After the demise of my beloved Afghan Whigs, frontman Greg Dulli quickly returned with a supergroup of sorts, The Twilight Singers. Comprised of Satchel & Brad frontman Shawn Smith and Howlin Maggie leader Happy Chichester, the band boasted three unique talents, voices and songwriters, which of course meant it couldn’t last.
If fact, by the time this early tour took place, Shawn Smith was already out of the band, leaving Happy in second banana role to Greg, even though the band was comprised of the then current roster of Howlin Maggie on drums, bass and lead guitar, with Happy on keys and guitar and Greg on rhythm guitar.
Since the band was relatively new, songs were culled from both the Afghan Whigs and Howlin Maggie catalogs. As it was the Howlin Maggie band, seeing them play Whigs tunes with Greg out front was a bit odd, yet any chance to hear those songs played live was appreciated.
This line-up wouldn’t last, as the Twilight Singers would essentially become an outlet for Greg’s solo output, with a new cast of characters seemingly weaving there way in and out record to record and tour to tour.
SETLIST
The Twilite Kid
Clyde
That’s Just How That Bird Sings
King Only
66 (AW)
Easy To Be Stupid (HM)
Love
Annie Mae
Umbretta (AW)
Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin For Yang)
Last Temptation
Crazy (AW)
A Love Supreme
Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
Twilight
Black Love (AW)
Concert Review: Cinderella and American Dog @ LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH (6/30/10)
This was a fluke. Originally, the line-up was supposed to be Scorpions and Cinderella, but someone in Scorpions had an illness and had to cancel, which I wasn’t too concerned about because I didn’t buy tickets in the first place.
Then it was announced Cinderella would be playing a free show with a regional band, American Dog, opening up. Free show! Now I’m in, as were a bunch of friends, and getting off work from our respective jobs, headed down to the LC Pavilion. Along the way, we discovered that within about a half-square mile there was also a Columbus Clippers game starting around the same time, as well as a Michael Buble concert at Nationwide Arena. The sidewalks were packed with three very different groups of people converging almost on the same spot – casually dressed baseball fans, acid washed jeans and black t-shirt hair metal fans, and well dressed Buble concert goers. Very odd scene, to say the least.
American Dog opened up and were fine, sort of like Lynyrd Skynyrd filtered through Motorhead, but the people watching was the main event at first. It seemed a free show brought out every stereotype of rock and metal you could imagine, and the lack of cash spent on tickets meant more money spent on beer.
Cinderella, who I had seen ten years earlier for the first time and been won over quickly, played a hit-filled set with little b.s. and lots of rock. That didn’t stop a few over imbibed drunks in the crowd from starting fights, which we watched with the amusement from the lawn.
CINDERELLA SETLIST
Second Wind
Push Push
Somebody Save Me
Last Mile
Night Songs
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At The Seams
Heartbreak Station
Coming Home
Shelter Me
Nobody’s Fool
Gypsy Road
Encore:
Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
Shake Me
Then it was announced Cinderella would be playing a free show with a regional band, American Dog, opening up. Free show! Now I’m in, as were a bunch of friends, and getting off work from our respective jobs, headed down to the LC Pavilion. Along the way, we discovered that within about a half-square mile there was also a Columbus Clippers game starting around the same time, as well as a Michael Buble concert at Nationwide Arena. The sidewalks were packed with three very different groups of people converging almost on the same spot – casually dressed baseball fans, acid washed jeans and black t-shirt hair metal fans, and well dressed Buble concert goers. Very odd scene, to say the least.
American Dog opened up and were fine, sort of like Lynyrd Skynyrd filtered through Motorhead, but the people watching was the main event at first. It seemed a free show brought out every stereotype of rock and metal you could imagine, and the lack of cash spent on tickets meant more money spent on beer.
Cinderella, who I had seen ten years earlier for the first time and been won over quickly, played a hit-filled set with little b.s. and lots of rock. That didn’t stop a few over imbibed drunks in the crowd from starting fights, which we watched with the amusement from the lawn.
