mike simonetti at 930 friday. cool!
― W i l l, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes! I'll be there. I was out of town when he played the backbar a couple months ago but heard he was great.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
from the Going out Gurus weekend nightlife agenda...
Sunday, Feb. 15
It's the Battle of the Go-Go Legends on a No-Work-Or-School-Monday holiday weekend! At Fur, Black President's Day finds Rare Essence (listen), still the Wickedest Band Alive, joining forces with the recently-reunited L!ssen Band and the Publicity Band for a party that goes until 3 a.m. The cover's $25. Meanwhile, out in Crystal City, the Positive Black Men Coalition is taking over the Hyatt Regency's ballroom for an NBA All-Star Game viewing party. When the hoops are over, it's time for Familiar Faces, which features former members of Rare Essence, E.U., Junkyard Band and Northeast Groovers, and Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. Michel Wright of WPGC is the host. Tickets are $30 in advance.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
xp well it'll be a lil ol reunion then because 69 and i and ladies will be there too
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds like a FAP!
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
as in FACE ACCIDENTS PARTY
x-post re go-go and GoGs
Yea, I read and like their list most of the time. I also got on the Take Out to the Go-go e-mail list. I get bombarded with go-go e-mails. Go-go is still everywhere. So Chris Richards, ex-Washington Post copy-aide and former Q and Not U member etc. and freelance writer for the W. Post, now lives in NYC but he came down over inaugural weekend and wrote up the Lissen reunion and also a Backyard show (where Genghus who was also on the Wire was a no-show) for the Post's post-rock blog where they post show reviews that do not always make it into newsprint. Then this week Sarah Godfrey reviewed Mambo Sauce (whom Chris had done a feature on a little while back) at the Left Bank (formerly Cities, I think, in Adams Morgan). I guess the Post wants to prove they give respect to go-go (or Chris and Sarah can review whatever they want and they are into go-go more these days). Fritz and Rhome on the GOG's list also highlighted other dj events I see.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Enjoy. Whirled music me may be over at Cucu Diamantes from Yerba Buena at Black Cat
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
would like to meet yall ilxdc folks. meet at the upstairs bar at midnight or something like that?
― W i l l, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
hadn't realized richards wrote for the post, kind of funny considering matt borlik wrote for the cp.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 February 2009 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Fellow one-time Q and Not Uer Borlik is at the Onion now doing their music listings (he's mainly an indie-rock only guy). Richards has done lots of freelance writing about rock, rap, pop and more for the Post and also has a nice bloghttp://summerbleeding.blogspot.com/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, borlik's on another board i'm on. actually the first time i realized the old q and not u practice space was on the street i grew up on was a few years back when i saw him in a 7-11 in columbia heights, i'd recognized him as just being another person from silver spring. i asked him about it and he mentioned he'd been in q and not u and their space had been on thayer avenue, and it all came together at that point.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Will I don't think the upstairs bar will be open on Friday but I'm down for meeting up.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
aw that sounds fun, good deal. is there any reason to buy tickets to this early, or will things be cool if we just roll up night of?
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't imagine it will sell out.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
def can't meet at a bar that isn't actively selling booze! so, what's a smart way to arrange this?
― W i l l, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone attach a rose to your lapel
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
smart, and timely
― W i l l, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I will be going by the name "Suggest Ban"
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Will, the rest of us know each other so you're going to have to wear the weird hat or whatever.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
fair enough
― W i l l, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Some nice old-school hiphop faves on the Russ Parr 8 a.m. "Wrong song' segment on the radio this morning--"That's the Joint" "Big Beat" But I just forgot who he had dj'ing. Doh!
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
so i dont have any weird hats or whatever. i'm wearing an orange sweater, that's about as zany as i get. tall lanky white dude, orange sweater, jeans and chucks. drinking makers early, yuengling later.
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
if in doubt, challenge is "nabisco", response "otm"
hope to see some of yall there!
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll probably be wearing a tshirt with either helvetica or futura text on it.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Friday, 13 February 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
and I'll have something on the shirt that looks something like this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2654366250_f0d4f64fe3.jpg?v=0
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Friday, 13 February 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
YA HEARD
see this why i was thinking place/time.
