tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79302552012-01-31T07:59:37.440-06:00I'm dirty, filthy, and I'm gonna' last.Wally Bangshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13608857908835265304noreply@blogger.comBlogger8681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930255.post-29724279819535767812011-08-01T21:16:00.002-05:002011-08-01T21:22:51.471-05:00

My back is seriously messed up. Muscle pulled and I look like a twisted and bent Quasimodo. I hope I will be able to work tomorrow....which should tell you what my pain level is now. And in the meanwhile, the US gov't continues to go down the wormhole to total collapse (give or take a few years to a decade) and I'm getting comments to be moderated that are obscene. So, it seems to be a typical

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Kicking it old school - which means beware linear thoughts and forget about punctuation and other assorted grammar tricks that get you all A's and so on etcetera ad infinitum. Went to the U2 concert July 2nd and was, to my delightful surprise, bowled over with the evening. Tremendous songs and the 360 degree stage show lights still have me on a contact high. I used to think Bono was an egomaniac

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I really must be bored tonight. I watched Joanie Loves Chachi on Youtube this evening. What an incredibly bad television show. Unlike some old bad tv shows that are endearing just because they remind you of being young, Joanie Loves Chachi does not. Yet I was still compelled to watch the train wreck of an episode titled "Beatlemania." Next time I need to remember to just say no. Push the computer

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What a week it has been. Working late most days, trip to Kentucky which saw a drive home in a monsoon and a $163 speeding ticket (thank goodness I wasn't driving), and even tonight I was on the job trying to make sure something got where it should be going (the cellphone was smoking before it was over) and now to top it off it looks like I'm getting my August bout of whatever a full month and

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Okay, so the title of this post sounds weird. I feel like I know Al Perry even though I don't thanks to my friend Chris who went to school in Tucson. Chris would come home for summer and rave about the Tucson music scene with Al Perry and Fish Karma at the top of his list. Enjoy this truth and have fun before it happens!

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I lived in this house when I was 6 years old. After we moved out my granny and uncle moved into it and lived there for several years. You can get there by taking Manson Pike to Burnt Knob Road and then take a left on Almaville Road. The house sits on the left a quarter mile or so down the road on the right after a sharp curve. The 5 rooms are in disrepair, but the memories are still there like

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8 months is just too long to let this site collect dust. So let the blogging commence again. More trivial banter about music. More nostalgic looking back at my youth while I can still remember it. More music videos like this little gem with Paul & Ringo.

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Then there was the summer I went country. But before that there were these two assholes who liked to bring their fingers from one hand down upon the closed fist of the other hand which makes a decent popping noise. Our peanut shaped study hall teacher Mrs. Overton would glare irately from her desk in a perpetually unsatisfied attempt to figure out just where the noises came from. I had just

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So I took the summer off from blogging to do much of nothing. I transferred positions in the company I wage slave for and I have just been climbing a mountain of loose binders trying to learn what I'm supposed to be doing. When I get done at the end of each day all I want to do is sit in an easy chair with a beer in my hand watching sports while yelling at my children. Those of you that know me

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Silver Shack Haunts Me Stillprelude:Battleground Drive was where you’d find me after school when I was in the 3rd and 4th grades. I stayed with this lady named Mrs. Green next to a duplex where a girl a year younger than me, Shelly Davenport, lived. We’d play behind the houses in the woods where someone kept beehives or at the pond just beyond Mrs. Green’s backyard fence. I’d dream away my

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There are moments when I think that a minimalist life would be right. I feel like jettisoning my possessions. I could paint the walls pure white and live in a Lennonesque mansion of my own mind. I would go back to my record store clerking days style when I would wear Doc Martens, jeans and a thrift store work shirt every day. Then I would bask in some version of the eternal sunshine of a not

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It’s October 1981 and I could use a cigarette. There would be just enough time before bus 49 arrived at the junction of Sunset and Kingwood Drive for me to walk down to Jerry's Market and buy a pack of Marlboro Lights and some baseball cards. I could light up on the walk back and deeply inhale the black death into my 15 year old lungs. When my high school freshman year had begun in 1981 the older

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I found this in one of my old notebooks dating circa 1984. 1. They wear clip on safety pins.2. They tell you their favorite album by The Clash is the one with Joe Strummer smashing his guitar on the cover.3. They buy their punk rock shirts pre-ripped.4. They own an Emerson, Lake, & Palmer record.5. Look in the mirror.