CINDERELLA SETLIST
Second Wind
Push Push
Somebody Save Me
Last Mile
Night Songs
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At The Seams
Heartbreak Station
Coming Home
Shelter Me
Nobody’s Fool
Gypsy Road
Encore:
Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
Shake Me
This Week In Music: 7/9-7/15
This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:
Peter Gabriel: Up – anti-commercial brilliance
Cabaret Voltaire: Code – dancy darkness
Yngwie Malmsteen: The Seventh Sign – expert wankery
Mudhoney: Since We’ve Become Translucent – slowed punk
Jetboy: Feel The Shake – barroom dirty
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight – innovative soundscapes
Sloan: Parallel Play – some filler
David Usher: Strange Birds – melodically challenging
Pretty Boy Floyd: A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n Roll EP – quick sleaze
Radio Birdman: Radios Appear – primitive beats
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods – psychedelic punk
Cinderella: Still Climbing – satisfying diversity
Butch Walker: Sycamore Meadows – intimately intense
Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome – peak Parliament
The Posies: Failure – uneven output
Saigon Kick: Devil in the Details – bizarre oddities
Peter Gabriel: Up – anti-commercial brilliance
Cabaret Voltaire: Code – dancy darkness
Yngwie Malmsteen: The Seventh Sign – expert wankery
Mudhoney: Since We’ve Become Translucent – slowed punk
Jetboy: Feel The Shake – barroom dirty
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight – innovative soundscapes
Sloan: Parallel Play – some filler
David Usher: Strange Birds – melodically challenging
Pretty Boy Floyd: A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n Roll EP – quick sleaze
Radio Birdman: Radios Appear – primitive beats
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods – psychedelic punk
Cinderella: Still Climbing – satisfying diversity
Butch Walker: Sycamore Meadows – intimately intense
Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome – peak Parliament
The Posies: Failure – uneven output
Saigon Kick: Devil in the Details – bizarre oddities
This Week In Music: 7/2-7/8
This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:
Matthew Sweet: In Reverse – underappreciated epic
The Saints: Eternally Yours – buzzsaw punk
Prong: Carved Into Stone – metal fury
Rufus Wainwright: Want One – audacious theatricality
Steelheart: Tangled in Reins – party rock
Cats In Boots: Kicked & Klawed – needs seasoning
The Grays: Very Best Years single – obscure gems
Green Day: Warning – deceptively simple
Blur: Under The Westway single – welcome return
Rocket From The Crypt: Live From Camp X Ray – too short
Redd Kross: Teen Babes From Monsanto – impressive beginnings
Matthew Sweet: In Reverse – underappreciated epic
The Saints: Eternally Yours – buzzsaw punk
Prong: Carved Into Stone – metal fury
Rufus Wainwright: Want One – audacious theatricality
Steelheart: Tangled in Reins – party rock
Cats In Boots: Kicked & Klawed – needs seasoning
The Grays: Very Best Years single – obscure gems
Green Day: Warning – deceptively simple
Blur: Under The Westway single – welcome return
Rocket From The Crypt: Live From Camp X Ray – too short
Redd Kross: Teen Babes From Monsanto – impressive beginnings
Concert Review: Goo Goo Dolls, Howlin’ Maggie & The Gufs @ the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH (8/15/96)
Although I was from Buffalo, I didn’t know the Goo Goo Dolls any better than your average music fan. It wasn’t until A Boy Named Goo made a huge splash nationally thanks to the single Name that they appeared on my radar. Of course, being a music junkie, that meant discovering the numerous albums from their punk rock past, and hearing a subtle yet consistent growth in the band from album to album.
While the Goos were enjoying recognition, apparently they were not enjoying success as well, due to a bad record contract. Years later, the band would confess that they played the county fair circuit around the country as a means to support themselves out of necessity, not choice. Not only where the band not making money off of A Boy Named Goo, they actually owed the label quite a bit. But I didn’t know that at the time, I was just interested in seeing my hometown boys done well.
I drove down from college, having stayed the summer to take classes with someone but I can’t recall who. It was my first (and only) trip to a state fair. Livestock and low quality food just don’t interest me, although I’ve heard the food has gotten better.
Now, this is one of the few times I don’t need to write a review, because I already have, it’s posted below. It should be noted that this review was submitted in response to another review on a Goo Goo Dolls listserv in 1996. No idea what a listserv is/was? Google it, and have a good laugh.
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From timm@ Sat Aug 17 21:20:30 1996
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 14:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy David Minneci
To: penberth@oswego.Oswego.EDU
Cc: “Sarah D. Davis” <102710.2520@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: concert review
I was also at the Ohio State Fair Thursday and got a chance to see the Goos for the first time live (I’ve always had bad timing in the past). Just to add my two cents:
-The Prince (or guy with no name as Johnny put it) song was ”Never Take The Place Of Your Man” which they cover on Hold Me Up with the Incredible Lance Diamond on vocals. This is a cool coincidence because just last Friday I played this song on my radio show here at college (I felt the need for Lance’s vocals).
-I had a chance to review the Gufs single and full length for this radio station (WFAL is the name), and gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Their music is catchy, but the vocals can get montonous. Crash and Sunday Driver are cool songs, and they did both in concert.
-Howlin’ Maggie is a band I like a lot and was very pleased to see them on the bill instead of the boring Dishwalla. I don’t get the Dave Matthews comparison, Harold Chichester has a hell of lot more personality and is and incredible guitarist. If you don’t believe me, try playing the riff to the song “Alcohol” (which is incredibly hard in the first place), and then try singing at the same time. Their album is great, I picked it up used at Record Theatre on Main St. in Buffalo for $7.95 and the damn thing won’t leave my CD Player. However, I don’t think HM is a good opening band for the Goos because their music is a little more, ah sonic. They sound more like a Pumpkins opening band.
