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Post by Brian on Apr 19, 2010 0:14:48 GMT -8
Skipper, you'll find replies to your Dave Davies post on the previous page. Picking up only part of the conversation, coming home at this late hour: Finally, Squeeze is touring the East Coast with Cheap Trick. Their only West Coast date so far is July 30 at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Calif., with the English Beat.
Oh, one more thing: Gypsy Camp the Fifth is tomorrow in Oak Park/Agoura Hills, under the great Kraken Tree. I helped Flip Cassidy find the site. All are invited -- and it's free!www.avantgardenias.com/gypsycamp/about.htm I'll bet Squeeze is having trouble finding a suitable booking in L.A. so long after the summer arena concert schedule has been set in stone. The pairings with groups from their generation like Cheap Trick and the English Beat probably aren't profitable in venues like the Orpheum. They're going to have to play here, won't they? I can't imagine otherwise. I'll tell you, however, that the Mountain Winery is a fabulous venue by all reports I've heard, especially board member Martine. I'd love to stay nearby in Ben Lomond again. Dan, we'd love to hear how Sunday's Gypsy Camp came off. Some day we will be able to make it!
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Post by Dan on Apr 19, 2010 20:38:34 GMT -8
It was a vision of paradise, Brian. Imagine a huge, tangled squid of an oak tree by the banks of a spring, millions of a seed spores drifting through the air, kids perched on gigantic branches, folk sing-alongs, gyrating bellydancers, people enjoying good music and each other. This wasn't the Sixties. It was a fantasy of the Sixties, the way we wished it would be. It's hard to be a cynic after a day like that. Here are some photos. Many videos are sure to come. www.facebook.com/album.php?id=673983768&aid=169696&s=0&hash=b3fa760b976bd7da5aed578d1020d93b
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Post by Dan on Apr 19, 2010 20:55:27 GMT -8
OK, here's a video from the fundraiser for Gypsy Camp on April 8 at the Guitar Merchant in Canoga Park. Bianca Inez usually sings with Flip Cassidy's band, Weasels Exist., but this time the band is backing her as Bianca Inez and Friends. Is this not an amazing song? www.youtube.com/user/weaselsexist#p/a/u/2/UWK-Q3Nt-u4
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Post by Brian on Apr 22, 2010 23:00:42 GMT -8
I keep getting the Facebook unavailable content page when I click on Dan's link to photos from last Saturday's Gypsy Camp, but I've been digging that You Tube video of Bianca Inez and Friends that he posted above. Amazing song indeed -- and singer. Circling back to Ray Davies, this page from the 88's website says that the band will be in Britain with him for six shows in six nights on his tour next month -- after playing for free by themselves at Ground Zero at USC on Dan's birthday next week, rather late in the evening: www.the88.net/shows.htmlReturn with me now to that glorious day of yestermonth. This clip of Ray and the 88 playing "David Watts" at the Canyon Club looks like it was shot from a table not far from us, maybe one aisle towards the center and a few chairs closer to the stage. I recognize that post. The air pressure and overmodulation was almost unbearable, but this doesn't sound too bad, perhaps because of them tiny Chinese microphones: Finally, I just checked, and the Dave Davies Tour Info page on his website still has nothing new on it.
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Post by martine on Apr 27, 2010 16:17:05 GMT -8
I am salivating at the thought of seeing one of these Squeeze/Cheap Trick gigs. Alas. Not gonna happen.
On another Cheap Trick note, they're doing their Sgt Pepper tribute for several weeks in Vegas somewhere.
