Jon Jr.

Tape delay as upposed to some pedal...

Well there goes two hours spent looking at posters...

//music connoisseur//

What ever you say...

//it was meant to be a baby sitting service for the local teens and the hoons from chch, we were lucky that we got 3 pretty good years........//

Chill em out with some Katchafire I guess, I would have preferred Chugganaut (best name EVER!) but beggars can't be chosers. I guess the first two years just made my expectations quite high, and Degrees.k were SO good last year! I guess i'll probably go anyway, may as well write a reveiw as it couldn't be any worse than the punk as one...

Was this right next to the Dead C rack?

Is it a crime not to be overly excited?

Listening Solo: Bruce Russell
Listening Band: Frank Zappa (62 albums would last a while)

In Person Solo: Bruce Russell
In Person Band: Blerta

Fuck, Dylan was always good for a lead on how to contact various people I wanted to interveiw. When ever I came in contact with FMR staff I found a bunch of unpretencious folk, who liked their music.

//I probably just made it up. //

Or heard it from Joanna...

/sarc You're just bitter! /endsarc

If there are two (or do you just get a choice of two?) then:

Jon and Nato

Of course mine is great, but my second choice would go to lughead or nato, lughead for his sheer publicaddressist style satire and Nato for showing some feeling behind that chiseled exterior...

Nato

Bennetts four seasons...

Fuck it sounds a lot better than it is, I didn't come up with anything amazing, more just a re-telling of the story...
I'll go hunting for it tonight. I might re-do it because if I remeber it correctly it's written even worse than I currently write.

Too often I write something and just cringe when I read it back again later. I never used to feel like that, maybe in a few years it'll be sweet again. I've been on here now for about 3-4 now...

It's such a mindfuck when you find out your idols aren't gods but just really talented everyday folk

Have you even seen them (teenwolf) live?

Following the same procedure and getting Bill Direen to come and chat on my radio show for an hour and then watch him for three hours of just him, his guitar and some great songs also rates quite highly...

Why not another "Who's Brazen, Wins" theme.

Being the ambitious fellow that I am, when we were given a course project on music history I ignored the obvious Led Zep, Mad Professor internet searches and went for a more interesting research theme. After a bit of mucking around and mind-mapping I came up with "The use/effect of Chris Knox's 4-Track on early Flying Nun recordings". Wondering how the hell I could actually do that I just emailed Flying Nun and asked if I could talk with some of the guys involved. The answer that came back was "email your questions and we'll get back to you". So hyper-excited, I carefully wrote out a whole bunch of questions for the muso's to fill out, this took like a week, as I really wanted to impress them with my journalistic and musical ‘excellence’. Using all of my 17 years worth of Flying Nun knowledge (more like actually 6 months and a crate of records) I came up with some questions I thought would at least get some answers.
I emailed Doug Hood, Chris Knox and David Kilgour (I was concentrating on The Clean, cause why not?) and very quickly I got replies. After heaps of toing and froing in which I ended up getting over 16 pages of material to work with, I was amazed that those hardened industry vets would spend so much time writing on their experiences to someone of as little consequence as me.
Anyway I kept in loose email contact with Mr. Knox and when we needed a rabble rouser to do the annual 'We hate fees, we're angry students' thing at Vic Uni. I instantly thought of him. SO I sent him an email and he said ‘Why not?’ So I beavered about organising it and on the day we got over a thousand students in to listen to him in the horrible quad (Any Vic students will back me up on its complete awfulness as a venue). In short he went put on a great gig, I was one of the few who knew any songs apart from ‘Not given lightly’ and it was amazing, almost as good as the Degrees.K gig a few years earlier when I was the only one there/dancing, with a similar amount of audience participation. Once the gig was finished and everything packed up, we found our roused rabble gone. So Chris and I went looking around town for them, I had a huge protest sign (I never quite could explain what ‘$3 car wash’ actually meant) and Chris was his usual ‘not quite fitting in’ self, so as we walked down lampton quay rather than the actual terrace route. We got quite a few stares alon the way to the Parliament protest, I didn’t care cause I was hanging out with the man whose records filled a large space in my collection, it was great!
To top that off, later that night I went along to a downstairs Bodega gig where Chris was playing, he saw me and told my name was on the door (score!) and brought me a beer (double score!). There must have been 40 people there, but it was a small bar and so, it didn’t seem that sparse at all. Anyway Chris got up and changed out of his Wellington clothes (it was very cold) into his regulation gig singlet, shorts and jandals. He started up and it was amazing, he was playing all the songs I loved like “The joy of sex” “Wanna” and “Meat”, he even played “Rebel” to the amazement of the crowd. I was stunned; it was such an intense gig. At one point he got the crowd singing this particular song of his, a fake-white gospel song according to his own description. He had us in the palm of his hand and it was great, everyone buzzing off each others excitement. When I left the bar having said my good byes, I felt so incredibly happy. You know how there are gigs that make you so happy, so satisfied that it could almost be compared (but not quite) with sex? Well that was like that for me, I’d had that sort of feeling before from other gigs, but it had never made me feel so incredibly fulfilled. Fuck I feel like a gushing little schoolgirl describing this, but it was that amazing that he could get the crowd so emotionally tied into the performance. I know it wasn’t just me either, because there were a whole bunch of people feeling the same way. As everyone else I talked to just had to try explain to me, their identical feelings to everyone else standing near them, while those people were also trying to do the same thing to those people around them as well.
Leaving the gig that night, made me appreciate New Zealand’s music scene, that you could just email Chris Knox get him to play a gig and hang out with him for a day just amazed me. The nature of the gig and the performance was just on another level from anything I’ve ever seen before or since, I can still feel that tingling in my spine as I remember Chris getting groups of three people to all move about in a carefully orchestrated manner, thereby creating this amazing spectacle of 40-50 odd people all moving about as if they each represented a wave and together represented the ocean one of those moments that the visa ads would describe as ‘priceless’.

The other thing I found interesting about the whole scandal, was that the people who outed Maxim aparently used the same software that lecturers use to out essay cheats...

But I wan't to see them. Arghhh why do they have to clash with Electric Six?