Butterscotch Stanley March Show

Keeping with the one-a-month show idea, Butterscotch will be playing Mr. Beery's this Saturday night March 31st.

Hope to see you there.

Mr. Beery's.
4019 Hempstead Turnpike
Bethpage, NY, 11714
w/
Eli Whitney & The Sound Machine
Holy Soviets
Joyce Nancy
Western Electric

Recording

Butterscotch is gonna record a new album soon.  And we just don't know what to do. But it seems like we're gonna do a 10-12 song album at about 22 minutes total with the guy who recorded A Passing Feeling and release it for free.  More to come on that.
Here's what you missed last weekend:

Butterscotch Show

I keep forgetting to use this thing to promote shows.

Come check out Butterscotch with lots of other great punk bands at 330 Melrose st. in Brooklyn tonight at 8.  gonna be a lot of fun.

http://www.facebook.com/events/223413201079715/

Traditions in Rock

New favorite song and I'll tell ya why.  But the real explanation, is that it needs no explanation.

Drum fill
Intro riff twice (not four times.)  This riff has a hit on the fourth beat of the measure.
Verse
Chorus
end of chorus also has hit on fourth beat but it becomes the new "one" making it a measure of three and then two bars of rest

Repeat this form but with variation in verse (scream on FACE)

Bridge

Third verse now with screams and more aggressive drums
Chorus has hit on beat 4 again, this time only 3 beat rest
repeat again and back to the full two bar rest

Outro Three times (not twice)

There it is.  The words are also incredible, the energy sounds like it's a live recording, and it's all in 2 minutes at 15 seconds.

This is one clever punk rock band.
Listen to Blonder on Blonder

Kim Shattuck is my Valentine.

Carnegie

I'm pretty excited that I got a chance to play at Carnegie Hall Monday night.  

 Me and Joe post-concert.

 Mozart Requiem from Balcony.

A bit closer.

I have a few more pictures on my phone taken from the stage looking out into the empty hall but I don't know how to put them on my computer.  Crazy

Great Moments in Jazz, Farewell Etta

The trombone makes me weep like a girl and Louis is just incredible in his two-bar solos.  If you want to have fun, or just have plenty of free time, follow each individual line.  Then if you want to get nuts, listen to

.

Louis's solo here has a direct quote of himself from "Tears."

Not gonna say much about Etta James other than her first recording, done for Chess records, is just a masterpiece.  Her voice is young and beautiful.  Her style seamlessly mixes southern blues of the 50's and early 60's with the great female jazz vocalists.  Not to mention the string arrangements are unbelievably good.  So much energy.  The band sings with her and she grooves with the band.  Soulful and heartbreaking.    

One of my favorites from this record.  Just wait until she lists the days of the week and tell me you don't want to sing with her.  

ATDI Reunion? Good Things are Happening

http://www.nme.com/news/at-the-drive-in/61330