at <a href="http://queentickets.worldcafelive.com/event/210053-graham-parker-rumour-wilmington/" target="_blank">World Cafe Live at the Queen in Wilmington</a> with his band, The Rumour, on Saturday (April 20), is the guy who already looked like the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065191/?ref_=tt_cl_t7" target="_blank">preacher from "Poltergeist II" </a>when he busted out with his <a href="http://josealfredobar.com/wp-content/uploads/Graham_Parker-Howlin_Wind-Frontal1.jpg" target="_blank">1976 debut "Howlin' Wind"</a> (really? at age 26?).<br />
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He then got by-passed by Elvis Costello upon the fellow-Brit's 1977 <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/my-aim-is-true-mw0000189518" target="_blank">debut</a>, pretty much because Costello was a clone of Parker - the voice, the R&B-inflected rock, the nerdish charm - only with better tunes and <a href="http://images.jambase.com/festivals/bonnaroo/2009/snyder/sat/elvis_sm.jpg" target="_blank">far worse teeth</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marshall-crenshaw-mn0000853492" target="_blank">Marshall Crenshaw</a> is the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7A1XfpWNtk" target="_blank">"Someday, Somewhere"</a> guy, and what has me on edge right now is the fact that this is the <a href="http://firststaterock.blogspot.com/2013/03/radiation-vibe-of-power-pop-at-queen.html" target="_blank">second mention of Crenshaw</a> in the short life-span of First State Rock. Kill me now.<br />
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Parker had just one Top 40 hit, "Wake Up (Next To You)," but there's plenty of decent Van Morrison rips like "Heat Treatment":<br />
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He also churned out of some of the most awesomely bad album covers of all time.<br />
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But he was a pretty solid live performer, which makes his performance Saturday a best bet for local music fans. popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-90595942976951575182013-04-17T09:33:00.002-04:002013-05-01T10:46:43.297-04:00Hump Day Chat: Purling Hiss, Breeders, Yo Gabba Gabba<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://clevelanddoesnotrockblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cleveland Does Not Rock's</a> Michael Anthony joins us today for a rambling conversation about <br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: This band <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/artists/purling-hiss" target="_blank">Purling Hiss</a> gets gooed for but it sounds like wimpy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3nm-q8Lgs" target="_blank">Dinosaur Jr. </a>Who needs it? You heard it? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzL83iF2jI" target="_blank">Check it out here.</a><br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Looked 'em up. Philly psych-rock. About to go on tour in Europe. Has a record out on <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/" target="_blank">Drag City</a>. Produced by a dude from another Philly band, <a href="http://www.secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=warondrugs" target="_blank">War On Drugs</a>. It's not bad. Compared to most other awful shit.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: It sounds like a bad late <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/hand-it-over-mw0000617657" target="_blank">'90s Dino Jr. song</a>. Decent but not the same.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: You were talking about how that scene has gotten douchey, and how they started shunning bands from out of town.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Something like that. What I heard was there are certain cliques and it's very insular. Like if you follow slacker indie rock you wouldn't play at or go to a venue that featured earnest folk bands. I guess it's kind of normal but what I heard is that it kind of shuts out people from reaching a broader audience other than their niche.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Yeah, why would you only be into one kind of music and nothing else? Seems kind of snobbish to me.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: How about this band <a href="http://www.theeohsees.com/" target="_blank">Thee Oh Sees</a>? Cool psych rock I guess but no hooks. I feel like most "lower"-fi bands are just as bad as the early '00s dance rock and garage rock bands when it comes to "attitude" over substance.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Or "clothes" over substance. Stuff like that, to me, isn't horrid, it's just so mediocre that I wish it sucked. On a whim, I'll grab a classic like The Breeders' "Last Splash" to cleanse my pallet and hear something inspired. You into that album?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Yea man, it's good.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: I was surprised at how good <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/last-splash-mw0000618655" target="_blank">"Last Splash"</a> is. Been a while since I gave it an honest listen. <br />
If you just try and dig it for what it is instead of some monolith of alt-rock it's pretty rad.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Yea really good hooks I think. Interesting but not off-putting or inaccessible. Perfect balance, probably.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: It whacker her out. She was afraid to do anything else, probably because she thought she'd never be able to hit that mark again. It blows anything Frank Black ever did solo out of the water.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zb_iZC6nI" target="_blank">"Headache"</a> though. That should be on AM radio.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Yea. First three tracks on <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/teenager-of-the-year-mw0000622668" target="_blank">"Teenager of the Year."</a> Wow.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: His self-titled album is a little fey. "Abstract Plain" is tighty.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Yeah. "Thalassocracy" too.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: You ever see that super f*cked up tune about "Rainbows" on <a href="http://yogabbagabba.com/" target="_blank">"Yo Gabba Gabba"</a>? With that old guy?<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: Yea we are actually watching that one right now.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Shit, so are we.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: "Rainbow Connection." That "Muppets" tune. That fuct Paul Williams guy.<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Yea, that vid is fuct looking. Because of the old fuc.<br />
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<b>popzeus</b>: What part are you on? The sunshine song?<br />
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<b>Michael Anthony</b>: Lance doing the rain cloud. "Rainbow Connection" tune just ended. Do the rain cloud! Do the rain cloud! Work it!popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-24803803256630310362013-04-12T17:47:00.001-04:002013-04-13T11:42:43.748-04:00Black Crowes: Rock Hall or not?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIDmfXq3wmOGqHK-69-0ylIH6cYwNfhHVzOCjYdsplLP1XdDfxLVoSOD9Y_VsIBOpltUDOgbtOQ59dZfwwCtT2Puk2uCjJhlCn7-2mA786Y4FT9zfcP89T9aTTwH3_fAIQDSGCsELOaI/s1600/The+Black+Crowes+photo1-300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIDmfXq3wmOGqHK-69-0ylIH6cYwNfhHVzOCjYdsplLP1XdDfxLVoSOD9Y_VsIBOpltUDOgbtOQ59dZfwwCtT2Puk2uCjJhlCn7-2mA786Y4FT9zfcP89T9aTTwH3_fAIQDSGCsELOaI/s640/The+Black+Crowes+photo1-300.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fact: There have been 5,000 members in The Black Crowes.</td></tr></tbody></table>They say you can judge a tune by whether you'll keep it on if it randomly comes on the radio (actually, I just said that. just now). And when judged by that standard, I have to say that The Black Crowes' "She Talks To Angels" is a pretty damn fine track. Love hearing that shit in <a href="http://www.shoprite.com/pd/stores/ShopRite-of-Newark/8E2C607" target="_blank">ShopRite</a> while I'm prowling for new <a href="http://www.turkeyhill.com/products/premium-ice-cream.aspx" target="_blank">Turkey Hill</a> ice cream flavors. <br />
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But as a band with any historical significance, The Crowes, who swooped in for a sold out show at Philly's Electric Factory on April 12, are a major league <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/failblog" target="_blank">failblog</a>. <br />
