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"ween don't answer the cheesesteak the question, but they do tell you where "mannequin" was filmed, which is almost as important."

fact checking cuz... take note:

ween is incorrect. the band states in the lyrics to "freedom of 76" mannequin was filmed at woolworths; it was filmed at the wanamaker building, where lord & taylor is currently located.

however, woolworth was located across the street on chestnut. it closed in '96-97.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe "Woolworth" just scanned better. :)

― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

uh-oh. i will have to re-evaluate my love for ween.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

but i guess that's what happens when a band from the suburbs tries to write about the big city!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

God, I miss Philly sometimes. I want a Jim's cheesesteak and a Brown's Black Cherry soda NOW.

― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

ned, you will never get a straight answer on the cheesesteak thing.

Then I will revel in the multitude of possible answers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

Monkey 101!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

Marah

― Mark M, Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

i kinda hate this town.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

Go for it, Strongo! Name yer fave Philly bands! Do the Tuff Crew make your list?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

i kinda hate this town.

Actually, scratch that, your answer is the quintessential philly answer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

haha, maria's favorite band = (the) lilys

where is grand buffet from? (not that i like them or anything).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

STRONGO HULKINGTON SUMMER ON SOUTH ST. ON A SATURDAY NIGHT DODGING LADIES WITH BIG HAIR FROM CAMDEN TOP 10:

- Schooly D - "PSK What Does It Mean"
- Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That"
- Franklin - "Major Taylor" (the 7" mix with the whistle)
- Freeway feat. Peedi Crakk - "Flipside"
- Eve - "Gotta Man"
- John Coltrane - "Greensleeves" (Africa/Brass version)
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "Summertime"
- Jill Scott - "Slowly, Surely (Theo Parrish Mix)"
- Roni Size/Reprazent feat. Bahamadia - "New Forms (Remix)"
- Josh Wink - "Higher State of Consciousness"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

wash that shit down with a liter of wawa chocolate milk, and i'm out

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

See, that wasn't so hard now, was it?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

Scott / Strongo sez:

i kinda hate this town.

Actually, scratch that, your answer is the quintessential philly answer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. its funny 'cause its true. the water we drink here is really haterade in disguise.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

the espers

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

G Love! *goes back to David Goodis novel*

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

An Albatross

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

First, Jim's Cheesesteaks are terrible, you need Pat's, Rick's, or Tony Luke's.

Bands: Mandela Strikeforce (Sean and Don from Ink & Dagger), Flagman, Frail.

Beer store: The Foodery on 10th & Pine.

note: I don't live 'nere no more.

― Travis Brady, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

Agreed. Jim's is just trashy trash that tastes like trash that someone found in the trash can. Is ishkabibble's still there? They had the best chicken steak.

Man, I miss Philly.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

I miss 'nem wooder oices up'ere.

― Travis Brady, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Holy shit did I just read someone giving props to Scram! Damn, that takes me far into the way back machine.

Does anybody know what is up with MantaRay? Do they still gig at all?

And that act The Low Numbers from like 6 years ago? I thought they were going to be huge, saw them at The Balcony right when it opened and never heard anything about them after that night.

And what ever happened to those guys in the Interpreters. Man, they were huge for about 6 minutes back in the 90s, weren't they. I'll throw out props for Lefty's Deceiver and defunct acts Haywood and Moped.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

got buds in these:
excelsior
amen booze rooster
aspera

and who is king god and why does my ex bandmate who now lives in philly think he's so great?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

andrew says:

"got buds in these:
excelsior
amen booze rooster
aspera"

search: excelsior
destroy: amen booze rooster, aspera.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

blast of static:

And that act The Low Numbers from like 6 years ago? I thought they were going to be huge, saw them at The Balcony right when it opened and never heard anything about them after that night.

the low numbers changed their name to the hi soft. i havent seen them since the name change, but i do remember them being really really good.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

more on hi soft: afaik, they have no formal releases but do have a track on the "hoags" compilation.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks for the info Maria -- I googled "the hi soft" and "the high soft" and got nothing -- does anybody know if they ever released anything else, under any name?

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

i would rather eat my sweaty foot than a pat's cheesesteak

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 23 April 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

fingernail, bill ricchini, collette carter, accelera deck(i think?).

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

NEWTON.

and good call on Espers; they just played a few minute ago, here.

― ian j0hns0n (Pete), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

pink got her start in philadelphia, if memory serves me right.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 April 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

i'd cut ween some slack on the "mannequin" thing ... they are actually from new hope, you know. and we all know how those new hopers are ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 April 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

keith m: bill riccini is definately goes in the "destroy" category.

― maria tessa sciarrino, Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Tourdates for Hail Social:

9/21 - DC - DC9 w/renee heartfelt (ex-count me out)
9/23 - Richmond, VA - Chopstix w/renee heartfelt
9/27 - NYC - Rothko w/Hollertronix DJs Diplo and Low budget
9/29 - Philadelphia, PA - Khyber w/panthers, renee heartfelt
10/7 - NYC - North Six w/ Joan of Arc
10/8 - Boston, MA - Middle East w/explosions in the sky
10/10 - Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar w/ calvin johnson

All following dates are with INTERPOL:

10/11 - Boston - Avalon
10/12 - Montreal - Metropolis
10/13 - Toronto - The Docks
10/15 - Detroit - State Theater
10/16 - Columbus - Newport Music Hall
10/17 - Chicago - Riviera Theatre
10/19 - Minneapolis - First Avenue
10/22 - Seattle - Paramount Theatre
10/23 - Vancouver - Commodore Ballroom
10/24 - Portland - Crystal Ballroom
10/25 - San Francisco - Warfield Theatre
10/27 - Los Angeles - The Wiltern

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

To revisit my much earlier point, does anyone have any additional information about Hisoft/The Low Numbers and leads on any recordings besides the LN song on the Chunklet #14 comp and the Hisoft song on the Hot Dog City records comp? I have the former track but don't want to by the whole HDC comp just to hear the latter. Is there anything else out there? Anybody want to drop that HDC comp track in my gee-mail acct [jay dot breitling at gee mail dot kom]?

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

there are no other hisoft releases. whatever you've heard is all that has been released. a crying shame! theyre so good!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh well. I'll have to fixate on something else this afternoon. Thanks MTS.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

no destroying bill ricchini.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

destroy - philadelphia?

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

keith, i have my reasons for destroying bill ricchini.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link

have any philly folks ever heard of thinking machines? they're from my neck of the woods, central pa. a now-defunct record store (besides records, mechanicsburg) put out a 7" almost two years ago and i haven't heard a thing from them since. besides' owner told me all but one of the band members moved to philly. also i spotted one of them at a yo la tengo show in lancaster last september but was too lame to talk to him and ask him what was up with the band (even though i think we may have been introduced before, iirc).

― spasticheritage, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

The delta 72's rocked it back in my high school days and still do on occasion

― berel, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

thinking machines -- ive heard the name and i think theyve contacted us about a show in recent past.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Buried Beds and Like Moving Insects are both great.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link

thinking machines headline the khyber tomorrow night

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

AMCIK GÖT

― SÝKSÝK, Sunday, 27 November 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

siltbreeze is revived? thats what the word on the street is:

http://citypaper.net/articles/2005-12-08/music4.shtml

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I was just listening to M&z&rin and started to wonder if there isn't a bit of a Philly malaise that affects the bands there -- a lot of them sound like they don't try hard enough. I'd like to hear a little more energy, a little more tightness, etc. from a lot of them.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i think that problem is called "INDEPENDENT ROCK MUSIC", not unique to philly, but to any culture that plays to and for itself

― hu, Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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