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Post by SweetNadine on Dec 1, 2002 20:15:01 GMT -5
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Post by LS on Dec 1, 2002 23:42:22 GMT -5
HEAR & NOW Little Feats Steven Van Zandt can't escape good ratings. He plays Silvio Dante on The Sopranos, pay cable's top rated show. He plays guitar for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which sells millions of records. And he plays acts like The Hollies on Little Steven's Underground Garage, a syndicated radio program with sky-high numbers. On New York's WAXQ, he turned a 0.7 (the percentage of radios tuned in) to a 4.2 in his time slot among men 18-34. On Phoenix's KDKB, a 0.0 became a 9.6. "I'm probably the only guy playing the Yardbirds now, not to mention the Ramones or the New York Dolls," says Van Zandt, who also spins younger stars like the Hives. With Underground, his New York City concert series, and general rawk advocacy (he persuaded Sopranos brass to use a Greenhorns song and to hire the Swinging Neckbreakers for a scene), Van Zandt is on a mission. "It's important that the next generation of kids hears this music," he says. "It could change somebody's life, like it did mine." Capice? ~ Evan SerpickThat good old Miami still rocks!!
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Post by DRL on Jun 28, 2004 10:51:26 GMT -5
Van Zandt Organizes 'Garage Band' Fest Updated 00:56 PDT Sat, Jun 26 2004NEW YORK (AP) _ Do you remember "Hullaballo"? "Upbeat"? "Shindig"? Those classic '60s rock television shows inspired Little Steven Van Zandt's latest project - a one-day "garage band" festival featuring the godfathers of garage rock and their offspring. The old guard at The International Underground Garage Festival includes the reunited New York Dolls, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, and Bo Diddley, Van Zandt announced June 25. The new kids include the Strokes, the Raveonettes and the Chesterfield Kings. The appearance by seminal punkers the Dolls - or at least surviving members David Johansen, Arthur Kane and Syl Sylvain - will be their first in the United States after a date in England. Many of the other bands at the August 14 show on Randall's Island in New York City were unearthed by Van Zandt for his nationally syndicated "Underground Garage" radio show. "I've always wanted to do a rock and roll festival in the old style of Alan Freed, Shindig, Hullabaloo, and all of those early shows," said Van Zandt, whose other jobs include guitarist for Bruce Springsteen and consigliere Silvio Dante on "The Sopranos." Tickets for the show, priced at $20, went on sale June 25. Van Zandt promised concertgoers "one giant B-movie beach party complete with monsters and aliens" - although he offered one caveat. "I am having a bit of trouble getting the monsters and aliens on board," he said. "It's their agents that kill you."
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Post by LS on Jul 1, 2004 22:15:55 GMT -5
The dude's definitely on a roll- he might just singlehandedly save R&R...this concert is so awesome!! The re-united Dolls AND Iggy & the Stooges... ;D And thumbs up...he got people heading to the clubs again- the Underground Garage Battle of the Bands contests have become a major draw for the clubs that are taking part.
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Post by snizz on Jul 1, 2004 23:58:25 GMT -5
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Post by LS on Aug 16, 2004 16:23:52 GMT -5
Pop, Strokes Rock Garage New York City Fest Offers Old And New by BRIAN ORLOFF Aug 16, 2004
Thousands of music fans of all ages and hair colors assembled Saturday on New York City's Randall's Island to celebrate rock & roll with one of its biggest cheerleaders: Steven Van Zant. Van Zant -- known as Little Steven when he plays with Bruce Springsteen -- created the satellite radio show Little Steven's Underground Garage two years ago, and his Underground Garage Festival was the embodiment of his fandom.
Hosted by Van Zant himself, the all-day concert (tickets were only $20) featured more than ten hours of music, celebrity guests and go-go dancing. And that was just onstage.
Concert-goers milled about Randall's Island which, thanks to dreary, wet weather, was more like a mud flat, soaking up the day's party-hearty atmosphere and catching sets by diverse, old-time acts like the Electric Prunes, bluesy legend Bo Diddley and the Pete Best Band. And while the theme of the afternoon was definitely celebratory, the concert was a real nostalgia trip.
