Friday, September 25, 2009

[Zebra_Trucks] darn shame

 

The Waiters

The Waiters

0 people are demandingThe Waiters in 0 places.


I'm fixing this, though.   

one person will be demanding the waiters in one place!

Did i tell you what's happening tomorrow?  Insane, I'm playing 2 shows with two bands...

my facebook post on the topic

Matt Love

Matt Love 
Tomorrow: 2 shows, 2 bands, 1 confused bald guy:


Check this one out for wholesome goodness with a rich nutty flavor:http://casadequem.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/petrichor-na-casa-de-quem/

Don't miss this one, it's gonna be great http://eventful.com/events/folk-town-featuring-waiters-and-frank-jorge-/E0-001-024983122-6

Petrichor na Casa de Quem! « Casa de Quem!

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

[Zebra_Trucks] Tobi Vail bigs up the Skab on Facebook

 

Good coverage. If there is indie rock royalty with a more regal pedegree than Tobi Vail, I don't know s/h/it (she / he / it).

MySpace Music profile for Human Skab. Download Human Skab Freestyle / Folk / music singles, watch music videos, listen to free streaming mp3s, & read Human Skab's blog.
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Tobi Vail
Tobi Vail
I LAUGHED THROUGH THE WHOLE SCOLDING!!!!
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David Markey
David Markey
I still have one of his casettes somewhere, god he must be at least 30 by now
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Friday, September 11, 2009

[Zebra_Trucks] Re: Kurt Cobain/GH5/Bon Jovi

 

I have to disagree, Bob... Kurt Cobain stood for nothing.  He's no hero of mine, so I don't need to respect him.  As for those millions that do, its just a sign of the times... people can write whatever they want on the blank slate that is/was Kurt Cobain.  Millions think we've been visited by aliens, and that Saddam had WMD.  So what?

Since I took DIY to heart, in fact to an extreme degree, and I have the demented idea that I'm a better hero for myself than anybody else (except Chomsky) I'll just quote something I sent to a yahoo list I'm on the other day. The specific provocation was somebody quoting Cobain on Leadbelly like it meant something, but it's a one size fits all rant:

You have to take what Cobain said about anything with a grain of salt, of course.  He'd say whatever he thought would gain him cognoscenti points, like telling people that his first concert was The Melvins when it was really Sammy Hagar... listening to what we were playing on KAOS and making lists so he could drop names later and people would marvel at his familiarity with bands like Young Marble Giants or the Meat Puppets... sucking up to people like Calvin Johnson, while privately holding a very different opinion.  He kept his opinion to himself until he could afford to cast people like Calvin aside:

 "I made about five million dollars last year and I'm not giving a red cent to that elitist, little fuck Calvin Johnson. No way! I've collaborated with one of my idols, William Burroughs and I couldn't feel cooler. I moved away to L.A. for a year and came back to find that three of my best friends have become full blow heroine addicts. I've learned to hate riot grrrl, a movement in which I was a witness to its very initial inception because I fucked the girl who put out the first grrr-style fanzine and now she is exploiting the fact that she fucked me. Not in a huge way, but enough to feel exploited. But that's ok because I chose to let corporate white men exploit me a few years ago and I love it. It feels good. And I'm not gonna donate a single fucking dollar to the fucking needy indie fascist regime. They can starve. Let them eat vinyl. Every crumb for himself. I'll be able to sell my untalented, very ungenious ass for years based on my cult status."

I can feel sorry for the guy, his self-loathing in the last paragraph is obvious, but his comments about Tobi Vale (in a letter to Tobi Vale, though apparently unsent) are contemptible. Tobi is a shrewd operator, a very smart publicist with a knack for self-promotion - but that is one thing that I never ever saw her exploiting.  She's paid her own way, and she's done remarkable things, none of them were boosted by her association with Kurt Cobain (I feel differently about Courtney Michelle Harrison).  [on rereading this, perhaps he wasnt' talking about Vale perhaps it was Kathleen Hanna - or somebody else. I can't think of any of those women who did what he's saying here - I think it happened in his own narcissicist mind, and nowhere else].  Also, Calvin has never tried to get any mileage out of an association with Cobain. There isn't room for anybody else on his pedestal.

Anyway, it was not a surprise to me when Cobain killed himself - he had no sense of self, he didn't know who he was, it must have been easier to extinguish a self that he didn't know, or perhaps that didn't exist. 

Just a long-winded explanation for why anything he might say about Leadbelly is meaningless.  You could take nothing he ever said about anything at face value .



On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Bob Lefsetz <bob@lefsetz.com> wrote:

Courtney Love may be insane, but whether she signed the contract or not, I'm sure there was no agreement that Kurt could sing "You Give Love A Bad Name".  Bon Jovi is everything Kurt stood against.  "Smells Like Teen Spirit" killed hair metal, now you've got him singing this pop tripe in a video game?

You might say it's only a video game, but that's disrespectful.  We must honor our heroes.  And you may not care, but Kurt Cobain is still a hero to millions, the icon of a generation.  Why not have an animatronic JFK spewing Richard Nixon lines?

Activision should destroy each and every copy of Guitar Hero 5.  And only release it when this footage/game play has been eviscerated.

This is a crime against the history of rock and roll.  What were they thinking?

Rust never sleeps and commerce is always ready to dishonor the past.

If they don't destroy and redo, we should boycott their profitmaking, gluttonous product.

