OFF: Comebacks

[Laj Waldner]

brian halligan wrote:

> I'm 23 also, but I have seen Albert singing Cities from behind the kit.
> And Dominance & Submission, and Vera Gemini, and Death Valley Nights
> (behind a Rik).  And even 5 Guitars.  I don't know if you live around
> the east coast of the US, but if you do, make sure you get out and see
> The Brain Surgeons!
>

Well I live in mid Canada so this means it's kind of difficult for me to see
them. The last time I was at a BOC show was last May 12 in Calgary Alberta,
I called in sick at work and flew up for the day, it was of coarse
INCREDIBLE! I am planing to do the same for the Brain Surgeons, the BBQ, and
Bolle's Museum of Cult.


> Like Keith Richards always says when he's asked when he'll retire, "You
> wouldn't ask me that if I were Ray Charles, or Howlin' Wolf..."  The
> best bands can take their fleeting pop success and turn it into
> long-lasting, cross-generational fan support for as long as they want to
> continue to entertain.  BOC, HW, the Dead, the Stones, and Alice Cooper
> among others have all managed to make the transition.  Their music's
> definately not "long dead".  And if their "pop death" means we can stand
> close enough to Buck that we could tune his guitar if we wanted, well
> then all the better! :-)

> Later,
> Brian
>
> ----------
> Brian Halligan
> mailto:brianh at pulleyn.com
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halligan/wicker.html
>
> "We are drawing a moustache on the wanted poster of the face of music."
> -Fierce Wicker
> ----------

  Very true indeed Brian, later man.