Bruce Springsteen, clad in black wrap-around shades, introduced the Chesterfield Kings, a band often credited with re-energizing the garage-rock movement in the Eighties. The band zipped along through its ten-minute set and then cleared the stage. Early acts only performed two or three songs. Considering the high volume of performers, the show ran smoothly and bands transitioned with few delays resulting in a fast-paced and egalitarian show.
Mid-afternoon, Van Zant -- sporting a leopard-print bandana and a flowing purple shirt, unbuttoned halfway, of course -- took the stage to introduce some acts and to try to explain the garage-rock phenomenon. "People are always asking how you define 'garage,' and it's impossible," he said. "But that doesn't stop me from trying . . . Our garage world is very inclusive."
While the majority of the acts hailed from garage's Sixties heyday, younger groups like the Mooney Suzuki performed with a bristling velocity. Lead singer Sammy James, Jr. -- donning purple pants and a pink sash -- howled and stomped through "Primitive Condition," a song off the band's forthcoming album Alive and Amplified.
And while fluorescent-wig-wearing go-go dancers shimmied on platforms behind the band, the concert got its first needed dose of female energy with Detroit's the Paybacks, fronted by the scabrous-voiced, six-feet-tall Wendy Case, who wailed through a short set.
Nancy Sinatra was another prominent female on the bill. To some, her pop stylings might have seemed out of place. Van Zant explained in his introduction: "Attitudes add up to what garage has become . . . and in the Sixties there were two kinds of women. There were the independent and strong women . . . and on the other side there were sexy women. This is the first woman who combined both things."
Sinatra wasted no time dazzling the crowd, belting out favorites like "Lightning's Girl." Her band included a full brass section and Blondie drummer Clem Burke. Sinatra unveiled material from her self-titled album due in September, including the Morrissey-penned first single "Let Me Kiss You." Of course, Sinatra delivered the hit that all fans eagerly awaited, closing her seven-song set with the highly influential "These Boots Were Made for Walkin.'" Sinatra's commanding delivery was complimented by her brassy orchestrations. "It's great . . . every generation loves that song," she said backstage. "It has a life of its own, and I just sort of go along with it."
The concert was recorded on high-definition video and projected on five thinly paneled screens from the stage; and director Chris Columbus was documenting the festival. Camera crews also captured the audience and the gloomy weather conditions which, by mid-day, threatened to close down the show. In order to compensate, bands were asked to cut short their sets.
Danish duo the Raveonettes, comprising Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner, were affected by the weather. The two brought along backup players to flesh-out their glamorous sound but were only able to display their sweet harmonies on two songs.
The rain went away for an energetic set from the New York Dolls, dedicated to recently deceased bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane. Frontman David Johansen was his loveable feline self, decked out in a splashy, midriff-exposing hot-pink T-shirt. Johansen wailed away on harmonica and unveiled chestnuts like the set-opening "Looking for a Kiss" and rollicking closer "Personality Crisis," which he snarled with a punky force. Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain was the only other surviving original member who performed with the re-formed group.
New York City denizens the Strokes played next with a spirited nine-song set that found the group uncharacteristically enthused. Singer Julian Casablancas jumped into the crowd early on and addressed the audience in rambling but charming short declarations. But the band sounded tight performing songs from its latest album Room On Fire, including "I Can't Win" and the new single "Reptilia."
Crowd members withstood a constant drizzle, braving threats of severe weather from Hurricane Charley, to catch a festival-closing performance by garage-rock icon Iggy Pop and his band the Stooges.
And while it rained on and off, it was Pop who was the real hurricane: a feckless fusion of grit and sexuality. Dressed in skin-tight jeans, the shirtless Pop bounded onstage, launching immediately into a double whammy of "Loose" and "Down on the Street" from the hallmark 1970 album Fun House. He jumped on a pile of amplifiers, and gyrated and preened through a breathless set. The Stooges delivered a fierce pummeling on hits like "I Wanna Be Your Dog," matching Pop's energy, an energy that encapsulates the essence of rock & roll by any name.
