During my weekly (biweekly, whenever-I-think-of-it) internet search (by the way, I search for them in real record stores too, but my chances of finding them there are even less) for a couple obscure cassettes that I'm becoming more and more convinced I'll never find, I came across the Stop Pop and Roll website. From this website, I learned that Betty Goo broke up in 1999...so this means that we will soon be due for a 15 year reunion tour!! However, because I'm impatient, I think the tour should be in 2013 which would be 15 years from the last full year they were together (and, incidentally, will also be the summer we celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary). So it all makes total sense, right?
Then I had a total epiphany a few minutes ago while I was lounging in my giant bathtub (totally unrelated, I promise). They should come over here - "over here" being the eastern half of the country - and do their 15th anniversary reunion tour as a co-headlining tour with The Paula Kelley Orchestra!!
AND, they can have Ryan Schmidt open for them!
How fucking perfect is this plan?? How blown would my mind be by the end of that show? Totally, that's how much.
I have this blog because I love music passionately. I love the progression of a song, the swell of it, the way it permeates a room and fills the spaces. I love how it ebbs and flows and how it can be a tangible thing - how you can move around inside it and it can move around inside you. And I love to talk about it, write about it, experience it.
Showing posts with label Tour Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour Ideas. Show all posts
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Backstage Riders
Have you seen this list of backstage riders over at The Smoking Gun?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage
If not, you should check them out. Who knows if they're real, but some of them are really hilarious.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage
If not, you should check them out. Who knows if they're real, but some of them are really hilarious.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
"New" music, rant, dream job
I just snagged Violent Femmes' self-titled album this morning. I felt all kinds of guilty about listening to 'Blister in the Sun' 50 times a day without owning the whole record. So I bought it this morning. Once I give it a few (hundred) good listens, I'll let you know what it does for me.
Which leads me to my mini-rant for today. What the hell is up with iTunes? Artists create albums, entire albums, and I assume they (usually) put a good deal of thought into the order of the songs. Isn't an album supposed to be a thing unto itself? Isn't the artist going, "Here, here are x number of songs, they go together, in this order, to tell a story, or create a feeling, or whatever"? But does iTunes respect that? (Besides the ability to buy one song at a time...which I abuse, I admit) No, iTunes will download that shit ALL out of order!! Then I have to go find a reputable source to find out the track list and put it all back the way it is supposed to be. I suppose I could easily solve this problem by buying actual CD's, but you know as well as I do that the convenience and mass availability of music on iTunes is pretty sweet. Besides, I do buy actual physical music, just on vinyl.
So, because I can (because I'm not a total purist and who doesn't love a good mixed tape? Even in digital form) I crafted myself a sweet ass Matt Nathanson/Violent Femmes play list. So this makes me really, really, really want to see Violent Femmes take it back out on the road next summer and open for Matt Nathanson. How fun would that show be?? So now, my new dream job is whatever job you have to have to make that shit happen.
Which leads me to my mini-rant for today. What the hell is up with iTunes? Artists create albums, entire albums, and I assume they (usually) put a good deal of thought into the order of the songs. Isn't an album supposed to be a thing unto itself? Isn't the artist going, "Here, here are x number of songs, they go together, in this order, to tell a story, or create a feeling, or whatever"? But does iTunes respect that? (Besides the ability to buy one song at a time...which I abuse, I admit) No, iTunes will download that shit ALL out of order!! Then I have to go find a reputable source to find out the track list and put it all back the way it is supposed to be. I suppose I could easily solve this problem by buying actual CD's, but you know as well as I do that the convenience and mass availability of music on iTunes is pretty sweet. Besides, I do buy actual physical music, just on vinyl.
So, because I can (because I'm not a total purist and who doesn't love a good mixed tape? Even in digital form) I crafted myself a sweet ass Matt Nathanson/Violent Femmes play list. So this makes me really, really, really want to see Violent Femmes take it back out on the road next summer and open for Matt Nathanson. How fun would that show be?? So now, my new dream job is whatever job you have to have to make that shit happen.
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