Thursday, May 10, 2007


"...And I'd been shifting gears all along my life
But I'm still the same underneath
This you surely knew..."
—"Life is a Pigstye" Morrisey


Moz at the Fillmore last night was a nice walk down memory lane. He sounded great but the backup band was a little flat for the first songs. looks like they were recruited from the Manchester Boys School. The bass player looked like a young Paul Simonon when they were allowed to let loose a bit and play. Perhaps it was the nostalgia overload, but it reminded me of highshool band when the first encore of "Please, please, please..." hit the end and the fellow playing the trumpet was lax and didn't add any life to the template instrumental ending of the song. Very straight.

There were some nice jam portions of the show where Moz was laying on the stage and letting the band just rip it up. "How Soon Is Now" ripped in after a slow piano ending of "auld lang sine" and the reason why there was a HUGE and i mean HUGE gong set up behind the drummer became very evident. Constantine was screaming in my ear and ripping at my western duds as the drummer beat the crap out of it. That was truly the highlite tune of the evening even though it's nothing short of a car commercial these days.

Truly eerie was the fact that i put my iPod on Artist shuffle for the first time in months yesterday and the first song it unearths is a Johnny Marr and the Healers tune, "Down On The Corner". How freakin' weird is that. It was in the air.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

"I am a world's forgotten boy the one who searches and destroys..."
— "Search And Destroy" Iggy and the Stooges

What can i say? I'm easily distracted and i neglect certain things cause i got so much going on in my head that sometimes i forget that i even have a blog.

Last night i was privy to a poster coloring contest put on by my pal Lindsay Kuhn of SwampCo fame. He printed up some black and whites of the Stooges poster he did for LiveNation and invited hipsters to come down, pay $30 and color them in with whatever they could find, with proceeds benefitting the Bennet Skatepark build in our hometown of Denver. It was all for the children! I'm a sucker for markers so i did a little ditty on the puter the night before and spray mounted it to the poster and colored and shaded and drank a beer or 2 to pass the time. Final product (to the left), netted me 2 tixies to the Iggy and the Stooges show, a new Swamp Koozie, a signed and numbered Kuhn version of the poster, some other Swamp swag and a $20 bar tab. Ain't to bad for 30 bucks. The crew from the 3Kings Tavern hosted and judged. Next weeks poster (Thrusday night) is the Decemberists.

All this fun art gets a fella amped up. Accolades about the SAF press kit that i made up for the September show at the 3Kings/Phoenix Gallery, most popular poster for the night, Constatine slurring in my ear after too much whiskey that he wanted to kill me and that he loves me, meeting Simon the funk and soul brotha who was DJing and the Rev. Jim having Pinstripe Red on tap. What a sweet night!

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