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Anywhere is Better

July 20, 2010 by morningaftershow

I added a new record to my collection on Friday.  The Replacements‘ Don’t Tell A Soul.

I’ve been jamming this record heavy all weekend.  I put it on at night when Coral and Mads are all tuckered out and snoozing.  I plug my good DJ headphones into the amp and drop the needle.  I really love this record.

I am sure in the pantheon of Replacements albums, this isn’t the critical darling.  That accolade generally gets handed to Tim or Let It Be. Two great albums… but I am finding that the music on Don’t Tell a Soul is speaking to me right now.

The song that is completely dominating all my thoughts is “Anywhere’s Better Than Here.”

Its an evil song but it gets wormed right in my brain and I can’t shake the lyrics or even the vibe the song.  Its a bit of a downer to think about it… why can’t a happy song get stuck in my head?

My collection of Replacements records is coming along.  My goal is to collect the whole discography.  I have Hootenanny, Tim and Don’t Tell a Soul.

I am almost half way there! yeesh.  Next up, I really want Let it Be. It has most of my fave Replacements songs on it, but Jeremy at Ditch records says it is also the most sought after and can be harder to track down. Gotta keep my eyes open for it.

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I am putting my wedding DJ cap down for a moment to DJ an event this Friday at Sugar Nightclub.  Opening for a real grab bag of artists… hip hop, electro and reggae all on the stage,m but first, I present some music.

Check out my DJ site for details >> Spin The Black Disc

Go with yourself.

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a tale of two album covers

July 16, 2010 by morningaftershow

Vampire Weekend made an old model from the early 80s famous when they selected this odd picture as the cover of their record Contra.

The person is Ann Kirsten Kennis and in 1983 she worked as a model in New York City.  This is a picture of her rocking a Ralph Lauren polo.  Cute.

I am sure her goal in 1983 was to have as many people see pictures of her as possible and be famous, but I guess something happened after Regan and now she just wants 2 million dollars from Vampire Weekend.

CNN >> Vampire Weekend Sued by ‘Contra’ Cover Model

She claims her signature on the release form was forged and that she never agreed to have the picture released.

Personally I think $2 million is a little steep, but maybe she should be paid something for having her likeness on the cover of one of the better selling albums in 2010.

From 1983 we travel further back in time to the Ohio Players’ 1975 record Honey.

Yesterday there was a story about Beavis and Butt-head coming back to MTV. And I thought about that Red Hot Chili Pepper’s cover “Love Rollercoaster” from the movie, Beavie and Butt-head Do America.

I was reading about the song and it turns out that there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding the original song.

If you punch up the album version of “Love Rollercoaster” >> HERE and scroll to the 2:32 mark of the song… you will hear a chilling scream.

There was an urban legend associated with the scream that sad that it is the scream of a woman murder in or around the studio at the time of recording and that scream was picked up on the microphones and used on the recording!

And even more fanciful story says that the model on the cover of Honey, Ester Cordet, burned herself during the cover shoot.  She poured the super heated honey all over and it disfigured her.  She burst into the studio where the Ohio Players were recording and demanded compensation… but unlike Vampire Weekend being all civil to their cover model… the manager stabbed Ester to death right there while the band was recording.  I guess it sounded so awesome they went, “meh, lets live it on the tape.”

This story is obviously not true as Ester is alive and well to this day.  Its just an urban legend.  The scream is actually Billy Beck.

Later, Jimmy Williams of the band would explain about the “scream;”

“There is a part in the song where there’s a breakdown. It’s guitars and it’s right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Riperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey
does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, ‘Did you kill this girl in the studio?’ The band took a vow of silence because you sell more records that way.”

The Chili Peppers would later cover this song in 1996 for the Beavis and Butt-head Do America film.  Its fairly early in the film when the boys head to Vegas and see this wedding/lounge band group on stage jamming out this funky Ohio Players’ classic.

Go with yourself.

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Long Drives Through the Wilderness

July 15, 2010 by morningaftershow

Band of Horses latest record Infinite Arms didn’t get stellar reviews… but personally I really enjoy the record.

Pitchfork was saying it is ideal for long drives through the wilderness and I can attest to that (if you consider parts of Southern Vancouver Island wilderness) as I rocked a BOH album in the earliest hours of the morning after a wedding in Shawnigan Lake.

The NEW BAND OF HORSES VIDEO features lots of two of my favourite things… driving and the desert!  its like a match made in heaven as my future will one day call for living in a dusty desert village.

I would imagine that the “Laredo” in the song is a reference to the Texas border city but there are little Laredos all over the US, Mexico and the original village by that name is in Spain.

There are even some Laredo place names in BC. There is a Laredo Inlet, Channel and Sound. Neat.

When I go there one day, I’ll rock “Laredo” by Band of Horses and think about an aquatic desert and what a mind fuck that would be.

Go with yourself.

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Madelyn broke the radio

July 15, 2010 by morningaftershow

My daughter Madelyn Oh Yeah came to visit me during my radio show onhttp://thezone.fm/jeremy .

