red hair and black leather

OHAI LUCERO, I hear you in the background of the dive bar. Yays!

edit: Song is "She's Just That Kind Of Girl", from Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Brothers. Fantastic.

If you don't like the song, it's over in 2 minutes anyway.

Right, back to newsletter hell.

I'm just saying, this all started because of ethrosdemon.

So, still not a Panic girl, but this clip of Spencer drumming is interesting, just to watch his technique. (And holy shit, do drummers continue to impress me. I can't even get two limbs moving separately yet coordinated-ly (is so a word) on a regular basis, much less four.) He's got such a loose, jazzy style. Bryar's still jazzy, but much more focused. Which also has to do with the kind of music they're playing, but still.

(I just need to throw Toro's guitar solo of AWESOME in here now.)

And then we have Travis Barker (who was just in that plane crash) dueting with ?uestlove of The Roots - talk about disparate styles. Barker does kind of look like Animal on that kit (I know Animal was modeled after Moon, but come on. Barker already looks like a Muppet.)

I love this stuff - watching and contrasting technique. I don't get to do it so much for actors or directors, because theater/TV/movies are so collaborative, so it's fun to watch music performances. For me. Yes.

Seriously, Fall Out Boy's "What a Catch, Donnie" should have been titled "Catchy, Donnie". I cannot get it out of my head. I haven't even decided if I like it, I just can't keep it out. The single artwork is cool, at least. (In contrast, the cover for "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" is terrifying.)

The thing that is making me flip back and forth the most is the Friends of FOB singing lines from earlier FOB songs. In Costello's case, it's not much earlier, as HSICoaBB is the previous single. I can't decide if it's gimmicky or not. It does reinforce my opinion of each singer - Saporta sounds great to me, I want more of McCoy, and Urie's voice grates like it almost always does.

Also, Patrick is trying to use the bottom part of his range and not quite succeeding, which bugs. It bugs for two reasons - I know he could hit it if he had a vocal coach, and he actually did use his lower range with great effect when he covered "Tom Traubert's Blues". Maybe the difference here is that he got to stay in the low part of his register for all of TTB, and he has to use almost his entire range for WaC,D. Still, I know he could do it, and do it well, so it bugs to hear it come so close, and yet so far.

The last iffy part is the "na na nanana nana" bit. It's part of what makes it so catchy, but it can grate really quickly.

Here's what the Friends of FOB Chorus sing over the end - as soon as Gabe starts, it's almost (but not quite) a round. Which is kind of cool.

Elvis Costello, "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet":
I will never end up like him
Behind my back, I already am
Keep a calendar
This way you will always know

Gabe Saporta (Cobra Starship), "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy":
Where is your boy tonight?
I hope he is a gentleman
Maybe he won't find out what I know
You were the last good thing

Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes), "Sugar, We're Goin' Down":
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And sugar, we're goin' down swinging

Brendon Urie (Panic At The Disco), "Dance, Dance":
Dance, dance, we're falling apart to halftime
Dance, dance, and these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me

Doug Neumann (Doug Does Decaydance), "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race":
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race

Alex DeLeon (The Cab), "Thnks fr th Mmrs":
One night and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great
He tastes like you, only sweeter

William Beckett (The Academy Is...), "Growing Up":
Growing up, growing up

It's not a static pace, Just a little kink in the year....


I love it when TV shows I like put up snippets to the music used in the episode on their website, so you can find it and decide if you want to get it. Sons Of Anarchy is doing it, and I was pleased to see artists I know and like, as well as more artists I'm happy to find.

If you know me (and if you're aware of the show's premise), you've got a pretty good idea of what kind of music this is.

"Hard Row" - The Black Keys - continuing the awesomeness of the Black Keys, want.
"Fool and You" - Year Long Disaster - def. 70s-style throwback, want.
"Writings on the Wall" - Album Leaf - mellow
"Plenty Strong, Plenty Wrong" - Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - have it, really like it.
"No Generation" - The Lions - pretty good, will probably grab one or other of The Lions' tracks
"Machine" - The Lions - pretty good
"Kick Back" - Fireball Ministry - def. like, want.
"Like the River" Sun Kil Moon - like, it's mellow, still want.
"Bobilicious" - Gia Ciambottie - want. Very much.
"Tus Ojitos" - Campanas De America - it's okay. I can think of better examples of that genre, though.

I'm looking forward to tonight's episode (though I'm a little grumbly that both live band karaoke and what is possibly my new favorite show are on at the same time). (I also have a Fringe show to go to tonight at 8:30, so there will be hauling ass back home, you betcha.)

