Rome 56: News
BENEFIT FOR RONNIE ARDITO - August 6, 2007
THIS SATURDAY AUGUST 11th at
HANKS SALOON located at the corners of ATLANTIC and THIRD Aves in BROOKLYN NY
www.hankssaloon.com
HERE'S THE LINEUP
7:45 AL DUVALL
8:30 SYD STRAW
9:15 THE SHIRTS
10:00 BRUNCH OF THE LIVING DEAD
10:45 CHEAP PERFUME
11:30 THE REID PALEY TRIO
12:15 TUFF DARTS
HANKS SALOON located at the corners of ATLANTIC and THIRD Aves in BROOKLYN NY
www.hankssaloon.com
HERE'S THE LINEUP
7:45 AL DUVALL
8:30 SYD STRAW
9:15 THE SHIRTS
10:00 BRUNCH OF THE LIVING DEAD
10:45 CHEAP PERFUME
11:30 THE REID PALEY TRIO
12:15 TUFF DARTS
Rome 56 on PlayPay.fm - June 22, 2007
Rome 56 MP3's now available for download on playpay.fm
here's the link
ROME 56: Trip Glasses
http://payplay.fm/rome562
ROME 56: Sacred Avenue
http://payplay.fm/rome56
here's the link
ROME 56: Trip Glasses
http://payplay.fm/rome562
ROME 56: Sacred Avenue
http://payplay.fm/rome56
The Shirts live at The Paradiso Dec 8th 1979 - June 7, 2007
radio broadcast of The Shirts live
at the Paradiso in Amsterdam,Holland Dec 8th 1979
here's the link
http://legendarischlive.kro.nl/shirts_art.aspx
at the Paradiso in Amsterdam,Holland Dec 8th 1979
here's the link
http://legendarischlive.kro.nl/shirts_art.aspx
Benefit for ALS-NY - November 10, 2006
Benefit for ALS-NY.
Date: Saturday, November 18th
Place: The Hook -- 18 Commerce Street -- Red Hook, Brooklyn
website: www.thehookmusic.com Doors open at 7:00pm -- Music starts at 8:00pm
Admission: $10 adults -- $5 under 18
This show includes Brooklyn legends The Shirts! We've been after them
for quite awhile and the schedules finally synced up. We (Secret Steps
that is) were lucky to do more than a few shows with The Shirts and
can't wait to hear them play again. They will have copies of their new
CD for sale "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn".
Returning friends include
John Pinamonti,
The HIt List, Idle Chatter, Brass Tracks,
Liza & the Wonder Wheels,
John Sharples w/ Plastic Beef,
The Rayvens, The Kitchen, Joey Figgiani,
The Zeke Carey Band, Out of Order while newcomers include
iXnay
and The Nobodys.
For a lineup with appoximate showtimes, go to :
www.myspace.com/secretunes
Hope to see you all there. It's for a great cause.
Date: Saturday, November 18th
Place: The Hook -- 18 Commerce Street -- Red Hook, Brooklyn
website: www.thehookmusic.com Doors open at 7:00pm -- Music starts at 8:00pm
Admission: $10 adults -- $5 under 18
This show includes Brooklyn legends The Shirts! We've been after them
for quite awhile and the schedules finally synced up. We (Secret Steps
that is) were lucky to do more than a few shows with The Shirts and
can't wait to hear them play again. They will have copies of their new
CD for sale "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn".
Returning friends include
John Pinamonti,
The HIt List, Idle Chatter, Brass Tracks,
Liza & the Wonder Wheels,
John Sharples w/ Plastic Beef,
The Rayvens, The Kitchen, Joey Figgiani,
The Zeke Carey Band, Out of Order while newcomers include
iXnay
and The Nobodys.
For a lineup with appoximate showtimes, go to :
www.myspace.com/secretunes
Hope to see you all there. It's for a great cause.
September 10, 2006
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
SOUTHPAW
THE SHIRTS - 9:30 PM
125 Fifth Avenue (between Sterling Pl & St John's Pl)
Brooklyn NY
718-230-0236
Price: $10
SOUTHPAW
THE SHIRTS - 9:30 PM
125 Fifth Avenue (between Sterling Pl & St John's Pl)
Brooklyn NY
718-230-0236
Price: $10
Arthur Lee - August 9, 2006
Arthur Lee, 61, a Pioneer of Psychedelic Rock, Is Dead
By BEN SISARIO
Published: August 5, 2006
Arthur Lee, the leader of Love, a pioneering 1960’s psychedelic rock band, died on Thursday in Memphis. He was 61.
The cause was complications of leukemia, said Mark Linn, his manager.
With eccentric songs that joined the jangly guitars of folk-rock with urgent, angry rhythms and yet also leaned toward sophisticated pop with delicate horn and string arrangements, Love was one of the defining groups of the psychedelic era in Los Angeles. Though the band never reached the levels of stardom enjoyed by the Byrds and the Doors — unlike them, Love rarely toured — it had a wide and lasting influence.
