I have listened to their cd’s for a few years. I had read about their show. I had assumed it was gonna be a heck of a rock show…I did not know…I was not ready….I had never seen Two Cow before last night…part of the sacrifice of living in Florida is smaller bands do not get down here…..but Two Cow finally came and boy did they bring the rock with ‘em. We missed the local opener “The Human Condition” due to the rare show starting on time…..My friend gave the show high marks. The following band was the touring opener “Glossary“. I had never heard Glossary before last night. They are pretty mellow band with a pedal steel guitar player. Anytime a live band uses a pedal steel it is a good time. Unfortunatly, I did not know any of their songs and the vocals were low in the mix (or I am mostly deaf) so I was unable to make them out. I now have a cd of theirs to get familiar with though…if I like it I will type up some words on it in the coming weeks. After Glossary came Two Cow Garage. Three guys w/a lot of hair and the kind of rock that would make Jack Black chub up. They opened with a new song that will be on their upcoming (March 2007) cd and it was break neck from there…loud…damn were they loud..but they had to be cause the drummer was beating on the drums like a little brother….at one point he was even playing with half a stick….not to be out done Shane and Micah beat on their guitars with an equal amount of aggression, energy and passion…At the beginning of the show Micah said he had thought about mailing the show in but Glossary had done so well he was gonna have to work. After watching the show, I do not think it is possible for these guys to mail it in. The passion these guys play and sing with is palpable and infectious. Halfway through the show I said to my wife “these guys just make you wanna drink beers with them.” Watching them play onstage makes it easy to root for them….you would almost have to be an asshole not to. After the show me and the wife spent an hour or so shooting the shit with Shane about everything from tour tales to guavaween suckness to The Replacements and Springsteen to the awesomeness of their good friends and 9b.net faves I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House (who I *really* need to write a post about). Usually, when you meet a band they are nice and gracious but they talk backwards…what I mean by that is that they are willing to talk but only for a moment…they are always on their way to do something….Not these guys…shit, I venture to guess that if my lame ass real world job would not have forced me to leave that me and the wife would have pulled some more money from the ATM and hung out these guys and had beers and good times till last call. I begged them to come back down this way. Begged to the point of almost embarrassing myself….but you can not embarrass yourself when you are trying to get a good rock show into town….but mark my words….if they are wiling to come back down into Florida in support of their new cd I will do everything I can to get them shows in a few towns and their Tampa show can be the first 9b.net presents show….and Shane, if you are reading this I was fuck-an-A serious about that barbecue and bottle of whiskey…for both you and ICLASOB…I got spare beds and a couch y’all can sleep on and a never ending supply of whiskey….PLEASE play Florida again.

Friday night I am gonna go see The Cult…and, i m excited about that show…but I can tell you right now…The Cult will rock half as hard and have twice the “rock star” attitude as Two Cow Garage. When/If they return to Tampa…any of my friends that read this who do not go can expect to get punched in the stomach.

Two Cow Garage - Burn in Hell
Two Cow Garage - Alphabet City
Two Cow Garage - Saturday Night

looks like I moving out of contractor mode and back into cubicle monkey mode so regular updates should resume today or tomorrow…plus, I remembered to put the laptop in to car so I will be able to work at home again.

yipee.

Happy Halloween folks! Here are today’s releases:

Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (listen), Laibach - Volk (listen), Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head, Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, Willie Nelson - Songbird, Anders Parker - Anders Parker, Pitbull - El Mariel (listen), The Tragically Hip - World Container,

This was too funny not to post:

put a little Seratonin in it.

we are moving offices of my real world job so this will be another day w/o updates. looks like we will be done today though……I hope anyhow.

Remember: Tonight is the Two Cow show @ New World….all the cool kids will be there.

till tomorrow.

aiv

Two Cow Garage is labeled alt.country…they are described as country-punk and Two Cow is regularly compared to Uncle Tupelo. Two Cow would prefer you call them a rock and roll band. At the risk of sounding trite these guys are an american rock band in the classic sense…young, brash and loud traveling the country in a van and sleeping in it as circumstances require….as happy playing to 10 people as they are playing to 1000….okay, I probably got a little carried away there….nobody is as happy playing to 10 as they are playing to 1000…BUT…yes, but…they will play with the same energy and vigor no matter the size. DIY to the core, they are coming to us by way of Ohio with no tour support and no smug attitude to match. They are playing New World Brewery on Monday (10/30) and it is a show you should not miss. To quote Glorious Noise:

“You don’t get many second chances in life. Maybe you didn’t get to see the Who in 1965, or the Jam in 1977, or the Replacements in 1985, or Nirvana in 1990. No, you missed all the greats on their way up and now what can you do? Don’t let it happen again.”

