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In Memory Of...
Ava Hecht
Carlisle Lynn Phillips
Eddie Sperry |
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Our old website was accidentally deleted. This "new" one will eventually contain all of our old content.
02-07-12: News & Notes from 01-31-12.
Beside The Slashtones debut of our new lineup featuring Zebra's Felix Hanemann on bass and "The Emperor of Rock N' Roll" Richie Scarlet on guitar, Reckless Fortune made their debut with their new lead guitar player, former G N' R alumni Richard Duguay, who flew in from California for the show. Both bands seem to have found the "missing piece of the puzzle" on guitar as both bands sounded 1000 times better than they ever had before.
Original Slashtones bass player Even Steven Levee stopped by to see the show after his band, Brad Factor:10, performed at another venue earlier in the evening. (Brad Factor:10 "The Yuppies From Hell" are one of the bands that greatly influenced The Slashtones' satirical style.) Even Steven later said, "The Slashtones sounded amazing, Richie Scarlet absolutely blew me away."
The Slashtones set-list:
Immigrant Horse
Welcome To The Family
Gilligan’s Wood
The Brady Stone
Rock Candy (sung by Felix)
Green Haze
La George
Rockin’ Gorilla
My Hillbillies |
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Metal America posted a youtube video of "My Hillbillies" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DtCiXr7j5xI4
The Slashtones were mixed by former Slashtones guitarist (and audio engineer) Mike Lawler. There were other former Slashtones there, but with seventeen former band members and four honorary members (5 guitars, 5 drums, 3 basses, 4 vocals, 2 harmonicas, 1 flute and 1 saxophone), it is a mathematical fact that on any given night, any four Slashtones alumni could be making music in four different locations.
The show itself was unique to say the least. The band only rehearsed once a few days before the show. While that is not uncommon as over the years The Slashtones would barely rehearse, but this was the first show with two new members that had never played the tunes live before. The situation resulted in some really amazing improvisation on stage. One of the former Slashtones in attendance later asked me how long it took to work out the new arrangements on "La George" (ZZ Top meets The Jeffersons) to which I could only reply, "What arrangement?".
I was hoping to never play some of our older tunes like "Immigrant Horse" (Led Zep meets Mr. Ed) and Elvis Hitler's "Green Haze" again, but they were featured songs when we used to play at that venue back in the 90s and were added to the set for nostalgia's sake. After the way they sounded the other night I have changed my mind. Admittedly I was never big on playing live, I always preferred studio recording, but the new lineup and sound have inspired me more that ever before to stay on stage. We are already in talks with other venues in the northeast for future shows and hopefully everyone's schedules will work out for some of them.
Stay tuned and stay "Toned".
Harry /
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UPDATE: 02-02-12
In a nutshell, The Slashtones 2012 kick ass! Let me start by saying that our set the other night is my very favorite one ever. It was pure raw Rock & Roll, the way it was meant to be. Myself and the other Slashtones' mainstays, Arno Hecht and Steve "Budgie" Werner, all agree that this is by far the best incarnation. Richie Scarlet and Felix Hanemann are a perfect fit to the live band. They have taken what was done before and changed it to make it their own. What's old is new again and nothing we played live ever sounded like it did the other night. Our Sunday night rehearsal went out the window as three minute songs went into the six minute mark while the band just totally got into the groove and jammed.
The Slashtones want to thank our good friends NYC club promoters Jerry Adams and Pete Aschner for inviting us to play on their combined Birthday Bashes and be on the same bill with our friends in Reckless Fortune. (Former Slashtones harmonica player Butch Garcia has been playing with Reckless Fortune since '95.) Besides Butch, it was also great seeing so many other Slashtones Alumni, (Even Steven Levee, Mike Lawler, Mickey Leigh and Steve Bondy), come out to see the new incarnation. Now that the new lineup has gotten that crucial first gig out of the way and everything went well, there's much more to come.
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