MacNuggets

[michelej1]

This is an excerpt from a Filter Magazine article on Supergrass and how it manages to keep the audience interested:

http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=17123&c=11

Supergrass
The Avalon, Hollywood CA - 07.12.08
Filter Grade: 88%
by Kenny S. McGuane | 07.15.2008

Remember back in ’96 when Fleetwood Mac did that reunion tour and they put out the live album The Dance? Do you also remember how they made the listeners sit through new Fleetwood Mac songs? They didn’t actually think that people paid hundreds of dollars for tickets to see a reformed Fleetwood Mac play new Fleetwood Mac songs, did they? I think not. Same thing happened with the Eagles. Who wants to go to an Eagles show to listen to a bunch of old-farts play new Eagles tunes? Don’t bore us, boys. Either play “Witchy Woman” or get the hell off the stage.

Right?

Right. Lots of hugely successful bands run into this problem as they age. Perhaps the key to keeping people interested in a band’s newest artistic endeavors is to try and never break up. Otherwise people are just gonna come out to the shows demanding the greatest hits, which is fine for the audience but annoying—if not totally insulting—for the artist.

[vivfox]

Actually, I went my entire Junior year of varsity football without washing my socks out of "superstition". We didn't win much, but I enjoyed the notoriety.

And, being what I like to consider a spiritual being, I must acknowledge the spiritual power behind black magic, white magic, voodoo and of course, Stevie Nicks.

Yahweh also acknowledged the spiritual power behind the "darker arts", and therefore gave magic the death penalty. For an Old Testament Jew, practicing magic meant a stoning.

http://www.independentmail.com/blogs...jason_vorhees/

[vivfox]

Perhaps her biggest talking point is having worked with the US producer, Bjorn Thorsrud, whose previous collaboration includes the Smashing Pumpkins. To get an insight into just how powerful and respected Thorsrud is, he charges $10,000 per song. And last year, the Pumpkins's Billy Corgan paid him $1-million to work on a side project with him over a year.

"I contacted him on facebook and the next thing he flew over and we spent three intense weeks in the studio." Esjay glows while relating the story. "He told me he did the album because he believes in me. He said he's only believed in three women in his career and one of them, besides me, was Stevie Nicks."

She is clearly focused on making a big success of her career. This is reflected in the way Esjay is in control of all aspects of her career.

"Stealing Love Jones is the love if my life. The other members are essentially session musicians. I can't expect them to put their wives in front of the band."

She recently bought shares in Face Studios, in Westville, where she recorded the album, as well as a house - all through money generated from Stealing Love Jones .

http://www.tonight.co.za/index.php?f...431&fSetId=251