Pray for Big Tony.

Regardless of what religion you subscribe to, we all need to send out positive energy for Big Tony, graphic artist, Mazinga bass player and good friend of mine. He was diagnosed with Emphysema yesterday. Tony has always been a heavy cigarette smoker. It's finally caught up with him. He needs to quit smoking now or he's going to die. For real. I'm going to visit him tomorrow at the hospital.

Big three killed my baby.

There is this crazy scary story today on the yahoo intertubes. I sort of wish now that Theresa and I hadn't bought a house. We couldn't move if we wanted to. If the Big Three totally crash then it'll look like the apocalypse around here. I'm scared. For real. No joking. Here is a preview of what you can expect on Michigan roads soon.


On a brighter note...
Some sort of comment high jinks went down over at the ETC blog over the Metro Times 50 coolest music people in town list. No, I had nothing to do with it. I don't even know a 1/4 of the folks on that list but I wish I did so I could get some hook ups for my bands. The people I do know from that list have always been cool towards me.
Happy Thursday.

Save your fork, there's Pie!

Howdy folks,
The Mazinga cd release show was fun. It was packed. People got crazy. We sold cds and it was good. I missed the after party cause I was tired, but I heard it was rocking' till about 4-5am. The opening groups Invader and JWPP were both high energy rock groups and they were really good. Nice to see actual rocking bands in an area so over run by the Bitchfork generation. Really though, nothing against indie-rock bands, I never liked most indie-rock/college rock music going all the way back to the 80's. It's just not my thing. I enjoy loud fast guitars and bands that go out and explode on stage. I always try to give new music a chance. I work for AMG so I hear tons of new music on a daily basis. I can't stand 95% of modern indie-rock or most of what is covered by spin or pitchfork or the blogs. If you think that makes me uncultured or close minded then so be it.

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." R.E.H.

I love it when the current music scene rips on the old music scene about being an exclusive insiders club, when actually the current scene is just as exclusive, if not more then the last one and the next one will be as well. It is what it is.
Mazinga has always been on the outside looking in, when we've bothered to look at all. We've never been excepted by any scene to our knowledge and I think that may be a good thing. We were never retro enough for the garage rockers. We aren't punk enough for the punkers, and we're to rock n roll for the hipster indie set. All of us (except the drummer) are over weight. None of us are very fashionable at all. We're all over 30. We don't have beards. Guess we're fucked.
Oh well, move along...move along...

Mazinga is playing at the RAW house this Friday night. It's an ALL AGES DIY show space/house in Ann Arbor, MI. We're playing with FAS, Dead Ringers, and Serpent Men; doors @ 6pm; $3. See you there.