March 2010
Dangerous - The NorVa, Norfolk, VA August 28, 2009
Setlist: Thriller, Rock With You, Off the Wall, Billie Jean, Don't Stop ('Till You Get Enough), Black or White, Smooth Criminal, Say Say Say, Bad, I'll Be There, Hot Tub, Beat It, We Are the World
One of my favorite shows of 2008 was Tragedy: The All-Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees. That group plays metal arrangements of the disco-era Bee Gees hits and sounds a bit like the Gibb brothers fronting Judas Priest and is complete with an over-the-top stage show. We saw them opening for a band we'll travel almost anywhere to see, 2 Skinnee J's. So, when we heard about Dangerous, the Heavy Metal Tribute to Michael Jackson, we were there.
Leonard Cohen, BankAtlantic Center, October 17, 2009
Submitted by John Beatty on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 09:40
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Setlist (as best I can remember)
Set One: Dance Me to the End of Love, The Future, Ain't No Cure for Love, Bird on the Wire, Everybody Knows, In My Secret Life, Who by Fire, Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye, Anthem
Set Two: Tower of Song, Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy, The Gypsy's Wife, The Partisan, Boogie Street, Hallelujah, I'm Your Man, A Thousand Kisses Deep (Recitation), Take this Waltz, Waiting for the Miracle, Closing Time
Encore One: So Long, Marianne, First We'll Take Manhattan
Encore Two: Famous Blue Raincoat, If It Be Your Will, Democracy
Encore Three: I Tried to Leave You, Whither Thou Goest
AHL Mirabito Outdoor Classic, February 20, 2010
Submitted by John Beatty on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 22:50
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In 1994, Syracuse hockey fans hailed Howard Dolgan as a hero when the Hamilton Canucks relocated to the upstate New York city. Syracuse had been without a regular minor league team since the Blazers folded in the late 1970s. In 2010 it happened again as he brought the AHL's first outdoor game to Syracuse. In the vein of the recent NHL Winter Classics, the Mirabito Outdoor Classic was held at the New York State Fairgrounds on February 20 between the Crunch and the Binghamton Senators.
Tinariwen, The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY February 19, 2010
I was originally planning on traveling around my birthday because I heard Tinariwen was going to be touring in the U.S. I was thinking that I might go to the Raleigh show midweek before my birthday as it was much closer than the show on the day in San Francisco or the shows following in Los Angeles. But then the 2 Skinnee J's shows were announced and we bought tickets. Soon after, dates on the Tinariwen filled in, including two New York area shows scheduled when we'd be there.
The first night in New York was the night of the 2 Skinnee J's show. The second was at a newer venue in Brooklyn called The Bell House. I'd never heard of the place, but before the 2 Skinnee J's show, Lance said he saw Eddie's other band play there and it was a really nice venue in a weird neighborhood. He said it looked like you were in the wrong place because there was nothing there.
The Six Songs of AC/DC
A common complaint about bands like AC/DC is that they've been writing and recording the same album for twenty years. A further criticism is that all of their songs are the same. This is not quite true. I cataloged the various AC/DC songs in 2008. Following a long-standing argument between me and Eric regarding the true number of AC/DC songs (six or four), I present the following analysis of the six songs of AC/DC. This analysis is on the music, not the lyrics, which would be the subject of a different post.
2 Skinnee J's Acoustic Tell-All Brawl, B.B. King's, New York, NY, February 18, 2010
Submitted by John Beatty on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 14:06
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Intro Song (Don't know the title), 2 Dimensional > Evel Knieval > Periscope > Mood for Food, The Best, Loud Neighbor, Pluto (w/J Guevera), "Party Favors Story" (Lance), You're a Champion, Girl with the World in her Eyes, "Quiz", Stockholm Love, Secret Frequency, Grown Up, Science, "Andy Action's prostitution story", Pass the Buck > Horns of Destruction > Big Beat Evangelists, "The poo story" (Eddie), "The pee story" (Eddie), The Good, the Bad and the Skinnee > Ballpoint Man > Wild Kingdom > Organic Machine > The Whammy, Riot Nrrrd, Mindtrick, 718
Encore: "Q&A", BBQ, Get in the Van, Sugar and Candy
RPM Challenge Final Analysis
Submitted by John Beatty on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 22:04
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This weekend, I finished my first RPM Challenge project. I decided to do it this year as I have not worked on a new music project since I moved from Syracuse. I wasn't able to set the drums up at our apartment, but did play guitar a bit. I have been playing guitar and drums since we moved to the house. But I haven't started (or finished) a project. I thought the RPM Challenge would break the ice, get me working on something and also force me to finish it as there was the built-in time constraint.
The completed project was not exactly what I expected going in, but it is not too far from it. It's definitely sloppy in parts, as I didn't have time to really get the parts right and I didn't finish all of the tracks I started.
Was this the best album I could have made? No. But that would take countless hours, weeks, months even. Part of the appeal of a challenge like this one is the time constraint. Projects tend to work better with built-in limitations, whether they be time, budget, method of recording or something else. That said, there are some things that happened over the course of the month that adversely affected the end product.
RPM Challenge Final Weekend
Submitted by John Beatty on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 20:57
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When I was an undergraduate, I realized fairly quickly that I would need to counteract my natural proclivity towards procrastination with some serious scheduling. To that end, I scheduled just about everything, but in particular any assignments. In high school, I tended to put off assignments and turned in a lot of them late, incomplete or not at all. See my junior year grades if you want to see how that worked out for me (not very well).
I actually wanted to do well in college and I had a pretty packed schedule between school, work and band activities. Although I moved 30 miles away from the rest of the group and was in school full-time and working close to full-time most semesters, we still practiced once a week and played a couple of shows a month throughout most of my college career.
