Raise your hand if you’re truly surprised. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are finally calling it quits. However Phaedra Parks, an entertainment lawyer, says that this is only “a legal separation…not a divorce or a divorce petition.” Who’s the bigger guilty party in this relationship, anyway? Both artists have had their ups and downs with drugs numerous times. Oh and then there’s those times spent in jail…oh wait, Bobby actually hit Whitney, but perhaps he was just trying to smack her out of a drug fog. This can happen, you know. Oh, how the mighty fall. Lap it up.
Month: September 2006 (Page 5 of 7)
He’ll do his best and try to keep rock and roll alive.
If you’ve ever wanted to see the infamous Kilroy Was Here tour of Styx’s in which they acted out the album’s story, well here’s a little slice of hell for you. The big ol’ “Don’t Let It End (reprise)” finale in which Tommy Shaw plays Jonathan Chance, with Dennis DeYoung in the Kilroy lead. Absolutely one of the uncoolest shows to ever go down. This crowd really loved it, as it was taken from the official “Caught In The Act” video, but there were many stops on the tour where the fans just loathed it (some of which can be seen on the band’s “Behind The Music” episode). Either way, this crap is still abysmal and hilarious to boot.
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You young punks are probably too young to remember how great the Little River Band used to be…and you old bastards who remember the LRB but think I’m overstating their talent are apparently senile and have forgotten how phenomenal their harmonies were on “Happy Anniversary,” “Cool Change,” “The Night Owls,” “Reminiscing,” and so many other classics.
Over the years, though, the band’s line-up has changed rather a lot, with original members leaving, coming back, and leaving again. Nowadays, there’s literally no-one from the original line-up in the band anymore…and, frankly (and unsurprisingly), it rather annoys the band’s founders that there’s basically a LRB cover band touring the world and playing songs they had nothing to do with writing.
Well, the band’s original guitarist, Graeham Goble, has just released a solo album – The Days Ahead – and tackled this annoyance via a song entitled “Someone’s Taken Our History.” You can check it out at his official MySpace page…and you should, because it really captures the old LRB feel…but in the meantime, you can get an idea of how he feels by reading a sampling of the lyrics:
“Someone’s taken our history
Someone’s taken our songs for free
We wrote the words and the melody
Now someone else sings our harmony
Every night when the lights are low
In the darkness, they play our show
Just as if they were really us
They get on the bus
And they don’t say a word”
Ouch.
Robert Christgau, one of the preiminent music reviewers in the United States (and one who knows it, since he once famously referred to himself as “the Dean of American Rock Critics,” has been fired by the Village Voice.
The Voice had been Christgau’s home for about as long as I’ve been able to read, and it’s where he oversaw the publications’ annual Pazz and Jop critics poll, to which I’ve contributed in the past. The poll was, “in addition to being the definitive annual best-of list, both before and after the Internet, a kind of virtual powwow, a way for critics to ‘gather’ each year to talk about music and their perennially embattled profession.”
Christgau’s right up there with Bangs, Marcus, and Marsh when it comes to recognizable music critics. I’m sure he’ll bounce back, but it’s depressing to think that he had to leave at all.
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