So, Monday Night, New World Brewery….playing with local favs The Human Condition and Tennessee rockers Glossary, Two cow Garage will bring the rock show…with or without you…please let it be with you.

Support touring musicians Tampa. And we’ll see you Monday night. It’s a $6.00 cover….

Recently Shane from Two Cow was kind enough to agree to an interview with ninebullets.net….I apologize in advance for my poor interviewing skills but I hope this will help y’all get to know the band a little bit:

Two Cow Garage Interview

9b.net: First things first for the uninitiated: Who is Two Cow Garage and how long have you guys been a band?

TCG: We are Micah Schnabel, Dustin Harigle, and Shane Sweeney. But just Shane right now. We actually just passed the five year mark back in sept.

9b.net: A lot of places describe Two Cow as alt.country. Would you rather folks look at you as a straight forward rock and roll band or do you not mind wearing the alt.country label. any fear of it pigeon holing you guys?

TCG: We are a straight forward rock band. The alt country thing seems kinda silly to me. Its like, well, are you and emo band or a screamo band or whatever. And then people feel the need to stand by that, like hardcore bands hating pop punk bands when all it really is is marketing to people. Genres are created and then sub-genres, and the sub genres of sub genres and its all meant to compartmentalize music into something pre packaged and easy to sell. You wouldn’t call Springsteen Alt country but look at The ghost of Tom Joad or Nebraska or Devils and Dust. They’re pretty country sounding records.

9b.net: This is where the professional interviewer asks you who your influences are but I am just gonna say thank you for not fearing the guitar solo! It was an endangered species for a while there. so, who are your influences?

TCG: I can honestly say we’ve never intentionally written a part of a song specifically for a guitar solo. Most of the time we’re a three piece so guitar solos fill the void where some bands would have other instrumentation, but its really about whats appropriate for the song more than wanting to shred or something. There is no good way of talking about influences without sounding overly pretentious. I don’t think you can really say “hey they are influenced by this band…” without making people think that we’re trying to be that band. Though people will do that. Plus every record or song for that matter is influenced by different things. What you’re listening to at that moment, what book you just read, how the last six months have been going. That’s a really round about way of not answering your question. Sorry.

9b.net: What got y’all down to Tampa? The show just sorta sticks out there with nothing around it per your calendar. I mean, I am digging it but it is hard to get people down this far.

TCG: We’re really kind of laying low until our next record comes out but we were offered a slot at The Fest in Gainesville and it seemed like a good opportunity so we were going to be in the area. Actually its hard to get us down that far, we haven’t played in Florida in like two years and we’re typically always on the road.

9b.net: How is the new cd progressing? Does it contain any drastic departures in sound from your first 2 cds?

TCG: The new record is done and will be coming out in February. Its different but, I think it’s a natural progression. There are still flat out rock songs, but there’s some other stuff too.

9b.net: Where did the idea for your documentary “The Long Way Around” come from?

TCG: We had met the director John Boston several times at our shows in Chicago and we all became close friends. When he pitched it to us we were all really down with the idea.

9b.net: Has it helped get your name out there very much?

TCG: Its always nice to have something else to hang your hat on. That being said John had free reign to make the film he wanted to make, we had nothing in it except being the subjects, so it could possibly have hurt us. We don’t have a lot of drama but, he could have cut things out of context and made us look extremely bad. I need to thank him for not doing that now that I think about it.

9b.net: In between tours how do y’all make ends meet?

TCG: We don’t really that’s why we’re always on the road. Its hard to get someone to hire you when you can only be there for a week at a time and then you’re gone for a month and a half. But we don’t have any permanent residence either so bottom line is lower.

9b.net: The song “Burn in Hell” seems like quite the fuck you track. Was it written to someone in particular? While we are on that topic…was there an actual drunken saturday night behind “Saturday Night”?