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Twenty five years ago give or take a day I attended Woodstock. It wasn’t in the state of New York. It was upon a hill in Percy Warner Park at the Iroquois Steeplechase. The older readers of this blog or as I call them now, my peers, understand what I mean. The Iroquois Steeplechase used to be this anarchic event with just a handful of seats for the ladies wearing hats and their escorts while the

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I look into a mirror today and I'm not sure of the reflection. I am in process. I am on some path that doesn't go backwards even though I can look over my shoulder and catch fleeting glimpses of what used to appear in the mirror. There is a sun bleached full head of blonde hair with a tanned face in a Panama City hotel in 1990. The soundtrack for that trip was The Buzzcocks - "You Say You Don't

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Don't consider this a comeback. Just consider this the beginning of the renovation. I'm going to dust off the cobwebs, but keep the strange. I'll be updating my sidebar links and giving the blog a much needed appearance change. The most important part is that I will be posting regularly again.

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Just a few words on Alex Chilton's passing away. I loved his youthful energy and soulful voice with The Box Tops. I loved his lost years in the Seventies making trash pop anti-masterpieces such as Like Flies For Sherbet. I enjoyed his cover songs and white boy blues efforts of the Eighties. The reconstituted Big Star with Andy Stephens and Posies Stringfellow and Auer put on magical shows. Of

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One of my favorite museums, Victoria & ALbert, has a dynamite online database which will suffice until I can back to London again.

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Here's an awesome unexplained disappearing baseball story featuring the greatness of Joe "Tarzan" Wallis. I was hipped to this through the ever epiphanous Cardboard Gods. If you like thoughtful writing and baseball cards, be sure and pay Josh a visit there. More Joe Wallis stuff here.

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So we didn't go to the moon - judge the proof for yourself.

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Remember when the networks would run a prime time special previewing all of the kids shows they would be airing in the upcoming tv season. Magic, just pure magic.Let's go back to a Saturday in 1974 and see what I would have watched that day.6:30AM: I've probably already been up an hour. I may have even watched the Agriculture Report on WSM. Finally something decent comes on: Lassie. It's the one

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I went to school with John Jolly and I am one of his Facebook friends. I also have received a similar phone call to the one featured in this Youtube clip posted by one of John's other Facebook friends, some dude named Grinning Hester. In fact, John made sure I knew about the Youtube clip. What can one say? I don't believe the Grinning Hester dude is making fun of John, but you can draw your own

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I think it's fascinating that Alex Chilton borrowed the piano riff from "Mrs. Lennon" for "Holocaust."

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This should be the only review of the remastered Beatles albums you'll need: Chuck Klosterman is such a kidder...or is he?

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Guided By Voices has really been speaking to me of late.

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My grand plans to put up all of my primary and elementary school pictures are done. I’ve decided they are better placed on Facebook, so instead of finishing that plan I’ve decided to spotlight failure today.Believe or not I strive for quality here at Soulfish Stew...well most of the time. So that means a lot of posts are started and then left to just take up space on my hard drive. I find it

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3rd Grade Mitchell-Neilson Elementary 1975-76Teacher Mrs. Jennings1st Row - Bottom(L-R) Lori Lane, Theresa Koebeck, Kim Poland, don't remember, Kim Moore, Debra Reed, Mary Gannon, Amy Christiansen, Amy Craddock2nd Row - Middle(L-R) Jessie Miles?, me, Britt Smithson, Cindy Davenport, Jimmy Davis, Barbara Money, Detra Cason,Greg Tidwell3rd Row - Top(L-R) Mike Stacey, Kevin Johnston, David Fedak,