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Post by snizz on Aug 18, 2004 18:59:57 GMT -5
Hey hey! ;D You didn't put this up for me Red darling did you? It sounds like I missed a helluva party and the weather don't sound like it was much better than what I had to put up with. It looks to me like I've got some catching up to do so I'll be back later.
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Post by LS on Aug 18, 2004 22:07:08 GMT -5
snizzy's home... ;D Yep I did ;D ...didn't know if you'd catch up with it or not- though I liked the local review better- but that one wasn't posted till after this one ...So much for the 'beautiful weekend' they'd predicted mid-week...crap, crap and more crap- seems nothing but crap since the beginning of July... Still though- turned out major cool (though The Ravonettes getting cut short blew big time ) Sounds like your latest outing wasn't a barrel of fun...
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Post by snizz on Aug 20, 2004 16:16:29 GMT -5
Damn girl you are just too good to me. ;D Sorry, I said I'd be back but I did have some catching up to do first. ;D The little woman's too good to me too. She saved up all the papers for me, but no way I'm getting through them all. If you have the other one handy I'd like to read that one too. I know I'm a masochist, what can I say? ;D It was a barrel ok, but fun isn't the word to describe it. But a job's a job and somebody's got to do it, right?
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Post by LS on Aug 21, 2004 21:02:25 GMT -5
Yeah ya know come to think of it- we are...Must be that animule maganitism of yours ;D ...or could be your Harley...maybe the black leather...possibly those tattoos... ;D Turned it up- read it and weep... Ample Parking In A Three-Chord GarageBY KEVIN AMORIM STAFF WRITER August 16, 2004 The biggest rock-and-roll moment came, quite literally, in the 11th hour. Halfway into his headlining set with The Stooges, Iggy Pop did it. He gave the order: "Storm the stage!" "Storm the stage!" Pop commanded again. And when security wouldn't let the first few marauding rows of the audience invade, Pop let the hired help have it. "Let 'em up! This isn't Nazi Germany," he said, urging the crowd to take over. It did. Appropriately, this all happened during "Real Cool Time," a nugget from the Detroit proto-punkers' 1969 debut. You can bet the people singing and shimmying with Pop on stage were having a cool time of it. Then the singer shouted for the band to rev up "No Fun" from the same album, and he got lost in the mass of bodies. Then the go-go girls - oh, those go-go girls! - took their place on the balcony, and the rains returned. It was a wonderful mess, 100 percent rock and roll, and the perfect way to close Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival at Randalls Island on Saturday. It makes sense that it took place on the first day of Olympic competition, because this party was our very own marathon of garage rock - it began around 10:45 a.m. and went past 10 p.m. From such classic acts as The Chocolate Watchband and Nancy Sinatra (really!) to relative newbies The Mooney Suzuki and The Swingin' Neckbreakers to Nordic sensations The Raveonettes (Denmark) and The Cocktail Slippers (Norway), it was a day of KISS - not the metal maniacs, but Keep It Simple, Stupid. Not that there's anything dumb about three-chord rock. The event's patron, Little Steven Van Zandt - the guitarist from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band who also portrays Silvio Dante on HBO's "The Sopranos" - has championed these bands on his 2-year-old syndicated radio show, heard Sundays at 10 p.m. on Q 104.3 FM. "Good morning and welcome to the revolution," Van Zandt told his disciples early in the day. The do-ragged rocker cast himself in the role of high priest (or cult leader?): "Go out and preach the garage gospel." But he really was preaching to the converted. Fans - big and small, young and old - gave everyone a chance, for the most part. Penultimate act The Strokes, who are experiencing a bit of a backlash, drew a few jeers. Maybe because singer Julian Casablancas slurred his words, maybe because his attitude and antics (jumping into the crowd) weren't as controlled as the rest of the fest's lineup to that point. Hey, they played well, and seeming tipsy is part of the rock thing. Even more annoying was Kim Fowley, one of the festival's hosts. Best known as Svengali for The Runaways, he actually became more like Max Headroom as the day wore on. Other hosts from Van Zandt's inner circle fared better - Springsteen, James Gandolfini and Vinny Pastore. Chuck Barris even showed up for a fun few minutes. When The New York Dolls took the stage, sans makeup and big hair, it wasn't clear if the two surviving members - singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain - would be in as good a mood as Barris. Original bassist Arthur Kane died of leukemia last month, and he was honored throughout the Dolls' ultimately glamtastic set, notably with "Private World," which Kane and Johansen wrote more than 30 years ago. Going back farther in the garage vault was Bo Diddley, the thread linking The Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things and even Iggy and The Stooges with the Diddley Beat. He of the square guitar got one of the biggest responses of the day. Diddley would have received praise if he said he was Lucifer himself; he didn't, of course. But he did sing "I'm a Man." "This feels like 1955 again," Diddley said. "God bless you and God bless rock and roll." Amen.
