Wow. The REAL "Life of Brian".... LOL
And some of them have far too much time on their hands.
To wit:
http://www.gainesvillebands.com/foru...TID=30764&PN=1
Now, I know no one will believe me, but I had nothing to do with the above thread. It's on the local website gainesvillebands.com, part of a forum there started by another survivor of the Gainesville Rock Wars, an old acquaintance of mine who goes by "Danarachy."
Anyhow, Dan, who was the bouncer/doorman at our own local version of CBGB's, called the Hardback Cafe (RIP, 1990-2000), has taken it upon himself to document the history of the "Gainesville scene." The above thread is one of 2 semi-biographical ones he's done on a couple of us Gainesville old-timers still making music locally.
He's got a sort of stream-of-(semi)consciousness style that I can't help but find humorous.
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Wow. The REAL "Life of Brian".... LOL
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ok....while i was reading the brian link the song "cops and punks" by crashpad came on....mind you i am shuffling over 1800 songs through itunes....crazy....
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Thats awesome!! haha for the high school yearbook a bunch of girls I hardly knew who were in yearbook class made like a two page story on me and had a bunch of pictures I dont remember anyone taking. It was actually pretty cool though haha
to quote Pes
a w e s o m e !
“Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.” Stevie Ray Vaughan
WOW! After reading this I am still lacking the words to write a good comment here. Brian you are a jack-of-all-trades and all the forums I surf and read there's no forum member like you, really.
Thanks for posting this, it was the highlight of my office morning!
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Insane friends are great.
Insane friends who don't cause you to go to jail are the best!
That was good stuff. I'm glad we got to see it.
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Nice promo material. Who is the old geezer in the leather jacket playing guitar?
That's pretty nice that someone would to to all that effort to compile all that information. I guess that will screw up your witness protection status?
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
LOL! That is so great! And the dude is lawyer too!
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love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Yeah, but with so many other positive attributes, we'd be nitpicking to hold that against him...Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
I think it would be fair to say that Brian does more than his share to make the Gainesville music scene pretty cool...
Ah, nothing relieves the discomfort of GAS pains like the sound of the UPS truck rumbling down your street. It's like the musician's Beano.
You know, this thread has got me thinking (and that can be dangerous).
I've got a great idea for a local show...
The scene:
A dimly lit semi-circular stage with musical equipment set all about. A familiar figure strides up to a microphone to the applause of the studio audience, his trusty '52 re-ssue Tele hanging around his neck and says into the mic:
"Hi folks, welcome to Gainesville City Limits. I'm your host, Brian Krashpad. Our musical guests tonight are...."
First Gainesville, then national distribution. What? If it could happen in Austin, it could happen Gainesville...
Ah, nothing relieves the discomfort of GAS pains like the sound of the UPS truck rumbling down your street. It's like the musician's Beano.
Haha, well, I don't how "real" anything Dan writes is. He's a little on the crazy side, as in I think he's probably been "Baker Acted" (as we say in Florida) a couple times. But he's a good guy and cares more about our local scene than almost anyone I know.Originally Posted by bigoldron
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You know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity!Originally Posted by pes_laul
(Of course, Mel Gibson might disagree.)
That'll be a cool thing to have a copy of as you get older.
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Haha, karma man.Originally Posted by warren0728
Or, it could be ghosts in your machine.
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