Thursday night at The Cedar, B-Side is presenting Sessions I. This will be the first session of a set of collaboration of jazz artists who will make your tongue tingle...in a good way..? There are a couple local guys, Dean Magraw and Brandon Wozniak joining the other heavy hitters on stage. George Porter Jr, Johnny Vidacovich and Joe Krown finish up this amazing line up. Also Joe Krown is playing a little pre-show at the newly opened Bradstreet restaurant and bar on the first floor of the Graves|601 hotel. This is going on from 5-6, and if you aren't cool enough to make the time to see these guys at 7, just try to check out Krown playing some piano while you sip on specialty cocktails. Oh yeah...he plays the Hammond B-3 as well....so can you go to the show at The Cedar now? Yes.
http://www.thecedar.org/bside_presents_sessions_i_george_porter_dean_magraw_johnny_vidacovich_joe_krown_and_brandon_wozniak
Friday I'm looking forward to going to see Alex Rossi and the Root City Band play at Bunkers. I haven't seen these guys before but the guy at the door at Narrows Saloon told me they are definitely worth paying attention to. Funk, horns, soul and awesomeness I think is what's in store for the evening.
www.myspace.com/rootcity
Saturday it's back to Narrows Saloon in Navarre, MN. This place might be out of the way, but it's worth the trip and it's pretty much a guarantee that you won't run into any clubbing losers from downtown. The Irresistibles are playing, and the same guy that told me about Root City, told me about these guys. I dunno why, but I trust him. So they are playing selections from Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. I'm excited.
www.myspace.com/irresistiblesmusic
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
i got it!
The song is "Long Cool Woman (in a black dress)" by the Hollies. So freaking good. I downloaded it as soon as I figured out what it was. After I downloaded that song, I couldn't stop. Here are some songs we should all listen to;
.Baby Come Back by Player...maybe cheesy, but solidly so.
.A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum - This is an important song to know if you're interested in the business of music. The keyboardist was a studio musician so he was just getting his union pay, but then he fought that one of the standouts of that song was his keyboard part, which he made up on the spot. In the end, the ruling favored him and he got like...at least 33% of the profits. I can't remember if those profits were retroactive, but it's a big deal.
.Sister Golden Hair by America - I love this song. I first heard it when I worked at a camp in New York and at the end of camp we had the olympics. It pitted one half of camp against the other in various activities, but the last activity was the sing competition. Both teams had to take 3 (already made) songs and replace the words to relate to camp. Our goodbye song was to the tune of Sister Golden Hair...and I still think about our team, the White Centurians, to this day whenever I hear that song.
Also listen to the Melvins "Senile Animal" They have 2 drummers and it will blow your mind. Number 3, Civilized Worm, is a stand out for me.
.Baby Come Back by Player...maybe cheesy, but solidly so.
.A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum - This is an important song to know if you're interested in the business of music. The keyboardist was a studio musician so he was just getting his union pay, but then he fought that one of the standouts of that song was his keyboard part, which he made up on the spot. In the end, the ruling favored him and he got like...at least 33% of the profits. I can't remember if those profits were retroactive, but it's a big deal.
.Sister Golden Hair by America - I love this song. I first heard it when I worked at a camp in New York and at the end of camp we had the olympics. It pitted one half of camp against the other in various activities, but the last activity was the sing competition. Both teams had to take 3 (already made) songs and replace the words to relate to camp. Our goodbye song was to the tune of Sister Golden Hair...and I still think about our team, the White Centurians, to this day whenever I hear that song.
Also listen to the Melvins "Senile Animal" They have 2 drummers and it will blow your mind. Number 3, Civilized Worm, is a stand out for me.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
the 3 R's are better than P cubed
reduce, reuse and recycle...aren't these all kind of the same? or are they cyclically relatable?
to reduce you have to recycle to reuse...or recycle to reuse to reduce..ok, now i get the logo
but let's just come out and say what it really means
recycle recycle recycle
sounds better than practice practice practice, and recycle recycle recycle doesn't bring up any horrible memories of me trying to explain to the orchestra teacher in 5th grade that i do practice i just sucked that much at violin.
back to work
to reduce you have to recycle to reuse...or recycle to reuse to reduce..ok, now i get the logo
but let's just come out and say what it really means
recycle recycle recycle
sounds better than practice practice practice, and recycle recycle recycle doesn't bring up any horrible memories of me trying to explain to the orchestra teacher in 5th grade that i do practice i just sucked that much at violin.
