All Ages!

Well, I had no idea.  Red Eyed Fly is all ages all the time.  Great.  All you youngsters that are the next wave of punk rockers(I'm talking to you Zacky Boothe), but can't get into the regular clubs, now is your time. 

This week's Monday was kind of okay.  Nobody wanted to step up to the Lightning Reaction until later in the night after the music stopped.  Then it was a laugh riot.  I'll bring it along on the 17th just in case there are any brave souls in the crowd. 

Don't drive yet or don't have a car?  Ride the bus!
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Monday Night Punk Rock #2

From Publishers Weekly

Music journalist Bessman's closeness to his subject--he is a good friend of the members of the Ramones--has both positive and negative effects on his authorized history of this seminal American band, famous for knowing only three chords and for playing everything as fast as possible. Bessman has great access to details such as the Ramones's mistrust of the Talking Heads--"a bunch of intellectuals"--with whom they toured Europe. But it also means that he sometimes misses the ironies and inconsistencies in their behavior, like the fact that members of a band whose lyrics include the infamous line "Well I'm a Nazi, schatzi, you know, I fight for the fatherland" claimed that their work had no political content. The "four guys from Queens" who formed the original group in 1974 seem to have been truly without pretensions, which makes Bessman's overheated interpretation of their achingly simple lyrics just silly. Bessman's theory is that the Ramones were always poised on the brink of stardom but missed out due to the mistakes of others, i.e., the release of one of their best-known songs, Rockaway Beach , during the winter and the poor distribution of their only film, Rock 'n' Roll High School. Photos.

Come down to Red Eyed Fly tonight and play Lightning Reaction for prizes.  We will have more t shirts and this book about the Ramones.  Good clean fun!

R.I.P. Frankie 45

It always breaks me up to see this sort of thing.  I know what it's like to lose a close friend and band member to suicide.  You always feel as though something is missing, and you always know exactly what it is. 

I only ever met the boys from Spector 45 once.  It was last year.  We were doing a show at Red 7.  They showed up, but were somehow left off of the bill for the night.  There had been a mix up with emails and confirming the show or something.  I just know that they were on the bill when we signed up, but then later they were off of the web listing.  I told them that we would cut our set short if we had to, and they said that they were going to head over to Headhunters to try to get in on a show there.  I guess there was no opening, because they walked back to Red 7.  They never said a mean thing about what was going on.  They had driven in from Dallas and I know some people who would have thrown a major fit in that situation.  However, they worked it out and went on at the end of the night.  If you pay close enough attention, you can tell certain things about a band when you see them live.  You can tell when a band has been together for a long time and when they are new.  You can tell if they're good friends or not.  You can tell if they are serious about what they are doing.  Spector 45 was one of those bands that the building could have collapsed around and they would have never missed a beat.  That's how tight they were.

My condolences to his family.  I only saw them once, but you never forget seeing a guy playing a Gretsch guitar and standing on top of his guitar amp.

Good Show!

The first Punk night went pretty well.  We had Everyday Destruction, Violent Night, and Jane Doe Eyes on stage.  I broadcast the entire show on Ustream and recorded the last set.  Next time, I'll record the entire show.  I was a little hesitant to hit the record button because I wasn't sure if it was going to affect the stream.  It might have, but the video turned out okay. 

I wrote up some punk rock trivia while I was working on the POS system at a Dunkin Donuts.  Angie from The Beat Dolls stepped up as Quiz Master.  It was fun and we gave out some Monday Night Punk Rock t-shirts to the most knowledgeable punks.  Oh yeah, Dunkin Donuts hooked us up with free donuts for the show!  Next Monday will be just as much fun and we'll have more stuff to give away so brush up on your trivia.