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| | Bernie Mac - Def Comediene | | 2008-08-10 12:36:00 | | Bernie was one of the funniest comedienes of our time... Im going to bring you guys some funny clips all week in his remembrance - Here's his secong appearance of Def Jam Comedy and he killed it!!!Do Remember!!!
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| | Rest In Peace Bernie Mac | | 2008-08-10 03:18:20 | | I was deeply saddened to wake up this morning and hear that Bernie Mac (real name: Bernard Jeffery McCullough) has passed away at the age of 50. The actor and comedian passed away in the early hours of Saturday (9 August 2008) from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital. We have certainly [...]... | | By: Rons Crib | | |
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| Actor, comedian Bernie Mac dies at 50 | | 2008-08-09 20:37:00 | | © AP Bernie MacI'm not sure you know this actor or not, but for someone who love to watch Hollywood movie i bet you know him. He was Bernie Mac a funny man indeed and the days of his funny act was over. Most of the actors in "Ocean 13" movie said he was a funny guy. World had become lest funny, world will miss him but heaven just got funnier. Farewell Bernie Mac.... | | By: What's Up | | |
| | Bernie Mac Passes Away | | 2008-08-09 16:08:21 | | In a shocking and tragic turn of events, Bernie Mac died this morning (August 9th) in the midst of his recent hospitalization. He was 50 years old.
His publicist Danica Smith announced, “Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital.”
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| | NEWS: Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50 | | 2008-08-09 15:31:20 | |
Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning. He was 50.
“Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago-area hospital,” his rep told Usmagazine.com in a statement. “No other details are available at this time. We ask that his family’s privacy continues to be respected.”
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| | Bernie Mac est mort. | | 2008-08-09 13:17:00 | | L'acteur américain Bernie Mac, qui avait connu la consécration en 2001 avec le film "Ocean's eleven" où il apparaissait aux côtés de Brad Pitt et George Clooney dans un rôle de braqueur, est décédé des suites d'une pneumonie, ont annoncé aujourd'hui les médias américains. Bernie Mac, qui souffrait depuis longtemps de sarcoïdose, une maladie des poumons, est mort dans un hopital de Chicago,...... | | By: Pron0x-TV | | |
| | Bye Bye Bernie. | | 2008-08-09 11:37:46 | |
Another brilliant comedian passed away this year as of this morning. Bernie Mac died of pneumonia complications at age 50 in a Chicago Hospital. He had roles in the Ocean’s 11 movies and had his own sitcom The Bernie Mac Show. He was recently criticized for some off color jokes at an Obama fundraiser.... | | By: Top T.V. Shows | | |
| | Bernie Mac - R.I.P | | 2008-08-09 09:31:00 | | This morning, we lost another great at a very young age, comediene Bernie Mac passed away at the age of 50. While cause of death has yet to be determined, Mac had been hospitalized last week with pnuemonia.Click here to read on Bernie Mac's PassingBernie Mac, you spent you life putting smiles on peopls faces and making them laugh -your personality & aura will be greatly missed!One of the best to do it...
