Nope. Just a band who has trademarked their name. RADIOSTAR That's ok. We weren't really doing that anymore. What's the sincerest form of flattery again?
In a bit of an anti-climax, only one of the 8 quarterfinalists bothered to show up for the year end finals at Kava Lounge on Sunday. To his credit, 3rd quarter "champ" Sammy sent Larisa, a girl he met last week in a bar, in his place, complete with a fake-bling necklace with his initials that she wore. The judges hastily decided to scrap the wildcard round completely. That meant that ALL of the wildcard hopefuls found themselves in the final round before they'd spelled a single word. Host Kipper kept the capacity crowd in stitches by totally eclipsing the heart of karaoke and then using one of Adam's 1st grade spelling tests for the first round. Yes, the word goldenrod was really on there. In the end, it came down to new karaoke diehard Paloma and Blasphemous Guitar shredder Roger Morrison, who had been in several previous bees. Paloma talked smack and showed off by spelling some of her words backwards AND forwards (soliloquy was impressive) but missed gonorrhea. Don't we all? Roger came out victorious thanks to piranha and winning word bougainvilles(!). He took home a vintage School Is Hell book plus five songs of his choice for us to add to the Too Cool For Karaoke songbook: Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll "Kid Creole &Coconuts": Annie I'm Not Your Daddy Lennon, John: Mother Pink Floyd: See Emily Play Rainbow: Since You've Been Gone
NEXT UP: ThuDec27 Yearend winner-take-all Musical Pursuit trivia at Whistle Stop SatDec29 Too Cool For Karaoke at Casbah with Sweet & Tender Hooligans SunJan06 Too Cool For Karaoke at Kava Lounge with Girls Just Wanna Sing Songs contest and Operation Rescue, our first song vote (voting one song off and one song onto the Dreaded Ten list) NOMINATE NOW!
Thanks to everyone that came. We raised $215 that is going to help fire victims instead of the usual trivia nerds and greedy musicians we raise funds for.
Team Jean Claude Van Wham (Michael & Kristi Rennie, Pete Bayard, Jason and whatshisname) won a very close game, only possibly helped by a drunk team member asking people outside "Hey, who sings that one song from Sixteen Candles?" Reports say that no one would help him and they would've won anyways. Pete became the first person to be on two winning teams. Huey Lewis & The Jews won best team name and Suzanne's Cry Baby t-shirt won best dry t-shirt. Sam's punk round was way fun (congrats to Drew Kalomaris who won).
People ID'd high school photos of dead rock stars, questions with the word "scary" in it, famous musicians death details and LOTS of songs about fire, The final tough 5 point question was to name all of Oingo Boingo's 6 studio albums. No one could. In a perfect world, no one could. To help them think about the final question, one last "fire" song was played in its entirety. Enjoy the video.....
Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the SD Music Awards. We lost to Cash'd Out, who are great (but we're still better, of course). They were the only ones who responded when I asked if I could get up and pretend I was in their band if they won. We miscommunicated at the Awards and I didn't get to get up and say I was going to be their new June Carter. Oh well. Congrats, guys! Good time seeing all of our friends. BG's RIP. Don't forget: MUSIC TRIVIA SDMA BENEFIT ON SEPTEMBER 27TH!!!!
