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Flareth Total nerd from In bed Since: Jun, 2009
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#601: Jun 25th 2012 at 2:49:01 PM

I'm looking forward to that as well. Isn't the band Screw Physics the opening act? They're okay...not my favorite group but I must admit their song "Exploding Rats" is very tongue-in-cheek with lots of humor. I also love how the used the bagpipes in that song.

KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#602: Jun 25th 2012 at 2:56:51 PM

The last good opening act was when "Modfdffsfghby UUIJ Ud" supported "JJUUJ" on their "Smashing your face into the key board just to see the results" tour.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#603: Jun 25th 2012 at 3:37:24 PM

Nah, let me tell you, the last great opening act I've come across was Get The Fuck Off The Stage.

Saw them open for Thousand Feet of String*

at the Crazy Donkey. Got to the gig late, but when I arrived, man, everybody was in a frenzy. They were chanting the band's name so loudly I couldn't even hear them play, and they didn't stop until the band's set was over.

Rockonman Since: Oct, 2011
#604: Jun 25th 2012 at 3:43:04 PM

Which city did you see that concert at? Because I was totally at a concert with them playing together.

Anywho, has anyone heard of a band called Flying Sea Turtles? I just heard about them, and I want to ask around about them before I cast my judgement.

KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#605: Jun 25th 2012 at 4:26:20 PM

Don't bother "Ambient-Post-Death-Pop-Hop-Neo-blues" is probably not your cup of tea.

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#606: Jun 25th 2012 at 11:49:38 PM

Dude! GTFOTS is AAAMAZING.

Heck, they should just go on their own tour. I'd see it. I'd do anything to go to a show like that last one I went to where they launched ice cream out of a cannon into the crowd during the showstopper "Door Knocker". It was epic — I had to wash myself three times to get the cookies n' cream smell to go away but it was SO WORTH IT.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#607: Jun 26th 2012 at 8:16:59 PM

[up][up]To be fair though, if you are a fan of that scene, Flying Sea Turtles are the best thing there is.

I consider myself a huge fan of the ambient-post-death-pop-hop-neo-blues sound; if you're not familiar with it or if you felt you gave it a try but didn't like it, check out the first album by The Adolf Snarn Pirate Parade, Zigg-Zang. Then, if you like that, check out Flying Sea Turtles's second album, a.k.a. "The Triangle Album".

edited 26th Jun '12 8:18:48 PM by SeanMurrayI

Flareth Total nerd from In bed Since: Jun, 2009
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#608: Jun 27th 2012 at 8:18:38 AM

I was there too, Tre. I think I may have also accidentally rubbed my face on your shirt. During the song "Fierce Flight" I was sweating bullets. They are just SO GOOD live.

Has anyone ever heard of the band "Pizza Slice"? They are relatively new. But I consider them the best indie-jazz-pop band around.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#609: Jun 27th 2012 at 9:04:57 AM

I remember being in high school when Pizza Slice were at the top of the charts with "Who Put the Boop?" Just heard it again, by chance, on the radio the other day; still sounds as great and fresh as it did way back then... three years ago.

Who put the boop in by best brown boots? Who put the glop in my zooba-dooba-ying-yang? They definitely don't write 'em like that anymore!

edited 27th Jun '12 9:05:14 AM by SeanMurrayI

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#610: Jun 27th 2012 at 12:11:23 PM

Unfortunately, any city with more than 1000 people these days has its own Pizza Slice tribute band—sometimes three or four. And they have no shame: last week, my company dragged us off to a "team building" retreat, and who was accompanying our catered lunch but those hacks Personal Calzone (a.k.a. "the Sbarro Doggie Bag of the Cannonborough district").

Their guitarist wasn't even wearing Brody Matuszak's canonical thigh-high sneakers.

Crayon97 Notepad from Canada Since: Oct, 2011
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#611: Jun 27th 2012 at 1:43:59 PM

Ha ha ha ha. Pizza Slice is NOTHING compared to Polarys. I really liked their collaboration on "Over and Out" though.

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ZeikHunter Master of None from a bitchin'-ass hat Since: Nov, 2009
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#612: Jun 27th 2012 at 11:01:59 PM

Oh please. Pizza Slice was carrying Polarys all the way through that EP. If it wasn't for Meg Stinger's electric upright backing BOTH guitar players we wouldn't be talking about O'n'O at all. Seriously, will Polarys ever break out some money for a wind instrument? Travis looks like he needs something besides callouses.

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Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#613: Jun 28th 2012 at 9:53:52 AM

This is how an imploding subsubsubgenre behaves—it's just science.

The real action these days is in prog-country. Hovertractor's first EP is actually more of a demo—part one, if you will, of their proposed multi-album song "Lamar the Inbred Mellotron." The genre appears to have genuine legs: D'Angelico has started mass-producing Flynn Tazewell's double-necked banjo, and several local honky-tonks have instituted pre-show trivia nights.

SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#614: Jun 29th 2012 at 5:58:35 PM

Here you go giving us the textbook sequence of events by which music scenes fall apart and break up and then diving into the so-called "next big thing" which would surely wind up following the same sequence... what, six months later, perhaps?

