We covered tons of ground this week on Hidden Track and before we get back to the grind we wanted to recap some of the things we learned…
Groupie Alycen Rowse tells us there’s a hierarchy to groupies…
In an effort to drum up interest for her forthcoming book, Alycen keeps a blog called We’ve Got Tonight, which serves as an outlet for selected anecdotes as well as a sort of battle ground between Alycen’s fans and haters. In the more snarky content, she often speaks of the “hierarchy of groupies.”
“I’m not one of the Backlounge Bettys,” she defends. “The back lounge more comes into play when you’re hanging out after a show or or driving down a 15-hour tour bus trip to Fargo or whatever. I don’t see back lounges that often. I see the hotel rooms.” [READ MORE]
String Cheese Incident’s cover of Under African Skies kicks ass..
String Cheese Incident first played Under African Skies at their Halloween show in 1999 and it has stayed active in their rotation. There is some great video from that first performance, but it’s one of those annoying YouTube videos that has emebedding disabled, so you have to click here to watch it. [READ MORE]
Brian Bavosa has been added to the staff as our first “featured columnist”…
The rules of “Page Side” will be simply, or all together non-existent. It will be imperfect, like me, but with every intention to tell it like it is, from the perspective a a boy who grew up rocking out to the same tunes that have kept me in this scene right up until today. The column will include lots of stuff: from history lessons and live reviews, to interviews and I’m sure a few black-and-blues. [READ MORE]
One of Mike Gordon’s Tombstone Blues band mates found god…
Everyone else kind of went on with their lives, and I proceeded to party like it was 1986 for about twelve years. Fast forward to 1996, a ruined marriage and me staring at my tired face in the mirror saying, “There’s got to be something better than this.” I stumbled upon prayer in my desperation, and I believed, and began a new life. [READ MORE]
