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Edgar Goss...Drums
Al Korosy..Lead Guitar
Arthur Lamonica..Vocal,Guitar
Bob Racioppo..Bass

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Oh, but what a string of song Ms Ellie left. A solid gold thread, like seams shaping our lives, loves, school daze/haze, teen angst. Continuing to weave, tangled up in flushed, blushed, rosy cheeks, spotted, oily, t zones and sallow complexions. Shallow? No. The songs of Ellie Greenwich were the sounds of the streets, subways, expressways, young hearts thumping bumping the night away. Her songs seeped through the cracks in sidewalks and became part of the air we breathed, and still breathe. They accompany us, penetrating and invigorating, the atmosphere."]]> http://rome56.com/news.html#34 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Rome 56 - Rome 56 - News http://rome56.com/news.html#33 "Impatient World"
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Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.

What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.

And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were, in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”

Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate American politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least, they’ve been banished to the wilderness.

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Music Junkie
by Phoebe Neidl phoebe@brooklyneagle.net

Article by Sean Murphy

With summer fast approaching, what better time for a walking tour centered on Brooklyn’s musical past?

The Shirt House (435A 9th St.)

For every Patti Smith, David Byrne, and Tom Verlaine that emerged from New York’s halcyon punk rock scene of the mid-70s, there were at least four musicians who failed to sustain a career. Arguably the textbook case of this phenomenon, The Shirts were true nonconformists lost in a sea of stylized rebellion, uneasily bridging the last vestiges of the ”˜60s counterculture with indie-prefiguring angular guitars.

While nearly all of the early punk acts sublimated the better elements of mid-to-late ”˜60s rock into their sound, the Brooklyn-based sextet stood alone in proudly flaunting this recent history for the entire world to see. Thirty years on, the harmonies of frontwoman Annie Golden, guitarist/keyboardist Arthur Lamonica, and bassist Robert Racioppo seem to pick up where the Jefferson Airplane left off in 1969. News traveled slowly in the pre-Internet age. When the band decided to commit their attention to original material after seeing Patti Smith play during a then-rare Manhattan foray, the musicians and their associates had been living communally at a characteristically unostentatious Park Slope house for several years. Band cohabitation was not entirely anomalous — the Talking Heads and Blondie both shared downtown lofts in their early starving days to save expenses, after all — but The Shirts erred towards the anachronistic Haight-Ashbury extreme. In the process, their home became a de facto community center for many Slopeians and a number of other Brooklyn bands. These included Greenpoint’s own Rice Miller Band, a traditional blues outfit that regularly foiled The Shirts’ comparatively modern sound in concert.

The Shirts were one of CBGB’s owner Hilly Kristal’s favorite bands and were pegged as a breakout group by Billboard. They ascended to the top of the charts with hits like “Tell Me Your Plans” and “Laugh And Walk Away””¦ in the Netherlands.

Since the group broke up in 1984, Golden has eked out a moderately successful acting career, most recently appearing as an understudy in the Broadway adaptation of Xanadu. A reconstituted lineup released the LP Only the Dead Know Brooklyn to generally positive reviews in 2006.

Perhaps most emblematic of the changes fostered by the past 20 years, The Shirt House is now home to a mortgage brokerage and offices of New York Methodist Hospital.

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