Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

I'd hit it.


With a baseball bat.

i'm so happy . . . them there queers can kill too now.

awesome

I'd like to think I'm pretty progressive but….I'm sorry…"Chaz" Bono weirds me out.  Maybe because he/she is so unattractively overweight.  Since she doesn't have a ****, I'm not confident in calling her 100% man.

Brian

Nancy Grace could teach you a few things, James Ford.  She'd be a whole lotta fun.  Count me in.

Brian

chaz weirds alot of people out.  gay people are sometimes apt to name transgenders, transsexuals, transylvania six five thousand, as not gay, and should not be labeled within the lbgt community.  who knows.  i have always found the species within the species fascinating, and understand it must be the most difficult to go through such a hidden life transformed into something else.  gay people are fascinating also, and straights, and women . . . as well as every other organizational community on this planet.

nice review of hank iii's straight to hell album.


Tattooed Dolt Tosses Around Manure From the Hillbilly Landfill

Let me up, I've had enough of hillbilly rednecks in media?tattoo parlor employees, topers in trailers, ultimate fighters, backyard wrestlers, punching and kicking roller derby girls, and Gretchen Wilson spitting tobacco juice in a paper cup during face-to-face conversations. It's not entertaining and real, it's crass and predictable. If they're the salt of the earth, then common sense and civic responsibility require us to round them up for burial at a condemned Superfund site.


Straight to Hell is a double dose of headache and blight, medium-tempo and slow country tunes about funnin' and gunnin' and Hank III's lawyer-shooting shotgun. Weedy, nasal, and hookless: By the time Hank III gets to the song about his love being his drinking problem, everyone will be wishing they were suffering blackouts. No such luck?there are four more tracks to endure plus a bonus CD, Louisiana Stripes. The song of that name asks you to buy the notion, should you feel compelled to rob a bank or perhaps shoot a lawyer, that the best friends are made in prison. So make sure you do your crime in Shreveport.

Stripes, the second volume, is fart from manure-flecked hillbilly pastures, with found local noises separating songs from the first CD. They're not exactly identical?although one about the lawyer shotgun is?but they might as well be; the listener won't be able to tell the difference. Antagonizingly, it's programmed so it can't be skipped through. And all of it's proudly recorded on a spend-$400-and-walk-out-the-door-of-Guitar-Center-with-it digital recording station, Hank III thinking the idea hasn't already occurred to everyone with a band page on MySpace.

When did the Deer Tick show switch to a regular time format? I didn't think of going b/c originally it was scheduled for 10 pm doors right?

walkonby wrote:

reggie wrote:
Band of Horses
9:30 Club Washington, DC
Sun, December 11, 2011 7:00 PM

when i hear them on pandora, i like them.  is that odd?  they opened up for widespread once in north carolina.  i was in the lot having a good time and not caring.  that was not odd.

"Up, up and away, in my beautiful balloon." The Fifth Dimension  ;D

major lack of upcoming RnR shows, so it seems.  what gives?

Bands are realizing how much of a twat (using the English unisex version of the word here) Steve Lambert is and could be telling their agents to book them in better area rooms?

i didn't get anything for mangum.  i got in fast, pulled up doughnuts.

travelinbeat wrote:
BTW what's up with 930 promoting TM nowadays? (Fall Massive, Jeff Mangum).  Any clues?

930 uses TM for its bigger show.  makes sense for 2 reasons: TM can handle the volume better (TF chokes under the weight of a big onsale), and using different outlets keeps things competitive.  can't play hardball with vendors if there is only one game in town…

I would guess that the ticket agent is venue-specific, not promoter specific.

thank you for the second show.
managed to get floor tickets to this one.

yeah, thanks for the 2nd show.  was quite easy to get tickets for that one….(still pulling up tickets now even)

+1 for the second show.  on a saturday, even better!

obviously saturday is a better night than friday which raises the question why didn't they sell tickets for saturday first..


strange.

hutch wrote:
obviously saturday is a better night than friday which raises the question why didn't they sell tickets for saturday first..


strange.

you answered your own question.  you don't sell the best first, then hope that people buy the less-good afterwards.  there was obviously a lot of demand for this show, so sell out the second-best first, the better show will sell itself.

sweetcell wrote:

hutch wrote:
obviously saturday is a better night than friday which raises the question why didn't they sell tickets for saturday first..


strange.

you answered your own question.  you don't sell the best first, then hope that people buy the less-good afterwards.  there was obviously a lot of demand for this show, so sell out the second-best first, the better show will sell itself.

based on how they have done thievery corporation shows in the past I don't think thats the way they've operated.. i think they've started  with the better nights


i could be wrong..

hum, maybe.  i seem to remember, hazily, that one year when the did a 5-night run they did something funny like starting off with thur & fri, the added wed, then sunday (!), and finally saturday.  not 100% sure on that.