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  • From: Mark Simonsen <fracas66 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: advice sought: guitar for 15 YO beginner?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:58:31 -0700 (PDT)

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I have lots of cymbals (some Turkish made) and
guitar cases (hard and soft) as well.

Mark Simonsen <fracas66 AT yahoo.com> wrote:I am unloading a mess of music gear
(mostly vintage) that I have amassed over the years (I have been reading a
book on Feng Shui). Some of it might appeal to the 15YO (especially some of
my less expensive amplifiers- a couple of old Kalamazoo tube amps and some
small Fender solid state). I also have some bigger nicer amps of all sorts
(Kustom heads, a Marshall cab, some Fender stuff), some Guild and Gibson
acoustics, some Kay and Harmony archtops, a huge collection of vintage and
NOS stompboxes (effects), two German fiddles, a Bundy student flute, piano
and keyboard accessories (I am a piano technician and repair other
instruments as well). I also need to find a home for a turn of the century
Square Grand Piano (a beautiful piece of furniture that could also be
restored to decent playing condition). Please email me to view any of it.
Thanks- Mark fracas66 AT yahoo.com

jane wrote:big "THANK YOU"s to all who shared
their thoughts on this question.
all replies, and any future ones,
have been, or will be forwarded to
my co-worker. some of them echo,
and lend creedence to what i'd
already told him, but with better
reasons than my memories of things
that my ex- would say when buying
a guitar ... you gave him just the
sort of information that i'd like
to have done, but didn't really
know or remember ...

the kid has discovered Hendrix ...
i dunno what else has gone into it,
but that's where he is at this time.
from what i know of the kid, and/or
kids in general, i expect that he'll
find the whole thing is more like
work than he'll be willing to do,
but on the other hand, he could be
a genius-in-waiting, and having a
playable first guitar could make
all the difference ... who knows?

cheers!
jane


Kevin Darbro wrote:

> What kind of music is he into? I have to also agree not to buy a guitar
> online. It's a personal thing. If he plays at all, let him hold and play
> whatever he can on potential guitars. It's kind of like dating. When you
> know it's right for you, it's right! It's hard to quantify that, but it's
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& probably a whole lot of other stuff besides this:

Friday, August 27
The Crimson Spectre [http://www.slavemagazine.com/crimsonspectre/],
Feces for War Paint, Kudzu Wish [http://kudzuwish.tripod.com/]
Gate City Noise, Greensboro

Every year the folks at Greensboro's [http://www.slavemagazine.com]
Slave Magazine put on a free festival of Greensboro rockmusic. This is
night two: Crimson Spectre are a socialist hardcore band who
occasionally like to put on the ghoul makeup; they are utterly
brilliant. Feces for Warpaint are from down near the NC/SC line and
they firmly believe that you cannot ever have too many guitars in a
band, especially if the goal is to make a wall of hellish noise, which
they do. And Kudzu Wish are a spazzy post-everything band with equal
parts screaming and anthemic rocking out.

8:00 p.m. and free as can be.



Friday, August 27
Tift Merritt [http://www.tiftmerritt.com], Gary Louris
[http://www.thejayhawks.net], Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
[http://www.sarahleeandjohnny.com]
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

These are the CD-release parties for Tift's 2nd CD, which I haven't
heard. As you get a copy with admission, the ticket price is $20. If
you were planning on buying the thing anyway, that's actually a pretty
good deal.

Sarah Lee Guthrie is Arlo's daughter; Johnny Irion started out in a
Durham teenybopper band called Queen Sarah Saturday in the 90s but for
the past 5+ years he's been cultivating a Neil Young-influenced
high-voiced folky thing.

Gary Louris is the half of the Jayhawks' singing/songwriting team that
was left when Mark Olson quit the band.



Friday, August 27
Tres Hombres
Kings, Raleigh

No telling how many ZZ Top tribute/cover bands are called Tres
Hombres, but this one's from Raleigh, and it's made up of local
rockers. I forget exactly *which* local rockers, although I believe
Graham Fry (Confessor, Ozone Quartet/Cloud Nine, Leadfoot) is one of
them.



Friday, August 27
Crime and Judy [http://www.crimeandjudy.com/], SheMamas
[http://www.purevolume.com/shemamas]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Saturday, August 28
Allnight, Dave Fox Group, Dawn Chorus
Guilford College, Greensboro

Night Three of Greensborofest. This one takes place somewhere on the
campus of Guilford College; sadly, that's all I know, venue-wise.

All Night are Greensboro's own Southern Rock superstars, a band of
ex-members of all the great Greensboro rock bands, making
unadulterated Southern Rock, albeit with fewer, or at least weirder,
solos.



Saturday, August 28
Aquadora [http://www.aquadora.com/], Continent
[http://216.117.191.68/continent/], 1984
[http://www.nineteeneightyfour.org]
Nightlight, Chapel Hill

Continent are ex-members of the brilliant Raleigh spazzcore band The
Ladderback, along with former El Sucio frontman Sam Taylor. The
recordings I heard sounded like, um, El Sucio meets The Ladderback. As
those were two of my favorite local scream-yell-pummell noisy rock
bands Of All Time, I couldn't be happier about this turn of events.

Aquadora may or may not be one guy from the midwest playing bass &
drums & singing.

