a bunch of local indie music. -Supporting the fine arts of local music. And W H A T - A - P L A C E - T O - L I V E - to do JUST THAT!
As of 2/07, I've begun sharing some show photos at http://public.fotki.com/templesofgrey , so please check them out!
..This video BELOW is from a recent Cat's Cradle show. Wil Donegan, Jon Mackey, and Casey Trela. What IS it about Wil's songs that are SO MESMERIZING?!?!!
Wil Donegan and The Apologies (23) “Question/ Hold On Loosely"
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I'd like to meet:
Okay, so I'm not wanting to meet Jason Adamo in the shower. This section was just a good place to put text for an awesome video that he shot. He's at http://www.myspace.com/jasonadamo .
Oh, here's the text with his vid:
" Jason records his vocal part (on a whim) in producer Derek Olds shower stall while John Briggs records his Rhodes Piano part down the hall in the living room! "
Music:
2007 UPDATE NOTE: agh, this is pathetically out of date! [wink] I'd take it down, but i'm a pack-rat.
4/06 -Okay, (ONLY as of 4/06 --) here are a FEW of the newer ones: ......
Mason Brothers, Sweater Weather, Tain Collins, North Elementary, Push to Talk, ilya, Teenage Prayers, Dear Kerosene ( this stuff is really OLD now! I'll update one day. ) NEWer ADDITIONS, circa 11/05: ...... Bain Mattox, Django Haskins, The Old Ceremony, Endless Mic, King Elementary, Thousands of One, Mood Cultivation Project, Divine MAGgees, Grant Withington, Classic Case, The Dears, O.A.R., fin fang foom, Campbell, Watching a Trainwreck in Slow Motion, DIRAC, TheFilms.
LONG-TIME FAVS: ........ Jump, The Never, Lost in the Trees, Anousheh Khalili, Woodwork Roadshow, Ari Picker, TrekkyRecords groups, Menage, Lumisnescent Orchestrii, Oranjesta, Raisinhill, The Keep, The Never's ANTARCTICA, Vibrant Green, Washington Lane, Noah Smith (but he's ephemeral as a solo act), Equinox, Arrogance, Big Pretty and the Red Rockets, Boxbomb, Partners in Crime, HeartbreakATLANTIS, 100Yorktown, Buckethead, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello. ....Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Cream, Derek&theDominos, Elton John, Johnny Rivers, Roy Orbison, early Billy Joel, Beatles, Queen, Alan Parsons Project, James Gang, Yes, Moody Blues, Mountain, ELO, E-I-E-I-O (kiddin. wondring if yur still readin). .....Ryan Cavanaugh, Big Fat Gap, Bluegrass Experience, Tony Williamson, Willie Nelson. .....Coldplay, Radiohead, JUMP, Nickel Creek, Oculus, U2, Weezer, Sarah Brightman, Sting, Norah Jones, Alicia Keyes, ....Dave Brubeck, Arturo Sandoval, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dexter Gordan, Stanley Turrentine, Jean-Luc Ponty, Earl Klugh, Billy Childs, Doc Severinsen, Ryan Cavanaugh again, Spyro Gyra, Santana, Pat Methany, Nightnoise, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Bill Evans (as in BillEvansTrio -the pianist. Although Bill Evans the saxaphonist has my number as well), Bond. ......Honorable mention goes to Artie who just finished doing time in the pen for killing a rabid racoon last year. ..... Jazz, R&B, classical, 60's/70's/80's. ... Bunches of others!
I love shows when you feel, hanging on to the dregs of the night, that you're among the closest friends who get to hang out with musicians who are comfortable enough to drop the show facade and be themselves. -Like getting to hang out during a rehearsal. This was the last Last LAST encore we could cajole out of John Dixon's TEN PENNY this night (3/10/08). -Worth the price of admission for this alone.Below is an outstanding video from Annuals I'd seen a month or so ago. When they posted it 5/08 on their page, it reminded me to follow suit.
"Sore"
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Movies:
Some out-of-the-mainstream favorites ("movie LITE") are:
... ...Silverado (great cast!)
... ...Year of the Comet
... ... Last of the Dogmen
... ... Joe VS The Volcano (fab music score by Georges DeLerue). Also... ...Snow Falling on Cedars (espec. for images & music score!)
... ... Holes
... ... ... uh... (will add more when I think of them)
Television:
...Oh, that big, black, electronic box in the corner of our comfy room. Well, sometimes The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report, ...and traditional Sunday morning news shows (the unfunny ones) like This Week With George S., Face the Nation, etc.. ........FROM THE PAST: Twin Peaks, Key West, Northern Exposure (early years), Picket Fences, Salvage One, Max Headroom, Dangermouse.
Heroes:
OOOkay... My heroes are the low-wage working class, who do, for the lowest pay and the worst conditions, jobs no one could pay me ENOUGH to do. -The service industry people who often are treated like second-class citizens. ("What? You want to be PAID to be out sick?! Why, you make less than $10/hr: you don't GET benefits.") Maybe it's the "Mon-Fri, air-conditioned, take-the-afternoon-off-cause-it's-so-nice, 4-day-weekend-for-a-holiday" office job that should get $10/hr. And the person who leaves a manual-labor job at 5pm, exhausted, hustling to get to their second job as a janitor til 10pm, when they get to go home to see their families: maybe that should bring in the $70-$120k a year. -Skilled trades people, who are the backbones of our infrastuctures both publicly and in our homes, who have bucked the elitist push that says you're a failure if you don't go to college & grad school, that you might be looked at as inferior. ("Shazamm, give her a soapbox; she's on a ROLL!")