-One last thing, I got really pissed when 2/3′s through the show they played Name, and then people started leaving. Hello, show’s not over. Oh well, their tough luck, they missed the Fair Queen on stage. Overall, great performance by the Goos. They looked like kids up there running around on stage having a good time.
Adios.
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Timothy D. Minneci
GO TRIBE!!! / GO BISONS!!!
TIM’S*CURRENT*TOP5*LED*ZEPPELIN*UNCLE*TUPELO*
THE*TRAGICALLY*HIP*BILLY*JOEL*HUM
While the Goos were enjoying recognition, apparently they were not enjoying success as well, due to a bad record contract. Years later, the band would confess that they played the county fair circuit around the country as a means to support themselves out of necessity, not choice. Not only where the band not making money off of A Boy Named Goo, they actually owed the label quite a bit. But I didn’t know that at the time, I was just interested in seeing my hometown boys done well.
I drove down from college, having stayed the summer to take classes with someone but I can’t recall who. It was my first (and only) trip to a state fair. Livestock and low quality food just don’t interest me, although I’ve heard the food has gotten better.
Now, this is one of the few times I don’t need to write a review, because I already have, it’s posted below. It should be noted that this review was submitted in response to another review on a Goo Goo Dolls listserv in 1996. No idea what a listserv is/was? Google it, and have a good laugh.
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From timm@ Sat Aug 17 21:20:30 1996
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 14:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy David Minneci
To: penberth@oswego.Oswego.EDU
Cc: “Sarah D. Davis” <102710.2520@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: concert review
I was also at the Ohio State Fair Thursday and got a chance to see the Goos for the first time live (I’ve always had bad timing in the past). Just to add my two cents:
-The Prince (or guy with no name as Johnny put it) song was ”Never Take The Place Of Your Man” which they cover on Hold Me Up with the Incredible Lance Diamond on vocals. This is a cool coincidence because just last Friday I played this song on my radio show here at college (I felt the need for Lance’s vocals).
-I had a chance to review the Gufs single and full length for this radio station (WFAL is the name), and gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Their music is catchy, but the vocals can get montonous. Crash and Sunday Driver are cool songs, and they did both in concert.
-Howlin’ Maggie is a band I like a lot and was very pleased to see them on the bill instead of the boring Dishwalla. I don’t get the Dave Matthews comparison, Harold Chichester has a hell of lot more personality and is and incredible guitarist. If you don’t believe me, try playing the riff to the song “Alcohol” (which is incredibly hard in the first place), and then try singing at the same time. Their album is great, I picked it up used at Record Theatre on Main St. in Buffalo for $7.95 and the damn thing won’t leave my CD Player. However, I don’t think HM is a good opening band for the Goos because their music is a little more, ah sonic. They sound more like a Pumpkins opening band.
-One last thing, I got really pissed when 2/3′s through the show they played Name, and then people started leaving. Hello, show’s not over. Oh well, their tough luck, they missed the Fair Queen on stage. Overall, great performance by the Goos. They looked like kids up there running around on stage having a good time.
Adios.
******************************************************************************
Timothy D. Minneci
GO TRIBE!!! / GO BISONS!!!
TIM’S*CURRENT*TOP5*LED*ZEPPELIN*UNCLE*TUPELO*
THE*TRAGICALLY*HIP*BILLY*JOEL*HUM
This Week In Music: 6/25-7/1
This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:
Butch Walker: Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites – seventies-ish pop
Van Duren: Idiot Optimism – seventies-ish singer/songwriterism
Pete Townshend: The Iron Man: A Musical – huge mistake
Robert Pollard: Lord of the Birdcage – poetic interpretations
Vandenberg: Heading for a Storm – lightweight metal
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses – surprising rock
Ryan Smith: Waiting – midwestern PostalService-esque
Rush: Grace Under Pressure – electronic overload
Dead Can Dance: Anastasis – moody darkness
Royal Thunder: Cvi – soulful metal
Genesis: Genesis – Collins best
Butch Walker: Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites – seventies-ish pop
Van Duren: Idiot Optimism – seventies-ish singer/songwriterism
Pete Townshend: The Iron Man: A Musical – huge mistake
Robert Pollard: Lord of the Birdcage – poetic interpretations
Vandenberg: Heading for a Storm – lightweight metal
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses – surprising rock
Ryan Smith: Waiting – midwestern PostalService-esque
Rush: Grace Under Pressure – electronic overload
Dead Can Dance: Anastasis – moody darkness
Royal Thunder: Cvi – soulful metal
Genesis: Genesis – Collins best
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