Weekend recap

Damn, it's only Tuesday? I guess I'm still in sleep-in Sunday mode.
T and I, along with C&C went and saw Gorevette last Friday and they were great, good time Rock 'N' Roll music. They did some covers like "Neat, Neat, Neat" from the Damned, "What do I Get?" from the Buzzcocks, as well as the Nikki Corvette song "Girls like Me". They did originals too. The song "Lustfully Yours" is a jam. You can check it out on the bands myspace page. I know that Gorevette recently recorded a bunch of songs with Jim Diamond so I expect something should be coming out early 2009. They're playing again soon at Small's for the Back In Spades Reunion show on Dec 20th. That show should rule. Back In Spades should pack em' in and justifiably so. They were/are a great Detroit Rock group with two of the best local guitar players in their ranks. They broke up way to early so it's nice to see them do a show. Hopefully it'll lead to more.
Also at last Friday's show, we caught the last half of Silverghost's set. I enjoyed what I heard. I normally don't dig on synthesizer-indie pop kind of stuff, but they do it really well. At one point I thought it would be cool if they had a drummer, but I guess that might take away from their electro sound. Silverghost lands in A2 on Friday at the Halfass with Charlie Slick and Tyvke. After Gorevette threw down, The Grande Nationals came out with a full Marshall stack bombardment and laid waste to the Magic Bag with their rock n roll barrage. Good times. The drive back to A2 was fine, but when we dropped of C&C, we somehow ended up inside their place where several rounds of a strange European liquor were consumed. Not by me of course, but needless to say some folks woke up Saturday not feeling so well. No pain, no gain right? At least you had fun right?
The rest of my weekend was pretty chilled out. Lots of house cleaning, stoner jamming, homework, and relaxing. Oh yeah, I did make the mistake of going grocery shopping on Sunday afternoon.
People suck.

Please take a second and go Vote for Mazinga!

Hey loyal readers,
Please take a moment out of your day and go vote for my band Mazinga over on the Motorcityrocks.com web site. They were gracious enough to include Mazinga in their best of 2008 poll for best punk group. If I can get all of you who read this to go and vote for Mazinga I think we could take it.
Here is your link.
http://www.motorcityrocks.com/2008/12/vote-for-2008s-best.htm

It only takes a minute, plus you can vote for tons of other cool local groups like the Muggs and Hard Lessons.
THANKS!

And if you have time, go check this out. Big Tony update! He's been recovering well from his recent health problems. He's been at home resting and he quit smoking! During his down time he's been working on this awesome Mazinga discography. Enjoy.

2+2 is on my mind

Hey blog reading folks,
Check out the brand new recording of the Bob Seger System's classic 2 + 2 = ? over on the Powertrane myspace page. We'll soon release it on vinyl as a 7" single. Our good friend Kevin Sharp recorded it at his Metro Recording Studio for his upcoming Detroit rock documentary and accompanying music compilation. While we're waiting for all that to be released, we've been sending the track around for review. Here is what our friend David Fricke at Rolling Stone Magazine had to say:

"2 + 2 = Rock!
Sung with a Michigan-rock vengeance from the point of view of a soldier up to his helmet in a firefight, the Bob Seger System's 1968 grenade "2 + 2 = ?" – basically a searing fuzztone riff and hellish-chant chorus – now sounds like great out-of-Iraq & roll. It's also way too elusive on vinyl and CD, so Scott Morgan, one of Seger's killer peers in the Sixties and Seventies, has cut the song with his band Powertrane for imminent release. While you wait to buy, play it loud at myspace.com/scottmorgandetroit"

Thanks Dave. We gave it our best shot. You can find this review in the print version of the magazine with Britney Spears on the cover.

