FAREWELLS, FOND AND OTHERWISE..........always suck.

I have never been in a band that had a farewell show.........break-ups have always been affairs in which the band either imploded violently or quietly faded into i don't give a shit land.......tonight, a project that has been dear to my heart for the past four years gets a proper send off.......it was dear to my heart from the beginning because i shared it with my wife and the mother of my children Tracy(her first band despite being a very talented musician), my good friend Furman(i've admired SICKSICKSICK for years), and my best friend in the world and the father of my niece and nephews JOE GRAVES......from the start, the chemistry was easy.....with the depth of shared experience amongst our collective, writing songs was almost telepathic.......put simply, we met on common ground without blinking an eye..........i think it worked well.......practices were a shared exercise in ease and recreation amongst the creation of music.....

Sadly, this town never seemed to get it........i could dismiss this as a sort of genre snobbishness thing or whatever.......other folks might say that it was just because the band sucked(this is not true of course, i know good from bad music).......in the end, none of that matters.........

The fact of the matter is this.........tonight at SKY CITY on Broad Street......two other great bands in MY INSTANT LUNCH and GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING will take the stage along with JOE GRAVES AND THE DIRTY LEFT HAND...........when the evening is over, THE DIRTY LEFT HAND will have rung its last note.......

I hope to see some of you there........really........

See y'all at the rock show.........

Stak

I AM NEVER EVER WRONG..........at least, i'm not wrong this time......

I'd like to send out a hearty congratulations to the fine guys in MY INSTANT LUNCH who took home a gigantic cardboard check worth $2000 in store credit at ROCK BOTTOM MUSIC by being judged the winners of that battle of the band thingie over at COYOTE'S the other night......just as i predicted last week.....


While i'm happy for MIL, i think i have decided that i am developing a profound dislike for contests of this sort.......i'm not entirely sure the words "music" or "band" and "contest" should EVER be used in the same sentence.....regardless, people are still gonna put these sorts of things on(THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE SINGER-SONGWRITER CONTEST will go on as planned next year,etc.) and people will continue to bitch and whine about the outcomes(and one those may likely be yours truly)......and people will continue place too much of their band-esteem on the outcome of these contests(a grave mistake)......

If you'd like to take a look at some video of the various performances from the finals of BAND AIDE I, head on over to LOKAL LOUDNESS......be sure and watch the vid of the winner being announced.......fans of one of the bands chant their name prior to the announcement, then chant "bullshit" after their band of choice does not win.......very classy behavior.......i raise my Milwaukee's Best Light to you guys....

Anyway, congrats again to MY INSTANT LUNCH........

See y'all at the rock show.........

MORE CRASS COMMERCIALISM.......a good day for a band to die,indeed.......

See y'all at the rock show........

Stak

BAND AIDE I DRAWS TO A CLOSE......somebody's gonna win a bunch of stuff.....

TWICE REMOVED- Band Aide 1- Week 1- Coyote's 10-22-09

-DR.- DEB -Freelance Marketing Director | MySpace Video

So the BAND AIDE I thing out at COYOTE'S has narrowed the running down to 4 finalists.....they will square off this Thursday night in the grand finale of this battle of the bands....i had reservations about this competition from the jump(transparency in the judging process being one of them)but one thing cannot be debated about it.....whoever wins is gonna have a pretty sweet shopping trip to ROCK BOTTOM MUSIC and lots of tshirts and merch and shit to sell.....now as to whether or not winning this contest will be the help in the right direction necessary to break a band into the big time as the founders assert that it might is whole 'nother bucket o squids......

The last 4 bands standing are TWICE REMOVED,BLURRING THE LINE,GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING and MY INSTANT LUNCH.......if the judges are selecting their winner based soley on musicianship, i think MY INSTANT LUNCH has it in a walk.......those cats are hyper-talented and are an exceptionally tight band.......they have excellent vocals with multiple harmony parts on several of their tunes(not alot of groups bother to even try harmony vocals around here).....of course, i'm not a judge and i won't be there(pesky job) and i'm sure there are some other parameters involved in selecting the winner....based on the video evidence above, it would certainly appear that TWICE REMOVED got the crowd into it their first time out........and i'm sure there is some sort of audience interaction component that the judges will take into account.....who knows..........at any rate, good luck to everyone involved.......because who wouldn't enjoy spending a few grand on someone else's tab at the local music store?.........

