BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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March 20, 2008

Thurzzzzday

Whew, sorry about the big yawn there. Went to see the always amazing Kinky last night at Harlow's, and glad I didn't turn into a pumpkin around midnight. And then I had to get up extra early today for an 8 .m. phone interview with Roy Bittan, the pianist/keyboardist in the E Street Band. We talked for about 30 mins. and he had some cool stories that more than kept me awake. Fun fact: Roy was paid $110 per week when he joined the E Street Band back around 1975. I also didn't know that he'd played on David Bowie's "Station to Station" and "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" albums. Look for this interview with Roy to run in a Bruce Springsteen package that's running in Ticket+ on March 30. This is all in preps of the Boss and his E Street Band coming to Arco Arena on April 4.

But I'm still thinking about the Kinky show last night. This electro-rock band from Monterrey, Mexico really throws down with its live show. That's to say the band performs with huge amounts of energy, and it's sound is a cool and tremendously danceable mish-mash of rock en Espanol, funk, electronics and touches of Norteno music - accordion and all. In short, the show was a blast and was well worth any grogginess today. Now where's that second cup of coffee ...

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