Toledo Bellows presents:
Metal Rouge
(NZ/LA duo)
Ripped Krampus
(Puffy Areolas side project)
Johnny Nevada
(a surpirse?)
Seeping Vacuum Wheezing
(KBD meets Cornslaw Industries)
Nicholas Ceparski
(Perrysburg Ambience)
Thursday, September 4th, 9pm-ish
Mickey Finn’s, 602 Lagrange, Toledo
Toledo Bellows presents their biggest show yet:
“Noise Master” John Wiese from Los Angeles
Jason Zeh - cassette tape wizardry
KBD - unstable sounds
Puffy Areolas - Freak out /Freak in
John Wiese from Los Angles is a well-respected name and extremely prolific in the experimental/Noise community. Releasing many albums both as a solo artist and as a member of groups such as Sissy Spacek, and frequently collaborates with: Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Cattle Decapitation, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Merzbow. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia.
Jason Zeh from Bowling Green, Ohio is also well-respected and known in the experimental/Noise community, has toured the US and has a hand full of releases, One just released “HERACLITUS” on C.I.P records. Zeh’s sound creating methods are truly unique, With a dozen cassette players and surplus of manipulated/reassembled cassettes, producing massive sound clusters and daringly wavering frequencies.
KBD and Puffy Areolas, two Toledo groups, carving there name into this healthy experimental/noise community, performing often around the midwest, releasing material, very capable of producing a powerful and often unpredictable show.
August 28th, 2008 9pm at Mickey Finn’s Pub
Help us celebrate the return of the TUESDAYS AT THE GISH film series with a screening of Dr. Kembrew McLeod’s (U of Iowa) award winning and thought-provoking documentary. Though the event, like always, is free, we will be collecting donations for The Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Following this summer’s floodings, the building which houses Legion Arts, located a few blocks from Cedar River, was under water from June 11 to June 15. Though the upper levels of the building suffered limited damage, the building’s first floor, staircases, and electrical systems are in need of repair. Legion Arts is a “nonprofit dedicated to the creation, presentation, understanding and impact of contemporary art.” We suggest a $5 donation, but anything you can offer will be appreciated and will be donated in the name of The Culture Club and the BG community to Legion Arts.
About Freedom of Expression: In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase “freedom of expression” — a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and the expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms, museums, film studios, and the Internet over control of our cultural commons. Based on McLeod’s award-winning book of the same title, Freedom of Expression® charts the many successful attempts to push back the assault on free expression by overzealous copyright holders. Freedom of Expression® is an essential tool for educators, activists, filmmakers, students, artists, librarians, and more. (http://freedomofexpression.us)
Spread the word.
The entire schedule can be found at: http://battlegroundstates.org/gish
Legion Arts website at: http://legionarts.org
Kembrew McLeod’s website at: http://kembrew.com
Although I was perfectly happy with the old, in-development colinhelbdotcom, I’ve ‘moved’ over to a WordPress site for it.
I hate the colors so far, but I like the options and malleability.
E-mailed the community today. Wrote a nice few paragraphs about the project. Here they are:
2. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981)
3. Ishtar (1987)
6. Conclusion
“Let us die young or let us live forever / We dont have the power but we never say never / Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip / The musics for the sad men.”
3. The brass synth solo.
4. A handful of other reasons.
A friend (actually a never-met friend of a friend) chimed in that he felt the first 15 seconds of “Forever Young” outweighed the combined career artistic output of many lesser musicians.
I tend to agree.
A great little factoid concerning Alphaville is that it was founded in the early 80s by three Germans with fake, more-Western-sounding (?) names:
Marian Gold (Hartwig Schierbaum),
Bernhard Lloyd (Bernhard Gößling), and
Frank Mertens (Frank Sorgatz).
Why bother with the aliases, guys?
My Wiki-research tells me that the band was originally to be called Forever Young as well.
We can call this the Big Country Condition. It rarely works to the benefit of the song or the band (such is the dubbing of the condition for a time it “worked”).
