Noah
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Posted 3 months ago
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If the David Lee Roth thing you have is an interview done in the bathroom of Greenboro Coliseum where he says "you don't work music, man, you PLAY it" I would VERY much like to have a copy of it.
No, it's not DLR. It's Handleman interviewing Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen. EVH talks about the difference between European crowds, japanese crowds and american crowds. I remember him talking about how Alex would go out on dates while he sat at home and practiced. And I remember something about how playing live was the best cure for what ails ya.
Lord only knows where that tape is. I know I didn't throw it out, but it would be packed away...most likely in an environment that's not very conducive to the preservation of cheap Maxell cassettes. : )
DLR was sniffing suspicious white powder at the time, if you know what I am saying.
David Lee Roth did cocaine?? Oh my god. I had no idea. I'm scandalized!
Gene
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Posted 3 months ago
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Radio stations will counter by pointing to listener surveys.
I worked for a telemarketing firm, while in college, which did listener surveys for radio stations. They were interesting in figuring out the demographics of who listened to them, i.e. race, age, sex and what songs those people would listen to. I'd occasionally get far enough in a survey to play songs to the guy on the phone or ask questions about a list of bands they'd prefer to hear, but I do not know if those were picked to try and push an agenda or were for honest feedback.
As far as local bands go, one not mentioned yet is The Veldt. I remember reading about them in Rolling Stone, while in college (I think 1994), about up and coming bands. It was hard to believe these were the same guys some of my high school classmates wanted to play our prom a couple of years earlier, now getting a mention in Rolling Stone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc6VY365B8M
Gene
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Posted 3 months ago
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As someone mentioned CoC earlier in the thread, I'd just like to point out that band had the coolest damn T-Shirts EVER!!!
I saw those T-Shirts on kids, back in high school and wished I get get one :-(
durhamwolf19
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Posted 3 months ago
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Control Group was great back in the day. They played on Wed. nights at Crazy Zack's in 1981-82.
Fetchin Bones in 1984 at the Brewery.
Mitch Easter's band -Let's Active in 1984
Living Colour at the Brewery in 1988 (great show).
Doc Holliday played at West Campus Jam.
Saw at the Pier:
Mike Cross
The Circle Jerks (punk)
The Dixie Dregs
Oingo Boingo
A Flock of Seagulls
The Go-Go's
Saw REM and The English Beat at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill.
Good times
MrPlywood
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Posted 3 months ago
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To second and to add to durhamwolf's list, bands we saw at the Pier:
Joan Jett - fun show, afterwards she traded a leather studded belt for some article of clothing my future wife had on.
Donnie Iris - didn't know much about him, but he put on a great show, and we saw him a couple of other times
X - great, great show, in my top 5
Flock of Seagulls - nice guys, really good show, perfect Brit pop of the day - then the ultra low budget video for "I Ran" hit MTV and they were forever cast as the dudes with the goofy hair
Oingo Boingo - Danny Elfman in the early days, now the composer of every soundtrack/themesong known to man, or at least Tim Burton productions
Wall of Voodoo
Lords of the New Church - Stiv Bators, I think I interviewed him after the show
The Romantics - kind of funny, they played "What I Like About You" 3 times during the night
Go Gos
Violent Femmes?
Th' Cigaretz
Ramones
R.E.M. - I took pics and wrote a show review for the Technician, had a pitcher of beer with Pete Buck and Mike Mills after the show - and thanks to following links based on this thread, I found these vids of R.E.M. in concert at the Pier. That's me in the foreground left with the camera. That REALLY takes me back! I love the interweb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1Wkx0bC1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PA4N9deBk
Alpha Wolf
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Posted 3 months ago
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^ Wow, was at that show...came in mid-set after we played.
What great times those were.
skitchwolf
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Posted 3 months ago
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The bands around the Triangle in the 80's were just unbelievable. The Knobs, the dbs, the Spongetones, the Xteens, the Pressure Boys, etc., etc. (The Spongetones played my wedding reception - woohoo!) What a great place this was to be around "back in the day." For those of you who remember those days or wonder what it was about, check out the following website: Return to Comboland - lots of info, videos, etc.
http://www.returntocomboland.com/
My sister dated someone from Johnny Quest. I remember getting her old tapes of The Connells, JQ, Sex Police, COC, Firehouse (Charlotte).
Clarksa
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Posted 2 months ago
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As a huge fan of the Sex Police, I was stunned last night to learn Elevator was a cover from a previous band Norwood was in...
Elevator - Notes from a Strange Mailbag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IBWgWARUcg
From the youtube link: Elevator by NFSM was the last song ever performed at Hot Tamales, legendary Greensboro nightclub of the mid to late 80s in Greensboro, NC (10/2/1988). Many people remember Elevator as a song by the Sex Police, featuring Norwood (the author), but it was Notes who originally arranged, performed & recorded the song. Through the glass you can see the crowd outside as the room was to capacity for the Notes reunion. Thanks to Alan Beauvais (footage) & John Rotan (digitization) for preserving this footage!
Blog entry on the group: http://ncmusichistory2.blogspot.com/2006/02/notes-from-strange-mailbag-doy-1986.html
fullmoon1
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Posted 2 months ago
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Wow Clarksa, you took me back with the hot tamales reference. I was on tate street the other day trying to explain to my friends how tate street used to be and we would see all the above mentioned bands there. I think that is where i saw the Chili Peppers,Janes addiction and Fishbone whom were all traveling in the same van. I liked Mitch Easter's work with R.E.M. but never cared for Let's Active.Anyone remeber Miracle House downtown greensboro?