She then proceeded to push EVERY button and BROKE the radio. The worst part… the worst part, she wouldn’t even apologize on the radio to everyone. That baby!

Listen >> Maddy Oh Yeah broke the radio

Go with yourself.

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The Replacements – “I’ll Be You”

July 14, 2010 by morningaftershow

I was thinking about fun older songs that might sound good on The Zone and I had to dust off one from The Replacements.

The Replacements continue to be a band that captures my imagination.

The song that might be a good primer to enter if you’ve never rocked the Replacements before would be their only “hit” single.  “I’ll Be You” came out in 1989 and you’ll find it on Don’t Tell A Soul.

Previous Replacements records could be considered alternative or even alt punk. they rarely made linear music videos, had challenges touring, were often times too drunk to perform and generally lived the life of under appreciated artists.

By the late 80s, original guitarist Bob Stinson had left the band.  He was largely the punk element to the band.  When it became time to record Don’t Tell a Soul… the sound had shifted to a more mature rock and roll style.

Don’t Tell a Soul isn’t my favourite Replacements record, but I do love the single.

Go with yourself.

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Victoria Wedding DJ // Spin The Black Disc

July 14, 2010 by morningaftershow

Check it out!

My website is alive!

Spin The Black Disc

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a couple more from the lake wedding

July 11, 2010 by morningaftershow

More from my Victoria Wedding DJ event in Shawnigan Lake yesterday.

I really should bring my Nikon camera to an event.  My Blackberry takes alright pictures but just doesn’t do enough justice to how nice the wedding.

Here are a couple more from the event.

My Numark NS7 all set up and the party about to get under way under the tent. (well I am set up under the blue sky)

The best night pic I could get. The tent was huge so I shot one Revo 4 at the roof and a Revo 3 on the dance floor.

I was talking to DJ Clinton a couple weeks ago about wedding DJing and some great advice he had was making sure your DJ area looks neat.  Deal with that mess ‘o’ cables that will conjugate around the DJ.

I’ll want to get a plain white table cloth… which I know sounds mundane, but it’ll really clean up the look of my DJ area.  then I’ll want an LED light to shine behind me.

I think before I buy speakers, I might buy lights and rent speakers.  I want to put together a quality light show that I have more control over.  The speakers are pretty basic and easy to rent,  (Plus big and I don’t have the space for them in my condo right now).

Just a couple little things I am thinking about as I get ready for my future weddings this August.

Go with yourself.

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Lake Wedding

July 10, 2010 by morningaftershow

The life of a Victoria wedding DJ.

Giving up a gorgeous Saturday does suck. Coral and Mads are playing with Nana and Alyx in the sprinkler while Dad has to work.  But today, it isn’t all bad.  At least I get to mix the best of summer with my work.

Judy and Kent are getting married on the beach in beautiful Shawnigan Lake.  I am all set up and killing some time before the reception.  It is so hot out here.  I love it.  If I wasn’t motivated before to work hard and earn some money in my life, today is making me want it.  Lake living is the best living.

These pics I snapped with my Blackberry… they do no justice to how stunning this reception will be and how perfect Shawnigan Lake is.

Pretty darn close to 30 degrees on the lake at Shawnigan.

Looking across Shawnigan Lake from the beach.

The head table.

When its a billion degrees and a wedding on the beach, you need a beer truck cooler. Even "cooler" if its fine local brew.

The Spin The Black Disc website is slowly coming along as a wordpress.  Can’t wait till its ready! Then business cards.  These are the things that excite me. Ha… tomorrow is a day off, and now more than anything, I want to be sipping pints and playing on the water.

Would it be so wrong if I wore shorts DJing tonight?  I’ll wear a tie and button down on top?

Go with yourself.

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I want to jump in the ocean

July 9, 2010 by morningaftershow

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Such a Perfect Day

July 8, 2010 by morningaftershow

Such a perfect day in Victoria.  With this heat and blue skies it feels like holidays in foreign lands but the cost is so much better.

Victoria almost feels like the interior with this heat the wraps around you the second you step outside.

I walked to the radio station today.  Through a park, on a trail along the Gorge, across the trestle bridge and along the Selkirk Waterway before finally having to cut inland and onward to the Quadra Village.

With the water and the boats and parks I could be forgiven to think that I was not on my commute to work, but rather a trek on an expensive vacation.

Oddly, one of the smells on my trip that launched my memories reeling to holidays past was the smell of engine exhaust.  For me, some of my great times were had at Christina Lake at my friend Bob’s cabin.  A cabin that you could only get to by boat and where each day on the water had temperatures that screamed up to the 30s.  With so many boats around, the smell of engines hung in the air. And though engine fumes and filth is not a pretty thing, that smell does trigger in my mind the feelings of vacation.

I’ll take it.

two more weeks till Coral, Maddy Oh Yeah and I head off on our summer adventures.

Go with yourself.

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