I do watch me lots of morning television but I can not always be up first thing to see it, especially after a night of DJing at the Clubhouse, and I missed Erick’s coffee snafu! Astrid’s reaction is well worth the price of admission. Oh live television…
no worries Erick, despite your lubberly moment, our bromance lives on.
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Thank you for taking the time to download Capital Rock City. I am chit-chatting with a band and a venue to create the first live-to-tape Capital Rock City. If you like CRC you might also jive on Pol’s Polcast.
I read a great interview on Spinnerette. I feature the song “Ghetto Love” on my show on The Zone @ 91-3. Before that we played “Valium Knights” and even the Distillers. A great read if you care.
Tell me about the single, “Ghetto Love.”
It’s just about being overwhelmed by humanity, and trying to find common grounds, and trying to keep it positive.The one thing that I didn’t really have so much of before, or care about, or feel that I didn’t even want it, was love. So it maybe it sound kind of cheesy but I have a family now and that’s pretty much the most important thing.
This is pretty groovy. I am watching Erick Thompson yesterday morning and at the end of the show he is hyping the next day and he teases “The Matinee” on the show. SWA? I know those guys! They perform a song called “The Maggie Cox Song.” Awesome.
Miranda posted a clip of her band The Paper Cranes being featured on a Nissan Commercial. I’ve seen this commercial a dozen times but never noticed that it is the song “Rabbit in a Snare.”
What day am I on? I am losing track… six? Friday was three so this must be six.
The weekend was spent in Coquitlam which was a sea of work to pull off. My girl is a trillion miles away drinking 3 euro bottles of wine in Paris and I was left to fend for myself. Saturday was my 29th birthday. I decided to spend it in Coquitlam with Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack (who wants to be referred to as the Father of the Father or Faf? SWA?). It was an early morning for Mads and I. Thankfully I had packed the night before so we got up and hit the road first thing.
My buddy Bob came over Saturdat night with his girl Jen and they had a present for Madelyn.
Yeah, they brought her an Oiler’s track suit. Bob was like, “she could walk into the arena with Ethan Moreau and people would think she was on the team.” ha, too funny (and adorable).
Jen drove Bob and I downtown to catch the Sam Roberts show. Randomly we bumped into Marisa who we went to high school with.
The show was pretty rad. Sam brings the noise. After the set, some pints in Yaletown and then a late night dash to reach skytrain before the last train.
Sunday, my brother Matt and I rolled into the Glasvegas show at Richards. They are moving the club to the old A&B Sound on Seymour which is neat but sad. I walking around that part of town with Matt telling him what used to be where back in my day. I am not even that old but the physical geography of Vancouver has changed so much.
Glasvegas was an interesting juxtaposition of sounds and style. Matt and I sensed something was up when the we walked in and some dude that thought he was a a cotton picker from the 1930s Deep South was jamming away at the guitar and singing about “pain.”
After his set, the music they played was 1950’s Dirty Dancing type music. like this song from 1957.
The boys (and girl) in Glasvegas took the stage and they didn’t look at all like my preconception. I was expecting an Interpol-y / Franz Ferindand-esque group of hipsters, but what I got was some Rockabilly looking Scottish dudes. They were very striking on stage. Their music is epic and grandiose. Richards was full and the band elicits a passionate fan. Many times I heard the audience sing with group. They added to the whole experience for me as I really only know the song we play on the Zone, “Geraldine.”
They got to “Geraldine” about half way through the set and the song lit the club up. The next song after the radio hit was maybe the band’s weakest song, so they let me down a bit. Their drummer is also very awkward. The guitar player and bassist however bring some energy. They whirl around the stage banging and attacking their instruments or barking and howling their harmonies.
The lights added to their mystique. They had bright yellow flood lights behind them that made the stage look like there were shadow puppets on stage performing.
The music sounded like a mix of 50’s pop songs and Interpol. Unique and interesting.
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Six or so hours after Matt and I got back from Richards, Madelyn and I were up and battling Vancouver traffic to the ferry. By the end of the weekend, I was a veteran of ferry travel with Mads. We worked it with the old ladies, played with the kids and devoured some ferry breakfast (mmm eggs scooped from a warm vat).
I sat down with Tyson, Lewis and Dan this evening. Their band, Acres of Lions, has a new record out in February. They brought an advanced copy and we played three new songs on Capital Rock City. Episode #40 will be posted tomorrow.
Holy FUCK! I just opened up the cell phone bill and $160! WTF?
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Tim and Dave from The Stills dropped by the Zone Afternoon show today before the first of two show they would be (are currently) performing in Victoria. Last night they opened for Sam Roberts and Mike Devlin had some good things to say.
We jibber jabbered about, you know stuff. I asked Dave why he thinks the song “Being Here” has really grabbed people’s attention and Dave gave a pretty perfect answer, but I didn’t really give him a chance to get the joke in. Listening back I now hear what might have been a rad joke if I hadn’t stepped on his reply, so that is my bad. The boys then perform “Being Here” and it ends with Tim and I talking about Nine Inch Nails and their insane LED light show. Tim knows the man that designed NIN live light show experience!
