Happy International Record Store Day!!!!!!!!!

[Just Some Girl]

Stores near you.

What are y'all gonna get me for IRSD?

[Just Some Girl]

Sidebar from an article in our weekly on Jay Reatard:

There’s a profile photo on Jay Reatard’s MySpace page of the band huddled behind diminutive Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Was meeting one of their all-time ultimate rock influences a boyhood dream moment for the star-crossed lads? Not exactly.

“He’s awful,” says Reatard. “[Ulrich] hasn’t gotten any better at drums. The rest of the band got better, but he never did – he kept doing 1-2 beats for 25 years. I think at some point their songs progressed beyond the caveman beat.”

Ulrich, who showed up at a recent Black Keys/Jay Reatard gig in San Francisco, was, according to Reatard, not too impressed by his band. He did, however, take an interest in the fact that Reatard hails from Memphis, a city Ulrich feels has turned sour on Metallica’s particular brand of chest-thumping rawk.

“He talked about how the hard rock scene in Memphis has gotten ‘soft,’” laughs Reatard. “He says, ‘The hard rock scene has really gone downhill there, so we go to places like Chattanooga where hard rock is still strong’ – which is so retarded, because Memphis is a total metal town. Maybe Memphis likes real metal and not whatever their last three records have been.”


Tee hee.

[Moetown]

S_ _ _'s boss told me last night that she saw Led Zep in Munich in 1969.

[bebopbalogna]

faces of meth

[matthew]

Sidebar from an article in our weekly on Jay Reatard:

There’s a profile photo on Jay Reatard’s MySpace page of the band huddled behind diminutive Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Was meeting one of their all-time ultimate rock influences a boyhood dream moment for the star-crossed lads? Not exactly.

“He’s awful,” says Reatard. “[Ulrich] hasn’t gotten any better at drums. The rest of the band got better, but he never did – he kept doing 1-2 beats for 25 years. I think at some point their songs progressed beyond the caveman beat.”

Ulrich, who showed up at a recent Black Keys/Jay Reatard gig in San Francisco, was, according to Reatard, not too impressed by his band. He did, however, take an interest in the fact that Reatard hails from Memphis, a city Ulrich feels has turned sour on Metallica’s particular brand of chest-thumping rawk.

“He talked about how the hard rock scene in Memphis has gotten ‘soft,’” laughs Reatard. “He says, ‘The hard rock scene has really gone downhill there, so we go to places like Chattanooga where hard rock is still strong’ – which is so retarded, because Memphis is a total metal town. Maybe Memphis likes real metal and not whatever their last three records have been.”


Tee hee.

At my sis' place right now, and I came online with the express purpose to post this about the apparent disaster which occurred in Toronto the other night. I was hoping the Toronto peeps could fill me to sort out names of promoters, club owners, etc.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Dear Toronto,

Last night's show in Toronto got completely fucked up. The Silver Dollar holds 190 people but Craig Laskey the promoter let 350 people in there. That's cool if there's some sort of security or crowd control - we don't need people getting so wild they jump on stage and smash our gear - but that's exactly what happened. Right when we started playing someone pushed the monitors right on top of Stephen and on to his pedals - breaking them, people were throwing beer bottles at us, a someone jumped onstage and smashed my pedals, another guy took a full pitcher of beer and dumped it all over the rest of my pedals, and then threw it right at my Flying V, breaking the pickup and the input electronics. After three songs all our gear was smashed and unusable. Even when shit gets that crazy at Circle Jerks show there's at least some security but when I asked Craig Laskey about it before the show he told me "I thought you guys were a garage band." When we couldn't play anymore I hung out and talked to people, refunded people's money out of my own pocket, and tried to borrow gear and finish the set a bit later but Dan Burke wouldn't get off the stage, too busy talking trash about me.

