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The bassist has gotta be the guy from Well!Well!Well!, the German band who opened the entire Deutsch leg of that Bug tour…any more clips from that show out there?
Finally! I’ve been saying it since I first heard it: "Houses" is one of the best things these guys have ever recorded, and certainly their best cover after "Just Like Heaven." The Zombies tune is an ambitious and competent effort (a deceptively hard song to play–listen to the original "Whenever You’re Ready"; I always wanted them to do "Walking in the Sun" a la Jesus and Mary Chain, but what can you do?). However, if there were any justice, "Houses" would be a top-ten hit and everyone would be grooving to it as much as me and my kids are (it is the most-requested Dino tune in the car during family trips). Lou gets the credit for suggesting this Elyse tune in the first place, all the more so because it matches J’s vocal sensibilities so perfectly, and it reminds me how close Dino can be to those aspects of Tom Petty that are solidly good and pop-rocked. Methinks it’d be a great tune to hear live, eh?
So, just to be clear, is it Self-loathing Playa-hater, or Play-hating Soapy-lather? Those krispy DSM-IV categories can be so confusing…
Grand Imam Ali Al-Pesto, if Dino lyrics are forbidden, are Deep Wound lyrics likewise unclean? Please guide us further….
Now the aromatic noodles are getting VERY krispy indeed! Stay tuned: no doubt there’s plenty more where that came from!
"Sister Unnhh": great name for a new white rap sensation! Look out, Sister Lith-E-Um, Sister Unnhh’s gonna clean yer clock, retro-porno style, yo! Â
For bio-hermaneutical early take on sib sitch, cf. "Sisters" (Deep Wound). Someone will post? Rot, bleed, don’t need…
Chris,
Sweet Child-o-Mine was recorded 10/30/88 during the Bug tour in Basel, Switzerland, at the Kulturwerstatt Kaserne. The single and video had broke right before Dino left for the tour, and it was just in the air. Europe hadn’t heard it yet, and the band figured they’d provide a preview. J nailed that monster guitar opening in about a minute, but nobody wanted to sing it, so they asked vanmates Jon Fetler (he who was voted "Worst Roadie of the Year" by the Rapeman and Band of Susans roadies, who knew what they were talking about) and Megan Jasper (she sister of album-coverer Maura). It’s Jon on the Axel part while Megan screeches, and either Lou or J introducing. It’s the only time Dino ever played that tune anywhere. In addition to the audio, someone videoed the entire show. Now that would be a dino-junkie find, eh?Some Jski bits:
— a hardcore K2 loyalist
— not opposed to cross-country, but when pressed, would probably not consider it "skiing"
— childhood ski areas: the now-defunct Roundtop (VT), the now-defunct Berkshire Snow Basin (MA), Berkshire East (aka, Berkshire Ice, MA, where the ARHS ski team smoked weed and sometimes raced)
— Flying Cloud is a trail at Berkshire East
— Out There was shot in Canada
— to s’guy query, "Is it Murph?": on the cosmic level, please remember, it is always MurphArtie, the media-sensation that almost never was, was a demented social experiment gone awry at UMass Amhurts in the mid-80’s. Artie presented himself to two Brett dormdwellers as an opportunity to alleviate the deadening routine of partygoing during those darkest chapters of college life. Under their shameful supervision, Artie rose to the early occasions splendidly. But he kept rising, ascending, like Willy Wonka’s glass elevator, beyond all social boundaries until, inevitably, the crash-and-burn grisly end of it all (which, of course, was not really the end of it all). For dino fans, Artie appeared at several early gigs, putting all of himself into a short selection of Neil Young covers. But that contribution is negligible when compared to his brilliant collaboration with Ms. Maura Jasper. Yes, that’s Artie himself rising over the peak of Mt. Wherever on the cover of the first dinosaur lp. Artie is the sun.
Who loves the sun? Had he known, Lou Reed surely wouldn’t have asked that. But J knew. His answer? Take a run at the sun….
