So I committed the official kiss-of-death foul. I said that I would be writing much more often on this site. As you can tell, that didn’t happen. My apologies. I have, however, been quite busy with many, many things.
The record release show we did at PACE was a huge success. Thanks in large part to several different folks. The Yucky Octopus guys and their fashion show were absolutely amazing. Chris (the band’s keyboardist/vocalist) really has a vision that seems to be shared by the rest of the band. I still say they sound like the Dead Kennedys. If the Kennedys started in 2005. So much cooler than all that other dime-a-dozen crap metal that plagues today’s airwaves.
I guess they turned away upwards of 60 people that night. Maybe we should do the show again? I don’t know. Probably not.
One of the highlights of the night for me was not only the sold out/highly attentive crowd but the fact that my friends Rob and Josh and I reunited for an impromptu performance of a song called “under them” from a band that we were in together from ’93-‘96 called “home.”. It was surreal for me, to say the least, to be performing a song with those 2 guys 11 years after the fact. Actually, our performance that night was literally our first in over a decade. We didn’t rehearse it and actually didn’t decide to do it until 3PM that day. I still say that of all the great bands I’ve been a part of “home.” was the one that I had the strongest connection with. We bonded on another level. An unexplained one. Almost as if we were born to make music together. It’s truly a feeling I’ve never had reproduced. That night brought back some of that fire. It was truly inspiring.
I’m looking forward to these upcoming shows that I have with old friend Matt Bachand. I guess it’s all over the internet now. Turns out that Matt is pretty famous.
I went to see The Roots last night at the Mullins Center with good friend and drummer extraordinaire JJ O’Connell. Mind blowing. I have to say, it was the most impressed I’ve ever been at a live show. They were easily the most talented, driven, inspired and creative band I’ve ever scene. Only Bad Brains moved me more. I suggest that everyone see them, regardless of what kind of brand you’ve stamped on hip hop. Their stuff is spiritual.
I have to go. Time to watch my DVD of Superfuzz. Don’t see red.
I promise nothing.
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2 comments:
thought I'd stop by and say hello, hi!
I live in Easthampton, too and I've been crossing your track now and then, so it just seems like the right thing to do: I work with Mike Meniccui (sic?) who gave me a cd of your band, Hospital ~ very nice stuff, I liked it a lot. And having signed up to the www.easthamptoncityarts.com webpage as well as you did, I followed my way here cause I noticed we might have other similar acquaintances, distant though they may be: I used to hang out with Mark Peretta of Dyluxx, whom I know after I left Boston he did some things with Folk Implosion and others, maybe you ran into him. Or not.
anyway, good luck with your tour and while I don't get too much free time, I would like to see your new outfit sometime, it seems like a really good thing. take care!
The fact that there is another living person out there that remembers Superfuzz, and remembers a detail like the red floors me, but the idea that there is a DVD release of this film and it somehow escaped me is just incomprehensible.
-The J
Bloggin' to the Fifth
Ps. Next you'll be telling me that your a huge fan of Manimal and you have planed an all night screening of the whole series on DVD at the Owl.
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