Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Wilco, The Rolling Stones, Bloodkin, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Guns N' Roses, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bill Mallonee, Dinosaur Jr, The Jesus and Mary Chain
Steve LaBate likes to play rock 'n' roll music with his friends. He's been in A LOT of bands (most of which, you've never heard of), but now the damn primadonna has gone solo. Look out. He is armed and languorous; dressed to shoot with the dirty hotel sunshine.
So, about all those bands he's been in? Here they are, whether you care or not:
1998-2005: The Morning After, The Female Circumcision, Hirosmima Love Songs, Sound War, The Wheels, West Rutherford Orchestra, Naked Pictures of Your Mom, 400 North, The Fugitives, Elysian Fields, Pat Gorman Band, Sweet Potato Whitefly
HIGH SCHOOL/MIDDLE SCHOOL/ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Nebo Junction, The Tribe, Nighttrain, Nameless, Orange Sunshine Band, Discomposure, Anarexic Pigz, Regurgitated Guinnea Pigs With Attitudes, The Glamour Boys, Melted Metal, Hot N' Heavy
BANDS THAT DON'T EXIST THAT HE WISHES HE WAS IN AND MAY, IN FACT, SOMEDAY, ACTUALLY BE IN: Ma Fratelli & the Kumite Killers, The Raging Hormones, Jason Killingsworth's Tobacco Death Toll, Slick Willie & the Reacharounds, The Rolling Stone Phillips, The Axel F Scott BeoWolf Blitzer, and his future shoegazer outfit: Shugazi
you are far too kind. there are many things I can't do, for instance write a song which smirks of Westerberg without being mimickey. must jam sometime laters.
See you next weekend. Soaring into J-ville Friday and will ride through smoky roads that will take me to the bright southern skies . . . then hit the swamp bottom when I arrive in Waycross. Please have a bottle of tequila or whiskey ready for me when I see you. In exchange I will feed you sweet, deliciously fried American-Chinese food.
Good work as always, Mr. LeBate. If ever we're in another band together, I'd like to call us Backfist Betty and the Kung Fu Lovers. What do ya think about adding that to the list, eh?
Cops in Alley! It sounds great. So you're wreaking your solo havoc on the world now? When will you be in Nashville again? Let's meet up sometime, someday...