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| | Comedian Bernie Mac dies | | 2008-08-09 09:08:00 | | Comedian Bernie Mac, who was 50, has died, his publicist said. Mac had pneumonia, and it is believed he died from complications of the pneumonia. Click here for more on this story.... | | By: The Hudson Line Blog | | |
| | Bernie Mac hospitalized | | 2008-08-04 13:39:59 | | Bernie Mac is in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia. The 50 year old actor is reported to be responding to treatment and should be released soon.... | | By: The Gossip Hound | | |
| | Yanks looking to honor Bernie | | 2008-07-27 17:59:00 | | From Ken Davidoff:The Yankees are working with Bernie Williams to ensure that the centerfielder, who left the team with hard feelings after the 2006 season, says a public goodbye to Yankee Stadium this season.The team invited Williams to Oldtimers Day on Aug. 2. For now, Williams has declined because of a long-planned vacation with his family. Club officials are holding out hope that he will change his mind this week.Nevertheless, if Williams isn't honored on Oldtimers Day, he will be on some other appropriate occasion. If it isn't an entire day dedicated to Williams, then there will be some sort of public acknowledgment that will give the fans a chance to thank Williams.There clearly were hurt feelings and anger on both sides. ... But those wounds have healed, and everyone is on board for a Bernie tribute before the Yankees move across the street to their new ballpark.The Yankees also tried to get Bernie to pull the countdown lever at the Stadium for when it went down to 51, but he co... | | By: The Evil Empire | | |
| | What next for Bernie and Max, F1 and FIA? | | 2008-06-18 03:35:12 | | Bernie Ecclestone is definitelly not happy Max Mosley still heads the FIA. They may be old friends (if there is such thing as friends in F1) but where money talks bullshit walks. And so Bernie has opened his mouth. I was not paying much attention to details of his interview with The Times. Frankly I [...]... | | By: Formula 1 And Stuff Around It | | |
| | Bernie Ecclestone writes letter too | | 2008-05-23 05:44:51 | | After the letter from Max Mosley to all FIA Club Presidents and following reaction from Bernie Ecclestone, here comes the promised letter from Bernie Ecclestone to the FIA Club Presidents. Full text inside the post.
22 May 2008
To all FIA Club Presidents
Dear President
The FIA President wrote a letter to you on 16 May 2008 (the Letter) [...]... | | By: Formula 1 And Stuff Around It | | |
| | Does Bernie Ecclestone really mean this ? | | 2008-05-08 22:41:16 | | Now I really hope he has been misquoted or this story was made up or something. This is what Bernie Ecclestone is said to have said on demise of Super Aguri according to PA Sports:
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| | Yankees Bury Bernie Under Stadium For Good Luck | | 2008-04-17 12:17:00 | | From The Onion, hat tip to Peter Abraham:Citing a need for physical and spiritual cleansing after a Boston Red Sox fan entombed a David Ortiz jersey in the floor of the new facility, the New York Yankees buried former centerfielder Bernie Williams under 4,650 pounds of concrete Wednesday in the foundation of the new Yankee Stadium for good luck. According to team sources, the instant the 39-year-old Williams was completely submerged in the rapidly setting structural material, stopping his voice as his lungs and mouth filled with concrete, the sun broke through the clouds and shone on the yet-incomplete field. Yankees part-owner Hank Steinbrenner called the occurrence a sign indicating that the "Curse Of A Red Sox Fan's David Ortiz Jersey" had been reversed, and that God was once again on the Yankees' side.
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| | Yankees Will Honor Bernie | | 2008-03-02 21:08:00 | | From Yahoo! Sports:Hank Steinbrenner said there’s not an official plan yet, but former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams will be honored by the team. “Obviously, Bernie is special to us,” Steinbrenner said.I'm certainly looking forward to Bernie Williams day. He was a great Yankee and certainly deserves his place in Monument Park.Hopefully Cashman's comments this offseason don't cause Bernie to decline the invite to his day at The Stadium, the way he declined to throw out the first pi... | | By: Sliding Into Home | | |
| | What is it with Bernie Ecclestone and Australia ? | | 2008-02-10 10:50:58 | | Two quotes from Bernie Ecclestone appeared in the news this weekend and after reading I began to wonder what did the Australians do to him …
Quote 1 - On the reports that Sydney may fill the gap if Melbourne looses the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix (in the interview for the Herald Sun)
