I watched Billy Corgan and his new band, “Zwan” on Letterman Thursday night. Something seemed off. Seemed like a halfhearted performance. That’s all. Maybe the new band members just aren’t used to performing live with each other. Or maybe the song “Honestly” is just hard to play live.
There is talk that Zwan’s songs are more spiritual in nature compared to the doldrums of Smashing Pumpkins. Check out this MTV article about it.
Learning alot from the Covers Project. Lone Justice originally did Tom Petty’s “Ways to be Wicked.” He wrote it for them. However on his Playback box set, you can tell he did it better. Made it his own.
You can usually tell how establish an artist is by the number of bands that has covered their songs. For example, the Goo Goo Dolls show 19 covers done themselves. However only 3 artists have covered Goo material.
“Goo Material?” Isn’t that the stuff you find on the orange end of an Elmer’s bottle?
Meanwhile I did get a cool cover of Cracker’s “Sick of Goodbyes” as done by Sparklehorse. Cracker is one of the most underappreciated bands out there. Ask a kid these days “Have you heard of Cracker?” They’ll think you are talking about that lame Uncle Kracker.
Do yourself a favor and go out and get Cracker’s album “Kerosene Hat.”
Falling out of a plane in Shanghai.
Group says CBS’s The Real Beverly Hillbillies pushes rural stereotypes.
Tennessee Sports Fan Closes all but its Opry Mills locations. Is this a case for too much expansion too fast? I take interest in this story since I have friends and family who used to work at this store.
The Race to Kill Kazaa.