Do you know about the Paul Collins show on July 4th at Sol Collective? I'm about to blow your mind: Calvin Johnson and Dreamdate are also on the bill. That's a pretty random grab bag of all interesting stuff. I interviewed Paul C. yesterday for the SNR and he is such a rad dude. I knew he would be but he was even better than I thought.
Speaking of interviews, MidMo has a doozy coming up. Tony King interviewed a local music celebrity and let me just give you a teaser: broken testicles.
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Hopefully Calvin will go on last to prevent him from just going on & on & taking up all the time.
That is a good point. I hope Rick keeps that in mind. I want to see Paul Collins. Where are we going to meet for drinks during Calvin? Dad's Kitchen? Panchos? I think On Broadway bar may be open.
gbomb
Oh Calvin Johnson, is there a more "seminal" indie rock figure that no one actually likes?
Also, is On Broadway the bar attached to Pho Bac? I don't think I've ever seen anyone in there, so I assumed it was closed.
Biz
hmmm...I kind of like him but more in a "what the hell is he going to say" kind of way. At least he's not bringing a french canadian to berate us. maybe the dreamdate ladies can fake french accents and talk about how we're not cool.
i think the place to get a drink is tim and liv's backyard- whether they're there or not!
We'll just climb over the cactus into the backyard. No problem. We can send Calvin in first!
g
Just don't let the dog out!
Is this party tonight solstice related?
it's first day of summer related
we also could have called it party til it's dark i guess
I plan on holding a full moon yoga pose (w/Fat Face salsa popcicle in my mouth) from 6-10pm to celebrate the solstice.
Jed
If nobody likes Calvin Johnson, why is it that everytime he plays here whether in band form or solo, his shows are always so well attended and bring out people you don't often--if ever--see at shows?
I really don't wanna keep catching hell from certain people about my decision to add him to this bill. Two legends under one roof in Sacto is exceedingly rare...and when you add another band with an ever-growing Sacto/Davis following such as Dreamdate, a funmaker like myself can stop worrying so much about whether people will skip fireworks in favor of seeing bands, 'cos I'll never do what I did last year on 4th of July when we spent $150 on fireworks to shoot off after the bands played, and only two people stuck around to watch us light them off with the traveling Texan pyromaniacs in Bad Sports.
Hey Rick-
You're being a little sensitive. I have great affection for Calvin Johnson's older music (Beat Happening and not really anything after that) and he is obviously a seminal figure, but him on the bill with Paul Collins is somewhat comical. But I understand that they attract different audiences so you can be guaranteed twice the attendance. I will probably watch him, I was just joking around.
I have no problem with Calvin on the bill as long as he plays last. This is not so I can avoid him, it's so he doesn't monopolize the entire evening, as he tends to do. If Rick thinks he can get Calvin off the stage to let someone else play a full set after him, that would be fine. But experience suggests that Calvin is never a short-set kind of guy.
My comments might seem sensitive in the context of this post's other comments, but this is just a tip-of-the-iceberg sorta thing. I have people emailing me and confronting me in person asking "Why are you having them play together?" as if they are offended at the thought. And I'm just tired of that.
I'd rather have two legends under one roof in this city than two legends under their own roofs. Especially when it's a holiday which has its own way of hurting show attendance. So, partly, it's an economical decision, and otherwise...I think music is more fun when more strangers are making friends with each other.
Ric how can you be suprised that Calvin gets that response? I know you have been going to/putting on shows for years so you have seen and dealt with him many times.
His rep for going to long and being a bit difficult is totally deserved (and honestly at least 20 years along) When people don't show or leave early I hope you don't feel as sensitive. Not everyone is happy all the time especially with a bill like that.
N.
Totally late to this quickly-rushing-towards-the-bottom comment thread but while I agree that Calvin can be annoying & often plays too long, he also gets a knee-jerk hatred that's not deserved in my opinion.
For one, Beat Happening were awesome & were totally out of nowhere for 1982. Fucking 1982! Dude created a total universe in a dink-ass town, put out a bunch of great stuff on K (the mediocre later stuff too often overshadows the great early stuff) and now he tours solo & kind of rests on his laurels to a degree.
I'm biased because I've hung out with him in his non-stage mode which is pretty different & a lot mellower/nicer. Dude's a total record freak. He was hanging out at U Street once after a show & we turned him on to The Equals & he was so genuinely stoked. I KNOW he went out & found the Equals records, like, that week. And he came all the way to Sac to check out an early Tiger Trap parking garage show & bought a few copies of pretty much every local punk band's 7"s for the K mailorder.
When we showed that wack Jandek movie at Tower, people quitly sat through long-winded interviews with Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, fucking Phil Milstein, and when Calvin comes on people instinctively start booing. Fuck that - he was one of the best interviews in the movie!
The thought of people "confronting" Rick or whatever about adding Calvin to this show - WTF?? It's 2011! 80% of touring bands SUUUUUCK. He may not be your thing but he also aint gonna be half as bad as some of the crap I've sat through in the last few years. Guaranteed.
-miller
to change the subject: when was that last time there was a music documentary that DIDN'T have Thurston Moore in it?
I should mention that the amount of people who have gone out of their way to express appreciation for combining the two headliners on July 4--or just said "Whoa!" in a positive tone of voice--does outweigh the seven or eight people who have complained.
Now you tell me!
-miller
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