Recent content by AVB

The singer made an entire album of top 10 covers sung in this style. It wasn't very good.

ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO! Devo - Seattle Center Auditorium 11/28/81 Devo - Paramount Theater Seattle 12/12/82 Including a short history of live recorded Devo. Wife not a Devo fan so I had to take her to see the Nutcracker ballet both years. The 1981-82 Devo New Traditionalists World Tour...

Guess what I am doing tomorrow morning? Talk to you again by the weekend....or not.

AVB's music trivia It has happened a number of times where a song has been released more than once over the years but this is the only one that I know of where the instrumental version was a hit 13 years before the vocal version was released. Glenn Miller's version of "In The Mood" released in...

Those Japanese can miniaturize anything....including a big band.

Of course the 3rd wave of Ska was directly responsible for the Swing revival. This one is for Doc

Sorry man but this is like Luka on quaaludes - too much of a downer for me.

SKA might just be the easiest and most fun music to dance too. If you are on the beat you match the instruments, if you are of the off beat you match the vocals. There have been 3 waves of Ska with each getting a little more popular. The first in the early 60's didn't make a dent in the US. The...

Their dancer stole all my moves.

The load that he shouldered after Duane died was immense and yet you never saw him struggle due to constant practice of his craft.

Just to show AVB is still Hep and with it I'm doing a show from April 2002 I'm now with wife #2 who is European and not at all tuned into any American music beyond the top 40. This made concert going a bit difficult until we figured out a way to compromise.....shopping. About 35 miles away in...

For me the problem is that the premise is false. Not to pick on TCV but since we are using her already we have a 38 year old woman from LA who has never heard ELO, Pearl Jam, The Doobie Brothers....you get my drift....until doing these reviews? Now what she says about HOW they are singing may...

I tried playing bass for seven years only to realize my entire musical talent is pushing the "ON" button. Couple that with my vision and that I'm not going to be cutting snippets of anything I have no dog in this. That is not to say it wouldn't be interesting as a reader but it isn't for me as a...

TCV is not whom I would pick to explain Coheed and Cambria.

/rant on I don't know how I stayed lucky for so long but I just ran across "first time" or "reaction" videos. My question is why should I GAF what somebody I don't know thinks about something I've been listening to for decades? How vapid must your life be that you have to get your opinions...