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Their first break through hit, "Hard To Handle," is a freaking cover. The other big hits on "Shake Your Money Maker" - "Twice As Hard," "Jealous Again," etc. are almost worse than covers, ripping the Stones while <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJwVHl9cN9o" target="_blank">Honkifying</a> every blues lick and vocal hook ever. And that whole Rich vs. Chris Robinson brother rivalry? Come on man. We already saw that shit with the Kinks. <br />
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Oasis had much more success, and much longer run, stealing from the Beatles, Stones, Stone Roses, Smiths, etc.<br />
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Noel and Liam are shoe-ins for the <a href="http://www.rockhall.com/" target="_blank">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> when they <a href="http://www.futurerocklegends.com/artist.php?artist_id=Oasis" target="_blank">become eligible in 2019</a>. But the Robinsons are gonna have a thorn in their pride <a href="http://www.futurerocklegends.com/artist.php?artist_id=The_Black_Crowes" target="_blank">when they're up in 2015</a>. At least they should - you never know how many Crowes CDs <a href="http://www.jannswenner.com/" target="_blank">Jann Weiner</a> has in his collection.<br />
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Remember Anvil? Remember how the Canadian metal band's story emerged out of nowhere as something important back in 2008, and how the "rockumentary" <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/">"Anvil! The Story of Anvil"</a> - which somehow captured every dramatic and important moment on the band's comeback tour - came out and was on VH1 Classic practically every day?<br />
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Clearly, there's video and testimonials to support the fact that Anvil did indeed play a big festival with Metallica back in the early 1980s. But there's little else - the music and crude lyrics were seemingly more of an influence on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anboRT_NCoM">Nickelback</a> than any future metal band. Something about the whole deal just didn't seem right - did Anvil really still have a following today and that justified the movie, or did the hype of the movie make it so that Anvil had a following?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anvil: I didn't buy this stupid shit for a second. You?</td></tr>
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(Also, are you like me? Did you feel like this was basically a stab at a quote-unquote real-life version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZrqC5LL_oo">"This is Spinal Tap,"</a> only not funny or cool? Just wondering.)<br />
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You don't have any of that shit with <a href="http://www.diamond-head.net/">Diamond Head</a>, a band that emerged from Stourbridge, England in the late 1970s and turned segments of the music world on their asses with a mysterious untitled album in 1980 that merged Led Zeppelin and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvEDAg6MWw">Judas Priest</a>. Musically, it set the template for bands like Metallica and Megadeth, who both cite them as influences.</div>
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But unlike Anvil, these dudes are legit, and the proof is out there. Go ahead and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVoRBQr_Hz8">YouTube "Lightning To The Nations,"</a> which fans and writers went on to name that first album, and you will be blown away by what you hear if you are into stuff like Sabbath, Led Zep or early metal. Brian Tatler tears it up with wicked solos and razor-like riffs, and singer Sean Harris could pass for Robert Plant in a Zeppelin tribute band. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this good or bad? I can't tell.</td></tr>
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The chugging "Sucking My Love" is, appropriately enough, 10 minutes of awesome, the title track bangs away like Judas Priests' best cock-rock moments, only with black metal subbing in for some of Priests' more schlocky moments, and there's a reason why Metallica and others later covered the dastardly "Am I Evil?"<br />
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And we know Metallica was heavily influenced by them, because drummer Lars Ulrich has said he patterned the band's sound after Diamond Head, and the setlists to their early shows were stuffed with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWA2pjMjpBs">Diamond</a> Head tunes.</div>
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Sadly, the band couldn't cash in, and it all fell apart when they signed with MCA, either because they took all kinds of bad advice, couldn't write or record any more decent songs or their contract with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSv5PNgjt0">the devil</a> ran out. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Better have a lawyer present.</td></tr>
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The band will be at Mojo 13, 1706 Philadelphia Pike, in Holly Oak, on Thursday (April 11).<br />
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Coffin Dust, Skeleton Hands, and 9 Crown Monarch open up starting at 8 p.m.</div>
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Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of show. <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/event/211351-diamond-head-coffin-dust-wilmington/">Go here to buy them now</a> or get them at the door.</div>
G.E. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773736596913452042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-15786289743255035612013-04-09T06:00:00.000-04:002013-04-09T10:28:44.047-04:00Phoenix on 'SNL': Old dudes play boring alt-pop<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phoenix: 'SNL' and Coachella see the next big thing.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEdDMQZaCU"> I see this</a>.</td></tr>
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Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but aside from the
occasional big pop star score (Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, <a href="http://mypinkfriday.com/">Nicki Minaj</a>,
Frank Ocean) “Saturday Night Live’s” musical guests have stunk on ice,
especially the rock offerings.<br />
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It’s almost as if Lorne Michaels and Co. were trying to make
modern duplicates of some of my horrid mock 1980s musical guest-host pairings,
using my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pardo">Don Pardo</a> impression.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarandon: Genius in 'Fright Night.'</td></tr>
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“Musical guest...Wall of Voodoo! With your host … Edie
McClurg!” Or, “Musical guest <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2090074_2090076_2090108,00.html">The Domino’sNoid!</a>”<br />
… After the Fire! With your host … Chris
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It’s true, there’s been some names. “SNL” recently had Muse,
world conquerors who have been on the cover of Rolling Stone. This off-key,
ham-fisted collection of douchebags also sound like a modern-rock version of
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYIGy1dyd8">The Fixx</a> covered in steaming cow dung. </div>
They had <a href="http://www.dentistapplevalleymn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/before_after_lumineers.jpg" target="_blank">The Lumineers</a>, who are still
hot shit at the moment. I checked it out, wondering what all the fuss was about
… yeah, as expected, it’s just a bunch of <a href="http://www.parenfaire.com/" target="_blank">Renaissance Faire</a> rejects dressing up
like its 1880 playing your typical pop stuff, just with old-timey instruments. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClurg: An early Melissa McCarthy.</td></tr>
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And now we have Phoenix, which might just be the most
infuriating of all. These Frenchies <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phoenix-saturday-night-live-coachella-20130408,0,6835710.story">came out and played</a> pleasant enough pop
tunes with a decent bounce, including the Cure-esque “Entertainment” and
the bouncy “Trying To Be Cool.” </div>
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But they’ve been around since <a href="http://www.nba.com/history/seasonreviews/1994-95/index.html" target="_blank">1995</a> which, despite the best
efforts of those of us careening into our late 30s, is a long-ass time ago.