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| | Interview: Bernie Bernie Headflap | | 2007-09-29 19:26:00 | | Interview: Artist: Bernie Bernie Headflap (Photo Credit - Chris Wirtalla) Websites: http://www.headflap.comhttp://www.myspace.com/bbheadflap Sounds Like: Kinks, They Might be Giants, Beck, Camper van Beethoven, Smashing Pumpkins Influenced By: Pixies/Frank Black, David Bowie, Talking Heads, ELO, The Cars Bernie Bernie Headflap is a unique band that starts with their name and extends to their music. The band has a good sound and a lot to say. The guys that make up Bernie Bernie Headflap were kind enough to recently do an extensive interview with us that you'll find below. Thanks to Alan, Moses, and Kit. I think that you'll find the band's music and this interview both informative and entertaining. Also for any of you masters of the sticks the band is looking for a new drummer and will be holding auditions on Saturday, October 20, 2007 from 1pm to 6pm at Second Story Sound Studio located at 220 East Nields Street, in West Chester, PA. (app. 36 miles west of the city). For more details visit the band's website. 1-You've had to deal with and overcome some really serious medical problems will you tell us how music has helped you to deal with that? (Alan)- Listening to music and creating it train the brain to transcend time and space. I can lose awareness of my present physical state. "Oh, I'm not in a hospital bed right now with tubes in me, I'm in a park on a hot summer day that XTC are singing about on "Summer's Cauldron." But I don't like the heat. Okay, well then, I'm on a train headed into Philly - the one I myself sing about on "Really Awake." My brain is so well trained at this point that I don't have to actually have the music with me physically to pull off the transcendence trick. During my most recent hospital stay, 40 days long in late summer through early autumn of 2006, the nurses told me, "It's okay to yell and curse at us," and my psychiatrist was like, "I can't understand how you can be that patient." I think I answered, "My brother went through worse" - and that WAS part of it. The other part would have been, "I am not really here." But it seemed unwise to say something, which might have sounded like I was losing my grip on reality to my psychiatrist. Though I did not have my iPod with me - many hospitals suggest you do not keep valuables in the room - all the years of music listening, writing and performing trained my brain to transcend. I was not in discomfort or in a hospital. I did not imagine a specific image for the place I was. I just went somewhere other than a hospital, to some place where I was well. Maybe Wyoming. Or Mike's studio or the Khyber. 2-What's the story behind the band's name, Bernie Bernie Headflap? (Alan)-Moses remembers the story better than I would have told it. I just want to add that there was a guy going around at Ursinus telling the story as if it were his idea. So having our name refer to the headflap was an effort to reclaim the idea as my father's. The name is memorable, but it is just weird enough that a lot of people refuse to try the music. I bet that many people who review our music well on garage band refuse to listen any further after learning our name. For these reasons and the fact that Moses placed that dissenting vote, I finally suggested we continue on with Kit and our yet-to-be-found permanent drummer as simply Headflap. Still just a wee bit ridiculous but with rock concision and a distinct ring of marketability. And I have specific ideas about some new approaches to which Kit and Moses initially reacted favorably; I'll get into those in another question's answer. (Moses)- This was quite a while ago, but here's the story as I remember Alan telling it to me: Alan's dad, Bernie, comes home late from work extremely late, to the point that the whole family was very, very worried. Al's mother, upon seeing Al's dad come in the door, says, "Brian, where were you? We were all so *worried*..." (Um, yeah, I *did* type 'Brian' there. Dr. McCabe, though his given name is Bernard, is apparently called Brian by most of his loved ones. Al will have to explain that one to you.) Anyway, Al's dad says to his mom and Al, "I'm really sorry I'm so late, but I got caught in this really long boring conversation with a client." A long **conversation**? Yes, a long conversation, says Al's dad. "This client just kept talking and talking and talking. I tried as many different ways as I could think of to subtly and politely let this man know that I really couldn't talk and really had to leave, but he just kept plowing on regardless. He was a nice guy, and I didn't want to be rude to him, but I couldn't get him to register the fact that he was making me very late." "I wish", says Bernie McCabe, "that there was some kind of bodily signal, some kind of clear biological signal, not like a yawn, something that people did to politely tell someone else that they were getting bored." "Like what?" says Alan. "I don't know", says his dad. "Maybe some kind of flap on the top of your head that slowly lifted up as you were getting bored. Then this guy would've seen the flap going up, realized what was going on, and said, "Oh, but you've probably got to go - I don't mean to keep you." This story apparently inspired Alan to suggest his band be named Bernie Bernie Headflap. I got outvoted three to one. :) 3- Who are some of the band's musical influences? (Alan)- Some of Moses's