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I may have listened to this album on drugs once.
I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.Brad Rice worked at a sign shop in Raleigh during his Backsliders and all days. He would often come to work just plain worn out on Mondays and Fridays after playing gigs somewhere. During breaks he would go to a back room and sleep for however long. The manager was quite kind. Then he hooked up with Keith Uban, played in his band and it was sayonara Raleigh, I'm moving to Austin.
Yep. Same guy.I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.
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Finger | Trouser Press
Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owningtrouserpress.com
Is nobody even going to mention that it was written by James Taylor???Jesucristo I miss it so much. I used to play Bartender Blues around and even after closing time. Had it cued up on a tape and then switched over to CD later. It is a sad as hell song and I saw a lot of sad as hell things but it is probably the job that I have loved the most (and I've been lucky not to have jobs that I have hated).
Thanks @grimes70
I always thought of it as George`s song even though I had the JT album. Thx for the post.Is nobody even going to mention that it was written by James Taylor???
Me and my brother went to the Sara Romweber benefit at the Cradle last year, great lineup. Teasing the Korean (remember them?), Bad Checks (my fav when I was an undergrad) and, of course, Snatches of Pink. Dexter did an acoustic finale that carried out into the parking lot. Glad I got to give him a hug and tell him I loved him before we left. Sadly I attended his wake in Saxapahaw a few months later, although there really wasn't anything sad about it except that the man himself wasn't there. Talented family for sure. His brother Joe's band, UV Prom, although underheard and underappreciated, might've been the best of the bunch...
Yep. Same guy.
Seen Rosewood a couple times. A little Texas swing in NC.John Howie played drums in Finger -- quite a different thing from his current gig, The Rosewood Bluff.
Garth Hudson passed. The last surviving and best pure musician in The Band. Everybody knows his keyboard work with The Band but his accordion on this song with Karla Bonoff is a favorite of mine.