TheGoodRev

The Good Rev sat in on pedal steel

That was a fun set.

Say Rev, this is pretty awesome what you're doing. Buddy Holly WAS the fucking man and I WILL come check out your show (which is nearly free) and have a drink because you're an awesome guy!

Hey, I also heard that The Spades, Two Hours Traffic, Hey Rosetta! and the Marble Index are playing next door in the Casbah venue, and that's added incentive to come down! Thanks for the heads up, buddy!

Buddy Holly is a man to whom every single rock and roller owes a debt of gratitude. He has been my greatest musical idol since I was about 6 and I've long admired and drawn inspiration from the man and his music. He was one of the first guys to write his own songs and then perform them with a band comprised of his mates. When he died at 22, he had left an indelible mark - as a guitarist, singer and songwriter - on the worlds of rockabilly, rock and roll, and pop musics.

So to celebrate what would have been his 71st birthday this Friday night, I've assembled a band of my own mates and called it The Good Rev. Overdrive & The Midnight Shift. We'll be playing two sets of raucous Buddy Holly classics, complete with blistering rockabilly guitar and heavy rhythm-and-blues backbeat. We'll be passing around the PWYC jar but other than that there's no cover, so come on out and celebrate the man's birthday with us!

Amy! Are you staying the whole weekend?

I won't be there until Sunday, but I'm still pretty excited.

What's the order tonight, Kenny? I might try to come down.

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Songs which refer to other musicians by name (in title or lyrics)

1. Wilco - Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

2. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

3. Richard Thompson - I Agree With Pat Metheny

4. Julian Cope - Bill Drummond Says

5. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (FZ)

6. Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Elvis)

7. Cher - Walking in Memphis (the King)

8. Neil Young - Devil's Sidewalk (John Lennon)

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Well sheeee-it, after further consultation with Steve and my viewing of this schedule (not necessarily in that order), it looks like that sit-in won't be happening as I can't make it to the fest on Saturday. Bummer!

Now it's looking like I might sit in with Steve Murphy on pedal steel after the Bucks set. It's gonna be a super fun weekend.

I just saw the Battleship Ethel again tonight at Pepper Jack's. Folks, do not miss them in the saloon on Friday night. Heavy early prog sounds from keyboards, bass and drums. Think early Genesis, Crimson, Yes, Tull, even early Floyd, all that good shit. All instrumental and all VERY well done. Prepare to trip, old school.

Also here's hoping you all can drag your asses out of bed to catch the Bucks on Sunday . I think I mentioned in another thread that our drummer Dan Griffin can't make it as he'll be on his annual trip up to Temagami. In his place, though, we've got none other than Dan Empringham of Circuit Breaker, who will be performing later that night. The latter Dan is a real heavy drummer, having just come out of Mohawk College's jazz program, and rehearsals with him have been a blast. Hope we can make a few of your mornings brighter with a dose of roots/folk/country rock. We've got a whack of covers to play too, it's gonna be a good time.

I should also mention that I've been talking to Mike Ford of the Battleship Ethel as well as Ryan Ferguson aka Electroluminescent and both are super pumped to be playing a festival that is a relatively new scene to them. That's the general vibe amongst performers I've talked to who will be new to the festival this year, everybody just can't wait to get up there and scope out the scene and have a great time with everybody. I've got gigs in town on Friday and Saturday, so I'll see you all on Sunday!

Check out the Bucks' reunion gig on the Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/syb2007-07-06.flac16

Welcome to my life.

I actually just laughed out loud at this. Much as I loathe the acronym for such an action.

So you all know Lee Dorsey for his 1966 hit "Workin' in a Coal Mine".

So apparently Dorsey did a record in 1970 called Yes We Can with producer Allen Toussaint, who did a chunk of the writing, and most importantly, wrote and arranged the horn parts. The backing band on this record, as well as a series of non-LP singles of the same era, was none other than The Meters.

One of these non-LP singles was a tune called "On Your Way Down", which was covered in 1971 by Little Feat.

The Yes We Can record apparently found the ears of The Band's Rick Danko and Levon Helm, and it inspired them to hire Toussaint to write the horn parts for Life Is a Carnival, the first cut on their 1971 record Cahoots.

In any event, thanks to the miracle of a roommate with an Oink account, I managed to get ahold of a 2000 reissue of Yes We Can which also includes a whole other Dorsey album featuring the Meters - 1978's Night People - as well as two non-LP singles, including the aforementioned "On Your Way Down".

Not only is there a great variety of styles, sounds, and moods here, but Dorsey, Toussaint, and the Meters all make it sound easy, when it really was the most sophisticated funk and soul of its time. Maybe that sly sophistication is why the album sank commercially in 1970, maybe it's because the music was at once too earthy and elegant to compete with the sound of either Hi or Philadelphia International, maybe it just didn't get the right promotion, but the years have been nothing but kind to Yes We Can, which stands as one of the great soul albums.

Enjoy: http://www.sendspace.com/file/f14w1d

How did nobody else catch this?

Emerson High, 1975. You were in my class.

I was your teacher.

And yeah, I've met the Schwa a couple times. Hell of a guy!

...is a great record. I spent so long obsessing over the Brown Album that I hardly noticed.

Ridiculous story

PDF of extra ridiculous hand-written lawsuit

Unbelievable.

Hahaha I know man, it's all good

Come on man, Surly Young Bucks

Keep on keepin' on, dude.

Yeah, eff facebook too.. I mean, I'll porbably join at some point for networking/ promo purposes maybe but here's something...

Buddy from TO was in town this past weekend.. his band and some cool street percussion type players were playing at the schoolhouse in Chatham.. I didn't find out until it was too late to go. Would have really liked to. Talked to him the next day and said, hey, you gotta let me know a bit in advance. His response, "you gotta get on facebook." I see it as a easy way out of actually contacting people and letting them know about things. "Op, well, I facebook invited all of my 'friends', I gues I'm all done hyping the show!" Pfft.

As somebody who literally has 8 bands' worth of shows to hype, I can speak to the ease of Facebook in promoting. The ridiculous task of sending mass e-mails is eliminated - no more guessing whether you have the right address for people, no more accidentally misspelling e-mail addresses, no more Postmaster Mail Returned or whatever e-mails from people who have changed addresses.

With Facebook, people who actually care are notified in a concise manner and it allows them to reply on the spot without typing an e-mail, and it gives them quick and easy access to all the details and even some pictures if they like, as well as a forum to ask questions about the event. For people who don't care, ignoring a Facebook invitation is 100 times easier than ignoring an e-mail. People get angry about getting 'spammed' with show promo e-mails - if they get Facebook invites they don't care about, whatever. In short, everybody wins, and I've been telling my friends the same thing - if you want to hear about my gigs, you gotta get on Facebook. I don't have to say it too often though because people are getting the picture.

Anywee, that's my two cents on the topic. Back on track now, I second the call of bullshit on working for a living.

Cue a million stories about being on the highway outside of Coventry and turning around...now.

Haha, come on, guilt is the Jew's chief weapon.

*Please note I am Jewish.

Stillepost says the cover is $8 folks. I'm also sitting in with Cam Malcolm, so come early. Woo!

This show is tonight and you'd be crazy to miss it, Hamilton.

Mazel Tov to the gantze mishpocha!

Hahahha, thanks AD. I appreciate it. I don't know much about the guy myself. The Regrets don't get together too often so it's always a good time when that band is playing.

No love, eh? That's cool, Jambands, that's cool. Just don't think I won't remember.