Here’s on what’s on the show tonight:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
Five Bottles Mambo | Yma Sumac | Mambo! | Uncovered Gem of the Week |
The Miserlou | Pete Seeger | The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963 | Michalis Patrinos |
Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard | Jesse Malin | On Your Sleeve | Paul Simon |
Jealous Guy | Donny Hathaway | Donny Hathaway Live | John Lennon |
Wonderwall | Paulson | Calling On You EP | Oasis |
Soul Meets Body | Catie Curtis | Sweet Life | Death Cab For Cutie |
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Brian,
The show was fun – good work putting together and enjoyable event.
-Hunter / RateVegas.com/blog/
Well said, sir. Again, wish I could have made the show.
Brian,
Wow, I didn't realize all the drama you'd been dealing with all week. Gotta love the internets…
I didn't record any audio or video of Richard Cheese, but your post doesn't mention still photos. I assume those are ok? I haven't gotten around to doing any sorting or post-processing of mine yet, but I know I do have photos of Mr. Cheese.
I didn't see the camera incident either, but based on the rest of his performance I would have probably assumed he was just acting 'in character.'
I hope the drama dies down for you soon, because you really do deserve to just bask in the knowledge that you put together a really awesome event with lots of great performers. And you did it all while wearing a damn fine jacket!
~Sharon
Congratulations on the event… thoroughly enjoyed every act!
Brian,
I am sorry to have missed the show. I cannot wait to hear the posting of Coverville 500. The incident you have so eloquently described in your post is something I have had to deal with. I think that you have dealt with the situation as best you can. I now have a policy of never doing business with any musician or band who will not allow me or an entity I represent to record and use their performance. In short I find Mr. Cheese's contract cheesy. He has lost me as a fan.
D
Yes sir, that was a damn fine jacket! And a damn fine show!
Kick ass event and a damn cool jacket to boot.
I will say that I only stayed for the first song of Richard Cheese. After his actions and attitude I realize it was time to leave. The rest of the performers were amazing and congrats on pulling off such an amazing and top notch event. I know how much time, energy and money went into make it happen and you should be proud because it was in my opinion the best part of the whole NME. But, then again I'm a music nut 🙂
Ouch- bet you have a a lot more empathy with Bill Graham, Don Kirschner and Artie Fufkin right about now!
Glad to hear it was a success otherwise.
I would have loved to have been at the show, not really practical for me though being in the U.K. I am sorry you have a small cloud over the event, do not let that ruin the event, you obviously did a wonderful job and you have handled the situation in a very professional way.
Brian, It's a pity this drama has spoiled what should have been for you a great celebration of 500 episodes. Hopefully the smoke will soon be behind you. Keep up the good work.
Aurelius in Canberra, AU
That was a heck of a fine jacket. I made sure to post my photo of that jacket http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpende/2772671981/ in my feed.
I said there, and I'll say here. The Bourquins owe you a huge thank you. You got together a great group of musicians (and there were people who stayed to watch the whole Richard Cheese show, so there was something for everybody) a wicked cool MC, in his own damned fine hat, and a very good venue. You gave us all a place to get together. You gave us that social event that was missing from NME this year.
I was joking with Tina that I'm looking forward to what you're doing for next year. Well, not entirely joking.
Oh, and by the way. How totally cool is it that you've put together 500 shows devoted to Cover Music?! I stand in awe at your creative output, sir.
Having been at stageside for the Cheese set, I gotta say I enjoyed ALL the acts but Cheese had a certain nasty quality that was a kind of tonic to the rest of the show's blissful niceness. I mean, even Chance and the Choir was pretty clean cut.
I suspect the problem is that people are confusing the Cheese persona, which is an extension of the Frank Sinatra brashness, with the real guy. And of course, snatching the camera phone was a little beyond the pale. But as a Cheesehead, I'm sorry more people didn't see it as funny. Come on people, get down with the sickness!
Brian, let me add to the others here in thanking you for a heck of a show. It can't have been easy and none of us will blame you if you take the rest of the week off. You might want to book a massage and aromatherapy while you're at.
I think it's a matter of common courtesy (more important and lasting than law) that if a performer doesn't wish to be recorded than people shouldn't record them! People who think otherwise should have money deducted from their paychecks for random reasons at random times!
I find it a bit rich that a nobody has enough self-importance to even make such demands. Well, like they say in the classics, any publicity is good publicity, and whoever this Richard Cheese is seems to be doing his part in getting the publicity machine rolling. I can confidently state he'll remain an underground oddity in everywhere other than his own backyard.
On a positive note – this discussion brought the Coverville 500 DVD collection to my attention. Whoo hoo!!! Now I can stop trying to sort out my own podcast collection and just roll with Brian's.