Ringside, Redwalls (again), Orange Bowl, Joel Stein op-ed
Hey folks…
On Tues nite I’ll be at the UBG. Stop in & lift a glass…
Tues, Jan 31
Universal Bar & Grill – 8:30PM (my set)
4093 Lankershim Blvd (at Cahuenga)
N. Hollywood, CA. 91602
818-766-2114
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LISTENING TO:
* Ringside: Struggle
* The Redwalls: How The Story Goes (Universal Blues version)
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Set Notes
UBG – Jan 03, 2006
Hello ’06! Set
aka Orange Bowl Forever Show
Good crowd. Lotsa familiar faces. Some unfamiliar ones, too…Orange Bowl was on (already overtime 1 or 2) by the time I took the stage. The overtimes kept piling up and lasted through my set & into Carol-Anne’s. Penn State ultimately got tired of extra periods and decided to end the suspense (& viewer fatigue) and went ahead and kicked a field goal, putting Florida State out of their prolonged misery. I don’t really follow NCAAF, but I couldn’t help noticing the Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, a sort of Columbo-esque character on the sideline, leading his team (the long way) to victory.
Drunk With You
Highly Evolved (Vines cover)
Houston
Come Along & Thrill Us
Norwegian Wood (Beatles cover/short version)
Good To Know (request/slow version)
If Only You Were Lonely (request/Replacements cover)
Anthrax Blues (request)
Waymore’s Blues (request/Waylon Jennings cover)
Sunday Shining (request)
Who Am I (What’s My Name)? (request/Snoop Dogg cover/audience singalong)
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READING:
*Warriors and Wusses
by Joel Stein, LA Times.
A provocative & gutsy op-ed that makes some very good points, even though I don’t agree with the basic thrust of his argument. Here’s a simple link:
http://gnn.tv/headlines/7188/Warriors_and_Wusses
also:
*Why Not Test bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer?
By Douglas A. Borer, Christian Science Monitor
Weak title, but excellent points debunking the lie: "we don't negotiate with terrorists." When I hear that lie spouted by some official, it reminds me of the other one spouted by our Commander In Chief on the ashes of the Twin Towers, just days after 9/11: “They hate us because they hate our freedom”. I think they hate us alright, but for host of other reasons. None as simplistic and convenient as our liberties back home.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060124/cm_csm/yborerx
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NEW RECORD NEWS:
I’ve been finishing up the recording on a set of tunes that will be the follow up to Lone Star. Mixing should begin here in January. With any luck, I hope the new record (tentatively titled “North Hollywood Skyline”) will be available in the spring. The bulk of this one has been recorded here at my own humble BlackPug Studios with some additional recording around the corner at Plasticsoul’s studio “The Ranch” with Marc & Steven. Some song titles include:
Come Along & Thrill Us
Get The Losers Out
Charade
Bottom Of The Bottle
Wish I Knew
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
North Hollywood Skyline
Surf Bum
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OTHER NEWS
Saturday Night Live – Bear City theme
Before last year’s Saturday Night Live season ((04-05), my friend T. Sean Shannon asked me to compose a theme song for a series of shorts he was filming called “Bear City”. As luck would have it, several of these surreal comedic pieces aired during that season. There’s now a website dedicated to Bear City & it has a few of these shorts available for streaming. There’s a section w/a few of the tunes I created for this series. Thanks, T. Sean!
www.bearbearcity.com
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NEXT SHOW:
Tues, Feb 07th
Universal Bar & Grill – 8:30PM (my set)
4093 Lankershim Blvd (at Cahuenga)
N. Hollywood, CA. 91602
818-766-2114
FREE
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MOURNING:
*The end of the NFL season.
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RECOMMENDING:
*Good Night & Good Luck
The new George Clooney film set. It’s tight & timely.
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PORTUGUESE BANK AD NOW ONLINE:
If you want to see the bank ad that features “Good To Know” prominently, I have a copy streaming from the front page of my website: www.bradyharris.com Thanks to CGD for sending it to me ;)
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XM RADIO
As many of you know, tracks from Lone Star are among the most played on XM’s Radio Unsigned program. Feel free to email Billy Zero @ unsigned@xmradio.com and request me.
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TUNES ONLINE
Don’t forget, my whole catalog (practically) is available at digital download sites everywhere. Thanks again for the sales!
+ + + + + + + + +
Hope to see ya Tuesday.
Rock and roll!
