And another domino of fatherhood falls this Saturday as the tribes split up for a nite of “punk” rawk. Princess Nomad is off to the Bamboozle Roadshow (the alt/emo/newpunk festival). She will be our intrepid correspondent as she will report on the bands. Your humble tour guide will be in another county, catching the NEW BOMB TURKS!
A MOMENTOUS EVENING FOR SURE.
The princess has been to 20 or so shows in her time ranging from the N Syncs and Britneys and Demi Lovatos. And responsible father I am, I have escorted her to a few punk fests (a couple of WarpedTours come to mind). But, despite her abandoning me last year for her friends and leaving her loving Daddy plus his buddy forlorn in the beer tent (OK, we weren’t forlorn, we were actually pretty happy to be be drinking icy cold beer on a 100 degree day), she has never been without a grown-up somewhere in the surroundings. My 16 year old daughter… adrift amongst the Hot Topic masses. Woe is me.
Daddy-O will be far more irresponsible than my little cupcake; as the New Bomb Turks will FUCK YOU UP, even without John Barleycorn. Of course, the demon stuff never hurts! Christ, the Turks are just plain nasty. It's that middle America white trash roch n roll that has a direct line from The Trashmen through The Stooges through The Dead Boys through The Replacements. One leaves their shows and needs to peel a layer of skin off. Musical hydrochloric acid. Fuckin A! Your ears hurt, your eyes bleed, and your bones crumble.
Or something.
So, it’s a line-up of bands for the under 21’s like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Forever The Sickest Kids and Boys Like Girls… versus... the New Bomb Turks, Live Fast Die, and The Ex-Whites.
No contest!
ps... I love this version of Joy Division's "The Drawback"
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Sounds like Princess and Daddy will be having away better time than me on Saturday-- Also, would you consider adding my blog to your blog roll?
http://rinjoeconoblog.blogspot.com/
Also check out the Cloudcast I do weekly on the blog or @
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Take it easy
of course- folks- rinjo's site is highly recommended!
Thanks.. for those who need the portable option on the pod/cloudcast you can also find me on iTunes. Now I have to track down Mr. Wizard's 400 Experiments in Science
Love the New Bomb Turks - I saw them a few times in columbus at Stache's (most awesome music venue no longer in existence). It's funny you mention The Stooges - I recently started listening to Raw Power, the influence on Eric's singing is hard to miss. Love the blog by the way. Keep it up.
I'm a couple years behind you with my 14YO son. I took him and his friend to "The Big Four" (thrash metal movie) this week, and they were talking about wanting to go to their first Warped Tour this summer. Don't know about that, but I'm sure I'd rather see the New Bomb Turks. "Id Slips In"!!!
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