The Clash benefit was AWESOME. Possibly the best Cover Me Badd show ever. All the bands were incredible and we raised $700 for SD Music Foundation and music education. Thanks tons to Gadfly, Crash Encore, Billy Midnight, the Heartaches and Manganista (see setlists below). Funny enough, for the first time ever, Rookie Card was the least, um, accurate band of the night. They still ruled, of course. The best part, undoubtedly, was the Lil Strummer Allstar Orchestra, who crashed the SD Music Awards acoustic night at Claire De Lunes on Friday night, Balboa Park and the La Mesa Summer Concert on Saturday day and got a ton of love on the corner of Kettner and Laurel at the beginning of the show. Thanks to Mollytron, we have some great pictures of it. CLICK
Lil Strummer Allstar Orchestra: London Calling, I Fought The Law, Rock The Casbah, Should I Stay Or Should I Go (thanks to Jake, Scott, Shawn, Shannon, Jeremy, Pete, Craig, Billy, Ben and Bobby!) Gadfly: Armaggideon Time, Police & Thieves Crash Encore: Police On My Back, Lost In The Supermarket, Train In Vain Billy Midnight: Death Or Glory, Pressure Drop, Clampdown Rookie Card: Tommy Gun, Guns of Brixton, This Is Radio Clash (thanks to Tim & Shannon for hot synth drum & sax action), London Calling/Rock The Casbah The Heartaches: Janie Jones, Gates Of The West, Cheat Manganista: Charlie Don't Surf, Rudie Can't Fail, Rock The Casbah
Much love to the guy in the Guinness shirt who apparently was talkin' smack saying that Rookie Card wasn't really "feeling" the lyrics for London Calling. Maybe that's because the singer was wearing a gray mohawk, a POSEUR t-shirt plastered with Youtube comments and was actually singing Rock The Casbah. Some people.... (courtesy www.sddialedin.com paparazzi)
MUSICAL PURSUIT V, the most self-indulgent trivia nite yet
Good times, guys. Thanks to everyone for comin' out for Musical Pursuit, which I keep forgetting to call it. Someone on the Punk Board recently joked that the last trivia nite was going to be all Rookie Card trivia. Damn you! I'd had the idea for awhile to have a whole quiz with questions about me, my life, my loves.... Categories included Rookie Card lyric references, bands we've opened for and a ton of stupid questions relating to my life. My favorite part was the big laugh/groan when I pointed out that the first letters of the bands in the photo quiz spelled A-D-A-M-G-I-M-B-E-L. Anyone know the guy who yelled out the answer to the final question** and then ran out of the bar? Left me speechless.
The winning team was Kick Astley, Molly, Suzanne, Sven-Erik Seaholm and Matt Gagin. As easy as Name-That-Tune was (Dallas & Gorney were hysterical, especially when they kept singing the answers), they got 39 out of 40 points and then got both bonus questions. The t-shirt of the night was a Biz Markee shirt that said "You got what I need" and the team name of the night was New World Michael Vick Order because they were the only ones that cheered loudly for themselves.
Kipper was awesome as spelling bee host but didn't notice that Sammy changed his answer when he had him repeat the winning word. Cheating Indian! I think we'll let Matt be in the finals too. Next semifinal in November. Year end finals with Molly, Andrew, Matt & Sammy in December.
Next trivia nite's a fundraiser for SD Music Awards & music education for kids. Bellyup & Casbah have donated tix for it already. Thursday September 27th! Don't forget the Clash benefit at the Casbah in just two weeks!!!
Sat September 15th 08:00 PM mTraks/Cover Me Badd's 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah benefit 2501 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, California 92101 mTraks and Cover Me Badd presents the 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah, a benefit for the San Diego Music Awards. How could we NOT do something at the Casbah for this!? Starring Manganista, the Heartaches, Rookie Card, Billy Midnight, Crash Encore, Gadfly and more. Plus a special preshow singalong with the Lil Strummer Allstar Orchestra (folks from Blasphemous Guitars, Skelpin, the Ex-Friends, Society, Billy Midnight, the Bipeds, 7th Day Buskers, the Handsome Devils and more). DJ Edgartonic spins in between bands!
**The question was "What song did I get up and sing onstage on my 21st birthday?" After an endless namedropping story of meeting Marky Mark and Harry Shearer the same night, I gave the clue that it was a song that was a number 1 song of the year on 91X and someone yelled out "What year?" I figured no one would get it from that so I said it was 1984 and before I could say that Mick Jones from the Clash played guitar on it, some guy yelled out "Tenderness!" and ran out. Too funny.
Last night, Cover Me Badd's Blasphemous Guitars played their final puppet show, headlining a packed concert at the San Diego House of Blues. Promoter Rick Ortiz didn't "personally greet" us as promised and introduced us by saying "If you believe in God, make some noise!" (perfect intro for a band called Blasphemous Guitars). Other than that, his attention to detail was unbelievable. Well, he also never did recognize Adam as the singer of that Rookie Card band that he once came onstage to kick off with a wireless microphone. We love Rick! It was a little crammed on the tiny 5th Avenue stage but we filled the room, which felt great. We've played to more people but this was probably the most people that had ever come out just to see us. We had a blast carefully rocking, quitting and firing each other throughout the show. Sweaters 'round waists!
