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| 2975.1 | | BRAT::PAGE | | Fri Sep 09 1994 10:25 | 11 |
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I'm pretty lukewarm about Green Day. I like raw garage bands like
this, and their songs do have some hooks, but I can't get past Billy Joe's
phony English accent. That's a really lame thing to do.
I also read an article in Rolling Stone months back that revealed
these guys to be living Beevis & Buttheads. That didn't impress me
either.
Brad
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| 2975.2 | Filler | MPGS::MARKEY | Oooh baby, you smell like... food! | Fri Sep 09 1994 10:27 | 12 |
| I have Dookie on CD (I dance around blasting "Longview" and my kids
tell me to turn it down... whoda thunkit :-)
Anyway, I don't recall any soloing per se... mostly vamping.
While I like the band, they're just another example of a pop phenomenon
that gets overblown in the press. One really catchy song and a bunch
of post-punk filler for a debut. Whoopie. Best band in America... not
by any measure I could think of. I'll know they truly suck when Rolling
Stone magazine pronounces them the reincarnation of the Clash.
Brian
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| 2975.3 | | LEDS::BURATI | My other keyboard's on a Hammond B-3 | Fri Sep 09 1994 10:47 | 2 |
| Saw 'em on Letterman. I ain't never seen anybody strum a guitar quite
like that. Good R&R.
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| 2975.4 | | POWDML::BUCKLEY | Venimus, Vidimus, Coastimus | Fri Sep 09 1994 10:57 | 1 |
| They rock.
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| 2975.5 | | RICKS::CALCAGNI | gray folded | Fri Sep 09 1994 11:47 | 7 |
| Speaking of living the Beavis and Butthead ideal, anyone catch the
tennis playing Jensen brothers on talk TV this week? They got knocked
out of the U.S. Open early, saw em on Conan. They rock.
I hear they have a band with John McEnroe on lead (no joke).
/nasty
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| 2975.6 | | SUBPAC::GOLDIE | Stranger in a strange land | Fri Sep 09 1994 14:18 | 6 |
| I like them but they remind me tons of early Clash not only in playing
style but in certain stage mannerisms!
ian
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| 2975.7 | OK | NACAD2::HERTZBERG | History: Love it or Leave it! | Fri Sep 09 1994 17:45 | 10 |
| I saw the Letterman appearance, too, and decided I kind of like them in
a funny way. That song, anyway, whatever it was. They have a little
Elvis Costello and/or Replacements flavor to them at times. I thought
it was hilarious when the picture shifted to Sirajul and Mujibur fly
fishing for a few seconds during their song.
Saw them on the MTV awards last night and didn't like that song as
much. Now somebody will tell me it was the same song!
Marc
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| 2975.8 | | GOES11::HOUSE | How could I have been so blind? | Fri Sep 09 1994 19:28 | 1 |
| Did somebody say Replacements? I'm there, dude!
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| 2975.9 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | db | Mon Sep 12 1994 13:33 | 4 |
| I heard the free concert turned out to be a disaster. Lots of fights,
obnoxious drunks, etc.
Police eventually disbursed the crowd and fired shots, etc.
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| 2975.10 | | E::EVANS | | Mon Sep 12 1994 15:01 | 7 |
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I read that the lead singer of Green Day jumped down and started tearing some
of the flowers out of the planters in front of the stage. After being told
what the scene was like, this seemed irresponsible.
Jim
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| 2975.11 | more like a mis-understanding of Moshing | POWDML::BUCKLEY | Venimus, Vidimus, Coastimus | Mon Sep 12 1994 17:12 | 5 |
| A lot of the "problems" were from Staties and MDC Police beating (quite
literally) on young kids who were just "moshing". The cops obviously
don't "get it" (moshing), and thought they were trying to a) provoke a
riot b) endangering the lives of others c) drunken and disorderly d) on
drugs e) all of the above.
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| 2975.12 | Too bad. . . | GAVEL::DAGG | | Tue Sep 13 1994 08:06 | 21 |
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Is that a fake English accent? I thought it
was the way kids talk out on the coast these
days.
Seems like WFNX could have handled the free
show better. They were still telling people
to come down even after the time when I believe
the band had aborted the show.
I've been in the front at concerts when a band comes on and
the crowd moves up and felt myself being lifted
forward, feet not touching the ground. I think they should
have limited the crowd density like with free tickets, wrist bands,
or something, and the cops might have been better able
to do their job.
It'll be a shame if they have no more rock concerts
on the Esplanade because of this.
Dave
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| 2975.13 | | BRAT::PAGE | | Tue Sep 13 1994 10:43 | 11 |
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>Is that a fake English accent? I thought it
>was the way kids talk out on the coast these
>days.
In the last Rolling Stone, the singer himself describes his voice
as an American imitating an Englishman trying to imitate an American.
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| 2975.14 | | KUZZY::PELKEY | Life, It aint for the sqeamish! | Thu Sep 15 1994 08:55 | 5 |
| heard em, got confused, thought I'd woke up in the
midst of the old punk era...
Don't like em,,, I think they inhale....
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| 2975.15 | | ADROID::foster | I'm dying now?! | Thu Sep 15 1994 09:39 | 6 |
| >heard em, got confused, thought I'd woke up in the
>midst of the old punk era...
Ahh! *That's* why I like them %^)
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| 2975.16 | | KUZZY::PELKEY | Life, It aint for the sqeamish! | Thu Sep 15 1994 10:10 | 6 |
| yea,,, I've been told I was missing something in the
80's when I never took to punk.....
It's like new math I guess,, ,miss the first
lesson and you may as well hang it up...
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