give 'em enough rope...(was clash vs. jam)

[james mann]

don spoke:

 but I have to admit their music has not aged well. 

As someone who has replaced "London Calling" three
times, most recently about a month ago, I have to
disagree up to this album. After that, yeah the rot
set in, but this album particularly is frightening in
it's ability to move me. Maybe because I saw them on
this tour and stepped out of the show into a riot
between skinheads and some sort of wanna-be marxist
group, but The Clash, along with the Pistols (who I
saw as well) are always going to be on my desert disc
changer. 

For those not totally bored by this point, Clash
roadie Johnny Green has a book out on his time with
The Clash called "A Riot of our Own- Night and Day
with the Clash". It's great. Pick it up via Amazon. 

Okay. I've posted my quota for the year. Back to
trolling for writing opp's. 

James

n.p Oswley



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garth/kiss deja vu?

[james mann]

It was reported last night that Garth's next desire is
to tour with Kiss.
I AM NOT kidding.

Stay tuned . . . 

-jim


This is kinda funny. The following is a spoof I wrote
for Ink19, a music paper out of Florida. It will be
printed this weekend. Hmmm? 

james


“Kiss”in’ Cousins? 

Brooks, KISS to tour

2.25.99 Nashville Times

The noise you hear all over Music Row is the sound of
jaws dropping,as details of the upcoming summer tour
featuring Garth Brooks and Kiss were released to
the media today. Spurred on by the favorable reception
garnered by the  Hole/Marilyn Manson and Ani
Defranco/Nashville Pussy pairings already announced,
Garth Brooks and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons held a
press conference today to announce the 50 city
tour, which will begin in Atlanta--because, as noted by
Simmons: “It’s where the Sex Pistols started in
America, and that’s as good an omen as you can have”.
(Simmons must be forgetting that the band imploded
after that tour, with bassist Sid Vicous ultimatly
overdosing in his mothers house.) 

Brooks stated his reason for the pairing: “Well, I did
actually record a song of theirs for that tribute
album, “Kiss My Ass”, and since I want to sell a CD to
every man, woman and child in the known world, this is
the logical next step. We share a lot of fans... not
literally, ya know, just in the charts.” 

Both Kiss and Brooks will perform a full two hour show
each night, with a combined encore of “I’m a Little Bit
Country, You’re a Little Bit Rock and Roll”. The tour
is scheduled to end up in Las Vegas on New Years Eve,
where agents for both acts are attempting to secure
permission to have the show staged on a runway at
Groom Lake, commonly known as “Area 51”. Since this
site was sold by the government to Bill Gates a
few years ago, all plans look a go. Stay tuned for
details. 







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