That was my best Rob Gordon...John Cusak, I am not...although I would love to be. I would love to be Rob Gordon actually...I practically am him, minus the good looks, hot girlfriend, and cool record store...but now I am just splitting hairs...we are practically the same guy ;-)
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Kaleef's earlier post about the late great Beta Band put a specific song in my head.http://mog.com/kaleef/blog_post/49410And then as I scoured my digital library I realized I have like 3 other versions of the same song...making it the most covered in my collection. Filter, Aimee Mann, and a local Columbus band called Earwig are the other bands that cover 'One'The Beatles 'In My Life' was a clos...
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Squares..The Beta Band were a British musical group who received much critical acclaim and achieved cult status, but failed to make much of a commercial impact on the popular music scene. Their style was self-described as being folk hop, a blend of folk, rock, trip hop, and experimental jamming..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beta_Band.http://www.betaband.com/gotflash.html.http://www.myspace....
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This song has been running through my head for the past week or so, culminating in yesterday in which I listened to it over and over again on my way to and from work. I think there are a couple of reasons for this. First, for some reason this song just feels like autumn to me. Second, it is one of those songs that makes me smile while I'm listening to it. I haven't been in a bad mood this w...
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Hmm, am I the one with the questions or the answers?
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what a great fucking band. where did stephen mason go>?check the comments for a little _sweet treat__the beta band_
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From "Sniff Petrol":http://www.sniffpetrol.com/2007/07/11/51/I now return to my thinly-veiled secretarial duties......sigh.
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Steve Mason, the former vocalist with The Beta Band, who split back in 2004, has thrown his hat into the solo artist ring with news of a new album. Not that the whole 'solo artist' spiel is new to Mason.
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I'm Scottish - scots? Well, at least my surname is. My genealogy is a bit more diverse than that. One paternal great-grandmother rode a boat to America from Norway as an employee of a cruise line, and a maternal great-grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee. My dad's surname is scots in origin, and his father passed on a swatch of cloth with our family tartan, but my grandpa also spoke fluent...
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On my drive home. I was listening to the radio today (the wonderful Zone 91.3 FM from Victoria) and this fantastic song came on. It was the Beta Band. I was floored-- a Beta Band song I had never heard before, but a Beta Band song I instantly loved.Okay, so I knew there was just no way it could be the Beta Band, but the voice, the music, the structure, the strange, spacey but uplifting prog-roc...
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Who's gonna shake a corner of my mind today?What's in those dusty rooms, I fear for in every wayBut I will find, but I will find
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The Three EPs is a compilation of The Beta Band's first three releases, consisting of the EPs Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos. The cover art shows the 3 main images from those EPs.In the film High Fidelity, a record store owner played by John Cusack mentions the band by name ("I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band") and plays a m...
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Apparently tornado's are touching down all over the place. My co-workers laugh and shrug it off. "Welcome to South Florida," they say. Atlanta was different. Tornado's touched down north of the city, but always seemed to miss the city. Weird to be governed by the environment again. We have needed the rain, desperately. I'm glad to see it, my darker side a little fed up with all the sunsh...
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Rob: I will now sell five copies of the 3 E.P.s by The Beta Band.Dick: Do it. [Rob plays the record]Customer: Who is this?Rob: The Beta Band.Customer: It's good.Rob: I know.It is good. A great scene from a great movie, which I imagine you’ve all seen. If you haven’t, go here promptly. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. Just groove to the Beta Band.The album of which Rob speaks, The 3
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