Singer Thomas Mars looks like he’s about 49. This is a big band? This is an act
worthy of an “SNL” spot and a headlining gig at Coachella? Really? Why do they get the nod over 100 other worthy bands who've been waiting their turn for decades? </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only Thom Yorke makes more stupid looking faces.</td></tr>
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Maybe the real culprits are the “SNL” folks, who are now
clearly enslaved by Budweiser and their musical tastes. Yup, there’s the
problem.</div>
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Phoenix is our area on May 12 for the <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/Susquehanna-Bank-Center-tickets-Camden/venue/16465">WRFF Radio 104.5 6th Birthday Show</a>, at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J. They'll be playing alongside acts like Paramore, Passion Pit, and, The Mighty
Mighty Bosstones, who are probably along to make Phoenix look younger to the
kiddie crowd.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-13933093931788080132013-04-07T11:02:00.001-04:002013-04-07T11:08:49.917-04:00Play ball with Sylvan Wolfe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjReGyum3Cqs2HB64hbxCiuQvO8lq0eAeibI48KOV_NA0Zwhq2aYnhXyQz1dFbPTl_EvsGu0k1xpu0D3SeUm5ZaEp2O3fFOu66eYxKN3WRztj0hm26q53KB2ktzF1D9DKY6JLcrZxHaG1k/s1600/1976ToppsTradedGamble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The Wilmington band <a href="http://sylvanwolfe.com/" target="_blank">Sylvan Wolfe</a> and former New York Yankees <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gamblos01.shtml" target="_blank">OF Oscar Gamble</a> kind of have absolutely nothing in common.<br />
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Yet it just feels so right putting ol' Oscar's card right over there.<br />
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Maybe it's because, like <a href="http://the_evil_clowns.tripod.com/" target="_blank">evil clowns</a> and <a href="http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers" target="_blank">bad album covers</a>, I'm obsessed with unintentionally funny baseball cards. I mean, what about this <a href="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/WaxHeaven/Wax%20Heaven%20Image%20Bank/1-14.jpg" target="_blank">one</a>, this <a href="http://localtvwdaf.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bad-baseball-cards-9.jpg?w=301" target="_blank">one</a> or this <a href="http://amog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rexhudlerugly.jpg" target="_blank">one</a>?<br />
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Or maybe it just feels like it's time to go out and see some shows now that the baseball season is underway. Like, you could be going to check out a show tonight instead of watching the season premiere of <a href="http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men" target="_blank">"Mad Men,"</a> aka "Sopranos"-lite. (seriously, though, if you're going to stay in and watch TV, you should be watching <a href="http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html" target="_blank">"Game of Thrones"</a> anyway.)<br />
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Or, most likely, I feel like it's worth the gamble of going out to see a band you might not have heard, like Sylvan Wolfe, in the same way Steinbrenner took a Gamble on Oscar Gamble for the 1976 season (it was a decent one, as "The Grouch" hit 17 dongs and racked up 57 RBI. Unfortunately, the Yanks didn't double down for another season - Gamble signed with the Chicago White Sox for the 1977 season and pounded 31 homers, racked up 83 RBI and hit .297 for a career year in which he finished 29th in the MVP voting).<br />
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Whether it's an interesting hybrid of blues and surf music, or a barrage or alt-rock, or smoldering folk, <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/sylvanwolfe/songs" target="_blank">the band's tunes</a> are all smothered in a warmingly gorgeous reverb capped off by singer Christa Boeykens' commanding vocals.<br />
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Sylvan Wolfe, which also features Peter Daly on drums, Jonathan Reed on bass and Son Bui and David Santini on guitars, has been hitting venues throughout the area of late, playing tunes from their EP, "Black Branch." That release features songs like "White Washed Soul," which is what it might have sounded like if Joan Osborne had taken it a step further in the directions of Janis Joplin and/or early 1990s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza" target="_blank">Lollapalooza</a> and a step further away from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair" target="_blank">Lilith Fair</a> shit. "Sheeps Clothes" and the title track are decidedly modern but still echo back to some cool '90s sounds. I don't know if that was intentional, but I'm down with it.<br />
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The band's next gig is April 27 at <a href="http://www.mojomain.com/" target="_blank">Mojo Main</a>, 270 E. Main St., Newark, when they'll open for Wussy and The Cocks. <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/223593?wrKey=AAE714ED7C5227DAF9DABF78C1B6EB61" target="_blank">The show</a>, which starts at 8 p.m., is an 18 and over event and admission is $10.<br />
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Today, The News Journal had <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130405/LIFE/304050046/The-Grand-lays-off-quarter-its-staff?nclick_check=1" target="_blank">a story about The Grand slashing a quarter of its staff</a>, having a huge revenue shortfall, and eyeing deeper cuts as a way for the 135-year-old venue to stay in business.<br />
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One reason cited was "increased competition." Duh. <a href="http://queen.worldcafelive.com/" target="_blank">World Cafe Live at the Queen</a> opened down the street a few years ago. Wonder why there aren't as many slices of the same pie to go around when there are more people eating it?<br />
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When the Queen opened, there was talk about cooperation between the venues, or at least some kind of drawing of turf. As in, "Hey, Queen, you take the adult-contemporary acts and the alt-rock bands, and we'll take the jazz, classical and pop icon group."<br />
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That didn't really happen, and what you're left with is Saturday (April 6)'s recreation of The Who's classic "Who's Next" album at <a href="http://www.ticketsatthegrand.org/default.aspx" target="_blank">The Grand</a> and similar odes to Led Zeppelin tonight (April 5) and Pink Floyd tomorrow (April 6) at The Queen.<br />
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Really?<br />
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Look, I know nothing about demographics, budgets, scheduling, costs to book bands or any of that stuff. But it seems to me that a big part of the solution is simple.<br />
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Both venues could easily put butts in their seats if they realized who will come downtown.<br />
