] CHORUS
] I RAQ, I RACK'EM UP AND I ROLL
] I'M BACK AND I'M A HIGH TECH GI JOE
] I PRAY FOR PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR
] AND I NEVER WILL FORGET
] THERE'S NO PRICE TOO HIGH FOR FREEDOM
] SO BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU TREAD

More crap.

Clint Black on Iraq

] An Essay Presented by Jeff Rosenfeld to The Committee
] on Degrees in Social Studies in partial fulfillment
] of the requirements for a degree with honors of
] Bachelor of Arts, Harvard College, March 2003

Debates of Artistic Value in Rock Music: A Case Study of the Band Weezer, 1994-2001

The Flipside boys promise to "fuck it up for everyone" again tommorow at CBGBs.. For those who are unfamilar with Sunshine Flipside, they play Rock n' Roll of the truest garage variety.. Most offten labeled "schizadelic-stomp-rock".. They just finished recording what will be their first major label release. They put on a great live show.

I will be present with my crew of trouble makers. We plan to do exactly what we did the last time they played at CBGBs.. Without expanding on that, maybe this will be the time we all wind up in jail, you never know.. It would be a shame to miss out on all the fun, so if you are in NYC, be sure to come out..

Sunshine Flipside, Saturday 29th, at CBGB

... Polyphonic also has begun to experiment with the technology at the production level of music creation.

From Jeremy:

There are two possible futures here, and neither is particularly bright for traditional artists and their fans.

1) However impossible it may have seemed before, "pop" music takes a still further dive into homogeneity. Frustated by the turn of events, smart mobs of teens with angst deliberately seek out the rejects, and the new genre of "unpop" is born. It all begins with dumpster diving for discarded hard drives in the alleys behind recording studios.

2) This software is truly as amazing as the hype suggests. In the future, your embedded biocomputer will let you "sample" new music, instantaneously filling you with the emotional impact of an hour's worth of listening to the album. If you like the feeling, you'll buy the album. Shortly thereafter, people will cut the audio out of the loop entirely; instead, already overstimulated teens will flock to Tower Records to pick up the new "essence of post-Britney." Think of it as a kind of digitally encoded musical perfume. Recording studios rapidly evolve into urban laboratories for neurochemistry and bioinformatics. Eye candy and gangstas are replaced as pop stars by thirty-something MD-PhDs who seem more interested in patenting their instruments than copyrighting their music.

---

/me wonders if he is still under a NDA to talk about some of the things that were going on at a previous job..

All Your Singles Are Hits To Us

] "This is the kind of record I want to make, going
] forward," Ms. Merchant said. "I've been writing things
] that are much more obscure and sort of shelving them,
] thinking I can't get this past a corporate boardroom and
] I won't even try."
]
] "I understand that the larger labels are just interested
] in the projects that can generate the most capital for
] their quarter," she continued. "But I didn't want to
] subject the music to that kind of corporate boardroom and
] radio censorship. Why subject myself and the work that I
] do to that kind of environment when it really doesn't
] matter any more?"

Just the first of many, I'm sure.

Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached

* The Station's Show Schedule
Original URL: http://www.thestationrocks.com/schedule.html

I just happened to have this page loaded up mere minutes before they pulled the entire site.

Tomorrow was "Triple Tribute Night"... Next month's big show as Overkill. Tribute bands, tribute bands, tribute bands, cover bands, karaoke, and tribute bands..

Heh.. If 60 [U: 95!!] people were not dead, this would be funny.

What would have been..

] A huge fire engulfed a Rhode Island nightclub during a
] rock concert's pyrotechnics display, causing at least 10
] deaths and dozens of injuries, authorities said.
]
] Fire Capt. Russell McGillivray said an estimated 10 to 20
] people died. More were likely trapped inside.
]
] Great White is a 1980s heavy metal band whose hits include
] "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "Rock Me." The concert also
] featured the Canadian group Fathead.

Great White. Ok.

Now, this is one of those stories that at first glance would normally really get to me. I'm in clubs and at shows all the time. That being able to identify with the victims thing should instantally kick in.. But there is something I just can't get past..

Great White.

I feel really sorry for everyone there.. I hate to hear about people getting hurt and killed. I truly feel sorry for these folks.. Not only because they were at a concert where a fire broke out, but because they were at a Great White concert.

Picture their poor reletives.. Having to explain that.. Billy died at the Great White concert. That sounds horrible! And if you survived, and wound up horribly burned or something.. Having to tell folks where/how it happened. So sad..

On the other side of things, if you heard someone you knew died at, lets say, and Neil Young concert. It just sounds . . less tragic. Like, it might have been a worthy place to meet your end.. Of course, Neil Young wouldn't have fireworks blowing up behind him, its not his style really. Metallica has had problems with this. Michael Jackson too. Again, same thing kicks in.. There may be a connection.. Or natural selection in play. A signal from powers beyond our knowledge.

Now there is a good way to judge which shows you go to.. "Would it be ok if I died at this show?" If the answer is no, you skip.. Good filter.

So sad. Just heard on the news that the death toll is over 24. [U: 39 now..] [U: !!! +50!]

] The fire comes four days after 21 people were killed and
] more than 50 injured during a stampede in a Chicago
] nightclub that began when a security guard used pepper
] spray to break up a fight.

Just you watch... New fire code and search restrictions will start to be proposed for clubs. They will seem like really good ideas to the bulk of the population at a glance. But if by nothing other then botched implementations and enforcement, will wind up being a great blow to civil liberties, and somehow manage to force many places out of business. And by extension, wind up effecting the over all big picture of free speech in America.. People often forget the importance of venues.

Cock Rock Kills

Spin once asked a simple question on the cover of the magazine: "Is J Mascis God?" Well, if kickass guitar playing is a prereq for being God, J Mascis may very well fit the bill.

I saw J rock it out last night at Maxwell's in Hoboken, and my ears still hurt. Its that good kinda hurt though..

FreakScene.net :: Official Home of J Mascis the Fog

] Joe Strummer, former singer, guitarist and songwriter
] for legendary punk rockers the Clash, died Sunday at his
] home in Somerset, England of an apparent heart attack; he
] was fifty. An autopsy is pending.

RollingStone.com: News: Joe Strummer Dead at Fifty

People keep telling me I need to check out this band..

Captured! By Robots