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More On The New Album - October 25th, 2005
According to Wikipedia the next album is now called “Land of the Freak and Home of Depraved“.
New Album News - September 1st, 2005
As we all sit and wait for the new album, Don, Dave, and the gang are getting set to perform in London. The article on the web page advertising the gigs, claims that the new album will be called “Out Come The Freaks”.
London Gigs – Live at the Jazz Cafe - September 1st, 2005
WAS (NOT WAS) – Live at the Jazz Cafe
Mon 24th, Tue 25th, Wed 26th, Thu 27th October
doors 7pm £22.50 advance
Jazz Cafe
5 Parkway
Camden Town
London NW1 7PG
Please note: These dates were originally scheduled to take place between Sunday 18th and Wednesday 21st September. Original tickets remain valid for the new dates.
Advert In Mojo For London Tour - April 4th, 2005
Note Sir Harry, although pictured, is not in the band for this tour.
Are You Ok? Was (Not Was) Lineup - March 7th, 2005
- David McMurray (Sax)
- Ron Peng-Born (Drums)
- Rayse Biggs (Trumpet)
- Sir Harry Bowens (Vocals)
- Debora Dobkin (Percussion)
- Randy Jacobs (Guitar)
- Sweat Pea Atkinson (Vocals)
- Jamie Muhuberac (Keyboards)
- Donald Ray Mitchell (Vocals)
- David Was (Flute/Harmonica/Vocals)
- Don Was (Bass)
Soultracks - March 5th, 2005
Soultracks.com provides a short biography of the band.
The Death Of Mr Ping Pong - February 20th, 2005
David explains about this song:
“death of mr PP has a nice story attached. we are promo touring the UK and
had landed in birmingham for the night. get a call from phonogram in london:
‘we need a b-side for the next single, can you go in tonite and cut
something?’
bingaddabong i pick up the local tabloid and hunt for a premise. see a
headline: DEATH OF MR. TABLE TENNIS’, and the story on mr maurice goldsmith
(i recall), the local scion of the tabletennis scene.
i figgered ‘pingpong’ had a more comic ring to it, but wanted the song to
have a kind of flatliner, deadpan delivery, so i enlisted don to do his
first vocal.
the narrative, POINT A etc, was supposed to surgically dissect the rise and
fall of a legend……and i told don: NO EMOTION! read it like youre reading
a grocery list….he done it brilliantly i think — then he retired from
‘singing.'”
True Crime Stories! - February 12th, 2005
Were he a gangsta rapper, Don Was might tell the story differently. Somehow this is probably one of the differences between hip-hop and rock. Hip-hop artists are all about establishing their cred as criminals. The rhymes talk about committing the crimes and the run-ins had with the man before they realized they could get a lot more bling and a lot fewer bullets by just cashing in on past experiences and rapping about it for the multi-colored masses.
Farm Aid – 1990 - February 7th, 2005
Was (Not Was) (with Kenny Aronoff on drums )backed up Iggy Pop, John Hiatt and, with just Kenny Aronoff & Don Was, Lou Reed, at Farm Aid in 1990. They performed two songs as a band, (Papa was a Rolling Stone, and possibly, Walk the Dinosaur). Then acording to Don…. “as dick clark was introducing him, iggy snuck up behind the emcee and gave him a swift kick to the ass – on live national tv. having been warned that any obscene outbursts would result in being cutoff and replaced with commercials, iggy made it safely thru “home” from the “Brick by Brick” album. his subsequent introduction of “I wanna be your dog” – featuring the word fuck about 5 times – caused that song to be blacked out. Then hiatt came out & sang “thru Your hands” which I had just recorded with David Crosby. can’t remember what his second song was or what we did with lou reed……”
London Dates For May 2005 - January 30th, 2005
28TH MAY – JAZZ CAFE PARKWAY – LONDON
29TH MAY – JAZZ CAFE PARKWAY – LONDON
30TH MAY – JAZZ CAFE PARKWAY – LONDON
31ST MAY – JAZZ CAFE PARKWAY – LONDON
Order your ticket from Bigmouth
Photos of The Chigago Show 2004 - January 22nd, 2005
Matt Charmicael from rocknroll.net has some photos of the Chigago Show.
Tour Fallout - January 18th, 2005
Well the tour is over, but it has left those who saw it with some good memories. For those that didn’t, you can down load a recording of the January 5, show at Ram’s Head Onstage in Annapolis MD, with thanks to Sleepypedro and Don, who OKed the recording. [Show no longer available, site shutdown by RIAA]
There have also been lots of interviews, and articles, appearing on the web. Here are a few links:
Livedaily
Boycott-RIAA
Billboard
Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press again.
and my favourite:
Metrotimes
And How We Danced - November 26th, 2004
Newly revamped, And How We Danced provides a short disography, and biography of the band.
Was (Not Was) 2004-05 USA Tour Dates Confirmed - November 5th, 2004
- MON DEC 27 ANAHEIM HOUSE OF BLUES
- TUE DEC 28 LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF BLUES
- THU DEC 30 SAN FRANCISCO SLIM’S
- FRI DEC 31 DETROIT ROYAL OAK THEATER (w/ THE ROMANTICS)
- SAT JAN 1 CLEVELAND HOUSE OF BLUES
- TUE JAN 4 CHICAGO HOUSE OF BLUES
- WED JAN 5 ANAPOLIS,MD RAMS HEAD
- THU JAN 6 NEW YORK B.B.KING’S
- FRI JAN 7 PHILADELPHIA TROCADERO
SAT JAN 8 BOSTON THE MIDDLE EAST
UPDATE: 4 Dec 2004
Thought you might like to know that there apparently isn’t a Boston show, contrary to what you have posted.
The other shows are listed for sale, though, with Ticketron Ticketmaster.
The people at the Middle East Club in Cambridge profess not to know about the show and have other acts scheduled for that night.
What David Is Doing Now. - October 3rd, 2004
David is a music correspondent for “Day To Day” a show on NPR. They call his pieces “Was On Music”. The credits for the show also say that he writes the “Big Shots” column for “Golf” Magazine.
You can hear one of David’s slots here (for a short time). He talks about a $49 computer program called Garageband. The software allows Mac users to make music very easily. There are even short tracks available that he composed using the software. Not exactly a new album, but . . .
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