Tom Devaney-Club Grand Wizard, acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, synthesizer, percussion, whip cracker, control freak, eight-track tapes and cassettes, feasibility study author.
Tony Maimone-producer, bass, synthesizer, sour face maker when Tom pulls out his electric guitar.
Chris Weinberg-drums, cymbols, conflagrative gong manuevers, self-immolation, double-helix bass pedal accentuater, .276 career average, fuckin' lamp thrower.
Jonah Sacks-classist mercenary, burgeoning real estate mogul, cellist extraordinaire, lover of wine, women and song.
Shannan Shaughnessy-fiery furnace down below, red haired and ravenous, sings within the lines and appears courtesy of Red Surprise Records and Tapes.
Dave Nelson-pioneering club member, child siring, backboard breakin'- mama's quakin'-chocolate thunder from Providence, drumz n' tubz.
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Listing influences is for the scribes. But here is an incomplete list of folks that make me smile.
Syd Barrett, The Fall, John Fahey, Mississippi John Hurt, Kinks, Roxy Music, Can, Wire, Dome, Pere Ubu, Velvet Underground, The Clash, John Cale, Meat Puppets, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Skip Spence, Peter and Ray, John Cage, Grisly Bear, Neu, Charlie Christian, Love, Television, Angry Samoans, Pauline Oliveras, Booker Ervin, Art Blakey, Mothers of Invention, Beatles, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Captain Beefheart, Radiohead, Red Crayola, Soft Machine, The Insect Trust, Lightin’ Hopkins, Led Zeppelin, Mission of Burma, Pavement, Chrome, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Volcano Suns, Pixies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Soft Machine, Emily Loizeau, Elizabeth Cotten, Duke Ellington, Shins, Bob Dylan, Faust, Cluster, Richard Thompson, Colin Newman, Fiery Furnaces, Liars, Modern Lovers.
Rotary Club's debut album Vis-à-Vis has just popped out of the EZ Bake oven. You can download it here or order it at cdbaby.com/cd/rotaryclub or even, gulp, Itunes. We recommend buying it early and often.
The first reviews of Vis-a-vis are comin' in. Check da blog for the full reviews from the The Big Takeover and The Noise (Boston).
"...mere comparisons simply don’t, can’t, won’t do this justice. Believe me: this belongs on every new music-lovers must-have list." (The Noise Boston)
"This is one of the best records I've ever played on." (Tony Maimone)
"LEADBELLY, CHARLIE PATTON, and SKIP JAMES joining THE BAND for MEAT PUPPETS covers." (The Big Takeover)
"A catchy and subtly quirky new disc." (Time Out New York)
Recorded in Brooklyn in the spring of 2007 with ex-Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone in the producer seat and on bass, the twelve songs featured on Vis-à-vis reflect singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Devaney's vision. Which is to say, the manifestation of a lifetime rocked by lunar landings, presidential pardons, OPEC-induced gas lines and a battle between a congenital New England fatalism and an underlying romanticism. Add to that, all the absorption of Syd Barrett, Arthur Lee’s Love, late 60s Ray Davies, John Fahey and Mississippi John Hurt one can shake a stick at. So what does it all sound like you ask?
Well you'll have to buy it and listen for yourself, but as Maimone opined,"it's got this Syd Barrett thing going on. But it's American, very American.”
The release of Vis-a-vis is the apex of a year of things musical having fallen into place for Devaney and Rotary Club. The majority of the songs on Vis-à-vis were written over the past two years, recorded initially on a cheesy 70s tape recorder and then onto a four track demo which Devaney sent to Maimone. Maimone loved the songs and told Devaney that he wanted to produce the record. Umpteen NYC to Boston bus trips for rehearsals with his old band mates and four months later, Vis-a-vis was born.
As a long time Pere Ubu fan, working with Tony Maimone has been a somewhat surreal experience for Devaney, but the respect is mutual. “This is one of the best records I’ve ever played on,” said Maimone. Somewhere in Devaney’s living room, Pere Ubu’s Modern Dance and Dub Housing LPs are smiling.
For those with the inclination to touch the merchandise in a record store
Vis-a-vis is available at Other Music (othermusic.com) located at 15 E. 4th Street NYC and at Sound Fix (www.soundfixrecords.com) at 110 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg.
The non-MySpace Rotary Club website is up in a skeletal version (www.rotaryclubnyc.com) but we promise fast and furious updates and improvements. Please spread the word!
Rotary Club At Union Pool Nov 2, 2007
How are you, Rotary Club? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy halloween & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
Hey fellow Rotarians - please consider helping out Rotary Club's sometimes-cellist put out his new solo album! pre-order by 10/14 and you could even get a cello-ized song of your choice (sorry, no Barney Miller Theme). Thanks & pass it on!!
High! Pablo here, reporting from Inner Space to wish you a great 2009! (we interrupt this comment with a brief announcement): Pablo's first new album in 5 years,"Take Two," Is Here & Now! -16 tracks of sugar coated insanity - Stop by my page to hear 4 new songs! (P.S. the new album is best appreciated on a higher plane....;)) God bless!!! P
Hey Tom, I listened to the Rotary CD a few times now. I think it sounds great. Your writing and production is top notch man. It takes me somewhere. Yes I am a big John Fahey fan also. My favorite of his is Twighlight on Prince Georges Ave. No, I don't have a CD of the current stuff i'm playing yet. Working on it though...very slowly!
12 Spring Street, (Corner of Elizabeth in Nolita), New York, 10012
Date:November 7th, 2008
Time:5:30pm to 9:30pm
The end of the long election season is finally here.
To close it off EWB - Matunda Team is hosting a Bar Night at the Vig Bar this coming Friday November 7th. And we're starting early. So whether your candidate won or not, come have a drink to celebrate (or drown your pain) with us and support a good cause.
VOTEZ pour CURRO SAVOY INCROYABLE TALENT JEUDI 02 OCTOBRE sur M6 à 20H50
L'émission se compose de plusieurs émissions qui se dérouleront sur plusieurs jours du 02 octobre au 10 novembre tous les jeudis sur M6 à 20H50. Pour soutenir CURRO SAVOY VOTEZ pour lui lors de l'émission où les téléspectateurs seront amenés à voter pour leur candidat préféré.
ENVOYEZ LUI VOS ENCOURAGEMENTS ET VOTRE SOUTIEN EN VOTANT POUR LUI LORS DE L'EMISSION
good times last Friday, you guys were great. we should get something happening together down NYC way sometime soon. hangin' at 'ZBC w/Straub was prettty mint, too. keep in touch!
