I love a lot of The Smiths songs, and this is a cool story about Johnny Marr writing one of them, ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’:
http://www.nme.com/news/the-smiths/68704
What he says is definitely true, sometimes the guitars help you write the song.
SJ
This song by Fats Domino must be hundreds (ok, maybe dozens) of years old by now, but still seems fresh as ever:
The video is out of sync with the audio in this live video, but the performance is so solid and I love the horns just cruising around his voice, nice and easy.
SJ
I was tempted to post the Playmobil version of this Joy Division video which is also pretty cool, but then I was nostalgic for the real thing:
I needed to dig up this video just to listen to the bass line, it’s like a shot of espresso. I think it is anyway, I’ve never had coffee. It gets my heart moving in any case.
Enjoy.
SJ
Thank you very much to our friends (new and returning!) to the Comet on Sunday, it was such a fun show with Fat Opie and G.O.A.T. You should check them out: Fat Opie is here http://www.fatopie.com, and then G.O.A.T. are members of Smile Brigade, http://www.facebook.com/smilebrigade.
And then we met up with Fat Opie again the next day in Olympia WA at Le Voyeur, joined by The Brothers Jim (from Olympia), that was also very very fun. Playing rock-and-roll music feels good.
Now the band and I are putting together a super fun party for this Saturday (Feb 23) at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Seattle, get your tix here:
I hope you enjoyed your weekend too. My band is fekkin great, come and see us soon!
Best,
SJ
The rover is starting to dig into stuff, this is so cool:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21482599
I have much more anticipation about what the Rover is going to find rather than the next episode of… well, whatever TV show you can think of, even Game of Thrones! And I love Game of Thrones. I almost don’t even care what they find, it’s just rad that we’re on another planet digging around and checking it out!
You can also follow @sarcasticrover on Twitter, he’s pretty funny.
SJ
Dear friends in the Olympia WA area, we are coming to play some rock-and-roll music for you tonight at Le Voyeur, 9PM, FREE!!!
We will be joined by Fat Opie and The Brothers Jim. We played a show with Fat Opie last night in Seattle, and they were super-fantastic so we’re looking forward to playing another show with them, we think you’ll really dig their sound.
We’re excited to play some music for you, see you tonight!
Best,
SJ
Hi Folks,
Come on out to the Comet this afternoon for a matinee show at 4:30 to hear Phil and I play a special acoustic set. Also playing some rock-and-roll music for all of our enjoyment:
Fat Opie
G.O.A.T.
It will be the perfect way to spend the afternoon.
See you there!
Best,
SJ