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Man, I barely remember many of these kids. Maybe the trauma of all of those tornado drills back then crowds most everything else out. Here's the list of those I remember and the ones I don't.2nd Grade Mitchell-Neilson Primary 1974-75Teacher Mrs. Dunston1st row - Floor(L-R) don't remember, don't remember, David Scott?, Flint Baskin, Steve Goodman, don't remember his fist name, but his last name

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Here's my shot at listing the names from my 1st grade class. You can click on the photo to make it bigger.1st row - floor(L-R) don't remember, myself, Ken Lane, Fred Martin2nd row(L-R) Wendy Warpoole, don't remember, don't remember, Jan or Nan Higdon (I never could tell them apart), don't remember, Sebrina Pendergrast, don't remember, Kim Young, and I believe her name is Tammy Young3rd row(L-R)

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Wes White played drums for my first punk rock trio: Michael Landon's Ghost. When I first met him he was a heavy metal loving kid from Antioch. Submitted for evidence is the photo on the left. I'd see him around campus at M.T.S.U. and at shows, but it wasn't until he began playing drums in my friend Jon Roy's metal band Knucklbones that I met the dude. He was a frenetic drummer who loved to thrash

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Hip-O is about to come out with all of Emitt's ABC/Dunhill releases. Highly, highly recommended if you like Beatle influenced pop or tragic genius stories.

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You never really escape the prison that was high school, even if you move away and age some twenty plus years. Ever since the media learned that nostalgia is a cash cow as big as Paul Bunyan's Babe each succeeeding generation gets bombarded with products designed to make you long for Planet Of The Apes action figures, Transformers, Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight", parachute pants,

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I guess he just couldn't wait for the drive-thru to be open. Luckily nobody was hurt.

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First a little surf action. Man Or Astroman? always put on a great show.Not gonna say much since I'm on the road, but Teen Idols and Jack were two of my favorites from back in the day.Another great Lucy's Record Shop bill.My band Dragula and Jack both did two sets that night for our drunken friends and rednecks.One last flyer...hit the road Jack.

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There used to be a dingy rock and roll club formerly a strip club named variously Pan's Starship / Pantheon and I loved that joint. I played many shows and saw several gigs there before it became a parking lot - I think this is the Superchunk gig where Mac had shaved his head so it inspired me to do the same – what an awesome live band Bedlam Hour gig was sparse but fun with their bassist in a

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The Dislocated Jabbs gig – my band our first show ever in either March or April 1989 - I was shaking when I got on stage – these girls untied my Chuck Taylors – played a couple of Living Color songs, Descendents, S.O.D., Black Flag, the audience was walking out and we launched into Sabbath’s "Hand Of Doom" and they stuck around for more - Gonz and I hung out with the drummer's father before the

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Aaaah..."Skankman" in all his glory! January of 86 right before Cantrells bit the dust – just a handful of punks at the show – a group of them drove up in a car slathered with spray paint graffiti with loudspeakers on top of the car – leather jacket skinheads who looked like Circle Jerks mascot “Skankman” they were frightening to behold – hung out near the back with Zander Schloss while PMS

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Riff Raff later Riff Rath (I had their cassette release) – Mark Schenkel led band - he worked at Cats – The Look don’t know lots of bands have used that name I believe – Mordred Lane I wonder what they were like – Blind Farmers From Hell were legendary Lascassas band later mutated into Hank Flamingo – F Particles again – HR and the Audio Blisters – I never saw them, but I heard they were

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What do you get when you cross Mighty Lemon Drops and Kix? You get the soundtrack to this video somebody made of the Merry Pranksters.

