jenn halter (jenno@email.unc.edu) wrote:

: long live rocknroll!  the backsliders and jason and the scorchers damn
: near turned
: the cradle upsidedown this evening!  talk about hardcore honky tonk, these


I'm not playing "old school" here, but the scorchers haven't been
interesting to me in years.  Seriously, I saw them right after they signed
to mammoth, and I was bored to tears.  It all seemed to contrived and if
Warner hit one more freaking metal pose I was gonna barf.

I was very glad to read in a recent interview (maybe in music monitor?)
where the Backsliders refering to themselves as a bar band.  I think
that's very true and applicable.  I don't particularly like their music,
but I'm so glad they didn't go on about being alternative country.

Speaking of which, sp8:  I've got a drumset and been known to drop a
little country swing.  I gave up upright bass due to chronic arthritis --
I can only play for about 20 minutes at a time before I'm screaming in
pain.  

later,
Gary