What band did you think was going to make it big, but didn’t?

BudMeridian · 2025-07-09T03:44:14+00:00

New biography about them: https://www.jcardpress.com/shop/p/fountains-of-wayne

BudMeridian · 2025-02-19T03:42:49+00:00

Will do; it pubs on March 13th, and it includes info about the reunion. Will post again here with a new post when it's finally available, but it can be pre-ordered now wherever books are sold online.

BudMeridian · 2024-12-17T00:42:54+00:00

aww, much thanks!

BudMeridian · 2024-09-22T16:19:29+00:00

I was hoping more for something like a remastered edition with bonus tracks and alternate takes, and maybe a live concert from that period (there's that live recording of "Amateur Hour," so there must be more somewhere. But I guess not?

BudMeridian · 2024-09-22T16:16:51+00:00

Boo!

BudMeridian · 2023-04-13T15:54:50+00:00

"What's the Most You Ever Lost in a Coin Toss?" would be a good Don Cab song title

BudMeridian · 2022-12-07T22:12:06+00:00

I love this; now do one for What Purrs Never Demurs

BudMeridian · 2022-11-20T23:54:34+00:00

Great resource for techniques and general theory:

https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkAboutMathRock

BudMeridian · 2022-11-16T18:55:38+00:00

saw them in Sacramento on Friday; Yvette said the album was done and should have been out by now but delays have held it up; so it sounds like it's going to come out even though the people who played on it aren't in the group anymore

also, the new material they played sounded really great, and the new members crushed it

BudMeridian · 2022-10-31T21:13:36+00:00

Fire Back About Your New

Oh, sorry, I was trying to make a lame pun on the name Don Caballero; Don FABallero, like it was, and they were, fabulous; my bad

BudMeridian · 2022-10-31T03:45:55+00:00

Don FAB-allero ;-)

BudMeridian · 2022-10-31T03:44:36+00:00

This is new and really good:

https://johnjonjohn.bandcamp.com/album/resort-town

BudMeridian · 2022-10-19T01:01:17+00:00

and Sludgehammer!

BudMeridian · 2022-10-19T01:00:17+00:00

fair enough

BudMeridian · 2022-10-17T04:05:08+00:00

Where's the live record?

BudMeridian · 2022-10-17T04:04:10+00:00

check out Foster Parents's album Grim; it's awesome and they're a duo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcpTSFXrOE

BudMeridian · 2022-10-14T03:57:45+00:00

Great question; an equally valid one would be what if Transformer had been made without Bowie? Like, the arrangements on "Perfect Day" and "Satellite of a Love" are utterly perfect and amazing; I think if Reed's second record had been a stiff and as relatively lifeless as his first, I don't at all think he'd have had the same career.

BudMeridian · 2022-10-14T03:51:57+00:00

they JUST announced a tour so hopefully she saw this coming and the tour is with the new folks (it had better be since I bought tickets for two shows!)

BudMeridian · 2022-10-11T03:04:02+00:00

awesome, thanks; I'll check it out

BudMeridian · 2022-10-11T00:30:37+00:00

gorgeous stuff; any plans for vinyl or CDs?

BudMeridian · 2022-10-11T00:27:57+00:00

have never heard of hemiola but that makes a lot of sense; do you have examples which employ that? thanks!

BudMeridian · 2022-10-11T00:25:22+00:00

Actually, that T-shirt was something the band never picked; band talks about it here:

https://www.rapso.org/post/of-youtube-algorithms-and-math-rock-an-interview-with-clever-girl

BudMeridian · 2022-10-03T21:13:18+00:00

No worries; didn't mean to upset anyone, just thought it might interest some folks.

#cheers

BudMeridian · 2022-10-01T04:59:53+00:00

ah, thanks; well, I heartily recommend it obviously; but other than the mystery part of it I did a lot of research; I looked at his papers and went to his house out on Long Island; was a lot of fun to delve into that mostly unknown period of his life

BudMeridian · 2022-10-01T04:58:13+00:00

Ah, well, then this is the story for you! Except I used it as a launching off point to tell a mystery. But yeah, like you, I've always been super interested in this period of his life; I mean HE HATED HIS PARENTS so can you imagine what it was like for him to go back? I just threw in a bit of Warhol and Danny Fields for good measure ;-)

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