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  • From: donontheweb AT gmail.com
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Squirrel Nut Zippers @ The Cradle... NOT A REUNION!
  • Date: 10 Dec 2006 16:00:59 -0800

I as well do not (or ever have) been a listener of Top 40 radio. I was
also raised in a house with hippie parents who "didn't believe in
cable". I never had MTV or whatever so I never really had SNZ driven
down my throat. Instead, for a kid who grew up on Heavy Metal and
playing in Metal and Punk bands, SNZ was a great change of pace for me
in a time when I was discovering a change of life in bands like Phish,
Blues Traveler, and the Dead.

For now though, I feel that Maxwell/Mosher are really keeping the
spirit alive in addition to doing their own material and other songs.
They aren't just an SNZ cover band but hell, if anyone has a right to
play them, they do as well. As for the SNZ "reunion" good luck to them
and I hope everyone enjoys them.




Evelyn Frierson wrote:
> I do not listen to top 40 radio or watch MTV (anymore), so I was
> probably not inundated with the SNZ. I have fond memories of seeing
> them at Henry's, hearing them play with some young fella on a New
> Year's Eve at the last minute (on an xyc ticket) and even seeing
> them, strange as it was, on their bus tour in the pnw. It's a sad
> story, but not much different than a lot of bands. They got all the
> notoriety that bands like Metal Flake Mother and Zen Frisbee also
> deserved. Go see them for me. I'm sure they could use the money!
>
> By the way, thanks for posting the link to Dexter. I hadn't seen
> that clip and it brought back memories of Randy Ward and others.
> On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:23 AM, grady 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!
> >>
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