I'm getting really sick of shit like this happening. We'll come back in Toronto soon and do a free show to make it up to the real fans in Toronto. And we'll steer away from greedy promoters who don't have any control of their shows and who don't care about doing right by the audience.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tzhCiEl4RK4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/tzhCiEl4RK4</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3zOA8i9UnEQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3zOA8i9UnEQ</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKzg4Z0jws8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NKzg4Z0jws8</a>

[Tripp]

my story sucked by comparison.

[Just Some Girl]

Friday, April 18, 2008
Dear Toronto,

Last night's show in Toronto got completely fucked up. The Silver Dollar holds 190 people but Craig Laskey the promoter let 350 people in there. That's cool if there's some sort of security or crowd control - we don't need people getting so wild they jump on stage and smash our gear - but that's exactly what happened. Right when we started playing someone pushed the monitors right on top of Stephen and on to his pedals - breaking them, people were throwing beer bottles at us, a someone jumped onstage and smashed my pedals, another guy took a full pitcher of beer and dumped it all over the rest of my pedals, and then threw it right at my Flying V, breaking the pickup and the input electronics. After three songs all our gear was smashed and unusable. Even when shit gets that crazy at Circle Jerks show there's at least some security but when I asked Craig Laskey about it before the show he told me "I thought you guys were a garage band." When we couldn't play anymore I hung out and talked to people, refunded people's money out of my own pocket, and tried to borrow gear and finish the set a bit later but Dan Burke wouldn't get off the stage, too busy talking trash about me.

I'm getting really sick of shit like this happening. We'll come back in Toronto soon and do a free show to make it up to the real fans in Toronto. And we'll steer away from greedy promoters who don't have any control of their shows and who don't care about doing right by the audience.

JeffWerbo JUST told me about that. I'm investigating...... But here's what I already knew: Dan Burke = asshole (he once tried to pay a Japanese band in imported designer jeans -- no joke -- instead of money, and he's been beat up many times for jerking bands around). Craig Laskey normally books the Horseshoe and Lee's Palace and is semi-respected, but he can also be an asshole. I remember when he was just starting out, back when Jeff was JeffMysticZealots, and I was trying to help them with Toronto gigs...

Could be wrong, but this might be the exact blog entry Jeff was telling me about. In which case, non-Torontonian beats me to the T.O. news....

[Just Some Girl]

my story sucked by comparison.

No, your story was good too.



 















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[Tripp]

I always hear tales of  how Jay Retard   shows up at other people's shows and pisses on the floor or  hurls a cup of piss on the band or shows up with a megaphone and berates the band during their performance..

 and I understand about a show going out of control, I'd be freaked out and mad at the promoter too.

But.......

[Tripp]

Pat, I don't know if you saw it but I ran into a  guy named Shannon last night (drummer for Million Sellers)  and he said he saw on our myspace that we were going to Sluggo's, said it was his old stomping ground. Seems he knows you.

[Just Some Girl]

I always hear tales of  how Jay Retard   shows up at other people's shows and pisses on the floor or  hurls a cup of piss on the band or shows up with a megaphone and berates the band during their performance..

 and I understand about a show going out of control, I'd be freaked out and mad at the promoter too.

But.......

I'm sure it's two-sided. But Dan Burke IS notorious in this town for fucking musicians around (not all, but a lot) and Craig is a greedy little bastard, so nothing would surprise me.

[Just Some Girl]

Just watched the videos. Yikes. What's with the crowd yelling "Dan Burke!" in the last one like he's the hero here? He's such a dick.

[Just Some Girl]

I spent the day avoiding the humans ('cept the roomie...he doesn't count) and a friend who dropped by to talk gear with the roomie, and instead did chores all fucking day to try to rid my brain of all the past few days' toxicity. Now I'm drinking cider as a reward. Retox!

[Tripp]

I'm currently resuming the retox myself.

[Just Some Girl]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!



I did not drink one single drop of alcohol last night...and still managed to sleep close to 12 hours (which I never do...insomnia). I think I was just beat down enough by life/bad mood/etc., that my body/brain needed it. Or maybe I'm just lazy.