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Post by ihaveaflamegun on Feb 26, 2007 19:56:26 GMT -5
we get inside at around 8:05 and the place is dead. we wait literally 3 and a half hours for the first band to play, which was HORRIBLE. BARR finally gets on stage at 12 and plays like 5 songs. then I check the new bassist's myspace and he made this post: "Last night we played a pretty dead show but still got paid well, which I suppose is one of the benefits to having a booking agent." LAME. i didnt wait 5 hours to see BARR play a 5 song setlist with no enthusiasm. that Is really lame. |
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Post by downtheliffey on Feb 26, 2007 20:24:52 GMT -5
i own the this album--and the official artist is entered as 'The Barr's'
wtf 5rc???
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Post by kitchencabinet on Feb 26, 2007 23:53:23 GMT -5
You should ask Brendan what he thinks about Mickey Avalon in your interview. It seems disheartening that RVCA is promoting this misogynistic materialist shit alongside BARR whose image/worldview seems to be completely different.
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Post by ihaveaflamegun on Feb 28, 2007 10:57:30 GMT -5
hopefully tonight goes better, let you guys know cute anecdotes? compromising pictures? |
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Post by Animals! So Weird on Mar 1, 2007 23:06:04 GMT -5
I hereby publicly revoke my BARR-bash.
They are cutie pies.
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Post by thisshitisoranges on Mar 1, 2007 23:20:42 GMT -5
the austin show fared much better than how jaycub described the houston show (even if he revoked the bashing) but the bassist is a lil silly and brendan's vocals are slightly lost in the mix, but still its brenden so its great.
Interview +(depending on how busy iam) live review on UP coming up soon, keep you guys updated
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Post by emilyrose on Mar 2, 2007 15:13:01 GMT -5
i can't express how much i love this album. i've listened to "half of two times two" about thirty times this morning. brendan's honesty and character is amazing and beautiful. he's playing here on thursday and then in seattle on friday and i'm probably going to both shows.
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Post by Animals! So Weird on Mar 3, 2007 5:40:25 GMT -5
after finally getting the chance to listen to summary a few times (bought the vinyl) i can safely say that i am amazed! it's well put-together and very thought provoking.
A+!
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Post by emilyrose on Mar 3, 2007 12:43:01 GMT -5
after finally getting the chance to listen to summary a few times (bought the vinyl) i can safely say that i am amazed! it's well put-together and very thought provoking. A+! where'd you buy the vinyl? i was trying to find it online but i got confused and gave up! |
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Post by Animals! So Weird on Mar 3, 2007 21:55:30 GMT -5
i picked it up at the show!
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Post by emilyrose on Mar 8, 2007 12:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by kitchencabinet on Mar 9, 2007 3:24:07 GMT -5
I think they accidentally typed a period between the 5 and the 1, because where does the accuracy figure in when you grade records within 10ths of a point?
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Post by lester on Mar 19, 2007 15:14:53 GMT -5
media.www.thenorthernlight.org/media/storage/paper960/news/2007/02/13/MusicReviews/Barrs.Cubist.Pop.In.summary.Blows.The.Mind-2713994.shtmlCubist pop blows everyone’s minds Lester Smiley BARR – Summary 5/5 “I called this number three (insert interminable, sweaty pause here) times already,” droned Jonathan Richman 31 years ago on the first album he recorded with his band The Modern Lovers. “I’m Straight” was his talk-singing declaration of drug-free romance, which cut through the snarky, Teflon-ironic façade of late seventies punk music with its startlingly unguarded, conversational delivery. Brendan Fowler, nucleus of the band BARR, has become a modern analogue for Richman while also achieving something greater on the second full length release under that moniker, “Summary.” Richman may have been among the first to break down punk’s fourth wall, but hyper-reactive members of the vanguard such as Fowler are currently prancing around in that newly unobstructed space with a vigor which threatens to make all art obsolete. While Richman’s most effective moments involved repeating one sided conversations, be they confessionals, call-outs, or declarations of faith in rock and roll, Fowler tackles the same subject matter with a different lyrical approach; one that obscures his similarity to his predecessors due to the fact that its frankly a genius-level revolutionary leap forward. Like a cubist painter attempts to capture different visual perspectives in one image, Fowler uses his scattershot verbiage to portray infinite perspectives on any given interpersonal moment or tortured mental pirouette. From syllable to syllable, he uses intonation and language itself to capture every aspect of a moment or thought, a device that at masquerades as schizophrenic and or otherwise ecstatically deranged rapping, but when really picked apart, reveals a profundity of expression heretofore never touched by the pop song. In Fowler’s pop, the refraction of light off the surface of a mental break down can exist side by side with the contour of a cell phone texting messages of despair. For a taste, let us look at the song which looks at itself, the first single from “Summary,” “This Song Is The Single.” Perhaps BARR’s most complete and accessible moment to date, applies Fowler’s effortlessly flowing linguistic paint strokes to a picture of the form itself. After doing little more than reciting the titular refrain, Fowler wastes little time getting into it with just coming out and saying: “What is a song? A pop song?” What follows is a brief surface level laundry list of intellectual concerns about cover art and the appropriate length of a pop song, before the academic gives way to the primordial, spurting here and there concepts central to the idea of the pop song. “The air here dries out my skin but I still have a feeling/I am still filled with feeling/I just want to hold someone/I just want to hold someone…” Cubism in painting seeks to place subjects in greater context by doing the same thing with pigment on paper. Constantly shifting perspective, voice, character, spirit, getting every single last drop of enlightenment and expression from the chosen subject is what Fowler aims for, and in doing so, certain universal truths can be wrung from even the most mundane subjects. “Summary” may be BARR and Fowler’s most perfect and groundbreaking attempt at using pop music as the medium for cubist expression.
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Post by kevin on Mar 25, 2007 19:02:08 GMT -5
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Post by kitchencabinet on Mar 25, 2007 22:01:13 GMT -5
Whoaaaa awesome! That looks like so much fun! Did high places play that show? Do you have video of that???
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