The Medusa Fora

KathleenwithaK wrote:just bought tickets to see New York Dolls the night before St. Jimmy's with the Pogues. I almost feel like I should put this in the "confessions" thread

Not unless you agree with Bob "mmmm......nice" Harris who followed their live appearance on his TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test almost 40 years ago with a snooty two word appraisal: "mock rock".

philipchevron wrote:

KathleenwithaK wrote:just bought tickets to see New York Dolls the night before St. Jimmy's with the Pogues. I almost feel like I should put this in the "confessions" thread

Not unless you agree with Bob "Nice" Harris who followed their live appearance on his TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test almost 40 years ago with a snooty two word appraisal: "mock rock".

I know, I know...it's just that I feel like I'm cheating on you (just a bit)

Big Audio Dynamite, Shepherd's Bush, April 3rd.

Trampled by Turtles played in my sleepy little home town last night.

We rarely get talent like this so I really enjoyed it. If you have not heard of them, they hail from Duluth, Minnesota (MINNY-SOOO-TA) and are worth a listen. Here is the video of the hit from their latest release which debuted number one on the bluegrass charts. They really get cooking about a minute into this number.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjdkc14-zwQ

James wrote:Big Audio Dynamite, Shepherd's Bush, April 3rd.

Titus Andronicus - April 08, 2011 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC

I'd say I'm at about 70% chance of attending, based on what I've seen and heard on the youtubes.
Will make a decision about 9 PM Mar 15th.

KathleenwithaK wrote:just bought tickets to see New York Dolls the night before St. Jimmy's with the Pogues. I almost feel like I should put this in the "confessions" thread

Mrs Smoz & I have got tickets for that show too, I will also seeing them here in London at the end of the month.

philipchevron wrote:

KathleenwithaK wrote:just bought tickets to see New York Dolls the night before St. Jimmy's with the Pogues. I almost feel like I should put this in the "confessions" thread

Not unless you agree with Bob "mmmm......nice" Harris who followed their live appearance on his TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test almost 40 years ago with a snooty two word appraisal: "mock rock".

According to UK Sub's bassist Alvin Gibb's book, it was Whisperin' Bob's "mock rock" comment spurred him on to pick up a bass and become a punk musician.

Journey and Foreigner are playing LA. I kinda wanna go for the fun of it.

Mark Thomas - Extreme Rambling

The story of his walk around the entire "Israeli Barrier". Utterly brilliant.
Worth the admission fee just for the story of how come the programme cover shows the sponsors of the walk to include the Metropolitan Police.

My band FRICTION celebrates our 31st anniversary tonight...opening act features my son Michael on bass.

It's not a matter of passing the torch, though...I ain't ready to let go of it yet!

Last night, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Roberto Minczuk, performing:

Prokofiev - The Meeting of the Volga & the Don, Op. 130
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Magor, OP. 19 * (with Baiba Skride on violin)
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27.

Apparently, worried about not having a full house for guest violinist Skride, the VSO spread free tickets through it's subscribers, so my daughter & i were in for free.

Not much on the orchestras usually, but the second piece was pretty far out - not your usual orchestral fare. Wasn't drowned in strings, but a lot of space, and the final mov't had a great counterbalance between the violin and a tuba solo (then echoed by the french horns). And a perfect highlight for a fabulous young violinist (who seems comfortable with her hand living in 11th position!) and a fabulous Strad violin ("Wilhelmj", 1725).

The first piece was good too, although hilariously an industrial ode to a canal, from the darkest days of Soviet state art direction - "inspired by the idea of earth-moving equipment & human labour..." but was actually great, with lots of stops & starts and changes. It was way more interesting than the Rachmaninoff, which was nice but the 3rd mov't totally put my daughter to sleep.

These guys were only 20 years apart in age, one born in the Ukraine & one in Russia, shared many influences, but ended up a lot different. Hm, maybe this should be in the "things i learned" thread...

Low D wrote:and a tuba solo

"And a tuba solo" is a combination of words that happens far too infrequently.

Derren Brown's Svengali show in Liverpool on Saturday night.

That man surely messes with your head.

DzM wrote:

Low D wrote:and a tuba solo

"And a tuba solo" is a combination of words that happens far too infrequently.

Should you happen to catch the Levon Helm Band (and you should), you will witness Howard Johnson play the rockingest tuba solo you never imagined, in a slightly re-arranged version of "The Weight".

You can hear it on the Live At Merlefest album, which you'd be stupid not to own.
http://www.levonhelm.com/store/page2.html