darth vato, goodwin
shows this week? at mi casa, it's a no-brainer: darth vato, goodwin, and some fuckin' band from austin i've never heard of (who thankfully are playing _early_) at the moon on saturday night. especially since i missed this yr's parade of lost-sheep tcu freshmen making their way down berry street asking "where are the bars? are there any that have live music?" last weekend.
at the bar recently, kerry dean played me the voicemail he got from ian mckaye in response to a request from the vatos to use a sample from a minor threat song on their just-released seven seas e.p. it seems that when kerry called the dischord offices, ian was on the road with his current band, and so the vato boyzzz (who respect their heroes' copyrights) sent their new disco off for pressing sans the mckaye sample. turns out it woulda been ok with the godfather of straight-edge after all, so i suggested to kerry that maybe it'd also be cool to include ian's voicemail on the _next_ dv rec (um, minus his phone number, of course). in response to a suggestion that he send a copy of seven seas to dischord, kerry responded, "um, maybe just the song 'war on the westside' -- they aren't into songs that objectify wimmin."
it seems like the war was on the southside this past weekend, when the dv boyzzz were playing a houseparty in the fairmont addition. one set into the evening, the cops shut it down, and it looked for awhile like darth vato were going to have their chance to be fort worth's answer to the huns, the band that put the austin punk scene on the map by getting arrested everytime they played (thanks in large part to huns singer phil tolbert's assless chaps). "there were three patrol cars," said dv drummer eric dodson, "and i got a ticket for _jaywalking_ -- in a residential neighborhood." we can only hope that kerry dean will use the experience as grist for his songwriting mill and come up with something as anthemic and inspiring as the clash's "guns on the roof," which was written after "the only band that matter[ed](TM)"'s riddim boys got popped for, um, shooting pigeons with a pellet gun.
anthemic is an adjective that can be applied to any number of toons in goodwin's repertoire, and this weekend the new tcu kids who catch their set will get a real edjumikashun in melodic-yet-aggressive, hook-laden rawk songcraft, as well as acrobatic stage business. el presidente daniel gomez and his crew have been hard at work on a sophomore disc for months now, but like orson welles, gomez will sell no cd before its time. for now, we'll have to be satisfied with _just_ their live show, which is never less than stellar and should be even more so in the, um, _intimate_ setting of the moon, where you'll prolly need a spatula and crisco to get through the door by 11-ish.
at the bar recently, kerry dean played me the voicemail he got from ian mckaye in response to a request from the vatos to use a sample from a minor threat song on their just-released seven seas e.p. it seems that when kerry called the dischord offices, ian was on the road with his current band, and so the vato boyzzz (who respect their heroes' copyrights) sent their new disco off for pressing sans the mckaye sample. turns out it woulda been ok with the godfather of straight-edge after all, so i suggested to kerry that maybe it'd also be cool to include ian's voicemail on the _next_ dv rec (um, minus his phone number, of course). in response to a suggestion that he send a copy of seven seas to dischord, kerry responded, "um, maybe just the song 'war on the westside' -- they aren't into songs that objectify wimmin."
it seems like the war was on the southside this past weekend, when the dv boyzzz were playing a houseparty in the fairmont addition. one set into the evening, the cops shut it down, and it looked for awhile like darth vato were going to have their chance to be fort worth's answer to the huns, the band that put the austin punk scene on the map by getting arrested everytime they played (thanks in large part to huns singer phil tolbert's assless chaps). "there were three patrol cars," said dv drummer eric dodson, "and i got a ticket for _jaywalking_ -- in a residential neighborhood." we can only hope that kerry dean will use the experience as grist for his songwriting mill and come up with something as anthemic and inspiring as the clash's "guns on the roof," which was written after "the only band that matter[ed](TM)"'s riddim boys got popped for, um, shooting pigeons with a pellet gun.
anthemic is an adjective that can be applied to any number of toons in goodwin's repertoire, and this weekend the new tcu kids who catch their set will get a real edjumikashun in melodic-yet-aggressive, hook-laden rawk songcraft, as well as acrobatic stage business. el presidente daniel gomez and his crew have been hard at work on a sophomore disc for months now, but like orson welles, gomez will sell no cd before its time. for now, we'll have to be satisfied with _just_ their live show, which is never less than stellar and should be even more so in the, um, _intimate_ setting of the moon, where you'll prolly need a spatula and crisco to get through the door by 11-ish.
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