I have been moonlighting as the East Coast Concert Reviewer(that's Mr. East Coast Concert Reviewer to you,thank you very much)for a music based website called mxdwn.com I have decided from time to time to link to my reviews on that site, so that you can check them out and review them.
That's right, I want you to review my reviews. Let's dissect each others lives, shall we? Let's peek into what we do outside of this carefree blogosphere. Maybe some of you are miniature pony enthusiasts, or are into cuddle parties or Magic the Gathering...who knows. But I want us to know each other better. And I'm not talking to you Layla, Mr. Isorski or Mr. Coleman. I feel like I've known you three for years. I'm talking to my silent Ontario, Wisconsin, Oregon and Georgia fans. Lurkers...I see you....I know you are there....I will not bite...show me the goods.
Here is a link to my latest review of the Buckethead show I saw in Philadelphia recently. Please check out the rest of mxdwn.com as well. There are some great articles on there.
www.mxdwn.com/2009/07/25/reviews/show-reviews/in-concert-buckethead-tla-philadelphia-pa-may-31-2009/
thanks, Seano
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Strange Coincidence
WoW! This new video from the upcoming Beatles Rock Band video game was released today....which also happens to be my birthday!!!!
Am I going to start my gaming life as a 40-Something? I'll take this as a present from my generous readers, thank you, you shouldn't have.
Am I going to start my gaming life as a 40-Something? I'll take this as a present from my generous readers, thank you, you shouldn't have.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
100 bands I Have Seen Live
I saw this "quiz" on Facebook and thought I'd bring it here. Can you list 100 bands you have seen live? Well of course I can. No doubling up, no cover bands, no dance troupes or Up With People. BANDS. They don't have to be major label, but they have to at least have a drum set(with drummer). A great memory builder! Fun for the whole family! " Daddy, who is GWAR? " Alrightythen....heres my list:
1)The Police
2)The Fixx
3)Flock of Seagulls
4)Sammy Hagar
5)Van Halen
6)David Lee Roth
7)Rush
8)Fastway
9)Tesla
10)Roger Waters
11)Pink Floyd
12)Sonic Youth
13)U2
14)Meat Puppets
15)Stevie Ray Vaughan
16)Fabulous Thunderbirds
17)Johnny Cash
18)Buddy Guy
19)Leon Russell
20)Psychedelic Furs
21)The Alarm
22)Rollins Band
23)Phish
24)Santana
25)Crosby,Stills and Nash
26)The Allman Bros.
27)The Grateful Dead
28)10000 Maniacs
29)Bob Dylan
30)Johnny Winter
31)Alice In Chains
32)NIN
33)Ministry
34)Red Hot Chili Peppers
35)Mick Taylor
36)Spin Doctors
37)Cowboy Junkies
38)Fugazi
39)Bad Brains
40)Nirvana
41)Soundgarden
42)Tad
43)Monster Magnet
44)Pearl Jam
45)Robert Plant
46)Weezer
47)The Toadies
48)Hole
49)Eric Clapton
50)Tom Petty
51)Lynyrd Skynyrd
52)Neil Young
53)Jewel
54)Foo Fighters
56)Black Sabbath
57)Queens Of The Stone Age
58)Rolling Stones
59)Black Crowes
60)Blues Traveler
61)Aerosmith
62)Motley Crue
63)Guns N Roses
64)Faith No More
At Woodstock '94
65)Traffic
66)Peter Gabriel
67)Candlebox
68)Flaming Lips
69)Jackyl
70)Violent Femmes
71)Joe Cocker
72)Blind Melon
73)Primus
74)Porno For Pyros
At Woodstock '99
75)Alanis Morrissette
76)Big Sugar
77)Buckcherry
78)Bruce Hornsby
79)Collective Soul
80)George Clinton
81)James Brown
82)Jamiroquai
83)Jeff beck
84)John Entwistle
85)Megadeth
86)moe
87)Los Lobos
88)Mike Ness
89)The Tragically Hip
90)Our Lady Peace
At the first four Lollapaloozas 91-94
91)Siouxie and the Banshees
92)Body Count
93)Living Colour
94)Fishbone
95)Jesus and Mary Chain
96)Dinosaur Jr.
97)Babes In Toyland
98)Tool
99)Rage Against the Machine
100)Smashing Pumpkins
Wait! Theres more..