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Kesey Week continues!!!It all goes back to Morrison. I couldn't stand The Doors when I was younger. It was all so melodramatic and with Manzarek’s freaky organ the music seemed anti-rock to me. This all changed my sophomore year of high school when Brad the Lion loaned me his copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive. He’d been trying to get me into The Doors for weeks. He assured me there was more to

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Twenty four years ago I loaned Ken Kesey's Garage Sale to a dude that worked with me at McDonalds. He was another grill jockey like me, but he was older and cooler and he dated assistant manager Linda. Linda came in to work once that summer of 1985 singing "Walking On Sunshine" and that made everything all right for a few fleeting moments. She threw a party later that summer and I came to it

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subtitled: I was really uptight and analyzed culture too much back then, but what do you expect...I was an anthropology major.I wonder if the National Guard Armory on Sidco Drive hosts concerts anymore? I saw a trio of concerts there in the early 90's and I have fond memories of all of them. I also worked a skate jam there with the assistance of Toby. It was strange to me back then - this mixture

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Is there a tinfoil shortage or is it just reality intruding in everyone's dreams.Denninger is always worth a read.And this is just scary if true and it probably is...

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The weather was excellent yesterday so I took my first bicycle ride of the year. I did what I call my "townie" loop into Smithville, around the golf course, to the high school, and then back New Home towards my home. I didn't do too poorly in my current fatboy shape. I averaged 16 mph at just under 14 miles for the run. Traffic was light and nobody yelled at me which is always a plus. The first

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Happy 4th birthday to my son Liam. You rule dude!

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Now for a recurring feature here: Random Crap From An Old NotebookIn this case it's from one titled Skating Is Poetry from 1987. It was mainly filled with bad punk rock song lyrics that never got from the page to rehearsal and while those old songs might be more sociologically interesting I've decided to instead share some narcissistic observations along with some bad poetry. It's all non-linear

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Damn, I still miss Shane Caldwell's Cuts.

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A Pointless Foray Into My Junior High PastI lived in Smyrna for the first half of 1981 where I attended 8th grade Thurman Francis Junior High. I never found out who Thurman Francis was, but I thought it was a cool name for a school. The colors were teal and orange and their sports teams were the Rams. The school newspaper was called the Ram Page. It had a snack bar and a jukebox in the cafeteria.

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I drove to Nashville last Saturday on I-40 and I passed three semis the whole way into the downtown loop. Car traffic was also light. It was almost eerie. I found myself actually missing the usual barrage of vehicles speeding into the city. It was just a visible sign that the economic apocalypse is nigh.Yesterday I got that the news that my salary would be cut by 10% due to the sluggish economy.

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I turned 42 yesterday and its welcome to austerity on a level I haven't seen since my childhood days of butter and bread sandwiches. It's enough to make me feel like a kid again. Happy Thanksgiving!

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"Honest to goodness, the bars weren't open this morning. They must have been voting for the president or something." - XGood luck America, and stay tuned for tomorrow's post: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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I missed out on the chance to hit the haunts with Shrub and Kara this year, but through their website, Goblinhaus, and through their new video posts I feel like I'm there.

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What is the only thing from my youth that I would love to get back besides the usual youthful physical attributes? I wish I had kept my Top Five lists. I only compiled my Top Five lists for a season or so when I was in 8th grade. I typed them out on an ancient Royal typewriter in the converted den of the house we lived in on Prindle Drive in Smyrna. I recall yellow shag carpet and dead flies

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It was back in the mid-90's when I first started buying old CTI releases. They were abundant in the dollar bins of Phonoluxe and Great Escape and at the local Nashville thrift stores. They were not regarded highly by the jazz snobs I knew who felt that jazz had died the moment Miles Davis released Bitches Brew. They felt jazz had been corrupted by rock and roll and commercialism. But they held an

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Well, actually I almost always wear a beard. BUT with the world in tumult I think it's time I grew myself a prophetic beard.