Brady
www.myspace.com/bradyharris
On Tues nite I’ll be at the UBG. Stop in & lift a glass…
Tues, Jan 31
Universal Bar & Grill – 8:30PM (my set)
4093 Lankershim Blvd (at Cahuenga)
N. Hollywood, CA. 91602
818-766-2114
+ + + + + + + + +
LISTENING TO:
* Ringside: Struggle
* The Redwalls: How The Story Goes (Universal Blues version)
+ + + + + + + + +
Set Notes
UBG – Jan 03, 2006
Hello ’06! Set
aka Orange Bowl Forever Show
Good crowd. Lotsa familiar faces. Some unfamiliar ones, too…Orange Bowl was on (already overtime 1 or 2) by the time I took the stage. The overtimes kept piling up and lasted through my set & into Carol-Anne’s. Penn State ultimately got tired of extra periods and decided to end the suspense (& viewer fatigue) and went ahead and kicked a field goal, putting Florida State out of their prolonged misery. I don’t really follow NCAAF, but I couldn’t help noticing the Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, a sort of Columbo-esque character on the sideline, leading his team (the long way) to victory.
Drunk With You
Highly Evolved (Vines cover)
Houston
Come Along & Thrill Us
Norwegian Wood (Beatles cover/short version)
Good To Know (request/slow version)
If Only You Were Lonely (request/Replacements cover)
Anthrax Blues (request)
Waymore’s Blues (request/Waylon Jennings cover)
Sunday Shining (request)
Who Am I (What’s My Name)? (request/Snoop Dogg cover/audience singalong)
+ + + + + + + + +
READING:
*Warriors and Wusses
by Joel Stein, LA Times.
A provocative & gutsy op-ed that makes some very good points, even though I don’t agree with the basic thrust of his argument. Here’s a simple link:
http://gnn.tv/headlines/7188/Warriors_and_Wusses
also:
*Why Not Test bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer?
By Douglas A. Borer, Christian Science Monitor
Weak title, but excellent points debunking the lie: "we don't negotiate with terrorists." When I hear that lie spouted by some official, it reminds me of the other one spouted by our Commander In Chief on the ashes of the Twin Towers, just days after 9/11: “They hate us because they hate our freedom”. I think they hate us alright, but for host of other reasons. None as simplistic and convenient as our liberties back home.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060124/cm_csm/yborerx
+ + + + + + + + +
NEW RECORD NEWS:
I’ve been finishing up the recording on a set of tunes that will be the follow up to Lone Star. Mixing should begin here in January. With any luck, I hope the new record (tentatively titled “North Hollywood Skyline”) will be available in the spring. The bulk of this one has been recorded here at my own humble BlackPug Studios with some additional recording around the corner at Plasticsoul’s studio “The Ranch” with Marc & Steven. Some song titles include:
Come Along & Thrill Us
Get The Losers Out
Charade
Bottom Of The Bottle
Wish I Knew
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
North Hollywood Skyline
Surf Bum
+ + + + + + + + +
OTHER NEWS
Saturday Night Live – Bear City theme
Before last year’s Saturday Night Live season ((04-05), my friend T. Sean Shannon asked me to compose a theme song for a series of shorts he was filming called “Bear City”. As luck would have it, several of these surreal comedic pieces aired during that season. There’s now a website dedicated to Bear City & it has a few of these shorts available for streaming. There’s a section w/a few of the tunes I created for this series. Thanks, T. Sean!
www.bearbearcity.com
+ + + + + + + + +
NEXT SHOW:
Tues, Feb 07th
Universal Bar & Grill – 8:30PM (my set)
4093 Lankershim Blvd (at Cahuenga)
N. Hollywood, CA. 91602
818-766-2114
FREE
+ + + + + + + + +
MOURNING:
*The end of the NFL season.
+ + + + + + + + +
RECOMMENDING:
*Good Night & Good Luck
The new George Clooney film set. It’s tight & timely.
+ + + + + + + + +
PORTUGUESE BANK AD NOW ONLINE:
If you want to see the bank ad that features “Good To Know” prominently, I have a copy streaming from the front page of my website: www.bradyharris.com Thanks to CGD for sending it to me ;)
+ + + + + + + + +
XM RADIO
As many of you know, tracks from Lone Star are among the most played on XM’s Radio Unsigned program. Feel free to email Billy Zero @ unsigned@xmradio.com and request me.
+ + + + + + + + +
TUNES ONLINE
Don’t forget, my whole catalog (practically) is available at digital download sites everywhere. Thanks again for the sales!
+ + + + + + + + +
Hope to see ya Tuesday.
