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Title: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 22, 2006, 07:54:00 am
Anyone going Sunday?  5 bands is a few to many for me.....may try to get there early enough for the Fleshtones and Mooney Suzuki though.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: bearman🐻 on September 22, 2006, 09:28:00 am
I really want to...but those Sunday night shows are killers for me (I know, I'm gettin' old). Anyone have a guess as to what time the Zombies would go on?
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on September 22, 2006, 09:33:00 am
We'll be at the Millenium Stage show Sunday at the very unrockandroll time of 6 pm.
 
 This show is sponsored by WARW classic rock 94.7. The funny thing is they keep talking about Little Steven and The Zombies, and never even hint at that there are a number of other bands on the bill. The dj also referred to the Zombies as "intellectual rock", which I thought was pretty funny. I reckon it's intellectual if Styx and Aerosmith are your points of reference.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: bearman🐻 on September 22, 2006, 11:21:00 am
Sorry...I looked on the Kennedy Center web site and wasn't sure what show you're referring to...who is playing on Sunday at the Millennium Stage?
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on September 22, 2006, 11:24:00 am
Cibelle
 
 http://www.myspace.com/cibelleblackbird (http://www.myspace.com/cibelleblackbird)
 
 Brazilian singer Cibelle was just a five-year-old child in São Paulo when she told her mother she wanted to start taking guitar lessons. Her mother agreed, and Cibelle moved around from instrument to instrument, trying her hand at the piano, percussion, and voice. As a teenager she was more interested in acting, appearing in commercials and promotional spots on MTV Brazil, but eventually realized that singing was her true passion and started performing at jam sessions around the city. It was at one of these sessions that she met the then-unknown Yugoslavian DJ Suba, who performed his version of synth-heavy samba for the crowd. Cibelle was intrigued by his interpretation of Brazilian music and, at a friend's urging, got up on-stage to sing with him. Suba was so impressed that he invited her to come to his home recording studio to work on an album, what would later become the seminal São Paulo Confessions. Though the producer died tragically shortly after the record's release, Cibelle continued on, appearing on guitarist and singer/songwriter Celso Fonseca's 2003 album, Natural, and releasing her own self-titled debut album on Six Degrees/Ziriguiboom. She followed up in 2004 with her EP About a Girl, and two years later Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, which featured duets with Seu Jorge and Devendra Banhart, came out.
 
 
   
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Originally posted by bearman:
  Sorry...I looked on the Kennedy Center web site and wasn't sure what show you're referring to...who is playing on Sunday at the Millennium Stage?
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: bearman🐻 on September 22, 2006, 11:26:00 am
Hmmmm...that sounds very cool. Thanks for the heads up, I might try to check that out if I don't do the Zombies.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: alex on September 22, 2006, 08:02:00 pm
I'm going to the Zombies show.  Hopefully since there are so many bands on the bill, the openers do no more than 20-30 minute sets.  The Zombies are the only band I care to see...though the Woggles and Five Masaratis are always fun.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: anarchist on September 22, 2006, 11:44:00 pm
if there are 5 bands for the zombies show, what time does the first band go on?
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Bags on September 23, 2006, 12:43:00 am
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Originally posted by Alex:
 Hopefully since there are so many bands on the bill, the openers do no more than 20-30 minute sets.
NOOOOOOO
 
 You're crazy, man.  I'm there for the Fleshtones first, then Mooney.  I want good sets from them!!!
 
 I'll probably leave before the Zombies comne on.  Saw them recently at State Theater.  Yeah, it was good, but enough for me.  I'd rather get home at a more reasonable time on a Sunday night.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 23, 2006, 07:05:00 pm
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Originally posted by anarchist:
  if there are 5 bands for the zombies show, what time does the first band go on?
Doors are at 8:00 so i'm assuming 8:30.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: bearman🐻 on September 25, 2006, 09:56:00 am
Did anyone go? How was it?
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 25, 2006, 10:50:00 am
A lot less people there than I thought.  I got there half way through the Fleshtones set and they did their typical play guitar on the bar and run through the crowd Fleshtones set.  Mooney Suzuki did their thing....predictable but fun.  A little too loud.  And I didn't think the sound was too good overall last night, though I know 5 bands is a big job.  Overall though I just don't really dig the sound at the black cat sometimes...it's ok if you're dead center and back just a bit from the stage, but it's a very narrow sweet spot.  The side mains just always seem way to bright for me.
 
