Some of you have emailed me with the question of why if Bob Lefsetz
is such an ass why do I keep reading his daily blogs. Although I
disagree with him wholeheartly on the streaming issue I do sometimes
agree on some of his other things such as The Allman Brothers if they
come into your town then go see them. And they are better then ever
when Warren Haynes is there. Warren does wonderful things, Gov Mule,
The Phil Lesh project, producing The Bottle Rockets etc. And the
Allmans still rock out even at their age. He also gives a good review
on the Doobie Brothers. So I will high five him on that, but still
smack him upside the head on owning music.
So Adam Lambert didn't
win American Idol, big fuking deal. It don't make a big deal if Adam
didn't win AI, he still gets a recording contract, just like the five
finalists. Even William Hung managed to squeeze out a couple albums and
people just laughed at him. Does anybody really still give a fuck about
any of the past winners and runner ups? Carrie Underwood is as real as a
plastic fake tree in my dentist's office. Kelly Clarkson would be
easier to take if she wasn't looking in the mirror and trying to be
another Whitney Houston. Maybe Adam should do a duet with Carrie and
have a BIG HIT that way. KC and CU still get radio play, look at this
as them winning the lottery and they got lucky. American Idol is just
yet another tv show that you can relive the exciting two seasons over
and over again but do you ever play those American Idol CDs? of them
doing bad cover versions? Of course you don't that why the bargain bins
are full of that crap. The Best of The American Idol Runner ups!
Garbage in, garbage out.
Moving on to our most favorite subject
of illwill, rising gas prices again. The speculators are coming out of
the woodwork to jack the price up again. G'DAMN I would love a stay at
home job that way I don't drive 60 miles a day back and forth to work
and tell Big Oil and the Speculators to shove it up their ass sideways
with a rotting nail board. Since May 1st it has gone up 30 cents a
gallon and of course the robot reporters are citing the usual reasons.
And i'm sure with hurricane season coming up it'll go up even more. I
don't Obama can really do anything to stopping the speculators and Wall
Street to fuck the general public all over again. As much we hated GW
Bush, it hasn't made any difference with our elected officials in bed
with the oil industry. Nancy Pelosi is no different then Trent Lott it
seems. Just another crook from the left side of the podium. We
shouldn't see 4 dollar gallon gas this year or maybe next but i'm
speculating, but I aint making money like those Wall Street Speculating
cocksuckers are. Should have let the mutherfuckers go bankrupt. Live
in our world fuckheads.
Of course it always goes up on memorial
day. That's why I don't go bargain hunting out of state. It's 2.35
now. But I'm sure the slightest excuses it'll go up more.
No band practice this week. Maybe next week. Maybe not.
Outdated Media Review
The Gin Blossoms-Live In Concert (Cleopatra)
For
a band that has been around for twenty years, The Gin Bunnies had only
made 4 albums and an EP (They have something like 4 best ofs) but I've
been following them ever since seeing them live in 92 at Chuy's in
Tempe. And the GBs have always been a fun live act although they lost
their best songwriter due to too much booze and too much depression.
Then they broke up and then got back together again and made a okay
reunion album which sold a hair of their A and M albums. Live In
Concert shows them playing to a small Ohio crowd but the songs from
Major Lodge Victory sound more alive live then on the studio albums and
even on bad nights, their hits are the sound of ear candy. They're not a
jam band as the 10 minite Super Girl indicates (goes on too long and
you had to there to see it), and the record gets docked a notch for
fadeouts after the end of songs (the treat of an Gin Blossom show is
Robin Wilson doing stage banter between songs). If one's going to pay
15 bucks for a CD at least keep the whole show going without fadeouts.
But if you're a fan of the Gin Blossoms like I have been the past 18 it
makes a nice conversation piece. It may not make you trade in their
Just South Of Nowhere live DVD, but for latter day professional exMTV
darlings, I like it just fine. And unlike MTV, I have never abandoned
the Gin Boys one bit though Congratulations I'm Sorry remains a chore to
listen all the way through.
Grade B
Hits: Idiot Summer, Learning The Hard Way, Rocket Man
