From: Craig Anderton<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Future Ticket Sales<\/p>\n
Bob, during the pandemic there was an explosion in sales of music and recording equipment. Companies thought this would create a new generation of musicians and it would go on forever. Well, it didn’t. Music is a discipline and despite the “kids just push buttons these days” mentality, it’s damn hard to push the right buttons at the right time, and have them play back the right sounds…let alone learn how to play guitar.<\/p>\n
Besides, people forget demand for anything that’s not a necessity goes in cycles. So yes…ticket prices will crash, along with other luxury items.<\/p>\n
Craig<\/p>\n
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From: Jeff Laufer<\/p>\n
Subject: antisemitism in Comedy<\/p>\n
Dear Bob,<\/p>\n
I thought comedy is the one art form where\u00c2\u00a0antisemitism would not exist.<\/p>\n
Well I was mistaken….<\/p>\n
A week ago I was at a comedy gig and the booker made a blatant\u00c2\u00a0anti-Semitic joke.<\/p>\n
The punchline was, “I Jewed him down”.<\/p>\n
I was dumbfounded… I couldn’t believe it!<\/p>\n
I didn’t know what to do… should I let it pass?<\/p>\n
If I say something will this dumb ass not book me anymore?<\/p>\n
F*ck it!<\/p>\n
I loudly booed him during the rest of his set!<\/p>\n
The other comics said, “Hey, it was only a joke”.<\/p>\n
I didn’t care…it was a bad joke and to be honest it wasn’t funny!<\/p>\n
It’s like when a “white” comic uses the ‘N-word”.<\/p>\n
Afterword I told the host how I felt and he realized he made a terrible error.. and he apologized.<\/p>\n
And this putz was a chemistry grad student at UCLA!<\/p>\n
Still, I lost my respect for the guy…<\/p>\n
BTW… he still books me for spots…<\/p>\n
kindest cheers,<\/p>\n
Jeff Laufer aka Barney Kugel<\/p>\n
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Subject: Re: Sam Bankman-Fried<\/p>\n
Bob,<\/p>\n
The canary in the coal mine signaling the beginning of our society revering people who happened to have a lot of money was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous\u00e2\u20ac\u009d years ago. And the fascination has yet to let up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Succession\u00e2\u20ac\u009d played to the same audience!<\/p>\n
Both shows and everything in between couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be less interesting. Perhaps Sam and Liz will be cell mates.<\/p>\n
David Epstein<\/p>\n
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From: Randy Thomas<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Fair Play<\/p>\n
I called my 100 year old mom living in Florida, \u00c2\u00a0who is always looking for something good on Netflix to watch. After your review I recommended it. Then I watched. Mom called to thank me for it yesterday. I asked her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you sure there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too much sex?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She replied \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh no! I love it!!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my mom the one and only Terry Thomas.<\/p>\n
Randy Thomas<\/p>\n
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From: Amy Mantis<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: The Wired Article<\/p>\n
Bob, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot lately about how I wish I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t studied music business at Berklee. Not because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn a lot – I did. But almost none of it is relevant anymore.<\/p>\n
If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to go to music school – or college in general, whatever your field is, study something rooted in first principles. Be it writing, music, art, science, math. You can use that knowledge forever even as the world turns upside down.<\/p>\n
Keep up the great work.<\/p>\n
Cheers,<\/p>\n
Amy<\/p>\n
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Subject: Re: More Israel<\/p>\n
The “Ambassador” from “The Transcendence Embassy” says that Iran has the second largest population of Jews after Israel?\u00c2\u00a0 I looked it up. They do have a small Jewish population that has been getting smaller every year. Has this guy ever heard of the United States?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1351079\/jewish-pop-by-country\/<\/p>\n Not even close.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Toby Mamis<\/p>\n ALIVE ENTERPRISES<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Joan Baez Movie<\/p>\n Bob<\/p>\n Kenny Greenberg and I produced two records on Joan, and I became close friends with her in the process. She lived at my home for many months. One Tennessee summer night I heard bells jingling and I looked out my window\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..and Joan was dancing alone in the moonlight with bells on her fingers.<\/p>\n She is definitely a star, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely a vulnerable, beautiful, special spirit. The world is a much better place with her in it.<\/p>\n Wally Wilson<\/p>\n Nashville<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: James E. Anderson III<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Joan Baez Movie<\/p>\n I was the marketing guy at the Universal Amphitheatre for three years back in the 80s. We did a crazy number of shows back then, and I often worked 12 hour plus days. It was a grind, but I refer to it as my music business grad school days. \u00c2\u00a0I worked with, and was mentored by, Larry Vallon and Jay Marciano, but I digress.