 So the Zombies...well...a very mixed bag.  Thing is, they've got so many great songs, and when they stay true to them it's just great.  Colin has still got a great voice and the guitar player is adequate when they keep him reigned in.  But too much of the time it goes off into Rod Argent Oddessy territory with these drawn out keyboard solos.  And the one big spotlight moment they gave the guitar player was very very bad.  Just this big awful long guitar solo thrown into some song.  It might have been "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" (which Rod carefully explained was a big hit for Argent in Europe befor Kiss took it to the States).
 
 Highlights were:
 
 Indidcation
 A Rose for Emily
 Care of Cell 44
 This Could be our Year
 Just Out of Reach (the high point for me)
 
 Some of their other 'hits' were too self indulgent I thought.  And Colin is such a wierd guy...so so twee and just strange.  Can't even explain it.
 
 I don't think they were as good as when I saw them with Love a few years back, but that just might be because of the serious high I was on after witnessing such a great set from Arthur and company....
 
 Good to see them play a few great great songs in a pretty small club, but I wouldn't go back.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Bags on September 25, 2006, 11:46:00 am
Here's my take.  First off, it was damn sad that the place was less than half full.  But, it was a Sunday.  Still, I would have thought Mooney Suzuki could get closer to filling the place on their own.
 
 I got there a few minutes before The Fleshtones went on.  The club was decked out with movies and vintage concert footage screened on the walls on either side of the stage; a big red & white (or yellow) striped curtan in front of the stage (that they closed between bands to do set up); a step down stage in front of the main stage so the band could come down closer to the crowd (though Fleshtones and Mooney each went into the crowd anyway).  And Go-Go girls dancing the entire time between sets.  It was an efficient program -- only 15 minutes between bands.  I thought it was great fun to have the place all decked out.  It definitely added a vibe.  Alas, with the small audience, there was a certain lack of energy.
 
 The Fleshtones went on at 9:50 and did about a 30 minute set, and yeah, all the same stuff -- which is great.  I love that band, and always have a fun time watching them.
 
 Mooney Suzuki came on at 10:30 and played 45 minutes.  I can't believe I've never seen them before -- really fun set.  The lead singer REALLY needs a new haircut, but the lead guitarist rips it and is great fun to watch.  They went well on a bill with the Fleshtones -- Mooney was a little harder to the Fleshtones surf vibe, but both are great, classic rock 'n' roll.  
 
 Both bands were hanging out in the audience later, and each said to me excitedly, "have you seen the Zombies before?"  
 
 Well, I have, and so wasn't really looking forward to it.  In fact, I might have left but my friends were in to it.  They're okay, kind of mellow and hippy in comparison to the rest of the bill.  And that Colin, he is one freaky bird.  With this odd smile all the time.  Like Senor Carlos, I'd seen them with Love about a year ago, and Love just smoked them.  Pretty much the same thing last night.  I left after an hour (12:30), have no idea how much more they played.  
 
 Apparently we're getting two more underground shows coming through town.  I missed the dates and the bands, but sounded like The Chesterfield Kings in late October...  If there are more of these shows, I highly recommend them.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 25, 2006, 11:59:00 am
well i was worn out the max after v fest otherwise i would have gone...
 
 but I'm all over the Chesterfield Kings hopefully they be with the Romantics who they have played with in the past.  an appearence by other Underground Garage favs The Shazam would be awesome as well...
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 25, 2006, 12:00:00 pm
It's actually the Chesterfield Kings and The NY Dolls on the same night in November and The Romantics playing with Shadows of Knight in October.  If I understood correctly...
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 25, 2006, 12:08:00 pm
from the Romantics website
 
 LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE
 Presents
 THE ROLLING ROCK AND ROLL SHOW
 featuring "The Shadows of Knight" and "The Charms"!
 
