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Culture vulture: Random shots
Submitted by Michael Deeds on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 1:57pm.
UPDATE: Late-breaking Aqua Net news! L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat and Bang Tango will play Aug. 18 at The Big Easy/Knitting Factory for $18. Oooooh boy. On a side note, I'll publish a triple-album review of new CDs from Def Leppard, Whitesnake and White Lion in Scene on Friday. Or just read it now here.
Sorry, kids, but Built To Spill’s concert May 24 at the Visual Arts Collective in Garden City is a 21-and-over show only. Instead, you could always travel to Monticello, N.Y., in September, where BTS will play its entire 1997 album "Perfect From Now On" at My Bloody Valentine's All Tomorrow's Parties Festival.
Another album already? Nine Inch Nails began giving away its new record, "The Slip," this morning.
Local teenage band Underscore was the overall winner of the Arts West Battle of the Bands at the Venue in Boise this past weekend.
Chick Corea’s jazz fusion band Return to Forever will tour this summer, but the closest they'll get to us is Salt Lake City on June 4.
Las Vegas’ Vegoose festival won’t be happening this year – if ever again.
David Morrell, author of ”First Blood,” will give a free talk -- "Book to Movie Night with David Morrell: The Making of Rambo” -- at 7:30 p.m. June 5 at Hotel 43, 981 Grove St., Boise.
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Any update
Any update on that five-letter Chicago band?
It's still a possibility
That's all I can say. But I promise that when I know more, you'll know more.
Downloaded.
Don't normally do that but I haven't heard him in a while and when one of my yard sale partners brought a DVD I got my curiousity piqued.
five-letter Chicago band
That five-letter Chicago band sure will be all around Boise in August:
Aug. 18 Salt Lake City
Aug. 21 Spokane
Aug. 23 Bend
Aug. 24 San Francisco
I'll be at the show in Bend...looking forward to it!
I'll be at the otherwise boring WI Fair watching the 7 letter 1!
Have a great party!
Perfect From Now On preview on Sept 12
Just read about my new dream vacation. On Sept 12 BTS will preview their track-for track Perfect From Now On cover at a club in Pioneerville, California. They are joined on the bill by Camper Van Beethoven, who will do the same with their masterpiece Key Lime Pie. I just wet myself.
No love for the hair?
Come on...this is Boise...Boise loves to imagine that time stopped 25 years ago and Bon Jovi still rules the charts!
That being said...these three bands total have maybe 10% of their original members. They are essentially tribute bands at this point and most don't have the musicians like the Axl Rose All-Star Band that attempted to cover Welcome to the Jungle in the Idaho Center a few years back.
The worst offender is Joe Leste throwing together a rag-tag band of misfits and trying to pass them off as Bang Tango. Bang Tango was one of the few bands that broke the mold in the late 80s and DIDN'T sound like everyone else. Without Kyle Kyle on bass...it is NOT Bang Tango, Joe.
All that being said...I'm sure I'll end up there.
Oh, and speaking of "tribute" bands...White Lion w/o Vito Bratta? I mean Whitesnake I can buy...Whitesnake has always been David Coverdale fronting good musicians, but White Lion w/o Vito is like the Stones w/o Keith.
Well, YEAH...
but more like 1973 hair.
I concur
"Oh, and speaking of "tribute" bands...White Lion w/o Vito Bratta? I mean Whitesnake I can buy...Whitesnake has always been David Coverdale fronting good musicians, but White Lion w/o Vito is like the Stones w/o Keith."
Yes, yes, yes! You and I think alike.