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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: sko_ford on November 30, 2005 9:54 pm
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a buddy of mine sent this to me and i thought some of you may be interested
Big John Bates
Battle at Sea
Echo
$5 VFW
Friday December 2nd
THE STORY: it might be only rock’n'roll - infused with blues and
powered by a punkabilly beat - but both BJB CDs - Flamethrower (2001)
and Mystiki (2003) - are into multiple pressings around the world.
Mystiki cruised the top 50 college charts for six consecutive weeks,
lead by the swinging toms of “Bad Girls Go to Hell� and the title track
“Mystiki�. Its jazzy embers burn for the torchy “Take it Off� and
scorch during a killer version of “Tainted Love�. It’s all part of what
has brought the crowd re-discovering the primitive, raw sounds of
rock’n'roll to party with Big John Bates.
You can identify people into Bates’ style with one phrase - cutting
edge. Greasers into blues, punks into the 50’s and rockers that like to
cross genres with a kickass band. They draw heavily from college-age
crowds but have fans of all ages. This has helped lead Gretsch guitars
to give Big John top honours, their New Artist Spotlight in 2005 at
www.gretschguitars.com and Jagermeister has also become a sponsor of
BJB.
Big John Bates & the Voodoo Dollz’ live show has become a rock’n'roll
event in the group’s many circuits. Not content to simply pump out raw
rock’in tunes, they created their own burlesque troope, the Voodoo
Dollz, in 2001. Choreographed to John’s pulp fiction-style lyrics,
their neo-burlesque show has helped bring BJB attention everywhere from
coffee table books such as Burlesque - The New Bump and Grind (2004)
from Speck Press in the USA to a sordid write-up in L.A.’s
fetish-oriented Nugget magazine (2003) and even a cover mention and
story in the UK’s Bizarre magazine (2005).
J.Earl Miller
Jesco Productions
Photographer/Promoter
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Hmmm....in town here? Times?
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Tim,
I'm not sure where you and the boys are in relation to Minneapolis and
Fargo, but we played with a band last night that are great and will be
in Minneapolis tonight and Fargo on Friday. Big John Bates & the
Voodoo Dollz... psychobilly with burlesque dancers.
Http://www.bigjohnbates.com
http://www.voodoodollz.com
If you go, tell them the Hot Rod Hucksters say Hi!
Joe
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Website show they are at the Great Northern Brewing Company
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Hmmm....anyone interseted in going?
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shucks, I wish I could go to that, but I suppose they wouldnt let me in
1 year and 4 days short of 21
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Holy shit Briggs, your just a whiper-er-snaper. I got Rod Run t-shirts older than you. :wink:
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heck tom, im sure you got shirts older than Me too.
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Haha...yeah, ya kinda openned yourself up on that one.
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So, since the Great Northern is closed (isn't it?) which VFW is it going to be at, or where exactly is it going to be?
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Haha...yeah, ya kinda openned yourself up on that one.
No problem, I've been your guys whipping post before. Besides it makes for a good laugh, and we can all use more of those.
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So, whos going?
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I called both VFW's and are not playing there.
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Guess we missed it anyway? Sko, did you ever hear more about it?
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no i didnt here any thing