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It seems to me like a big segment of the concert-going population is in the 25-40 range. These are people with a decent amount of disposable dough that they'd be willing to spend on a night out to see one of their favorite all-time bands. And a good chunk of them on the younger end don't have kids, so they don't have to worry about baby sitters.<br />
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But those bands are not Styx, or REO Speedwagon, or anyone from the 1970s or 1980s.<br />
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These two venues have to look at who the REO Speedwagons and Styx are for this generation. These venues HAVE to look at the 1990s.<br />
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The Atlanta Journal-Constituion <a href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/music/value-is-there-in-90s-acts-tour-organizer-says-1/nQW45/" target="_blank">just did a story on this a few days ago</a>. Down there, Sugar Ray, Everclear, Barenaked Ladies and Blues Traveler will all be in town this weekend. Smash Mouth, Collective Soul and Gin Blossoms are all out there too. Do some of these bands suck? Sure. Will people pay decent money to see them? You bet.<br />
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The Grand did it with The Pixies, but they haven't continued to dig deeper into that gold mine. The Grand could easily book Stone Temple Pilots and charge $45 a head and sell out the place in a day. I'm thinking that would put The Grand in the black for that night. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nostalgia goldmine: right there waiting.</td></tr>
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What about Weezer? Live? Soundgarden? What about a cheesy package show at The Queen featuring Better Than Ezra, Marcy Playground and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVOD5D4IArw" target="_blank">Harvey Danger</a>?<br />
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What about the slew of indie-rock reunions? I'm sure the show bookers at The Queen and The Grand never heard of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/archers-of-loaf-mn0000597965" target="_blank">Archers of Loaf</a> or <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/guided-by-voices-mn0000545726" target="_blank">Guided By Voices</a> or maybe even <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pavement-mn0000752314" target="_blank">Pavement</a>. But these bands have hardcore followings, and their ongoing classic lineup reunion tours would have easily sold out The Queen. Same goes for The Breeders' "Last Splash" anniversary tour, <a href="http://firststaterock.blogspot.com/2013/04/breeders-ride-last-splash-nostalgia.html" target="_blank">just covered on this blog</a>, which hits Philly in May. I personally would pay a pretty penny to see any of those three shows in a beautiful venue like The Grand (or The Queen). <br />
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What about hip-hop? I know that sounds scary to both of those venues, but the Firefly Music Festival showed some balls and put rap legends and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Public Enemy on their sked of almost all rock acts. I'm sure they'll draw a new crowd with that booking - why not do the same at The Grand and/or The Queen? What are you afraid of? <br />
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Speaking of Firefly, why can't those venues get any of the acts playing the festival? More exposure for Delaware means more bands see a viable audience here means they'll come back. Yo Grand and Queen - go git em. Just like you did with Wilco and Bright Eyes a few years ago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Dave Mason WHEN HE WAS COOL.</td></tr>
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The Queen had the right idea when it went after acts like Richard Marx and Bryan Adams. There's a big market with huge selling '80s pop acts no matter how "uncool" a segment of the music world deems them to be. The Grand has the WRONG idea with acts like Dave Mason, which regardless of how it sells paints the picture of a venue that's out of touch - when you're booking a show, you're advertising for future shows. Not sure if <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/sundog/graphics3/rodney_dangerfield.jpg" target="_blank">60-year-old guys</a> stuck in the '70s is a vibrant target market.<br />
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Keep hitting that pipeline of nostalgia. The Grand could hit the '80s and score that late 30s to late 40s crowd. Like the Queen did, get someone like Psychedelic Furs, but go further. Get The Cure, or Morrissey, both of whom could easily sell out the venue. <br />
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But, to me, the 1990s seems like the next target to hit, and it's a big fat one.<br />
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And maybe The Grand has already made plans to do just that when it fills out its summer schedule.<br />
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Let's hope so.popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-84411988934753599972013-04-04T06:00:00.000-04:002013-04-04T11:38:15.313-04:00Breeders ride "Last Splash" nostalgia wave into Philly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Look, Kim Deal is a pretty lady. But she puts absolutely
zero effort into embracing traditional beauty and sexiness – makeup, cleavage,
tight skirts, etc. – and therefore no one in the real world would ever label
her as “hot.”<br />
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Except for millions of indie-rock dudes everywhere.<br />
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This is because Kim benefits from the Rock Star Goggles,
which for years have been a popular item with fans of the Rolling Stones
(seriously, Mick has always been one of the ugliest dudes in music yet I’m
betting his stats compare to <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketball-reference.com%2Fplayers%2Fc%2Fchambwi01.html&ei=YeBcUeiSKrXe4APgtIHwAw&usg=AFQjCNEuX1tonYXC3Ecs576B0cvGLCniIQ&sig2=pUHCBZ_5Iwyhg3eUkY6tYQ&bvm=bv.44770516,d.dmg" target="_blank">Wilt Chamberlain</a>), Guns ’N’ Roses (many women
thought Axl, <a href="http://www.day19.com/images/pics/209_Weiss.30.slash_smoke.jpg" target="_blank">Slash</a> and the boys to be sexy dudes, but I’m pretty sure they’re
nasty looking gutter garbage who smell like 5,000 stale cigs covered in a bar’s
worth of booze) and Christie Brinkley, who was obviously seeing something
completely different than the rest of the world whenever she looked at Billy
Joel. <br />
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Indie-rock chicks wear the Goggles too when they ogle guys
like Ryan Adams, Britt Daniel and Conor Oberst.<br />
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And so do indie-dudes when they gaze upon Kim, and it’s only
made worse by the fact that none of them would have kicked her out of bed in
the first place. But put a bass on her, toss her up on stage with the Pixies
and have her sing about a big black Garter snake (and not the one in your yard)
in <a href="http://youtu.be/xJncHEZ3URs" target="_blank">“Gigantic,”</a> and it’s all over. <br />
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Want to kick it up a notch? Put her back in the Breeders and