1984 are not, apparently, an 80s cover band, but *do* exhibit a
fondness for 70s piano pop and late-era Beatles. Dunno exactly how
that matches up with the rest of the bands on the bill, but here's a
tip: Nightlight has the best brownies I have ever eaten, and they're
even better if you wash them down with a Guinness.



Saturday, August 28
Danielle Howle, Django Haskins [http://www.djangohaskins.com/], Patti
Rothberg [http://www.pattirothberg.com/]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Saturday, August 28
Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org], Pyramid, The Dynamite Brothers
[http://www.dynamitebrothers.com/]
Kings, Raleigh

Strange are a weirdly catchy echoey psychedelic buzzing 80s-retroish
15th-british-invasion influenced rockband--their demo reminds me by
turns of the Psychedelic Furs, the Cult, Jesus & Mary Chain, and the
Birthday Party.

Dynamite Brothers are super-high-intensity southern blues-punk-boogie
from Chapel Hill. I'm told Pyramid are from Charlotte.



Sunday, August 29
Shallow Be Thy Name
[http://www.screwmusicforever.com/music/artists/shallow/index.html]
WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham

Shallow Be Thy Name started out as a bedroom-4track collaboration
between Clarque Blomquist & Caroline Johnson, all jangly overdubbed
acoustic guitars and keyboards and tambourines and cheap reverb on the
vocals and brilliant, at-times Stereolabby popsongs. They're about to
unveil their latest live-rockband lineup, featuring Transportation
drummer Ben Dunlap & Work Clothes' Lee Waters, but I'm told that this
radio performance is going to be just Clarque & Caroline. We will do
our best to replicate that warm wooly bedroom 4track feeling for you.
Put yr radio under yr pillow.

5:00 p.m. 88.7 FM or www.wxdu.org.



Sunday, August 29
Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/], Spader, Fashion Brigade,
Siberian, Direct Frequency
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro

This is one of the semi-regular Sunday Showcases of local and regional
bands at the Cradle. The lineups sort of oscillate between
inbox-clearing anything-goes fests of atrocious bands from Greenville,
and actually-pretty-damn-good lineups of local bands whom you might
not have seen. This night is one of the latter (hopefully they'll keep
getting better, now that Go! is closed & there's one fewer club for
small local bands to play).

I can't tell you a lot about the individual bands, other than that Can
Joann make sorta moody indie-pop; Spader are from Raleigh & one of
them is missing a tooth; Fashion Brigade are from Wilmington & sounded
kinda bombastic on the recording I heard; and Siberian has Raleigh's
master drummer Brian (every-fucking-body, I'm not even gonna try to
list them all) Walsby.

Oh yeah: it starts at 5:00 and is like $3.



Sunday, August 29
Tiger Bear Wolf, Manamid [http://www.manamid.com], Industries of the
Blind
Ace's Basement, Greensboro

Night Four of Greensboro*Fest; like all the other shows, this is free
& begins at 8:00 p.m.

Tiger Bear Wolf are a brilliant slightly-mathy, slightly metal
indie-rock band who include, among others, ex-Strunken White guitarist
Noah Howard. Their "Wrong Lens, Wrong Film" is the standout track on
the recent WUAG Greensboro comp CD; sounds like Lemmy guesting with At
The Drive-In or something.

Manamid make Fugazi-esque postpunk with muscley guitars and singer
Scott Hicks's trademark whine. Industries of the Blind, IIRC from the
liner notes of the aforementioned WUAG comp, are a huge band of folks
making vaguely Godspeed-esque drones & swells.



Tuesday, August 31
A/V Geeks [http://www.avgeeks.com]
Kings, Raleigh

A/V Geeks always put on special adult-oriented shows at Kings, and
this week's no exception:

"Drinky Drink" -- Films about our love of liquor and beer - both pro
and con - including: Case for Beer, Alcohol is Dynamite, Curious
Habits of Man and more! Suggested Donation $3. For more fun, bring a
friend or two! Door prizes! DRINK SPECIALS! 9:00 p.m.



Tuesday, August 31
Mowing Lawns [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html], God Among Men, Ruscha
Nightlight, Chapel Hill



Thursday, September 2
Eyes to Space, Go Machine [http://www.gomachinemusic.com]
Local 506, Chapel Hill



Friday, September 3
Shark Quest [http://www.mrg2000.com/merge/bio.html?id=sharkquest],
des_ark [http://www.des-ark.org], Billy Sugarfix
[http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/billysugarfix.htm]
Local 506, Chapel Hill

This is a CD-release party for the new Shark Quest CD, which is
brilliant (of course) and which largely grew out of film-score music
that they worked up for a screening of Seattle animator Bruce
Bickford's work at NC State a couple of years ago. Those pieces in
turn were morphed somewhat and wound up on the soundtrack to Brett
Ingram & Jim Haverkamp's Bickford documentary "Monster Road," and have
now morphed yet again into this album.

des_ark may or may not have most of an album in the can. All *I*
really know for sure is that they keep claiming to be going out of
town to record with J. Mascis. Rough mixes have not been provided to
me, however, so for all I know they're going to the beach instead.

I saw Billy Sugarfix the other night, and he was brilliant, in a
starry-waistcoat and smurf-hat-wearing, joke-telling,
90-second-popsong-singing, theremin-rocking, leave-em-wanting-more
kind of way.



Friday, September 3
The Kick Ass [http://bifocalmedia.com/ourbands/thekickass.html], Art
Lord and the Self Portraits [http://www.ideasforhousecrafts.com]
Kings, Raleigh



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