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| From | "mkropp" <mkropp@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble |
| Date | Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:02:10 -0500 |
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No, this is a bassanova-flavored trio featuring the incredible Juju Stulbach on vocals. Their two CDs are simply wonderful. Thanks for the Tin Angel tip Beth! I am looking to re-arrange my schedule a little so that I can go to that show. Do you happen to know if the Tin Angel allows people under 21? My 9-year old daughter loves them as well.
I remember Vance Brescia's Mosquitos from my "glory days" as a college radio DJ in the mid-80's. I just found the following (including two mp3s!) on a website called (of all things) http://ihatethebeatles.blogspot.com/:
The year was 1986 and Monkee-mania had taken control of the country. 2 members of the 1960's group The Monkees had regrouped and recorded "That Was The, This Is Now". The song reached the Billboard Top 10. However, many people didn't realize that the song had been released a year earlier by the New York band The Mosquitos.
The Mosquitos had made their name as a barn burning live act, and for writing catchy rock tunes. After years of building this reputation they finally went and laid it on wax. Yet some how all the wildness and fury that they were known for was lost in the translation. The 5 songs that appear on their one (and only) release "That Was Then, This Is Now" suffer from very dated production. At times the drum hits appear to be on a tape loop, and the guitars are so filtered that they sound like they belong on an instructional record. Even with these flaws the songwriting of Vance Brescia still shines through. It would have been interesting to see what would had happened had they had the production and push that was given to bands like The Romantics and The Plimsouls. The tunes here are on par with both of those acts.
Rumors have been around of live tapes, but none have surfaced anywhere to my knowledge.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Dunn <thedunns@capecod.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble
> Are these Vance Brescia's Mosquitos from NYC in the early and mid 1980s?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Beth2459@aol.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: This week's disc obsession/ ramble
>
>
> > OK, I'll bite:
> >
> > Sunshine Barato- Mosquitos
> > (Happily found that they are scheduled to play the Tin Angel in Philly in
> > Feb, as I was bummed I missed them the last time they played here-there)
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