Posts Tagged “Music Monday”
I was wrong. For years I resisted Dropkick Murphys. I was confusing Dropkick Murphys with Murphy’s Law, the hardcore band. I saw Murphy’s Law in 1989 opening up for The Ramones and didn’t like them. Not that I have anything against hardcore punk, I’m just rather picky about which ones I do like, and Murphy’s…
I am very uninspired today. Can’t seem to write anything despite all the ideas I had over the weekend or the piles of inspiration I have in front of me. So I give you this:
I have seen Elvis Costello live twice, both times at Bumbershoot. The first time was in 1996 when he played the final show of his tour after reuniting with The Attractions and it was even a separate ticket (but it included access to the Bumbershoot festival that day). They played for two hours and, well, I’ll probably…
Last weekend I was given tickets to attend Bumbershoot as my Father’s Day gift. I had a great time and was able to take August and Dela on Saturday then Kyle and I went on Monday. Sunday was all me, and it was fantastic. I have a lot to write about, as well as a…
I don’t remember the first time I heard Slint. If I remember correctly a band member (I used to be a musician a couple decades ago) of mine brought Tweez, Slint’s first album, to practice and we listened to it as a band. Practice in those days was much looser, with Sunday afternoons spent listening…
This is a bit of a long post. You can skip to the last three paragraphs if you want to get to the point of the whole thing. I think I’ve seen The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 8 times. The more I see the band and listen to their music the more they become one of my…
Back in the early-mid 1970s a group of young punks formed a band in London. It went nowhere, but the individual members would go on to form such bands as The Clash, The Damned and Generation X. Two of the members would reunite years later – bassist Tony James and guitarist Mick Jones. They formed…
Everybody is talking about how “Weird Al” Yankovic has the number one album with Mandatory Fun. It’s not only his first number one album, it debuted in that position, and it is the first comedy album to occupy that spot since 1963. It’s about time. But I don’t want to highlight any of that. Instead…
Last week I started to go a bit more in-depth about my relationship with the band Devo. One of the two tattoos I have is inspired by the band as is the name of this blog. Wednesday night the band was in town for their Hardcore Devo Tour. There were only 10 stops on this…
I have touched upon my relationship with the band Devo before, and I guess it is time to further explore this a bit more. My initial introduction to the band was a library copy of the 1981 LP New Traditionalists. Sure I had heard “Whip It” on the radio, but it wasn’t until the summer of…