Dugout Chatter: Artist Association Edition

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Oct 262009
 

This special edition of Dugout Chatter requires not only your customary candid, from-the-gut answers but your own leave-behind query, meant to inspire additional chatter. Following is a small set of descriptive phrases, the kind that you may find in a chiche-ridden rock feature or review concerning an a solo artist or band. For each phrase, respond with the first artist or band that comes to mind.

Now here’s where you help the chatter build: after sharing your associations, please leave your own descriptive phrase for the next Townsperson to answer atop the initial set of responses. Got me? Great. Let’s associate!

  • …incorrigible bad boys of rock ‘n roll…
  • …once again delivers rock ‘n roll comfort food…
  • …certain to incite RTH debate…
  • …crowned the Elfin Prince of Rock ‘n Roll…
  • …challenging, constantly evolving band…
  • …his nimble bass runs add character to the most pedestrian of compositions…

I look forward to your responses, and don’t forget to leave us with your own descriptive phrase for us to associate!

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Artists Badly in Need of Some Scrutiny

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Oct 232009
 


As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Roy Wood, in particular his work with The Move and his solo album Boulders. However, once he crossed the line into ridiculous, futuristic-retro glam with Wizzard, I have trouble keeping up with the guy. First of all, his recordings sound worse than ever. I’m no audiophile, and I’ve always found something charming about the overloaded sound of The Move records and the claustrophobic Boulders, but Wizzard simply sounds terrible – and not in a good way.

More troubling is the progression of Wood’s Look and what it says about his interest in communicating with humans on any level. As seen in this 1972 ELO video, the guy was pushing it a few years before Wizzard and his Mustard solo album. It’s one thing to be “eccentric,” quite another to announce to the world that you do not intend to ever be taken seriously, not even in a joking way.

Anyhow, I’ve rarely found interviews with Wood, and my attempts at reaching him myself have not been fruitful. I’m all for rock’s outsiders, wildmen, and such, but someone needs to put a little scrutiny on Roy Wood, someone needs to ask him one question:
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Friday, October 23: The Secret Cinema Presents Let It Be

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Oct 222009
 


A friend who really needs to enter the Halls of Rock more than any other friend I know, Jay Schwartz, is screening The Beatles’ lost feature Let It Be, as part of his Secret Cinema series at Moore College of Art & Design (20th & Race Sts, Philadelphia) this Friday, October 23. Showtime is 8:00 pm; admission is $7. I was planning on being there, but now I’ve got to make a whirlwind work trip across the country instead. If you’ve never seen this film on a big screen, I highly recommend it. If you’ve seen it long ago and live in the Philadelphia area, I still recommend being there. I’d love to read some discussion over it when I get back on Sunday.

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Phil Suckabrewski Was No Ordinary Songwriter — Well, Yeah, He Actually Kinda Was

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Oct 212009
 

Phil Suckabrewski woke up. Just like always, the blues were coming down like rain. But why? Just last night, under the pale moonlight, he had seen the love light in his sweetheart’s eyes, and kissed her ruby red lips — lips sweeter than cherry wine. Thoughts of his girl, deep inside his brain, were making him go insane. But his love for her was so strong, he knew they could carry on. He hopped in his ’57 Chevy, put the pedal to the metal, and drove into the setting sun.

But what happened next?

I look forward to your responses.

HVB

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