have her tour with sister Kelley (her twin, whoah) on the “Last Splash” 20th anniversary tour. And make sure she's doing it with the classic Breeders lineup, which includes drummer Jim MacPherson (<b>also a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09oCZ8HNOtc" target="_blank">one-time beat minder for Guided By Voices</a>***</b>) and Josephine Wiggs on bass. Reports from the tour so far are that the crowds are stuffed
with overweight dudes in their late 30s and early 40s who can’t help but sing
along to tunes like "Cannonball" and “Do You Love Me Now?” and “Divine Hammer” (another phallic
reference…interesting).<br />
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The Breeders bring that tour, where they play the seminal
1993 album front-to-back, to <a href="http://www.thetroc.com/" target="_blank">The Trocadero Theatre</a>, 1003 Arch St., in Upper
Darby, Pa., on May 5. Tickets are $20 in advance, $23 on the day of the show,
an absolute steal by today’s concert standards, even if you’re not smitten with
Kim like I am.<br />
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Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8. Go <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/event/220627-breeders-philadelphia/" target="_blank">here</a> to purchase tickets.<br />
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Here's the classic lineup, doing their thing back in the day. <br />
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<b>*** </b>GBV fans know all about the cross-over action that took place with The Breeders and Guided By Voices, both of which hail from Dayton, Ohio. The Breeders covered GBV's "Shocker In Gloomtown," and even <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=glAeyRcWyso" target="_blank">included the band in a clever video that got ample play on MTV</a>. Kim Deal and Bob Pollard were buds at one point, and Deal was producing some of the stuff on 1996's "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars" before some weird shit went down. They were supposed to be in a side project called The Amps until Bob backed out (or Kim cut him out?), but then Deal did The Amps anyway and they cranked the criminally underrated 1995 album <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-amps-mn0000756089" target="_blank">"Pacer."</a><br />
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popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-91843058813770398362013-04-02T06:00:00.000-04:002013-04-02T06:00:07.218-04:00Spintos to play a home game in Arden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Spinto Band are easily one of the most
successful bands to ever emerge from Delaware, right up there with First
State Rock patron saint <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgethorogood.com%2F&ei=jjVaUcerG67E4AOYuYC4CA&usg=AFQjCNFjffGsfxrpithgJU73kKg-567JzQ&sig2=rMOOn1gSZnKOFgTrtuUsAw&bvm=bv.44442042,d.dmg" target="_blank">George Thorogood</a>, who can be seen atop Caesar
Rodney’s horse all over this bloody page (Yeah, that’s
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The Wilmington-bred band has done exceptionally
well since forming in 1996, going from releasing their own stuff and
playing out locally to putting out a critically acclaimed album on a
major label (2006’s “Nice and Nicely Done,” featuring
the single “Oh Mandy,” came out on Virgin UK) and appearing on <a href="http://www.joolsholland.com/" target="_blank">“The Jools Holland Show,”</a> the huge TV gig and industry taste-maker factory
run by the former <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTWF7eirJw" target="_blank">Squeeze</a> keyboard player. If you’re on there, you’ve
either done something awesome, are in the process
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But despite continuing to put out cool albums with solid singles (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7kS1HOEXo" target="_blank">“Take It”</a>
from last year’s “Shy Pursuit”) and accompanying quirky and well-made
videos in the years to follow, the Spintos kept
taking a step down from Bar/None and Virgin UK to smaller labels to
essentially putting stuff out on their own again with the help of a
distributor (like the forthcoming <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/cool-cocoon-mw0002462695" target="_blank">"Cool Cocoon"</a>).</div>
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Why? In the words of the <a href="http://www.ispot.tv/ad/77xb/kyocera-contain-costs-featuring-peter-morici" target="_blank">Kyocera guy</a>, it’s really
not that complicated.<br />
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Thanks to the various bandmaking sites, anyone
can put out music, and anyone can be in a band, and anyone can promote
themselves. Thanks to technology, anyone can
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And thanks to the
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It’s an overcrowded field now. Music consumers are
faced with so many options now that it’s overwhelming, and they just
reach for the obvious. As always, great bands are obscured. And despite
the fact that the Spintos went as far as they
did, you still get shit like this:</div>
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The Spintos are having an amazing career and their
accomplishments cannot be understated. That being said, if they had hit
the open market in the early 1990s instead of the early 2000s, they’d
have reached a level on par with one of their
influences, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPvhKV3Yg2k" target="_blank">Pavement</a>, and maybe even higher.</div>
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The band is at <a href="http://ardenconcerts.com/upcoming-shows/" target="_blank">Arden Gild Hall</a><a href="http://ardenconcerts.com/upcoming-shows/" target="_blank"></a>,
2126 The Highway, in Arden, on Saturday (April 6). Buried Beds open the
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popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-90179240957700964872013-03-30T06:00:00.000-04:002013-03-30T10:06:18.285-04:00The Boz at Dover Downs: Does the fun ever start?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEc7SAb7LJu2N78FCtq1c2L97x8Cd-kP6OnagyELT0tEM5-3fvI73SnAr7C9SWrDA-P6cGWrUCtZI2yGw5Gm9klzp9jOXvP0ixZbgnaPzKIfer-iZYXmBFzJ4t947O8GfQ2ApXcc8OAfw/s1600/Image-2-570a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEc7SAb7LJu2N78FCtq1c2L97x8Cd-kP6OnagyELT0tEM5-3fvI73SnAr7C9SWrDA-P6cGWrUCtZI2yGw5Gm9klzp9jOXvP0ixZbgnaPzKIfer-iZYXmBFzJ4t947O8GfQ2ApXcc8OAfw/s320/Image-2-570a.jpg" width="217" /></a>To borrow a phrase from David Ferrie in "JFK," <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/boz-scaggs-mn0000096964" target="_blank">Boz Scaggs</a> is a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.<br />
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More specifically, I guess, it's the overwhelming respect and reverence that Mr. Scaggs' elicits from his fans that has me so perplexed.<br />
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Here in Delaware, this high regard for the Boz Man extends to this very day, as evidenced by the massive Boz Scaggs billboard on I-95 just south of Wilmington touting his <a href="https://www.doverdowns.com/entertainment/concerts-and-events" target="_blank">April 5 show at Dover Downs.</a><br />
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OK, so he was in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MneA9pgLVw" target="_blank">Steve Miller Band</a>. He contributed to me wasting my freshman year of college over-valuing decent-but-vanilla FM radio gems like "Jet Airliner" and "Jungle Love" when I could have been delving into the burbling great beginnings of early '90s alt- and indie-rock. Thanks, I guess?<br />
