They also have Max Cady!

Not blues, but yes we do. Though perhaps not for long is my understanding. I think Justin was talking about moving to CA.

Heh. Is this in reference to the face they make whilst soloing?

Oh yeah. If you can't see their upper teeth, the music's just no good, man, 'cause that means they aren't feeling it.

the Usual White Underbiter

Heh. Is this in reference to the face they make whilst soloing?

Nah, it's another Blue Oyster Cult tribute band.

Wouldn't that be the Soft White Underbiters?

Ms. Aguilera's work is feminist?

It's very feminist, in a Madonna sort of way, compared to a lot of other music for 13-year-old girls. I personally don't think she's saying anything Gloria Steinem & co. didn't say 35 years ago, but she bugs me to begin with. (Xtina, not the Ms-istas.)

I think that the writer has a point (which is, in fact, a point I made to a overly dismissive metalhead music critic the other day), but I think rockism is built on class issues

Absolutely. Class and race, which are very intertwined in America.

Tommyrot -

Bands don't technically pay to play any more in Los Angeles. There are a few clubs that make bands sell tickets ahead of time and then they have to pay for anything they don't sell.

But the main system I've seen is that you have to guarantee x number of people will show up for your band (they ask each person at the door which band they are there to see). If you don't meet the agreed upon figure, you don't have to pay, but it will probably be your last show at that club.

Shit. What's Seattle, then?

So 90s.

Filled with hipsters who will go see anything they can call "ironic" while drinking?

dropping in again with another gem gleaned from that nifty little radio station I found and which I in my ignorance need identified. The station is KOHS, by the way, which I think is Orem High School. About three miles from my office, which explains the clarity of signal.

Anyway, the song. I didn't get all the words of the chorus, but the subject is a man being shipped off to Botany Bay in a prison ship and saying good-bye to his pregnant wife/girlfriend Mary and telling her to raise their kid to remember him. I think. My ears don't always follow lyrics that well. There's a bridge with bagpipe and electric guitar that was gorgeous. Here's what I've got of the chorus: "It's so lonely around the (something) of (something)."

Between this station and you guys I may start listening to stuff other than opera.

Well, no. (Though "Los Angeles Is Burning" was a cool song)

I think it's an old celtic folk song called "Fields of Athenry". Probably oft covered:

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t edit (I just googled "Botany Bay" "it's so lonely")