and almost all of my early influences are listed under the appropriate heading on http://www.myspace.com/bbheadflap as well as sprinkled throughout our friendspace there. My more recent interests came about after finally getting really really fed up with our local npr station - they are not nearly as diverse as they self-congratulating claim they are. This was back in 2004, I hit all music.com real hard, reading up on psychedelic, prog. Fusion, very early electronica and other sounds I was craving. The end result of that exploring is that I hugely admire the late 60s early 70s Canterbury scene, primarily David Allen's projects GonG and Soft Machine - even those albums made when he was no longer in either band/ I can't promise that these band's musical ideas will ever become a part of my or our sound. But a lot of my longheld hopes have been reaffirmed hopes that my band could continue as a collective-like rotating cast of musicians which at some points might not even include me but carry on all the original ideals; And now having a download subscription, we can hear how bands similar to us are blending the genres we blend, and we can be influenced by them but we can remain competitive and individual by making sure we still explore avenues these similar bands don't explore at all or explore to a lesser degree. I hope Kit at the very least finds time to tell your readers about his individual influences -- 'cause I'd like to learn more about them myself! I think I only know a small bit about who influenced his sound. (Moses)- I'll let Alan and Kit speak for themselves. Alan's tastes, though good, are so mercurial that even though we were talking music less than a week ago, I'd probably give you the wrong answers. Likewise, Kit is **so** up on the music scene that I can't keep up with him. As for me, my first musical heroes were the original heavy hitters in prog rock - Floyd, Rush, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson. Listening to these by then decades-old bands was my refuge against the swill of Top 40 bands - these were the days of big hair, cheesy soft-metal glam bands, and bands where all six members played keyboards and synths. Oddly enough, though, I am really not a die-hard prog rock fan. Much of prog rock makes me feel a little uncomfortable, like being forced to sit through a bad high-school musical. I'd say that I seem to prefer bands with musicians that really know what they're doing. I don't mean that said musicians are very technically proficient. Being a good musician is more than knowing how to move your hands. There are plenty of musicians (you know them too) that are wizards at technique but still suck; they know how to cross-stick or cross-pick and hammer-on and how to play in Ionian keys and Mixolydian keys and discuss at long length their instruments and effects and amps and pickups and a whole bunch of things that ultimately don't matter a damn. I mean that I like bands whose musicians have a good feel for what to play and when to play it. My favorite musicians know when to wail and when to hang back. Bands I enjoy other than those listed above - hmmm... Minutemen. Radiohead. Neil Young. Old Black Sabbath. James Brown. Marvin Gaye. Tool. Soundgarden. Devo. Kings of Leon. Pixies. Queens of the Stone Age. (Kit)- As a guitar player, my top three influences are Jimi Hendrix, Motorhead and the good parts of old Rush (think "Cygnus X-1", not "Closer to the Heart"). Of course, BBH is a completely different animal, and to approach my duties in this band from the perspective of screamy blues, proto-thrash or Canadian geek rock would sound forced and awkward. Did you ever hear a metal band try to cover a Pixies song? I have. F*cking horrible. Often trying to wear your influences on your sleeve and jam them all into one creative outlet sounds like just that. Music is as much knowing what and when not to play as going out there and shredding all over the damn place. For BBH, I look to Matt Hicks, Paul Chell, Joey Santiago and Johnny Marr for inspiration. Solid but (usually) subtle playing. 4- From reading your bio. it seems like the band has really had a big effect on individual band member's life's that go way beyond the music part of it. Would you elaborate on that for us? (Alan)-That probably has to do with the fact that Chris went to Ursinus with Moses and me, and he and I lived in the same building for a year and had mutual friends. Just seeing how he interacted with the ladies at parties makes me think his comments about the band making him feel cool for the first time in his life
that's horseshiznit. But a nice compliment about his time in the band. Paul is working on his comments and helping me recall other stuff that'll appear elsewhere on the site; stories about shows and how the second album came together. Hopefully Kit and Mike's comments will get added. The fact that Joe was in the band and still contributes
that blows my mind. The story about him joining
