That video smells like Jim Carroll Band.

burun wrote:I saw this tour twice, and I had a blast.

This record is quite good.

As if you needed to be convinced that a record with Rick Sims on it is good enough to give a shot to...RICK SIMS, DAMMIT.

Wow, here's a fun thread about Just Fred!

I was on that short tour, mixing and tour managing. It was in May, 1996, which is memorable for me since I turned 30 right in the middle.

I was working at Maxwell's one night when a call came in at the bar. It was Fred's manager, asking if I wanted to go on tour. When he told me who was involved, it was a no-brainer. I think it was Tom Zaluckyj who said to Fred, "... there's this guy in Hoboken who's good." The only complication was that I had to push the start date of a new day-job back a couple of weeks, but since that company was a now out-of-business synthesizer manufacturer (starts with an "En" and ends in "soniq"), they had no problem.

There was a weird buzz about the record and the show before the tour started. OK, by "Weird buzz" I mean anonymous sniping on the Velvet Rope (back when it was a hidden room on AOL), especially because the Irving Plaza show was moved to Brownie's. But everyone who saw the shows was like, "Wow!" I think it might have been the suits the guys wore.

Fred, of course, was a total sweetheart. We were in the middle of somewhere and for whatever reason, he went with me and somebody else to a Pizza Hut to get food. The girl at the counter recognized him, saying, "You're the guy in that band ... 'Rock Lobster!'" and he said, "Yes, that's me" and he went to the van, got an 8x10 glossy and signed it for her.

Most of the shows were great fun, although there was the one gig at this fuckhole in Plainfield, NJ called The Clubhouse. It was a huge room, criminally-undersized PA. The FOH console was a Samick ripoff of a Soundcraft 200B which was total shit. After collecting our fairly sizable guarantee, I told the promoter that this was the worst PA system in the worst-sounding venue of its size in the country, and I wasn't lying. I also told him that I was going to tell the booking agent to avoid the venue. I wasn't lying about that either. That venue didn't last much longer, anyway (who the fuck would want to go to Plainfield?).

Record shopping at the 40 Watt in Athens was fun.

I remember seeing a Luckyj show at the Empty Bottle, with the Poster Children, although that may have been a different tour.

So there it is. I should dig out the record.

-a

Andy Peters wrote:Criminally-Undersized, PA.

Post-apocolyptic Grindcore band from Harrisburg. Would not see.

Andy Peters wrote:It was in May, 1996, which is memorable for me since I turned 30 right in the middle.

I hate you for reminding me of how old *I* am.

In retrospect, Brownie's was the perfect place for that show.

The best fun I had was actually before the show, and going with all of them to Veselka - which was still a decrepit hole-in-the-wall place. I think we sat at the table that was under the stairs or something, and the waitstaff kept saying "You must be rock stars. You look like rock stars."

bad news:
the record store at the 40 Watt has closed.

Yes, it was called "Low Yo Yo Stuff," in honor of the Captain Beefheart song.

They hadrates and crates and crates of vinyl.

The good news, for Two Beats Off and other ATL EAF Peeps, is that they have a new location.

Boombats wrote:Holy crap I have never heard of this. I am going to buy it on Friday.

BadComrade wrote:the video

Nevermind.

hopelesshomo wrote:it actually kinda depressed me.

his haircut, on the other hand, probably should have had it's own record deal.

Fred reminds me of Jello in that video, in a good way. Fred should do a DKs cover band for shits and giggles.

An older thread on Just Fred in General Discussion.

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7280&highlight=cupcake

goosman wrote:Fred reminds me of Jello in that video, in a good way. Fred should do a DKs cover band for shits and giggles.

Would follow across the planet to see every show.