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/3/2/13/f_930m_8100866.jpg
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Friday, 13 February 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
now when you say 12:30am do you mean eastern standard time
if obama visits what is our contingency plan
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway thanks for making that easy.
mike s put me on the list based off just an email i sent him. <3 the internets right now
― W i l l, Friday, 13 February 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hope y'all had a good time. I wimped out and did not go to Cucu D. at Black Cat as I planned.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 February 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
R.I.P. Coleman Mellett who died in that plane crash near Buffalo. He was a local guy from Maryland apparently--An accomplished jazz guitarist, Mellett was a touring member of trumpeter Chuck Mangione's band for the last several years. The group was scheduled to perform Friday night at the Kleinhans Music Hall with the Buffalo Philharmonic.Mellett grew up near Washington, D.C., and moved to New Jersey to study at William Paterson University, according to his MySpace profile. After graduating he moved to New York and earned a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 1998.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 February 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
sneak delivered so well last night, i seriously haven't seen a full floor of people enjoying themselves like that in ages.closed out with FLOWERZ.
the openers, measax + docindo were surprisingly funky as well, should have expected it as they're with the 88 crew.
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 14 February 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I kinda wished I had splurged and bought tickets for the reunited Labelle at Constitution Hall
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Who are these people in this year's Wammies ceremony. This organization gets more irrelevant every year-- Other than go-go band Familiar Faces
Performers Include: (in Alpha Order) Christylez Bacon Cletus Kennelly and Lori Kelley with Arthur Loves Plastic Esther Williams Familiar Faces 4 out of 5 Doctors Jon Carroll & Love Returns Juniper Lane Margot MacDonald
Hosts:Andrea Roane Jim Bohannon Kojo NnamdiPit Band:Tommy Lepson Band
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 February 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and wife and 4 kids in the Washington Post real estate section Saturday talking about their Tenleytown home
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 February 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
cool to meet people saturday night. fun show, weird space--love 930, but configured for dj nights it feels like maybe too much dead space? was hoping someone'd drop that juan maclean track everyone is going apeshit over. happy house was a good consolation prize tho.
think i'm seeing the points thursday. i know john tejada's coming to muse and man i'd like to see him, but i forgot i'd already made plans for points with gf, plus it's a weeknight so i'd probably bug out before it got good.
― W i l l, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't seen the current lineup of the Points. Am curious but can't make it Thursday. Report back if they do anything crazy (or crazy for them; beer-spitting is normal for them).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The late Link Wray's bass player from his days in DC, Chuck Bennett, just died.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803307.html?wprss=rss_metro/obituaries
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:22 (3 hours ago) Permalink
As Chuck Bennett, his stage name, Mr. Avery had been a singer and bass player with Link Wray and the Raymen, a hard-rocking Washington band of the 1950s and 1960s known for the menacing sound it produced on "Rumble" and "Jack the Ripper," songs that influenced hard rock, grunge and punk.
"Chuck had an unbelievable voice and an unbelievable amount of energy, kind of like James Brown," musician Elwood Brown recalled. "He'd glide across the floor, down on his knees; he had great moves."
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:23 (2 hours ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That was originally posted on the Link Wray thread
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The 3 week Arabesque Fest kicks off at the Kennedy Center this week. Female oud players from Bahrain Monday for free at the Mil. Stage, and on Wednesday Brian Jones' favorite trance music from the mountains of Morrocco, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 February 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
The Arabesque (private only) preview show last night was pretty cool--I posted about it on the "Arabic music-not otherwise classified" thread. I think Pete and Zach and others who like noisy jazzy din should go see Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka on Wednesday--4 percussionis and 4 guys on oboe-like horns
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody looking at Wonkabout? can't decide if it's just more of the same ol same ol indie bands and djs. Maybe need to give it more time
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
wonkabout seems more or less dcist peppered with bits of byt
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
hey steve - that arabesque thing seems nifty! i don't really know MMoJ outside of dancing in your head, which obviously rules.
wonkabout seems...well, dcist + byt = do not really want but wvs. anyway they hype future times stuff and that's good.
― pretzel walrus, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Yea, big shocker, I would rather see a calendar added somewhere online that's a combination of the places mentioned in ads on El Zol 99.1, AM radio international shows, the TMOTTGOGO e-mails, one-off myspace postings, and the dcist.com week in hiphop, but no one's doing that (I do not think)...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently zanzibar was the spot back in the day... my salsa teacher called a short thursday class in order for everyone to show their respects that night.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link