Hell, I can't wait to see that double-necked banjo become the next keytar or neo-drum.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#615: Jun 29th 2012 at 6:09:29 PM

You might wait a while. You know Hovertractor guitarist Bevo Scrump? Well, what you thought was a guitar is actually the "keytar" version of a lap pedal steel. And frankly, if covering "He Stopped Loving Her Today" with an Octobans solo is wrong, then I question the value of being right.

ithinkabouttrees Carrier of Pigeons from A dark and damp place Since: Oct, 2010
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#616: Jun 29th 2012 at 6:10:02 PM

This entire topic reminds me of an idea my high school history teacher had. (He's a bit of an odd guy, so be warned.)

He came up with the idea of un-bands that make un-music. Essentially, you take musicians that WOULD play instruments if you did make music, and form a group. Then, you write down song names, and it's the "listeners" job to tell you what the music sounds like. An example:

The group: Guitar: George Harrison; Bass: Sal Polichetti (from the band Sonseed that did Jesus is a Friend of Mine); Drums: Lars Ulrich; Vocals: Bjork

Song Titles: Fruitless mother board, Cacophony Symphony, Devil May Thrust, Shoot for the Mona Lisa

edited 29th Jun '12 6:10:42 PM by ithinkabouttrees

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#617: Jun 29th 2012 at 6:32:30 PM

You know Hovertractor guitarist Bevo Scrump?

Actually, I don't know him. Never heard of him at all, so whatever you gotta say about him and the keytar isn't gonna tell me much of anything. What the hell is Hovertractor? Are they one of those shit bands that nobody but the worst teenagers in society listen to at the Twenty Twisted Hours festival?

Man, that festival used to mean something, you know? Used to be you and your fellow 14-year-old friends could go gather in a field wearing a purple mohawk and green knee pads and watch a band like Pennytripper or The Glenn Agsby Seven play on a stage for a half an hour and other dumb-yet-fun stuff like that, and you wouldn't leave the following afternoon feeling much dumber than you were when you arrived there. Now, shit, you must have to have debilitating brain damage just to want to go there in the first place!

The crap they play there now... I made the mistake of going back to it and trying to relive the good ol' days three years ago. Like I said, HUGE mistake! The second I walked in, I happened to find this stage with two badly dressed white guys rapping poorly and a "keytarist" playing some of surreal walkie-talk riff with progressive zerowavecore influence. When that sound hit my ears, that's when it hit me. My good ol' days are dead now. Then once the shrieking bald woman came out I realized that I must be dead, too, and my soul has arrived in Hell. I left Twenty Twisted Hours festival of 2009 after three minutes and forty-six seconds. I didn't even think it was worth the effort to try and find anybody selling drugs. I just bailed. My most regrettable music purchase valued at over $50 ever spent.

edited 29th Jun '12 8:58:08 PM by SeanMurrayI

Rockonman Since: Oct, 2011
#618: Jun 29th 2012 at 11:13:42 PM

Hell yea, Pennytripper and The Glenn Agsby Seven. Completely forgot about them. Should have, went to several of their concerts.

Just checked, and guess what? Some of The Glenn Agsby Seven are getting back together as a reunion tour! AWWW YEA. Time to bust out my green knee pads.

edited 29th Jun '12 11:14:51 PM by Rockonman

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#619: Jun 30th 2012 at 2:22:29 PM

Did you hear the one of Glenn Agsby Seven started another group? It's called Delicious Aya and it's awesome. They only play country/metal fusion though. I love their song, called "tuesday". I can't wait for their next album so I can find out what happened to the seal cubs and the kitten.

KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#620: Jul 1st 2012 at 9:09:42 AM

[up] K Ind of surprised by that given your dislike of both genres.

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#621: Jul 1st 2012 at 8:33:58 PM

[up]What's so wrong with that? I'm not much of a fan of progressive-existential-libertarian-slow-mo-two-tone-christcore, but I can still enjoy Niagran Beatbox.

edited 1st Jul '12 8:37:02 PM by SeanMurrayI

Rockonman Since: Oct, 2011
#622: Jul 1st 2012 at 8:38:25 PM

For me, they're eeeeehhh. I'd rather listen to my neo-classical hardcore slap-accoustic bass/death metal mashup. I still can listen to them, though.

edited 1st Jul '12 8:38:43 PM by Rockonman

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#623: Jul 2nd 2012 at 12:05:32 PM

None of those have anything on Flaring Up Creepily Kinky Youkai Of Underworld. These guys are the best electronic rock band members ever. Did you hear their song "Attacking Some Supersonic Helium Overloaded Light Entity"?

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#624: Jul 3rd 2012 at 12:49:02 PM

I preferred "Snakes Under Cozumel's K-Mart Interior Traps," m'self.

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KingNerd Can-I-Bus from Suburbia. Since: Dec, 1969
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#625: Jul 3rd 2012 at 12:51:54 PM

[up] There a little to funk oriented for my taste, I prefer the lead singers side project "Ass-ass-ins" my self.

edited 3rd Jul '12 12:53:03 PM by KingNerd

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