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Shot at the Charisma Cafe in the Village of the Arts, Bradenton, Florida, on Feb 9. 2008. Not Tuna does Hot Tuna covers and a bit of Greatful Dead in addition to their own, original material. More songs from them coming soon…
Some years back, when rap first got popular, I predicted that if we could have “music” with no tune, we’d soon have “songs” with no words.
Ooh uh uh. Geh grr ug ug!
I called my hypothetical wordless songs “grunt rock.”
And there I was, at C.O.R.E. in Bradenton, Fleriduh, one afternoon, when six young men who called themselves ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’ got up on the little stage and started loudly pumping out… grunt rock!
Adults either shook their heads or left, but a small corps of teenage girls sat there, enthralled.
Wow. These guys were totally accomplishing the two mission of any high-quality disaffected-teener band: repelling adults and attracting girls.
Ooh ugh Wah Fuh! Boo huh rah mah?
This is great…. no need to waste time and brain cells learning lyrics. Just get up there and grunt!
Hey, ladies, stick out your can. Here comes the garbage man! In Bradenton, Florida, he’s one of the lowest-paid and hardest-working city employees, and hardly anybody pays any attention to him or gives him props for doing good work. So this video is my personal tribute to Bradenton’s Solid Waste Department — a great bunch of folks who deserve lots more recognition than they get.
A video montage I made in an attempt to compress several hours of riotous hip-hop, dance, circus acts, and giant, rotating burning heads into a few minutes. It was a Twilight Zone New Years party @ Exquisite Exhibit in the heart of Bradenton’s Village of the Arts. And you wonder why we live in Florida. Ha!
Sometimes, with its old-fashioned neighborhood camaraderie and old houses, Bradenton’s Village of the Arts feels like it’s in the 1950s, not the 2000s. Here’s a casual little New Years Eve get-together at Karen Klosky’s house that easily could have taken place in 1957 instead of 2007.
