Completely Conspicuous Episode 132: All the World's a Stage

Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Jay Breitling (http://clickyclickymusic.com) about the power of live rock. 

Topics:

- Kumar only went to arena rock shows in the '80s

- The Worcester Centrum was the big rock venue in the Boston area back then

- Started going to club shows in early '90s

- Breitling camped out for Stones tickets in '89

- Chloe lets rip a mighty screech

- Breitling saw a ton of club shows

- We saw a drunken Hold Steady show in '06 that was awesome 

- In late '80s/early '90s, Kumar started seeing bands play in rock club in Beverly, Mass.

- Breitling's friends were playing in bands

- Club shows are great for seeing bands on the way up

- Half time = bath time 

- Listen to Ric Dube's More Lost Time podcast (http://morelosttime.podbean.com)

- Big arena shows now suck because of corporate influence

- Kumar and Dube saw the Go-Go's play a JVC private party at CES in 2001

- People got annoyed because we were jumping around

- People don't pay attention at shows anymore

- Only really huge bands and teenybopper acts sell a lot of tickets now

- Established acts like the Eagles and AC/DC are doing store exclusive deals, charging huge ticket prices

- Wear earplugs, people

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

!!! - AM/FM

The Kominas - High Noon

Eels - Looking Up

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The !!! song is on the forthcoming album Strange Weather, Isn't It? on Warp Records. Find out more and download the song for free at http://www.chkchkchk.net.

The Kominas song is on the EP Escape to Blackout Beach. Find out more and download the EP for free at http://komin.as/escape.

The Eels song is on the forthcoming album Tomorrow Morning on E Works/Vagrant Records. Find out more and download the song for free at http://eelstheband.com.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.net. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.

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