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OK, so he sang <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s8l75Oxf1U" target="_blank">"The Lido Shuffle,"</a> which is a decent single, and which gave me some nice memories when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lito_Sheppard" target="_blank">Lito Sheppard</a> was on the Philadelphia Eagles and they'd play that song whenever he did something good on the field.<br />
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I wasn't born when the 1970s first began and Boz hit his prime, so I don't remember his other hits, of which there were several that hit the Top 20. I'm not disputing this, as it's a fact that someone wrote down, so I believe it. And being as I've heard and dug hundreds or maybe thousands of tunes that were made before I was born, I figured I'd maybe heard these before, but just didn't know them by name.<br />
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Nah. Don't really know or like "Lowdown," or "Breakdown Dead Ahead," or "Jo-Jo." And I hear them now and there's really nothing that screams legendary, genius, or any of the other superlatives thrown at <a href="http://blindsquirrels.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/250px-boss_hogg.jpg" target="_blank">Boz Hogg</a>.<br />
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What really cements the oddity that is Boz Scaggs worship for me is that he almost acknowledged his <br />
lameness in 2010 by forming the Dukes of September Rhythm Review, a supergroup (poopergroup?) that paired him with jazz geek Donald Fagen and Mr. Mushmouth himself, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEGrJfZ8b_U" target="_blank">Michael McDonald</a>.<br />
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If a shittier tour has ever been staged, I'd love for someone to stick it right down in the comments section below. <br />
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I'm not sure that I would go to see Boz at Dover Downs if it was free. About the only way I would go is if he played my Dream Boz Scaggs set from a secret show he played at the Forum in Los Angeles in July of 1975. The First State Rock research team uncovered a copy of the set list from that legendary gig.<br />
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Throw in some free hot dogs and I am so there.popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-84464258675269068692013-03-28T06:00:00.000-04:002013-03-28T06:00:07.008-04:00Delaware Music Festival, Take Three: The Jolly What!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ah, the mid-'00s. Things were simpler then. Things were better then. Say the word "MySpace" to anyone who doesn't play an instrument and they'll practically laugh their tonsils out at you. Say the word to a musician, though, and you can see a tear run down their cheek like that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM" target="_blank">Native American in the famous commercial</a>.<br />
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Mark Degz is probably one of those musicians. His former band, Dead Loretta, made quite a ruckus on the Delaware indie rock scene during the middle part of the last decade, a scene that centered on the amazing Mojo 13 in Holly Oak as well as its previous incarnation, Sneaky Pete's.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHcwAD0GeJAJt-dKe0bSDoWSZd5UmLXQMlofxu10IDpCfmchpN1cU0BVcYKvMOBsQxjESfEKcNGiGLAKn5CACu8AJDrZZgqsSpvXnQAtkevjjpqBoGzsa6R3rb3FhxAe39W8FkvtP5dXk/s1600/photo+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHcwAD0GeJAJt-dKe0bSDoWSZd5UmLXQMlofxu10IDpCfmchpN1cU0BVcYKvMOBsQxjESfEKcNGiGLAKn5CACu8AJDrZZgqsSpvXnQAtkevjjpqBoGzsa6R3rb3FhxAe39W8FkvtP5dXk/s200/photo+(2).jpg" width="145" /></a>You could see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thetressels" target="_blank">great original music</a> there several days a week, and national acts began showing up there as well, including Joe Jack Talcum of the Dead Milkmen and, later, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-0fb-DhYh0" target="_blank">The Hold Steady</a>.<br />
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And you could see Degz and Dead Loretta cranking out great singles like "Miranda" and "Symphony of a Wasted Youth" that helped them get regional play and exposure and a ride that ended just short of a big break.<br />
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MySpace gave artists like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Loretta" target="_blank">Dead Loretta</a> a free platform for sharing their music via stream or download and for promoting shows and connecting with other bands and fans.<br />
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But like the Blackberry, it's just another good idea that's become a joke because someone said so, and bands are left with choosing between various platforms, like Facebook's band pages (features a music player, but do you really want to give Mark Zuckerberg the rights to your music?), Bandcamp, Sound Cloud, Reverbnation, etc.<br />
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They're all good in their own way, but there's too many of them. Fans are sent all over the place and can't find what's good.<br />
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That's where good folk like First State Rock come in. If you lost track of Degz after Dead Loretta went up in flames during a show with an industry suit at Mojo 13, here's what he's up to:<br />
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He formed <a href="http://thejollywhat.com/" target="_blank">The Jolly What!</a> in 2007, recorded their first release, "Life Is My Favorite Sport" in 2009, and has continued to release some fascinatingly quirky stuff, from straight-up vintage '90s indie rock ("Topanga") to desert rock to reggae-rock ("Heaven in a Heartless World") to the just plain whacked out (the faux blues number "18 Year Old Girls"). <br />
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They're putting the finishing touches on their new album, "Surviving The Supervolcano," which features the roaring rocker <a href="http://thejollywhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/01-Super-Flare.mp3" target="_blank">"Super Flare,"</a> and the tune "Girl of my Dreams," which is already a local hit.<br />
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The Jolly What! hit the stage at the <a href="http://www.deweybeachfest.com/demusicfest/" target="_blank">Delaware Music Festival in Dewey Beach</a> at 12:20 a.m. Saturday March 30 (technically Sunday, but whatever). Admission is free.<br />
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Here's a little Jolly What! for ya: <br />
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<br />popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-35618095437144861812013-03-27T06:00:00.000-04:002013-03-27T11:08:44.749-04:00New band, familiar faces: Easy Creatures at Mojo Main<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo finish: The boys of Philadelphia's Easy Creatures.</td></tr>
