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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Minneapolis going on next Monday or Tuesday? |
| Date | Fri, 06 May 2005 00:49:29 -0500 |
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:09:13 -0000
From: "floatingunder" <Steven.Durben@cignabehavioral.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Minneapolis goings on next Monday or Tuesday?
Message-ID: <d5d2d9+82qc@eGroups.com>
--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Michael Coxe <audities@g...> wrote:
> My much better half will be in Harmon Killebrew country
> for a few days at the start of next week.
I immediately thought of Idaho, not Minnesota, when you said "Harmon
Killebrew country". He's probably the most famous athlete ever who hailed
from the land of the potato, with the possible exception of U.S. Olympic
skier Picabo Street. I'm pretty sure that he returned home to the Gem State
after his career as a baseball player was over.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:45:40 -0400
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: Minneapolis goings on next Monday or Tuesday?
Message-ID: <016b01c55191$df950400$1d02a8c0@Sparky>
Not really, they've been around a few years now. (It's the
Raveonettes, btw, as in the Buddy Holly song.) They're a Danish group,
and their initial hook was that they were like a musical equivalent of
the Dogme filmmakers: songs could only have three chords, had to be
under a certain length, and each album was written in a specific key:
the first was in B flat minor, the second in B flat major. They've
pretty much dropped all that, however, and the new album PRETTY IN
BLACK is a flat-out '60s pop pastiche, with a lot of Spector/girl
group cops. It sounds to my like the first Jesus and Mary Chain album
inverted, where the guitar fuzz is in the background and the heavy
'60s influence is out front. A lot of people hate the new album, but
while I don't like it quite as much as the last one, CHAIN GANG OF
LOVE (which is just flat-out great), I think it's entirely worthwhile.
The other career-hampering distinction of the Raveonettes besides the B-flat
business is the fact that they're a garage-rock band that consist of a
male/female duo, leaving every lazy journalist in the biz the out of
name-dropping the White Stripes when talking about the Raveonettes. That's a
shame, as the two bands sound nothing alike. Stewart's mention of the Jesus
and Mary Chain is apt; I included "Heartbreak Stroll" from *Chain Gang Of
Love* on my last SOTT submission, and I described the song in my liner notes
as "the Jesus and Mary Chain take a wrong turn in Memphis and wind up in a
poolhall playing in a rockabilly Battle of the Bands contest."
I haven't heard the new Raveonettes album yet, but as Stewart says, *Chain
Gang Of Love* is flat-out great. I recommend it highly.
Gregory Sager
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