From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #191 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 Saturday, September 30 2006 Volume 11 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: Close but no cigar ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar [CJMark@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar ["Mary Brown" ] RE: Alloy: Close but no cigar ["Keith Stansell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:10:09 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: RE: Alloy: Close but no cigar TMDR tie in to your post: Thomas Dolby and BB King are both in the movie Rockula. But I don't think they are in any scenes together. I wonder if they even met. What an interesting musical collaboration that might result in. - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of CJMark@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:27 PM To: alloy@smoe.org 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:25:21 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar Hey Keith.. It would indeed be an interesting collaboration!! Many.. MANY.. years ago.. over 3 decades ago.. in fact.. as I was just starting to play guitar.. I went to a B.B. King concert in Seattle. I hung on to the front edge of the stage the entire time.. absorbing each and every move his fingers made. Near the end of the concert.. he came to the edge of the stage.. bent down and reached out to the audience. My height helped me reach up to him.. and I think he actually wanted me to have his guitar pick as he let it slip into my hand. I was thrilled!! Of course.. the thrill was short lived as he straightened back up.. reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out another 15 picks and tossed them into the audience. But at least I got the one he was using to play! His influence on me at the time was so great that my first guitar was a Gibson ES345.. cherry red.. the color of "Lucille". I could definitely see a fascinating evening of great music with Mr. Dolby and Mr. King jamming the night away! Wow.. what an image! And of course.. if they would just do it over here at B.B. King's place.. I could walk to the concert! Anyone else want to go??!! Mark In a message dated 9/29/06 11:05:42 AM, keith@stansell.com writes: > > TMDR tie in to your post: > > Thomas Dolby and BB King are both in the movie Rockula. But I don't think > they are in any scenes together. I wonder if they even met. > > What an interesting musical collaboration that might result in. > > -Keith ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:20:47 -0700 From: "Mary Brown" Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar Um, I hate to burst your bubble but it was Bo Diddley in Rockula, Keith... Mary, who is looking forward to a well-deserved day off tomorrow, finally! In a message dated 9/29/06 11:05:42 AM, keith@stansell.com writes: > > > > > > TMDR tie in to your post: > > > > Thomas Dolby and BB King are both in the movie Rockula. But I don't > think > > they are in any scenes together. I wonder if they even met. > > > > What an interesting musical collaboration that might result in. > > > > -Keith ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:39:10 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: RE: Alloy: Close but no cigar Ahhhh, right you are. I got my old blues guitar legends that seemed out of place in that movie mixed up. Someone hit me with a 'am bone. - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Mary Brown Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:21 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: Close but no cigar Um, I hate to burst your bubble but it was Bo Diddley in Rockula, Keith... Mary, who is looking forward to a well-deserved day off tomorrow, finally! In a message dated 9/29/06 11:05:42 AM, keith@stansell.com writes: > > > > > > TMDR tie in to your post: > > > > Thomas Dolby and BB King are both in the movie Rockula. But I don't > think > > they are in any scenes together. I wonder if they even met. > > > > What an interesting musical collaboration that might result in. > > > > -Keith ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #191 ****************************