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On many of those long days and nights I would dine alfresco with the crews during load-in from a makeshift buffet set up behind the theatre. Everyone ate at large communal tables. The acts never ate with the crew. Never. Except that one time, when Joan Baez sat next to me at a table populated primarily by stage hands and roadies. I remember it clearly as the unassuming act of someone who did not place herself above the hoi polloi, who was there to work, and who probably really did dream of Joe Hill. She was warm, funny, engaging, and the spinach between her teeth when she smiled sealed the deal, endearing her to me forever. She was real. She was one of us.<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Bill Berger<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Joan Baez Movie<\/p>\n You had to have been there to feel her impact. I bought the first Vanguard album and became\u00c2\u00a0hooked. \u00c2\u00a0Borrowed money from my parents and bought a Goya guitar and the accompanying songbook and for hours\u00c2\u00a0in my bedroom practicing.<\/p>\n Went to Ole Miss my\u00c2\u00a0Freshman year and that was a stone’s throw from Montgomery, Greenville, Selma.<\/p>\n Went to the marches\/boycotts and Joan was always in the forefront. \u00c2\u00a0Just being with MLK in Washington cements her place in the history of Civil Rights.<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Elliott Murphy<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Joan Baez Movie<\/p>\n Hi Bob,<\/p>\n This year 2023 marks my \u00e2\u20ac\u015350 years on the road\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anniversary. And in that time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve opened for countless headliners: Kinks, Starship, ELO, Hall and Oates, Supertramp, Buddy Guy, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, New York Dolls, Aerosmith, Meatloaf, Phoebe Snow, Billy Joel, Melissa Manchester, Tom Waits, Toto, Bob Dylan and so many others \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 great artists all and always an honor for me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But a few years back when I opened for Joan Baez in Vichy, France, after soundcheck I ran into her backstage and introduced myself. We sat down and talked for quite a while; Joan asked questions, told me about her son who was playing percussion, asked why I moved to France, got to know me, her opening act. In 50 years that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only time that ever happened. As the French say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153La classe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Joan has got it in spades.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From Paris<\/p>\n Elliott Murphy<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: coral sea<\/p>\n Subject: State of Independence – Jon Anderson & Todmobile – Live<\/p>\n Knocks spots off all the other versions Bob<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anderson + Todmobile + orchestra + choir in Iceland, 2013<\/p>\n https:\/\/vid.puffyan.us\/watch?v=80sL3gfNz1Y<\/p>\n rgds<\/p>\n LC<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Fall Freshman Year Playlist<\/p>\n Firesign Theater needs way more recognition. When I worked for Dan Fogelbeg he and I would toss FT lines and melodies back and forth all day.<\/p>\n Great times.<\/p>\n Mark Hogue<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Alan Pell<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Electric Cars<\/p>\n Vinyl is to the record industry what the classic car market is to the auto industry.<\/p>\n You love your 57 Bel Air, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not your daily drive\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..<\/p>\n Vinyl in the house, streaming on the move.( and only then when everyones out and you can chill out and relax!)<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Kevin Cronin<\/p>\n Subject: Re: The Dirty Knobs At The Bellwether<\/p>\n Hey Bob,<\/p>\n Not many guitarists can get me out of my pajamas and into LA. But to see and hear Mike Campbell, I would totally throw on some jeans and and my vintage Heartbreakers tour t-shirt from a gig in Dortmund, Germany, circa 1985, and make the drive. And crank up Damn the Torpedoes all the way in! Hey, REO throws in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen to her Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as our final encore when the spirit moves us; I love singing that tune.<\/p>\n Anyway, my 24 year old twin sons Josh and Shane are talented young artists, (I should be so lucky to sing and play as well as Shane, or be as soulful and intuitive as Josh). And their songs are well-written, unique, and relatable. I pass along your posts about the importance of authenticity and delivering a real live performance to my sons. They hear a similar message from me any time the subject comes up, but hearing it from you, in your inimitable way likely makes a deeper dent. And the truth is, they get it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yeah, they are a young band, but they have old souls when it comes to music. Authenticity has been their watch-word since they swapped their Nike Mambas for Beatle boots after their sophomore season as stars of the Westlake High School basketball team. (That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when they realized that you can impress the girls as much with a guitar as with a crossover dribble or a no-look pass.) And they have never looked back. The guys are part of a musical community that stretches from Thousand Oaks, to the USC Pop Music program, into Echo Park, and beyond. All dedicated young musicians and songwriters, practicing in garages, making demos in their bedrooms, honing their crafts, actually playing their instruments! Yeah, they record digitally and use plug-ins, but their mentality is analog all the way, and their music is a breath of fresh air. It is inspirational. It is lean, sometimes mean, and other times sweet. And always soulful.