Archive for July, 2007

Show-Me Blowout!

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Show-Me Blowout Web Flyer

TIRC Productions is proud to present…

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

FRIDAY NIGHT (Doors: 7 p.m./Show: 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 5 p.m.)
FREE!! BBQ at Apop Records featuring these great St. Louis rock’n'roll bands:

The Vultures
The 75s
The Vickroids
The Mad Titans

SATURDAY NIGHT (Doors: 7 p.m./Show: 8 p.m.) at Off Broadway:
The Geargrinders (St. Louis)*
Thee Fine Lines (Springfield)
The Von Hodads (Kansas City)
Monte Carlos (Columbia)
The Nevermores (St. Louis)*

*Craig Moore from legendary Keokuk, Iowa ’60s garage rockers GONN will be there Saturday night and will be joining both The Nevermores and The Geargrinders on stage for a couple covers, including the classic “Blackout of Gretely” that was included on the Nuggets box set! Don’t miss it!!

Tickets are on sale on TicketWeb.com: CLICK HERE to purchase. $15 in advance for a two-day pass that’ll guarantee you entrance both nights (also gives you the option of paying by credit card, which you obviously can’t do at the door). Otherwise tickets at the door will be $10 each night. BOTH SHOWS ARE 18 & UP!!

Off Broadway
3509 Lemp Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63118
314-773-3363
www.offbroadwaystl.com
www.myspace.com/newoffbroadway

Apop Records
2831 Cherokee St.
St. Louis, MO 63118
314-664-6575
www.apoprecords.com
www.myspace.com/apoprecords

Lodging:
We were able to get the Crowne Plaza Hotel downtown to give us a special rate of $89/room for the nights of October 12th and 13th. This is a savings of $20 off their regular room rate, so it’s a good deal, if not still a bit pricey (but hey, it’s a really nice hotel, too). But the big advantages of staying here is A) you’re close to downtown (lots to see), and B) you’re only 3.5 miles (less than 10 minutes) from Off Broadway. Just make sure you mention the Show-Me Blowout when calling in your reservation: (314) 621-8200

Now, if $89/night is still too much, we can also recommend the nearest Motel 6 at 6500 S. Lindbergh Blvd. in South St. Louis County, but that’s considerably further (9.4 miles to the venue) and isn’t really close to anything interesting, other than maybe Grant’s Farm. The normal single room rate here is just $51.99/night. They weren’t able to get us any kind of special rate, though, sorry. (314) 892-3664

Another thing you can do is to go to www.priceline.com and for a zip code type in St. Louis and then, after you search for hotels, look for the “name your price” link under “More Ways to Save” on the right side. Click that link, then on the next screen choose Downtown St. Louis, then either 3-Star or 2 1/2-Star Moderate-Plus. Then just put in $50 or $60 in the “Name Your Own Price” box and see what happens. You may end up at the Raddison, Ballpark Hilton, or the Sheraton. All nice hotels and downtown, which is cool, and within a few miles of the venue. Good luck.

Thanks!

7SS, Duffs & Bargain Basement at Off Broadway

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

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

TIRC Group Photo Pool on Flickr

Friday, July 27th, 2007

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.

The Cripplers – “Trash”

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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!

The Schloss Boys

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

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?

Chip Schloss

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)

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Fugazi – Live at the Bernard Pub

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

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 Love Living in the City”…

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

My house smells just like the zoo,
It’s chock full of shit and puke!
Cockroaches on the walls,
Crabs crawlin’ on my balls!
Oh, but I’m so clean cut,
I just want to fuck some slut!I love living in the city
I love living in the city

I’ve spent my whole life in the city,
Where junk is king and the air smells shitty.
People puking everywhere!
Piles of blood, scabs, and hair.
Bodies wasted in defeat,
Young people dying on the streets.
But the suberban scumbags they don’t care,
They just get fat and dye their hair!

I love living in the city
I love living in the city

Great song by Fear, eh? Brings back memories of college for me… drinking cheap beer, smoking clove cigarettes and driving long distances in beat-up, old cars to see punk shows in some dingy, faraway venue (usually in the middle of a cornfield). But as nasty and abrasive as the lyrics were in that song, I personally couldn’t wait to actually LIVE in the city, once I was done with college and could move away from the parents’ nice prefab house in the suburbs. All my life I’d been intrigued by city living, and when my wife and I moved back to St. Louis from Kansas City (where we’d also lived in the central city), we immediately began looking for an apartment on the south side. That was in the spring of 1994, and we’ve been here ever since. As anyone who lives in the city and has close friends or relatives in the outlying suburban areas can probably attest, you often have to defend your decision to live in such a “dangerous” area. It used to come up quite frequently with some of my family members early on, but hasn’t really been an issue lately. Anyway, I wanted to post a link to this great blog entry on 15thWardSTL.org called “Why I Live Where I Live.” I think it pretty much nails it for my feelings on why I live in the city. Please check it out.

TIRC Blog

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

So, this blog was officially launched last Friday. I finally decided to secure the damned domain and start a blog about anything and everything relating to St. Louis rock’n'roll of various forms and styles but you can bet none of ‘em will be lame alternacrap, metal, emo, or mall punk. Straight-up noise will be presented here, folks. If you know what I’m into, you should know by now what to expect by now. Should prove to be a lot of fun, I hope.

Eagles of Death Metal at Vintage Vinyl

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

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

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

The Rich Boys… Tonight!

Friday, July 20th, 2007

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!

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