Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Gizmos!
Rock & Roll don't come from New York...
...but occasionally Rock & Roll comes to New York! Yes, everyone's favorite Indiana punk band, the Gizmos, is going to be doing a reunion show in Brooklyn at Southpaw on Friday, July 22. This will be the late-era Gizmos line-up featuring Dale Lawrence, Billy Nightshade, Tim Carroll, and Shadow Meyers, performing all their most famous hits: "Cry Real Tears", "Rockin' for Tacos", "My Baby Loves Crime", "Communists are Funny", "Dead Astronauts" and (perhaps their most enduring anthem) "The Midwest Can Be Allright". (All MP3s from a bootleg of a 1988 reunion show posted to Mike Whybark's Gizmos site).
As a former Midwesterner myself, I can only hope to convey the excitement that this news has brought to me. (Now, if only the Vulgar Boatmen would make it out here sometime...)
...but occasionally Rock & Roll comes to New York! Yes, everyone's favorite Indiana punk band, the Gizmos, is going to be doing a reunion show in Brooklyn at Southpaw on Friday, July 22. This will be the late-era Gizmos line-up featuring Dale Lawrence, Billy Nightshade, Tim Carroll, and Shadow Meyers, performing all their most famous hits: "Cry Real Tears", "Rockin' for Tacos", "My Baby Loves Crime", "Communists are Funny", "Dead Astronauts" and (perhaps their most enduring anthem) "The Midwest Can Be Allright". (All MP3s from a bootleg of a 1988 reunion show posted to Mike Whybark's Gizmos site).
As a former Midwesterner myself, I can only hope to convey the excitement that this news has brought to me. (Now, if only the Vulgar Boatmen would make it out here sometime...)
posted by Michael at 4:16 PM
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word is that VB just did a pair of live gigs for an eventual live CD in Indy.
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