<\/p>\n I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to tell you that it is a different world for young musicians today. But from what I see and hear, many of these up-and-comers share the basic values which guys like you, me, and Mike Campbell hold dear. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our job to pass along these values in support of this new generation of artists who have more in common with the Beatles than Bad Bunny. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 kc<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Brian Alvey<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Rob Price-This Week’s Podcast<\/p>\n Great interview with Rob Price.\u00c2\u00a0I’m glad he mentioned Earasers for hearing protection, too. Excellent product.<\/p>\n When we moved our family from NY to CA eight years ago, our\u00c2\u00a0kids didn’t know anyone or play any sports. A new School of Rock was opening near us in San Ramon, so we enrolled all three kids. Today, my oldest is a junior\u00c2\u00a0in college in Nashville studying music technology at Belmont. He sings, plays keyboards\/guitar\/drums\u00c2\u00a0and recreates songs like ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” on his laptop. He wants to be the next Butch Walker. My daughter sang and played keyboards in 17 School of Rock shows, got into doing local musicals and now plans to work on Broadway. She wants to be the next Sara Bareilles.<\/p>\n How cool is that?<\/p>\n We owe a lot to School of Rock. Their teaching method with solo lessons and group rehearsals every week leading up to a big concert performance every few months works really well. Even during the pandemic, the Zoom lessons worked great and it was a social lifeline for our\u00c2\u00a0kids. The only downside is that some song that we’ve heard hundreds of times\u00c2\u00a0will come on in the car and one of our kids will say, “Don’t change the\u00c2\u00a0channel, I played bass on this song!”<\/p>\n Brian Alvey<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Jared Polin<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Taylor Lorenz’s Book<\/p>\n Took your advice and bought the book.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I live the life you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re describing. \u00c2\u00a0I started in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153social media\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before social media was even a term. \u00c2\u00a0I ended up on the road with Perry Farrell in 2007 with a digital camera and a video camera\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6dslrs didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do both yet. \u00c2\u00a0Perry hired my friend and I to help him get more MySpace spins. \u00c2\u00a0We were able to take him from 300 to 3000 spins in a matter of days by simply posting fresh content every day. \u00c2\u00a0Perry is a visionary and always seems to be ahead of the curve. He gave me all access to capture and share whatever I wanted. \u00c2\u00a0Everything from the tour bus to backstage where I often found he and his wife cuddling and rolling around on the floor. \u00c2\u00a0He let me capture everything.<\/p>\n After that tour I attempted to find other bands who wanted and needed content creation. \u00c2\u00a0I latched on with a local band who had five members. \u00c2\u00a0I told them they each get a day of the week to post content. \u00c2\u00a0One was into\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Movies, so they would do a movie review. Another food, another photography, so on and so forth. \u00c2\u00a0But they never kept up with it, they never did what I thought they should to let their audience in.<\/p>\n So after struggling with a social media business that was a little too early, I said f*ck it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to do this myself. \u00c2\u00a0I launched FroKnowsPhoto on YouTube on June 1st 2010, with the goal of sharing my photography online with the hopes I end up getting more jobs. \u00c2\u00a0The jobs didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen, but what did happen is people stated asking photography questions. So every question and comment that came in I decided to make a video about it and share it with the world. Because if one person had that question, then 100 more had it as well and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how I started growing my YouTube.<\/p>\n Here I am almost 14 years later with two full-time employees, a couple of properties, and millions of followers globally that I can reach with oppressive a button.<\/p>\n To me the key to success online is consistent quality content that you continue to evolve and grow. You can skip the gatekeepers because you beat down the door and found your way, and no longer need them because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the ones who really matter and hold all the power.