May
I AM THE DJ THIS SUNDAY
I am the DJ this Sunday 05.26.13
at The Burlington 3425 W Fullerton Ave Chicago, IL 60647
free admission
9:30-close
after the Sunday Night Sex Show
May
"WE'RE WITH THE BAND" PODCAST EPISODE TEN
Do you dig Jazz?
Ivan and Scabs have an in depth conversation on the inner workings of the jazz and rock scenes with Dylan Ryan- drummer for Cursive, Herculaneum, Ether Feather, Michael Columbia, Sand, Icy Demons, Rainbow Arabia, and Scabs and Ivan’s pre-Sheriff Scabs outfit Black Country Rock. Also, the boys get into a heated discussion on the pros and cons of the live music festival experience, as well as Kelly McGillis’s bathing scene in Witness.
Write to We’re with the Band and your email will most likely be read on the show
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What is “We’re with the Band”? a bi-weekly podcast about music, mirth, merkins and memories. Completely unplanned and unscripted this is what goes on between songs in rehearsals, in the dressing room before shows, and stripclubs after shows.
So now you can listen in for free on your lappy at home, as well as on your phone while your working out, in the car, or on the can. How nice! Please subscribe, rate and review it. All that stuff helps in the charts and since Sheriff Scabs is a band competing in the charts is in the blood.
WARNING: Language and dialog on this podcast are very NSFW.
May
new mix on @8tracks: “She Walks On Me”
May
Interview with MR RUSSIA from the August 26th 2006 issue of Buzz conducted by Hilary Rawk of Broke Hipster. I think some of the interview was conducted via email and the rest in person after our August 12th show at Pint for the Milwaukee Ave. Window Battle After Party with Lazer Crystal and Beats by Otter.
May
Sheriff Scabs on the set of the “Reaction” music video shoot day one
May
Rollin’ with the Ahab Rex Quintet
The cover artwork was done by John Bergin as an homage to The Dave Brubeck Quartet album ‘Time Out’. The covers with the back boarders are the options John sent me to choose from before fine tuning the artwork.
The title was inspired a combination of the great Miles Davis Quintet records (Cookin’, Relaxin’, Workin’, and Steamin’) and the fact that when recording on tape the engineer will inevitably announce a variance on “We’re Rolling” or “Roll Tape” at the beginning of each take. The name of the album was first used for an EP of four songs recorded in 2002. On September 11th 2001 Todd Beamer’s last reported words before participating in a successful self sacrificial thwarting of the high jacked flight 93 were “Let’s Roll”. An inspiring act that also contributed to the naming of the album.
The album was originally released May 11th 2004. It was released in 2005 on Lens Records. An expanded edition was made available December 20th 2011.
May
"WE'RE WITH THE BAND" PODCAST EPISODE THIRTEEN
I AM IRON DREG!
In this ultra-musical episode, Scabs, Ivan and Dreg mark the passing of music giants, sing Slayer songs, sing Kriss Kross songs, sing made up lyrics to would be George Jones songs, more sex toys, more listener emails, and more Dreg screaming. Also, the boys go out to see Iron Man 3.
Write to We’re with the Band and your email will most likely be read on the show
werewiththebandpod@gmail.com
What is “We’re with the Band”? a bi-weekly podcast about music, mirth, merkins and memories. Completely unplanned and unscripted this is what goes on between songs in rehearsals, in the dressing room before shows, and stripclubs after shows.
So now you can listen in for free on your lappy at home, as well as on your phone while your working out, in the car, or on the can. How nice! Please subscribe, rate and review it. All that stuff helps in the charts and since Sheriff Scabs is a band competing in the charts is in the blood.
WARNING: Language and dialog on this podcast are very NSFW.
May
Sam Vicari Makes Our Hearts Explode
“Sam Vicari’s long gestating sophomore effort Heart Explosion is finally coming out this summer. Get a taste of what’s to come with a free MP3 from the forthcoming release.”
I endorse what Tankboy (chicagoist) says, as a fan a friend and a participant in the making of the album. Big up to Robert Hyman on drums and Nathaniel Scott Cook on the mixing desk. The song “Heart Explosion” is my favorite from the album.