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Post by LS on Aug 21, 2004 21:06:47 GMT -5
And our man Steve's keeping himself a very busy little bee ;D ...here's the latest nugget...
Sopranos & Outlaw
He may have whacked her in the woods on "The Sopranos." But that isn't stopping Steve Van Zandt from teaming with Drea de Matteo.
The two are collaborating on a concert film celebrating country legend Waylon Jennings. Showtime was supposed to broadcast the film, but when cable execs lost interest, Little Steven rallied his musical pals - getting Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Kid Rock, Norah Jones, Beck and the White Stripes on board.
Drea doesn't want to hear from Showtime now that the star power is boosted.
"Just gimme one phone call back to say, 'Hey, honey. We're not going to do it ... all that work you did was in vain," she rails in September's Esquire, where she models lingerie that would have her "Sopranos" boyfriend Christopher panting. "So now you [Showtime] people can go [bleep] yourself."
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Post by SweetNadine on Aug 21, 2004 22:22:27 GMT -5
This is good news about the movie. Little Steven is way too cool. He has taken his idea of the Sunday night Garage Band radio show a long way. He was on the IMUS show week before last. I wanted to watch on tv so bad, but, had to settle for listening to the radio version in the parking lot at work. He mentioned Dale Watson as one of the Artists on the Outlaw Country, Sirius radio stations. Little Steven is a good man in my book.
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Post by snizz on Aug 24, 2004 16:23:18 GMT -5
Yeah ya know come to think of it- we are...Must be that animule maganitism of yours ;D ...or could be your Harley...maybe the black leather...possibly those tattoos... ;D Could be something to that. I've been called lots of animules in my time. ;D You did good, I'm still blubbering. Since it rocked maybe there'll be a next year and I'll get my chance. Drea working on a Waylon project? Sounds to me like that good ol boy Shooter hooked himself up with the right babe. ;D
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Post by LS on Aug 24, 2004 22:58:53 GMT -5
This is good news about the movie. Little Steven is way too cool. He has taken his idea of the Sunday night Garage Band radio show a long way. He was on the IMUS show week before last. I wanted to watch on tv so bad, but, had to settle for listening to the radio version in the parking lot at work. He mentioned Dale Watson as one of the Artists on the Outlaw Country, Sirius radio stations. Little Steven is a good man in my book. The man doesn't stop...I don't see where he has time to fit sleep into his schedule. Inbetween the Garage Band stuff, the Sopranos, his solo work, E-Street...he's constantly doing charity work and is deeply involved with social issues. He has a deep respect for not only all kinds of music, but for people and he's made countless friendships over the years because of that.
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Post by LS on Aug 24, 2004 23:02:21 GMT -5
Could be something to that. I've been called lots of animules in my time. ;D You did good, I'm still blubbering. Since it rocked maybe there'll be a next year and I'll get my chance. Drea working on a Waylon project? Sounds to me like that good ol boy Shooter hooked himself up with the right babe. ;D Lol...I'm sure you have been!! But you know who really reminds me of you?? That guy in the cereal commercial!! Yeah...I'd pencil in next year- they're already talkin' about it.
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