Stuff to do, week of June 24, 2004

grady grady at ibiblio.org
Thu Jun 24 14:23:40 EDT 2004


p.s. some slightly hyper guy in LA wants me to let you know that his 
band the Tremors isn't playing these shows, it's this other band the 
Tremors: http://www.tremorsrockabilly.com/

grady wrote:

> 
> Friday, June 25
> Hasil Adkins [http://members.tripod.com/~Hasil_Adkins/], The Tremors
>, Corndawg
> [http://www.thecorndawg.com/]
> Project Space 211, Winston-Salem
> 
> 

> 
> Saturday, June 26
> Anderson Airplane, The Tremors,
> Hasil Adkins [http://members.tripod.com/~Hasil_Adkins/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
> 
> I was listening to the Cramps last night & their cover of Hasil
> Adkins's "She Said" came on, and for about the 100th time I was struck
> by just how utterly fucked-up it is. More remarkable, especially when
> talking about early Cramps, is that the original is even *more*
> fucked-up, and it was recorded in 1964. Hasil's demented-madman
> persona may or may not be an intentional construct, but at a certain
> point I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter: he's been constructing on it
> for the better part of a half-century.
> 
> Raleigh's Anderson Airplane has a long way to go to catch up to Hasil,
> but he's started in the right place: he's a one-man (gtr-drums) band
> with a demented lyrical bent and a penchant for howling.
> 
> 




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