Thursday, August 17, 2006

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Open-taping is allowed for the current solo tour. So, thaaaaaaaaaank you for the guy who did exactly that.

Ian Gillan
2006/08/16
Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY, USA

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Ian's views on taping and such:

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Zappa plays Zappa
2006/05/19
Johanneshov, Stockholm, Sweden

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The Embarrassment

99% of MySpace websites looks like crap, 99.99% of the actual content is total crap. But in some cases the design is crap, but the content is highly enjoyable. Visit revived New Wave outfit The Embarrassment spot on the web and crank up the music. They are on the road again, just three dates so far.

MP3: The Embarrassment - Death Travels West

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» The Wichita Eagle reports (some John Cale content)

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Nat Finkelstein and David Dalton have teamed up to create a book about one the Factory superstars, Edie Sedgwick. There she is, dead center, surrounded by the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga.

Edie and the Velvets

Edie book Cover

EDIEFACTORYGIRL
Nat Finkelstein & David Dalton
HARDCOVER, 7x10 in., 160 pages, 100 Color and B&W Photos OCTOBER 2006
Distribution by powerHouse Books
Promotion on VH1, VH1.com, VH1 Classic & The VH1 Radio Network

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I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard

Glide Magazine has a review of I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds:

Depressing songs don't always need overtly depressing lyrics (hence the absence of lyrics in this book) since the horror can come from various musical missteps. . . One of the most egregious is the brain concussion modulation, or BCM.
BCMs are found near the end of practically every 1990s power love ballad sung by the Big Three: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston," each of whom has a song in the book. It makes me happy to learn that someone actually coined a phrase to describe the horrible, yodeling, syllable-splitting, emotionally fervid, intensity tantrum, or HYSSEFIT, because my acronym would have been just too long.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2006/07/10
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Zappa plays Zappa
2006/06/16
Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Canada

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