stoogeaphilia
stoogeaphilia is my dream band: the best cats i know on their respective axes, playing music i've wanted to play all my life (the music from the first two stooges albums, along with a few selected james williamson-era toons).
ray liberio is the leather-lunged frontman for the me-thinks, who very generously allow us to use their prac pad, amps, drums, etc. 'cos that's the kinda cats they are. ray-boy's also a gifted graphic artist who designs the coolest rawk posters the fort's ever seen, and one smart, funny sumbitch as well. ray is one of three ailurophiles in stoogeaphilia, a band which started out as a joke between me 'n' ray over beers in the bar and wound up being...something else.
matt hembree a.k.a. katboy plays bass with three great (and very different) bands and was also in one of my favorite bands of all time (that'd be bindle), who i hear might be playing a reunion show or two soon, an exciting prospect. matt is prolly my fave local muso only because he purely loves to play more than anyone else i know. he grew up playing in a family bluegrass band in tennessee, just like charlie haden did in missouri, and digs sci-fi. once i showed up early for practice and found him sitting in his car reading a sci-fi paperback. he also likes to take off his clothes onstage. he's the anchor.
jon teague's signature sound from his bands yeti and the great tyrant is heavy and dark, but he also kicks real good punk-rock drums in the grand style with the stoogeaphiles. watch him play and you'll see less wasted motion than you'll observe with the majority of drummers. he has the best taste in music of any 30something i know, and has turned me onto more good music (thanks, jon). in general with the cats in this band, there's less _explaining_ required than in most bands i've been in -- nice. jon once told me that everytime he sees me now, he wants to eat pizza, because a pie from big joe's in haltom city is part of the ritual of stoogeprac. the feedback meltdown at the end of "little doll" was his idea.
steffin ratliff is my fave fort worth gtrist and he's humble enough to think that statements like that are boo-shee. still, i remain in awe of his gtrissimo with bindle (the noise and feedback quotient of the stoogeband are not new to sir steffin's repertoire, but he's also so damn melodic it'll make you weep) and need to go see him play with bobby zanzucchi sometime. pre-stoogeaphilia, steffin told me he was mainly playing acoustic at home, and you can hear it in the fingerstyle things he'll whip out in practice between songs. wait'll you hear him play "marquee moon."
we've been talking about adding new material for like six months now, including some non-stooge material from other proto-punk bands (from the era clinton heylin covered in his essential tome from the velvets to the voidoids). at one point we were actually talking about opening up the parameters to include "anything before the '80s." early on, we discussed doing the minutemen, texas punk, and the who's live at leeds. we just need to find a practice schedule that'll work for evabody involved.
we got nominated for a fw weekly award, but the paper mysteriously omitted our category from the listings during the first week of balloting, then just omitted _us_ the second week. strange. it's not like we would have won anyway even if all 12 people who like us had voted for us, but it just seems kinda odd. whatevah.
we're playing at the wreck room on thursday, june 28th, which'll be my 50th b'day, so my sweetie is getting me a cake. and i happen to know that my middle dtr and one of her friends are dressing up for the occasion. after that, i need to talk to forella about booking some dates at 6th street.
ray liberio is the leather-lunged frontman for the me-thinks, who very generously allow us to use their prac pad, amps, drums, etc. 'cos that's the kinda cats they are. ray-boy's also a gifted graphic artist who designs the coolest rawk posters the fort's ever seen, and one smart, funny sumbitch as well. ray is one of three ailurophiles in stoogeaphilia, a band which started out as a joke between me 'n' ray over beers in the bar and wound up being...something else.
matt hembree a.k.a. katboy plays bass with three great (and very different) bands and was also in one of my favorite bands of all time (that'd be bindle), who i hear might be playing a reunion show or two soon, an exciting prospect. matt is prolly my fave local muso only because he purely loves to play more than anyone else i know. he grew up playing in a family bluegrass band in tennessee, just like charlie haden did in missouri, and digs sci-fi. once i showed up early for practice and found him sitting in his car reading a sci-fi paperback. he also likes to take off his clothes onstage. he's the anchor.
jon teague's signature sound from his bands yeti and the great tyrant is heavy and dark, but he also kicks real good punk-rock drums in the grand style with the stoogeaphiles. watch him play and you'll see less wasted motion than you'll observe with the majority of drummers. he has the best taste in music of any 30something i know, and has turned me onto more good music (thanks, jon). in general with the cats in this band, there's less _explaining_ required than in most bands i've been in -- nice. jon once told me that everytime he sees me now, he wants to eat pizza, because a pie from big joe's in haltom city is part of the ritual of stoogeprac. the feedback meltdown at the end of "little doll" was his idea.
steffin ratliff is my fave fort worth gtrist and he's humble enough to think that statements like that are boo-shee. still, i remain in awe of his gtrissimo with bindle (the noise and feedback quotient of the stoogeband are not new to sir steffin's repertoire, but he's also so damn melodic it'll make you weep) and need to go see him play with bobby zanzucchi sometime. pre-stoogeaphilia, steffin told me he was mainly playing acoustic at home, and you can hear it in the fingerstyle things he'll whip out in practice between songs. wait'll you hear him play "marquee moon."
we've been talking about adding new material for like six months now, including some non-stooge material from other proto-punk bands (from the era clinton heylin covered in his essential tome from the velvets to the voidoids). at one point we were actually talking about opening up the parameters to include "anything before the '80s." early on, we discussed doing the minutemen, texas punk, and the who's live at leeds. we just need to find a practice schedule that'll work for evabody involved.
we got nominated for a fw weekly award, but the paper mysteriously omitted our category from the listings during the first week of balloting, then just omitted _us_ the second week. strange. it's not like we would have won anyway even if all 12 people who like us had voted for us, but it just seems kinda odd. whatevah.
we're playing at the wreck room on thursday, june 28th, which'll be my 50th b'day, so my sweetie is getting me a cake. and i happen to know that my middle dtr and one of her friends are dressing up for the occasion. after that, i need to talk to forella about booking some dates at 6th street.
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