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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | The Raisins, The Bears |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:24:28 -0600 |
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> I wish I'd been around Cincinnati to see The Raisins way back when, but
> I console myself with ownership of their live triple CD set (which I
> also have on cassette as it predates the advent of CD production for
> indie bands), as well as having seen The Bears several times over the
> years, and a great show at The Bottom Line where The Psychodots opened
> and then acted as Belew's backing band (though they were officially
> between stints as The Bears).
I went to college near Cincinnatti(Springfield, OH, Wittenberg) and my best
friend was from there and dragged me down to see the Raisins, telling
me.....'ya gotta see them!', in early 1983. Saw them a handful times
afterwards(including the fabulously moving, last show before breaking up in
Spring 1985) and can honestly say they STILl are the best bar band I've ever
seen for my ears, this includes seeing NRBQ more times I might add.
They had FUN, they had CHOPS, they had SONGS, they had boy-next-door with
attitude.
Mike, I WORE out those cassettes in a few years so when it came out on CD,
it was a great relief.
The Bears, I had the pleasure of booking with a guy I was working for in
Boulder, CO in 1987, after their first album and hung w/ all of the boys
after the gig back at the hotel. Then a year later, I had the chance to
work "rise and shine" while I interned at IRS and Primitive Man(a subsidiary
of IRS) in Los Angeles. I was pleasantly freaked about 'the possibilities'
of the music, most certainly, in those days.
When the head of the PM label(Sam Genaway) asked me what I though the first
single should be, I made an earnest and formal pitch for going for the
untraditional and told him 'complicated potatoes' would show those guys at
radio a thing or two about what a single should be.
It did not work, thus putting me on the firmly established path of never
fitting in w/ the larger parts of the music industry. ;-)
Peace,
Bruce
@ Not Lame
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