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| From | beeman@istar.ca |
| Subject | Milk n' Cookies VS the great Dave Bidini |
| Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:43:33 -0500 |
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Sorry to be a pest, but where on the Shake Some Action book top 200
list did Milk n' Cookies album land? I refuse to believe even for a
moment it didn't make the list (la-la-la-la fingers in ears mode.)
This is of course the Justin Straus, Ian North MnC's. The band has an
official MySpace page.
Did I mention Dave Bidini's latest book "around the world in 57 1/2
gigs"? Simply put the guy's a Canadian treasure.
http://www.davebidini.ca/
his site on the newie:
Around the World in 57½ Gigs chronicles Bidini's global journey after
the decision of the Rheostatics, the much-loved Canadian rock outfit
he co-founded, tohang it up. Feeling adrift from his moorings, Bidini
decided to go on a very long road trip, playing solo and finding out
about the state of rock 'n' roll around the world. He first set out
for London, England and from there ventured to Finland, Russia, China,
Sierra Leone, and Ghana, punctuated by trips to Newfoundland,
Gananoque, Quebec and New York City. Bidini found that the rock 'n'
roll machine has not yet flattened the globe; each place has taken
what suits it from the West's dominant music and ignored the rest.
Metal may have had its heyday in North America, but it still suits the
quiet Finns as a soundtrack for suicidal musings. In China, db had to
coach the quiet crowd, seated demurely in plastic chairs, how to clap
rhythmically. In Russia, where live rock lurks in hard-to-find places,
the obscure British band Smokie is far more popular than even the
Rolling Stones, and the first Western band Mongolian audiences wanted
to hear live was Boney M. In Africa, Bidini found out just how far
rock has wandered from its roots and, in Newfoundland, just how true
it has stayed.
regards, Judith
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