This past October I got the opportunity to hang out in Peru with some cool dudes from England and Australia. We camped, drank, laughed, sang and mainly we walked all freakin' day 'til we arrived at the ruins of the great cuty in the clouds, Machu Picchu.I had a splendid time along with the dudes in my band, Fastball. I was never a huge The Fixx fan, but now that I've met Cy and played some of t...
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Posts by Tony Scalzo
Cy Curnin Rocks Peru
Peru Rocks 2008
Fastball without Miles and featuring Brien McVernon on lead guitar above Cuzco, Peru at the foot of El Christo Blanco, Oct 8th 2008 I recently posted a mog about Everest Rocks which occured back in 2007 and featured Mike peters of the Alarm and Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze as they climbed to one of the base camps atop Mount Everest to perform the highest concert ever on land. Little did I realize ...
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Cool For Cats
l-r Miles Zuniga, Chris Difford and Me!-Dallas Texas, 9/6/08 Fastball got the opportunity of a lifetime earlier in the week by opening up for Squeeze on their Texas dates. I used to get up every morning for school and put on ??Eastside Story??, they were my faves along with Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson. I got to see 'em twice plus hang out after the shows. They are extremely tight and played ...
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The Highest Gig (On Land) Ever Played
Here's Mike Peters, Cy Curnin, Slim Jim Phantom, Nick Harper and Glenn Tilbrook performing at base camp A just below the summit of Mount Everest. It was filmed for a doco called "Everest Rocks" which airs this week on MHD tv.Mike Peters of the Alarm is the force behind LOVE-STRENGTH-HOPE, a foundation formed to help get cancer wards and medical equipment to hospitals in third world countries.H...
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Two Hoots
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Since I moved from Southern california to Austin in 1993, I don't think I can recall a local band that has provided a more seamless musical transition for me than the rockabilly, blues, cajun, country, punk stylings of Rick Broussard. Two Hoots and a Holler sort of helped ease me into the very different music climate offered here in the lone star state. Rick is the real deal. Ask Social Distort...
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Sucking On Chili Dogs, Outside The Tastee Freeze
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This snapshot was sent to me by Tammy Fowler, or actually her daughter, from Tustin, Ca. It's from 1982, a year when music was truly at a crossroads. The evidence is here as we go from right to left:The young man with the That Girl hairstyle was the drummer of a local Van Halen style metal band called Outrage. His name is Pete Kearney, he was a super cool guy, good drummer. He also had a cute s...
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Feeling California, Looking Minnesota
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Had a wild weekend!We played the Alameda County Fair and then flew to Virginia Beach for a show in Neptune's park. WE LOVE EVERYONE!
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Fastball Rocks The Boat
Looks Like I found a better bit of footage from the NYC Booze Cruise last month. This is a song from the new cd we hope to release on Sept 9th, 2008, and it's called "SOUL RADIO". It's just the second half of the song but the sound and video quality is much better than my previous MOG entry. Hope you like it!
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Back In The New York Groove!
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I've just arrived home from a busy weekend with the band out to the east coast. We started off in Poughkeepsie, NY for a friday night gig at chances. Ew. What stink-hole! We're done with that place I'll tell you that much. I've never been so happy to get back to the Best Western. Miles and I were being ignored by the bartender so we partied in the parking lot with a Mexican rock band called los...
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Ian McLagan 2008
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Album:Some Girls, Gimme Some Neck
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Track:Stay With Me, Miss You
The seventh installment of Mile's and I's ??Moderately Priced Winos?? weekly podcast is up at modwinos.libsyn.com. Mac was nice enough to invite us round his country home in rural central Texas for a few pints of Guiness and some hearty conversation!He talks about his days with the Small Faces and the Faces as well as touring with the Stones and fronting his own Bump Band.We talked and drank in...
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