GoneFishin
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Posted 2 months ago
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Great Stuff, after banging my head and thinking through 20+ years of dust and trying to recollect thoughts from the 'haze' of my freshman year I recalled the Smithereens.
For some reason I thought the Smithereens were a Raleigh band. However, after I just miraculously remembered their name and googled them, they are not. But, the best part is when I googled their name with 'wolfstock' I came across this SFN thread: http://www.statefansnationforums.com/topic.php?id=1270 that I somehow missed. Reading it brought back so many good memories...
Alpha Wolf
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Posted 2 months ago
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Greensboro had some good clubs back in the day. At the time my idea of a good club was 1) hot women 2) cheap good beer and 3) good music. There was a lot of that.
I must be getting old because I cannot for the life of me remember the place in W-S that was also great. It was part inside, part outside. Nice thing about Winston back in the day was the fact that a hot woman might also be rich.
Then there was Clawson's in Beaufort, which was owned by the sister of the dude from Raleigh that was in the Village People. The joke was that he was the only straight one.
And the Boathouse up in the Tidewater area. We LOVED that place.
Clarksa
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Posted 2 months ago
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Wolfstock 1992
http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/0228013
Zoo Day
http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/0228019
Lawn Party 1985
http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/0020723
Alpha Wolf
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Posted 2 months ago
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^ Damned shame that lawyers and bureaucrats have ruined all of that. Didn't help that a few kids got too drunk, but really, that happens pretty much anytime you have a festival. Sooooooo, punish the innocent and ban.
Sometimes I think NCSU is anti-fun.
BassPacker
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Posted 2 months ago
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Ah... WQDR !!....that was when rock radio was ROCK radio. Thanks for reminding me with some of the DJ names Alpha. I used to love when they played album sides. I was a sophmore when WQDR announced it was changing formats, rumor was it would be country and we all said "no way".
Another DJ from WQDR airwaves was Bob the Blade. He is actually back on Triangle Rock radio afternoons at 96.1 FM. That station had like a 20 yr reunion recently by bringing back some of the former DJ's from WQDR and WRDU. Names like Kevin Silva, Mary Lou McGregor, Reynolds and Company (which I hated).I think Tom Guild did a block on air that weekend.
Bob the Blade recently reminised about the change over from rock to country at WQDR. He was one if not the only full time DJ that agreed to stay with the station. His first day playing country as he stated killed him. He said even though he signed a good new contract with Clear Station owners, by his third day playing country he quit. He quit by playing a rock & roll song on air and just walking out the door. I can't remember the actual tune he played but it was dead on appropriate. They immediately fired him and banned him from working any Clear Station owned network. 96.1 is ok, good to hear Bob the Blade again afternoons.
Clarksa
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Posted 2 months ago
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I gave it a shot and after playing Tammy Wynette "Stand By Your Man" and Sugarland I was done so I quit on the air and played "The Song Is Over" by The Who and left the building. I put the song on a different server so they couldn't find it, but they did. I was impressed. They found it after 90 seconds and resumed country programming.
ChemE79a
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Posted 2 months ago
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Speaking of radio stations, did any of you who were around in the 1970's ever listen to WDBS at 107.1? The signal was far weaker than WQDR's and they played a block of classical music in the morning some of the time, but the rock format was far looser and more progessive than QDR's. My roommate was Durham an dhe got me started listening, but I found WDBS to be a far superior listening experience to WQDR. In the early 80's the station got sold, changed its call letters and went to an urban format.
Alpha Wolf
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Posted 2 months ago
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Bass, I stream this station all the time, because it is the closest you are going to find to a modern day WQDR:
You can stream those guys. It's well worth it.
There's a lot of great music out there these days, it's just that living in Raleigh, we're kind of stuck hearing the same old, same old. Nothing wrong with classics, but geez, does 96.1 play the same two cd's worth of music ad nauseum?
newt
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Posted 2 months ago
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"Brian McFadden is doing a lot better and seems to be past his cancer nowadays. I think he's doing some radio work in Virginia."
Brian is in Raleigh and can be seen playing keyboards in the bands Smile, Crush, the Al Williams Band, and the Yard Dogs.
Pack Mentality
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Posted 1 month ago
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Who are the younger bands that are playing in town now? I'm not as in tune with the local scene as I used to be.
Does anybody know who the local bands are that are good now, and I don't mean bands whose heyday was in the 80s or 90s. I mean the bands that are going strong now. Maybe the younger guys and current students know.
I know some good Chapel Hill bands, but what about Raleigh?
highstick
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Posted 1 month ago
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Jeez, I'm old! I go back to the Embers in the 60's and 70's. Can remember going to a gig they did in the basement somewhere downtown when they were just getting started.
Clarksa
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Posted 1 month ago
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^Cameron Village underground maybe?
ncsu96
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Posted 1 month ago
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PackMentality - The Rosebuds are probably the most notable Raleigh band these days. They are actually from UNC-W but have lived in Raleigh for a while now.
The hopscotch music festival is in Raleigh in Sept and will have a ton of local music, makes me wish I younger and still living in Raleigh.
highstick
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Posted 1 month ago
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Re: Basement...no, it was the old civic center or auditorium downtown...The place in Cameron Village was much later...Frog & Nightgown...
Can remember seeing Jesus Christ Superstar much later upstairs in the auditorium. The Embers gig must have been in 64 or so.Later they had the Embers Club on one of the side streets downtown, but that was in the 70-71 timeframe.
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