For those who never got to see us, you'll never get it. That was kind of our downfall. You really had to see us to realize our brilliance. Explaining it was just too tough. Still, we'd like to reveal our final setlist , with many faves that we've kept secret. Use your imagination and try to picture what these might sound like:
Set 1 THE FINAL COUNTDOWN/WAR PIGS EVERYTHING COUNTS/NUMA NUMA FIRST OF THE GANG TO BEAT IT ENJOY THE PRECIOUS CLARKSON PARANOID BOYS DON'T CRY SOLO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (LET ME GET WHAT I WANT) (thanks to Butch, an actual black man, for spontaneously helping with the James Brown bit) BLASPHEMOUS RUMOURS SMITHS MEDLEY (ELLIOTT, PATTI, ROBERT, WILL, AERO) THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE
Set 2 THE FINAL COUNTDOWN/WAR PIGS WE WILL ROCK YOUR GIRLFRIEND INTO A COMA (picture this with Heart's Barracuda brilliantly thrown in too) SMELLS LIKE BILLIE JEAN (BG REMIX) ENTER SHARONA/PERSONAL JESUS THIS CHARMING IRON MAN SOLO WHOLE LOTTA LOVECATS BOOTIE MEDLEY (PROFESSOR BOOTY/BOOTS WERE MADE WALKIN/BOOTYLICIOUS/FAT BOTTOM GIRLS/BIG BOTTOM/BABY GOT BACK/SHAKE YOUR BOOTY/RUMPSHAKER) KILLING AN ARAB IN THE NAME OF (FUCK YOU IT'S FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE) encore GIRLS (Beasties power ballad request) NEVER LET ME FREEBIRD AGAIN
Thanks for letting us go out feeling so loved. Now, go away! Seriously, we look forward to losing at the San Diego Music Awards next month and maybe one day, we'll reunite. Thanks again to everyone who ever came to see us play, told a friend how great we were or got in on our act. Thanks to every club and soundguy who ever had the guts to have us play and our apologies to everyone who we blew off the stage. You suck. We rule.
Blasphemous Guitars 2005-2007 We saw a million faces and we rocked them all.
Keep an eye out for future Cover Me Badd fun: • Monthly music trivia at the Whistle Stop • 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah benefit on SatSep15 • .38 Specials Education (classic ska debut covered in its entirety, coming in 2008)
Someone is looking for the cute girl in the green. Contact us.
Thanks for the fotos, Kim!
Currently
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The Last Waltz
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The Band
Release date: 23 September, 2003
Tue August 14th 9pm Free Blasphemous Guitars FAREWELL SHOW HOB San Diego • 1055 Fifth Avenue
Cover Me Badd acts are supposed to break up before we become what we're supposed to be making fun of. Greg's shredding star is rising, Adam hasn't written a song in almost a year and there are three wives that barely recognize their husbands. It's time.
We had a ton of fun. We played to thousands of people and they all thought we were the best, funniest, most originalest, rockingest coverband they'd ever seen. We had Depeche Mode copybands steal our name (Blasphemous Rumours, not to mention several Cover Me Badds worldwide), threaten us with violence (101) and have a sense of humor enough to play with us (Sweetest Perfection). We played to packed clubs both large and small. We sometimes played to crickets and tumbleweeds and had a blast anyways. Convincing the world that 99.9% of all copycat "tribute" bands are boring proved to be a task too huge to achieve, even for us. At least we got the singer from Blasphemous Rumours to admit that "pretending to live someone else's dream" was "kinda pathetic". Unfortunately, we didn't get it on tape.
We didn't think it was possible but we actually are ending things even more awesome than when we started. Our recent set at San Diego Pride SMOKED (read about it and see pictures and video here) and we were nominated for a 2007 San Diego Music Award. Read what we wrote about our so-called "competition" here and please vote for us at http://www.sandiegomusicawards.com!
As a gift to our twelve fans, we are doing a FREE farewell show upstairs at House of Blues with two long sets of classics. No ticket necessary. Just show up. Cover Me Badd will still do lots of cool stuff (monthly Music Trivia and a Clash covers benefit in September) but now it's time to say goodbye to the BG's. Come by and giggle one last time....until we decide to reunite and finally do Jumping Someone Else's Crazy Train.
