Yeah, I know I'm ACTUALLY doing this but if your bored Saturday night, come see my freakin' band! We're playing at the Red Rose with a fabulously trashy band Jimmy and the Teasers (www.jimmyandtheteasers.com). We'll even make it cheap, cause I know everyone's broke like me!
ben

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I don't forsee myself being THAT bored saturday.....flame away.

I dunno, maybe if Spiral was opening

I will be there and I won't be bored.

i think i'll be there and i probably won't be bored. maybe, though. i've never seen slack.

Thanks for sharing!

Perhaps my disdain for the aforementioned band is unfair. I mean, all of these people, who I supposedly have similar musical tastes to, thoroughly enjoy Slack. It has been years since I've seen them perform. Maybe it is time to let bygones be bygones and give them another chance. I'll wait until closer to Saturday night to gague my level of ennui.

I'm still pretty positive I dislike Jetpack though. This abrupt shift from closed-mindedness does not cross over to them.

I heard the slack album, but like Ceeze it has been awhile. I will agree with the Jetpack comment. All I have to say on that band is, gimme some ice.

The first time that I saw Slack (which was also the first time I saw the Features - summer 1999 at Sebastian's), I didn't like them at all. But I was going through a certain phase, musically, at the time, where raw hard rock was a real turnoff. Sometime later my opinion changed. Now I think that Slack are awesome. Maybe the same will happen for you, Ceeze. Or maybe not.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 10:54 pm on May. 27, 2004)

Hmm, the band turns you on so much you need to cool off?

i won't be bored enough to drive to m'boro, i promise that much--how about playing in the city, lads? it seems i saw slack a long time ago but i don't remember much about it. i may have been stoned at the time...jetpack, on the other hand, are abysmal, no matter how impaired you are.

I love both bands, and would be there if I could, for what it's worth (not much).

Ceeze isnt backing me up

Do I need to hold your hand when you go potty as well?

Ok, his comment about the ice was in reference to my long held desire to throw ice in the drummer of Jetpack's mouth. This desire stems from the drummer's inability to close his mouth while playing. The end.

As much as I have wanted to hate Jetpack due to the peer pressure of this message board, I still like 'em.

What's wrong with Jetpack? I think they have some good stuff...

All they need is a non-lame video.

hmmmm I only do lame videos... guess they are SOL

what if i'm bored right now? anything for me? actually, swanson and i were looking for something to do tonight besides the usual...is there anything happening tonight?

I don't ever say anything on this messagebored or board that is... have we heard that joke? Anyhow I often just casually watch over the witty banter exchanged between nashvill-ites (mostly these are inside jokes that I somehow find funny) or, I have occasion to follow what one or two of these members wax moronic about (names have been avoided to protect my relevence). However I will not sit Idlly by while this JetPack* is still being lauded for any musical achievement or innovation, or greater good for any of us. (or even really just making people talk about them, especially myself, my first entry in ages and this is what spawned it? I'm even second guessing my entry right now.) I Have seen said Pack on several occasions during my Nashville stints, and have nothing against the Jet Cadets themselves, In fact I have eavesdropped on a post gig conversation between one or two of the boys and some fans/friends and they seemed like very nice people. (If I liked nice people or if I liked people at all I may have struck up a conversation.) But musically speaking I cant justify the monies I personally have spent on shows where I was unable to avoid it, as well as the admiration given by peers. Abysmal. I agree. I hope i didn't cross any lines, or step on toes or hurt feelings or anything of the sort. ( I know some of you are the sensitive type, emo-tional maybe?) So I'll be signing off for now, please refrain from provoking me into caring about stuff.
* I have heard variations on this monikier, some which I felt were slightly offensive and since offense was not the aim here they were avoided. However if one was curious about these variations all they would have to do is ask andrewjsmithson, I think he carries a list in his pocket.
P.s. I dont know if this thing'll have a little signiture on it and if it does its from when I was drunk and stoned, that is; anytime in the past two years. So Ill write a new one for my own amusement
"Ten-four good-buddy, de-stroy, kill all hippies! . . . This is Gordon signing off."

