Music... I Listened to Some

I've been listening to a lot of Sunny Day Real Estate lately, and tripped across their Novum Vestus video.
Wow, worth a watch. Music is great, but I couldn't stop watching the video!


FYI, SDRE is playing Anaheim HOB Sunday... Tix are $19 inclusive, basically give-away pricing. If you're looking for a show to go to this weekend this is the one!
Just saw them in LV. I never listened to them as a kid so, it wasn't too nostalgic for me. They played after Unwound and Built to Spill, I was pretty stoked to see those bands. My wife and most of our friends were all gushing about the Sunny Day set.
 
Good point! I met Juliana when I was a sound guy at the Rocket Club in Providence, RI back in 1986. The Blake Babies were just getting started. This of course prior to the JH Three, her time in the Lemonheads, and her solo career. The Blake Babies were awesome! I’ve been a Juliana fan all along the way. Coincidentally, I just landed in Boston as I write this.

Nice! Yeah, I probably first got into Blake Babies and Juliana after Lemonheads ... but maybe even after Hey Babe! came out. Hard to remember. I dated a girl form Massachusetts in 1991 or 1992 who brought with her all sorts of nonsense from Boston ... MM Bosstones, Lemonheads, Treat Her Right, Morphine ... there was a good Boston scene back then, which was the same era as the Seattle scene hit, or Boston might have been bigger.
 
Ah yes, Boston. Foreplay. Long Time. Always gave me Peace of Mind. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Nice! Yeah, I probably first got into Blake Babies and Juliana after Lemonheads ... but maybe even after Hey Babe! came out. Hard to remember. I dated a girl form Massachusetts in 1991 or 1992 who brought with her all sorts of nonsense from Boston ... MM Bosstones, Lemonheads, Treat Her Right, Morphine ... there was a good Boston scene back then, which was the same era as the Seattle scene hit, or Boston might have been bigger.
Love me some Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Dropkick Murphys. I'm supposed to like Flogging Molly if I like the other two, but not so much.

Those are a touch more recent than Boston and Aerosmith, but still a while back. Weren't The Cars also from Boston? Incredibly influential band.
 
Nice! Yeah, I probably first got into Blake Babies and Juliana after Lemonheads ... but maybe even after Hey Babe! came out. Hard to remember. I dated a girl form Massachusetts in 1991 or 1992 who brought with her all sorts of nonsense from Boston ... MM Bosstones, Lemonheads, Treat Her Right, Morphine ... there was a good Boston scene back then, which was the same era as the Seattle scene hit, or Boston might have been bigger.
Right on! Yeah, the lines tend to blur when looking back on that period of time, as a lot was happening at the same time. The Blake Babies were playing around the Boston/Providence area back in 1986, but didn't release their first album until 1987. I remember that they were playing songs that eventually ended up on Earwig (their 2nd album released in 1989) way back in those early days when I was mixing on a local stage. Hey Babe (such a great album) came out in 1992, same year as It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads, which Juliana was highly involved in playing bass on all but one track. How the Lemonheads got Jeff "Skunk" Baxter to play on one of those album tracks is beyond me - another great album. Seems like Hey Babe got quickly overshadowed by Become What You Are, released in 1993 with the Juliana Hatfield Three lineup. Getting recognition on MTV, and the song Spin the Bottle ending up on the Reality Bites soundtrack didn't hurt its success.

Other great bands on that Boston/Providence scene back in the late 80s include Throwing Muses and Salem 66. I would guess that the girl you dated had some of their stuff. Kristin Hersh has continued releasing music with some form of the Throwing Muses, 50FootWave, and as a solo artist to this day. Saw her play with 50FootWave at Amoeba in Hollywood back around 2005, and it was a great show. Tanya Donelly left the Throwing Muses and founded The Breeders, and then Belly, which had a pretty big hit with Feed the Tree from their 1993 album Star. I haven't followed her career very closely, but I don't think she has remained as active of an artist as Kristin. Salem 66 was never as successful as Throwing Muses, but it's worth your time to check out their stuff wherever it might be available. A Ripping Spin and Frequency and Urgency are both really good albums. I actually have Frequency and Urgency sitting on my turntable right now.