Thanks for the laughs. Sorry if we made fun of you. Well, not that sorry.
VOTE NOW! SanDiegoMusicAwards.com COVER ME BADD'S FIRST EVER NOMINATION! Thanks to the Academy for finally coming to their senses. Ceremony conveniently scheduled on Adam's birthday, September 17th at Viejas.
OUR "COMPETITION" in the Best Cover, Tribute or Bar Band category: 80s All Starz. 80's music!? BORING. Blasphemous Guitars. We rule. Cash'd Out. We do Personal Jesus WAY better than they do. Detroit Underground. I thought this was the San Diego Music Awards. Pink Froyd. They'd be better if they did Wizard Of Oz mashups. Rockola. No more room on their mantlepiece. Pass the torch. Soul Persuaders. We are too white to understand soul music. The Reaganomics. (see 80s All Starz)
Our first trivia night sponsored by Adam's new job, mTraks.com, was a total blast. Our special mystery guest was world famous mashup artiste, DJ Riko. For Name-That-Tune, we played his most well-known creation, a medley of 29 famous songs with whistling called Whistler's Delight (check it out on his myspace page). Definitely the hardest Name-That-Tune yet. Answers are up on his website http://www.DJRiko.com. Sara Morrison won our first Best T-shirt contest with a pink number that had Godzilla hitchhiking to Tokyo. We gave away bigger and better prizes than we ever have before and the top teams had scores just three points apart!
FIRST PLACE: Team Hermione Dies On Page 437 (Scolari's allstars win $107 and a free drink for best team name) SECOND PLACE: The Broke Jokes (father/son team Sven Erik-Seaholm, Drew Andrews & friends) THIRD PLACE: All Our Band Names Went Over Like A Led Zeppelin (Inigo & friends)
Since we're going to start doing trivia nights across the country, we're going to stop putting up the answers up on blogs and in bulletins. Lotsa Comic Con friendly questions, including sections for the Simpsons and animated videos plus a dreadful video of a Lynda Carter variety show medley (see below). See you guys next month at the Whistle Stop when we return and stick with the last Thursday of the month, Thursday August 30th!
PS Cover Me Badd's Blasphemous Guitars FREE Farewell Show is Tuesday August 14th at House Of Blues (Adam apparently announced the wrong date) PSS I'd like to publically take a point away from Team Forever's Gonna Start Tonight. TBone somehow convinced me that I should allow "Angel In The Centerfield" instead of "Centerfold". He's quite the charmer when he's drunk but that's ridiculous.
FINAL QUESTION: What two acts had a top 10 US hit with John Williams' "Theme From Star Wars" in 1977? (our first final question stumper!)
Thanks to Rodney and everyone at SD Pride for making our set so amazing (and to Gabriel and Tragic Tantrum for running around on stilts, looking like a zombie and getting practically naked). What a reaction! While the lawn stayed sparse, a few hundred folks lined the street overlooking our stage. The crowd and crew liked us so much that we were the only mainstage band this weekend to get an encore, even though they were running late. Don't tell anyone but we were even better than Erasure. Check out Marie's photos! A few fans contacted us with their cool photos too! Mandy Huyler (pro!) and Monkey (quantity AND quality). Thanks!
Meanwhile, Hollywood's DMode copyband Blasphemous Rumours played to just 50 people, badmouthed the nicest sound guy in town onstage for trying to stay on schedule and cut their friends the Cured's set short by refusing to stop. One of them has an "original" band, Folio, that played after us, right before Erasure and bored over 2000 people who gave them polite courtesy applause. We got a bigger reaction from a crowd about 5% as big as what they played to. Their guitarist is apparently the only person that thought Michael Stipe's blue eyepaint was a good idea. 80's influenced new wave is fine but with all of their sequencers, guitar pedals and haircuts, they were just BORING. They aren't half as good as San Diego's own Lights On who do the 80's thing WAY better and don't look like they desparately want to be on MTV. Oh yeah, the guy from Blasphemous Rumours forgot to bring a guitar pick and refused to give back the one Adam let him borrow. THEY STEAL ANYTHING THEY CAN THINK OF.
