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The Northwest Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance is a band from Dayton, OH. The Northwest Ordinance is also, in a roundabout sort of way, how I came to live in the slavery-prohibited state of Ohio.

I work with Chris Karnes, their lead singer and one-half of their guitar regiment. A splendidly nicer and more down-to-earth fellow you could not ever hope to meet. Yet, when he takes the stage, he becomes a possessed man, hell-bent on spreading the fire-and-brimstone Word of Rock to all within a six-mile radius (the approximate blast radius of their amplifiers). Jumping and skittering, leaping and zig-zagging around, he appears to be some kind of messianic epileptic. I’ve never seen more energy put out by a four-cylinder punk-rawk band in all my life.

Check them out at Canal Street Tavern in glorious downtown Dayton (1 Nov 2006):
[googlevideo]-2765128894187042447[/googlevideo] “Trouble”

[googlevideo]-4672745740412193341[/googlevideo] (no idea what this one’s called but it’s hella entertaining, with masterful tambourine stylings by “Ross,” a kooky bearded dude from the audience!)

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I had no idea: Iggy Pop vs. Rev. Cool’s Peanut Butter

I had no idea: the famous Iggy Pop peanut butter incident was provoked by Dayton’s own Rev. Cool (from WYSO)!

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The Roi of Clubs!

Elbo’s is under new, IMPROVED management! In fact,

  1. the name has changed to The Roi
  2. no previous staff will be working there
  3. no meatheads at the door
  4. Craig is a musician
  5. Libby went to my alma mater

$www$.myspace.com/roiofclubs

This is the greatest news to hit the Dayton music scene since Bob Pollard started screwing around with Radio Shack microphones.

UPDATE, 15 Sept 2006: Sadly, there will be no Roi of Clubs. Not entirely sure what happened.

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video: Cocker Spaniel rocks out to ex-GBV Bob Pollard @ SXSW 2006

My LiveJournal friend Sean Padilla, of masterful freakpop one-man band The Cocker Spaniels, rocks out (in front) to former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard‘s set at SXSW.

Sean seriously fucking rocks. Get The Cocker Spaniel’s latest CD you fools.

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live local music, again

Another fantastic night out at the Stockyard’s Inn. The Razor Ridge Band (currently Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt & best friend Sarah – Matt’s wife) played better and more confidently than last time. Sarah and Matt did amazing harmony. Tim sang better and stronger too, and played such a fine and harmonic dobro. My new hero Dennis Rotterman played in a three-piece and they sounded terrific. I actually had three whole entire beers. A great time and many laughs were had.

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live local music

I’ve been getting the music bug. This weekend i had the pleasure of seeing Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt, and, er… “aunt” Sarah play a pretty darn good quasi-bluegrass set (including a great cover of Neil Young’s “I Am A Child” – Matt & Sarah sing amazing harmony, and Tim is a tasty dobro player) at the Stockyard’s Inn on Springfield Street in Dayton (which, incidentally, used to be a brothel and still has red velvet wallpaper), but also a fantastic musician named Dennis Rotterman, who is an amazing player and songwriter. I hope to see him around lots more. If you haven’t seen him, you’ve been missing out; and if you have seen him, you probably wonder, like me, why he isn’t, like, famous or something.

In case you’re wondering, i’m not into bluegrass. It’s ok, i guess, but so much of the songs are either religious (yuck!) or sad-assed backward-staring gave-up boo-hoos. There are simply far too many better things to do than cry into a glass of beer in between pretending that you’re filled with something called “the holy spirit”.

my god, it is far too late to be up. i have to be at work in 8 hours! enough for now.