I'll be there.

But you fuckin' knew that already.

Ahhh, Dan Lurie. I'm gonna show up to audition in my John Oates disguise and immediately get the gig, even though I can't play drums for shit. Just watch...

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Bold statement... especially considering that anyone found collaborating with Dave Matthews instantly surrenders all so-called "credibility" at the starting gate. Soulive is guilty of this crime, and quite a few others BUT...

(I like big BUTs and I shall fail to prevaricate in this particular instance...)

...their skills as a live performance group are hard to match. Strip off the polish of overproduction and you're dealing with some tight motherfuckers.

Respect.

I think the yawn of indiffence that meets all of Limp Bizkit's recent work will drown out whatever bullshit they churn out.

It would be like Molly Hatchet covering Louis Armstrong or something... where there is apathy, there can be no heresy.

I'm going to be there.

And I'm going to find out which hotel she's staying in...

It warms my shrivelled little salted prune of a heart to see your collective gay pride a' shinin'. You all win.

"If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago... and I mean TOUCHED. Like, tears and shit.

I'm currently installed at the Tiffany Compound in Kirkland, but I'll be looking for a spot downtown in the next month or so. Send me your current phone numbers (superbad19@hotmail.com or http://www.myspace.com/matt_brown) and we'll get together soon.

Dan, man. We've got a few months to prepare for your brother's arrival. I propose that we begin rehearsals ASAP...

...for good this time.

In honor of being voted runner-up "Scenester Of The Year" in the Tucson Area Music Awards (http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/index), I packed up my CDs, dirty pictures of Ashworth and assorted artifacts of ninja weaponry and headed north by northwest until I hit Lake Union. SPLASH!!! I'm home.

Tonight I'll be heading over to the Iron Composers competition at EMP, where Jello Biafra will battle Wayne Kramer to the death with wit, unfocused middle-aged rage and, hopefully, blunt scissors. After that, I will be officially and completely broke for the forseeable future, but will still make it out for New Music Monday on the 27th to see my Tucson boys in Fistsized destroy the Rendezvous. I encourage everyone to come out and see what the hell I've been raving about for the last few years. Bring me a sandwich and I'll tell you tall tales of the American Southwest while giving you the best backrub you've ever had. Or something like that. It'll be good to see you anyway...

Fuck that. Mudhoney's version of "The Rose" is the second best cover they ever did, right behind "Hate The Police". It was a brilliant (and very rare and underplayed) choice.

Quit kissing the elusive hottie's ass!

Absolutely brilliant! That rap before the complete medley breakdown segment brought me to tears. I am now officially amending my previous statement to "I'm still one of the three hardest rocking Hall and Oates fans you know."

Respect to the Lurie Brothers. It means so much to know that I'll never be alone in my love for John and Daryl's heart-rending songs of longing, voyeurism, and predatory materialistic bitches.

No matter how hard I've tried to hate..."Can't help myself, I'm fallin'... stone in love". I've got a funny story about Neil Schon I'll tell you sometime.

Re: "It must be the hair..."

http://www.myspace.com/matt_brown
 
Check my pictures, Joe... I can't coast on those late '80s Chris Cornell locks no mo'! It had to happen eventually.

Here's the (unedited) Nine Questions column from the Tucson Weekly that came out today...

(http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/music/Content?oid=oid:68243 for the finished version.)

Matt Brown, originally from Alaska, moved here from Seattle a few years back, and occasionally does some writing for Seattle online music magazine Nada Mucho.

1. What was the first concert you ever saw?

Chicago at the Tacoma Dome in 1985. I was seated in the nosebleed section behind the stage and nearly fell asleep. A few months later I saw Motley Crue on their "Theatre Of Pain" tour... a completely different story! It was all downhill from there...

2. What CDs are in your changer right now?

My stereo equipment and most of my music collection is sitting in my friend John's garage while I look for a new home, but I've been listening to the new Maktub album, Fireproof Your TV by Music Video, and DJ Karlito's Success In Life mixtape quite a bit lately.

3. How many total albums do you own?

I honestly can't keep track. Most of my vinyl is back in Seattle at my brother's house... a few hundred albums. I have well over a thousand CDs, and I was dedicated to cassettes as a teenager - five or six hundred tapes, at least. Never enough...

4. Do you download music, and if so, illegally?

Thanks to the trend of posting MP3s on MySpace and indie label/band websites, I can satisfy my curiosity about new music without guilt before I purchase. I've certainly done quite a bit of file sharing, but my primary interest there is live recordings and out-of-print material. I have no qualms taking money out of the hands of bootleggers.

5. What was the first album you owned?

Country Is by Tom T. Hall. My Uncle Robbie bought it for me when I was about six or seven. The first record I saved my allowance for and bought was Crimes Of Passion by Pat Benatar.

6. What song would you like played at your funeral?

"Ornery" by Nowhere Man... an old live version with Beth Holub on bass and Merritt Jacob playing the guitar solo! If you can't track that down, play James Brown's "Superbad (parts 1 and 2)" and let everyone dance on my grave until the sun comes up.

7. Musically speaking, what do you love that your friends don't know about? What are your guilty pleasures?

I have no shame, but I've learned to downplay my love for Journey and the Grease soundtrack in certain circles. I'm still the hardest rocking Hall and Oates fan you know.

8. What band or artist changed your life, and how?

Seeing Soundgarden at an all-ages show in September of 1988 showed me that exploring your local music scene can turn out to be the most enriching musical experience of your life. I had no idea beforehand and, after witnessing that show, I'll certainly believe it until I die. Instead of wasting my time waiting for the Soundgarden reunion tour, I'm looking for a new band to impress me the way Chris, Kim, Hiro and Matt did way back then. Any takers?

9. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?

Figurative? It would take an actual firearm to make me seriously ponder such a ludicrously hard question, but I can say that I never get tired of Young, Loud and Snotty by Dead Boys, even though I've been listening to it regularly since I was nine. That's one hell of a cool record.

"...it's so overwhelmingly familiar and faceless that it's almost comforting."

Scathing, Graham. Scathing. In a comforting sort of way. I think Johnny Yuma is craving something a little more indicative of our inner bitch.

You're one of Nada's best writers. You've gotta have some venom to spare...