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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Viva IPO! |
| Date | Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:48:12 -0400 |
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Sounds like a hell of a night.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Kassan" <brian@powerpop.org>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: Viva IPO!
> What an opening night! A pretty stellar lineup of performers including
> fantastic band performances from P. Hux, Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney,
> Ednaswap), Phil Solem (1/2 of the Rembrandts who are also scheduled to
play
> the festival), Maple Mars-(I played keys/sang backing vox with them-not to
> toot our horn, many folks seemed to enjoy the set) and another fantastic
set
> from Wil Owsley and band (with Millard Powers on bass/vox!!).
>
> Arthur didn't mention what the two covers that Owsley replicated and
> embellished upon to perfection:
>
> Steely Dan's "My Old School"-complete with Jeff Baxter guitar solos done
to
> a tee and ended their set with the Who-"We Won't Get Fooled Again." I
don't
> think many bands would even attempt these choices let alone pull them off
as
> seemlessly as Will and Co. did....for me the Steely Dan tune will be
etched
> into my memory as one of my favorite perfomances from Will here on the
West
> Coast. Spoke to both Will and Millard after the show. Two affable, cool
> guys for sure. A great start for IPO.
>
> Brian
>
>
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