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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Squirrel Nut Zippers @ The Cradle... NOT A REUNION!
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:04:22 -0800 (PST)

I thoroughly enjoyed Maxwell/Mosher at Troika. And
while they did play several SNZ songs, they had plenty
of others as well.

However, note that maybe my ties with Corporate
America aren't as intimate as Grady's. I was happy to
hear some old SNZ songs that I hadn't heard in like
seven years. Maybe it was something about seeing a
handful of supernice fellas performing them live
rather than accepting corporate america's spoon down
my throat. I just don't know at the moment.

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Umm, well, if you consider "founding members Jimbo
> Mathus and Katharine
> Whalen . . . along with drummer Chris Phillips,
> bassist Stu Cole and
> horn man Je Widenhouse" to be "a bunch of hired
> guns," then OK. Hmm,
> might "donontheweb" be original bassist Don Raleigh?
>
> Here's more from Dave Menconi's blog:
>
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/index.php?title=squirrel_nut_zippers_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
>
> The other day I was on hold with Evil Corporate
> Webhost Godaddy.com, and
> the hold music was *still* SNZ's "Hot," complete
> with "Hell," and even
> if I hadn't already been ready to switch hosts
> thanks to their pathetic
> customer service & technical stupidity, the SNZ
> hold-music would've
> finished the job. That was a pretty fun record the
> first 15-20 times I
> heard it, but thanks to Corporate America, I've now
> heard it 10,000,000
> times.
>
> Which is why I find it kinda equally sad that
> Maxwell/Mosher are still
> playin' [some of] the hits from it, and that the
> other half of the SNZs
> are back together, presumably to flog their half of
> it as well. Do
> neither of them realize how sick everybody got of
> having those songs
> crammed down their throats, not necessarily by them,
> but by their
> Corporate Masters?
>
> Somebody lemme know when either/both of those groups
> have switched up
> their sets to all-new music, and I might be willing
> to give 'em another
> listen. (Or, well, probably not, but at least I'd be
> less inclined to
> cringe when I hear their names.)
>
> And for folks in bands who're contemplating a grab
> for that brass ring,
> consider this cautionary tale of the Zippers:
> http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/439524.html
>
> donontheweb AT gmail.com wrote:
> > Hey kids,
> >
> > Just a heads up that the Squirrel Nut Zippers show
> at the Cradle in
> > February WILL NOT feature Ken Mosher and Tom
> Maxwell. They are still
> > going strong with their Maxwell/Mosher band and
> ARE NOT in SNZ. So it
> > looks like it'll be Jimbo and a bunch of hired
> guns!
> >
> > Just tryin' to keep it real!
> >
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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> >
> >
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> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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>




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