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Monday, May 19, 2008
Vic n D's Big Night Out!X
Hey Everybody Tims here, kinda bored so I thought I'd tell y'all about the other night
Me and D and my son I an went down to the Rogue at 35th and Northern cuz we thought there was gonna be a show turns out we
had the wrong night so we just hung out the bartender was givin us drinks cheap and the pool table was broken, the coin part,
so the pool was free so we sat there and got hammered for a bit then we heard music comin from across the street so we stumbled
over there, its a bar called O'Briens Sports Pub...Xanadu!!! The stage is out on the patio so ya can SMOKE and WATCH THE
BAND at the same time!!! What a unique fucking concept!! You younguns are to young ta remember but ALL FUCKING BARS USED TA
BE LIKE THAT!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!! Anyway a bunch of the dudes from I-10 West, one of our favorite local band-buds were
there and so was Tommy Gun from The Rythym Dragons, another bud, and our buddy JD who does our videos (see his space, on our
friends, check out Zombeasts "Life Of Hell" vid and The Earps "I Love Las Vegas" vid, good stuff) so anyway
the band was killer I forget there name I was blind at this point but I think D will remember 'em...got a burger and IT
WAS KILLER TOO!!! So we ended up shootin free pool. getti fukked up deluxe, settin up a gig for later in the month and had
a killer time!!! Went back the next weekend and did the same thing!! Ya should seen D singin "Twenty Flight Rock"
with the Dragons, he tore it up!!!!!! Oh yeah before that we saw D's old buddies The Green Lady Killers at The Brick House,
man, they are THE SHIT!! Hotness aside they are a killer rockin band. D said they used ta be more kinda rockabilly which D
loves, but that night they were right up my alley with stinging, pounding punky hard fukkin killer rock music, no ifs-ands-or-buts
about it...I was blown away, they're easily my new local fav, sorry Limit Club, but ya had a good long run...anyway check
ot O'briens on the SE corner of 35th and Northern, rockabilly vibe, nice folks, good food, pool etc...see ya there, ESPECIALLY
ON MAY 31ST AT 10 PM, THE RELICS LIVE BABY!!!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Garage Rawk Roots: The Sonics and The History of Rock
Hey kids, stumbled into a
pretty cool site today while i was lookin for historic detail on some Sonics stuff. (Btw: the "Have Love, Will Travel"
tune with the wild scream ya may have heard on the car commercials ? Somebody got paid! Kick Ass!!) i always want to
know more about everything and i love it when i find a source that is close to the source. Cub Koda even wrote one of the
entries on The Trashmen. Look both of them up if you don't know! Anyway, great entry on the Sonics and links to some cool
clips. Dunno who's behind the site and i hate RealAudio plugins but there is some real deep history here for anyone who
cares. The site has tracks goin back thru the fourties and tries to cover all of the music that donated a riff to rawk as
we know it. i LuV tHe WeB!! 
Click for The Sonics: www.therelicskickass.com/id21.html
Click for website: www.history-of-rock.com/indx.html
Friday, February 22, 2008
i Am YoU! Iggy Live NYTimes Review! I LuV tHaT!
When anyone anywhere shares a sound with a listener we are a part of the
human symphony. It's been goin on for years (oh about 250,000) and it ain't stoppin soon. Done right, live music
can make you aware of that vast sweep of human experience. Some are better than others. None are better than Iggy. The primal
and the modern, stoopid and sophisticated, dumbsmart, purely physical and yet highly cerebral. I love the contrast between
the way my brain works a song up after my body tosses out a riff (or sometimes an idea comes with sounds) and then when its
set I can get so lost in just playin it. Non-musicians probably don't understand the night and day difference between
writing, rehearsing, recording, promoting, thinking and then PlAyiNg LiVe for an AuDiEnCe! It's like all the
effort and thought that goes into setting up that special rondezvous, and then when your actually doin it. Once you can play
without thought, through practice you can get to this wonderful moment where the song just is. I can fake it onstage if I
lose the moment but when everyone comes together I think we all know. ;~D
kLik
hErE fOr tHe ArTicLe and MoRe cOoL ViDeO!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
We'll Burn That Bridge When We Come To It.
Am I mixing my metaphors again? Just got the two hundred an fifty seven page
long "Questionnaire" and "Intent to Have an Agreement" and "This is not an Actual Contract"
form from BigTimeEntertainment and I gotta say..it ain't punk rock certified. Got me thinkin. Uhmm.. what
a clever business model. Hey we get the clubs to give us a slow night (free). We get the bands to sell all the tix to their
friends and fam because, hey it's the BIG TIME yo. Greater opportunitys await those who can drag more than 30 peeps slackers!
So the Promoters/Bookers get the bands to sell their tix, put some butts in seats, throw 6 untested acts up there (anyone
ever made it all the way through one of these shows?), an then..what. Oh ya get Paid! Why don't ya just ask yer friends
for a fin and save em three bucks. Why did the clubs stop treasuring the Real Bookin guys who really knew the bands and developed
an identity on the scene. I don't know if we can replace that with this mercenary model. Live Music is struggling because
of random shows that don't care about the ToTaL AuDiEnCe ExpEriEncE. Maybe some of clubs just need to have more DJ's.
Maybe when people stop polluting the scene with shows designed to exploit wannabe's then live music in tHa PhX will
regain a proper reputation...
Hey..it could happen!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Here's a Stooges article from teh NYTimes. No Less.
I got to see Ig at the State Theater (classic) in AnnArbor on Halloween Night in 1982. How
cool! Ig's home turf, Helloween, The State! Actually it was a little disappointing. Ig put on a good show but there was
no transendent moment. Ivan Krall was his main partner during this period and he's just kinda stiff. Nash the Slash opened
(he's still goin, strange kat). My friend and I drank a fifth of MonteAlban and ATE THE WORM (cut it in half, flipped,
head or tail). Didn't think I was too drunk, but when I woke up I could hardly walk from the bruises I got on my
shins dancin in the seats. PuNk RaWk BaBy YeAh! It's totally true bout Ronny hangin
around town. We used to see em with his gurl Niagara in the band Destroy All Monsters (Sic cover of These Boots. Sic!!) in
little clubs that we played at too . I mean it was no thing. AnnArbor was so cool back then. Schoolkids Records was
the BeSt in the country. I'm so glad Ig reconnected. Dig the Steve Albini ref. What it is man. Dig the Video! Ig in Cinci,
4:15, my fave Ig image. Iconic, man! Lates, D.
Klik hErE fOr tEh aRtiCle and ViD fRom CinCi iN 71'!
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