Entries from July 2007 ↓

TIRC Productions is proud to present…

SHOW-ME BLOWOUT!
2-Day All-Missouri Garage/Rock’n'Roll Fest at Off Broadway
Friday Oct. 12th & Saturday Oct. 13th, 2007

FRIDAY NIGHT (8 p.m.) at Off Broadway:
The Cripplers (St. Louis)
Pink Socks (Kansas City)
The Rich Boys (Kansas City)
The Modern Primitives (Joplin)
Left Arm (St. Louis)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON (1 p.m. ’til 5pm)
FREE!! BBQ at Apop Records featuring these St. Louis bands:
The Vultures
The 75s
The Vickroids
Thee Hypnic Jerks (feat. members of The Honkeys)

SATURDAY NIGHT (8 p.m.) at Off Broadway:
The Honkeys (St. Louis)
Thee Fine Lines (Springfield)
The Von Hodads (Kansas City)
Monte Carlos (Columbia)
The Nevermores (St. Louis)

Tickets will go on sale on TicketWeb.com on Monday August 13th. $15 in
advance for a two-day pass that’ll guarantee you entrance both nights.
Otherwise tickets at the door will be $10 each night.

More info to come! Please help spread the word.

Thanks,
kopper
TIRC Productions

Saturday night (August 4th) at Off Broadway:

7 Shot Screamers
Long John Thomas & The Duffs
Bargain Basement

18 & up, $7
Off Broadway
3509 Lemp Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63118

Hey, just a quick post to let you all know that there’s a new TIRC group photo pool on Flickr. If you have any rockin’ photos you’d like to share (live show pics, band photos, flyers, etc.), then please go ahead and join the group, upload your pics, then use the “send to group” option to add them to the group photo pool. Joining Flickr is free, by the way…

Once we get a good selection of shared photos on there, I’ll add a Flickr badge to the sidebar of the blog.

Here’s a repost from the archives of Lo-Fi Saint Louis. The Cripplers will be playing the soon-to-be-announced Show-Me Blowout festival at Off Broadway in October. More info to come… In the meantime, here’s a funny homemade video they made several years ago. Enjoy!

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Call me crazy, call me stupid, but I had no friggin’ idea that Zander Schloss’s brother was one of the owners of the Atomic Cowboy. I had a vague recollection buried in the deep, dark recesses of my brain that Zander was originally from St. Louis, before high-tailing it to the City of the Angels back in the early 1980s where he would dabble here and there in acting and later join one of the best punk rock bands of all-time (the Circle Jerks, duh). My favorite among his movie roles? Karl, the “wiener kid” in Alex Cox’s 1987 film, Straight to Hell. He was also in such cult hits at Repo Man and Tapeheads. He hasn’t done any acting (that I know of, anyway), since 2001’s That Darn Punk, a film whose soundtrack includes a few too many Epitaph bands for my liking, but it’s fun nonetheless. But then again, Zander keeps himself fairly occupied these days playing bass with Duane Peters in Die Hunns (as well as the occasional Weirdos reunion) so who knows what the future holds for the wiener boy. Anyway, so someone—I’ve no idea who—set up a Zander Schloss fan page on Myspace recently, which I discovered about the same way I discover most Myspace pages—via a friend request, naturally. So Zander was fresh in my mind the day I watched Bill Streeter’s Lo-Fi Saint Louis vlog post about the Cowboy Cabaret at Atomic Cowboy. Lo and behold, right smack dab in the middle of it, this guy flashes on the screen and he’s actin’ a little crazy, wavin’ his arms around and stuff, and I look at his mug and immediately get that astonished “wait! I know that dude!” look that you often get when you recognize someone but can’t quite place their face right away. He looked sooo familiar… Glasses, curly blond hair, kind of a nerdy-lookin’ guy. Then the guy’s name pops up on the screen: CHIP SCHLOSS. Lightbulb goes off over my head. “Chip Schloss! uh… Schloss? Zander! No… Chip? Who the hell’s Chip? That must be his brother!” Bingo, come to find out (thanks Richard Beckman) it is. But damn, he looks just like his brother. See what I mean?

