Major Stars Live in Western, MA !!

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Heads up for all you folks from/near Western MA..Possible dates are this Fri June 11th and Sat June 26th..NO DATE IS CONFIRMED YET but as soon as is it will be listed on the Calendar at http://www.flywheelarts.org

*CODE RED*ROCK ALERT*CODE RED*
Major Stars Live at Flywheel
First shows since August 2003
Coming this June
No date confirmed yet but
will be on the calendar
at http://www.flywheelarts.org
when we know.
Flywheel 2 Holyoke St. Easthampton,MA
(413) 529-4700

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 5 June 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

We got a date!! Saturday June 26th!! 7:30 PM!! be ready to rock!!Openers TBA. Hope to see some of you there

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sick. I'm thererrere.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 7 June 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Lightning Belt want to open :-)

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 7 June 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And Davor I'll see if I can get Cider Doughnuts.......

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 7 June 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this and was like "what, Wayne and Kate moved?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And some banana cream pie, too! My ass ain't gonna grow on its own!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

I guess this is the only thread we've got on this band? Picked up their most recent two albums at Reckless the other night and wondering why I hadn't found them sooner. Loving this stuff. I'm reading now that this lineup is quite a bit different (new vocalist, etc), is their earlier work worth tracking down?

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

Yes indeed. But they are best experienced as the force of nature they are live.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

Another thing I've been reading! I see that they were opening for Rangda on that tour, another reason to be sad for missing it.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:55 (fifteen years ago)

from what I understand they closed down the twisted village shop? armageddon records is taking the space over.

― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:04 (fifteen years ago)

from what I understand they closed down the twisted village shop?

If memory serves, Kate & Wayne are keeping Twisted Village going but only as an online shop.

Seconding Ned... Major Stars live show is very u & k.

After seeing them again at the last Terrastock, I made up a Major Stars drinking game: drink once whenever Kate or Wayne's guitar heroics causes them to fall over on stage, drink twice if it's simultaneous, etc.

― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:10 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:12 (fifteen years ago)

is their earlier work worth tracking down?

oh hell yes. tell you the truth, i prefer it to what they're doing now, but it's not like there's a huge drop in quality. just a shift in emphasis. S: distant effects and major stars 4. they also did a live split thing with comets on fire at around the same time that's very much worth the hunt (their side feats one track each from the two LPs i mentioned). and if you like what you find, it's only a short hop to magic hour, vermonster and crystallized movements, similar bands w/ wayne & kate going back to the 80s.

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

this wideness comes by the crystalized movements is a lost classic

― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:24 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, totally! criminally overlooked and so damn great. never understood why the SY/dino jr. crowd didn't fall in line. the follow-up, revelations from pandemonium is just as good, maybe even less well known.

plus yeah, one 'l' in crystalized duh

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks for the recommendations!

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

haha! (new song is pretty killer)

Do you ever want to hear another rock guitar solo again? That's where the fight began. Robin played a song with a lot of guitar wankery by the band Major Stars. He loved it and I frankly couldn't wait for it to end. It got me wondering: Is this sort of music even relevant in 2016?

But there are lots of other sounds on this week's show, including a song from a favorite new album of mine by a band that certainly has the most adorable name: Cuddle Magic. It's a spare bit of electronic pop inspired by music from Ghana. It leans somewhere between Sylvan Esso and the Postal Service.

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/10/05/496689669/new-mix-solange-gillian-welch-cuddle-magic-more

― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 21:45 (nine years ago)

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