On a side note, Powertrane / Mazinga drummer Alex King is making his debut with the brand new Detroit rock sensation Gorevette tonight at the Magic Bag in Detroit. Besides Alex, the group also features Nikki Corvette and Amy Gore from the Gore Gore Girls, hence the band name. They are performing along with Silverghost, the Dial Tones, and the Grande Nationals who are celebrating a record release. You should go check it out.
Stay tuned for more info on the upcoming Powertrane 2+2 vinyl release as well as a bunch of upcoming shows later this month.

OH SHIT! New Lost Promo!

I can't wait till next month!

This place looks scary.

My friend Jeremy said someone should make a movie here. I can't believe the place is just sitting out there though I'm sure once the photos get around the place will be picked clean. I'm listening to these dudes and these folks today. They are both pretty rockin'. I saw this the other day and it freaked me out. I'm going to see this tomorrow night. Should be fun. Tonight I'm going to do my best impression of these guys.

Tiki Tuesday.

It happened last night and boy did I blow it. I didn't flyer for it. I didn't spam the internets for it. The Tiki band fell apart. I don't own a mixer anymore so I couldn't use my turntable and instead I had to fall back on just my i-pod. Aurora didn't show up to do the belly dancing. I didn't bring the giant tiki heads. To top it all off, I didn't make any money. Regardless of all that I still managed to have a good time and a nice handful of friends showed up and we got to hang out. Plus I finally met Will the guy who books the Elbow Room and plays in all those bands everyone likes. He was really nice. My musical brother from another mother, Elliot from UTODP also came out. So did Don ,who I was actually able to convince to come jam with Elliot, Jess and I on Thursday night in the Man Cave. Full on stoner trip blues rock time. It's going to be a blast.

Just like the next Tiki Tuesday on Jan. 6th.

I'm really going to try to step it up for 2009. I need to either get the old percussion guy Brandon back or find a new master percussion dude, which isn't easy. Scarboni had some good ideas too for decorating. So did Andy. I think if I just get off my butt and promote it a little better then it'll go off just fine.

A turkey of a long weekend.

I didn't do jack shit over the long turkey weekend. Well that isn't completely true. It seemed as if it was 4:20 for four days straight. I organized and cleaned up around the house. I discovered that I have way to many awesome posters and no where to display them. I also unpacked some old toys n' things that haven't seen the light of day since we moved. I hung some more star ships from the basement rafters in the Man Cave. I played guitar for a while. I bought a cool green Boss phaser pedal and I also hooked up my old DOD Stereo Chorus, pedal. It was fun. I enjoy making tripped out noises with the guitar.
Despite what my doctor told me to do, I ate a lot of really unhealthy food like crazy insane chocolate pie, taco bell, tons of pizza, and grilled steak. I didn't eat any turkey. I didn't hang out with any of my family. Theresa and I stayed home and grilled up steaks for turkey day.

On Friday Theresa went out to see Counter Cosby play at the Screamin' Eagle club. I stayed home and watched some Macross Robotech and Samurai Jack with Jess. Saturday I was going to go downtown and try to sell Mazinga CDs to the local retailers, but I was having way to much fun pretending to be a shut in and decided to say fuck it.

We watched the film "Wanted" last night and boy did it suck. Speaking of watching movies, Scott Morgan has never seen any of the Star Wars films. He was over on Saturday night while New Hope was playing in the back ground on Spike TV, and he took notice of the Death Star trench run scene. Afterward I was finally able to convince him to borrow my old special edition videos. He does have a DVD player but has never bothered to hook it up. Wish I could say it was because he was to busy writing new songs, but that just isn't the case. I hope he enjoys the movies.

Team Bang got together on early Friday night to discuss the plan for the New Years Bling Bang. The Friendly Foes and Kiddo will be the musical guests that will kick off the evening and kick out 2008. Should be a rocking good time. I'm glad we aren't building any crazy set pieces this time. We've actually run out of room in our current 10x10 storage space and we're looking to upgrade to 10x20. I can't believe we've built so much Bang stuff that we're running out of space.
Whoever reads this blog should go to the Bang for New Years eve. You won't find a better party anywhere in Michigan.