From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #190 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, September 28 2006 Volume 11 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Close but no cigar ["Russell Milliner" ] Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar [CJMark@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:53:08 -0400 From: "Russell Milliner" Subject: Alloy: Close but no cigar It appears that the new Weird Al Yankovic album has a song called "Close But No Cigar". It seems like it is actually just a funnier version of Thomas' song. I doubt it was intentional parody of Thomas, but I wonder if Weird Al has ever heard the Thomas song. http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Outta-Lynwood-Weird-Yankovic/dp/B000H9HWSM/sr=8-1/qid=1159382875/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9720467-8040001?ie=UTF8&s=music - -- - -russell milliner milliner@pobox.com http://www.tmdrfan.com/russell/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar I saw the "video" for the track Weasel Stomping Day on Robot Chicken the other night. Omigod. Vintage Weird Al. (And no offense intended to our fine ferret friend, Robin!) - - Melissa Russell Milliner wrote: It appears that the new Weird Al Yankovic album has a song called "Close But No Cigar". It seems like it is actually just a funnier version of Thomas' song. I doubt it was intentional parody of Thomas, but I wonder if Weird Al has ever heard the Thomas song. http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Outta-Lynwood-Weird-Yankovic/dp/B000H9HWSM/sr=8-1/qid=1159382875/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9720467-8040001?ie=UTF8&s=music - -- - -russell milliner milliner@pobox.com http://www.tmdrfan.com/russell/ - --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:19:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar I should have added, that Weasel song is vintage Weird Al, but the video is gross. (Robin, it would give you and your little buddies nightmares.) There's actually some controversy about the song/video and cruelty to animals. I think people miss that in the saccharine song, Weird Al sings the brilliant line that exposes it all "It's tradition, that makes it okay!" Brilliant smackdown on using tradition as an excuse for things, but lost, perhaps, in the mix. Call me a groundling, but I love Weird Al! - - Melissa Russell Milliner wrote: It appears that the new Weird Al Yankovic album has a song called "Close But No Cigar". It seems like it is actually just a funnier version of Thomas' song. I doubt it was intentional parody of Thomas, but I wonder if Weird Al has ever heard the Thomas song. http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Outta-Lynwood-Weird-Yankovic/dp/B000H9HWSM/sr=8-1/qid=1159382875/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9720467-8040001?ie=UTF8&s=music - -- - -russell milliner milliner@pobox.com http://www.tmdrfan.com/russell/ - --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:26:31 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar Hey all.. Since we're on the subject of Wierd Al.. I had occasion to work with him a few years ago. I was between production jobs.. it was late summer and a buddy asked if I wanted to manage the 2nd stage at the Orange County Fair for a couple weeks. There were a few good musical groups on the main stage, but he was managing there so I wasn't able to see those shows. On the 2nd stage, the headliner the first week was Carrot Top.. and the second week.. Weird Al Yankovic. Carrot Top was actually a very nice person.. easy going and down to earth backstage. Al was also not a bad guy.. though he tended to stay in his trailer until he actually had to come out and go on stage. He needed a bit more maintainence than Carrot Top but his band were a pretty cool bunch of guys. And for the most part.. both Carrot Top and Al were okay guys to work with. Unfortunately I have no outstanding memories of the two weeks.. other than getting pretty bored seeing the exact same shows 12 times in a row. (They each did two sets a night during the week) Ahh well.. on a few nights I traded off with another guy and ran one of the follow spots.. so at least I was all the way up in the top of the stands across the way.. so my view of the stage was just a tiny little guy with my "spot" surrounding him at all times. The two weeks were a blur for the most part. Although there was the one weekend day that Peter Case from the Plimsouls came and did a solo set. He was energetic and fun to watch.. but turned out to be a bit arrogant backstage.. I guess playing at a County Fair wasn't his idea of "The Big Time". Maybe if he'd written another hit song in addition to "A Million Miles Away" he'd be playing at the House of Blues instead! He got "Close.. but no Cigar!" And with Peter Case in mind.. I saw him again a few months later doing a similar solo set at a tiny club in the valley called Kulak's Woodshed. His attitude was still a but haughty so I eliminated him from my list of cool folks to see. However.. for all you indy music lovers.. Kulak's is a great little place, usually accoustic though sometimes someone plugs in an amp. They do a nightly webcast live. They have an open mic night on Mondays.. and various performers on other nights of the week. Their web site is www.kulakswoodshed.com if anyone wants to tune in. Performers go from 8:00pm to 10:00pm Pacific Time nightly except on Tuesdays. I 've seen grammy winning acts do accoustic sets there.. it's a hit and miss kind of place but sometimes you get a nice surprise! Last week I heard an incredibly talented woman singer named Blaire Reinhard. She performed with a couple of her band mates and blew away the audience. She was scheduled to do a set at B.B. King's on Saturday but I had to miss it.. ahh well.. next time! Ciao for now.. Mark In a message dated 9/27/06 5:33:30 PM, merujo_sai@yahoo.com writes: > > I should have added, that Weasel song is vintage Weird Al, but the video is > gross. (Robin, it would give you and your little buddies nightmares.) There's > actually some controversy about the song/video and cruelty to animals. I > think people miss that in the saccharine song, Weird Al sings the brilliant line > that exposes it all "It's tradition, that makes it okay!" Brilliant > smackdown on using tradition as an excuse for things, but lost, perhaps, in the mix. > > Call me a groundling, but I love Weird Al! > > - Melissa ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #190 ****************************