Live Music Seattle

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Barefoot Barnalce

The Seattle music community (and lots, lots of my friends) took a big hit this week when we lost Jorge Meneses... who viewers of this show will mostly know as the guy on whom I drew a mustache in Episode 19, featuring Barefoot Barnacle. An episode whose footage is annoyingly dark...

If I was going to upload bonus footage, I would have done it in March, when the original episode went up, but there were a handful of cameras on scene when Barefoot celebrated their 10 year anniversary at El Corazon on July 19th. Right now, I'm just thrilled the footage exists... It has seriously helped with some of the coping.

Jorge is the unofficial MC of the night, which he opens with a joke... and a cover of Push It by Salt n Pepa. If you knew him, he was irrepressible, a consistently hilarious, mischievous prankster, and always a lot of fun-- as well as a hell of a guitarist and founding member of one of my favorite bands.

I've got a few more, as well as the original Barnacle episode, after the break...

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Mosh Pit Etiquette

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The pit is a crazy, chaotic, wild, and fun place to be. It usually exists without enforcement-- there may be security guys around, but they're not wardens or anything like that-- so the mosh pit is always sort of self-regulating... which is to say, it is regulated by you, the mosher, and the people in there with you. Most of this is basic common sense, but if people applied that common sense more often, I wouldn't have to put things like this online... so...

Thanks to Greg Yount for the title card! Check out The Greg Yount Show at youtube.com/user/yountson/videos

Friday, June 27, 2014

Marmits

Sunset Tavern

4/8/14

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Wild, alien cat creatures from Planet Hairless Ball-Nut, Marmits descended upon Seattle's Sunset Tavern to feed us all some inexplicably deranged, progressive, multi-textured sounds. We (the Negative Hole "we;" the ubik. "we" played with them last time they came through. Either way, I feel a little self conscious following this band) joined them, along with Cerebral Cortez and The Fabulous Downey Brothers, to blast away at the Sunset on a night were the wind and rain knocked out all the power in Ballard... everything up to one building south of us. Success!

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Disparaging the Now

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"Dude, music sucks now!" Cue eyeroll. Not only is there more amazing music in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy... exactly which "then" are you holding "now" up to? The common rants that the pop hits of today don't live up to the legendary music of (insert decade here) aren't just cliche, but completely invalid: the pop hits of yesteryear are just as bad as today's, and today's great music-- the stuff that isn't on the radio-- is as good as (or better than) what the Baby Boomers claim is the be-all end-all of music.

And I have proof...