Rock and roll!
Brady
www.myspace.com/bradyharris
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Warriors and Wusses
By Joel Stein
LA Times
I DON’T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.
I’m sure I’d like the troops. They seem gutsy, young and up for anything. If you’re wandering into a recruiter’s office and signing up for eight years of unknown danger, I want to hang with you in Vegas.
And I’ve got no problem with other people — the ones who were for the Iraq war — supporting the troops. If you think invading Iraq was a good idea, then by all means, support away. Load up on those patriotic magnets and bracelets and other trinkets the Chinese are making money off of.
But I’m not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they’re wussy by definition. It’s as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn’t to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.
Blindly lending support to our soldiers, I fear, will keep them overseas longer by giving soft acquiescence to the hawks who sent them there — and who might one day want to send them somewhere else. Trust me, a guy who thought 50.7% was a mandate isn’t going to pick up on the subtleties of a parade for just service in an unjust war. He’s going to be looking for funnel cake.
Besides, those little yellow ribbons aren’t really for the troops. They need body armor, shorter stays and a USO show by the cast of “Laguna Beach.”
The real purpose of those ribbons is to ease some of the guilt we feel for voting to send them to war and then making absolutely no sacrifices other than enduring two Wolf Blitzer shows a day. Though there should be a ribbon for that.
I understand the guilt. We know we’re sending recruits to do our dirty work, and we want to seem grateful.
After we’ve decided that we made a mistake, we don’t want to blame the soldiers who were ordered to fight. Or even our representatives, who were deceived by false intelligence. And certainly not ourselves, who failed to object to a war we barely understood.
But blaming the president is a little too easy. The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they’re following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying. An army of people ignoring their morality, by the way, is also Jack Abramoff’s pet name for the House of Representatives.
I do sympathize with people who joined up to protect our country, especially after 9/11, and were tricked into fighting in Iraq. I get mad when I’m tricked into clicking on a pop-up ad, so I can only imagine how they feel.
But when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you’re not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you’re willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse. Sometimes you get lucky and get to fight ethnic genocide in Kosovo, but other times it’s Vietnam.
And sometimes, for reasons I don’t understand, you get to just hang out in Germany.
I know this is all easy to say for a guy who grew up with money, did well in school and hasn’t so much as served on jury duty for his country. But it’s really not that easy to say because anyone remotely affiliated with the military could easily beat me up, and I’m listed in the phone book.
I’m not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn’t be celebrating people for doing something we don’t think was a good idea. All I’m asking is that we give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health and a safe, immediate return. But, please, no parades.
Seriously, the traffic is insufferable.
Why Not Test bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer?
By Douglas A. Borer
Christian Science Monitor
MONTEREY, CALIF. - One of the hardest decisions a president of the United States is obligated to make is that of going to war. It is a decision, however, that pales in comparison to the degree of difficulty in making peace when one's enemy remains unvanquished. With the release of Osama bin Laden's latest media communiqué offering a truce to the US, President Bush must decide whether to stick to the moribund old cliché "we don't negotiate with terrorists," or whether he should use this as a potential opportunity to redirect global politics along a path that serves US national interests.
Truth be told, almost all nation-states, including our own, have negotiated with terrorists. Israel's tough old soldier Yitzhak Rabin buried the hatchet with Yasser Arafat, and thus engendered a peace process that, despite many fits and starts, has steadily moved toward the creation of an independent and democratic Palestinian state. A vocal minority called Rabin soft on terrorism, but most Israelis understood he was acting in the country's best interests. President Reagan was credited for negotiating the release of American hostages with Iran, the leading state-sponsor of terror in modern times.
Under Reagan and the first President Bush, Iraq was removed from the State Department's list of terror sponsors in order to enable diplomatic engagement. When diplomacy failed and Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, Mr. Bush adroitly marshaled the finest international coalition ever to be assembled. He lost the next US presidential election, but not because of his policies toward Iraq. Recently, Indonesia and Britain have made peace with Aceh and IRA terrorists respectively, and the US has come to terms with Libya's terrorist-sponsoring leader Muammar Qaddafi. Despite the tired public rhetoric of denial, negotiating with terrorists is the norm in international affairs.
Regrettably, even though we continue to eliminate Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and other locales, due in part to the collateral damage these strikes produce, there seems to be no shortage of enraged Muslims to take their place. Indeed, the US invasion of Iraq has been judged by many experts as the premier recruiting tool for the global jihadist movement. Simply put, there are more anti-US Muslims willing to use terror to strike at us today than there were on Sept. 11, 2001.