I think you are correct that the Seattle scene was happening at that same early 90s timeframe. Don't remember if I moved from Massachusetts to Los Angeles in 1988 or 1989, but it was somewhere around then. I opened my coffee bar in North Hollywood in 1991, and I remember that Mike Starr (original Alice in Chains bassist) would come in and sit at the bar for like three to four hours every day. The band was recording the Dirt album at One on One Recording, which was just a few doors up the block from my place. He was a super quiet guy, not unfriendly, but not really interested in making small talk. He would just sit their by himself for hours drinking coffee and staring at the wall, I suppose prior to their scheduled session times. I know he had a history of substance abuse issues, but at least during that period of time, he never appeared to be nodded out on opiates.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling on. Kinda fun to jog your memory once in a while with distant memories, some of which feel like a different lifetime.
 
Right on! Yeah, the lines tend to blur when looking back on that period of time, as a lot was happening at the same time. The Blake Babies were playing around the Boston/Providence area back in 1986, but didn't release their first album until 1987. I remember that they were playing songs that eventually ended up on Earwig (their 2nd album released in 1989) way back in those early days when I was mixing on a local stage. Hey Babe (such a great album) came out in 1992, same year as It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads, which Juliana was highly involved in playing bass on all but one track. How the Lemonheads got Jeff "Skunk" Baxter to play on one of those album tracks is beyond me - another great album. Seems like Hey Babe got quickly overshadowed by Become What You Are, released in 1993 with the Juliana Hatfield Three lineup. Getting recognition on MTV, and the song Spin the Bottle ending up on the Reality Bites soundtrack didn't hurt its success.

Other great bands on that Boston/Providence scene back in the late 80s include Throwing Muses and Salem 66. I would guess that the girl you dated had some of their stuff. Kristin Hersh has continued releasing music with some form of the Throwing Muses, 50FootWave, and as a solo artist to this day. Saw her play with 50FootWave at Amoeba in Hollywood back around 2005, and it was a great show. Tanya Donelly left the Throwing Muses and founded The Breeders, and then Belly, which had a pretty big hit with Feed the Tree from their 1993 album Star. I haven't followed her career very closely, but I don't think she has remained as active of an artist as Kristin. Salem 66 was never as successful as Throwing Muses, but it's worth your time to check out their stuff wherever it might be available. A Ripping Spin and Frequency and Urgency are both really good albums. I actually have Frequency and Urgency sitting on my turntable right now.

I think you are correct that the Seattle scene was happening at that same early 90s timeframe. Don't remember if I moved from Massachusetts to Los Angeles in 1988 or 1989, but it was somewhere around then. I opened my coffee bar in North Hollywood in 1991, and I remember that Mike Starr (original Alice in Chains bassist) would come in and sit at the bar for like three to four hours every day. The band was recording the Dirt album at One on One Recording, which was just a few doors up the block from my place. He was a super quiet guy, not unfriendly, but not really interested in making small talk. He would just sit their by himself for hours drinking coffee and staring at the wall, I suppose prior to their scheduled session times. I know he had a history of substance abuse issues, but at least during that period of time, he never appeared to be nodded out on opiates.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling on. Kinda fun to jog your memory once in a while with distant memories, some of which feel like a different lifetime.

Damn dude, you are right in my era. You are probably 5-6 years older than me. I am Gen X. 54 now.

Yep Throwing Muses, Belly, 10K Maniacs ... because the pretty girls at the time liked them and now they are crazy cat ladies. I saw the Breeders less than a year ago in Pomona. Great show.

I was heavily influenced by Spin magazine and to a lesser extent 120 Minutes on MTV or VH1 when they still played videos

Good times.
 
This is where I should admit that I've been to a grand total of FOUR concerts in my entire life. Garth Brooks; Elton John; Travis Tritt. Rod Stewart at the Hollywood Bowl (a venue I will never visit again). There was another one, but I can't remember who it was. Musta been good. :whistling:

Well, and the Glen Campbell thingy I got taken to when I was a wee lad in the 1960s. Barely remember that one.

Concerts are people-y, so I eschew them.
 
