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Photos from 10 July 2010 Live Demonstration
Posted on July 15, 2010 | No CommentsOur first live demonstration in many years took place on 10 July 2010 at Chronic Town in State College, along with our good friends and fellow State College indie rock back-in-the-day’ers the SEEN. An excellent show all the way around, with stellar support from Shane... -
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Happy Birthday to Ringo (and Greg)
Posted on July 7, 2010 | No CommentsTwo masterful drummers born on the same day. Coincidence? I THINK NOT. Happy Birthday to Ringo and Greg! -
New Poster for July 10 Live Demonstration with the SEEN
Posted on July 4, 2010 | No CommentsRehearsals for our upcoming show with the SEEN have been fantastic; the only problem is that our set is running long, so we’re going to need to cull a few songs…the show is going to rock. Here’s another poster promoting the show: PDF version: LongAfternoonJuly10 -
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Songs I Wish I’d Written: “Slip Inside This House” by the 13th Floor Elevators
Posted on May 24, 2010 | 2 CommentsSome bands have an influence on rock all out of proportion to the impact they actually made during their existence. Case in point: The 13th Floor Elevators. Though now somewhat less obscure than they were 20 years ago, they aren’t exactly a household name. Shame,... -
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Five More Unsung Guitar Heroes, Sparse Version
Posted on May 20, 2010 | No CommentsIn looking at the list of five lesser-known guitar heroes I threw together late last week, I noticed something: with the exception of Elliott Easton, by far the most conventional of the guitarists I cited, each those heroes tends to eschew clean lines and phrases... -
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Five Lost Guitar Gods Whose Names You May Not Know, But Should
Posted on May 13, 2010 | No CommentsAll right, after yesterday’s utterly unprovoked salvo against commonly acknowledged guitar gods I don’t want to hear anymore, let’s do an about-face and accentuate the positive, shall we? Here are five players whose work has just about KILLED me over the years, and who dismaying... -
Five Guitar Gods I Never Want to Hear Again
Posted on May 12, 2010 | 15 CommentsThe great philosopher David Lee Roth once quipped, “Music is like girlfriends–I’ll never understand the choices some people make!” He was talking, of course, about his former bandmate Eddie Van Halen, with a succinct triple-gainer that simultaneously threw sand at Eddie, Eddie’s (now-ex-)wife Valerie Bertinelli,... -
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99% Sure: The Long Afternoon Goes to the Movies
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsWe're thrilled to announce that our song "Using Dream" from the Signifying Nothing album is featured in a new indie film, 99% Sure. -
Songs I Wish I’d Written: Rest in Peace by Chad & Jeremy
Posted on March 14, 2010 | No CommentsOne of the benefits of being born to parents who were active in the 1960s counterculture was early exposure to all kinds of interesting material. Material like this: This is the cover of Chad and Jeremy’s 1967 album, “Of Cabbages and Kings.” The title references... -
Pandora’s Box Opens for the Long Afternoon
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsWe’re absolutely thrilled to report that The Long Afternoon’s “Signifying Nothing” album is finally live on Pandora.com. You can get to it here: http://www.pandora.com/music/album/long+afternoon/signifying+nothing Please listen now, listen often, and recommend us to all your Pandora-listening friends. As the traditional music biz continues its relentless,...