I see from pals on facebook that the Makeup just did a not-publicized reunion gig at tiny little Comet Ping Pong in DC tonight. Kid Congo(DC resident and former member of Gun Club, Bad Seeds, & Cramps) was doing garage oldies with Fugazi's Brendan Canty on drums. I was watching the Orioles beat the Nationals in baseball. Oh well.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, i almost went up there just for kid congo! welp
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/05/21/photos-the-make-up-and-kid-congo-powers-comet-ping-pong/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
For some reason this dude "clicked" for me recently in a way that he never did previously. NOU and The Make Up were kind of in the ether when I was in college, and I liked a couple Make Up songs but was mostly never that into them.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Comet is really near where my folks live, wish I had been there. (Unless there's another Comet?)
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just the one Comet. He once kinda clicked for me but Chain & the Gang and Felt Letters, his current groups did not interest me at all when I saw them.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i stand by my bitchy opening one-two up there
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
his book last year -- 'supernatural strategies for making a rock 'n' roll group' -- is the best use of seance since 'the changing light at sandover'
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 15 April 2013 13:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
ah thx fro reminding me been meaning to read that
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 16:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
looks good, think I will order
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 April 2013 16:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
do yourself a favor
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43510/rock-n-roll-a-manifesto-in-his-new-book-ian/
excerpt, I think
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
dan osborn's cover design is perfect
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 18:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
that excerpt is fantastic, and also a great explanation of one of the things that I think is so hard and so elusive and also just crazy about being a successful musician or artist -- you almost have to have this incredible discipline, really, about maintaining a persona/lifestyle apperance/attitude/style.
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
"You think of disco and electro-funk and funk music as being obsessed with space travel. Garage rock—they talk, maybe, about cars, but never boats. In gospel music they talk about the train. Psychedelic bands talk about planes. I’d say garage rock is usually very land-based."
This is so awesome.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
the whole book is awesome. cannot recommend it highly enough
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
well, I ordered it, even paid the extra $4 to get it straight from akashic (sort of demonstrates the market power of amazon that they can undercut even the publisher's direct sales).
― charlie 4chan, internet detective (Hurting 2), Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:22 (1 month ago) Permalink