In any case, the band went by Alphaville (named, I guess, after the Godard film) , released “Big In Japan,” (which was neither big in Japan nor the U.S. really, but was a big hit everywhere else), one dude no one cares about left the band, then came “Forever Young” all between 1983 and 1984.
This is the great song we are discussing here today (actually just doing this to test out Wordpress).
There was an ironic Indie cover of it a few years ago.
It was in a bunch of movies (mostly ironically included).
Alphaville (in some incarnation) is still performing the song somewhere.
Favorite Wiki-fact: In the trivia section of the Wikipedia entry for “Forever Young,” someone has felt it important enough to state:
“On VH1 Classic’s show 120 Minutes it is a very popular music video that is played.”
Here is the YouTube video.
Here is the Wikipedia entry.
In the Bible of 1970s Scottish pop music (whenever I get around to writing it), the book of “Genesis” (gotta think of a better, more Scottish/less English name or it) will read:
”And The Bay City Rollers beget Pilot. And Pilot beget the (Scottish) Project portion of the (not Scottish) Alan Parsons Project.”
(It’ll be more a short leaflet.)
When speaking of Pilot, many are lazily too quick to cite “Magic,” but we are better than that. Aren’t we? And “Canada” is better than that too. Although the Herbie remake, aparently, is not.
Pilot formed when David Paton and Billy Lyall left the Bay City Rollers in 1973. This is after the (inital) release of “Saturday Night” (S- A- TUR- DAY- NIGHT!), but before it became an international hit some years later. They formed Pilot with drummer Stuart Tosh. Alan Parsons engineered (produced it, too?) their first album. “Magic” is on that one. Ian Bairnson joined somewhere in the mix there and they squeaked out a few more albums before they got poached by Alan Parsons, who sort of absorbed most of the band into his Project.
”Canada” is a weird song in the vein of 10cc’s “I Don’t Like Cricket (I Love It),” because they are, uh, just weird songs (and one of them played in an 80s incarnation of 10cc), I guess. The chorus is truly bizarre and quite ambiguous:
A look out California / Ooo-ooo, I gotta warn ya / Here comes Canada
Maybe the “Cricket” comment comes from some subconscious understanding of the lyrics as a theme song of sorts for a sporting event. Europeans like to do that a lot. And that competition is, for some reason, a contest between the nation of Canada and the state of California… in something. What follows with the rest of the lyrics is a weird sycophantic, yet slightly condescending praise of Canada. They all but nudge Canada playfully on the chin and say “go get ‘em, tiger.” Nothing constructive, just praise. Each verse is capped of with a triumphant and completely out of place:
These things I do , I do for nobody else but me.
Again, not sure what is going on here. As if the singer is saying that he is only praising Canada for himself, not for public approval. Maybe? Or is the song so without a concrete meaning that there is a complete and total disconnect between the verses/choruses and this weird bridge between ‘em? It sounds cool, so, I guess it works.
You be the judge: the first verse:
Canada, you got an open door / You got so many things / I swear, I never saw them before / So much more, you got a world in store / You got a home from home, got a hold so strong / Can’t seem to ignore
Ok? And the second verse:
Canada, you proved your worth / You got snow peaked mountains tumbling down / You had them from birth / Say it clear, so the world can hear / I swear I never left you / Without shedding a tear
In a sense, Canada, in this competition (sporting or, possibly more in keeping with the lyrics, some sort of geographic worth contest) with California, is being told that it is a great place, despite popular or common opinion. (Remember, the band is neither Canadian nor Californian. They’re Scottish. Right?) Without ever substantiating the praise or attempting to clear the ambiguity, Pilot runs through truly inspiring blank praise.
I love this song even I don’t understand it. Meaning is over-rated.
Sorry I don’t know much more about this song and cannot find any other good Wiki-facts to share.
Lyall died of AIDS in the late 80s.
Here is a YouTube video.
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