<\/p>\n Jared Polin\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n www.jaredpolin.com<\/p>\n www.froknowsphoto.com<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Alan Childs<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Harold Bronson’s Book<\/p>\n Hey Bob ,<\/p>\n What a crazy coincidence.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the car tonight on the way to an Indian restaurant in San Jose with John Waite & Tim Hogan\u00c2\u00a0( we have a gig up in the winery in Saratoga tomorrow night with Pat Benatar) we were talking about Hendrix at the Atlanta Pop Festival. There is also a documentary by Alex Cooley ; Time Has Come Today . I believe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the Atlanta Pop Festival. \u00c2\u00a0So 20 mins ago I Googled Alex and the pop festival and one of the results sent me to Amazon where I did see Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book. Not able to find where to watch the doc, I decided to look at my emails. Time Has Come Today, Your email. Crazy.<\/p>\n Like you said , the music business is nothing like it was back in the day. A few of us musicians are still hangin onto the touring world. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been on tour for a majority of my adult life. \u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u009dm 70 , but the feeling you get when your road manager informs you you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on in 5 mins is the same feeling as in the mid 60\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when a lot of us were just starting. That would be excitement and wanting to play. \u00c2\u00a0What I find very different now at venues (backstage) is that most people are very nice & accommodating. A far cry from the intense coked out & crazed attitudes of the 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. Musicians yelling at techs( roadies) Drinking \u00c2\u00a0as well. Haha. Those days are gone. Another big difference is some of the audience enters the venue on walkers or wheelchairs. No Plaster Casters at our gigs. Haha.<\/p>\n The sunset years are upon us. For some of us still touring , it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll continue till the end. \u00c2\u00a0For now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business as usual. New Stones lp, McCartney going on tour again, U2 at the Sphere. Reading Noel Redding’s book at the moment ( Are You Experienced ) Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book is next. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Thanks Bob. \u00c2\u00a0Love your emails\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Peace & Love. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Alan Childs\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Gary Gold<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Now And Then<\/p>\n I was the original drummer on these three John Lennon songs.<\/p>\n A couple of years after John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, I got a call to do a session in New York with the brilliant keyboardist (and chromatic harp player) Gary Schreiner. His record was being produced by Rob Stevens, who at the time was mixing and organizing all of John’s stuff for Yoko. The session was unusual, to say the least. Yoko had some John piano\/vocal demos – and she wanted to build real tracks around those bare piano\/vocal recordings. There was some talk about there being a Broadway show in the works\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n So there I sat in Evergreen Studios, an upper west side studio in the basement of a residential building, listening to tapes no one had ever heard\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Just John at the piano… with Yoko there by my side.<\/p>\n I asked her if she knew what each song was about. We got into a talk about the approach of playing to the lyric of a song as opposed to the feel of the groove. What was most important for John was to say what he meant, she said.<\/p>\n I was blown away by how open and just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 honest, and beautiful Yoko was. Everything I had thought about her before was just wrong. She wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t some pretentious, entitled, shrieking witch who broke up the Beatles. She was ALL LOVE. Kind, thoughtful\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the real deal. It was easy to see why John had fallen for her.<\/p>\n I was a session player at the time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I could play anything. Giving the producers what they wanted was my gig. That year alone I recorded with Donald Fagen, Rick Danko, Michael Brecker, Phoebe Snow, Robben Ford, Ben E. King, and Al Kooper. I had Jazz chops and RnB chops. Funk, Rock, Wrecking Crew Pop, Latin \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you name it, I loved it and could play it<\/p>\n But these songs required one thing and one thing only.<\/p>\n Ringo.<\/p>\n No matter what I played to these tracks, what felt best was me doing my best Ringo imitation. I told Yoko this, and she was totally sympathetic. Again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 ALL LOVE!<\/p>\n So we recorded three songs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Real Love, Free As a Bird, and Now and Then. I have a bit of a musical photographic memory. Anything I have ever recorded, I can remember… both the songs and exactly what I played. I remember thinking then that all the songs were beautiful and was keenly aware that I was privileged, but I had no illusions. I was filling in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and making believe that those four guys were in a room making music. Making believe that the magic broke through – the way it did when that fortunate rhythm was struck by those four special blokes being in the same room in London years prior.