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| From | Dan Franke <deer_lick@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | 2 part drunken post |
| Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:38:51 -0800 (PST) |
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OK - the first most important part (which I'm not
gonna proff-read - so I don't want you spell-checker /
grammer police giving me shit - take this as the
exuberant drunken rant that it is) is that I saw a
holy trinity on pop tonight at the Ron Flynt benefit.
I got threr during Ron's kid's set and missed most of
it, so I don't have an oipinion on that, but they were
followed by Dwight Twilley. Although he seems stuck in
his past stage-presence-wise, he ripped through 3
standards with Steve Allen on lead...all I can
remember right now is "Shake Rattle & Roll" and capped
it off with "I'm on fire" - which was worth the price
of admission alone...not that I wouldn;t have donated
the $15 cover to Ron Flynt's cause regardless of who
was playing. Anyway, Twilley started the night off
with a bang and then there was a bit of a lull while a
handful of stellar Austin musicians who have
connections with Ron played folky / blues / acoustic
sets (sometimes all three). Would've been great on any
other nigth, but Peter Case was coming up. about 90
minutes & 5-6 bands later, Case hit the stage with his
son Josh's band The Broken Promises in tow. (side
note: Josh lives in Austin and is starting a residency
at the relatively new Emo's lounge on Thursdays with
Jacob Schultz fron Moonlight Towers). The trashed
through a Flaming Groovies tune into a roughed up
version of "Two Angels" and defied the time-keeper by
rockin two more gems, including a Plimsouls deep-cut
that I'm embarassed I don't know the name of. Next up
was sort of 20/20 who started with a Steve Allen solo
song (I think) and then Ron (who's arm does really
seem messed up) joined them to sing "Remember The
Lightning" and then plaed some simple keys on "Yellow
Pills." Once again, defying the time-keeper, they
invited Case back up and rocked "A Million Miles
Away." When the crowd demanded more, Peter rallied the
band for "Zero Hour," but not everyone knew it, so he
tore into a blistering "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" that
brought the sold-out capacity (good for Ron!) house
down. I felt sorry for the bands that had to follow,
but Fastball Miles' side-project party band The Small
Stars were the perfect campy, lounge-band-from-hell to
break the spell and bring back the spirit of the night
- a bunch of friends jamming for the benefit of Mr
Flynt. A loose vibe prevailed and the bands that
latched onto were the most fun. Another highlight was
ex-Wild Seed / Woodpecker Michael Hall resurfacing for
a cut-too-short-to-get-back-on-schedule set - but I'm
hoping he'll be playing a bit more with SXSW quickly
approacing. The friendly vibe prevailed so-much-so
that I ended up in conversations with Peter & Josh
Case, Dwight Twilley & his wife, Steve Allen & Ron
Flynt and a large handful of other friends and
friends-of friends (I thing the 10 minute breaks
between acts was very condusive to quick socializing)
and to top it off, I was "star-struck" by the fact
that Ian Mclagen was just hanging out in the
crowd...and despite the above ramblings, I'm not
easily star-struck...I'm more impressed by how
down-to-earth the whole affair was.
Can-I-Use-More-Hyphated-Sentances?
OK - Part 2 (Feminista vs Testostroni)
I saw Paula A. Kelley at IPO Chicago about 4-5 years
ago. I can't remember if she (you) were "hot" but she
(you) probably was - Most importantly though, I
thought the music was great. Now without belittelling
women's strugles for equality, I think your reaction /
argument is misguided. For one - most on this list
embrace music based on merit - songwriting, playing,
hooks-in-general. Secondly -many women (generalizing)
are WAY more guilty of this "crime"...I mean, how many
total-ass bands are out there who are
big-because-the-dude-is-hot. The fact that too-many of
the bands discussed here are ageing (sometimes
bald-ING) males, who still happen to write some great
songs but won't reach that brass ring because they are
unmarketable as the
hot-young-urbanised-white-dude-with street-cred is
unfortunately the reason why these great songs/bands
aren't going to receive the mass audience they
deserve. Maybe I'm getting older, but I definately see
the pendulum swinging in the favor of matured women
singers - Although they might not end up in the
tax-bracket of Justin Timberlake, Aimee Mann, Cat
Power, Jenny Lewis, Joanna Newsom, Norah Jones,
Lucinda Williams, Neko Case or Emmylou Harris (a
random sampling from the pile of CD's in from of me)
all do pretty good for themselves based on merit. I
have nothing against someone marketing their looks,
but I do feel sorry for the people who buy into it
based only on that.
To recap - Great Show tonight - Paula has legitimate
arguments, but I feel it's sort-of a double standard.
Clicking send (against my better judgement) and going
to bed
- Dan
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