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May
19
The Stones: Ventilator Blues
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Exile on Main Street was released in remastered form yesterday. There’s a song on it called Ventilator Blues, which by the three-second mark is already one of the raunchiest, sleaziest, scariest things I’ve ever heard. One of Keith’s most visceral, physical, venal riffs.
No one does hedonism like the Stones, and no one gets at the sheer exhaustion and the come-down like them, either. It’s a pointless way to live. But what a song. What a song.
brendan o’donnell could generally care less about non-American music. he makes occasional exceptions.
May
5
Any of you Moscow music fans remember a band called Postal Joe? The power pop trio ransacked the Palouse back in the days when John’s Alley sported a tiny corner stage and a ceiling about seven feet high. (They played the hottest cover of the Tiffany hit “I Think We’re Alone Now” I’ve ever heard.) Drummer Mike Last, who also helped out on vocals, was Postal Joe’s catalyst, ranking somewhere just below the Band’s Levon Helm and the Eagles’ Don Henley on the list of coolest singing drummers of all time. Unknown to many, he was (and is) also a heck of a writer, songwriter and poet. Now, after years of drumming for a bunch of Northwest and Chicago-area bands, Mike has stepped to the front of the stage. As lead singer and principle songwriter of the Eugene, Oregon folk rock three-piece the Stagger and Sway, his natural charisma and dusty poetics are unmistakably the main attraction. The Stagger and Sway will share the (now much larger) John’s Alley stage this Saturday with fellow Eugeners John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags.
“Wyoming” by the Stagger and Sway
– The Mark
UPDATE: The Stagger and Sway will instead be joined by Dan Jones and the Golden Motors. John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags have canceled.
“Hot Pink UFOs” by Dan Jones and the Squids