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Welcome to the upcoming financial collapse of America. When times get tough, I get to listening and playing music just as I've always done. This leads to small memory sparks that are soon zipping and booming like the 4th of July and I find that I've stopped worrying about what might come tomorrow. Hence this piece called Cue The Merle Haggard. "are the good times really over....."Just a little

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4 years of blogging. And this is the best I can do.The very first post. I figured if DD's brother could do it so could I. Brushes with greatness, the Phonoluxe years. I used to work at a record store in Nashville. Sometimes I miss it.It took me 5 posts to tell the story of my first band. We were initially called Dalai Lamai Death Squad, but after I dislocated my thumb we had a new name. If you

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Vortices, voices, and a general clamoring - Jackson Heights late night parking lot frisbee club -Team of '87 and '88.Hiram and his house of blue lights - Stamping out litterbugs - Especially Doug.Red Mustang love no reaction-Zulu Detective Agency was put on the case-Memorial and Clark.Exhaust, signs, and a Beetle-Cutlass and run-Pursuing pursued.Fistfights, Eventide riots-Hippie kid swings like a

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4 years ago I began this blog. I was planning a big retrospective today, but it'll have to wait until later this week. So stay tuned.

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He was one bad mother...

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Found this in a box the other day: a flyer for the first show I ever did with The Dislocated. It would have been either March or April 1989. The Gonz made up the flyer at the last minute since we were a late edition to the gig.

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"The teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk"My daughters began another school year yesterday. Emmy is now a 4th grader and Harper Lee began the 1st grade. It's been a school supply scramble the last few days, but everything will be all squared away once Harp's backpack arrives from L.L. Bean. It's only natural for the grown-up's thoughts to go back to their school days during this

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I was looking for my old baseball cards the other day and while I didn't find them (they must be up in the attic), I did find this handbill that my boy Chad did back in the crazy 90's. I didn't put the backside up since it just tells you that you could see MK2, John Doe, and Chek spinning Hip Hop, Acid Jazz, and Jungle at the Red Geranium on Fridays for $5. It's the art of Hugs that the people

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Ray Underhill died a few days ago. He had chordoma which is a rare cancer. Say a prayer for his family and the skateboarding community. Ray might not of attained the fame some of his peers did - remember he was part of the Bones Brigade, but he kept working in the industry his whole life. Last I heard he was Tony Hawk's webmaster. Ray was always a big deal to us in Middle Tennessee. The only

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Subtitled: Clang, Clang go the jail guitar doors. So I wrote this, like, many months ago. I suppose I was feeling sorry for myself and I figured the following tale would make me feel better. Things could be much worse. The days of smuggling smokes under bridges and skulking through the halls during lunch period weren’t really all that great. Nowadays I don’t smoke and I get to go home on my lunch

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I always love it when Joe Stumble old schools it. Hip hop over to Last Days Of Man On Earth for some education about the Patty Duke featuring among others the Metro Politician Spoonie Gee.

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Or maybe just down into a grave dug by Richie Hebner. If you want to understand that, just go by and visit one of America's best writers, Josh Wilker, at Cardboard Gods. Just find the link to Hebner under the Pirates and enjoy. I've also found myself visiting I Found My Childhood On Ebay alot lately. Punk rock and heavy metal. That's what my old friends would tell you if you asked them what kind

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I once barfed all over the carpet in the Taylor's living room. It was the in the early morning hours after the One For The Sun concert at Hermitage Landing in 1984. The sun drenched day I spent there watching Alcatrazz, Kick Axe, Duke Jupiter, Peter Criss, Greg Allman, Ratt, and many others had become a sun burned and sun stroked sick bed for me. I was weak and perhaps still disturbed by the

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I, too, like Fire Joe Morgan do not think that baseball is lame and boring, but I can't say that I had ever heard the term Donald Ducking before. Whoever originated it....it's sheer comedic genius. "...your friend is wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants," and I'm like "He's Donald Ducking it, bra -- it's classic!"

