“If the pop industry was still obsessed with finding the next Bob Dylan instead of settling for the next Poison, you might find Peter Case’s new album being greeted with the excitement that once surrounded ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’ or maybe even ‘Bringing It All Back Home.’”īlue Guitar came out in 1989, when folk-influenced singer-songwriters had taken up temporary residence in the mainstream. Times wrote the review that inspired me to buy a cassette copy of Peter’s second post-Plimsouls recording, The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar. I asked Dave Alvin about the experience many years later, but he could only remember the paycheck.
The Blasters also played a Loyola dance, by the way. I couldn’t get a ticket-they were hardcore about limiting attendance to their own students and students from “sister schools” like Marymount and Sacred Heart-but still gave them props for hiring hip, original acts in an era when new wave cover bands grew on trees. The Plimsouls played a Loyola High School dance around that time. There was also the 1983 film Valley Girl, in which Nicholas Cage plays a “punk rocker,” who drags the titular female to a dingy Hollywood club where The Plimsouls-co-starring as a cool rock band-perform “Everywhere at Once,” “Oldest Story in the World,” and “A Million Miles Away.” Times, or Richard Blade or Rodney Bingenheimer played them on KROQ. Maybe my guitar teacher told me about them, or I read about them in the Calendar section of the L.A. How is that possible? The song was, after all, a minor hit in the scheme of things (#82). Peter Case hit my radar in the early eighties, when The Plimsouls released “A Million Miles Away.” They were well known in Los Angeles, even among those of us who were too young for their club shows.
0 kommentar(er)
