I am Not a British Wantbe

Genius

2009-04-07T22:05:00.000-07:00

This is amazing!

This band is call "oreaganomics" and they need to play a kick ass festival!

here are their links to myspace and album downloads

http://www.myspace.com/oreaganomics

http://cllct.com/family/oreaganomics

PK's "The Ghost E.P."

2009-01-31T23:15:00.002-08:00

Well, its Feb 1st and I am listening to M83. Here's is a review for PK's first e.p.

As much for this band, this band is from San Luis Obspio and are a powerpop band but in this e.p. they sound more like "Taking Back Sunday". Now if you were in 2007 and 2008 during this band's timeline then you would have got their 2nd e.p. "Casting Shadows". This e.p. is very very very very different from the 2nd e.p. If you were to listen to this e.p. after you listen to "CS" then you would hate or love it.

For one, I have no idea how old the members are in this band so I'm guessing they are around 20-22 years old. So they were 16 years old at the making this e.p. and were probably into "Taking Back Sunday" first album "Tell All Your Friends" cause it sounds like it.

Most of the songs are short and sweet and some contain some hardcore back-up vocals. It is too emo for my taste and I attend to stay away from emo shit unless I am going thru something that is emotiomal then I do need PK and other stuff, its like drugs to me.

I give this e.p. a 2 out of 5. As much I love PK's 2nd e.p. and they are great live and they get the young people going and are nice guys. This e.p. does not do wonders for me as much as Sigur Ros's new album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust which people are raving about it. That album is nothing to me and has nothing to do with PK.

Album Review: HEABUA's "Sir" e.p.

2009-01-26T16:43:00.000-08:00

Heabua is a band from L.A. and are a kick ass duo when playing live.

There newest e.p. "Sir" is a homage to the cat and mouse "Tom and Jerry". There is a few good songs on the e.p. but can be distracting when trying to play "Road Rash". I mean I was playing that game and I kept crashing while listening to this e.p.

The band live is truely an amazing time and is better. If they come to your town, go see them. It will be better then listening to Jack Johnson. Come on, we know you like that shit.

I give it a 3 out of 5 since it is a e.p.

Venue Check! 3rd Coast Cafe In Santa Maria

2009-01-11T19:03:00.000-08:00

3rd Coast Cafe is a small restaurant in Santa Maria that has a small stage in the back. It has a bar for all the legal people. It has a nice feel to it. You can go get a drink and relax on the soft chairs they have while local musicians play their stuff. 3rd Coast Cafe is for small acoustic shows or maybe electioc shows that are not annoying

The Vertex (12-12-08)

2009-01-02T21:21:00.000-08:00

The Vertex was being hosted by Chirs Linter (guitarist for the Awaken The Ghost) as a benefit for Afterfall's frontman/guitarist, Cody Mello, after he had lost his leg in accident. There was a total of 14 bands. The First to open was Songs for Samuel and Afterall for last (I don't know since I left after From The Top killed it for me). There were some bands that I went to see and bands that I have first time see and bands that i wished I never see. Awaken the ghost, monster's eats the pilot, songs for samuel, hella sick tight, the might fine and callista were the bands that put great proformances hence that monsters didn't do me wonders like before which sucked for me. The last band that I had seen at this show was From the top. I am not a big fan of pop punk...what so ever. I like to test myself to see how long can I stand a band of a genre that I don't like, I had passed it without killing myself. From the top (or Over The Top) sounded like they were playing the same song over and over again. Now, the Vertex is part of a church and is Value Property to the church and if they tell not to do something, do as they said or suffer. FTT did not respect the rules and were disrespectful to the venue, I don't care if you don't believe in god or not but repespect someone property. People were jumping around like crazy people and starting fighting. A true real band would stop playing and tell the person to stop what they doing or get off the stage. Like warped tour, if you break a rule, you off the tour.

The Unfamiliar

2008-12-04T22:18:00.000-08:00

Hey, I have not posted anything new in while.

Check out this band from YUMA, Arizona. They are band that sound like The Cure, Deftones and Nine Inch Nails had a baby together.

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Morgan Eros's "Lucky Stars"

2008-10-20T22:59:00.000-07:00

When I first listen to "In Which St.Wolfgang Meets The Devil (such a long title for a folk song), I felt that I was on a train to the county of nashville, and like the low fi of the song, it felt like old fashion country song like Johnny Cash but without the Hard voice, Morgan's voice is a nice soft voice.
Then Of course after feeling like I was on a train the song "Climb Board" was about trains.
"Fill My Head With Sunbeams", Morgan has a more mature sounding voice in this 2:09 and comes with "A Bird and A Wire", the hit of this album (if this was a really album out in the market, this would the single), feels like a song from Juno, a very beaufitul song, they should played this song in that movie at the end, fuck that last song they played.
After "ABAAW" comes "The Crane" which is my fav of his songs, its very soft, reminds me of times of my days. I rememember when he played this song at "Motionz" July 27, and it was perfect since it was at a nosie loud place and the loudness of Motionz and the softness of this song mixed in well.
"Jupiter" one of his early songs, has epic drums in it, type of drums I liked, and drums and harmonica work really well together. I don't think this song would sound cool without those. And For once, I could hear bass.
Comes In "We were airplanes" reminds me of clouds, no really, I could see clouds and me (in first person view) flying through them. He had said that song sounded bad, and it didn't.
"Seventeen Flowers", dude, when this song is played live, its epic. And when he said "I hold these Seventeen Flowers on this dying", I kinda wish I did that to my ex.
"Mathematics" is the only song that i dislike.
And The Final Song of my trip to Nashille is a great closing song to a album, I loved the piano melody in the background.
And that's the end of the 33 min and 28 sec (not counting the "Untitled song"). The only thing is that I wish that Morgan would added "Broken Bones", that's sound is great, both on the guitar and mandolin, if he would added that song, this album would be more greater.
alot of people had said that Morgan Eros sounded like early "Bright Eyes" and he really doesn't like "Bright eyes" and judging by my music type (dude, I know what Bright eyes sounds like, and he's emo) morgans sounds like a mix between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
I give "Lucky Stars" a 4 and half out of 5, this is proally the best folk album ever written by 16 year old kid, period.

