This band takes me back to 2000, when I was writing for GhettoBlaster Magazine. The other writers, editors where waaaay into this band. And being a Montana native how could I not be as well!
My sister recently spun at _________ in Denver and she put this on her playlist. Good one to spin. Simple song - another one where the guitar really structures the song, especially towards the end, the end of the night, where everyone is drunk, including the guitar.
Here are two excerpts from their tour journals through out the years that I thought were funny:
09-03-1998
Butte, Montana, The Capri Motel
"Not much to write about today. Butte is like a truck stop. People here are truck stop people. I'm sorry, that sounds bad. Ha ha! The town is, you know, sorta trashy. But please understand that the architecture is alarmingly lovely and well-preserved. There is a perfectly restored 24-room turn-of-the-century victorian mansion overlooking Butte which is available for $180,000. Perhaps it can be disassembled and moved to a different location which has perhaps a little more... culture."
11-14-2003
Brooklyn, North Six
The most stunning experience of the day was seeing Williamsburg, Brooklyn after many years of absence. It's as if hipster NYC has become a crack cocaine, an urban blight that can descend on a community like a terrible infestation, driving out all indigenous elements (nail salons, cheap coffee, inexpensive housing, people with accents) in a matter of years or even months. Five years ago Williamsburg was a cheap-artist's-lofts kind of a place, so maybe you could see what was coming. But it was so sudden! And so complete! When I heard we were playing in Brooklyn I had my doubts - who would come to Brooklyn for a rock show? But we entered Williamsburg and realized: they're already here. The streets of Williambsburg are packed with hipsters. Packed! Restaurants and bars and coffee shops and halogen-lit delis, unlimited options for fresh-squeezed carrot juice, hot & skinny hepcats trolling for their kin... crazy. I have never seen such a transformation.
R.I.P Drummer Michael Dahlquist
2. YES ANASTASIA - TORI AMOS
A 9 minute epic from Queen Bee Tori. From "Under the Pink" Remember "God sometimes you just don't come through.." Wow. You have no idea how many arguments I got into with my highschool classmates about that song. We went to a private Catholic school so use your imagination! Anyway back to "Yes Anastasia" the piano on this song is passionate! Strong and delicately teetering between sane and insane. And then the orchestra kicks in! As always tori's lyrics make no sense, but with her humor you tend to forget, "Her blood's on my hands, its kind of a shame cause I did like that dress."
3. I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU - AL GREEN
What a voice. And the Greatest Hits album cover is one of my favorites. I don't know why...I don't really like shirtless men...
I actually didn't know he was still alive, supposedly working with members of the Roots.
Still my heart belongs to Jackie Wilson.
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i would take Butte over Williamsburg any day
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