Funk Babblings

If I were going to be in Columbus Saturday night (not Friday as I first said), I'd be at Skully's for the Third Annual Joe Strummer Memorial Clash Benefit Marathon. It starts a 6:30 with a showing of the film Rude Boy, followed by 16 bands performing three Clash or Joe Strummer songs each. I'd especially want to see The Secret Sound Of The NSA and Red Dahlia (whose music is much better than their web site design).

You say you're not in Columbus? Are you west of Ohio? Well, The Reputation may be coming to your town soon. For example:

• Sun Mar 13 - Lawrence, Kansas
• Thu Mar 17 (my anniversary!) - Austin, Texas (SXSW, which I want to go to someday)
• Sat Mar 26 - San Francisco

Say hi for me. :-)

Update: A bit closer to home, the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland has a couple notable shows this weekend.
Tonight (Friday) is a(nother) reunion of Columbus punk legends the New Bomb Turks. (I doubt I'll make it; besides being exhausted from work this week and not likely up for NBT punk, tonight is also the Canton Drum Circle Meetup, which I haven't been able to get to yet.) Tomorrow night (Saturday) is Alex Chilton, who I first knew only through the Replacements' great song about him, but later through his Big Star songs like "September Gurls", "Don't Lie To Me", and "In The Street" (which became the basis for the theme to "That 70s Show").

Tonight after the gallery some of us ended up watching the movie Camp, which isn't really my type of movie but was entertaining enough. (And hey, according to the credits an ex-girlfriend of mine was in the movie... except that character is black and my ex-girlfriend isn't. Heh, IMDB lists eight people with that name.)

The best part for me was that the Replacements song "Skyway" was in the movie in two scenes. Great song (and awesome album), but there's no way I'll ever be good enough on the guitar to be able to play it. So from there my mind wandered to another Replacements song, "Can't Hardly Wait". It's stuck in my head and now I MUST learn it, or at least be able to play the intro on the bass.

da-da-da-da da-da
da-da-da-da da-da
Write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight I can't hold a pen....

Update half an hour later:
OK, I got the basic riff fingering on the bass, in two different octaves (one and two octaves below the guitar version).
D-B-A-G A-G
D-B-A-G A-G