<\/p>\n I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard this new version of Now and Then yet. Is it even a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153version\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Similarly, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen all the biopics that have been made of Johnny Cash, Bird, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, et al.. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really not interested in anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cinematic fiction of the music that is sacred to me. I think it was Martin Mull who said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like dancing about architecture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Years later, I told George about the session and that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d played on the John demos. He seemed more interested in our ukelele fun than talking about anything Beatles. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never asked Ringo if the version of the song he first heard had any drums on it but the thought of Ringo hearing a song of John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s with me on drums and then recutting the drums gives me chills. WOW!<\/p>\n As always, I love your words. Peace and love and thanks for all you do, Bob.<\/p>\n Gary Gold<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Now And Then<\/p>\n Every day of the week, somewhere on this planet a musical masterpiece the likes of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gimme Shelter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is being written and the world will never know about it because some twist of fate didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play out just right for that artist.<\/p>\n So when an established artist releases something new, I always ask myself if that track was released by an unknown with the same degree of marketing support applied, would that track move any needles?<\/p>\n In the case of The Rolling Stones \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Angry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and now The Beatles with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now And Then\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The tracks are fine and I completely understand and respect why diehard fans are loving them, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not kid ourselves, neither would stand alone without the legacy brands attached to them.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Chris Nissen<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Donny Kutzbach<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Declan McKenna At The Novo<\/p>\n Bob,<\/p>\n We did that Buffalo show you mention at Town Ballroom and it was a lot of young girls but I was also shocked at some of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old heads\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – dudes 20 years past the best date for those other fans – that I \u00c2\u00a0knew who were excited and came out to see Declan.<\/p>\n And for good reason: real music fans look beyond the age, the audience and the hype because they are looking for the songs.<\/p>\n I immediately saw\/heard T.Rex, Oasis and Arctic Monkeys in his fantastic set.<\/p>\n And my 20 year old daughter Izzy shamed me, reminding me she had been into Declan years before and first told me about him.<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Nate Dorough<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Declan McKenna At The Novo<\/p>\n Sold out a 200 cap room in Lansing, Michigan with Declan in 2018.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s built it organically, has always delivered a great live show.\u00c2\u00a0 The TikTok stuff just helps put it over the edge.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in that little dive bar 5 1\/2 years ago, the starpower was undeniable.<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: Jason Orr<\/p>\n Subject: Re: Declan McKenna At The Novo<\/p>\n Listening to brazil I feel like I just got transported back to the mid to late aughts when vampire weekend, and phoenix, death cab, and the shins, and two door cinema ruled the rock scene. \u00c2\u00a0Best thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard in rock since then. \u00c2\u00a0Thanks for sharing.<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n From: coral sea<\/p>\n Subject: Declan Mckenna – infectious is the word you were looking for<\/p>\n I’m same age as you Bob – normally I don’t care for any of your recent recommendations – never heard ths guy\/band\u00c2\u00a0before, but nevertheless\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I checked out youtube.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not difficult to see his appeal – he really connects \u00c2\u00a0– touch zany, pleasantly messy, somewhat scattergun – anything but journeyman.<\/p>\n Refreshing in this era. Yes, is reminiscent of late ’70s but is firmly now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The drummer is also a livewire. Great to see.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Check out when Declan jumps into the crowd here. (3min 20sec onward)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n