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Is that boat filled with LOVE?

Who's needs Yacht Rock when we have The Love Boat...

Go ahead and sing along...

Messer Chups in NYC

Toronto, it's a great city and one I have called my home for almost two years now, however, at times like these I wish I was in New York.

I don't normally promote shows online and consider myself to be terrible at promotion (or rather, just lazy at times). I don't even try to promote my own projects, but really wanted to share this upcoming show with readers of the blog.

Messer Chups (all the way from St. Petersburg) and End (from the WFMU neck of the woods) + DenimVenom, DJ Maxx E. Millionz and DJ J-Rock will be playing in Williamsburg on March 7th.

March 7, 2008
GALAPAGOS ART SPACE
70 North 6th Street,, Williamsburg, NY
Venue: http://galapagosartspace.com/
Show info: http://galapagosartspace.com/beyond.html#messer

Listen to MC and End on myspace,
http://www.myspace.com/messerchups
http://www.myspace.com/worldwentdown
do not fear, the band pages will not take three days to load or crash your browser like some other myspace band pages.

and catch Messer Chups on 2/27 at DROM in NYC

February 27, 2008
DROM
85 Ave. A, at E.6th St., NYC
Venue: http://www.dromnyc.com
Show Info: http://tinyurl.com/2vya69

Over and out!

Bob Thompson and The Sound of Style

Well, hello everyone. It's my first post here and boy howdy it's a good one. First post as Listener Fodder that is. Every day this year you can catch the 365 Days Project that I am involved with (as the coordination guy) with many others sharing audio delights (or in some cases audio travesties).

In the mid-1980s I first had my taste of what is now termed "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music" and a dozen different variations of genre defining terms to describe 'this' music. It was the music of my grandparents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I remember visiting family and being subjected (at the time) to Lawrence Welk. If someone would have told me at age 12 in 1981 that I would be fixed to the tube less then a decade later watching re-runs of pink champagne bubbles and safe/sanitized sounds I would have thought they were nuts. I was young and a kid, whaddya expect. The new ELO and Bowie albums were much more important to a kid who was born in 1969. Well, to this kid. And in 1979 I wish I could say I was ultra-cool and had the Industrial Records catalog in my knapsack next to picking up Roger Roger, Les Baxter, Esquivel records at 2nd hand stores, but I had not yet experienced the music that would shape a defining role in my future musical listening.

I was living in Berkeley, California, in the late 1980s when I first heard of Bob Thompson. I found a copy of "Mmm, Nice!" at Rasputin's records on telegraph. Must have been 1987 or 1988 and I vividly remember the 50 cent, 25 cent, and 10 cent record boxes. I don't recall any dollar boxes on the floor, those prices were reserved for the shelf stock. Of course prices went higher, but for a record by Bob Thompson I probably paid a quarter. Suckers! Okay, well you can still find Bob's records in thrift stores and rather cheap at 2nd hand shops, but that's not because it sucks... it's because of the amount pressed of his first album, the one I was lucky to find. After a moving around quite a bit over the years my records have gone up and down in size, and I still consistently purge. But "Mmm, Nice!" is still with me. It's one of about 50 records I have had 20+ years. The title song "Mmm, Nice!" has been a staple in my dj crate. Listen to the song here.