Archive for April, 2005

80% angel…the rest is hard to explain.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

(apolo­gies to Over the Rhine for the post title)

A Heavy Metal Passover…and Christmas!

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Appar­ently, VH1 Clas­sic filmed a spe­cial about a small group of rock musi­cians of Jew­ish her­itage cel­e­brat­ing passover. Accord­ing to this arti­cle, Dee Snider of Twisted Sis­ter and a few oth­ers got together for a meal of matzo and bit­ter herbs recently. (Hat tip: the Boar’s Head Tav­ern)
As if that wasn’t weird enough, Snider gives […]

The musically untrained will conquer the world!

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

I find it grat­i­fy­ing to know that it’s not only me — Scott Andrew LeP­era (of Scott Andrew and the Walk­ing­birds fame) also has trou­ble with fig­ur­ing out what chord he’s actu­ally play­ing:
A lot of times when I’m using some weird tun­ing and using the capo, I have no idea what chord I’m strum­ming, only […]

Mr. Jones and me review our action items

Friday, April 1st, 2005

In the fool­ish spirit of the day, and heav­ily influ­enced by the “songs as lists” meme that’s sweep­ing the intar­web, I present to you the fol­low­ing bul­leted list Count­ing Crows mag­num opus.
Facts about me:

Hang out w/Mr. Jones @ the New Ams­ter­dam
Stare at yellow-haired girl
Don’t believe in any­thing
Con­sid­er­ing tak­ing up painting

Self por­trait

Lim­ited, beau­ti­ful, color pallete

All col­ors meaningful

blue
red
black
grey

This is […]

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