Wednesday Intermezzo: Will Sly Show Up?
Sly Stone took himself higher than most, and the resultant burnout saw the funk legend living the life of a complete recluse. But the comeback trail beckons, and Sly and the Family Stone will make their first NYC appearance since 1974 on December 7th at B.B. King’s. How long Sly will actually take the stage that night remains to be seen. If the band’s recent European tour is any indication, don’t expect much more than 20 minutes worth of Sly singing inaudibly and banging on a keyboard. And oh yeah…expect to pay $85 for that opportunity.
- The space that was CBGB’s will now house an upscale designer boutique
- Bloggers are pissed that OiNK has been shuttered
- HT Friend Dan Alford looks at the recent Grateful Dead vault releases
- You’ve heard about Dumbledore: Vulture presents 10 Other Fictional Characters Who’s Outings Won’t Shock Us That Much
- Johnny Marr feels The Smiths will reunite sooner rather than later
- Mars Volta have announced both a New Year’s concert in San Francisco and a February release date for their new album
- Cake relaunches their Unlimited Sunshine traveling festival in December
- Wow, it’s been 22 friggin’ years? Glen Friedman shares photos and audio from his visit with the Beastie Boys in 1985
- Former NHL’er Shjon Podein tells us about how John LeClair got him into Phish towards the end of this ESPN article
And tickets for the upcoming Mighty Mighty Bosstones reunion concerts are harder to come by than World Series tickets. Who’s got my extraaaa?
Some Might Mighty Bosstones videos:
Okay, this one you GOTTA see:
Funny plug from the ESPN article,,,but check out another Podein story from a fan question a few lines up…hilarious:
“So, I’m in my rookie year in Edmonton and it’s my birthday. We had just come home from one of our infamous 15-20 day road trips and my family is there to celebrate. So, the family and I go out to have some dinner and drinks. We’re just relaxing when one of my brothers gives me a 4-foot high, inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex for a birthday present. My other brother gives me a sombrero.
We get back to the hotel and get mom back in her room. As we’re leaving mom’s room, my brothers jump me and rip my suit off in the hotel hallway, leaving me with just my boxers, a sombrero and my 4-foot high inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex.
So I’m wandering the hallways of the hotel trying to find where my room is. We’d been on the road for 15-20 days, it’s late, and I can’t remember my room number. I stick my room key in a number of doors, hoping to find the right one. All of a sudden, I look up and there is one of Canada’s finest security guards.
I go, “Hey, what’s going on!”
The security guard says, ‘We’ve had a complaint that some guy is walking down the hall in his boxers, wearing a sombrero, with a bottle of Bud in one hand and an inflatable dinosaur in the other, making too much noise.’
I looked at him and said, “You’ve got the WRONG GUY, brotha.”
[...] Read it all here. [...]
I heard Jaromir Jagr is a huge fan of SCI.
1. Is that you in the last video Bernstein?
2. I feel weird after watching the whole thing.
That NY Mag piece on the 10 other post-Dumbledore outings is fucking hysterical…that list has potential for missing the mark, but they really nailed it. I love this one:
5. Vickie the Robot from Small Wonder
How we knew it all along: You know that old stereotype about lesbians having no sense of humor? Let’s just say you never see that robot laughing. And Vickie’s creator — family man Ted Lawson — seems just pervy enough to program his mechanical daughter that way.
It was the wrong, guy! Nice catch, stealyfan.
brad sands and trey at the flyers’ Stanley Cup Parties! ha! imagine that scene, aye?
too funny. thanks for catching that.
You bet your ass the bosstones are back. Scott, I called dicky and told him I want him to pay for my flight back to boston. i couldn’t believe people are asking that much for bosstone tickets. remember or trips back in the day? you know it was you that played me my first Bosstones song. “Awfully Quiet”, changed my life forever. and I left all those posters at your house back in 94…….you wouldn’t happen to still have them would ya?
Oh man I wonder what ever happened to those posters??? I think they got lost when my parents moved houses.
fuck. Oh, P.S. the bosstones are doing another record. b-sides with 3 new tracks on their own Big Rig Records. Also added a New Years Eve show. Shoulda i post dicky’s # so everybody can say hi? Don’t worry, I wont.
This is funny :
you cant post video in here? what the hell!