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To celebrate the release of the new CD 'I'm Assuming
You're All In Bands: Tris McCall In Brooklyn' by Tris McCall
and the New Jack Trippers, Jersey Beat invited several friends
to perform at Maxwell's in Hoboken. Tris sent me a message
thru My Space informing me of several points to entice me to
the show. Not that I really needed it, but here's what it said:
"This really 'is' going to be a one-of-a-kind
show. I'm never going to play an electric harpsichord
with the band again (because the harpsichord is moving to Maine
after the show) and I'm never going to do some of these
songs again. Considering that this may be the last New Jack
Trippers show I ever do, I intend to leave it all on the floor.
It ought to be something to see."
I replied with, "You had me at harpsichord." Although I did
not boohoo and blubber it up like Renee Zellweger. Ok, maybe
I got a little misty.
Jersey Beat, the consummate indie music zine, is expanding
into a bona fide record label with this new eclectic pop-rock
musical tour thru the land of hipsters and wannabes known as
Brooklyn. There is a veiled bit of satire in the song 'Colonial
Williamsburg' which exposes the all too frightening similarities
between the vacation spot and the 'L' stop. And anyone actually
in a band will no doubt relate to most every line of 'An American
Tourist in Brooklyn'.
On to tonight's festivities. I've always been
impressed with Marc Maurizi's songs. This former member of
Cropduster and The Broke Downs justified his country-flavored
brand of rock by saying the songs were written in Hackensack.
He's right, that town is further west of the Hudson River than
Hoboken—even
if only by about 10 miles or so.
He started out acoustic then switched for one song to distorted
electric. He wanted to emulate the time when Frank Black played
Maxwell's after leaving The Pixies. He treated us to
a rousing rendition of one of my favorite Cropduster tunes
that I don't think was ever released. 'Lester Bangs' commemorates
the man who wrote for Creem Magazine in the 70s and was credited
for coining the name 'Heavy Metal'.
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