If our goal is to reverse this trend, the question is simple: Are we better off negotiating with Mr. bin Laden? If we can capture or kill him, certainly the US can rightfully claim justice has been served against the perpetrators of 9/11. Because revenge is the sweetest of our dark sweet dreams, bin Laden's demise will bring no small degree of personal satisfaction to many people. But if we kill him with a well-aimed smart bomb, or if he remains in hiding as a living symbol of a growing anti-US resistance in the Muslim world, will the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan lay down their arms? Leading US government officials have said time and again that bin Laden's death or capture will not engender these results. Thus, if our wisest men have decided that our present policy toward bin Laden will not help reduce the threat of terrorism, what might help? Does our yearning for revenge outweigh the potential value we might gain by negotiating with bin Laden?
If our goal is to roll back terrorism and reduce its global appeal, sooner or later we are going to have to deal directly with terrorists. Even if such negotiations fail, history has shown that a silver lining is often found. In Colombia, the Pastrana administration pursued peace with FARC terrorists only to find that they were false partners. FARC's duplicity revealed to the Colombian people that a military response was necessary, and this energized the Colombian government to legitimately escalate the war.
The same might be true by now engaging with bin Laden. I very much doubt that his offer to negotiate is genuine, but if we cannot make a deal that is acceptable, President Bush can show the world that bin Laden is a bogus partner, thus undermining his undeniable legitimacy in parts of the Muslim world. In the all important battle for global public opinion, the US might be able to use this opportunity to reverse some of the decline we have suffered in Iraq. Ultimately, if negotiations fail, CIA Predator drones and elite military units can again be sent on search and destroy missions against Al Qaeda. By calling to the table bin Laden's truce offer, we do not give up the military option; however, if we play this right, even if negotiations fail, we may have more to gain than to lose by exploring peace.
• Douglas A. Borer, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., is the author of "Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared." The views here are his own.
Set Notes
UBG – Jan 31, 2006
Half The World Away (Oasis cover)
Highly Evolved (Vines cover)
Come Along & Thrill Us
Girl (Beatles cover)
Anthrax Blues
Ordinary Song (request)
I Want You To Want Me/Surrender/Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Cheap Trick/Culture Club cover/medley)
Sweetheart Like You (request/Bob Dylan cover/incomplete)
Sunday Shining (request)
Dream - Duet w/Carol-Ann Plante (Everly Brothers cover)
Set Notes
UBG – Feb 07, 2006
Drunk With You
Highly Evolved (Vines cover)
Houston
Ace Of Spades (Motorhead cover)
Good To Know
Ordinary Song
Wonderwall (request dedication/Oasis cover)
Who Am I (What’s My Name)? (request/Snoop Dogg cover/audience singalong)
Sunday Shining
Set Notes
UBG – Feb 12, 2006
Sunday Nite show supporting my friend Steve’s band Collective Unconcious, who were quite good. Fronted by a trumpet playing badass named Lonnie, they captivated the audience with their blend of instrumental jazz and funk. I thoroughly enjoyed their set.
Quote of the nite:
“ G, I really liked that judo you used on that big guy, using his own weight and his own shouting against himself.”
Half The World Away (Oasis cover)
Streets Of Spain
Girl (Beatles cover)
Ordinary Song
Ace Of Spades (request {by-way-of-Metallica} Motorhead cover)
Wish I Knew
I Want You To Want Me/Surrender/Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Cheap Trick/Culture Club cover/medley)
Sunday Shining
Set Notes
UBG – Feb 14, 2006
Valentines Day Show
Aka “The Sudafed Set”
Notes: The Martin guitar went down *again* after playing beautifully on Tues. Luckily Joyce’s car was there so I could make an emergency run home for the ever-faithful Kay. So once again, the Kay saves the day. The return of the Kay, pt III. Fighting a cold and some PA problems only added to the stress. My voice held out throughout and the set went alright, but I was glad to be on the other side of it once it was over. Special Valentines Day performance of the ultra-rare, never-before-performed-live song “She Drank Harp”.
Half The World Away (Oasis cover)
Waymore’s Blues (Waylon Jenning’s cover)
Come Along & Thrill Us
She Drank Harp (for Joyce)
Good To Know (request honoring its inclusion in previous nite’s airing of A&E’s “Rollergirls” show, Thanks, Kitty!)
Psycho (request/Leon Payne cover)
Westward Heaven
Underneath The Sky (Oasis cover)
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