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I got an L.A. Dodgers cap the other day. My wife said that I was really fickle when it came to sports teams. Perhaps, but in this instance she is mistaken. When it comes to major league baseball I have a favorite American League team and a favored National League squad. They are the Kansas City Royals and the Los Angeles Dodgers with the Royals taking an edge in a head to head competition. How I

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I've been digging S.E. Hinton, the LA Dodgers, Top Chef 4, long bike rides, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, and Pavement. Before I can move forward I have to take twelve steps flashback.

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Mike E's top ten punk artists. I can dig Shawn Kerri since I always loved the Circle Jerks skanking dude, but I also dig BLack Belt Holmes and his take on Bert and Ernie.

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When I was a young lad toiling away at Mitchell-Neilson Elmentary School my music teacher was a young lady named Miss Kidd. She rocked the Dorothy Hamill haircut and had the obligatory amount of folk singing fervor and enthusiasm that was the hallmark of elementary education music instructors perhaps the world over. I don't remember much about what we actually did in the class that met a few

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punk ass former deli junction wannabe graf artist moved to NYC and I guess, well he can make it anywhere check out his righteous mellow romantic blog chadkrobot also check out his better half's blog: wonting. Much love to both.

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I've run across three great live bootlegs in the mp3 format in the last few weeks which is always a treat since I'm not one of those bit torrent types. First up: The Replacements from July 1st, 1985 in their hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can find it at Pop Headwound. It's a sufficiently rowdy and robust document of a band during 7th Street Entry gig. It's known under the title "Simply

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I've run out of things to write about. I'd like to think it is but a temporary lull, but even if I had some ideas I don't have the time. So to keep this dead horse on its feet, let's stuff it full of things found from one of my old notebooks circa April 1992. You see, I once fancied myself as a creative type - rock and roll songs, fanzine creator, and just general mayhem maker. I'd get these

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I need tips. Some sidebar tips. I've been looking through my links and I've jettisoned some. I think I'd like to get rid of some others, but I don't want to be the hatchet man. I'll leave that to you. Suggest some for the delete pile. But also suggest some links I can add. If you want to promote your own blog I'll even trade links if I dig your site. Either email me or add your twenty cents (man

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This veers off into territory unexpected somewhat. Just remember to be careful when you're on Anderson Road near Percy Priest Lake.Now if we all know Sukie was a girl and she liked to hang out in the graveyard, then we should also know that all of my Riverdale High School memories revolve around the rock band Journey. They were already icons to me way before The Sopranos elevated the group to the

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How my mind works, sorta:I've been reading through Charles Dickens of late. I just started Our Mutual Friend this morning and encountered a character named Mortimer. I finished the first couple of chapters and in came Lola the pet cat of Wally Manor. This confluence of events reminded me that I once knew a cat named Mortimer. He belonged to that crazy Zorlac skateboarding riding miscreant Toby

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Kick it out on the dancefloor like you just don't care!After spending an inordinate amount of time writing some sub-Meltzer piece about how Accelerate is the perfect mid-life crisis album reflecting how time speeds up as one's metabolism slows down I decided not to inflict such weirdness on the world. Supranational history lesson:1984/85 discovered this hot combo from Athens, GA by way of

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I had an email from Future Me in my inbox this morning. I almost deleted it as spam, but I opened it out of curiosity. Here's what it said:Dear FutureMe, It's been four years since I wrote this. I hope everything is going well. One word of advice for the future me: cool out. Seriously, chill. Read some books and play some music. Play with the kids. Take the wife out for a night. chow,wallyThat

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I visited some familiar ground a few weeks ago. I went to Ripley, Mississippi to attend my Aunt Ermie's funeral. She had run a sandwich shop for 42 years selling the most delicious slugburgers in all of North Mississippi. It seemed like she was closed during each of my infrequent visits over the last 20 years or so and I had planned on a visit this month, but she died a week before. Maybe her

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The economics of having a thousand fans.

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Since I'm in a full on Eddie Haskell mood at the moment: there's a swell interview with John Darnielle over at Sixeyes. If you're into The Mountain Goats or even, maybe especially if you're not, you should check it out.