Love’s 1967 album “Forever Changes” was a milestone of pop ambition, with melodic acoustic guitars, elaborate orchestrations and, in songs with titles like “Alone Again Or” and “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale,” a studied inscrutability. Celebrated by critics as one of the most affecting and beguiling albums of the time, it was ranked No. 40 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums, published in 2003.
A recent benefit concert for Mr. Lee’s medical expenses, at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, indicated the breadth of Love’s legacy. Among those performing were Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople and Nils Lofgren, along with younger musicians like Ryan Adams, Yo La Tengo and Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Rangy and invariably slouching, in tiny-frame shades and dandyish, kaleidoscopically colored clothes, Mr. Lee called himself “the first black hippie,” and his band pushed boundaries. Love was one of the first major interracial bands in rock, and one of the first to record a song long enough to fill one side of an album, with the 19-minute “Revelation,” from its second release, “Da Capo.”
Born in Memphis, Mr. Lee moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 5, and played in many teenage bands before settling on the lineup that would become Love. Another member was Bryan MacLean, a blond guitarist who had been a roadie with the Byrds.
Love took the Sunset Strip rock scene by storm in 1965 with catchy but shifty songs, as playful as they were dark. Even in their sweetest moments, disorientation and nightmarish paranoia were never far away. “I feel like I have been through hell/ When you tell me I haven’t even started yet,” Mr. Lee sang in “Your Mind and We Belong Together.”
The band lived in a house once owned by Bela Lugosi, and the covers of its first two albums show the members in the garden there.
Little known outside California, Love had only one Top 40 hit, “Alone Again Or,” written by Mr. MacLean, who died in 1998. But in Los Angeles Mr. Lee was a scene maker. He lobbied for his label, Elektra, to sign the Doors, who looked up to Love, then quickly surpassed it.
By the late 1960’s, Love fell apart as its members confronted drug problems, though Mr. Lee continued on his own. In 1970 he recorded an album’s worth of material with his old friend Jimi Hendrix, though only one track, “The Everlasting First,” was released. He persisted through the 1970’s but by the 80’s had largely disappeared.
He toured again in the early 1990’s, and seemed on the verge of reviving his career, when in 1996 he was imprisoned for illegal gun possession. He served almost half of a 12-year sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, Calif.
He is survived by his wife, Diane.
When he was released from prison, in mid-2002, he began to tour almost immediately. He was widely praised by critics for the intensity and focus of his performances, though some noted that a few dark and frightened lyrics of Mr. Lee’s youth were now bitterly appropriate, including: “Served my time, served it well/ You made my soul a cell.”
By BEN SISARIO
Published: August 5, 2006
Arthur Lee, the leader of Love, a pioneering 1960’s psychedelic rock band, died on Thursday in Memphis. He was 61.
The cause was complications of leukemia, said Mark Linn, his manager.
With eccentric songs that joined the jangly guitars of folk-rock with urgent, angry rhythms and yet also leaned toward sophisticated pop with delicate horn and string arrangements, Love was one of the defining groups of the psychedelic era in Los Angeles. Though the band never reached the levels of stardom enjoyed by the Byrds and the Doors — unlike them, Love rarely toured — it had a wide and lasting influence.
Love’s 1967 album “Forever Changes” was a milestone of pop ambition, with melodic acoustic guitars, elaborate orchestrations and, in songs with titles like “Alone Again Or” and “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale,” a studied inscrutability. Celebrated by critics as one of the most affecting and beguiling albums of the time, it was ranked No. 40 in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums, published in 2003.
A recent benefit concert for Mr. Lee’s medical expenses, at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, indicated the breadth of Love’s legacy. Among those performing were Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople and Nils Lofgren, along with younger musicians like Ryan Adams, Yo La Tengo and Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Rangy and invariably slouching, in tiny-frame shades and dandyish, kaleidoscopically colored clothes, Mr. Lee called himself “the first black hippie,” and his band pushed boundaries. Love was one of the first major interracial bands in rock, and one of the first to record a song long enough to fill one side of an album, with the 19-minute “Revelation,” from its second release, “Da Capo.”
Born in Memphis, Mr. Lee moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 5, and played in many teenage bands before settling on the lineup that would become Love. Another member was Bryan MacLean, a blond guitarist who had been a roadie with the Byrds.
Love took the Sunset Strip rock scene by storm in 1965 with catchy but shifty songs, as playful as they were dark. Even in their sweetest moments, disorientation and nightmarish paranoia were never far away. “I feel like I have been through hell/ When you tell me I haven’t even started yet,” Mr. Lee sang in “Your Mind and We Belong Together.”
The band lived in a house once owned by Bela Lugosi, and the covers of its first two albums show the members in the garden there.
Little known outside California, Love had only one Top 40 hit, “Alone Again Or,” written by Mr. MacLean, who died in 1998. But in Los Angeles Mr. Lee was a scene maker. He lobbied for his label, Elektra, to sign the Doors, who looked up to Love, then quickly surpassed it.