back to work
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
someone and the someones
I know of a song that I really want to download, but I don't know the name of the band. I also don't know the name of the song. I ALSO can't remember how the song goes, but I know I like it. Thinking about how much I don't know or remember about this song makes me question my strange draw towards it. I know I heard it on Kool 108 and I thought it sounded like CCR, but my dad said it was...Someone and the Someone's. That's where I apparently blacked out. The song starts with one guitar, playing something simple in a minor key and it sounds like it's gonna be a pretty slow, but then the rest of the band kicks in and it's reminiscent of Spirit in the Sky with a sprinkling of CCR. I always thought it was on the Remember the Titans soundtrack so I thought this search would end quickly. It was not on the Remember the Titans Soundtrack. I also thought I had heard it on a Gatorade commercial. The one talking about how Gatorade was formed for the Florida Gators (naturally they called it Gator-ade). It is not on any of the Gatorade commercials...yes I did check.
During that search I realized that those G commercials with Lil Wayne are Gatorade commercials. I wouldn't have known this unless I looked it up. Since I didn't even look it up on purpose, I wondered how effective of a commercial it was and if anyone had looked up "G commercial" to find out what it was for. My roommate looked it up because another roommate thought it was for Guess Jeans. Roommate #1 thought it would be a little too disconnected if Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Danica Patrick and other athletic figures got together for a jeans commercial. Roommate #2 was so wrong.
Back to the search for Blank by the Someone and the Someone's. I went to the Kool 108 website to search their play list to see if any songs/band names struck a chord (literally) with my memory. I was looking for any band that was a guy and his band. I wrote down; Gary Puckett and the Union Group, Jay and the Americans, Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds, Seals & Croft (when I remembered they sing Summer Breeze, I thought about crossing them off the list, but these are not normal circumstances! They stay), Jr. Walker and the All-Stars and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. When I came across Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, my office mate said she read an article in the NY Times about how an average house costs $7,500 and if anyone moves there a high percentage moves out of state within a year. It also said the city might have to declare bankruptcy. I didn't know a city could do that.
SO moral of the story, listen to someone when they're saying the name of a band that sings a song you would like to download, and if you know what song I'm talking about leave a comment.
Speaking of Lil Wayne, spell check knows it's wrong, but has no suggestion to correct it. I feel the same way, spell check, I feel the same way.
Back to work.
During that search I realized that those G commercials with Lil Wayne are Gatorade commercials. I wouldn't have known this unless I looked it up. Since I didn't even look it up on purpose, I wondered how effective of a commercial it was and if anyone had looked up "G commercial" to find out what it was for. My roommate looked it up because another roommate thought it was for Guess Jeans. Roommate #1 thought it would be a little too disconnected if Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Danica Patrick and other athletic figures got together for a jeans commercial. Roommate #2 was so wrong.
Back to the search for Blank by the Someone and the Someone's. I went to the Kool 108 website to search their play list to see if any songs/band names struck a chord (literally) with my memory. I was looking for any band that was a guy and his band. I wrote down; Gary Puckett and the Union Group, Jay and the Americans, Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds, Seals & Croft (when I remembered they sing Summer Breeze, I thought about crossing them off the list, but these are not normal circumstances! They stay), Jr. Walker and the All-Stars and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. When I came across Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, my office mate said she read an article in the NY Times about how an average house costs $7,500 and if anyone moves there a high percentage moves out of state within a year. It also said the city might have to declare bankruptcy. I didn't know a city could do that.
SO moral of the story, listen to someone when they're saying the name of a band that sings a song you would like to download, and if you know what song I'm talking about leave a comment.
Speaking of Lil Wayne, spell check knows it's wrong, but has no suggestion to correct it. I feel the same way, spell check, I feel the same way.
Back to work.
Monday, February 9, 2009
i found my jugs at the cabooze
Sunday marked the first time I had ever experienced seeing a live jug band, let alone seeing 20 of them battle it out for a waffle iron trophy.
I didn't really know what to expect, but I secretly was thinking of something a little bit Beverly Hillbilly-ish. My guesstimate was somewhere in the middle of fantasy and reality. There were plenty of overalls, banjos and jug playing but they were paired with skilled musicians and songs we (should) all know.
