ROBYN HITCHCOCK - QUEEN ELVIS - LIVE

"Taken During The High Period - at Tower Records, (When TR Was Valid!)"

1989 was a wondrous time. New Music was unclassified and YET it was making money and fans all around. This was the time to really follow music. The record companies were all on the phone clamoring for a definition waiting to classify EVERYTHING IN SITE. But it was too hard to do.....

While record PR people were at odds records, yes records, were selling. The entire CD revolution was in a slow turning groove and this was years before Itunes. Tower Records was THE place to get anything you wanted at the time. There seemed to be a lot more of them around back in those days.... And while all of this was happening there was a lot of great songs that were getting pumped out into the public.

Note: At this time nobody needed permission to do anything.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK GOES ACOUSTIC
Ironically I never got a chance to see the Egyptians... technically. I did, however, see the Soft Boys at an impromptu gig at the Bowery Ballroom and reformed once again for the Underwater Moonlight Tour a few years back. Seeing Hitch on the EYE Tour was amazing in its own right. I wanted to see him with a band and go electric. I did not want to see a tour or listen to an entire album that was done acoustically...... but his stuff was different.

The longer he toured and released albums of this nature the better the sound became. If you listen to him sing on the Jonathan Demme concert film he has elevated his acoustic sound to something pretty powerful. It wasn't until this sound was taken to its zenith did I see him play no less than 6 separate times.

*** The funny thing about the album EYE was that it was released on Twin Tone records. This label was home for the Replacements and other thrashy bands. Before the press could jump all over Hitchcock with petty criticisms the record was already recorded and released and distributed.

And there are some gems on this recording. There are several tracks on here that are worth owning. They defy stereotyping of any kind.

Ted Cantu posted this on July 29, 2007 at 8:38 PM

The Truth Hurts --- Don't It ?

From our friends in SOHO, NEW YORK -- CENTER OF THE ART WORLD AND POP CULTURE......................

I found this pretty amusing..... check out the entire site if you will.....
SoHo Weekly News Online - Huh

I agree .. with a sense of humor of course. I could do with out Britney Spears sinead o'conner imitation on the news every 15 minutes.... But then again, maybe its a good thing.

JESSE CAMP - WELCOME TO CRAP

I remember this Toad Stool..... He sucked. In fact Jesse Camp and I actually met one time in New York City. His career was over. He was fired from MTV. I saw him in a Barnes and Noble bookstore. I was in a suit and it was near the stella adler acting school. I went to reach for a business magazine and he called me a corporate pig !!!.. hahaha.. I am not kidding you.

This guy smelled ... it was hot too that day. He wore a black Hefty trash bag with two arm holes in it as a shirt. He must have been roasting in this thing. It was about 90 degrees out and it was august. Plus the heat from the concrete. I know I was sweating bullets. But this swine called me a corporate pig. I didnt do anything to provoke him or to upset him. I didnt even sneer at his wardrobe. Honest.

I watched him slunk down the aisle. He might have been high, who knows. I saw him stumble out into the blazing hot heat in that ridiculous garb he considered pop fashion. I felt bad for him.... because im a decent human being.

But still... I found it somewhat funny too, I had mixed feelings. One hand I felt like saying.. SCREW HIM. The other half of me wanted to say... who cares, get some real clothes loser... or go get a job.

This is what others said about his video:

Jesse Camp had a weak attempt at Rock n Roll. Nowhere to be found, no one seems to care.

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wait, it gets much better
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Filthy idiot
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JESSE CAMP isn't cute and he needs to take a shower. all the money he made during this time, and he couldn't even fix his nasty teeth! go figure! - BRIAN
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Why is he talking like that in the song? Even when it came out, this song was crap, and don't even say it was before it's time. No one plays rock 'n' roll today, or at least deserves to be called "Rock 'n' Roll". Jesse Camp sucks, and everybody hates him.
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IMG get this, this music is so unkown you cant even GOOGLE THE LYRICS, you end up with nothing. God jesse camp sucked balls. Out of morbid curiosity i wonder were he is now
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I REST MY CASE
He should change the bands name to JESSE CAMP AND THE MORONS FROM MARS

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Ted Cantu is the grooviest creator of FASCUBE Fashion Culture Beauty Network 2006