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Somewhere in the afterlife, former <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDr25zjd4yM" target="_blank">Minutemen</a> leader D. Boon is looking down on the Philadelphia area and nodding in approval. Fugazi’s <a href="http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2013/03/on_the_go_get_evens.html" target="_blank">Ian McKaye</a>, out on tour with The Evens, is unknowingly channeling some heavy vibes emanating from the Delaware Valley from a band he’s never heard. And <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnqrSY2JHU" target="_blank">Glenn Danzig</a>, in the midst of preparing for his upcoming role in a movie about porn legend <a href="http://www.vanessadelrio.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa Del Rio</a>, is feeling his <a href="http://www.bulletnewsniagara.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ferrigno.jpg" target="_blank">Incredible Hulk</a> rock persona coming on and he doesn’t know why.<br />
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OK, maybe none of these things are happening.<br />
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But I’m 100 percent certain they would be if only the sounds of the Easy Creatures could reach the ears of these three rock icons.<br />
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While based in Philadelphia, Easy Creatures is distinctly Delaware in more ways than one. The most obvious is that it’s made up of <a href="http://www.jadetree.com/" target="_blank">Jade Tree Records</a> alumni and dudes from hallowed First State acts from the past, including <a href="http://www.jadetree.com/bands/artist/walleye" target="_blank">Walleye</a>, The Kill Quota, <b>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3vgFSILxms" target="_blank">see vid of a recent reunion show for these two bands here</a>)</b> <a href="http://www.jadetree.com/bands/artist/railhed" target="_blank">Railhed</a>, The Bad Luck 13 Riot and Extravaganza.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D. Boon woulda loved the Creatures.</td></tr>
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But there’s something that's more intrinsically Delaware – and maybe even regional - in their sound, which you’ll hear if you come out to see them at Mojo Main on Saturday (March 30). Singer Shane Evans can shift into a scream gear reminiscent of McKaye but he’s got a little Greg Dulli in him too, and Dulli and his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveiOYZvpzw" target="_blank">Afghan Whigs</a> were a major influence on the once-burgeoning Newark rock scene of the 1990s. The barrage of guitars unloaded by Mark McKinney and Joey Simpers definitely recalls Walleye, but there’s also a modern and melodic element to them that helps Easy Creatures fit in with the crowd and blow away what’s going on in rock now. Joe Konrad (bass) and Jeff Tirabassi (drums) form a nice beefy rhythm section that serves as a foundation for all of this heavy riffage and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnITkpifzaw" target="_blank">vocal shrapnel</a>.<br />
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Oh, and their in-the-works first album is being produced by legendary Newark producer Nick Rotundo (formerly of Walleye, Railhed and The Kill Quota) at Clay Creek Studios.<br />
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Doesn’t get any more Delaware than that.<br />
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Easy Creatures are at Mojo Main, 270 E. Main St., Newark, on Saturday with The Frantic Heart of It, Zwanendael and Deer Gear. Tickets are $5 at <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/eventV2/232185?wrKey=26AB6373F89E79BF91307616A6B9EEDE" target="_blank">TicketFly</a>. Or visit <a href="http://www.mojomain.com/" target="_blank">Mojo Main’s site</a> for more information.<br />
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Here's the band doing their tune "All Good Bastards" during a recent show: <br />
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<br />popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-12770232882634542982013-03-26T08:53:00.001-04:002013-03-26T09:00:10.683-04:00John Wesley Harding will be slingin' tunes at Dogfish Head<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Why should we be surprised that Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats in Rehoboth will be hosting a quality national act like <a href="http://wesleystace.com/" target="_blank">John Wesley Harding</a>?<br />
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Not only is Friday’s (March 29) show the next in a slew of great bands and solo acts – some of them nationally known - to grace the stage there, but we’re talking about Dogfish Head here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A whole lotta of suds. Plant at Dogfish.</td></tr>
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Freaking Robert Plant just SHOWED UP up at the Dogfish brewery in <a href="http://milton.delaware.gov/" target="_blank">Milton</a> last summer to sample some of their brews. When the dude who set the template for bazillion frontmen pops in to sip your product, the term “buzzworthy” doesn’t do you justice.<br />
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Back to Harding, whose real name is Wesley Stace. The folk-rock singer-songwriter has got 15 albums under his belt, including his latest, "The Sound of His Own Voice," which features a backing band featuring Pete Buck (thumbs up), Rosanne Cash (thumbs up) and members of the Decemberists (thumbs down).<br />
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He was tapped by <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bruce-springsteen.jpg" target="_blank">BRUUUUCE</a> to be his opening act, had a song on a movie soundtrack (“I’m Wrong About Everything” on the <b>massively overrated*** 2000 flick <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">“High Fidelity”</a></b>) and copped the title of a seminal Bob Dylan album (who changed the name slightly from that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hardin" target="_blank">the outlaw gun slinger</a>) for his own moniker. Oh, and he has this <a href="http://www.npr.org/series/153299281/cabinet-of-wonders" target="_blank">Cabinet of Wonders</a> variety show thing involving musicians like <a href="http://steveearle.com/" target="_blank">Steve Earle</a> and writers and artists and the like, and they play stuff like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6TfNU19JyI" target="_blank">this</a>. Oh, and he writes books that get all kinds of amazing reviews. Pretty bad ass.<br />
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The best part with Friday’s 10 p.m. show at Dogfish Head (320 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth), as with all Dogfish shows, is that there’s no cover. Visit the <a href="http://www.dogfish.com/community/events/live-music/47801/john-wesley-harding-in-concert.htm" target="_blank">Dogfish site</a> or call 302-226-BREW.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So Cusack's hairline <i>improved </i>since Lloyd Dobler? Naw.</td></tr>