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Amazon has the video for R.E.M.'s first single for their new album Accelerate. It looks like R.E.M. has gotten revitalized. Go check out "Supernatural Superserious" for yourselves.

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Maybe, I've just been going too much Jimmy Valiant lately...you know - caught up in the boogie. I'll have to try and visit the internet a little more often. For now; here's some links I've dug lately:The isolated David Lee Roth vocal track at WFMU. The Popdose guide to Material Issue. Boing Boing hipped me to this Orwell essay about working at a used book store. Just substitute record for book

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2007 is running down with its inevitable best of lists sprouting up like liver spots on an aging man, Christmas specials running so often I'm sick of shows I once cherished, crowded highways and shops, extravagant light displays, and the generalized murmur about the erosion of the Chrismtas spirit. I veer from feeling this time of year is smashing to wanting to smash it. But this brief post isn't

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My old workplace, Phonoluxe Records, got a write-up today by the Tennessean today in honor of its 20th anniversary. It's sort of weird that I even found the article since I never read the Tennessean. I had googled Phonoluxe just to get the zip code (I know the street address by heart - 2609 Nolensville Road) so I could send owner Mike Smyth a Christmas card. I spent five years great years there

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According to MSN, Kevin DuBrow is dead. The man that the Gonz dubbed "Old Yeller" back in my high school days is no more. I've still got my vinyl copy of Metal Health mainly because none of the local used record stores would take it (not even Phonoluxe when I worked there!), but I've still got a nostalgic spark for the platter. It was one of the first albums I bought before it became a big hit

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I would really love to get an antique portable typewriter for my 41st birthday. But I'll settle for a big cookie.

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This just isn't right. You can commence with the "perhaps somebody will set the building on fire" jokes now.

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Who doesn't get a hankering sometimes for cover versions of "Stairway To Heaven?"

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There's a great interview with Superdrag's John Davis and some tasty mp3's at I Am Fuel.

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My television always seems to be tuned to Sirius Left Of Center or episodes of House.Right now I'm grappling with a conundrum that I've seen manifest itself repeatedly in my life. That which I initially hate I eventually love. Current exhibit: Tegan and Sara. Mullets & Canadian; it all conspires against them plus they weren't great shakes when they opened for Ryan Adams at the Ryman all those

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Shrub and Kara from Goblinhaus came to the 'Ville a few weeks ago and hit 6 haunted houses in 2 nights. I hung out with them Saturday. After a visit to Phonoluxe, La Hacienda for lunch, Great Escape, Mckay, and then the Gerst Haus for supper I went to the Demon's Den in Antioch and Death Row off of Harding with them. I had a great time and you can read about it in the Haunted Nashville Weekend

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Like a fizzy analog electronic adult beverage. Here are a couple of tracks off it:Bees Bein' StrugglinAn Evening With Arrtha

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Okay, I'll admit that the first time I went through a haunted house I was scared. In fact; I was so scared that I ran out of it so fast I lost a tennis shoe. I was just a little kid. But since that fateful night at a cheap carnival in the Clarks department store parking lot I've not been frightened in a haunted house. To borrow the title of a great Pursuit Of Happiness song: I'm an adult now.

Wally Bangshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13608857908835265304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930255.post-73094148165386223212007-09-20T21:38:00.000-05:002007-09-20T21:52:10.339-05:00

I didn't think they could pull it off. But I was wrong - Van Halen is back. Losanjealous has a review and some great pics. And Youtube is just crawling with videos shot at the show.Does Dave say "Nice try there Junior" to Wolfie?

Wally Bangshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13608857908835265304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930255.post-88670885011526261252007-09-19T16:04:00.001-05:002007-09-20T21:53:14.104-05:00

When it comes to writing my worst habit is not finishing what I start. Currently I've got a fantasy novel is various states of construction/deconstruction and a lengthy word text file devoted to ramblings about summer's spent in Ripley, Mississippi that I hope to turn into short stories some day. Maybe I'll break the habit with both of those projects and perhaps they'll join my other orphaned

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