Chicago: More Bars in More Places

Wait no, I mean:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/reusables/doucheticket.png

Are you calling me a douchebottle?

hahahaha fat cunt inc.

xp to Jordan: No! I just thought people might appreciate that.

So I read that Reader cover story, and I think that it's the rare profile of a musician that isn't built around selling a CD or other product. The guy really does light up a room when he plays and sings, or at least he did the times I saw him play with Hogan, in a real who-is-that-guy way. The article, unfortunately, didn't capture that and built a narrative around his life outside of what makes him special as a musician. (Comparatively, that's why that Miles R. piece about the FFs worked well -- the narrative was built around the music, not vice versa.)

xpost - see, I tell ya, "douche" is breaking out in August/September 2007.

That's okay, I just wanted to say douchebottle. Trying to spread the term.

I am listening to this. Interesting, though predictably, most of the covers are no match for the originals.

original artist of all along the watchtower was jimi hendrix? way to do your fact checking.

Good point, although maybe the cover hews closer to the Hendrix version than to the Dylan version? I haven't listened to it yet. Also maybe they needed a 1968 song more than a 1967 song.

(Dylan = 1967. Hendrix = 1968.)

i just thought it was odd to give "original artist" title to someone who covered it.

i think that's bullcrap

on the other hand, bob dylan took folk melodies and added his own lyrics and he takes/took credit for them, so whatever.

ps long day in the classroom, people. looooong day in the classroom.

i know it's a different thing and that folk melodies are public domain, but you know what i mean

i hope

it's time for afternoon tea hooray

hasn't dylan gone on record as saying that hendrix's version was superior?

also, horseshoe: movies start at 10pm. They're gonna have an audience vote for which movie gets shown first.

jaymc, did you download that comp somewhere? I'm really curious to hear some of those.

Yeah, I can probably send it once I get Internet at home.

That's cool, some of those covers look very inspired or very insane. I'm mostly looking at that Klaxons take on "No Diggety".

i hate reading 'happy friday y'all!' every time i open this thread on a tuesday :-/

I think my band is going to do No Diggety on the album :>

on the other hand, bob dylan took folk melodies and added his own lyrics and he takes/took credit for them, so whatever.

Also: Led Zeppelin. But they stole their songs from politically and/or socially powerless black blues artists so nobody listened to them complain.

troo

I think my band is going to do No Diggety on the album :>
yaaaaaaaaaaay this is one of my favorite rollerskating jams of all time. there used to be a roller rink in NC where i would go on thursday night open skate and just skate around and around and around and about 1/3 of the way through the evening they always played this song. so fun.

ps it is diggity
spell it right on the album ;)

The "No Diggity" cover is suprisingly faithful, although hilarious when some of those lines are crooned in a British accent.

xpost There were still roller rinks in 1996?

O rite.

There is something in the liner notes of the last album about Bobby Brown's "Good Enough" being a roller rink jam for our trumpet player.

xpost, there are still roller rinks NOW

Amanda, I like the way you work it.

I guess Rainbo was still open a few years ago.

Until it became Rainbo Village, which sounds like a retirement home for gay senior citizens.

There are seriously 3 - 4 functioning roller rinks here.

At least 2.

http://www.fastforwardskate.com/

Yeah, this was in 2000 or so? I love rollerskating so much. I'd like to bag it up.

PS I have my own
rollerskates
bowling shoes
taps

I am prepared for any situation

I am actually a terrible rollerskater, but at least it's not rollerblading or ice skating.

I cannot rollerskate.

I can lollerskate like a champ, tho.

who has a british accent in your band, jordan? i'm confused.

gah, i love rollerskating. the crossover, the way you can kind of dance and skate at the same time, the repetition of going around and around and around, the way a person can easily go rollerskating alone and no one really looks at him/her funny. a 16 y.o. manager yelled at me once, though, for eating my pretzel outside of the cafeteria.

oh whoops
you're talking about klaxons cover, not jordan's band.

Right.

I think I tried to rollerskate once when I was like six? There was a roller rink on the border between Bolingbrook and Romeoville (called Main Street USA) but I never went. I have never ice skated or skied or roller-bladed, either.

Everyone had their bday parties at roller rings when I was in grade school. I was never good at it, but loved the ambiance (and the pizza! and the games!).

The roller rink was the site of my first illicit slice of pepperoni pizza.

(at a birthday party!)

It's only in retrospect that it seems like it might've been fun. I wasn't really aware of roller-rink culture until long after it was a phenomenon, so I wasn't aware I was missing out on anything. At the time, it just probably seemed like another activity that required physical coordination that I wasn't going to be good at.

i have many fond memories of rollerskating as a kid. i think i was still going as late as 87 or 88 -- whenever Expose was really big. There was this kid named Jerome who was like the local Michael Jackson. He would seriously get down the light-up dance floor. I had a crush on him for like a week.

Joan Jett is like the ULTIMATE roller rink music -- esp. "Do You Wanna Touch Me" or whatever that song was called. I remember whizzing around hardcore to that song. Also failed limbo contests.

it was basically rollerdancing that it was ok to do alone, so i was all about it. actual dancing? not yet. dancing while rolling around? SURE.

Skate-n-dances were always a source of great stress for me, at least the skate part was, because girls were supposed to skate backwards and I cannot do that, not even a little, so I always had to skate hand in hand with boys and hope that I didn't totally bring us all down.

John, we could have been total uncoordinated grade school BFFs.

All my skating parties were on ice.

The last time I went rollerskating was maybe after freshman year in college. Some kids tried to pick a fight with me! I can't remember why, only that "Who Let the Dogs Out" was playing.

I spent many days and nights at Skateville as a kid.

In Chicago I've skated at a rink out in Palatine (adult skate on Sunday nights, hint hint) and somewhere down by 75th and Halsted.

I can't find a photo of Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci roller-dancing to "Don't Stop Believin'" from Monster.

Led Zeppelin. But they stole their songs from politically and/or socially powerless black blues artists so nobody listened to them complain.

the lawyers listened, chicago's own willie dixon sued zeppelin over "bring it on home" and "whole lotta love" being similar to songs dixon owned copyrights to (whether or not he wrote them is another matter), both cases were settled out of court.

http://www.skateville.com/DSC00111.JPG
http://www.skateville.com/DSC00097.JPG

Looks like they've left the place as is.