Great read! I remember when you asked Alan Ginsberg for a band name! I also remembered hearing how the Mantarays opened for the Norberts at the first show at the Middle East Cafe with people sitting and eating in front of the musicians. The admission was .99 so the Norbert’s had pennies spray painted neon orange on one side and green on the other for change. Wish I was at that show. I had moved back to Florida to finish school; love learning about this stuff!
Music snobs are the lowest form of life. And it has nothing to do with love of music...it's the love of belittling others and ruining/guilt-tripping their enjoyment, which to me is the opposite of what music does at its highest level...and ironically, rather self-important douchey rockstar behavior. just without the money or the female attention or the fame.
This is why I'll always love Evan, and Redd Kross for that matter, a band that has every reason to be jaded and bitter after all they've been through for relatively little reward, but their joy about performing and unconditional love for the uncoolest of uncool pop and 70s kitsch still shines through to this day. It's both endearing and inspiring.
And I would potentially commit crimes to get a copy of you and Ms. H singing Carter Family songs!
Thinking Fellers opened that Teenage FC show? I'd totally forgotten that fact! I do like both bands a lot, but Teenage Fanclub SHINED that evening. Maybe because we hadn't heard them yet and didn't really know what to expect -- All we had to go on was a glowing review in Conflict.
Great read! I remember when you asked Alan Ginsberg for a band name! I also remembered hearing how the Mantarays opened for the Norberts at the first show at the Middle East Cafe with people sitting and eating in front of the musicians. The admission was .99 so the Norbert’s had pennies spray painted neon orange on one side and green on the other for change. Wish I was at that show. I had moved back to Florida to finish school; love learning about this stuff!
Not impossible the The Norberts played before we did, but I thought the one I set up was the first one.
Music snobs are the lowest form of life. And it has nothing to do with love of music...it's the love of belittling others and ruining/guilt-tripping their enjoyment, which to me is the opposite of what music does at its highest level...and ironically, rather self-important douchey rockstar behavior. just without the money or the female attention or the fame.
This is why I'll always love Evan, and Redd Kross for that matter, a band that has every reason to be jaded and bitter after all they've been through for relatively little reward, but their joy about performing and unconditional love for the uncoolest of uncool pop and 70s kitsch still shines through to this day. It's both endearing and inspiring.
And I would potentially commit crimes to get a copy of you and Ms. H singing Carter Family songs!
There’s no record of it! I know we sang Keep On the Sunny Side.
Thinking Fellers opened that Teenage FC show? I'd totally forgotten that fact! I do like both bands a lot, but Teenage Fanclub SHINED that evening. Maybe because we hadn't heard them yet and didn't really know what to expect -- All we had to go on was a glowing review in Conflict.
Yeah I am almost positive
love this. never fully understood the vibe of Boston in peak college rock years & this really captures something.