Going insane at work, listening to too much pop-punk, decided to do a poll. Whee!

[Poll #1239675]

Now that I already got cass404, I'll earworm the rest of ya:



The hair! The wedding dress! Duff! The full orchestra! The windswept desert church! SLASH! (I still want that hat.) (Is Slash wearing leather chaps over jeans and under cowboy boots? Crazy man. Crazy SEXAY.)

(Jesus, the Wikipedia entry on the video is extensive.)

Peace Sign/Index Down

I actually liked it better live at Warped. Still awesome, though.

TRAVIE, I LOVE YOUR STUPID FACE.

Disashi, how so hot? (Seriously, you keep getting hotter. Soon, you will be hotter than the sun, and we will all burn up from your brilliant awesomeness.)

Matt is aDORaBLE when playing. So happy!

Eric, you are awesome and quiet. More of you, please.

Busta Rhymes - you are weird, sir. But props on your skills.

TRAVIE! Squee!

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, BITCHES.

In which Patrick Stump shows us his mad genius.

Cellists headbanging whilst playing... well I won't spoil that part for you.

And if I'm going to be linking to headbanging cellists, I need to put Apocalyptica in here. Hall Of The Mountain King. One.

ESPN feature on Roller Derby. A lot of the footage is from the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, MN. Whoo! These women make miss playing rugby. Not enough, to, you know, go out for any of the teams here, but still.

More seriously, Amazing slide show of a wedding photo shoot interrupted by the quake in China

It looks like the Summit Fire is coming under control, thankfully.

Almost into the weekend. \o/!!

Whoooooo. (Oh, yeah, no pics because the band instituted a "no camera" rule. IDK.)

Opening Act: Drive By. Meh. The backup vocals/guitarist was cute, but the lead singer/guitarist was... not good. The music wasn't bad, in and of itself, but there was nothing really differentiating it from anything I'd hear on the radio. Therefore, one looks to the band and especially the frontman to sell it. He didn't - he sort of gave off the attitude like we should be looking at him because he was on stage, and he would prance about for us and pose because he was on stage. I didn't feel like he had a connection to the music or to his band at all.

Middle Act: Billy Talent. Holy hell, YES. Charismatic as hell frontman, and all those mofos know how to rock. A little hardcore, a little psychobilly, completely their own thing, and absolutely fun to watch. (Though their music on MySpace isn't as dynamic as the live stuff. Huh.)

Headlining act: My Chemical Romance. Dude. Dooooooooooooooood. Dude. Gerard's pants still have holes in them, and he wore the holey jean jacket. \o/!!! Iero is sick, poor baby. He was wearing a driver's cap, a buttondown shirt, a cardigan.... he was basically bundled up. He wandered over to Bob and to Toro a few times, but motly stayed on his side, drooping to his knees every once in a while. MikeyWay is still wearing the "Mikey Fuckin Way" shirt (MADE OF WIN), and has the whole "looking animated" thing down pretty well. I think Bob enjoys having Dewees back there with him (James Dewees is on this tour as their keyboard player, and may join the band fulltime), and Toro headbangs even when playing acoustic. Bob had the mic at one point! I think he said all of a word, but still. smonsterbite and I were in the pit, so I don't remember set order or even all of what they played, but they definitely played: "Dead!", "Sharpest Lives", "Teenagers", "I Don't Love You", "House Of Wolves", "Sleep", "The Black Parade", "I'm Not Okay", "Cancer", "Desert Song", "Headfirst For Halos", "Helena", "Hang 'Em High", "I Never Told You What I Do For A Living", "Famous Last Words", "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison", "This Is How I Disappear", and some song no one knew. They also played "Kill All Your Friends, a b-side for Parade. Someone requested "Cubicles", and Gerard laughed, called him a crazy motherfucker, and said the dude'd have to sing it because Gee can't remember it. There was also a puppet!Gee that finally got passed up to the stage, and it got brought out by one of the techs to say hello.

smonsterbite and I were in the middle of the pit, and whoo. First of all, there's a distinction between shoving and moshing. Learn it, people. Secondly, damn, I'm tired. We're going up a tier tomorrow - still standing, but not in the midlde of the pit. HOWEVER, we were less than 10 people away from the stage at all times, which was pretty fucking awesome.

When they started "Famous Last Words", Frankie went over to Bob and talked to him for a bit. In my head, Frankie was asking if Bob was going to get burned up at the end of the song and Bob was replying "I don't know!!". He was smiling and laughing, at least.

Gereard is a hell of a frontman, I tell you what. And I'm tired, so I leave you with pics of S & me pre- and post-show. Smooches!!!

( Peeeektures )