Gettin’ $weaty

With a four car caravan congregating at Creed’s flop in Luongo Square, we prove yet again that CBOP has a limited aptitude for touring. Heck, we were all introduced to our drummer for the evening when we got to his place. We drove to Olneyville and found $weat$hop in the midst of the warehouses beneath the highways. An open fence led down an alley to a loading dock which revealed a glorious space full of couches and graffiti, with a performance space that doubled as a half pipe.

People of Color were first and killed the lights and went the power electronics route and presented a wall of noise. We were set up behind them and thus were able to start as soon as they cleared their amps from the front of the stage. James (the drummer), Kyle and I all stood onstage, while Creed was on the floor next to me and Kris was off to the side next to him. During our half-hour long set and I’m pretty sure that the room was fullest of the night. Afterwards, lots of folks had nice things to say.

While the rest of our crew took off after we loaded our gear out (sort of a necessity since there was no place for storage), I stuck around until the music was done. Florida=Death was a great band of Connecticutters, who alternated between long experimental/free passages and some weird songy bursts. The two Providence bands – Riff Parade and Volcano Kings – closed things out with jazzy free rockin’ sets that made this night actually fit together. I was in my car by about 2:30am and made it home before 3:45am (I stopped for a Coke and a bag of Smartfood).

If you want to hear our set, it’s available here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/zsv38o

Back to Rhode Island

After our first trip just a month or so ago, CBOP is heading back to Providence this Saturday night. We’re taking part in a massive show at $weat$hop in Olneyville. It looks as though we’ll have the same quartet heading south with a couple potential additions to the lineup (Sonja is iffy, and an invite is out to the guy who played drums with Baylies Band when we shared the stage with them at Firehouse 13).

Here’s the lineup in uncertain order: Florida=Death (CT), I begged (Philly), Volcano Kings, Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, Bookish Vagrant, Riff Parade, christ cardin. We’ve been told that we’ll likely play second, and the first dude is going to start at 10 pm. Plan accordingly. http://www.sweatshopshows.info/

Spinning With Idols

Andy and I DJed over at River Gods on April 2. I know that a few of these are just guesses as to the track name (I wasn’t writing everything down like I do on radio since there’s no need to back announce without a microphone) and the years represent reissues used as opposed to recording dates, but here’s a list of what I spun.

Set 1
Charles Mingus “Freedom” v/a The Definitive Jazz Scene Volume 1 | Impulse 1963
Roberta Flack “Reverend Lee” Chapter Two | Atlantic 1970
Eddie Floyd “Long Line Rider” You’ve Got To Have Eddie | Stax 197?
Margie Joseph “Sweeter Tomorrow” Makes A New Impression | Volt 197?
Harry Nilsson “Rainmaker” Harry | RCA 1969
Lena Horne “Nature’s Baby” Nature’s Baby | Buddah 1971
The Isleys “Pop That Thing” Brother, Brother, Brother | T Neck 1972
Betty Wright “Sweet Wonder” Hard To Stop | Alston 1973
Mel And Tim “Forget It, I’ve Got It” The Best Of | Scepter 1972
The 5th Dimension “Stoned Soul Picnic” Stoned Soul Picnic | Soul City 19??
Lou Rawls “She’s Gone” She’s Gone | Bell 1974
Dorothy Morrison “Hi De Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)” Brand New Day | Buddah 1970
Marvin Gaye “Troubleman” Troubleman | Tamla 1972
Billie Holiday “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” The Billie Holiday Story Volume 1 | Columbia 1973
The Dominoes “When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano” Featuring Clyde McPhatter | Federal/King 1977
Nico “I’ll Keep It With Mine” Chelsea Girl | PolyGram 1967

Set 2
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer “Lonesome Polecat” Two Of A Kind | ATCO 196?
Astrud Gilberto “Tristeza” The Shadow Of Your Smile | Verve 1965
Bee Gees “Melody Fair” Odessa | ATCO 1969
Jefferson Airplane “3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds” Surrealistic Pillow | World Record (Korea) 1967
Maxwell “This Woman’s Work” Now | Columbia 2001
Aretha Franklin “See Saw” Ten Years Of Gold | Atlantic 1976
Hot Chocolate “You Sexy Thing” s/t | Big Tree 1975
Dionne Warwick “Wishin’ And Hopin’” Make Way For | Scepter 1965
David Ruffin “Go On With Your Bad Self” s/t Motown 1973
Wynonna Carr “I’m Mad At You” Jump Jack Jump | Specialty 1993
Lee Hazelwood “Them Girls” These Boots Are Made For Walking | Ace 2002
Dolly Parton “Heartbreaker” Heartbreaker | RCA 1978
Jameson “Candy Colored Dragon” Color Him In | Verve 1967
Nina Simone “Satin Doll” Canta Ellington | Pye (Argentina) 19??
Charlie Rich “Lonely Weekend” Lonely Weekends | Sun 196?
Taylor Swift “Love Song” Fearless | Big Machine 2008
Gene McDaniels “100 Pounds Of Clay” The Very Best Of | United Artists 1975
Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man” Stand By Your Man | Epic 196?
Hank Williams “I Can’t Help It” Greatest Hits | MGM 19
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey “Rope Bridge Crossing” Dance Hall At Louse Point | Island 1996
Roger Miller “You Can’t Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd” The Return Of | Smash 196?
Mike And Ruthy “I’ll Keep It With Mine” The Honeymoon Agenda | Humble Abode 2008

Andy played records after each of these sets and maybe he’ll post what he played.

4/8 Show Poster

We’re playing next Wednesday at O’Briens in Allston, and Tim Burns from Portland, ME’s Phantom Buffalo designed this poster for the night. If you want/need a really hi-res version, you can download one.

While three of us are locals, Jealousy is coming from Cali, and picking up some Chicagoans (nee CoMo Kids) to play as his backing band for the tour.

We’re on a Comp!

A track from our long-awaited double disc offering First Annual North Falmouh Organ Slaughter is available on a brand new complilation of local Boston bands. The collection, Winter Is Cold, was curated by Nick and Mike from Clawjob. For those of you not lucky enough to stumble onto one of the 1000 copies floating around town, you can just download the whole thing instead.

The track they used of ours is a short ditty called “A Beginning” which is set to be the opening track of the second disc of the album.

Free Download!

As a reward for you checking out our page while we’re still cleaning it up and taking it out of Beta, there is a free download of the latest disc, Light The Day On Fire. If you go over to the recordings page and click on the album cover, you’ll be sent to a SendSpace link that contains a .zip file of the whole record in 192kbps mp3s.

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