Money might change everything, but it doesn't EXPLAIN everything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuAoEW5MbI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erollingstone%2Ecom%2Frockdaily%2Findex%2Ephp%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Fkurt%2Dcobains%2Dguitar%2Dhero%2D5%2Dnightmare%2F&feature=player_embedded

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[Zebra_Trucks] Raise your Voice for Rights

 

I ran across this more or less by chance on the web today:

http://events.tigweb.org/21167

Raise your Voice for Rights: a world music concert in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

With performers from the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Department of Music, including:

Blues singer Kat Danser; Zimbabwean musician Tendai Muparutsa; Michael MacDonald; Matt Love and Rana Al Kadi; Michael Frishkopf; Kreisha Oro
; Jill Younghusband, Russell Baker, Patrick Strain, Terry Nadasdi

Presented by the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta, as part of Amnesty International Canada's small places tour


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A few more than zero people attended. It was a smashing concert, it's too bad more people didn't see it.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

[Zebra_Trucks] Remote Possibility songs ranked among top 20 of the last 20 years on Rolling Stone website...

 

By me!

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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/11/29/we-fume-fix-best-20-songs-of-last-20-years-list/?rand=23306

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We Fume, Fix Best 20 Songs of Last 20 Years List

11/29/06, 2:19 pm EST

Nirvana

Fading Brit rock geek bible Q Magazine turns twenty this month, and has put together a list of the top twenty songs from last twenty years. So what do they chart at #1? Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Snore. It's like, yes, of course, but … also no.

This list (see the complete version after the jump) needs some merciless editing. We can cut Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha," The Prodigy's "Firestarter," and Robbie Williams' "Angel" right away (we get that "Angel" is practically the British National Anthem, but that doesn't help it suck less.) We understand these lists are meant to spark debate, and we like debate, but it's taken us 45 minutes to write this post if you include all the pacing and screaming.
Just for starters in terms of what's missing: The Strokes' "Hard to Explain," the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps," R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," Echo & The Bunnymen's "Lips Like Sugar," Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head," Prince's "Kiss," Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," Jesus and Mary Chain's "Head On," Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says," anything from Pavement, the Pixies, Green Day, Bjork, NIN, the Cure, late 80s American punk rock, and every great hip-hop and rap song ever written. Eminem's Dido-supported ballad doesn't count.

The full list:

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana, 1991

2. "Hey Ya!" OutKast, 2003

3. "Sweet Child O' Mine" Guns N' Roses, 1987

4. "Unfinished Symphony" Massive Attack, 1991

5. "One" U2, 1991

6. "Live Forever" Oasis, 1994

7. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" The Verve, 1997

8. "Common People" Pulp, 1995

9. "There She Goes" The LA's, 1990

10. "7 Nation Army" The White Stripes, 2003

11. "Song 2″ Blur, 1997

12. "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley, 2006

13. "Angels" Robbie Williams, 1997

14. " … Baby One More Time" Britney Spears, 1999

15. "Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode, 1990

16. "Like A Prayer" Madonna, 1989

17. "Firestarter" The Prodigy, 1997

18. "Brimful of Asha" Cornershop, 1997

19. "Stan" Eminem, 2000

20. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" Arctic Monkeys, 2006

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Matt Love | 9/10/2009, 12:21 pm EST

Is there some rule that says one song per band? Because all the best songs of the last 20 years have been recorded by just two groups. Here they are, arranged alphabetically, because there is no way to chose which of these songs are better than the others.

The Waiters - Absence
The Waiters - Back In The Day
Remote Possibility - Canis Horribillis
Remote Possibility - Canowindra
Remote Possibility - Can't Wait
The Waiters - Cast A Shadow
The Waiters - Christmas Lights (Luzes de Natal)
Remote Possibility - Coked Up In Kentucky
Remote Possibility - Give Someone You Love a Vegematic
The Waiters - I Got Ideas
Remote Possibility - Mystery Snack
Remote Possibility - Shevilla Lobole
The Waiters - Teenage Punk Rocker In Love
The Waiters - The Beach
Remote Possibility - Topango
Remote Possibility - Underwater Groove
Remote Possibility - Vacancy
Remote Possibility - War Record
The Waiters - Watermelon Sugar
Remote Possibility - Your Condition




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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

[Zebra_Trucks] letter to the cbc

 

Just wanted to let you know what I'm saying about you to my friends
down south who lack the enlighted radio Canadians get:

"I heard a rerun of an interview with John Cleese on the CBC ("Q"
show) yesterday. by way of introduction they played the cheese shop
skit. when it got to the "I don't care how excrementally runny it is"
they bleeped the word "excrementally."

Tonight they had an interview on "As It Happens" with a guy in England
who was outraged and raising holy hell because... well, I'll
paraphrase them: "Immature remarks about a British pudding lead one
cafeteria to rename "spotted Dick" to "spotted Richard."

It's nonsensical, because the dick derives from the german word for
fat (like our pal Horselover). the spotted part are black currents. It
doesn't sound very appitizing, but it's tradition, and the language
police are bucking it.

Of course the As It Happens people made merry because it's so funny
when those monkeys over there get prissy and precious about language."

and while I have your attention I want to get a leg up on that contest
on CBC2 - I hope I have your support after you hear my music!

I have already written two great songs about Edmonton, and I want to
get your votes. Edmonton Sinkhole (already featured once on CBC
Edmontons "Radioactive" program:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=706909&songID=7741609

and Rainbow Socks:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=893120&songID=7515528

which has the bonus of not only being about Edmonton, but also
Edmonton's sister city in Brazil, Sao Paulo.

I want Tessa Kautzman to record Rainbow Socks:
http://www.myspace.com/tessakautzman

and either Bare Naked Ladies (you've all heard of them) or Ian Tanner:
http://www.myspace.com/iantannermusic to record Edmonton Sinkhole.

Who is with me!?!

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