By the late 1960’s, Love fell apart as its members confronted drug problems, though Mr. Lee continued on his own. In 1970 he recorded an album’s worth of material with his old friend Jimi Hendrix, though only one track, “The Everlasting First,” was released. He persisted through the 1970’s but by the 80’s had largely disappeared.
He toured again in the early 1990’s, and seemed on the verge of reviving his career, when in 1996 he was imprisoned for illegal gun possession. He served almost half of a 12-year sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, Calif.
He is survived by his wife, Diane.
When he was released from prison, in mid-2002, he began to tour almost immediately. He was widely praised by critics for the intensity and focus of his performances, though some noted that a few dark and frightened lyrics of Mr. Lee’s youth were now bitterly appropriate, including: “Served my time, served it well/ You made my soul a cell.”
The Shirts News - June 18, 2005
CD Release "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn"
The SHIRTS "ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN" - CD RELEASE With Special Guest: Arno Hecht (Uptown Horns) on saxophone !
Wedenesday, June 28th @ CBGB 315 Bowery, NYC @ 8:00pm
And opening for The SHIRTS, come down and check out Marni Rice & Le Garage Cabaret @ 7:00pm !!! Marni Rice, chanteuse-accordioniste joins forces with guitarist Daniel Rey (Ramones/Ronnie Spector/The Martinets) and bassist Michele Temple (Dave Thomas/Pere Ubu). http://www.myspace.com/marniricelegaragecabaret
The band that emanated from Brooklyn, immigrating into the new wave/punk scene of the early 70's, are poised to blow you away once again!
Although they have evolved, they have not lost that incredibly multi-dimensioned, driving force their fans first enjoyed in such tunes as "Teenage Crutch" and "Poe." One listen to the title track will confirm this, although their range of songs is not restricted to only those that require rest and liquid to revive one's composure after some mysterious force has led all of their body parts to convulse in mad gyrations. The Shirts sensibly provide other tunes to regroup by, with jazz, blues, and, some that just lead you to sigh, as if the Universe has granted you a moment of solace.
They are now gearing up for the release of their newest CD, "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn," at CBGB'S on June 28th at 8pm--produced, once again, by the masterful Mike Thorne.
If you were a SHIRTS fan then, you WILL NOT be dissapointed now.
If you have NEVER heard them, June 28th at CBGB'S will be a great introduction to them.
AND, if my VERY sharp indie music 15 year-old is any indication of things to come--once again--THE SHIRTS will have mass appeal, with no age barriers to the enjoyment to be had by all!
Rocky Concrete, Vortex Studios NYC...
The Shirts line up is:
Ron Ardito
John Criscione
Art Lamonica
Kathy McCloskey
Caren Messing
John Piccolo
Robert Racioppo
visit The Shirts at:
http://www.myspace.com/theshirtsbrooklyn http://www.theshirts.net http://www.stereosociety.com/shirts.html
The SHIRTS "ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BROOKLYN" - CD RELEASE With Special Guest: Arno Hecht (Uptown Horns) on saxophone !
Wedenesday, June 28th @ CBGB 315 Bowery, NYC @ 8:00pm
And opening for The SHIRTS, come down and check out Marni Rice & Le Garage Cabaret @ 7:00pm !!! Marni Rice, chanteuse-accordioniste joins forces with guitarist Daniel Rey (Ramones/Ronnie Spector/The Martinets) and bassist Michele Temple (Dave Thomas/Pere Ubu). http://www.myspace.com/marniricelegaragecabaret
The band that emanated from Brooklyn, immigrating into the new wave/punk scene of the early 70's, are poised to blow you away once again!
Although they have evolved, they have not lost that incredibly multi-dimensioned, driving force their fans first enjoyed in such tunes as "Teenage Crutch" and "Poe." One listen to the title track will confirm this, although their range of songs is not restricted to only those that require rest and liquid to revive one's composure after some mysterious force has led all of their body parts to convulse in mad gyrations. The Shirts sensibly provide other tunes to regroup by, with jazz, blues, and, some that just lead you to sigh, as if the Universe has granted you a moment of solace.
They are now gearing up for the release of their newest CD, "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn," at CBGB'S on June 28th at 8pm--produced, once again, by the masterful Mike Thorne.
If you were a SHIRTS fan then, you WILL NOT be dissapointed now.
If you have NEVER heard them, June 28th at CBGB'S will be a great introduction to them.
AND, if my VERY sharp indie music 15 year-old is any indication of things to come--once again--THE SHIRTS will have mass appeal, with no age barriers to the enjoyment to be had by all!
Rocky Concrete, Vortex Studios NYC...
The Shirts line up is:
Ron Ardito
John Criscione
Art Lamonica
Kathy McCloskey
Caren Messing
John Piccolo
Robert Racioppo
visit The Shirts at:
http://www.myspace.com/theshirtsbrooklyn http://www.theshirts.net http://www.stereosociety.com/shirts.html