May
Working on new tracks…
Apr
Cold (Cure cover) (rehearsal demo)
Ahab Rex “Cold”
In 2003 I was approached by FTC Records to do a song for their upcoming Cure Tribute ‘Strange As Angels’. I was told I could pick any song I wanted and I initially gravitated towards a song called “100 Years” from the album ‘Pornography’, but on listening to the album I saw more potential in the song “Cold”. I gathered a band of Robert Hyman (post Usherhouse pre MR RUSSIA) on drums, Michael La Placa on guitar and myself on vocals and bass. We rehearsed “Cold” (hear the previously unreleased band rehearsal recording attached and the studio version below.) along with ”Dummy” and ”Boogieman”. ”To Whom It May Concern” was recorded with just myself and Robert while a version of the PJ Harvey song “Rid of Me” was tracked solo. The songs were intended to be a new EP tentatively titled ‘Singable Songs for the very Young’ with an eye for follow up to the ‘Rollin’ with the Ahab Rex Quintet’ EP that had been self released prior and was gaining some buzz. We recorded at National Studios in the Logan Square location with engineer Brooke Cassell (pre singing in Ahab Rex) and mix engineer Carson Krabbe. We were joined by Right Eye Rita on keyboards for “Boogieman”. Since “Cold” had a due date of June 1st to FTC Records, it was a priority. “Cold” was completed as well as “To Whom it May Concern” by May 28th 2003. “Dummy” was mostly complete when the computer crashed and all the backup files were lost. “Dummy” was far enough along to be rescued and completed but “Rid of Me” was completely lost, not even a ruff mix survives. Two work prints of “Boogieman” survived but were not far enough along for release. I decided to leave the song there to forget. I thank my lucky stars “Cold” was already done as it is one of my favorite recordings I have ever worked on. Also, I now back up everything myself. The arrangement for “Cold” was very simple. I had worked up a demo, but when I brought it to Robert Hyman he said, “I don’t need, it I know the song by heart.”, and Michael La Placa was perfect for making swirling noise with his guitar. Since the song has no changes it was easy enough to play with the tension. Since we were tracking bass drums and guitar live I asked Brooke Cassell to punch into our head phone mix somewhere after the three minute mark and let us know to wrap it up. Robert double tracked his drums and Michael put down guitar until he felt the tracks were equally full. I slipped into the vocal booth and recorded the vocals with Neumann TLM 103 mic run into a Avalon VT-737SP tube preamplifier into Protools. I cut the intro on bass run through a Digitech RP-1 Effects Processor direct into the board.
Photos taken April 27th 2003 on a disposable camera.
Robert Hyman
Michael La Placa
Carson Krabbe & Brooke Cassell
‘Strange As Angels: A Tribute to The Cure’ was released on Failure To Communicate Records in December of 2003 and was generally well received by Cure fans.
The Illinois Entertainer’s August 2004 issue singled out “Cold” as a “…[a] more creative interpretation.”
Another review of “Strange as Angels noted “…even though The Cure influenced many industrial artists, they really are and always have been a rock band. The bands here realize this, and the droning guitars opening up The Ahab Rex Trio’s “Cold” put most of the electronic songs on 100 Tears to shame.” -Danny Rowe Left off the Dial, January 2005
“Cold” was also included as the closing track on the CD version of the debut Ahab Rex album ‘Rollin’ with the Ahab Rex Quintet’.
Some reviews of the ‘Rollin’ with the Ahab Rex Quintent’ highlighted “Cold”.
“The highlight of the record is the closer, a heavy cover of The Cure’s “Cold.” -Hugh Miller Unifinished, Sept 2004
“An excellent, emotionally wrought cover of The Cure’s “Cold” waits at the end of the album.” -Justin Stewart Featured Review, Splendid Magazine 07/04
“The disc ends with the band’s cover of The Cure’s “Cold” from the tribute album Strange as Angels, replacing the moody synths of the original with crunchy guitar riffs, wailing lead guitars, and feedback accented by Ahab Rex’s deep monotone vocals and shouting background vocals. It’s a great intense rock take on the classic Pornography tune and quite seriously one of the best Cure covers I’ve heard (and I’ve literally heard hundreds).” -Joshua Heinrich Grave Concerns Ezine 05/04
“Cold” would go on to be included on my covers album Ahab Rex ‘King Maker’ released on December 20th 2011.
Apr
"WE'RE WITH THE BAND" PODCAST EPISODE ELEVEN
Special guest Griffin Baron joins the boys in the WWTB podcast studio. In which they discusses the many film versions of Batman, Michael and Griff reenact an online battle Ivan had with a Craigslist ad responder, and Ice-T makes Griff a steak.
Write to We’re with the Band and your email will most likely be read on the show
werewiththebandpod@gmail.com
What is “We’re with the Band”? a bi-weekly podcast about music, mirth, merkins and memories. Completely unplanned and unscripted this is what goes on between songs in rehearsals, in the dressing room before shows, and stripclubs after shows.
So now you can listen in for free on your lappy at home, as well as on your phone while your working out, in the car, or on the can. How nice! Please subscribe, rate and review it. All that stuff helps in the charts and since Sheriff Scabs is a band competing in the charts is in the blood.
WARNING: Language and dialog on this podcast are very NSFW.
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Apr
New Mix. “Autobiography” this marks my 100th mix on 8tracks. If you ever wanted to ask “What do you listen to?” well there are 100 answers on http://8tracks.com/mrrussia
Apr
Blood Red Shoes
Apr
Band rehearsal for one.
Apr
All set up to record “we’re with the band” podcast
