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Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority

Headed straight to the Backstage for The Crossing and Chinatown after work. Got there just after The Myriad played. I'm told they were very good. Leon House played an acoustic set while Chinatown was setting up that included a fishy song, Girl of My Dreams, Whoops I Did IT Again, and Fall In, that had me singing along with the chorus. Next up was Chinatown, who sounded a lot like the Rolling Stones. They started out by saying that if they saw anyone who looked like they weren't having a good time, they would make them have a good time. That seems an excellent musician philosophy. I think it was the drummer that said that. The first thing I noticed about the band is how awesome the drummer is. The second thing I noticed is how tight the sound is, and the third thing I noticed is that they look and sound just like the Rolling Stones, except really young. I think they must consciously pattern themselves after The Stones because they wear suits like the Stones, they wear their hair like The Stones, most of the songs made me think of The Stones, and they finished their set with Jumpin' Jack Flash. The singer did a fair bit of crowd surfing, as did some others present. There was a good bit of mosh through the evening. Next up was Dustin Davis with a solo acoustic set while The Crossing was getting set up. He started with the song Slide, by The Goo Goo Dolls, which surprised me a little until later in the evening when I realized that The Crossing is probably influenced by The Goo Goo Dolls. Although probably more by Oasis or U2. Anyhow, the next song Dustin played was a song of his called Danny-O. He finished with a very pretty song he calls The Moon Cried. I enjoyed it. Then came The Crossing. The show started with a Keyboard track which was either coming from the mixing board area, or from a stompbox of Nathan's. From what I gather, he created the track earlier. The band played along to it a bit, and perhaps was dubbing things into it live. It sounded like a dub sample thing where they were adding to it... Their sound is like gentle ripples on water that suddenly explodes. Lots of moshing, and lots of props to Tim for his birthday. They had him up to sing the song with the line that goes "I want something else, to get me through this, Semi-tron kind of life". That was cool. Nathan's shirt came off sometime before the second song, and people hollered for him to take his pants off. There were a few songs that stuck with me, notably one about a P.O.W. and interrogation, one that they said was for a B side that was very poppy bouncy danceable, and one about women and relationships. There was a good turnout - I think probably well over 100 people, and they all seemed to be having a blast the whole show long.

After the show at the Backstage I came home and ran the dogs and ate some food. I looked at the clock and saw that it was not yet Midnight,
so I decided to go hear A-Kamp at Rang-Dong! I've never been in Rang-Dong before, mainly because I heard the law is out to get them - I always wanted to go because it's close to home and I love playing Pool - anyhow, the place was PACKED. I could barely get in the door. A-Kamp had their groove on and was sounding very good. After a song I heard Tommy thank God for how good they were sounding. Seemed reasonable considering how very good they sounded. They played that I had a girlfriend song, and they played a bunch of other sweet songs. Trumpet, Bass, Keyboard, Drums, Guitar and Vocals. Yeow! They got me dancin to their earthy groove. These guys still remind me of The Grateful Dead, which is a really good thing, in my book. When they had finished up the set with an intricate nearly classical piece in which Tommy and Genius lock into these sick riffs that they both play simultaneously, Jeremy from One Nation Undereducated got behind Lars' kit, and Genius got back on Bass, and some folks started freestylin' on the mic. Ben Compton of messageboard infamy was one of the rappers.
To top it all off, Tommy gave me a live cd from Le Voyeur to which I have been listening while writing this, and enjoying.
Rock On!

CONFLICT OF TERROR
OlyWayOut
The Octabites
Vaya
Max Fischer
Flowmotion
Noise
Thunder!Thunder!Thunder!
The Strangers
Blood Paradise
Bill Skins Fifth Will Punch You Right In The Face!

STAAPLINE

Funny, right after adding Vaya to the bands page, I bumped into them at the gas station. They mentioned they are playing the Timberline High School talent show on February 4th in the evening. I told them that is the same day presidential hopeful Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be speaking at St. Martin's Pavilion in Lacey around 8am.

and a groovy counter

Welcome to the Tucson Citizen This guy in Tucson mentions Olympia's gay hip-hop scene.

Olympia jazz pianist dies / Living -The Olympian Reading this article about pianist Bob Nixon.

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Just added BLACK ToP DEMON to the bands page.

The Official Triple-7 website!
Just added link to Triple7's website to the bands page.

Hey, last night I enjoyed the Watermelon Sugar and Three at Tugboat's.
WS kept
me tappin my feet and the ladies dancin'. Drummin' on the table and stuff.
A shout out to Michelle for helping me get to the show.
Three is very groovy. I always enjoy hearing them. I spaced out most of the time - I felt like I was
tripping, but I hadn't done any psychedelics. Lots of reflections on life the Universe
and everything. They have terrific effects and groove.

Lyrics
Checking out Scared Little Boys words of wisdom. Intense. Profound.

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Listening to FRO right now!
That's Free Radio Olympia!!! 91.3 on your FM dial in Olympia!!!
Local rock show Saturdays!!! !!! !!!
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The Go Club - Olympia
I'm checkin out the Go Club Site

Couldn't sleep just now, and remembered that I had been meaning to write about the 10 minutes I spent at Java Flow between when my bus got to downtown, and continued across town on new year's eve. Dylan and the Furniture was playing, and I caught the last 2 songs of their set. Their sound was really tight instrumentwise, and I think they must practice a lot because the interplay between all the instruments was right on. I found myself wishing the vocals were mixed higher so that I could have a better chance of figuring out what the lead vocalist was singing about, but I think they might be classified as loud punk rock or something like that, and as such, I'm not sure that I would be supposed to understand any of the lyrics of a song the first time I hear it. Anyhow, it got my head boppin a bit, and I definitely enjoyed the way the sounds of all the instruments wove together and played off each other. Thanks for playing music guys!