·:[ notetoself.us Blog ]:·
• • • • •

Recorded quietly and quickly Wednesday night, featuring 6 or 7 ska tunes (including 1 Christmas ska number), enjoy Note To Self #16.

Here’s a fun turkey related giblit from SNL news, on this day in 1997, featuring Sarah Mac and a recurring character I don’t know.

When the 1997 Midwest Regional Music Festival came about in October 1997 Alex, Don, Mike, and I were experienced festival goers. I wouldn’t say we were seasoned yet, but definitely had some gigs under our collective belts through 2 trips to SXSW, 2 previous MRMF’s, and lots of others shows in between. We had learned to map out a rough plan, have an idea what we wanted to see, and knew we wouldn’t see every great band.

For your reference, the .pdf has all the anality you’ve come to expect, as many details as I could remember are below.

(more…)

Lacking the time to write more detail, enjoy them.

Les Claypool:  American Life/Iowan Gal and Running The Gauntlet.  Both solo (Les + bass) and ripped from the “Fancy” DVD, which is a worthy acquisition.  I gurantee you that you’ll hear Cleezmo’s jaw hit the floor when he listens to Running The Gauntlet.

Datarock:  Computer Camp and Fa Fa Fa Fa.  Recorded live at KEXP in Seattle.  Saw their interesting set at South By Southwest this year and I love these 2 songs.  One campy in, one groovy.  Lots of their stuff at emusic. 

Speaking of War Pigs (from a previous post about the song), dig on this live studio version by Faith No More,  It’s notable because a:) it’s good, and b:) the drummer passes out partway through and Mike Patton finishes the song in his place.  Recorded for Australia’s JJJ Radio.

A couple of songs from the first night of Van Halen’s reunion tour.  Everybody Want’s Some, Hot For Teacher.  The band sounds fine to me, and right on for them.

Last and probably the least if you don’t like Luscious Jackson.  Dig upon their cover of To Sir With Love.  The original version, by Lulu (who also had a some sort of hit covering Bowie’s “Man Who Sold The World”), was #1 this week in 1967.

New podcast soon y’all (in theory).

I know Halloween was 3 weeks ago, but I couldn’t help but post the song Porter learned about the holiday at preschool or a picture of him in his swank Darth Vader costume.

Jessie and I stayed home and handed out candy.

A couple of months ago I dropped some de niro in the breakroom soda machine and got 2 sodas. 

Score! 

(more…)

This past sunday, 10-28, was the 20th anniversary of the British release of Nevermind The Bullocks by the Sex Pistols.  Next Saturday (the 10th) was the U.S. release date.  The signifigance of the band and album is well known, even if you first heard the song from an 80′s metal band trying to establish non-sell out credibility. 

I’ve got the original and the demo for your listening pleasure as well as the handwritten note Johnny Rotten wrote to the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame to let them know the Sex Pistols wouldn’t bloody well participate. 

One of my friends at work saw them play in Oklahoma City on their only tour of the U.S.  It’s a grand story, maybe I’ll get him to tell it for this blog.  The long and short is that he was in a band in college, 6 guys, one of them ordered the single or the album (either one was an import, the album didn’t come out here until November 10), half the band liked it, the other half was otherwise, the ‘like them’ half drove to the gig, loved it, got home, and fired the 3 who didn’t get that whole punk thing before rearranging all their songs.