I wasn't there for the whole event, because no matter how much I love drinking and music, I just don't think I could have lasted for 8+...okay I had no excuse, but I did need to do some sober laundry. The bands I did see though were amazing. The Pre Apocalyptic Junkband Orchestra was comprised of mainly 20-30 year olds and had a really solid sound. In-between the upbeat songs about road kill and kicking someone out there was a slower (one of the only slow songs of the night) tune, very easy to swing you're hips to. It's too bad I wasn't with anyone because we totally would have made out.
Another band that stuck out in my mind was Plan B. It was pretty obvious that these guys knew what they were doing and they knew that the key to success was singing a song about Mad Cow Disease. Nope, it's not too soon, they timed it perfectly. Lines like, "Who knew that this disease, could turn your brain into cheese" and my personal favorite, "A disease that turns a subtle animal into a cannibal" really got the crowd going.
The Geezers was the last band to play. I missed some of it, but I got there just in time for the best song of the night. Hand Jive!! The woman emceeing the event came up on stage to lead the dance. I figured she was more qualified than me because she learned the hand jive from Johnny Otis, while I learned it from John Travolta.
This concert had the most diverse cross section of people, from the veterans that have played the last 30 years, to the regular Cabooze crowd, newbies like myself and everyone in-between. If I had a few more beers in me I might have joined in with the girls in front doing the ho-down, or square dance or mad tap dance thing they were doing. I don't really know what they were doing, but I'm gonna guess their legs hurt today.
I also met a woman who had been going to this event since it began and she was happy to hear that this was my first year. There was no separation between young and old. The young were happy to take in some good music and the old were happy to see that this event would continue. I also met a guy, Corky, who was taking some amazing pictures of the event...way better than mine, so he said he would help me out and send some of those pictures over my way. Hopefully I'll be posting those up this week. I also met someone that wants me to join a jug band. Very cool.
All in all it was an awesome time. I feel a little sad because I don't think I'll be able to see anything like this until next year. So start planning, find your old flannel and be sure to make it next year. I know I'll be there with jugs on...or spoons, I don't know where my skills will fall.
I didn't really know what to expect, but I secretly was thinking of something a little bit Beverly Hillbilly-ish. My guesstimate was somewhere in the middle of fantasy and reality. There were plenty of overalls, banjos and jug playing but they were paired with skilled musicians and songs we (should) all know.
I wasn't there for the whole event, because no matter how much I love drinking and music, I just don't think I could have lasted for 8+...okay I had no excuse, but I did need to do some sober laundry. The bands I did see though were amazing. The Pre Apocalyptic Junkband Orchestra was comprised of mainly 20-30 year olds and had a really solid sound. In-between the upbeat songs about road kill and kicking someone out there was a slower (one of the only slow songs of the night) tune, very easy to swing you're hips to. It's too bad I wasn't with anyone because we totally would have made out.
Another band that stuck out in my mind was Plan B. It was pretty obvious that these guys knew what they were doing and they knew that the key to success was singing a song about Mad Cow Disease. Nope, it's not too soon, they timed it perfectly. Lines like, "Who knew that this disease, could turn your brain into cheese" and my personal favorite, "A disease that turns a subtle animal into a cannibal" really got the crowd going.
The Geezers was the last band to play. I missed some of it, but I got there just in time for the best song of the night. Hand Jive!! The woman emceeing the event came up on stage to lead the dance. I figured she was more qualified than me because she learned the hand jive from Johnny Otis, while I learned it from John Travolta.
This concert had the most diverse cross section of people, from the veterans that have played the last 30 years, to the regular Cabooze crowd, newbies like myself and everyone in-between. If I had a few more beers in me I might have joined in with the girls in front doing the ho-down, or square dance or mad tap dance thing they were doing. I don't really know what they were doing, but I'm gonna guess their legs hurt today.
I also met a woman who had been going to this event since it began and she was happy to hear that this was my first year. There was no separation between young and old. The young were happy to take in some good music and the old were happy to see that this event would continue. I also met a guy, Corky, who was taking some amazing pictures of the event...way better than mine, so he said he would help me out and send some of those pictures over my way. Hopefully I'll be posting those up this week. I also met someone that wants me to join a jug band. Very cool.
All in all it was an awesome time. I feel a little sad because I don't think I'll be able to see anything like this until next year. So start planning, find your old flannel and be sure to make it next year. I know I'll be there with jugs on...or spoons, I don't know where my skills will fall.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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