ARRRH - Thank ye Steve "I'll Send Your Soul To Davy Jones" Pang for this shanty from scurvy lads, ALESTORM!
November 14, 2009
November 04, 2009
April 07, 2009
Girl To Girilla Hit Beef-Stock 09
Some friends of ours (you know who you are) invited the Rev and the Girl To Gorilla Crew to play a great event near Woodstock called Beef -Stock - it was awesome and some cat even reviewed the whole show!
"... Girl to Gorilla. With their two guitars, violin and rhythm section, they added a roaring, anthemic Irish edge to their janglerock, the violin in particular a plus, bringing an unexpectedly eerie edge to the upbeat catchiness of the songs. A darkly backbeat-driven number possibly titled Start All Over Again was an early highlight...."
That song would be called "Next Weekend" and that would be a Viola - not a violin - don't make that mistake around Amalia our one girl string section. Nice analogy though! Thanks to all especially the Black Death boys!
December 21, 2008
November 18, 2007
Every body wants some, I want some too...
In 1984 due to a betrayal that put ho's before bros, I thought I had missed my last chance to see the one, the only Van Fucking Halen in concert. The other night I got the opportunity to redeem the dream.
First acknowledgments and thanks:
Thanks to my friend Kevin who turned me on to VH and apologies that I didn't go to see them with him the first time he had asked me a couple of weeks or so back. What was I thinking? Thanks to my friend Jon who scored the tickets to the Madison Square Garden show. I'm actually afraid to introduce the two of them because they may try to out "Halen" fan one another.
So no complaints on the show but here's the whole story.
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August 04, 2007
Corn Mo' da MAn
This is fucking awesome - Acordian crooner Corn Mo doing a cover of Hocus Pocus by Focus! This brings me back to smoking weed on the stairs of my school with the bad kids.
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April 30, 2007
Girl to Gorilla ROCK!
So the Rev.'s band (Girl to Gorilla) had a spectacular night at Arlene's Grocery. Great crowd and for once, the Rev (the most self-critical member of G2G) was a happy camper after the show. We sounded good even if we DID ham it up some as our singer's paramour, the wonderful Jessica, was videotaping us. I can't wait to see that. Video-taping yourself is fun because when you watch it's all like - holy shit I make that same stupid guitar face on that same chorus every-time! Ugh!
The guy before us was an acoustic act. Not just an acoustic act but an act that played 80's covers. He did a cover of Su-Sudeo by Phil Collins that almost lost us the few early arrivers we had there. It's not that he was bad - just the choice of songs he decided on was questionable and not in the ironic hipster fashion.
Also just a comment on the band after us. First of all they sounded like one of those bands that should be playing behind a commercial for the OC. Blaaaaaaannnnnd. Second of all, the wannabe twink singer talked ALL KINDS OF SHIT about us while we were on stage, right next to a cluster of our friends who of course overheard and then told us. Hey, the Rev has been known to drop a snarky remark or two at times (check the G2G blog on our MySpace page) about a band on our bill but then this fop comes up to me afterward, makes a point to shake my hand and then say "duuuude, awesome set!" What a dick! Anyway - the honorable Judy McGuire who is always supportive and came to the show thinks I'm over reacting to this. To quote she said, "Why does being in a band make [the Rev.] act like a 15 year old?" My answer - that's why I do it, because it's actually good to feel like a 15 year old sometimes. Long Live Rock!
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