Day number three of single Dad is winding down to an end. Another glorious challenge. I really have so much more respect for ZooeyJane and Huckdoll after kinda trying my hand at single parenting. Mads was a wee bit ornery this morning and wouldn’t nap or even really let me put her down. Nana came early because Fridays are an epic challenge as it is, getting all my work done… so I had a quick shower and shave then off to the radio factory. Had a good show and came home to take Nana out for a birthday dinner and Madelyn had/has spots all over her torso? SWA?
I’m no Grey’s Anatomy doctor so I have no idea what is wrong. She was n a much better mood when I got home (Nana does that to her) we decided dinner wouldn’t hurt. Auntie Alyx joined us and we punched back some Greek food.
Brought Madelyn home for a bath and just to she why you never leave a baby unattended in the tub, while sitting there in the water, she’d get herself worked up and then like fall over in the water. She’d freak and almost freeze up in the water and couldn’t right herself. If I wasn’t there, like right there beside her, that would be it.
Madelyn likes bath time so she was ready for bed.
I packed up the Jeep while she was sleeping because we are off to visit Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack tomorrow. Day Three is done.
Baby is still alive.
Dad: 03
Israeli Air Force: 00
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Have a great weekend. I likely won’t get a chance to write again till Monday. Go with yourself.
I was very fortunate today to have the chance to interview Sam Roberts and Glasvegas bass player Paul Donoghue. If you care to have a listen, here it is.
Sam and I yapped about his Pemberton experience, how the birth of his daughter has effected or affected his song writing, what the future holds for Sam and then specifically why he wrote a song about Detroit.
Paul and I went over why the band is called “Glasvegas” and we talked about their Zone feature song “Geraldine.”
Zoner Adam sent me a great link to some raw footage “leaked” on Trent’s website of the NIN show in Victoria. I think the idea is, if you are a creative person, you’ll download and edit it up to be something fabulous. If anyone actually downloads the file to create a video, please let me know so I can link to you.
I got some fun emails today and I’ll go over those in a moment but first I want to talk about Capital Rock City and The Gaslight Anthem and some other random music notes.
Capital Rock City has been a bit delayed. Sara wants the show to be super duper before it ends up on the Zone’s website. So I am going to “test” it out here on http://www.jeremybaker.ca and your feedback will be paramount. Computer Guy at http://www.vicstream.com has be clutch in setting up some internet server space to host the show and the technical support needed. There is this really groovy media player at Yahoo that I LOVE. When I figure out how to use it and how to easily upload audio then I think I can take the blog to another level.
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David Eleanor dropped the Gaslight Anthem‘s new record The ’59 Sound on me yesterday and it is living on my iPod and in the Jeep right now. Sounds too much like Bruce Springsteen, Killers circa Sam’s Town and a dash like The Hold Steady. All good things to me. Solid disc.
The record has almost knocked Frightened Rabbit from the top spot on the musical chart of my heart. Almost. I am trying to track down Glasvegas‘ new record as well. If I can get a copy from work then that will save me the $9.99 from iTunes. Glasvegas’ interview scheduled for this afternoon has been shifted to tomorrow. If/when I figure out the media player, I’ll post some audio here.
The Stills will be live on the ZAS on Friday afternoon right after Connect Three. and as above, maybe I can learn how to post some highlights on thee blog.
!AND THIS JUST IN! (like seriously while typing, Sara popped her head in the door)… Sam Roberts is likely live on the ZAS tomorrow or Friday AND #27 D Lloyd from the Victoria Salmon Kings on Thursday around 3PM… yikes busy couple days.
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In iTunes news, Acres of Lions brand spanking new single, “Closer,” is available now for just .99 cents! Get on it.
The other day I talked about Jaydiohead. Not every Zoner found it as amusing as I did.
—–Original Message—– From: Rob [mailto:***@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:36 PM To: dave@thezone.fm Subject: Jaydiohead?
i was freaking disgusted that the zone would even consider playing this shit that makes my ears bleed! i went to radiohead at the thunderbird stadium and it was the best show ive ever seen, and hearing that same amazing music played with gangsta rap over it talking about how hes got to murder his homie is really a sad attempt on trying to make jay-z’s crappy “art” listenable so for the love of god stop ruining an amazing modernrock band with a crappy re mix. this is the zone…not 95.3, i mean come on! whats next nelly and flava flav getting jiggy over deathcab for cutie
—–Original Message—– From: Kelsey [mailto:***@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:39 PM To: <Jeremy@thezone.fm> Subject: Re: Japanese Steak Sauce Recipe
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for that, I am gonna try it this weekend. On your blog recipe you don’t have cream or milk listed in the ingredients- was that a mistake?
Cheers,
Kelsey
Sent from my iPod
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Hey Kelsey, this the recipe you’ll want to try first. A Japanese Village Type Steak Sauce
makes a bunch, so consider halving the recipe
1 cup toasted sesame seeds
1 1/3 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup low sodium Soy Sauce
1/3 chopped white onion
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Vancityrockgirl would recommend trying something healthier than a cup and a third of vegetable oil. She says you could even halve the amount of oil and it *should* still be cool.
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Coral took off to Paris today at some bizarre time so it is just me and Maddy (and Nana of course helping out HUGE!). We crawled around. Practiced our walking and then took Auntie Andrea to Red Robin for her birthday. I think Monk’s two top front teeth are coming it!
The Morning After 