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<b>*** “High Fidelity”</b> is a beneficiary of John Cusack being so underrated that he became overrated. <a href="http://www.culturesnob.net/2006/05/movie-critics-suck-exhibit-a/" target="_blank">Snobby critics</a> scoffed at his ’80s Goofball Trilogy (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9Cg46Nktw" target="_blank">“Better Off Dead,”</a> “One Crazy Summer” and “Hot Pursuit”) and never realized how those flicks and his breakthrough in “Say Anything” crystallized his cultural status with Gen X, then they missed the first couple of pitches when he started doing more serious stuff (“City Hall”). So they jumped all over “High Fidelity,” sensing it was some kind of "Singles" sequel. If it wasn’t for Jack Black as music geek Barry in Rob Gordon’s record store, this slop would have been straight-to-video. But that’s just me. (I also feel like it’s my duty, as always, to point out Cusack’s awful wig in this movie).popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-75681948546843653162013-03-24T06:00:00.000-04:002013-03-24T06:00:07.152-04:00Delaware Music Festival, Take Two: The Last Dinosaur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Last Dinosaur is like the <a href="http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/m/mike-sharpe/" target="_blank">"Iron" Mike Sharpe</a> of the Delaware music scene. I'm not saying they're Jobbers by any means; on the contrary, it seems that, like Sharp, they've been hovering around so much in the press and on the scene that they don't get the credit they deserve. <br />
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And like <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/thelastdino" target="_blank">Dinosaur</a>, "Iron" Mike was pretty rad. The Canadian grappler's loud and pointless growling in the ring was way cool, as is Josh Hensley's commanding frontman croon. Sharpe had that "injury" (wink wink) that allowed him to wear a loaded forearm brace to bash opponents with (yet he never won?) while Dinosaur has Dan Horsey's blaring guitar.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Iron" Mike Sharpe: "Canada's Greatest Athlete."</td></tr>
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But thanks to performances like the ones they put on at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=121231344713193&set=vb.309725437429&type=2&theater" target="_blank">Mojo Main,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlHEgPGlaI" target="_blank">World Cafe Live at the Queen</a> and elsewhere around the region, that could change real soon.<br />
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Let's see if the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dinode" target="_blank">Last Dinosaur</a> can have their big breakout moment, like "Iron" Mike did when he won the 1984 NWA Mid America Heavyweight title, or when he teamed with Hulk Hogan in Japan in 1984, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bizv78u9yRw" target="_blank">when he took on Jake "The Snake" Roberts at Summerslam in 1990</a>, or when he fought Bob Backlund for the WWF title in 1983. when they play the <a href="http://www.deweybeachfest.com/demusicfest/index.htm" target="_blank">Delaware Music Festival</a> during their 11 p.m. set on Saturday March 30. The fest takes place at the Rusty Rudder in Dewey Beach.<br />
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If not then, we're pretty sure it's going to happen at some point, and these dudes will go on to bigger matches and titles than their pro wrestling doppelganger ever did.popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2090488287771110959.post-50889285321983820562013-03-23T06:00:00.000-04:002013-03-23T06:00:00.465-04:00Hey there's some Garbage at The Electric Factory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Vig" target="_blank">Butch Vig</a> really a genius, or just someone who realized the obvious and exploited it?</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Indeed, Vig deserves all the credit in the world for bringing a polished-yet-cool sheen to albums like Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream” and making them the classics that they are.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I dunno. What stands out to you in these photos?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />But Vig didn’t just walk into Sound City Studios and invent the loud-soft-loud dynamic. He took what worked for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0i6y05ls8M" target="_blank">The Pixies</a> (and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vW-a_C_Co" target="_blank"><span class="st">Hüsker Dü</span></a> before them) and made it commercially explosive by putting it behind a tragically handsome and twistedly charismatic frontman instead of a chubby bald guy, a chick who dressed like a dude and looked like she could (and would) kick your ass and two other guys who barely moved. Duh.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Same thing with Garbage, which is really just a modern-day Blondie, without the hits. Watch Blondie’s VH1 “Behind The Music” and pay attention to the part where the band members get pissed because Debbie Harry is getting all the press and adulation, aka making Blondie relevant, getting Blondie fans and securing Blondie radio and MTV play. Would Blondie have ever cracked the Top 100 if Harry was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAcIDFLZDPQ" target="_blank">Harry Anderson</a>? Naw.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vig must have read up on Blondie’s dweebie bandmates’ bitching and saw the lightbulb go off – get a hot chick (<a href="http://ilovewildfox.com/storage/936full-shirley-manson.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1333399200072" target="_blank">Shirley Manson</a>) and put her in front of an alt-rock band. In fact, use some of the same tricks that made the Pumpkins and Nirvana kings of grunge when you write the music. Boom, you've got Garbage, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ77LOr5MxQ" target="_blank">“Stupid Girl”</a> goes from a pretty average piece of dancy alt-pop to a mosh-worthy smash-hit single and video. “Vow” and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGyliR0Udo" target="_blank">“I’m Only Happy When it Rains”</a> become an anthem of teen angst.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I know they had other crap. “I Think I’m Paranoid” and “Push It” were kind of big off “Version 2.0,” but they’re kind of snoozerish as far as singles go. When you come out with your second album, and you fail to make a more lasting impact than Fastball (killer hit <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wfu3tOrtQ" target="_blank">“The Way”</a>) and Harvey Danger (killer hit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUZxlPhr5c" target="_blank">“Flagpole Sita”</a>), you’re already headed in the wrong direction.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But Garbage is big. They’re ’90s alt-rock royalty, I guess. The proof is in the YouTube clips of the 40-somethings moshing around. And if you’re a fan you’re pumped as hell to see them <a href="http://www.electricfactory.info/Event/3/23/2013/garbage" target="_blank">tonight (March 23) at The Electric Factory, 7th and Callowhill streets</a>. You’re probably even stoked to “only” be paying $46.05 to see your favorite band ever, but fact of the matter is you’re getting <a href="http://www.allwrestlingsuperstars.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/stone-cold-steve-austin-wallpapers-1.jpg" target="_blank">stone-cold</a> robbed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />IO Echo opens the show at 8 p.m. </span>popzeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954753993378323980noreply@blogger.com0