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Red Door Records ROKZ!

August 5, 2014Fun, Music, Red Door Records, Valdostaadmin

Red Door Records hosted another superb show tonight.

Aughtsong: Joel Dion aka Oikut Kaye — Aughtsong: Joel Dion aka Ouikut Kaye

Aughtsong, formerly of Tallahassee but now right here in Valdosta, played first. Right now Aughtsong is a solo act, just Joel Dion (aka Ouikut Kaye) and his guitar. The sound is melodic and dreamy, just fine as a stand-alone but it would be interesting to hear Joel with some backup. The guy has a sweet insecurity about his performing which adds to his charm. He played a song from a group he used to play with – Little League – and at one point forgot the words. He apologized, saying “The song’s about drinking to forget, so I was just pushing the point.” It’s worth pushing the point of getting this guy out to perform more often, he’s well worth listening to. Find his stuff online at http://aughtsong.bandcamp.com/

Next up: Balloon Assembly Line. Kelby Clark is one of the most innovative musicians in south Georgia; everything he touches turns to music! The telephone handset used as a mic is inventive and has a nostalgic, hallucinatory sound.

Kyle Keller came in from busking on the Georgia coast in time to take up his capable bass, and Derek Barkalow is back from basic training and back on the drum set. They’ve got out a brand new 7” EP, with the disk etched onto a square clear piece of polycarbonate material… this EP looks exactly like the band sounds. You can hear it at http://balloonassemblyline.bandcamp.com/album/aerosol-fumes-ep

The Old Lady can’t wait to hear what Balloon Assembly Line turns out next!
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Headliner tonight was Buffalo Buffalo, just hitting the road from Tallahassee for a two and a half week tour. They’ll be in Savannah tomorrow night at the Bomb Shelter, but as the lead singer said “Playing packed little record stores like this are some of the funnest shows – awesome!” Buf Buf’s new CD, Coping Systems, has some great punk tunes that edge nervously toward hardcore. Live is always preferable, but if you can’t make any of the tour shows (check their Facebook page for the schedule) then get your fix at http://buffalobuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/coping-systems

The Old Lady sends a BIG shout out to Jessica of Red Door Records, who is the local music scene’s BFF! Jessica also gave the Old Lady her first shot at print in Valdosta with the Glass Onion street rag. That column morphed into the blog that you are reading now. Thanks, Jessica!

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! It’s what Jessica does!

Hot Valdosta Night

July 30, 2014Ashley Street Station, Fun, Music, Red Door Records, VENUESadmin

Valdosta, in extreme south Georgia, July, nighttime. Temp: about 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity: about 90 percent.

Red Door Records. Free show. Thanks, Jessica. Love the new location; the parking lot scene is much more urban and better lit.

First up: The Caution Children, from north Florida. Singer: “This one’s in the key of F, it runs about 5 minutes and 30 seconds, and it’s got a couple of time signature changes.” They play melodic ambient hardcore, and he does some interesting things with the mic and with one of the guitar players’ heads. Listen to them here: https://myspace.com/thecautionchildren/music/songs

Next: Gillian Carter, also from Florida, more hardcore than melodic. They call themselves post punk. I guess that’s pretty accurate. A sample: https://myspace.com/gilliancarter

Then: Fear and Loathing from Moultrie, Georgia. Definitely hardcore. The mosh pit opened up and the Old Lady fled for her life. Check it out if you dare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgHWjXHbEM

This is what shows often look like to those who are short.

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The afterparty was at the Ashley Street Bar, which of course is now on Baytree Road. Cody Gibson was playing when the Old Lady walked in, high powered country. She couldn’t find any links to his music other than with the Southern Gentlemen, and they weren’t in attendance tonight just some dude named Kevin on keyboards who was very good.

Then Mylo Ranger, with a big multilayered alt-country-rock sound that occasionally slid into blues. The same Kevin that played keyboards with Cody Gibson joined them on sax, and again was very good. Who is this guy? Hear Mylo Ranger at http://www.myloranger.com/#!music/c10tw

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC. IF YOU DON’T GO, IT WILL GO AWAY.

