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November 30, 2005
The Great Cover Up
By necessity this might be one of the vaguer promo spiels that I have ever attempted, but here goes anyway....
The 7th Annual Great Cover Up is happening Thursday through Saturday of this week at Kings. If you've never been to a night of The Great Cover Up, it can be a lot of fun - just imagine three straight nights of various local musicians performing short one-off cover band sets to a bunch of excited people who don't know what (other) bands they're going to hear when they walk in the door. The wide variety of bands/artists chosen and the whole element of surprise are a large part of the charm....and I frequently hear people recall the brilliant moments that I missed with comments like, "oh man, so-and-so pulled off an amazing set of such-and-such, plus they even looked just like them."
So anyway, I'm performing in The Great Cover Up for the first time this year. My group hits the stage sometime Thursday night, maybe around midnight or so? I cannot reveal who we are going to be, but I will say that we will be deviating significantly from The Great Cover Up mean, if such a thing exists. One of our crew is a Great Cover Up veteran, but his role on Thursday will be nothing like his previous stints as David Yow and Glenn Danzig (see below).
For starters, he'll actually be keeping his shirt on this time!
All proceeds from The Great Cover Up go to benefit Interact and the Wake County Literacy Council, so come on out to Raleigh on Thursday night. And/or Friday. And/or Saturday. I can't get any more specific than that, but I think most Cover Up aficionados would agree that it's those knowable unknowns that help make the event so intriguing...
Posted by Tim at November 30, 2005 12:50 AM
Comments
For those of us in the home viewing audience...who were you?
Posted by: Stuart at December 2, 2005 10:59 AM
We were kickin' that funky Cypress Hill shit.
More info and a picture or two sometime over the next couple of days...
Posted by: Tim at December 2, 2005 11:26 AM
Please tell me that Cy rocked a big B Real 'fro.
...And that you mostly stuck to the first 2 albums.
Posted by: Stuart at December 2, 2005 12:52 PM
Actually, Ricky Dollars was our B Real...he didn't have a full 'fro but he rocked one of those bucket-shaped fisherman's hats.
Muggs had a very aromatic coffee-grounds goatee.
Only the first two albums, of course!
Posted by: Tim at December 2, 2005 01:43 PM