A few questions for my readers here......i've heard some complaints about sound quality for this competition......i was told by two different people that it was "shitty".......is the sound quality really poor?.......i haven't been to that place in years, but the last time i was in there, the PA was excellent.......and secondly, who is attending these events?.......is that mostly South Augusta Coyote's regulars or are folking drivin' over to L.A.(Lower Augusta) to attend these shows?..........just curious...........

See y'all at the rock show.......

Stak

GFOS VS. GOAT..........a damned cool cartoon........

I recently came across a pretty sublime Youtube channel called NO MAS TV........their most recent vid is a cartoon called DOCK ELLIS AND THE LSD NO-NO by a guy named JAMES BLAGDEN......it has retired major league pitcher DOCK ELLIS in his own words talking about the day he pitched a no hitter in the middle of an acid trip........it is fucking nifty........i wanted to feature another of his cartoons here simply because it features our very own GODFATHER OF SOUL JAMES BROWN.........it imagines a boxing match between him and MUHAMMAD ALI......it is posted a sort of celebration of the 35th anniversary of THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE in Zaire........i like this guys stuff.......very cool indeed........






See y'all at the rock show.......

Stak

BIG DICK CONTESTS..........yeah, i'm talkin bout you "heavy" bands.....

Went out tonight solo after band practice.......wanted to check the pulse of the music scene........ran into Shaun Piazza.........he said "don't write about me"........okay i won't........here's what i'm wondering about those who ply their trade in THE METAL.......ever fucking heard of melody?.........what is your music?........A TRACK MEET?...........if you're the fastest double bass drum playin' mofo in Columbia,SC, doesn't that make you like the 192nd most non-creative meatball with eyes behind a drumkit in the universe?......maybe i'm being generous with the stats here......and whoah! your equally mooky guitar guy can almost keep up with you.......and your "singer"......good luck doing anything with yer vocal cords other than getting the nodes removed and smoking cigarettes out your tracheostomy tube,douchebag!........screeching and growling when you're dumb,fat as a boat AND tone deaf is no way to go through life...........

Hey DRUMASS!..........be sure and set your bass drum triggers EXTRA sensitive so that when you spaghetti dance on your pedals it almost sounds like you're CHRIS ADLER..........

gatdamm!........i know the lexicon is not that extensive with these pricks who're playing the heavy stuff now.........but fuck.......at least the mooky bastards aping the the hair metal stuff understood the difference between a chorus and Blackie Lawless' heinous vagina(it has a circular saw attached to it. Yikes! A chorus does not.)...........

See y'all at the rock show.......

Stak

SMOKING HOT!............Charlie Daniels is afraid.........

While this is not an example of local music, i could not let this performance pass into history without bringing it to your attention......i myself did not see the CMA's the other night, but got wind of this performance and had to seek it out......while congrats are in order for LADY ANTEBELLUM who have roots here, i'm more intriqued by the career arc of ZAC BROWN BAND of Atlanta....and this is relevant because last night Augusta chose to support two southern rock acts performing in venues yards apart from each other in A BIG WAY if the number of cars crammed around THE BELL and THE JAMES BROWN ARENA is any indication....one of those southern rock acts was ZAC BROWN BAND of course(the other was a tribute band).......what i thought was a bonehead play by GLOBAL SPECTRUM ENTERTAINMENT ended up working out pretty well.......well done to you Augusta for showing up......

Anyways, watch and learn kiddies.........this is an example of a TIGHT band playing very difficult music at light speed.........dang......smoking hot.......stick around till the end........honestly, i don't remember ZBB playing this tune quite this tight earlier this year at ROCK FORE! DOUGH......but then, hammering the road only makes ya better,right?........



Dayum!........

See y'all at the rock show........

Stak