Summer Survival

July 7, 2014Fun, Health, Musicadmin

(This blog is dedicated to Keven)

It’s sum-sum-sum-sum-summertime, the perfect season for outdoor music festivals and fun in the sun. But if you want to party hearty and still hang all day and night, the Old Lady has a little advice for you:

DRINK WATER. Seems obvious, so why isn’t everybody swigging H2O? Because beer is better, of course. But here’s the deal, kids: if you’ll chug a full bottle of water between every two or three beers you can stay upright longer and feel better the next day.
EAT FOOD. Another obvious tip, but easy to neglect. Carry some high protein snacks in your pockets, like nuts; they’re cheap and salty and will make you want to drink more water. Chunks of raw cucumber and watermelon will actually help you tolerate the heat better (this is Chinese medicine, proven over the centuries). Chips… well, if you just won’t eat anything else, okay at least it’s something, but make it corn chips or something multigrain. Here’s the bottom line, kids: if you keep some food in your tummy, you can actually drink more beer before you pass out or throw up. The Old Lady should know. But…

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DON’T EAT BEFORE YOU PERFORM. Eat earlier in the day, but nothing during the hour before your band goes on. The Old Lady never eats right before she performs (you say you didn’t know the Old Lady performs? “There’s a lot you don’t know,” snapped the Old Lady peevishly, “whaddya think, I spill ALL of my secrets here on this dadgum blog?”). Food in the stomach weighs down your mind, your vocal cords, and your body. Save that burger until later, to celebrate your stellar performance.
WEAR SUNSCREEN. At the recent Elderfest the Old Lady photographed some tattoos that were more faded than they should have been. Protect your investment in ink with sunscreen. Sunscreen on the rest of you will prevent sunburn (it will NOT keep you from tanning, chickies!); sunburn dehydrates you and keeps you from partying on into the night.
IF THERE IS A LAKE JUMP IN IT. Immersing your body in the nearest body of water helps cool you and invigorate you. Take advantage of it!

The Old Lady wants everybody to have as much fun as humanly possible, so think about these tips and take care of your body so you can mosh like a mo-fo. LISTEN TO THE OLD LADY!

The Mickee Faust Club

June 27, 2014Fun, Music, Traveladmin

Tonight the Old Lady enjoyed a truly bizarre performance.

(NOTE: Performances don’t have to be bizarre to appeal to the Old Lady, but it certainly helps.)

The Mickee Faust Club in Tallahassee, Florida, is in its twenty-seventh year of performing “community theatre for the weird community” which certainly hits the Old Lady’s demographic.

Tonight’s show titled “Queer as Faust VII” included a song-and-dance number about the “A-Gays”, an original video about the gay threat to traditional marriages, and a death metal performance titled “Heterosexual Extinction” that involved the abuse of stuffed animals. A song titled “The Trouble with Andre” told the story of a man who cross-dresses in the privacy of his home but who has to lose the dress and don “business drag” to appear in public; the refrain is “The trouble with Andre is he lies” and this piece broke the Old Lady’s heart. More upbeat was the skit “Telling Mom” in which a young man imagines all the worst case scenarios of coming out to his mother, but when he actually does he finds that she reacts by embracing him and saying “Finally!”
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While at the Mickee Faust Club, the Old Lady met artist Nancy who took her on a private tour of the art that Nancy has created to adorn the inside and outside of the clubhouse.

Titled "How Baby Rats Are Made." It's subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow. — Titled “How Baby Rats Are Made.” It’s subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow.

The Mickee Faust Club is a little like a cousin of the Capitol Steps, that eccentric cousin who moved to Florida and came out and is subject to hallucinations and spiritual visions tempered with borderline mental illness caused by pollution from overpopulation, overdevelopment, and corporate exploitation.

It’s worth a drive to Tallahassee. Find out about their upcoming performances at http://www.mickeefaust.com/

ElderFest 2014

June 22, 2014Fun, Musicadmin

“There ain’t no such thing as too much fun, or too much metal.” — The Old Lady

ElderFest 2014 at the Valdosta Wake Compound was a BLAST! So many bands, please forgive the Old Lady because she could not keep up with who was who and as the Bud kicked in, quite frankly, some of her photos sucked. So, if a picture is worth a thousand words… here’s several thousand words:

A big SHOUT OUT to Keven, who worked his ass off to put ElderFest together and who is not only a great guitar player, he is a real trooper in the old school “SHOW MUST GO ON” tradition… if you were there, you know what this means.
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Summer Music on the Farm

June 21, 2014Fun, Musicadmin

Summer. Evening. Live music. In the country.

