Dr. J

All the best, Blane.

Shain works hard for the music and we all benefit. Cheers, my friend!

I suppose I'm one of the few folks around here old enough to have actually been around when The Beatles hit...and Marco has summed it up quite nicely. What The Beatles were doing musically and otherwise was absolutely mind blowing. No question that they raised popular music to a level it had never been before and were at the forefront of a cultural revolution that was historical in its impact. Having said that, we must remember that The Beatles were not operating in a total wasteland. Musically, in many ways, it was the genius of Buddy Holly that in the beginning set the stage for the Beatles and the whole British invasion thing. That fact is too often overlooked.

Coming up. Hope to see some folks at the Rivoli Saturday nite. Show is being filmed by Frame Blender who did the "All Used Up" video for Sloan.

Just an update on the opener for Saturday nite. Looks like it's going to be Major Grange which is a band made up of current members of the Golden Dogs. Suffice it to say that there will be some variation of past and present Golden Dogs handling the opening slot. Shoulda got Stupendous Bill hehehe hey NewRider thanks for the call out. I'll tell the boys to get their butts down to Brantford and I'll tell them to watch thier butts in Windsor, meggo. Appreciate the support folks.

Cheers, Rev! Birthday beers shall await you at the Rivoli Saturday evening should you be able to make it.....and are sufficiently recovered to want to start all over again Have yerself a great birthday and a good one tonite!

Thanks. Correction made. Got my ports mixed up there.

This Friday night (May 11) The Spades will be at the Avalon Front in Windsor. Opening will be Thomas Lunch from Washington D.C. Saturday night (May 12) they will be at the Rivoli in Toronto. Opening will be the 6ixty 8ights who are fronted by Carlin Nicholson who used to be with The Golden Dogs. Fun band! This show is being filmed as part of an upcoming profile on The Spades. Sunday night (May 13) The Spades will be part of a multi-band billing at Port Mansion in Port Dalhousie. The Junction and Charlemagne are also part of the bill. I'd love to make it out to all the shows, but that's not possible. I will be at the Rivoli show. Stupendous Bill, however, will not be.

Good ole hometown boys The Speakeasies will be opening. Saw these guys at the Moho in Peterborough. Well worth getting there for. If the universe is uploading or unfolding as it should, I imagine it will be The Speakeasies @ 10, The Spades @ 11:15ish with about a $5 cover, but that's all I know or don't know.

"The Spades are simply the best garage outfit in Ontario." [color:red]Hamilton Spectator 04/05/07 "But what can a poor boy do Except to sing for a rock & roll band..."

The writer lays out some interesting points not the least of which is the one that the album (a collection of loosely related songs) is no longer the primary unit by which music is transferred from the artist to the fan. He's right (although many of us raised on albums still prefer our music in that format). Seems to me, that what will happen in the near future is that fans who still want albums by their favourite artists will create their own (much like we do in Marco's Legendary 12 Song Album game). From a number of tunes posted by the artist, we will select 10 - 12 songs to download. What we will pay the artist for is the cover for our album. When our cover arrives by mail (or email?) we will put it with the tunes and have our album. Maybe this is already being done. Maybe it's crazy. I dunno.

Funny when I watched this the other day, I thought the interviewer came off as the ass. He opens with 2 questions about her music (one of which is stupid - "Did you do it in Latin") and then immediately jumps to perfume which has no connection to anything, but he claims to be "good food for thought" and then moves onto her marriage which is only really a set-up for his joke about the smell of eggs. Then he concludes with the highly relevant "Can you make strange gutteral animal noises?" I don't know what Avril is capable of, but I thought this guy got exactly what he deserved.

206: songs about jane or songs about mary but not songs about mary jane 1. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says 2. Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) - Sweet Jane 3. Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately 4. Dave Matthews Band - The Song That Jane Likes 5. Johnny Cash - Mary of the Wild Moor 6. CCR - Proud Mary 7. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat [its about Jane] 8. The Who - Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands 9. Guided By Voices - Jane of the Waking Universe 10. Victoria Williams/Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary 11. Springsteen - Mary's Place 12.

Good luck, Sarah!

Plea bargain

Happy birthday, Sunshine. Enjoy yourself!

Congrats to both you and nellie! Well done, Aaron.

...and tell your friends to bring their friends. They won't be disappointed.

204. Songs attributed to a BAND but featuring only ONE member of that band on it. 1. The Beatles - Yesterday (Paul McCartney) 2. Blind Melon - Life Ain't So Shitty (Shannon Hoon) 3. Dave Matthews Band - I'll Back You Up (Dave Matthews) 4. The Who - Blue, Red and Grey (Pete Townshend) 5. The Beatles - Blackbird (Paul McCartney) 6. The Beatles - Within You Without You (George Harrison) 7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 8. Genesis - Horizons (Steve Hackett) 9. Fleetwood Mac - Songbird (Christie McVie) 10.Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight (Dave Byngham) 11. 12.

Songs of the Werewolf: Songs about being part human, part something else: 1. Oysterhead - Mr. Oysterhead 2. Henry Rollins - Hot Animal Machine 3. ALO - Shapeshifter 4. Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London 5. Talking Heads - Television Man 6. Five Man Electrical Band - Werewolf 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Theme: in light of the DD relaease party tonight how about songs that are about or mention dogs? Here we go; 1. Neil Young - Old King 2. Pink Floyd - Dogs 3. Keller Williams - Earl & Sheba 4. Sid Vicious - I Wanna Be Your Dog 5. J.J. Cale - Old Blue 6. Phish - Dog Log 7. John Scofield - Chicken Dog 8. Phish - Harpua 9. Ron Hynes - A Good Dog is Lost 10. 11. 12.

hey nibbler glad you made it to the board. You will, no doubt, receive an official letter of welcome from popo weenie

worked OK for me earlier today, guigs. My problem is that it appears my appreciation for this band has been peaked way too late. Thanks for the link, Sean.

Songs about or mentioning trains 1. Johnny Cash/Marty Stuart - One More Ride 2. Beck - Broken Train 3. The Clash - Train in Vain 4. Bruce Cockburn - Night Train 5. Merle Haggard - No More Trains to Ride 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Not these: Songs about Trains: 1. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Marakesh Express 2. Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train 3. The Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin 4. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Trains 5. Leadbelly - Rock Island Line 6. Grateful Dead - Casey Jones 7. Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 8. Bright Eyes - Train Under Water 9. Billy Strayhorn - Take The A Train 10. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train 11. Guns N Roses - Night Train 12. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train