Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Found out the other day that Steve Mallinder, former lead singer of Cabaret Voltaire, is now a Uni lecturer in Australia.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
I think there's some exhaustion with the prolonged death march, plus they haven't really been a cultural force for a long time.
But I will always remember being in college during those aformentioned '79-'83 years and reading the Village Voice at the library and drooling over the CBGBs schedules back then.
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
This ain't no mudd club, or C. B. G. B.
I ain't got time for that now
What's a mudd club?
What's a mudd club?
It was the rock and roll disco downtown. They only played danceable R&R.
The CBGBs closing has been talked to death, at least locally, and many other clubs have shuttered without somehow preventing the 1970s from happening.
I never went to the Mudd Club in the early eighties. But I did go to Danceteria, The Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge.
The most interesting thing about the CBGB closing (other than Trudy and Victor got to go) was simply that it marked the last in a long line of famous clubs closing in NY. I read an article that detailed their rise and fall, and how some of them tried to survive and others couldn't. Sad and interesting.
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Lost In Translation star Scarlett Johansson has signed a deal to make her first record, Scarlett Sings Tom Waits, according to media reports in the US. The album is being recorded at the moment and sessions will continue through the winter, with a possible release next spring from Rhino Records' currently re-activated Atco label. According to Fox News, the 21-year-old is recording a whole album of songs by premier singer/songwriter Waits. Sources says the eventual release date will be coordinated to coincide with Johansson's movie schedule.
...huh.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
Isn't it moving to Vegas? C'mon, it'll be exactly the same, just... more Vegasy.
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