More Lollapalooza
101)Beastie Boys
102)The Verve
103)Guided By Voices
104)L7
105)Cypress Hill
106)Ramones
108)Rancid
109)Screaming Trees
110)Cheap Trick
111)Motorhead
112)Steve Earle
113)Audioslave
114)Incubus
115)Jurassic 5
117)The Donnas
118)The Distillers
119)Burning Brides
at ACL festival 2005
120)Widespread Panic
121)Roky Erikson
122)Robert Randolph and the Family Band
123)Coldplay
124)Bob Mould
125)Lucinda Williams
126)John Prine
127)Built to Spill
128) Govt. Mule
129)Doves
130)Drive By Truckers
131)Rilo Kiley
132)Spoon
134)Mofro
135)Aqualung
136)John Butler Trio
137)Mofro
138)The Frames
139)Grady
At ACL Festival 2007
140)My Morning Jacket
141)Joss Stone
142)Ghostland Observatory
143)The National
144)LCD Soundsystem
145)Bela Fleck
146)Yo La Tengo
147)Devotchka
148)Midlake
149)Rose Hill Drive
150)Clutch
151)Soulfly
152)Reverend Horton Heat
153)The Who
154)Paul McCartney
155)Heaven and Hell
156)Black Label Society
157)Slipknot
158)Chris Cornell
159)Iron and Wine
160)Calexico
161)The Cult
162)The White Stripes
163)The Stooges
164)Radiohead
165)Stone Temple Pilots
166)GWAR
167)Nashville Pussy
168)Biohazard
169)Bonnie Prince Billy
170)Yeah Yeah Yeahs
171)Mark Lanegan
172)Joni Mitchell
173)REM
174)Lou Reed
175)Mike Watt
176)Le Tigre
177)Beck
178)Ben Folds Five
179)Brant Bjork and the Bros.
180)Buckethead
181)Mastodon
182)Iron Maiden
183)Duran Duran
184)Ben Harper
185)Sum-41
186)Back Door Slam
187)Chuck Berry
188)Jerry Lee Lewis
189)Aretha Franklin
190)Bruce Springsteen
191)John Mellencamp
192)Yes
193)Sheryl Crow
194)Ani diFranco
195)Tortoise
196)Medeski,Martin and Wood
197)Rusted Root
198)Electric Six
199)The Parlor Mob
200)The Chesterfield Kings
201)Butch Walker
202)Wilco, how the hell could I forget Wilco.
I'm exhausted. What a self important list. But I love lists! I'm sure there's more I forgot about. But you really don't care. What a live life I've had.
I have never seen David Bowie,Jimmy Page or John Fogerty. I almost saw the Clash open for the Who in Buffalo in 1982, but I got punished and could not go. The Black Crowes cancelled their Buffalo show with Jimmy Page...of course I had tickets. Those are my regrets. I saw Nirvana's last American concert in Seattle,1994. I did meet Ray Manzarek, but he wasn't really performing. I saw Neil Young,The Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd and Wilco from the front row. The worst seats I ever had were for the Paul McCartney tour which I saw in Miami in 1990.My nose is still bleeding. We were in the last row of the highest tier in The Orange Bowl.
Let's hear some stories fans and fellow bloggers!
Wanna try your own?
1)The Police
2)The Fixx
3)Flock of Seagulls
4)Sammy Hagar
5)Van Halen
6)David Lee Roth
7)Rush
8)Fastway
9)Tesla
10)Roger Waters
11)Pink Floyd
12)Sonic Youth
13)U2
14)Meat Puppets
15)Stevie Ray Vaughan
16)Fabulous Thunderbirds
17)Johnny Cash
18)Buddy Guy
19)Leon Russell
20)Psychedelic Furs
21)The Alarm
22)Rollins Band
23)Phish
24)Santana
25)Crosby,Stills and Nash
26)The Allman Bros.
27)The Grateful Dead
28)10000 Maniacs
29)Bob Dylan
30)Johnny Winter
31)Alice In Chains
32)NIN
33)Ministry
34)Red Hot Chili Peppers
35)Mick Taylor
36)Spin Doctors
37)Cowboy Junkies
38)Fugazi
39)Bad Brains
40)Nirvana
41)Soundgarden
42)Tad
43)Monster Magnet
44)Pearl Jam
45)Robert Plant
46)Weezer
47)The Toadies
48)Hole
49)Eric Clapton
50)Tom Petty
51)Lynyrd Skynyrd
52)Neil Young
53)Jewel
54)Foo Fighters
56)Black Sabbath
57)Queens Of The Stone Age
58)Rolling Stones
59)Black Crowes
60)Blues Traveler
61)Aerosmith
62)Motley Crue
63)Guns N Roses
64)Faith No More
At Woodstock '94
65)Traffic
66)Peter Gabriel
67)Candlebox
68)Flaming Lips
69)Jackyl
70)Violent Femmes
71)Joe Cocker
72)Blind Melon
73)Primus
74)Porno For Pyros
At Woodstock '99
75)Alanis Morrissette
76)Big Sugar
77)Buckcherry
78)Bruce Hornsby
79)Collective Soul
80)George Clinton
81)James Brown
82)Jamiroquai
83)Jeff beck
84)John Entwistle
85)Megadeth
86)moe
87)Los Lobos
88)Mike Ness
89)The Tragically Hip
90)Our Lady Peace
At the first four Lollapaloozas 91-94
91)Siouxie and the Banshees
92)Body Count
93)Living Colour
94)Fishbone
95)Jesus and Mary Chain
96)Dinosaur Jr.