Everything the Old Lady loves.

The show tonight was on a farm, somewhere between Thomasville and Coolidge, Georgia. There were maybe fifty people there, max. Five local bands, playing on the back deck of somebody’s parents’ house.

Kicking it all off was <lessthan3, which is the name under which Raymond Estes of Tallahassee performs. This 17-year-old with an acoustic guitar is full of teenage angst, writing and singing songs of heartbreak and unrequited love, and he is excellent. A little more hardcore than folk, but lowkey nonetheless. Raymond is looking for venues in Tallahassee; find him on Facebook and offer him a gig!

... with Caroline Kelly — … with Caroline Kelly on phone.

Alyssa SeRine borrowed Raymond’s guitar, because she misplaced her power cord and couldn’t bring her keyboard. She has a sweet folky sound, but she can rap too. The Old Lady especially liked her rap about the old video game Zelda for which Alyssa was accompanied by herself on keyboard doing chords based on the game soundtrack, recorded and played back on her phone which was held to the mic by her friend Caroline Kelly. Kewl.

ROBOTURNER then took the stage. Literally. This Moultrie group is flatout hardcore, no apologies. This was when the pit opened up and the crowd got crazy. You can hear a sample at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Qb0jCDKG0&app=desktop or, you can hear ROBOTURNER live tomorrow at the ElderFest – Outdoor Metal Festival at the Valdosta Wake Compound (exit 13 off I-75, Saturday June 21 2014, 1 p.m., don’t miss it because the Old Lady sure as heck won’t miss it!).

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Koctok is a brand new band, consisting of well-known local Kelby Clark on guitar and new-in-town Bradley Gandy on drums. SUPER combination! The Old Lady came about as close as she has lately to jumping into the pit herself when these guys played. AND, she likes their philosophy.

Keep an eye on Koctok! They are sure to make their mark!

Last on the bill was Stay Home, the hosting band. Pure punk, just like the Old Lady likes it, hard and sweaty and full of love. You can check out an acoustic version of their “Broken Glass” at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=686946308019945&set=vb.643551205692789&type=2&theater but you really need to hear them live.

South Georgia is the best kept secret on the national scene, a music mecca!

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! LISTEN TO THE OLD LADY!

Boot Envy

June 3, 2014Funadmin

As far as the Old Lady is concerned being gay was never so much about gender and genitalia; rather, it’s about the boots. She has boot envy.

The ones she really wanted were black Harley Davidson motorcycle boots, with steel toes and thick rubber soles. The ones she got looked like work boots except that they were baby blue with white stitching (how precious!), and they were given to her by the mother of her now-ex-girlfriend. Both ex and ex-mom-in-law were afraid that, left to her own devices, the Old Lady would look “too butch.”

Is there really any such thing?

When Nancy Sinatra sang “These boots are made for walking…” she was only partly right. Boots are made for hiking, biking, climbing, marching, stomping, dancing, kicking ass!
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Boots aren’t just footwear. Boots are attitude, a way of telling the world “Back off! I can take care of myself!”

Wearing boots sends the Old Lady’s confidence level soaring. She feels strong and capable. She feels like she’s on her way… she may not know exactly where she’s going but she’s making great time in her boots! And the scenery is wonderful!

TxB2Gd for BOOTS!

Farm Daze

May 18, 2014Food, Fun, Valdostaadmin

Every first and third Saturday of the summer months are Farm Days on the Historic Courthouse Square in Valdosta, Georgia.

Local farmers and producers of farm products, like the Coody family, pitch their tents and display their wares, all at well-below-grocery store prices.

Some of these products you can’t even buy in the grocery store, like GG’s Sugared Peppers, jalapeno peppers preserved in a secret spicy-sweet sauce that will raise your eyebrows and knock your socks off.

Where else will you see a giant cabbage proudly displayed like a fine sculpture?