both of those signatures come andrew-approved, to be certain. i've compiled a lot of similar lists, but that one is very short...i referred to them as sh*tpack, i do know that. it's definitely not personal,and i'm sure they're lovely people. my problem with it i believe you hit right on the head...people going on about how great they are. i'm happy some people like them and i think they're on the right side of the equation...they're not making music that lowers the overall iq of everyone who hears it, or offending my sensibilities in any way. i have avoided seeing them for a long time now, and perhaps they have been reborn...i wouldn't know. i hope so, as i love music and want everything to be much better than it's current state. instead of derivative, lazy, shortsighted, boys-in-the-band-to-get-girls idiocy, i'd like to see bands treating it as an art form, being unapologetically ambitious, pretentious as hell and backing it up with vision...instead of mired in the past, borrowing from it here and there to build something upon it...and if you can't make music that's intelligent and highly evolved, then do something else with your time...i've heard masterbation is good, and it requires little talent or investment of time...i don't mean for this to be about jetpack or something, because it's really not. it's about how much i love music, as well as how much of an arsehole i am. apparently.

I feel like, if anything, I've heard people going on and on about how bad they are. At the very least, I think their music is inoffensive, like you said, and I've never understood why they've inspired such hatred from people. I mean, I can understand (I'm not saying I agree) when people say they hate Popular Genius, because they have enough "different" stuff going on where it can inspire intense opinions in either direction, but Jetpack is just a rock band. That's not to say they are unoriginal, just that I don't think there is any real reason to hate them unless you think they were unworthy of opening for The Features compared to your band, which I think is where at least some of the sentiment comes from, personally. Yes, I know that last statement doesn't apply to you, Andrew.

I like Jetpack. I like all kinds of music. Come to our fucking show.

i guess its funnier when you go off on a tangent about it

i've never heard popular genius, but their name is off-putting. i shouldn't be so critical of bands on the basis of their name alone, but i am--take feable weiner, for instance. the name is so terribly wrong that i can't even bring myself to listen to them...i don't want to ever have to tell someone that i like feable weiner, and the safest way to accomplish that is to avoid them like the plague. people say that they're really good, but unless someone along the line makes them jettison the unbearable imagery that is their nomenclature, i can't see myself giving a damn.

i think my dislike of feable weiner is well-established, and if it isn't, then it should be. i will not be an asshole for once in my life though and just tell you that you aren't missing much.

Well, I couldn't agree more. . . at least about the highly evolved stuff and the masterbation bit, and cheers to the love of music. But whether or not this is about JetPack (who indeed err on the side of good, for if you only knew the power of the dark-side...) well, at this point Im done with that topic, but damn it, you at least should hang the title of arsehole over my head. That red-eye of judgement has cast its gaze on me. . . the true arsehole (at least in this situation). So yay for music! and Yay for vindication! and Yay for the show tommorow night! I almost sorta wish i could be there.

(Edited by MarshallStacks at 5:12 pm on May. 30, 2004)

usually band names are the first impression you have of any given band. i hated the moniker, "feable weiner", the first time i heard it. having seen the band grow over the past few years, and hearing nearly everyone telling them that they really need to change their name. but now i totally understand the effect.

it's hard to come up with a good bandname these days you know? youre lucky to come up with anything that can stick in someone's mind for more than a day, and that's where i think feable weiner succeed, and i can see that they are.

on their website they have a link to "Stuff" magazine where one of those ridiculous superlative lists awarded them "best band name ever". that's some good press any way you slice it...i'm sure the features will take the opportunity to be mentioned in a mag that widely read when it comes their way.

one of my favorite band names ever is They Might Be Giants...perfect.

everyone take a minute and try to think of a good band name. its more difficult than you would think.

You wouldn't like them anyway, so don't worry about it.

