[kj] New Moder Army and KJ

[Alexander Smith]

I actually have the Rubicon debut. Wasn't bad - certainly wasn't the  
Nephs, but it wasn't bad. Their lead dude was kinda like a goth Eddie  
Vedder (and all that that entails). That said, "Hard for You" was a  
decent song.

Alex in NYC


On Sep 19, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Michael Garcia wrote:


> My old band got to open a show for NMA during their 1991 tour. After  

> the gig we partied all night with them and heard some very cool  

> stories. They were telling us they practiced down the hall from the  

> neph guys after Carl went his own way. They were called Rubicon at  

> the time (great music, shit singer) and they were in awe of the  

> musicianship of the neph guys. They told us how they sat outside  

> their door and just listened to them jamming. He said the stuff they  

> jammed out was some of the moat amazing stuff they've ever heard.

>

> Those guys in NMA were the most down to earth people we've ever  

> played with. No attitude whatsoever and they gladly shared their  

> drink rider with us until every last drop was gone. Justin  

> remembered me ten years later when they started doing more us shows.  

> Amazing bunch of guys. Anyways, that's my story for the night. Back  

> to my cave

>

> Michael

>

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>

> On Sep 19, 2010, at 4:21 PM, bongo <humanhybrid666 at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> fuckin cool!  yr a lucky man...   =)

>>

>>

>>

>> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been  

>> postponed indefinitely..."

>>

>>

>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:21 AM, n0153 jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com>  

>> wrote:

>> This weekend I went to a couple of New Model Army concerts and,  

>> yesterday got to meed the guys and go out for a drink with them. As  

>> I was wearing a Wardance KJ shirt, obviously the talk gravitated  

>> towards them eventually. We rode my car from the venue to this very  

>> shitty bar and I played Justin the new KJ album and he was  

>> overwhelmed by how good it was and he said at one point: "we were  

>> meant to play together a handful of times, but they are very  

>> difficult people. I mean, they are all great guys, but their  

>> management is fucked up, they book dates and they simply cancel  

>> them when it draws near". other than that, he really liked Absolute  

>> Dissent.

>> At one point I commented about album sales and how ridiculously  

>> HFTBOH have performed and he was rather impressed and said that his  

>> albums sometimes sells just that, 20, 30, luckily, 40 thousand  

>> copies too and that after mp3 it really took a nose dive but that  

>> he did not care about that, that that's just the way it is now and  

>> that's ok, at least more people are getting to know the band.

>> This feeling towards KJ was shared even by their light guy. All of  

>> the guys complimented me on the shirt and added that information  

>> about being impossible to play with them because they will always  

>> cancel on you. What's startling was the fact that nobody knew that  

>> a new KJ album is about to be released tomorrow and when I talked  

>> about the new album they thought I was on about Hosannas.

>> See, we, the fans, are not the only one bothered by KJ's frequent  

>> canceling shows!

>>

>> That said, yesterday was a memorable night for me as a New Model  

>> Army fan! :)

>>

>>

>>

>> cheerio

>>

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