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Thanks for the link to the article! This is a great article that helped fill in some missing history for me. Of course, I didn't know a whole lot about Mike anyway, but it's great to find out things I didn't know. 
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Excellent info. I've never seen that much about Mike in one place before. I always wondered if he was embarassed, didn't want to be a bad influence, or what since I never saw that much about him. I'll take honesty anyday and I appreciate him all the more now, after having read all that.
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Wow, I missed that. Interesting!!! Mike Roe and David Lynch in the same article 
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1) I don't think the writer gives Mike's parents enough credit (I've gathered from live comments that they've been behind Mike's music from day one); 2) there IS no Somerset, NJ show 
;; and 3) from the WTF department: "If there is a low point to this period, it is the band’s 2001 album, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, a guitar-driven album full of overwrought, pseudo-hard-rock posturing and musical and lyrical clichés." 
Otherwise, a really good article. My favorite anecdote: "So, what’s a Pentecostal kid to do when his tastes veer more toward Led Zeppelin than “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”? As a teenager, Roe made his first attempts to reconcile the viewpoints. “In 1969, I was 15 and had a group called 'The Brotherhood,’” Roe explained. “That was a Christian [rock] band, but there wasn’t really anything like that at the time.” The biggest show the band ever played was opening for none other than Swaggart himself, to an enthusiastic audience of 15,000 who cheered the band’s Christian rock music with rapturous applause. Swaggart, not to be upstaged, followed up by giving a sermon on the evils of rock ’n’ roll music."
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... and 3) from the WTF department: "If there is a low point to this period, it is the band’s 2001 album, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, a guitar-driven album full of overwrought, pseudo-hard-rock posturing and musical and lyrical clichés."
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That line surprised me a bit too; though I must admit I agree with him.
Golden Field and Tom Tom Blues are, in my opinion, low points in the 77s catalog.
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1) I don't think the writer gives Mike's parents enough credit (I've gathered from live comments that they've been behind Mike's music from day one); 2) there IS no Somerset, NJ show
;; and 3) from the WTF department: "If there is a low point to this period, it is the band’s 2001 album, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, a guitar-driven album full of overwrought, pseudo-hard-rock posturing and musical and lyrical clichés."
Otherwise, a really good article. My favorite anecdote: "So, what’s a Pentecostal kid to do when his tastes veer more toward Led Zeppelin than “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”? As a teenager, Roe made his first attempts to reconcile the viewpoints. “In 1969, I was 15 and had a group called 'The Brotherhood,’” Roe explained. “That was a Christian [rock] band, but there wasn’t really anything like that at the time.” The biggest show the band ever played was opening for none other than Swaggart himself, to an enthusiastic audience of 15,000 who cheered the band’s Christian rock music with rapturous applause. Swaggart, not to be upstaged, followed up by giving a sermon on the evils of rock ’n’ roll music." |
post. That was mostly what I was thinking as I read it, too.
I didn't realize Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis were first cousins either - great balls of fire!
I must admit I was less than excited when I first heard Tom Tom Blues and AGFORC. I actually think I like the crows thing better now, although it did take incubate and hatch for me. But Mike at his average is still better than a lot of artists at their peak.
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swaggart is on the next earworms CD
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He was on the last one too. What's yr point?
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No, the real jimmy is gonna be there. I invited him to say a prayer near the end
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But the imitations are so much less offensive....
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Jimmy is looking for any attention these days.
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Did you bring up the possibility of gymnasts to him?
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Well, I HALF-agree with you, in that case...
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Tom Tom is somewhat of a low point. I love Radioactive
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NOBODY FAITHS WITH THE FUNKY CROW THANG!!!
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He said they have to be male and must look at him like a piece of meat.
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Kinda brings a new meaning to the term "Hamm brother," doesn't it?
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Kinda brings a new meaning to the term "Hamm brother," doesn't it?
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