That’s Zander on the bottom, by the way.

I dunno, I just thought that was kinda cool. I’d no idea Zander had a brother involved in the music scene in St. Louis. Learn something new every day!

Zander Schloss - Salsa Y Ketchup (MP3)

The YouTube entry for this said it was from 1988, but I know that’s wrong. How? Because I was there, and I happened to be there with the future Mrs. Kopp, my lovely wife, Gina. Now, Gina and I didn’t even meet until January of ‘89, and this video was shot at their first show in St. Louis, at the ill-fated Bernard Pub (at its original location on Lafayette) in June of that same year. It’s crazy… we both totally remember that kid kissing Ian on the cheek and everything like it was yesterday. A timeless classic from Fugazi… enjoy!

This video was shot by Jim Utz, by the way…

“I Want You So Hard” LIVE at Vintage Vinyl, April 8th, 2006:

Eagles of Death Metal (official site)
EofDM on Myspace
Vintage Vinyl

LEMMONS on Gravois, Friday July 20th at 9pm with The Nevermores and Kentucky Knife Fight. Can you say “rock ‘n’ roll”? I knew ya could…

The Rich Boys from Kansas City are like the second coming of The Gizmos. They’ve got the ’70s proto-punk style in both their trashy rock’n'roll delivery and look down pat. I can only think of great things to come from these boys… I just hope they don’t try and mess with that sound by “refining” it or “evolving” it into something else. Let’s hope they don’t change a thing! And, of course, they’ll be accompanied by two of St. Louis’ hottest new rock’n'roll outfits, Kentucky Knife Fight and The Nevermores. You seriously cannot lose with this one. See ya there!

Well, I finally went and did it. I registered TroubleInRiverCity.com and put up yet another local music blog… go figure. Technically, this is the blog’s first post, although I will be transferring some previous blog posts from the TIRC Myspace blog over here and back-dating them for posterity (plus, ya just never know when Myspace might just suddenly delete your shit, which happens a lot more than you might think… just ask The Vultures). So this is where you’ll be able to find all of the past and future TIRC Podcasts as well as other posts about music, mostly locally oriented, of course. If you have a blog and would like to be linked here, by all means let me know (post a comment or send me an email: kopper (at) garagepunk (dot) com) and I’ll try to get you linked up as soon as I can. And if there’s anything else on your mind, don’t hesitate to let me know. Thanks!

By the way, the Wordpress theme I used to set this up is called Dark City. Groovy, ain’t it?

Episode #3 of the TIRC Podcast, the first one featuring new host, Jason Potter! Additional commentary from Kopper as well as lots of great music from bands like The Nevermores, The Rich Boys, Kentucky Knife Fight, The 75s, The Vultures, and lots more.

Playlist:
The Nevermores - Blue Diamond
The Rich Boys - Rock N Roll Man
Kentucky Knife Fight - Herschel Walker
Bitch Slap Barbie - You Never Shut Up
The 75s - Finders Keepers
The Hail Marys - I’ll Be Okay
The Vultures - Obsolete
The Dammit Boys - They
The Detroit Cobras - Baby Let me Hold Your Hand
The Willowz - Dead Ears
Dan Sartain - The Second Coming
Left Arm - Human Bomb
The Cripplers - Don’t Understand

This podcast was originally posted over on GaragePunk.com… Just wanted to share it here, too. Enjoy!

The Humpers - Live in St. Louis (February 25, 1996)

Thanks to Jim Utz for this soundboard recording of The Humpers live at Cicero’s basement bar, Feb. 25, 1996… The band had just been to town about seven months earlier, but on their second trip through they packed a lot more punch, played a lot tighter, had a more energetic set, and the crowd definitely responded better, so all-in-all considered, I thought this was the better of the two sets, and is presented here as part of the Out of the Vaults series (the first new episode in over four months). Enjoy!