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06-14-2012, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ankh-Morpork | | | Bob Nyswonger wins the Best-Dressed Bassist Award.....
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06-15-2012, 08:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | Those tuxes would weight about 15 pounds by the end of a set.
That's a pretty cool documentation of that band in the old days. Thanks for posting! 
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06-15-2012, 02:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ankh-Morpork | | | Very welcome. Thank you for playing!
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06-15-2012, 04:31 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Man, what a great band! I always loved how you guys would take such catchy pop rock songs and bizarre them up the way you do. Wish that vid had better sound, though.
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06-15-2012, 10:44 PM
|  | Plus ça change, Plus c'est la même chose. | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | Very cool! I enjoyed watching that. 
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06-15-2012, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM  Man, what a great band! I always loved how you guys would take such catchy pop rock songs and bizarre them up the way you do. Wish that vid had better sound, though. | It's not great, but I've heard way worse.
We were actually trying to incorporate more modal stuff into traditional power pop. We called it east meets midwest.
Apparently it didn't really catch on.
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06-16-2012, 04:33 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Ya, you guys were too creative and not hairbandy or pompously new wave enough for the times.
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06-16-2012, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Ya, you guys were too creative and not hairbandy or pompously new wave enough for the times. | We had a nice following of music-head type people but never slipped into the mainstream. We were on the Primitive Man label, which was a subsidiary of IRS records, which was a subsidiary of MCA. When you're way out there in subsidiary land you don't really command the promotion muscle of a major label. I suspect the Primitive Man label was little more than a tax dodge for IRS Record's prez Miles Copland...but what do I know?
The music was good and holds up pretty well and we had a lot of fun.
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06-16-2012, 01:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Mansfield, TX USA | | | Good, good stuff.
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06-16-2012, 05:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Leesburg, Virginia | | | Great great band and great great bass player! Bob and the Bears rock! |
06-16-2012, 05:39 PM
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06-16-2012, 05:40 PM
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06-16-2012, 09:14 PM
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06-18-2012, 06:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | Code: I feel stupid for asking, but where's the bass player?
In Cincinnati right now. 
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06-18-2012, 11:42 AM
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All snark aside... what a refreshing performance!
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06-18-2012, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by emblymouse I remember that outfit! But who's that young hotshot guitar player hoggin' up the stage?
All snark aside... what a refreshing performance! | Which one?
You've got Adrian Belew and Rob Fetters. They're both pretty darn competent.
...and thanks amigo.
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