The Features.

very funny...what i meant to say was: try to "make up" a name on your own.

i would contend that it's much easier than you think...i'm a writer, or atleast i try to be, so i know a lot of words. i know a whole hell of a lot of words that don't make me want to vomit when i hear them, so think i could conjure up about 7.5 million band names better than feable weiner. i'm not even saying they would be good names, but that they wouldn't be bad ones. the key is not mentioning A) weiners (B) bodily functions other than rocking out, and C) any kind of foolishness whatsoever. it seems fw have broken two of three of those rules, and that's one worse than hoobastank.

(Edited by andrewjsmithson at 8:16 am on May. 29, 2004)

GO SEE SLACK TONIGHT!!!

They're a good band.

i think it would be even harder to come up with a new name for yourself! remember swingset?!?!?! aaaahahahah

It's a good thing that Stuff Magazine and Doghouse Records disagree with you punks.

Carligula approves of Jetpack, Feable Weiner, and Slack. And that's what matters.

punks? stuff magazine? hahahahaha!

And, although there are probably some exceptions to this rule, I happen to approve of most everything Carligula does. IBL, too.

Us Jetpack fans gotta stick together in certain places...

i suck!!

how was slack?

Don't you wish you knew...

have the pink spiders invaded the features messageboard, stopforme?? interesting revelations

I don't like jetpack, because they don't grab/keep my attention. that's it. nothing more.

and, it's easy to come up with awesome band names. if you're cool.

Gerbis just happens to be my given name thank you very much! Perhaps I could go down to the ole courthouse and get it changed to something more agreeable.

RD, if you were in a band, what would it be called?

Gerbis, I'm glad you asked.

it would be a soul choir of widowed african-americans called the black widows. "richard dawson and the black widows"

or, a band with paul called "powder p and the MG's"

personally, I like mitch's idea of "The Eyes" and releasing an album called "The Eyes Have It", followed by a psychedelic side project called "The Eyes Sing On The Cake"

(Edited by richarddawson at 4:41 pm on May. 31, 2004)

The Burning Sensations.

i love it!

1. they might be giants suck

2. i can think of 100 great band names at the top of my head with no problem at all. it's not the least bit difficult.

well then...if you started a band, what would you name it Sina?

The only point I failed to make was that once you start a band and have to settle on what to call yourselves, it can be a bit difficult to come up with something that either adequtely encapsualtes the sentiment of the band, or just plain sounds cool. No big deal.

Bad Girl Poetry

I like.

how do you know i'm not already in a band? or many bands?

The Fuck


i have many more genius band names

I suppose I don't...so apologies there. And I would ask what your band name was, since my Google search for a band called "The Fuck" came up mostly naughty websites. But, I'm gonna assume that you either aren't in a band or you that wouldn't say if you were. I do like the band names given so far tho...I just thought it'd be fun to brainstorm, and I certainly didn't mean to chap any cabooses.

(Edited by Gerbis at 12:06 pm on Jun. 1, 2004)

i'm too cool to have a website

dumpster funk.

I'm pretty sure that name is already in use/has been used. If not, then at least without the "The." And I'm positive there was a band called The Fucks, so there's a lot of room for confusion there...

(Edited by Jakob Dorof at 2:04 pm on Jun. 1, 2004)

Spankrag

with a name like that, they would be pop-punk and they would undoubtedly suck

Osama Ben Harper

Mamas and the Papas.



Oh, wait. That's not cool. And used. I'm fresh out of ideas.

Clint Black Sabbath

Stevie Wonder Bread

Geddy Levon Helm

Jesus H. Chrysler

Oh wait, that name's been taken. In fact they played on saturday. At the Red Rose. Opening for SLACK.

Full circle, bitches!

Diana Ross Perot

Kathleen Turner Overdrive

Dick Armey of One

Dirty Harry Potter

all of those suck

stopforme love you long time.

if that's a band name, i love it!

agreed.

though, I have to admit, clint black sabbath has a certain ring to it.

the fork hunts top all of these.

Apparently a band called Phallic Baldwin is playing at The Springwater Supper Club and Lounge tonight.

Amazing.

amazing, indeed. that's hysterical...but that is a rather snappy name for springwater--i usually refer to it as "that toilet behind mcdonald's" or "bongwater".