TCG: We played a show in Lansing Michigan at this bar called Macs and Micahs amp caught on fire. It just went up and it was pretty scary. So I guess that song is more about living doing this or dying trying. And that amp. Micah could answer this more succinctly. I didn’t write the words. Saturday Night is about many, many drunken Saturdays. And repeating mistakes. Every word of it was true and unfortunately still is.

9b.net: What are y’all listening to heavily these days?

TCG: There are things that are constants that we listen to. Mostly friends like I Can Lick Any Son Of A Bitch In The House, Centro-matic, and Grand Champeen. Micahs been pretty heavy into a Cursive record lately though I don’t know the name of it. I’ve been listening to Born to Run a lot. I’m not sure about Dustin, though Ophelia by the band is his ringtone so maybe that counts.

I hope that helps you get ti know the band a little….I also hope to see you at New World on Monday evening. Look for me, I’ll be the drunk guy.

Here are some Two Cow tunes for you folks:

Two Cow Garage - Burn in Hell
Two Cow Garage - Alphabet City
Two Cow Garage - Saturday Night

Also, here is a 10 minute trailer for the Two Cow Garage Documentary mentioned in the interview:

unfortunately, I will be swinging a hammer all day and moving network equipment all night so this will be my only post of the day. However, tomorrow I will post a wonderful interview w/Two Cow Garage and I will be posting the Flashback Friday song before I run off to bang more hammers. A few items of interest:

- Snow Black’s debut cd is now available for purchase

- Aquarium Drunkard posted a song by a band called “Backyard Tire Fire“….this band appears to be worth checking out.

- Andy Taylor quit Duran Duran…..THE HAR-RAR…but really, does anyone care?

That’s it for today. Sorry.

North Mississippi Allstars & Jon Spencer hit the road in support of the re-release of their cd Spencer Dickinson (The Man Who Lives For Love)…the St. Pete show will find me and the wife front and center….I have never seen John Spencer but I have seen NMA a couple of times and it is one heck of a good time.

Be there or be square.

Tue 11/07/2006 Burlington, VT- Higher Ground
Wed 11/08/2006 New York, NY- Bowery Ballroom SPENCER DICKINSON SET ONLY (no NMA set)
Fri 11/10/2006 Philadelphia, PA- TLA
Sat 11/11/2006 Washington, DC- 930 Club
Sun 11/12/2006 Charlottesville, VA- Starr Hill Music Hall
Tue 11/14/2006 Chapel Hill, NC- Cat’s Cradle
Wed 11/15/2006 Charleston, SC- Music Farm
Thu 11/16/2006 Jacksonville Beach, FL- Freebird Live
Fri 11/17/2006 Ft. Lauderdale, FL- Culture Room
Sat 11/18/2006 St. Petersburg, FL- State Theatre

Every year when we get the first cold snap (cold in a relative sense) I pull out My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult’s album “Sexplosion“, roll down the windows and crank it. I graduated high school the year Wax Trax released the cd. I was introduced to the “goth/industrial” night club scene by a friend in my math class the weekend I turned 18 but it was after one of my best friends came back from college a few years later that I went head long into that scene. Sometime after she came back she made me a cassette tape with the Sexplosion on one side of it. She was always more hip and edgy than I was. I had just started my first “real” job and was driving 40 minutes a day to and from work listening to Sexplosion on side `A’ and Nitzer Ebb - Ebbhead on side `B’. Sexplosion, IMO, was the peaking of TKK….with all of the earlier work culminating in the release of this, their perfect cd, and they went into an immediate decline after wards. Sexplosion could be at home today with the resurgence of the sex and pill fueled Disco trash sound. Interestingly enough, “Sex on Wheels” made it all the way to #17 on the Billboard charts. I bet if it got a proper reissue it would do a repeat performance today.

So here we are 2 days into our first piece of cold weather and this morning on the way out the door I start singing “Martini Built for 2″….So. I ran inside…dug through my discs, found the disc and listened to it on 20 all the way to work.

Thrill Kill Kult - A Martini Built for 2
Thrill Kill Kult - Sex On Wheels
Thrill Kill Kult - A Continental Touch

Any one else have any seasonal discs?

So, Tim Burton’s video for The Killer’s song “Bones” gets the youtube treatment.

*yawn*