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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: dB jeebies |
| Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:39:05 -0500 |
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SIDEKICK might not be the greatest LP, but Will toured on that record under
the name WIPE ME MOMMY. It was interesting -- when I interviewed the dBs
(Peter and Rick Wagner, who played bass for them briefly), my encounters
with Will weren't that pleasant -- he seemed pretty cranky. But when he
came back to Carbondale (with Peter opening for him), he was a swell guy.
On the record, I found his cover of Hank Williams' "Setting The Woods On
Fire" to be pretty charming. Live, I dug his cover of Bill Withers' "Use
Me" and when he sang with a large foam rubber fish (large, like in it was
like a foam flounder that was about as big as he was) draped on his back.
It's great that Will is in good health and playing with Steve Earle again.
dBs fans should go to their website (dbsonline.net) as there are MP3s of old
live material, including a Metro gig I attended.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: dB jeebies
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:27:35 -0400
>
>At 12:00 AM 4/11/2003 -0500, Sager, Greg wrote:
> > I was (and still am) a huge dB's fan. I have all of their albums,
> >including the hard-to-find ones like *Ride the Wild Tom-Tom* and *Paris
> >Avenue*, and a number of their solo albums. I don't think that any of the
> >dB's solo albums stack up to the band releases, although even the ones I
> >don't much fancy by the band's primary songwriters, such as *Out Of My
>Way*
> >and *Fireworks*, aren't nearly as dreadful as Will Rigby's ghastly
>*Sidekick
> >Phenomenon*.
>
>A few years ago, in the waning days of my record label, Will Rigby sent me
>a CD-r with two albums' worth of killer pop songs on it, stuff that
>absolutely smokes SIDEKICK PHENOMENON (which I think is more poorly
>produced and underwritten than ghastly). I wish I had been able to release
>them, but these things happen.
>
>S
>
>NP: HAPPY NIGHTMARE BABY -- Opal
>
>
>
>
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