|
|
|
November 2001
|
What's Up This Month on the New Jersey Coast
|
Volume 2, Number 11, page 11
|
|
|
World Trade Center Benefit (continued from page 8)
shiny bald head and even shinier bottleneck guitar of acoustic bluesman Chris Vincent, plugging out "Crossroads" and other faves.
The unusual is always welcome at the BCC, and Graveyard School proved that punk rock did not die with Joey Ramone. Hailing from Neptune, this quartet combines that three-chord decadent punk sound with
|
|
|
|
Graveyard School
Osama Bin Laden: "Look at this American Decadence!"
NJ Coast: "Yeah, so what's your point?"
|
|
|
funky bass and the theatrics of their ode-to-Bette-Midler lead singer (add Mohawk). They conjured up sounds of Hole, the Misfits, and Joan Jett into a thrashing mix-mash of audio delight.
Ed Melee and Bill of the Dilletantes and Mike Grau, a.k.a. the Swinging Zeroes couldn't escape the Beatles with "I Saw
Her Standing There," which was a perfect change of pace to prompt the next band, The Commons to take on the crowd's more cerebral qualities with some heavy alternative rock.
After that cerebral phase it was time to get thing moving with the boogie rock of Flat Morrison followed by a special reunion for the all-female band The Catholic Girls who enjoyed some
play on MTV in the early 80s. Girl Power was augmented by the fabulous Nikki Jane with her demonic folk-rock. (continued on page 13)
|
|
 |
Dave Mac (continued from page 10)
With this in mind, there has been one weekly show that has undergone changes over the past several years, enduring moves from several different nights and changes in who
was hosting the program.
This show, BOX OF BLUES, has recently undergone two more changes, one bad and one good. First the bad news--it's been reduced to from four to only three hours in length being on every Sunday night from 9 PM to midnight. That news is totally overwhelmed by the good news that quantity doesn't hold a candle to quality. In this case, the quality of the show is better than ever thanks to the new host on board, Dave Mac.
Comparable to those personalities from the old aforementioned WNEW-FM family such as Dave (continued on page 12)
|
|
|
pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
|
|