 Sunday
 Oct 22, 2006    
 
 I'm stoked about this one... Hopefully Clem Burke will be on drums for this one, although they have great substitute drummers for him.  Their record that came out a couple years is great in the vein of their early records before the Pink Suits and MTV.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 25, 2006, 12:14:00 pm
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Originally posted by Señor Carlos:
  It's actually the Chesterfield Kings and The NY Dolls on the same night in November  
:eek:    :eek:    :eek:
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Bags on September 25, 2006, 12:14:00 pm
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  from the Romantics website
I went to Little Steven's website, and none of the future shows are there.  It's annoying...
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 25, 2006, 12:18:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
   
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Originally posted by Señor Carlos:
  It's actually the Chesterfield Kings and The NY Dolls on the same night in November  
:D
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 25, 2006, 12:46:00 pm
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
   
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Originally posted by Señor Carlos:
  It's actually the Chesterfield Kings and The NY Dolls on the same night in November  
:D  [/b]
They said it would be at BC.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: calecp01 on September 25, 2006, 01:56:00 pm
Missed Five Masaratis, Woggles put on an entertaining little set, took a red room break that lasted longer than planned and ended up missing Fleshtones, Mooney Suzuki were ridiculously loud and all their songs sound the same, Zombies were horrible and amazing at the same time.  Colin can still sing, and for a few moments, the Zombies songs we know and love sounded great.  Unfortunately he was the only person up there with any dignity and class.  The ridiculously dressed mustachioed Argent wanked out proggy bloated keyboard solo after keyboard solo complete with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen riffs (I shit you not) and lifting his leg up to play with his heel.  These were not just on the Argent songs, which had no business being played at this show anyway, but he completely butchered a fair number of classic Zombie tunes as well.  He also had to make it known that he wrote Time of The Season, not Colin, and was going to win some award for it when he got back to the UK.  I got the vibe that he was annoyed people were looking at Colin during the songs and not him.  I finally walked out during the Van Halen wannabe guitar solo by whatever jackass hired gun studio musician they had on tour (albeit, amazingly talented, but that was exactly the problem).  I saw Ian Svenonius on the way out and made him promise not to add 10 min keyboard jazz odysseys to his 30 yr anniversary Make-Up show.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Bags on September 25, 2006, 02:03:00 pm
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Originally posted by cale:
  The ridiculously dressed mustachioed Argent wanked out proggy bloated keyboard solo after keyboard solo complete with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen riffs (I shit you not) and lifting his leg up to play with his heel.  
Did he not look odd in that shirt??  He had "old guy who works out" man boobs that were damn near B cups.  
 
 He was a bit too much for me as well.  Lots of self-congratulations going on.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: Vas Deferens on September 25, 2006, 02:06:00 pm
The last time I saw the Zombies, Argent had man-tities. I thought he was in the process of becoming a woman. He looked really odd.
 
 
   
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Originally posted by Bags:
   
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Originally posted by cale:
  The ridiculously dressed mustachioed Argent wanked out proggy bloated keyboard solo after keyboard solo complete with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen riffs (I shit you not) and lifting his leg up to play with his heel.  
Did he not look odd in that shirt??  He had "old guy who works out" man boobs that were damn near B cups.  
 
 He was a bit too much for me as well.  Lots of self-congratulations going on. [/b]
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: calecp01 on September 25, 2006, 02:14:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bags:
   
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Originally posted by cale:
  The ridiculously dressed mustachioed Argent wanked out proggy bloated keyboard solo after keyboard solo complete with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen riffs (I shit you not) and lifting his leg up to play with his heel.  
Did he not look odd in that shirt??  He had "old guy who works out" man boobs that were damn near B cups.  
 
 He was a bit too much for me as well.  Lots of self-congratulations going on. [/b]
Ah!  Yes!  I forgot to mention the boobs.  It could have been my imagination, but I swear I saw Colin looking at him in disgust a few times.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: chaz on September 25, 2006, 02:58:00 pm
Me and my friends joked that Argent looked like John Holmes.  In fact, his whole persona was very 70's porn star-ish.  Not a bad porn star name either....Rod Argent.
 
 We also agreed that Colin will look like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons in 20 or 30 year's time.
 
 Cale pretty much nailed it though.  Very wanky most of the time, except for a few untouched classics.
Title: Re: Zombies roll call
Post by: anarchist on September 25, 2006, 08:41:00 pm
zombies hould have opened and woggles should of headlined.