97)Babes In Toyland
98)Tool
99)Rage Against the Machine
100)Smashing Pumpkins
Wait! Theres more..
More Lollapalooza
101)Beastie Boys
102)The Verve
103)Guided By Voices
104)L7
105)Cypress Hill
106)Ramones
108)Rancid
109)Screaming Trees
110)Cheap Trick
111)Motorhead
112)Steve Earle
113)Audioslave
114)Incubus
115)Jurassic 5
117)The Donnas
118)The Distillers
119)Burning Brides
at ACL festival 2005
120)Widespread Panic
121)Roky Erikson
122)Robert Randolph and the Family Band
123)Coldplay
124)Bob Mould
125)Lucinda Williams
126)John Prine
127)Built to Spill
128) Govt. Mule
129)Doves
130)Drive By Truckers
131)Rilo Kiley
132)Spoon
134)Mofro
135)Aqualung
136)John Butler Trio
137)Mofro
138)The Frames
139)Grady
At ACL Festival 2007
140)My Morning Jacket
141)Joss Stone
142)Ghostland Observatory
143)The National
144)LCD Soundsystem
145)Bela Fleck
146)Yo La Tengo
147)Devotchka
148)Midlake
149)Rose Hill Drive
150)Clutch
151)Soulfly
152)Reverend Horton Heat
153)The Who
154)Paul McCartney
155)Heaven and Hell
156)Black Label Society
157)Slipknot
158)Chris Cornell
159)Iron and Wine
160)Calexico
161)The Cult
162)The White Stripes
163)The Stooges
164)Radiohead
165)Stone Temple Pilots
166)GWAR
167)Nashville Pussy
168)Biohazard
169)Bonnie Prince Billy
170)Yeah Yeah Yeahs
171)Mark Lanegan
172)Joni Mitchell
173)REM
174)Lou Reed
175)Mike Watt
176)Le Tigre
177)Beck
178)Ben Folds Five
179)Brant Bjork and the Bros.
180)Buckethead
181)Mastodon
182)Iron Maiden
183)Duran Duran
184)Ben Harper
185)Sum-41
186)Back Door Slam
187)Chuck Berry
188)Jerry Lee Lewis
189)Aretha Franklin
190)Bruce Springsteen
191)John Mellencamp
192)Yes
193)Sheryl Crow
194)Ani diFranco
195)Tortoise
196)Medeski,Martin and Wood
197)Rusted Root
198)Electric Six
199)The Parlor Mob
200)The Chesterfield Kings
201)Butch Walker
202)Wilco, how the hell could I forget Wilco.
I'm exhausted. What a self important list. But I love lists! I'm sure there's more I forgot about. But you really don't care. What a live life I've had.
I have never seen David Bowie,Jimmy Page or John Fogerty. I almost saw the Clash open for the Who in Buffalo in 1982, but I got punished and could not go. The Black Crowes cancelled their Buffalo show with Jimmy Page...of course I had tickets. Those are my regrets. I saw Nirvana's last American concert in Seattle,1994. I did meet Ray Manzarek, but he wasn't really performing. I saw Neil Young,The Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd and Wilco from the front row. The worst seats I ever had were for the Paul McCartney tour which I saw in Miami in 1990.My nose is still bleeding. We were in the last row of the highest tier in The Orange Bowl.
Let's hear some stories fans and fellow bloggers!
Wanna try your own?
Monday, August 03, 2009
Positive/Negative
My wife says I'm Mr. Negative. I say I'm Mr. glass-half-empty, but I drank the first half and it was grain alcohol or absynthe. It really depends on the day..the music news headlines, if somebody is texting while driving in the fast lane in front of me..or...you know, normal every day piss me off stuff. So I never know what I'm gonna get. But I've never been in a physical altercation in my life(except for that time my Dad chased me around the front yard after my killer toga party), never been in a real time shouting match, hell I never even got detention or a speeding ticket.
So where does it come from? This so called "negativity"
.
