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Ask them to play "Silver Ships."

They played it in Hamilton on Wednesday. Great show.

Yes indeedy, I have broken free of the bondage of Friday mornings. Thursday nights 8 to 9 now!

93.3 FM in Hamilton, http://cfmu.mcmaster.ca everywhere else (webcast link at left)

Tune in!

At Casbah. Matthew Barber & the Union Dues headline. The Bucks first, then the Spades, then Barber.

We'll have freshly minted t-shirts to sell for only 10 bucks. It's gonna be a rock show folks, come on down!!!

Dude, that is awesome. Best of luck. I hope the same scenario is not too distant in my future.

Rock!

That's what I hear, dave-o. Looking forward to playing there. Apparently it's the Friday night right after classes end, and there's some sort of tradition involving the engineers drinking there all day?? I don't know. But we're looking forward to it.

Just wanted to bump it on up as we have a Hamilton gig this week with The Spades and Matt Barber. Looking very forward to opening this show.

Hey Bruce

There are people on this board from all over the country, most of whom I'm sure don't care what's going on at the El Mocombo. Do us all a favour, pack all your listings into one post titled "Upcoming El Mocombo Shows" like every other promotor does, it'll make us all happy. Thanks.

Whatever man, you take the good with the bad. He has written some incredible riffs, and I think he still does (though I admit I haven't heard the second and third Audioslave records beyond their hit-and-miss singles). I saw them in Toronto when the first record came out, and they weren't a particularly mind-blowing live band. Not worth the (I think) 50 bucks I paid.

Anyway, Blind Melon. I'm looking forward to this. Sure, the new tunes may turn out shitty. I just want to see those four musicians play together again. Not terribly happy they're calling it Blind Melon, but what can you do. They'd be playing the same music under a different name anyway.

Hey, these guys are apparently really good. I am thinking about going. That should be sufficiently enticing to the lot of you.

are you serious?....I love Audioslave, especially the first album

Me too...that album is loaded with skull-crushing riffs e.g. Show Me How To Live.

Anyway, as for Blind Melon, I'm all for it. That band for me is as much about the instrumentation as the lyrics. The fact that there are most often two distinctly interesting guitar parts happening is awesome. Glenn Graham is a massively underrated drummer, the man is a monster. I would see this group on tour in a second.

BTW Blane...I laughed out loud at "The Melon"...gold.

Those are awesome tunes too. I think Tonight's the Night is the standard "get-drunk-and-listen-to-Neil" album. It's stellar top-to-bottom. Roll Another Number is a good one.

GoodRev, good call. I love that tune too. 'Oooooh friend of mine...' That's the moment where the song gets me.

Man, this song gets me at just about every moment starting when the drums come in. The line "The punches came fast and hard/Lyin on my back in the schoolyard" is the big one for me. When the pedal steel comes in on the right stereo side, that's also killer.

Contantines do a decent job of it, but then again so could any band.

The Cons version is cool. The Bucks have been talking about doing it actually, we're going to try it in rehearsal next week.

I sparked a discussion on this board earlier this year about Time Fades Away, the live album that was released between Harvest and On The Beach and has yet to be issued on CD. I actually ended up writing an article about the record for the last CFMU program guide.

I have gotten drunk many a time and listened to this record since I got my hands on it. Hands down, my favourite song on the record, and perhaps now my favourite Neil Young song, is Don't Be Denied.

Here's an MP3

I'm playing guitar and pedal steel tonight with Mark Weinstock, an awesome Toronto-area songwriter.

www.markweinstock.com

www.myspace.com/markweinstock

Also featuring my fellow Surly Young Buck Matthew Heywood on bass, Isaac Klein on drums, and Adlai Waxman on keys. Should be an awesome night, Mark's tunes are awesome and the band is tight!

I think cover is $6. Doors at 7:30, show at 8, over by 10. No opener, but Mark will play solo for a bit before the band joins him onstage. He's a stellar performer.

Thought I'd put the word out. Hope to see some folks there.

Yes sir, we do have a date or two coming up with y'all, and we're mighty pumped!

Woo hoo! We's all famous like!

Link

Got a line on $7/shirt from a company in Toronto. One colour on navy. Anybody know of a better deal, Hamilton area preffered? Thanks.

Bump; Kingston date added.

Oh man, a Quadreverb? I thought it was Super Reverb, which has 4 10's I think. I didn't realize it was that much of a beast. Come to think of it, it is a pretty huge amp. Last time I saw James he was telling me that his amp is due for new tubes and it's going to cost him an arm and a leg.

The other crazy thing is, I didn't know Fender was still making a Champ with tubes in it by the time they were making those red-knob amplifiers.

It is indeed a reissue. Sounds glorious. Traded my Fender DeVille 410 for it. Couldn't stand lugging that beast around anymore, and the Deluxe is so much better suited to what I'm doing. I can get as loud and/or as crunchy as I need to get with it, the Deville was uneccesarily large, heavy, loud and dirty. I'll miss it when I'm 50 and want to start a Big Sugar cover band though.

I'm the proud new owner of a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp...

...and boy, does the pedal steel sound golden through this baby. You won't want to miss our rockin' and rollin' as we parade through Ontario over the next couple months.

WED OCT 25

Casbah

306 King St. West, Hamilton

With James McKenty & The Spades and Matthew Barber & the Union Dues

THU NOV 16

The Last Drop

511 Talbot Street, London

With What The Thunder Said and Lure

FRI NOV 17

Clinton's Tavern

693 Bloor Street West, Toronto

With The Canaries, who are awesome

THU NOV 30

Pepper Jack Cafe

38 King William Street, Hamilton

With What The Thunder Said

Check us out at thesurlyyoungbucks.ca

I think the last show was Dec 31 2004, in Ottawa.

I remember seeing the band on the cover of a magazine in Long and McQuade...Canadian Musician or something like that?

Also there was a feature in Guitar Player magazine, February 2005.

Awesome spin on a fun old concept. The only problem is the time investment in watching six videos. Good thing I don't go to class.

To the wanker of all wankers, the overrated Mr. Santana, who likes to make people cry, I say: take a fuckin hike, ya jingo.

Happy to report that The Surly Young Bucks will play on the bill with Lure and What The Thunder Said in London on Thursday night, November 16th, at the Last Drop. Looking forward to it, these cats sound like they can play!

I remember writing that midterm... Who's teaching that class?

Dr. Susan Fast. She's awesome.

The Sadies will, without a doubt, stand out as one of my live music highlights of my time in Hamilton, and I've seen a few shows here. I had heard their name for years, and had caught the last two songs of an outdoor set from them when I was a younger teenager, but not until I saw them in a club and up close did I understand how awesome they were. Just go...and be prepared for verb-dripping surf, rockabilly, two-step high-lonesome cowboy country & western, jangly Byrds-esque folk rock, veering into early psychedelia, and everything in between.