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Re: “The Who, or what's left of them, dust off Quadrophenia for their Nashville debut”
Some related Nashville-centric Who music trivia:
The Who may never have done a show in Nashville, but they did record here, or at least in Wilson county.
In 1967 while touring as Herman's Hermit's opening act, they flew to Nashville on a day off do some work at Owen Bradley's "Bradley's Barn" studio in Mt Juliet on what would become "The Who Sell Out". (They were on Decca records, and Owen ran the Nashville division).
Legend has that Townsend's amps were so much louder than what they were used to that the engineer put them outside... They also recorded some John Entwhistle french horn overdubs.
Re: “A new book on legendary band of convicts The Prisonaires sheds light on the details and the myth”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOdqOkYjtA
Re: “Liz Phair talks sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and learning how to deal”
I'd listen to her beer-burp for an hour, if she chose to do so. Mercifully, she still makes interesting, controversial musical choices.
Re: “The utterly fantastic and totally harrowing story of Danny Amis' fight against cancer”
its just fanfare. And
Randy, you are better than that.
Re: “The utterly fantastic and totally harrowing story of Danny Amis' fight against cancer”
Dannie Amis is a multilmillionaire who helped Mike Smyth start Phonoluxe and walked out when he got tired of being a shopkeeper. Why Randy didnt mention that this guy didnt bother to have health insurance as one who could afford it is beyond me. Sympathy for a small independent musical group is stupid, no matter what theiir gimick is.
I'm glad he's still alive (I guess he still is...) but sympathy for millionaires without health insurance is beyond stupid.
Re: “Bobby Bare Sr. continues to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, and continues to do it well”
Slight correction- I do remember Bill Parsons' name appearing as the artist on Bobby Bare's recording of All American Boy (and the explanation that went along with it).
But that unintentional fluke hardly contradicts my point... or at least the one, that should be obvious, I was trying to make!
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Repo
Re: “Bobby Bare Sr. continues to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, and continues to do it well”
Slight correction- I do remember the Bill Parsons' name appearing as the artist on Bobby Bare's recording of All American Boy (and the explanation that went along with it).
But that unintentional fluke hardly contradicts my point... or at least the one, that should be obvious, I was trying to make!
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Bobby Bare Sr. continues to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, and continues to do it well”
I am somewhat amused by written references to "Bobby Bare Sr." (except, of course, those distinguishing Bare from his eldest son), none of whose many hits were recorded under any name other than Bobby Bare.
Of course, if the intent is to inform a much smaller audience of Bobby Bare Jr. (and/or Bare Jr.) fans of a statement equivalent to the disclosure that Paul McCartney had a band before Wings, then it is likewise amusing that the SCENE is devoting space to an article about a singer it hopes to establish as relevant to its (intended) demographic by introducing him as the father of a singer whose name is presumably more familiar.
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Bobby Bare Sr. continues to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, and continues to do it well”
@LilODarlin
What an honor. Thanks for sharing.
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
Well, I think you're kind of reading "how cool he thinks his musical taste is" into the article. He's confident about it, but if he wasn't he shouldn't be writing pieces about music. And I think you were kind of primed to oooh-yawn any activity he wrote about. If he'd mentioned eating a Snickers bar you'd probably be all like "how punk rock" about that. If he can't win for you, don't read him. Once you've found out you're not going to like anything he writes, chiming in with negativity borders on trolldom.
I thought the retail stories were interesting. To each his own, of course. Get Mr. Pink to tell you some record store tales, though. He has at least one that tops Sean's.
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
Interesting points, guys, I just can't stand his obnoxious conversational writing style and I really don't give a damn how cool he thinks his musical taste is (it's not impressive to me at all). Oooh! Petty thievery! How punk rock! *yawn*
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
My two cents: he's pointing out just how hard it was to find out anything about Roky Erickson before broadband internet was widespread. Now there's YouTube and Netflix ... not EVERYTHING, but a damn big load of things are right at our fingertips. For better or worse, we can get to them without making much of an investment at all. Just how much that devalues things is another story for another day, but I think that's the point - this guy was valuable enough for to risk some law enforcement interaction over, and he's going to be right here next week.
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
Go, Pete!
Re: “Bobby Bare Sr. continues to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, and continues to do it well”
Long ago, way before seat belts and baby seats in automobiles, I was a new driver who was rear-ended by a scared young father named Bobby Bare. Mommy Bare was at the Harding Place beauty salon. Baby Bare (Bobby, Jr.) landed safely in the front passenger side floorboard and wasn't even crying. (Already a toughie!) Daddy Bare wanted to hurry the baby back to Mommy Bare at the salon and begs me not to call the cops. Gives me his card saying his name and phone number. Parents were a little upset with me until they saw the business card. Everything was fixed (minor damages). Still an accident waiting to happen is that merge lane joining onto Nolensville Rd. southbound off Harding Place heading eastbound.
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
Some of you people want every piece of writing in the world to be a capsule plot summary in TV Guide. Do you have any emotional or social reactions to music? Have you absolutely no interest in how those of other people might mirror, enhance or illustrate yours? Also, what the fuck did you pay to read this? Would you like your money back?
(Sorry if this ends up appearing twice--it seemed to get nowhere on the first try.)
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
It's his style and he does it well here. I can relate--god how many bands did I discover in this way without benefit of apparatus, or in Roky's case, the Television live version of the 13th Floor's "Fire Engine"?
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
No shit, I skimmed the entire article before finding the info I wanted in the very last paragraph. What an annoying writing style.
Re: “How Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators expanded an adolescent punk rocker's mind”
it's so nice to read about sean maloney with cursory mentions of rocky erickson
Re: “Taylor Swift explodes the pop mold on her fourth and most ambitious album, Red”
Why is this even being reviewed? I'm bored now.
Re: “The Who, or what's left of them, dust off Quadrophenia for their Nashville debut”
So do I win some free Who tickets?
Maybe if I make a snarky Mt Juliet/Kings Of Leon reference? ;-)
I probably would have scraped up the money to buy some if they were doing the "Who Sell Out" tour instead of "Quadrophenia"... Or better yet, the "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" tour...