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#814666 YO LA TENGO

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 15 October 2009 - 01:44 PM in Shows and Stuff

That was forever ago...they mentioned it, I believe...was it kind of a rough show?

#814596 YO LA TENGO

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 15 October 2009 - 12:40 PM in Shows and Stuff

It was great...awesome mix of old & new...

If it had only been rainy....and we had all been high... perfection...

and they did Autumn Sweater, which makes me think of Bobby (rum tenor) ...

It was a great night...and they are the nicest people on earth.

#841713 Yes, the BIKINI LOUNGE is open

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 24 December 2009 - 01:31 PM in Shows and Stuff

jus' syain'

#802731 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 21 September 2009 - 01:01 PM in The Shizz General Forum

I think the shizz is a jerk, but his band is okay.

#801954 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 03:14 PM in The Shizz General Forum

OK. For what it's worth I'm a music writer. A microcosm of the Phoenix music scene; I went to a show the other night and I overheard a few members of the band talking shit about the person who's song they were covering (THAT NIGHT!). I was appalled. OK I'll mention names. Shane Kennedy. In Matthew Reveles' band. Covering Jeff Gonzales' song Midday Epilogue (a young lady told me they play it in every set). I don't live here (and even if I did) I'm not afraid of repercussions from big fish in small ponds. Have some goddamn respect will you?

That sums up the scene; cliques, and general disrespect. LA sucks too but at least there's a general respect and comaraderie amongst the bands. Achieve that (without elitism) and there just might be a thriving music scene out here.

But the way, my name is Herb Ferguson, herbieferbie@yahoo.com

Maybe you should know what your talking about about before you open your mouth, because, once I do, you're gonna feel an asshole.

#801958 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 03:22 PM in The Shizz General Forum

Not everything is meant for a message board....

and thanks for contributing to a situation that was already bad enough.

Maybe you should mind your own business, as basically, you are gossiping.

a) I just play drums, I don't get to pick the tunes.

we don't play it every set.
c) ever known any musicians that weren't your favorite people, but managed to write a decent song (or many decent songs)???
d) another lame part about a scene is when you DO have to pretend to like everyone & their bands...it's tiring...
e) Herb? Who the fuck is Herb?

and I IM'd you my number. Use it, ya goofball...I'm guessing we'll end up agreeing on a few things & finding we have more in common than not.

Eavesdropper...

and I get the sneaking suspicion that you are Jeff Gonzales.

#802059 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 07:25 PM in The Shizz General Forum

Likewise.

and more importantly, I have never played a show at library.

yet.

#801994 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 04:49 PM in The Shizz General Forum

See, people act like they don't like gossip, but it's just not true, they LOVE it.

#802892 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 21 September 2009 - 03:27 PM in The Shizz General Forum

The Phoenix scene sucks cause you guys left.

It's all your fault.

#801962 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 03:37 PM in The Shizz General Forum

Gossiping? YOU are talking about gossiping?
Is it SO incomprehensable that someone else doesn't care for your bullshit? I can assure you I'm not Jeff, just someone who sees things for what they are. Don't you want a nice write up?

write me at herbieferbie@yahoo.com if you wanna talk

I don't care about a nice write up, no...

Jeff & Matt's issues are really not for public viewing, I'm sorry that we were overheard discussing it, but I'm not sure how you can point fingers at this point.

#801964 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 03:48 PM in The Shizz General Forum

and yes, Jeff, me & my Shizz friends ( :lol:

) know this is you....as it seems to coincide with MySpace posts that you are putting up.

Sorry, folks...

Additionally, I find the downtown scene to be great & really supportive.....they are some great new bands & the ones that have been around for a few years are doing some of their best work....There are some great festivals coming up, and yes, the Shizz is putting one on. I've found the Shizz crowd to be quite the opposite of elitist, although we all are in our own way. Most, but by no means all, of the so-called "Shizz" bands (I hate to break it to you, but there are no 'official' Shizz bands) tend to rock out, and the Shizz hasn't, usually, been that into the mellowish-country thing...But their are wonderful exceptions to that....Rum Tenor, Nowhere Man & a Whiskey Girl, Lonna Kelley..and I had a lovely talk a few months ago with Donald about doing a Shizz Roots/Americana fest.....and as far as you thinking that I have any pull on the Shizz, sorry Charlie...the folks on the Shizz have, more than once, had to kick me on the ass.

The Shizz isn't some big scene that controls the Phoenix music scene...it's a lil homespun website of some neighbors, some friends, some musicians, some visual artists...every so often they put on a nice show, or festival, with some of those folks.

Certainly the way to get involved with these people is not to write accusatory & negative posts on a site that is frequented by a bunch of folks who are just trying to be cool & do their part. I have made that mistake before & I was set straight.

Also, posting anonymously doesn't work too well, as their are some hardcore technerds on here who are pretty slick about tracing IP addresses...

#802006 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 05:21 PM in The Shizz General Forum

#801974 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 04:06 PM in The Shizz General Forum

and yes, I'll take the Social Security number, thanks...

and you weren't at the show the other night...

We haven't played that song for a few weeks, I think.

You can email me directly. You have before.

#802022 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 05:49 PM in The Shizz General Forum

lets turn this into the coolest thread ever. and post badass shows here

Also, the Garagshock show @ The Tribe where they did an all Mummys set.

HOLY SHIT! that is badass

OH and...

USA USA USA

I'm looking more & more like this everyday, without the boat, I mean...and the bandana...but with the cheeseburger...

I fuckin LOVE cheeseburgers....with swiss cheese, tomatoes, avacado, jalepenos...oh man...CASEY MOORES...

#801976 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 04:08 PM in The Shizz General Forum

Christ, if you live LA, why are you bothering to write on a lil ol message board in lil ol shitty Phoenix?

You're being silly.

You two can write me direct.

Stop posting your goofy shit here.

#802565 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 21 September 2009 - 09:43 AM in The Shizz General Forum

I think it's okay to say who you like, AND who you don't like.....Is a person not supposed to express their opinion about someone, just because they are a local musician? That's silly.

My thing has always been that I have felt, that perhaps, we tend to support WHO we like, as opposed to WHAT we like....and that, maybe, we are not even interested in projects by individuals who we don't feel positively about, or individuals that we don't know....and, maybe, that's how it seem a bit clique-y to people.

For anyone out there who has made the mistake of meeting their heroes, you know that sometimes they are not the nicest people...

It sucks to sometimes have to make a decision between good art & nice people...

Man, my friends are jerks, but when they shut up, they sure do make some nice music....

Maybe that's the difference between local bands & the one's whose albums we listen to all the way through....we don't have to hang out with the 'national ones' so we don't know, or care, if they are jerks....

I go to see music I like, regardless whether of not I like the people, when I have the time & the money, and that's all I could ask of anyone, really.

There is tooooo much good music to go see in Phoenix......

#801982 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 19 September 2009 - 04:19 PM in The Shizz General Forum

I have never played a show at the Library. Ever.

#802763 Why the Phoenix Music Scene Sucks

Posted by Hooray For Everything on 21 September 2009 - 01:34 PM in The Shizz General Forum

this is the most amazing thread that should have never existed.

It's not really very good, and you know it.

It's petty, snippy, & mean spirited.

Like the Lame Phoenix Music Scene.