I can certainly see Squeeze at the Mountain Winery. I can't see Cheap Trick though, they'd blow the mountain off the face of the earth, I think. ;D
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Post by Skipper on Apr 28, 2010 7:08:16 GMT -8
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Post by anni on Apr 28, 2010 17:54:55 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Apr 28, 2010 23:00:41 GMT -8
I can certainly see Squeeze at the Mountain Winery. I can't see Cheap Trick though, they'd blow the mountain off the face of the earth, I think. ;D They would certainly crush all of the grapes. Cheap Trick played a car race in Long Beach earlier this month and might have drowned out the likes of Danica Patrick. I was lucky enough to hear them on tape when they first came to L.A. in 1977 to promote their debut album at the Starwood and performed four sets a night without repeating one song. My late friend Larry Dunton -- who made the Split Enz bootleg that same year which Martine later distributed worldwide -- let me dupe some of it. Martine's told me on the phone, in person and online about those Crowded House concerts at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga three years ago, and it sounds like a great outdoor venue -- more intimate than the Greek Theater and much more rustic. Wow, Skipper, thank you for bringing that new interview to my attention. I'm disappointed that the article ignores his tour obligations and only mentions his solo career. Dave says, "I love playing live now more than ever." But when will he give us our money's worth? By the way, I remember when Goldmine used to be just a publication about collecting records. Yeah, Dave is a far out guy, but he seems more down to earth than he did 30 years ago, when he started talking about his spiritual beliefs. I remember something about space aliens planting bugs in our brains. However, there was a long interview I found on his website after his stroke that was so insightful and inspiring that we sent it to our guru in Manitoba, among others. The B-side of "Lola" in the United States of America, 1970
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Post by martine on Apr 29, 2010 16:24:14 GMT -8
Mountain Winery ...rustic...perhaps...but to date that was the costliest concert ticket I've purchased for Crowded House...around $98 bucks if I remember. My cousin's husband (From San Jose) frequents the Mountain Winery for his bi-annual EmmyLou Harris fix. The place was just magic. The glasses of wine a healthy $9.00 each (on purpose so you can perhaps leave the bartender a buck for his trouble) I met Cheap Trick in 1977 in Winnipeg when they came through supporting KISS in the summer. LIttle did I know that they would dominate the pop world within a year or two. I found them all to have tons of enthusiam and interest in their fans and quite willing to hang out or pose for pictures. I got to see them perform in October of 1977 (can't remember who they were warming up for) I think I've seen them about a half dozen times--the last time in the early 90s--for free at our Summer Exhibition on the free stage. Not since then. The Beatles music bring back the music of my childhood to me, Cheap Trick music from the 70s reminds me of late teenage hood and the possibilities that lay ahead of me. I think I may have told you Brian that when Robin Zander asked me what I was going to be studying in college (I replied, creative writing, journalism, possibly) he commented that he could totally envision me doing that. Yes, even then I asked interminable questions. Sorry to hijack the thread!
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Post by Brian on May 2, 2010 23:27:37 GMT -8
I met Cheap Trick in 1977 in Winnipeg when they came through supporting KISS in the summer. Little did I know that they would dominate the pop world within a year or two. I found them all to have tons of enthusiasm and interest in their fans and quite willing to hang out or pose for pictures. I got to see them perform in October of 1977 (can't remember who they were warming up for)
I think I've seen them about a half dozen times--the last time in the early 90s--for free at our Summer Exhibition on the free stage. Not since then.
The Beatles music bring back the music of my childhood to me, Cheap Trick music from the 70s reminds me of late teenage hood and the possibilities that lay ahead of me.
I think I may have told you Brian that when Robin Zander asked me what I was going to be studying in college (I replied, creative writing, journalism, possibly) he commented that he could totally envision me doing that. Yes, even then I asked interminable questions.
Sorry to hijack the thread! No hijack at all -- welcome to the club. Seems that people who appreciate the Kinks share enthusiasm for other artists too. In the past six pages, we've talked about the 88, the Grateful Dead, Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, Squeeze and Bianca Inez. (Crowded House has its own thread, but I want to tell Martine that Anni and I got our tickets for their concert at the Nokia on Aug. 20 in the mail last week.) I'm glad to see Martine write about her Cheap Trick interview -- I love that story. My friend Larry saw them in Los Angeles just a few months earlier, and she's right: they didn't break through until "Surrender" became a hit a year later. That live "Budokan" became their "Frampton Comes Alive." Columbia sold tons of Japanese imports before they finally released the record in the U.S. in 1979. They're still recording new material on old media. Last year's album, "The Latest," is also available on 8-track tape. While I'm here, I'll give my weekly report that the Tour Info page on Dave Davies' website hasn't changed since 2009. So here instead is a long You Tube clip from his appearance at the Alex Theater in Glendale in May 2003 with excellent sound (and guitar work) accompanied by a photo montage from the show:
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