download the album at: http://cllct.com/release/luckystars
Patrick-Vincent Herrera
I am Not A British Wantbe

The Vertex Show (10-10-08)

2008-10-17T14:58:00.000-07:00

It been a week since this show happen

Proally the best show I ever been too. The way the line up was and how each artist and band build each show to the best last act: Adam Passon/Briertone. I felt that I was at a concert that I paid about 50 bucks to get a ticket but this show only cost 6 bucks and kick ass, it was the best 6 bucks I ever spend on a show.

Lakes Played a new song "The Heart Is An Anchor" which was good and everyone screaming like Indians in the beginning of "Indian Lover".

The Adam Passion/Briertone show was very deep and mindblowing, each song had a blast of emotion, the lap steels and volion added beautiful sounds to the guitars, the pianos of the songs were very soft. And "Running on Faith" had an awesome lead. Around the 3rd or 4th song, the crowed was handed out glass bottles and wooded stick to create a beat, I was creating a beat. The Final song was proally one of the best closing songs for shows.

It was uplifting and its very hard for me to put in words

Bands:

Adam Passion: http://www.myspace.com/adampasionmusic
Lakes: http://www.myspace.com/lakes
BELLARAYNE: http://www.myspace.com/bellaraynemusic
Ryan Delmore:http://www.myspace.com/ryandelmore

Patrick-Vincent Herrera
I am Not A British Wantbe

Awaken The Ghost really does Awaken You

2008-10-16T17:04:00.000-07:00

Awaken The Ghost is a band from San Luis Obispo,

History
Formed by Chris Lintner (also co-founder for Wild Wild Fest) in Aug of 2006 and later on (of July 2007-July 2008) had members. In 2007, Awaken The Ghost had Four Members, Two Guitar players, one bass player, and one drummer. They played pretty sick music and played 6 shows of course of time until drummer, Marc, left the band hanging, not finding a new drummer until July 2008. During the between time of finding drummers, the band when in to different projects. They had thought they found their drummer in Marcn/April but the drummer never return the call (I know this for a fact since I knew who the drummer was). They had found a drummer in late july named Matt and soon were join.
As of now, It is only Chris Lintner doing the project and he is doing a pretty good damn job with the new song "Enclosed".

Sound
The Sound of Awaken The Ghost hails through Post Rock and Rock. The beats are solid as well as the guitars sound beautiful.

The Songs that I know of: (some of these are not on the player)

"I wrote this song in 94": great beat, but I did not like Arise Thy Specter "The Power Metal Tribute to Awaken the Ghost" "Slay the Dragon? What The Fuck?" and the guitar stays in your head forever and when you think it in your head, it will not go away.
"Valete": one of my favtorie songs by them. This song is beautiful and epic, great solo towards the end, great breakdown chorus, everything about this song is great and is truly a epic.
"Song 3": If Awaken The Ghost Had a album, this would been a great opener.
"Enclosed": The Comeback of Awaken The Ghost as Chris himself wrote this song and it is very awesome, it truly makes you think about things and people speaking in the background is really great.

Pretty much Awaken The Ghost is great band and I gain respect to this band, at first I didn't know about Post Rock music since I heard this band back Oct 2007 and didn't qutie understand but Awaken The Ghost truly does Awaken The Soul and Mind.

Awaken The Ghost: http://www.myspace.com/awakentheghost

Patrick-Vincent Herrera
I am Not a British Wantbe

Motionz Show 10-12-08

2008-10-15T23:08:00.000-07:00

Bands: Callista, Skykillers, and The Weeds.

Well, I went to this show because I was bored, I had plan on it, but was kinda lazy to go but then I thought about that I had nothing to do and didn't want to play music.

So, I know Amanda from Skykillers so I came to see her and her band (who kick ass) play.

When I arrive, the show hadn't started yet, The Weeds were late and Amanda had to play first. But the one thing that wasted time was The Big Ass P.A. and bunch of mics that Callista had, they mic everything, the drum set, the bass amp, everything. And Motionz is small even know its a Laser Tag Place but the whole room for shows is small.

Anyways, Skykillers went on, did a 9 track set (well, I wasn't counting) played two covers (of I know of). The Funny thing that Amanda said was "Back In 1998, I was in this band, and we had a big hit" (She is talking about Garbage's "I Think I'm Paranoid") and someone shouted out "Liar!" and she said "No Really." pretty much Garbage miss out on Amanda. She does do better version then Garbage, no really she does since she is singing the words and playing the guitar all together. And Amanda ended her show with "School" by Nirvana in honor of formally band name "Nirvana Cow"

Callista's set was pretty much good but the words, the words by Evan are too emotonal, I hear the word "Beautiful" three times in 3 different songs". But I did like the new song they did and the last song. The Music they do is very beautiful, I like the music more then the words

The Weeds are pretty much awesome, have a very old style sound, using old guitars, amps, and my fav: guitar sildes. The Weeds are fun band to watch.

Pretty much the Motionz show was awesome, all the bands were awesome. I'm glad that Motionz cares about the music and the bands cause there's alot of good bands out there.

Patrick-Vincent Herrera
I am Not a British Wantbe