This is where I should admit that I've been to a grand total of FOUR concerts in my entire life. Garth Brooks; Elton John; Travis Tritt. Rod Stewart at the Hollywood Bowl (a venue I will never visit again). There was another one, but I can't remember who it was. Musta been good. :whistling:

Well, and the Glen Campbell thingy I got taken to when I was a wee lad in the 1960s. Barely remember that one.

Concerts are people-y, so I eschew them.

All gay. Congrats, I guess. :laugh:
 
Right on! Yeah, the lines tend to blur when looking back on that period of time, as a lot was happening at the same time. The Blake Babies were playing around the Boston/Providence area back in 1986, but didn't release their first album until 1987. I remember that they were playing songs that eventually ended up on Earwig (their 2nd album released in 1989) way back in those early days when I was mixing on a local stage. Hey Babe (such a great album) came out in 1992, same year as It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads, which Juliana was highly involved in playing bass on all but one track. How the Lemonheads got Jeff "Skunk" Baxter to play on one of those album tracks is beyond me - another great album. Seems like Hey Babe got quickly overshadowed by Become What You Are, released in 1993 with the Juliana Hatfield Three lineup. Getting recognition on MTV, and the song Spin the Bottle ending up on the Reality Bites soundtrack didn't hurt its success.

Other great bands on that Boston/Providence scene back in the late 80s include Throwing Muses and Salem 66. I would guess that the girl you dated had some of their stuff. Kristin Hersh has continued releasing music with some form of the Throwing Muses, 50FootWave, and as a solo artist to this day. Saw her play with 50FootWave at Amoeba in Hollywood back around 2005, and it was a great show. Tanya Donelly left the Throwing Muses and founded The Breeders, and then Belly, which had a pretty big hit with Feed the Tree from their 1993 album Star. I haven't followed her career very closely, but I don't think she has remained as active of an artist as Kristin. Salem 66 was never as successful as Throwing Muses, but it's worth your time to check out their stuff wherever it might be available. A Ripping Spin and Frequency and Urgency are both really good albums. I actually have Frequency and Urgency sitting on my turntable right now.

I think you are correct that the Seattle scene was happening at that same early 90s timeframe. Don't remember if I moved from Massachusetts to Los Angeles in 1988 or 1989, but it was somewhere around then. I opened my coffee bar in North Hollywood in 1991, and I remember that Mike Starr (original Alice in Chains bassist) would come in and sit at the bar for like three to four hours every day. The band was recording the Dirt album at One on One Recording, which was just a few doors up the block from my place. He was a super quiet guy, not unfriendly, but not really interested in making small talk. He would just sit their by himself for hours drinking coffee and staring at the wall, I suppose prior to their scheduled session times. I know he had a history of substance abuse issues, but at least during that period of time, he never appeared to be nodded out on opiates.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling on. Kinda fun to jog your memory once in a while with distant memories, some of which feel like a different lifetime.
What was the name of your coffee bar? I'm a music business refugee, and it all started in a studio around Lankershim and Magnolia in 1998. Wonder if I ever made my way into your spot.
 
Damn dude, you are right in my era. You are probably 5-6 years older than me. I am Gen X. 54 now.

Yep Throwing Muses, Belly, 10K Maniacs ... because the pretty girls at the time liked them and now they are crazy cat ladies. I saw the Breeders less than a year ago in Pomona. Great show.

I was heavily influenced by Spin magazine and to a lesser extent 120 Minutes on MTV or VH1 when they still played videos

Good times.
Ha! Yeah, turning the big Six Zero on my next birthday. Good times, indeed!
 
This is where I should admit that I've been to a grand total of FOUR concerts in my entire life. Garth Brooks; Elton John; Travis Tritt. Rod Stewart at the Hollywood Bowl (a venue I will never visit again). There was another one, but I can't remember who it was. Musta been good. :whistling:

Well, and the Glen Campbell thingy I got taken to when I was a wee lad in the 1960s. Barely remember that one.

Concerts are people-y, so I eschew them.
Wish I had an opportunity to see Glen Campbell play live at some point in time. Some may give a lot of credit for his success to the Jimmy Webb compositions, and recording sessions with The Wrecking Crew. However, I've watched a number of video recordings of him playing legit live back in the 70s, and he was fantastic. Great singer and guitarist.
 
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