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| Banana Convention: Mirthful Music Muddle Machine |
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Thumbs writes 
FLINT, MI (3-10-04) - Hard Rock patrons of a popular Flint nightspot, The Machine Shop, were enjoying an evening of NuMetal and Hard Core Rock music Wednesday night when the familiar expectations of the room were upset. The venue's semi-regular practice of "open-mic" was subsequently, according to those in attendance, abused and corrupted. . .
"The Machine Shop has hard core bands that play here. Understand? We've got that one guy, the lead singer from Warrant, what's his name? And we got Vince Neil here two times --in the same week!" explained Christy Cho, head waitress on 'concert nights.' "So what were those morons thinking?"
The morons in question were the mid-michigan Bubble-Gum act 'The Banana Convention.' A group of young lads and lasses that form the sextet; a band that specialize in original pop music.
"Bubble-Gum is the forgotten genre," laments Thumbs Harvey, founding member and bassist of the group. "And folks are so quick to dismiss us! That's why we we wanted to give open mic at The Machine Shop a go. After all, where would Def Leppard be without 3 chords and a simple drum beat, or Black Sabbath, or Pantera for that matter? It all started somewhere, we're just going back to the roots."
The majority of the night's congregation disagreed.
"They should have their instruments taken away and then they should be bludgeoned with them!" complained Nick Johnson, a Machine Shop regular, as the Banana Convention launched into their signature song "(Ooo La La) I think I'm in Love."
"Show us your t*ts!" heckled one inebriated patron. Fletch Bohanski, the group's drummer, obliged and performed the finale of their set shirtless.
Regardless of the crowd's response, the Banana Convention played on, letting their guitars Jingle Jangle and hammering their cowbell as much as possible. It's an ethos and sound that may be hard to market to music adherents who embrace the moody and angst rhythms of the hardcore scene. "Is conventionality hardcore?" asks Thumbs with a smirk.
Perhaps Punk Rock lives.
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Re: Banana Convention: Mirthful Music Muddle Machine (Score: 1)
by Country_Boy_Shane on Thursday, March 18, 2004 @ 08:04:19 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.staticfactor.com | | Good story. Don't let certain venues just be tagged nu-metal and hardcore joints. There are plenty of other forms of rockin' that we should respect. |
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