Saturday

That pic is shamelessly stolen from here.
Bless that little guy.
His commentary on the action is quite insighful too.

Not that you could tell from the light posting but we here at Schnitzel have been busy. We 're doing a show still with the Gaskets on Saturday at the Nanci Raygun. You probably know but- it's the Gaskets new CD release show. We're covering their previous release "Big Fun".

So it's gonna be different than your typical Schnitzel show. In fact you could call it a 6 Foot Loofah show since the drummer, guitarist and bassist are from that band. I'll be singing mostly and not playing much guitar. I don't know now if that was a good decision but I figured from the onset I would only mess up everyone else if I played an actual instrument. I mean- it gets back to why I usually have to play by myself.

We're not doing the entire album as some reports suggest. That's only cause we only had so much time to prepare. I don't think people will care about that so much. It does sound better to tell people you're covering the entire rather than "some of the album." It sounds better. In reality though I think it'll work out better that we concentrated the material.

Oh and if you're going...get there early. The show is only 99cents and the Nanci Raygun holds only so many. It could get busy in there. We go on abouts 10 you know how those things go.

Remember Him Well

I didn't know him but I knew of him.

Years ago, before I came to Richmond. when I was in high school in New York I read a review of his bands' album in Rolling Stone.

There was a line in there that stuck with me: "Tantilla, named for a defunkt dance-hall-cum-bowling-alley..." The image that a place, any place could at once inspire a name for someone's album, serve as a dancehall then inexplicably become a bowling alley made me want to seek this city out. Some may laugh, well those who know Richmond. And yes I laugh at most of my teenage notions now (apparently the internet wasn't a fad!) but my gut was right on this one. And the image that review put in my head was the tip of the iceberg. Richmond holds a mystery.

When I came to college in Richmond my freshman roommate got House of Freaks' "Cakewalk". We were pretty much losers so we stayed in and listened to that album nonstop. We were all impressed with someone we had met who had Bryan Harvey's brother as a teacher in high school.

So, I never met Bryan Harvey, and I don't believe I ever saw him perform live (there are a lot 'lost' years however so it's possible). But his death, long after the news reports' image of a friend last seeing his wife ashen-faced and disturbed greeting her at the door has left my head- will still mean a lot to me.