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Thursday, July 9, 2009
The story behind …. Pete Yorn’s ‘Paradise Cove’ (a song inspired by Matthew McConaughey)
Pete Yorn plays La Zona Rosa on Monday with opener Zee Avi (8 p.m. $20. 612 W. Fourth St. 472-2293). We’ll post our interview with Yorn soon. Here’s what he had to say about the song “Paradise Cove,” from his new album “Back & Fourth”:
“I had been journaling. I’d never done that before, but I had all this (stuff) boiling up in me and someone told me to try it. The end of that song when I’m kind of going off on somebody was just from when I was (expletive) off. That ended up becoming lyrics.
“The initial idea came from Paradise Cove, which is this upscale trailer park up the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. A good friend of mine, Rami Jaffee, who was in the Wallflowers, lived there and invited me out for an afternoon. So, I went up and everyone was making this whole big hullabaloo about what happened the day before. People were telling me that Matthew McConaughey had been there and how all the paparazzi showed up. The surfer kids don’t like paparazzi. These guys are telling me, ‘Yeah, they were taking pictures of McConaughey and the surfer kids were all beating up the paparazzi!’
“I didn’t think much of it, but it stuck in my head. There’s a line in there that ‘the surfers protect the actor from flashers’ that came out of there. I was just kind of impressed by some of the people I’d seen there. Of course, I’m always thinking about relationships, and it all ties in there. A few days later, I was up in Oregon and the song just came out.”
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Flatlanders to appear on Letterman
Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock - collectively the Flatlanders - will be appearing Tuesday, July 21st on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
The trio has been touring behind their recent album “Hills and Valleys.”
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Weekend picks: Grammy winning bluesman, old school punk and tight, smartly realized garage rock
FRIDAY
Robert Cray at Antone’s. Cray was amazingly popular in the 1980s, one of the few bluesmen, along with Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who was able to get radio airplay across formats (or at all, for that matter). With J.J. Usher and Doc and the Medicine Man $25 to $62.50. 2 With Doors at 8 p.m. show at 9 p.m. 13 W. Fifth St. 320-8424. — Joe Gross
Also recommended
- Anti-Nowhere League at Red 7
- Cevin Key (of Skinny Puppy) DJ set at Elysium
- Shapes Have Fangs, Cartright and more at Emo’s
- Shake Russell at the Cactus Cafe
- White Ghost Shivers at the Continental Club
- Spoon, Low, Dale Watson at Stubb’s
SATURDAY
The Germs at Red 7. Yep, those Germs, one of the craziest punk bands ever. Their barely audible debut single ‘Forming’ is one of the creepiest singles Los Angeles ever produced, while their full-length debut ‘G.I.’ is pretty much the birth of West Coast hardcore. This lineup includes guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom, drummer Don Bolles and singer Shane West, who played legendary (and deceased) Germs singer Darby Crash in the movie. With Krum Bums and Coptic Times. 9 p.m. $10. 611 E. Seventh St. 476-8100 — J.G.
Also recommended
- Jamie Foxx at Erwin Center
- Asylum Street Spankers at the Cactus Cafe
- Coathangers, Woven Bones at the Mohawk
- Drop Dead Gorgeous and more at Emo’s
- Strange Attractors, Churchwood at Room 710
- Arc Angels at Antone’s
- Spoon, Atlas Sound, The Strange Boys at Stubb’s
SUNDAY
Ugly Beats, Black Hollies, Dikes of Holland at Beerland. It’s a night when Red River gets its own Cavern Club, overrun with Mersey Beatniks in their go-go boots. The Ugly Beats and Black Hollies worship at the altar of the Beatles, but the Dikes play like the rock lineage went right from Little Richard to Captain Beefheart. Are we allowed to have this much sloppy fun on a Sunday night? Oh yeah. Don’t the sign at the city limits sez ‘Austin.’ 711 Red River St. 479-7625. — Michael Corcoran
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