Rants and Ravings of a Misguided Dreamer and Observer
Salutations™!! A few weeks back I did the Rolling Stones show via Vagabond Saints Society. My friend Chad Nance filmed the whole affair and will offer up some of the performances across the next few weeks. The first one was the show opener featuring our fearless leader, Doug Davis (yes THAT Doug Davis). I can’t…
Salutations™!! On this week’s episode of The Less Desirables, we had Doug Davis (yes, THAT Doug Davis) on to talk about the upcoming Vagabond Saints Society show in which they do the music of The Rolling Stones. This will happen at the Ramkat in Industry Hill and it will be an outside show that is…
Salutations™!! Today, I’m not posting any video. Today, I’m posting about a (gasp! yes another) fundraising effort by the musical folks of WSNC. I’ve talked about Dale Cole and the Virtual Village a few times and they have been on The Less Desirables a few times. DC&VV put together a compilation of area musicians, with…
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Salutations™!! My friend Doug Davis (yes, that Doug Davis) has like 356 side musical projects. One of them is this thing called Fanner. According to their Facebook page, the influences for this project are Peter Gabriel, Steven Wilson, Elbow, Radiohead, Pink Floyd. I don’t know much about Elbow, but the rest I can at least…
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Salutations™!! Tonight, at Rizzo’s in Clemmons, the Friday Night Music Club is putting on their September gig. It’s a triple-billed shindig with Huey Lewis & The News, J Geils Band and Rick Springfield! No, Huey Lewis, Peter Wolf nor Rick Springfield are actually going to be there. Friday Night Music Club is the brainchild of…
Salutations™!! Here’s the phone conversation: The BCPF: “Hello.” Me: “So, baby… I love you!” The BCPF: “Um… I love you.” Me: “I fixed the shower (it had been leaking really badly (I was proud of myself – that’s another conversation)).” The BCPF: “Yay! Thank you.” Me: “And… I love you!” The BCPF (with trepidation): “I…
Salutations™!! If you happen to find yourself in Greensboro tonight or feel like a leisurely drive to Greensboro, then consider stopping by the Carolina Theatre and coming up to the Crown to see Abigail Dowd, new band Gasket Hawkins and The Silver Alerts. The festivities start at 7pm and shouldn’t run too awfully late, that…
Salutations™!! Tonight is the night. There has been a big buildup in the local media about this this week. The “old new Ziggy’s” is getting its fresh new makeover and it’s a “royal” one. Tonight is the grand opening of The Ramkat and for the opening, it’s the incomparable Vagabond Saints Society doing a night…
Salutations™!! You know, in the almost eight years of doing The Less Desirables, there has only been one Wednesday that we missed a show. I was in Costa Rica at the time and there were difficulties with the equipment and/or ProTools and Eugene had no clue what was going on. That wasn’t his fault. Even…
Salutations™!! Today is December 8, 2017. It was December 8, 1980, when the world lost one of its most celebrated and controversial celebrities and brilliant minds. I’ve talked about this before but when this happened, I was 10. I had just gotten into some hard rock music, namely KISS a few years earlier and The…