Farm Days is where you can buy fresh Georgia pecans by the pound from Cindy and Jerry Quick, owners of Clover Pecan Company. The Quicks grow their own pecans on a farm located in a remote area of south Georgia far from any major highways, cities, and factories. Their trees breathe clean country air, drink water from their own natural spring-fed pond, and are fertilized by the nitrogen-fixing red clover planted around the trees. They are as close to organic as any pecans you can buy. Then the Quicks hand-package the shelled nuts in rustic little burlap bags screen-printed with the Clover Pecan Company logo.

Cindy & Jerry Quick at the Clover Pecan Company booth

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“Pecans are the healthiest nuts on the planet and contain more antioxidants than walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, almonds, peanuts or cashews,” explains Cindy.

You can order these pecans online, at http://cloverpecan.com/shop/?add-to-cart=278

Nut-tritious, de-licious, high-quality food at an affordable price.

Look for the Quicks, the Coodys, GG, and many other locals at the next Farm Day.

BUY LOCAL! SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS! KEEP YOUR MONEY IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY!

Cruisin’ Down Memory Lane

May 9, 2014Fun, Musicadmin

A blast from the past in the form of the Jukebox Oldies Band wound up the week-long Brown Bag Concert Series on the Historic Courthouse Square in downtown Valdosta, Georgia.

This band is a hoot!

Appropriately kicking off their set with “This Magic Moment” from the Drifters, the six guys in blue jeans and white polo shirts proceeded to provide Magic Moments for every taste as they offered hits from the fifties and sixties and beyond. Their good old “boy group” harmonies took the Old Lady back to her childhood listening to WQXI-AM “Quixie in Dixie” in Atlanta when Atlanta was still just a town. And the downtown Valdosta crowd loved’em.

The guys are no spring chickens… well, neither is the Old Lady!… two of them are Professors of Economics at Valdosta State University (VSU), one has been a Lowndes County Commissioner as well as VSU Dean of Students, one is a longtime local lawyer, and the singer is “unemployed and on relief.”

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Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” – last time the Old Lady heard this live was from Procol Harum itself, at the old Sports Arena in Atlanta, circa 1974. The Old Lady got there on an Atlanta Transit Authority bus; this was before MARTA, kids.

James Brown’s “I Feel Good” – who HASN’T boogied to the Godfather of Soul at one time or another???

The Tams’ “Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy” – hey, the Old Lady figures two outta three ain’t bad.

You can hear the Jukebox Oldies Band Saturday, May 17, 2014 starting at 6 p.m. in Hahira, Georgia, “behind City Hall” and near some pizza joint. Don’t give the Old Lady that puzzled look; Hahira’s not that big a metropolis, just drive out there and you’ll find them; NO EXCUSES, DON’T BE A WIMP.

They’ve got out a CD and you can find them on Facebook. Find them! Buy the CD! Go enjoy them live!

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! Listen to the Old Lady!

An AWESOME Evening at Elder House

April 29, 2014Fun, Music, The Elder Houseadmin

A pleasant Monday evening in Valdosta, Georgia. Five great bands. A buncha fans crammed into a makeshift venue. One fucking awesome evening of live music.

It just doesn’t get any better than this.

Elder House, about which the Old Lady has blogged before (see http://www.oldladyandpurpledragon.com/music-man/ ), hosted a show tonight with (in order of appearance): Dead Southern Bishop, Hoffa HQ, Moirae, Hall of the Elders, and Encased in Ice.

Awesome.

Dead Southern Bishop: sorta local (“They’re from Alma,” he said, “but I’m from around here”), kicked off the evening with a crash and a bang. Awesome.

Hoffa HQ: a shirtless sweaty bass player. Melodic metal from a lead guitar guy wearing earplugs. ‘Nuff said. Awesome.

Moirae: head banging metal, with some swingy odd bits reminiscent of Robert Fripp on Elephant Talk (from the Discipline album with King Crimson). A drummer who looks like Frank Zappa’s bastard son (“All right!” he responded, “He was a down motherfucker!”). Awesome!

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Hall of the Elders: the Old Lady’s new favorite band. AWESOME! The singer with the dreads is a formidable slam dancer. And to the guy that apologized for knocking the Old Lady to the floor: fuggedaboudit! The Old Lady understands that standing on the edge of the mosh pit is high risk behavior.

Encased in Ice: just a buncha kids, but boy can they play. Awesome!

Look for all these bands on Facebook. Watch for all these bands at a venue near you.

So many bands... so little time... — So many bands… so little time…