Teasing the Korean Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 I realize Texas is a big place, but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 No, are they a Texas band? Internet says Philly? Definitely like the concept, though! Not quite The Wondermints, but who is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, JSngry said: No, are they a Texas band? Internet says Philly? Definitely like the concept, though! Not quite The Wondermints, but who is! I think they started someplace in Texas... But I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Here's a funny story, maybe. One night, a bunch of us were sitting around talking about three pop songs of the '60s that we grew up on. At the time all of the working gigs for pop bands were all doing current stuff. There was a lot of it, and a lot of it was fun to play, especially the funk/R&B stuff. Nobody was playing "oldies" as a matter of course. So I said, you know what would be great? Put together a repertory band to do all these great Beach Boys inspectors and and Mamas and papas songs and all this stuff. And then do concerts of it, maybe even club dates! And then a decade later, we're all playing in the wedding bands only without full instrumentation and full background vocals. And to this day, wedding bands fuck up the good stuff, when they play it at all. So, the moral of the story, maybe, is that if the artists don't get to it first, the business people will, and then...playing catch-up is a non-starter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Not to be confused with Freddy Fender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Look at the number of people on that stage. That's work, a paying job. And if you got anything else you want to do, one of these gigs gives you more room to do it. Never mind if the money's mostly coming from Boomer creeps and other enemy types, once you get their money, you put it into where you want to go. But if there's no gigs at all... Besides, I think you gotta respect the hell out of anybody who respects the music enough to get into the details and proceed accordingly. Brian was not fucking around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, JSngry said: Look at the number of people on that stage. I counted 21. Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 More than a Stan Kenton band, except for the mellophoniums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 The Fendertones! I stumbled across them several years ago while on a Brian W/Beach Boys binge: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 That's like the timer two or two that they had Darlene's Love on Letterman with the with a full wall of sound orchestra. Excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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