Is it anger or just good old frustration or NEITHER....I mean this place is called CIRCLE OF FITS!! But is my "negativity" turning away readers? Hell I just want to talk to more people whether you agree with me here or not.
I am an artist, lazy, tri-polar... sometimes suffering...but not angry, I used to write lyrics that one would deem angry, but it was the 90s and it was a real blood boiling , frantic nomadic-flannel frocked- find myself time in my life. I might still be on that journey a decade and a half later.
I used to think that I had taken so many hard hits in my 20s that I was entitled to feel angry...but is that the origin? No.
I had a great childhood..two great parents back in the day. They can't stand each other now, but were caring, focused parents who allowed for creative expression, were not overbearing, didn't force us into clubs or over activity or sports and maybe gave us too MUCH freedom BACK THEN. Is my childhood the origin? How could it be? Nothing bad really happened (except for the time my friend Brian cracked his head open in my yard and I ran away after watching his arterial spray cover my kitchen floor as my MOM held a towel over it.) I assume Brian is fine, now. He was 7 then.
No, I don't believe it. I don't think I'm negative. Here's what I think:
I prefer to think of myself as a critic...a life long critic of everything from fashion choices,relationship choices, lifestyle choices, religious choices to art,poetry,humor, music and film.
I am a critic not because I am an expert or all white bread and bourgeois ..I am a critic because of a blurry concoction of MY OWN bad choices, my membership in a wild array of different groups of peers during formative years and my tight grip on common sense after years of never seeing the value of it. And I love me some music and some writing! It might be as delicately simple as that.
If I am negative here as well as everywhere else..I guess its because I can hide behind this keyboard and continue to complain...err critique music, life and a life of music. As a matter of fact, it energizes me...it makes me feel POSITIVE.
I don't really know what I was trying to convey with this post...but I sure feel good now. Have a great day!
Tomorrow.... A list of Albums that really suck no matter what the critics say...
So where does it come from? This so called "negativity"
.
Is it anger or just good old frustration or NEITHER....I mean this place is called CIRCLE OF FITS!! But is my "negativity" turning away readers? Hell I just want to talk to more people whether you agree with me here or not.
I am an artist, lazy, tri-polar... sometimes suffering...but not angry, I used to write lyrics that one would deem angry, but it was the 90s and it was a real blood boiling , frantic nomadic-flannel frocked- find myself time in my life. I might still be on that journey a decade and a half later.
I used to think that I had taken so many hard hits in my 20s that I was entitled to feel angry...but is that the origin? No.
I had a great childhood..two great parents back in the day. They can't stand each other now, but were caring, focused parents who allowed for creative expression, were not overbearing, didn't force us into clubs or over activity or sports and maybe gave us too MUCH freedom BACK THEN. Is my childhood the origin? How could it be? Nothing bad really happened (except for the time my friend Brian cracked his head open in my yard and I ran away after watching his arterial spray cover my kitchen floor as my MOM held a towel over it.) I assume Brian is fine, now. He was 7 then.
No, I don't believe it. I don't think I'm negative. Here's what I think:
I prefer to think of myself as a critic...a life long critic of everything from fashion choices,relationship choices, lifestyle choices, religious choices to art,poetry,humor, music and film.
I am a critic not because I am an expert or all white bread and bourgeois ..I am a critic because of a blurry concoction of MY OWN bad choices, my membership in a wild array of different groups of peers during formative years and my tight grip on common sense after years of never seeing the value of it. And I love me some music and some writing! It might be as delicately simple as that.
If I am negative here as well as everywhere else..I guess its because I can hide behind this keyboard and continue to complain...err critique music, life and a life of music. As a matter of fact, it energizes me...it makes me feel POSITIVE.
I don't really know what I was trying to convey with this post...but I sure feel good now. Have a great day!
Tomorrow.... A list of Albums that really suck no matter what the critics say...
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Sunny Sunday Music
Yes, its a bright one in the suburbs today. For some sarcastic reason all I can think of is Mark Lanegan and how a storm follows him wherever he may be. Its hard to keep track of one of my very favorite vocalists, but judging from this new version (2007) of his great song Kingdom of Rain (1994)by a band called the Soulsavers, he remains elusive,busy and buried in mystery. He sings on their version because it would be foolish to have anyone else get that low.
You might want to go to the circus,have a barbeque, a jacuzzi orgy, or watch a Peter Sellers movie before watching this on a bright sunny day....its one brilliant downer, beautifully done.
You might want to go to the circus,have a barbeque, a jacuzzi orgy, or watch a Peter Sellers movie before watching this on a bright sunny day....its one brilliant downer, beautifully done.
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