THE STANDELLS PLAY THE MAGIC BAG ON MAY 11th

April 23, 2014 (Brooklyn, NY)  

The Standells are excited to announce the kick-off of their much-anticipated Tour spanning 18 cities across    The United States.  The band, best known for their 1966 hit “Dirty Water” and remembered by many as The Godfathers of Punk Rock, recently released their newest album BUMP. The Standells released a string of snotty, aggressive garage singles in the mid to late 1960s, which are now rightly regarded as proto-punk classics. Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White, Why Pick On Me, Riot On Sunset Strip the songs of The Standells have been covered by everyone from Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith and U2 to Spacemen 3, Minor Threat and a million 77 punk bands as well as many subsequent scene bands.

The group was formed in 1962 by keyboardist and lead vocalist Larry Tamblyn. Larry created the name from "Standing" around booking agencies trying to get work. Today, the Standells consist of original members Larry Tamblyn (lead singer & keyboardist), John Fleck (bassist), Mark Adrian (guitarist & co-lead vocalist), and veteran drummer Greg Burnham.

Their first hit single on Tower Records "Dirty Water" reached #11 on the Billboard charts, #8 in Cashbox, and #1 in Record World. Other chart records include "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White", "Why Pick On Me," and "Riot On Sunset Strip.” which is featured as the kick-off song in the new Rhino Records boxed CD set Where the Action Is.

Dirty Water is listed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped Rock & Roll. A biography titled Love that Dirty Water The Standells and the Improbable Red Sox Victory Anthem is currently available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Target and in other retail outlets.

http://www.standells-official.com

https://play.spotify.com/artist/4BM6qze88exQPVILQpcYpj

TOUR DATES
4/27   Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC                                                    
4/28   Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC                   
4/29   Black Cat, Washington, DC                                            
4/30   BB Kings, New York, NY                    
5/2    Open Arts Stage, Bordentown, NJ       
5/3    The Brighton Bar, Long Branch, NJ      
5/4    Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
5/5    Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA
5/6    Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT
5/7    The Brickhouse   Dover,NH
5/8    Lovin' Cup, Rochester, NY
5/10  Beachland Tavern, Cleveland, OH
5/11  The Magic Bag, Detroit, MI               
5/13  Mayne Stage, Chicago, IL      
5/14  Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI    
5/16  Knickerbockers, Lincoln NB  
5/18  Herman’s Hideaway, Denver, CO
5/21  Cheyenne Saloon, Las Vegas, NV

DETROIT MUSIC AWARDS: OUTSTANDING NATIONAL SINGLE NOMINEES

 

Pistol Day Parade "Not Today"

Eminem "The Rap God"

Sponge "Come in From The Rain"

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. 

"If You Didn't See Me 

(Then You Weren't on the Dancefloor)"

Marshall Crenshaw, "I Don't See You Laughing Now"

Ron Isley "My Favorite Thing" Featuring KEM 

FUNKY D RECORDS STAGE: SEE BEE IN ACTION MAY 3RD!

ELIZA NEALS UNOFFICIAL PRE-DMA PARTY THIS THURSDAY!

Unofficial PRE-DMA @NewWayBar 4/24 9pm featuring Gabe Gonzalez on Drums -  Duminie DePorres on Guitar - John Abraham on Bass - Chris Kaercher on Harp/Sax - Gary Indiana on guitar and Eliza Neals on Powerhouse vocals and piano!

@NewWayBar

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23RD DETROIT MUSIC AWARDS THIS FRIDAY!

MARSHALL CRENSHAW  PURCHASE TICKETS
The Fillmore Detroit   Venue
4/25/14 Door: 6:00 PM | Show: 7:00 PM
2115 Woodward MAP
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 961-5451

General Admission tickets are $20 and are available to the public.  Tickets are on sale for general admission! LiveNation.com

WAYNE KRAMER NEW LP LEXINGTON: JOSH DAUNT WJRT

 

Our pal, Josh Daunt of WJRT Channel 12 sent this in today and it is so good we had to share...

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) -

(04/18/14) - "Never had more fun, it was a complete ball," guitarist Wayne Kramer says with a smile as he reflects on the studio experience of recording his new free jazz album Lexington, which is being released on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 19th.

"It all came together really easily and really naturally. This is not the kind of music that I want to tell people what to play. I just kinda want to give them a sketch, an outline and then let them play it how they feel it. This is feeling music, it's natural feeling music."

ABC 12 – WJRT – Flint, MI

While the legendary guitarist from Detroit band MC5 may have set aside his rock n roll past for this project, he certainly kept his roots close to home when choosing the musicians he worked with. Some of the Detroit musicians Kramer brought in for Lexington include former Motown session trombonist Phil Ranelin, multi-instrumentalist Ralph "Buzzy" Jones, percussionist Brock Avery and bassist Bob Hurst. But his primary support came from an old friend, Dr. Charles Moore, whom Wayne has worked with for decades, since Moore arranged the horn parts on the 1971 MC5 album High Time.

"We've been playing together for a long, long, long time. And it turns out that here we all are living in southern California. Dr. Moore had been out here since the late '70s, and there was a few other great Detroit musicians out here. It was just a natural fit."

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE

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A NIGHT AT BOOKIES CLUB 870

 GLO

Bookies was a gay club as far back as my dad could remember. The neighborhood had really gotten bad. Around the corner was a disco. DJs and discos were everywhere and clubs didn't want to book live bands. Bookies was one-of-a-kind club, it was the only club that had live punk. The neighborhood was rough so we parked between the two bars in the security lot.

 

The parking lot had half as many people partying as the club. The line was always out the door. The wait was long but entertaining because the crowd outside was as interesting as the bands on stage. Black leather was the common denominator among the club goers, more than the bleached hair, torn jeans, high tops, fishnets, leather pants, pointy toed boots.

Through the doors of bookies it was a big Native American bouncer was rumored to carry a gun. They collected money at the door and checked IDs. Inside the club was very dark but you could see it once had been nice.

  Whipping Boy Wash. DC

The high black diamond talk cushioned booths were the only place where doing lines was publicly ignored in Detroit. I long bar I'm one wall, the bartenders where from the day shift gay bar. The music they played before the show was always so new. 

 LIVE FROM DETROIT PHOTO

Bookies with the first place you'd ever hear anything. I heard the cars there before they got airplay. Bauhaus, 999, The Police, Susie and the Banshees. I loved to dance before the show.

 
In the basement was the restrooms. They were brightly lit long bathrooms with little dressing stations. That's where I would pierce peoples ears with safety pins. You could listen to the bands through the floor, the stacks of blank the stage rumbled all the way down to the basement.

Upstairs in front of the stage it was loud between the stacks. It felt intimate. It felt as if Johnny thunders was standing there singing to me in my living room with 100 other people crushed against me. sweat and leather.

GLO