Sexual Favors For Sandwiches = Here We Come Royal Oak, MI!

As the legendary NCAA college basketball coach Bobby Knight once said, "It's not the will to succeed that matters, but the will to prepare to succeed."  For this reason I like to study the musical landscape of a city before a show to help us design a set that will connect best with local culture.

As we gear up for our next performance in Royal Oak, MI (just outside of Detroit) on Feb. 19, I am reminded that the Motor City was the birthplace of Motown and that I would be faced with a plethora of music/videos to sift through in order to get a well-rounded picture of what's been going on in Detroit over the last 60 years.

During my research, I stumbled across one video that struck me as having a very special signficance in recent Motor City musical history.  I'd like to share that video with you today.

The time: August 13, 2009.
The place: a small restuarant in Coney Island outside of downtown Detroit.
The artist: Unknown, but we can assume he's operating under the inspiration of D-town's finest crack cocaine.

Enjoy!



It's hard to believe how much better Michael Jackson is than this guy, when I can probably gaurantee MJ had a multitude of stornger drugs flowing through his system....then again MJ had the evolutionary advantage of growing up in Gary, IN.  Nevertheless...some of the lyrical reinvention featured above is admirable.

Verona Red commits sexual favors for sandwiches in Royal Oak on...

Feb. 19
@ Memphis Smoke (100 S. Main, Royal Oak, Michigan 48067)
with National Ghost (http://www.myspace.com/nationalghost)
9:30 PM
Cost: $0!
21+

Sour Video and Batman Jizz

Ok so as is the case with many of the videos posted on this blog.. I may have been the last person in the world to have seen this...so if this post makes me seem like I live in a cave... the truth is that I do, the batcave in fact. Alfred tucks me in every night and Robin lets me watch him and the Adam West Batman give each other reach arounds. (SPLOOOGE!)

Anyway, I came across this music video form the band Sour and thought it was cool enough to post even if the rest of the world has already seen it (fuck you early adapters...I'm out!).  The vid won the Youtube Japan 2009 Video Awarards.  The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.  Enjoy!

Podcast Love

So just got back from Florida, was pissed about going back to work...and the weather in Chicago sucks as usual.  But enough complaining...cause I stumbled across a kick ass podcast that featured 5 of our songs while I was gone!

Thank you to George L. Smyth of the Eclectic Mix Music Podcast!  We're really excited to be a part of this show.  Take a listen to episode #280 here (http://glsmyth.com/Other/EMix/Music-Podcast/?Verona_Red).

Adding to the coolness... George hosted AMPed Music Weekly this week ("the offiical weekly update for the the Association of Music Podcasting") and kicked off the show with one of our tracks! Listen here (http://castroller.com/podcasts/AmpedNewMusic/1429080)

Thank you Mr. Smyth.  I'm feeling much better about being back home now :)

Shit Mike Says to Strangers on Myspace to Get Them to Come Out to Shows: Episode 2

Subject: Gerard Butler

So we aren't Gerard Butler, or anything really close to Gerard Butler but... We do rock hard and believe in sleeping around sort of like Gerard Butler. Check us out at Vollrath and maybe you'll see something in us that you see in GB. Have a good weekend and hope to hear from you soon.


Mike
Verona Red

Made in the U.S.A

A Brazilian Verona Red? The rumors are true... I present to you... for the first time ever in the Northern Hemisphere....some other Verona Red band?!  It's not the VR I know and love, but it would work just as well in Jersey!



Support the economy and watch Verona Red videos made in America. http://www.youtube.com/user/VeronaRedMusic#p/u/4/wBMZVN7GKZ8

Here's a fun one we found on youtube taken by a fan at the Beat Kitchen back in November. Thanks Rockgod2099!