it's not remarkable really but just playing it back in my mind gives me much pleasure. I specifically remember watching him do solo stuff at Kit's house - 'the Catbox' and thinking 'I'm working with a future star.' Didn't know which field it would be in - I predict within nine months he'll be like a prince of all media, hot on the heels of Stern. Main thing is, Moses and I just don't work or associate with superficial people. We are drawn to the multi-faceted and complicated, and vice-versa. There are those last few members with whom I've lost touch and can't track down
it would be interesting to read their opinions about BBH's affects on their lives. (Moses)- Music is one of the big things that keeps me sane. Music helps me stay grounded. Letting music use you as its avatar connects you to life. (Kit)- I have always had a tremendous respect for BBH, since the first Creep records compilation. I was playing in a band called Tall Man at the time. On the compilation, their songs preceded ours, and they were a tough act to follow! We may have played a few shows together, but it was not until my subsequent band, Wally played a show with BBH at Swathmore college, that I got to meet and hang out with these guys. We really bonded that night, and began playing shows together a lot. Eventually, we wound up sharing a drummer. The part of BBH that really got me was that nobody, and I mean NOBODY has the blues like Alan does. Ten years ago, Alan and I went out for drinks at some shitty cop bar in West Chester. The bartender made a few derogatory remarks toward Alan, the last of which was "You sure you can even handle a beer?" to which Alan replied, "Are you referring to my diminutive stature?". As the bartender tried to wrap his feeble brain around my friend's vocabulary, it dawned upon me that Alan's disease is something he has to deal with every day, it gives him fire like no other, real fire, not the suburban "ooooh, my parents got divorced when I was twelve and they don't love me cos I didn't get a car when I was 16..." blues. There is a sense of urgency and passion in his music that I have not seen anywhere else. 5- It looks like everything got started with the band at Ursinus College. Will you tell us about how the band got started, what was the original mission was and how has that mission changed over the years? (Alan)- Before I enrolled at Ursinus, my brother and I used to record songs on a cassette deck first and a 4 track later. I won't even get into discussions about ancient technologies, except to say that back then there was no way to press a few buttons and instantly share your music with the world. Creating multiple copies of cassettes was time-consuming. I don't remember making any copies of these tapes to give to anyone. Matt made one copy of a 'best of' collection for his best friend Mark. Matt was 3 years older than I, but 4 years ahead of me in school. So during my 4 years of high school, he went to West Chester University where he was a com arts major and a dj. He was a commuter and would come home every evening, often with bits of info about strange bands he had played that day, bands with names like Camper van Beethoven and Red Hot Chili Peppers. We were both raised on classic rock. What I didn't get till recently was that he had zero interest in these bands - they were too weird for him; they were not classic rock. I don't know if he got that I couldn't get enough of his telling me about them. I was getting more and more into classic rock's weird side, most notably at that time Talking Heads. I was contributing weirder material to our McCabe Boys tapes, and surely I must have already decided that in college I would start a very cool weird band. If only I didn't have such very small hands. The cystinosis made me and my bro for that matter such small boys. Neither of us could do bar chords. I knew I needed bigger hands in order to play bar chords in a band. There was no hope for Matt in this regard. He was college aged, and his bones were fused. You don't grow after that. If you take growth hormone after that, you look REALLY freakish. When I had my second transplant as a sophomore in high school, my bones were not yet fused, and I was put on human growth hormone treatment. Not right away. They must have waited a couple years to see if the new kidney would spur on some endocrine activity, but it did not, and so a last ditch attempt of hormone therapy ensued. I was on this near-daily regimen of subcutaneous injection plus monthly shots in the ass during my senior year of high school and freshman year of college, and it worked. I grew 8 inches, winding up at my present height of 5'2". Do the math. In high school, legally, I was a midget or dwarf. Now I'm
