I went to a Royal Crown Revue show, in like '95. In a suit. And I danced. There, I said it.
If we foster a supportive, nuturing environment, I'm sure a few of you can come forward with Swing Revival stories.
― andy --, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
andy, if you go to golden gate park right behind the DeYoung on Sunday afternoons, they have free public swing dancing lessons (lots of 40-50 somethings).
The Lounge revival was much better IMO.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
There is NO defense for this. The 50's Revival of the Early 70's (ShaNaNa, T. Rex, Bowie, etc.) was fresh and irreverant and fun... this mid-90's debacle was completely reverant, and a good many ex-punks got caught up in the maelstrom.
Thanks, Gygax, for that handy tip.
― andy --, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
i saw royal crown revue on new year's eve 1999. not because i had any interest in seeing them, but just cuz i was standing there and they were the entertainment.
― Blossom in Paris (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Blossom in Paris (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, another one: I saw this piece of shit AT THE THEATER (It was a date, though, and she wanted to see it.) It sucked. "Swing Heil!" they yelled at the stormtroopers as they were hauled off.
― andy --, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM!
TS: Cherry Poppin' Daddies vs. Combustible Edison
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Andy, I use a cigarette case so as not to ruin the line of my jacket and if I'm wearing suspenders it's cause I'm also wearing a vest.
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Swing-dancing is classic and all the girls who mixed flapper, greaser and swing/WWII fashion were also very classic.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
p.s. 70s bowie was a 50s revivalist?!?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/94697/royalcrownrevue?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1
(I had no use for the lounge revival at all though. Even Esquivel!)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Since youth culture has traditionally been about pissing off previous generations, there's a good chance this will happen yet again. *Yawn* At least to you. ;-)
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link
HONOUR THE (GUN)FIRE!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
:-(
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Glam-era stuff was all about 50s revivalism (see: Bowie-as-Ziggy's cover of "Round and Round" by Chuck Berry, T. Rex's success with a revamped rockabilly/blues approach in the modern day, Roxy Music as simultaneous 30s/50s/2001 fusion, etc. etc.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Alvin Stardust to thread!
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
xp
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
COLLEGE.
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
What was Kid Creole reviving with his Coconuts? I don't remember.
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link
I also saw Swing Kids in the theater w/my friend Eric because we were big into bad movies--saw Cop and a Half twice!
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Sweet kinda had a 50's thing going... it was pretty powerpoppy but there were saxes and a sort of Bo Diddly lyricism going on.
― andy --, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BIG RUDE JAKE?
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Music: Feh, esp. the ex-punker vocalists who usually just didn't have the requisite chops (or anti-chops) and always sounded hoarse.Dance: Nice. I guess.Clothes: Dee-licious.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Alvin Stardust goes way back, he was having hits in the UK pre Beatles as Shane Fenton, but hit paydirt in 73 with My coo-ca-choo. Which was classic rock and roll refracted through a glam prism much like other glam veterans Gary Glitter, Mud and Wizzard were doing.
His son is Adam F, hip hop/drum n bass producer who's worked with Missy Elliot, De La Soul and LL Cool J amongst others.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
-- f--gg (gffcnn...), March 23rd, 2005.
nerdfuck?
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005C5N.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Specifically, Mick's ace cover of "Love Me Tender"
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Is it remotely possible that Sha Na Na might have been good?
>What was Kid Creole reviving with his Coconuts? I don't remember<
All kindsa stuff. But those Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Cory Daye albums revived swing WAY better than the swing revival did.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Right, again, they were *influenced* by certain *aspects* of '50s music, just like most of the other glam stuff named here. But (unlike Sha Na Na or the Stray Cats, say), no way would they ever be mistaken for a '50s band. (Suzi Quatro actually had rockabillified moments that I'd say sounded more '50s than the Sweet ever did, when you get down to it. And to my knowledge, they never did anything as blatantly '50s as, say, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen. Though their high-register squealing -- just like Sparks and even the Bee Gees I guess -- maybe harked back to a certain Lou Christie/Frankie Valli tradition.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
when eg mclaren was running his shop as a shrine to teds (eg b4 it became SEX) no one much thought to note the idea crossed into glam, but part of the reason may be that in the UK at that time it wz hard to actually FIND and HEAR stuff from the 50s
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I vividly remember an episode of Talk of the Nation with Ray Suarez devoted to the swing/lounge revival, and the guy who wrote "Buckle Down Winsocki" back in the early 40s called in with instructions on how to make a good martini. He then said it was great how kids were getting into this music again, because for a while there, it seemed like popular music was all about shock tactics. He speculated on the process of forming a rock band: "How can we get ourselves attention, oh, I know, let's look in the dictionary and name ourselves after some sort of tropical disease..." Suarez tried to cut him off, but he wasn't having any of it.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/e/esquivel~~~_exploring_101b.jpg
― yossarian, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link