Schuba’s Tavern (Chicago, IL)
Friday May 3, 2002 – 7:00 pmPlayed at Schuba’s with Central Falls
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
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Sokol Underground (Omaha, NE)
Sunday April 28, 2002 – 7:00 pmWith: Central Falls, Mayday
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
(Mayday’s singer is Ted Stevens, formerly of Lullaby for the Working Class)
Bottom of the Hill (San Francisco, CA)
Friday April 19, 2002 – 7:00 pm
Played at the Bottom of the Hill with The Court and Spark and Central Falls opening
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
Madison show preview
Wednesday April 10, 2002 – 6:00 pmA show preview (author unknown) that appeared in Madison, WI in the April 11-17, 2002 issue of The Onion…
April 12: Edith Frost w/ Central Falls
Café Montmartre, 9 p.m., $8
Much like Canadian singer Julie Doiron, Edith Frost coaxes beauty from sadness and longing. Although Frost’s music is often pegged as alt-country, her songs rarely muster up enough energy or twang to warrant the tag. She played with bar bands in her native Texas for years,* but didn’t find her true voice until she discovered Chicago’s underground-rock scene. Last year’s Wonder Wonder benefits greatly from those around her: Archer Prewitt and members of Wilco and Eleventh Dream Day help lay the foundation for Frost’s lovely, world-weary songs. Adam Vida, leader of opening act Central Falls, moonlights as the drummer for the insanely spastic No Wave band U.S. Maple. But Central Falls is everything Vida’s other gig isn’t: languid, pretty, tuneful, dreamy, and so on. Its new album is Latitude.
*Actually I didn’t start playing in "bar bands" (?!?) until around 1993, after I left Texas and moved to Brooklyn.
Meanings of W.E.I.R.D.
Wednesday February 20, 2002 – 11:04 amNote: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.
You know my Incredibly Strange Music group on Audiogalaxy? I had to remove (expel) a member just now for the first time. And it’s a shame because he was one of the original members when I first started the group in December. Well, he was a pain in the ass then and he’s been a pain in the ass all along, despite repeated warnings and threats to eject him. His infractions were almost too numerous to mention: he would flood the message board with egocentric posts. He would insult me on the message board and insult anyone who also felt he was being a pain. Worst of all he kept sending crappy commercial music. Not 100% bad shit, maybe 66% was questionable and 33% was good. That’s why it sucks that it had to come to this, because I will miss the 33% good shit he posted. What an idiot.
Ryan Hembrey’s back from his month-long European tour with Manishevitz. Him and Adam Vida are coming over on Monday for a band meeting, to discuss how we’re going to work out the money arrangements and everything for the tour. Come to think of it I guess I should ask Jim if he wants to come too! Don’t want to exclude the only other Chicago bandmember.
The Hideout (Chicago, IL)
Saturday September 29, 2001 – 7:00 pmPlayed at the Hideout with Central Falls and Perio opening
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Amy Domingues (cello, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
Detroit Contemporary (Detroit, MI)
Friday September 28, 2001 – 7:00 pmPlayed at Detroit Contemporary with The Americans opening
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Amy Domingues (cello, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
Ottobar (Baltimore, MD)
Tuesday September 25, 2001 – 7:00 pmPlayed at the Ottobar with the Anomoanon and the Translucents
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Amy Domingues (cello, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
Mercury Lounge (New York, NY)
Saturday September 22, 2001 – 7:00 pm
Played at the Mercury Lounge with Patricia Vonne and The Moonlighters opening
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
Photo by my pal Jodi Shapiro, who would never get mad at me for stealing this picture! ;-)
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Tuesday September 18, 2001 – 12:00 am
L-R: Jim Becker; me; Ryan Hembrey; Amy Domingues. Photo by Adam Vida.
Rudyard’s (Houston, TX)
Friday September 14, 2001 – 7:00 pmPlayed at Rudyard’s opening for the White Stripes and the Greenhornes
My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Amy Domingues (cello, keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass, backing vocals), Adam Vida (drums)
(Video by chasspeed. The songs are “Further” and “True”, both from my third album Wonder Wonder.)
