K-tel Presents -- Every Power Pop Record Ever Recorded! Exactly that! We drive a truck to your house!!!
But seriously folks: Attentive readers will recall my posting a few months ago about I Wanna Be a Teen Again: North American Power Pop of the '80s, the 3CD box set coming out on Cherry Red Records and featuring the likes of (among others) Cheap Trick, The Bangles, The Go-Gos, Rick Springfield, The Shivvers, The Smithereens, Phil Seymour, Dwight Twilley and...wait for it...The Floor Models (a band featuring some guy whose name rhymes with Sleeve Nimels on bass).
Well, the thing got released today, so what are you waiting for?
You can buy the package (which I'm told includes amazing photos and terrific liner notes) over at Amazon HERE or -- if you're as pissed off at Jeff Bezos as I am -- directly from Cherry Red over HERE.
As you can imagine, I'm kinda around the moon over this; I only wish my two departed bandmates Andy Pasternack (our 12-string ace) and Glen "Bob" Allen (our beloved drummer) had lived to see it.
In any event, I want to thank everybody over at Cherry Red, and especially fab gear Aussie publicist Dave Laing, who got us the gig.
But more to the point -- I'm dying to know what any of you guys think about the set. So get the hell over to one of those links and snag a copy!
Now, people!!! 😎😎
And have a great weekend everybody!!!
PS: And in other amazing news, if you're in the Los Angeles area in August, there's a preview screening of the forthcoming documentary The Power Pop Movie -- as a benefit for The Wild Honey Foundation -- at the Foundation's backyard amphitheater (heh). The festivities happen at 7 PM Pacific time on August 17th; complete details -- including directions on how to get there -- can be found over HERE.
Aforementioned attentive readers will recall that said film includes lotsa yakking about the music -- its history and meaning -- by the past and present proprietors of this here blog, i.e. NYMary and that Sleeve Nimels guy...
...as well as interviews with various notables including the late Eric Carmen and the guys in Shoes, plus assorted journos, critics and fans like Friend of PowerPop© Brett Milano and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. I've seen an essentially finished cut; let's just say that director Justin Fielding has done an absolutely brilliant job of capturing the essence of the genre.
So, Angelenos -- be there or be square!!!
P.P.S.: Now that I think of it, I've got an album AND a movie coming out.
Have I mentioned I'm having a pretty good year? 😎😎😎
8 comments:
Sigh. As if you weren't insufferable enough already....
But seriously folks, congratulations, steverino!
Thanks, my friend. I'm kinda tickled by the whole business, as you may have noticed. 😎
I bask in reflected glory.
Steve, you forgot to mention your song ? From the cut out bin ?😉 - just joking
Speaking of documentaries - this morning I watched the Alex Chilton, Big Star doc. It included some Box Tops Again Congrats on Album cut
rob
On your way to half of an EGOT!
Congratulations Steve !!
Reported across fan sites, interviews, and social posts—Zach Bryan is approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall. That’s 185 cm if you’re measuring metric. Zach isn’t a giant, but he’s surely high than most people. In fact, the normal man in the US is about 5’9″, and Zach’s height gives him a good advantage—whether he’s performing on stage under shiny lights or just casually playing guitar during an acoustic show. Many expand often say, “He looked high in person than I thought” after because him live.. That checks out.
I bought the box set and not surprisingly, it's quite good, to include of course the song by The Floor Models. I've always been a big fan of Power Pop going back to my college days in the late '70s and wholeheartedly recommend the set.
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