I like the term 'diminutive' because it seems to be always used with respect. Anyway though the thing is, what I really mean, my hands were now plenty big to play bar chords so I crammed 'em into my songs, up and down the fretboard. "Bemusement Park" must be the most ridiculous example of this. Ok, so now I'm at Ursinus. I forget what REALLY made me apply to and decide to attend Ursinus. Some combo of proximity to home, not wanting to follow in my bro's footsteps and the scholarship package hey offered me. In my freshman first semester I had to conquer 2 main challenges: a really strange roommate with no interest in music, and the general perception of fellow students that I must be some kind of genius 10 year old who rocketed through gifted programs and wound up pursuing higher education. I conquered challenge 1 by befriending the really strange hall mate with a major interest in music and moving in with him and challenge 2... not sure I conquered that, but I distracted many by winning a national screenwriting contest and doing a good job in the fall play "The Changeling." Sleight of hand. Probably as soon as the strange roommate Matt Hicks and I started obsessively listening to TMBG and Pixies together and separately was the idea being hatched in both our minds to start a band. We recorded some demos on his Amiga and discussed how we could combine electronic beats and stuff with live instruments, but then these talks lessened because towards the end of that year our very alternatively hip friends Heather and Doug introduced us to Doug's drummer-roommate Chris Wirtalla and then the rest is just like Moses described. I think the facts that Ursinus was not a music or art school, and that its radio station was sub-retarded back then put the four of us in a creative vacuum wherein a very strong bond was formed. We had a hell of a lot of fun practicing and performing, mixed in with some frustrations. But absolutely no professional opportunities were created by being enrolled at Ursinus College. We could have looked into trying out for touring the college circuit through the activity board's connections with such services, but
well, we saw the type of acts that they were bringing to Ursinus. And I think out of musical snobbery, maybe mostly my own, we did not go the cover band route and play the 1 or 2 bars in town. (Moses)- Hmm. Alan and our first guitar player, Matt Hicks, lived a floor above me in the dorms. I was a year ahead of Al and Matt. Alan and Matt were pleasantly weird and certainly creative, and I felt an immediate kinship to them. The three of us dorked around on guitars now and then; I showed Hicks how to play bar chords like a blues player, with your thumb doing the tonic note. Anyway, Alan, who was on bass at the time, and Matt, on guitar, met up with Chris Wirtalla, who was recruited as their drummer. (Chris now plays for a great band out of Philly called Creeping Weeds.) At some point, that trio decided they needed another guitar player, so they asked me to join. After a month or two, we all decided that I should be the bass player. I forget why exactly. The unspoken mission was to make good, intelligent music. I don't see that things have changed. 6-Will you tell us about the band's current and past releases and about any new upcoming releases that you're currently working on? (Alan)-I'll list them in chronological order of their recording date, rather than their release date on Humaninhuman Records and CDBaby Digital Distribution. Cheese on Wheat was recorded throughout '94 and '95, I think, and then released, really by me, but under the Creep Label name. Creep did give it some grassroots promotion and distribution with mixed results. It has quite a mixture of punky, funky and even progressive rock songs exploring many moods from very sad (Patrick in the Past Tense, about my brother's death) to hornily funny (Too Loud the Laughtrack, about a tv boardroom meeting where the development team gets carried away coming up with ideas for a 3's Company type sitcom) Less Like Penguins was supposed to be the 1997ish follow-up. Kind of a concept album about a reclusive guy. Angrier, more cathartic and even harder to pin down genre-wise than our debut. I started to feel bad about making this new line-up of 4 other multi-talented artists record and perform nothing but my songs so midway thru we recorded and released a cassette-only ep of 5 songs, 1 by each of us, called 5 Weezy Pieces. The full-length did not get done till the next year at which time talks with Creep collapsed as did very brief talks with Crank! out of California. I began to feel ill and frustrated and moved back in with my folks. I signed up on mp3.com and released the album as a DAM. We had a following there but all the DAM albums saw practically no sales. But audience reaction and feedback from fans confirmed my opinion that this was great work. So this year I resolved to polish up the sound and have a way better version of my original cover idea created. Very similar stories for the next albums, my first two one-man-band efforts, 1999's The Royal We and 2000's Bernie Bernie Headflap Loves Polly Polysyllable. I'm hoping to get those 2 re-issues out before the end of 2007. I was done all the music for Blood and Salt by 2001 but I was getting sick enough to have to be put back on dialysis. I had hired Mike Piontek, who I met on mp3.com to do some artwork, and he did, but it wasn't till 2003 that the dialysis cleaned up my system enough to give me energy and concentration to finish up self-releasing Blood and Salt and then a few months later, Stone Cold Blue. I did this using CDBaby, but I did not yet think to create my own label yet. I did not fully grasp the importance of that maneuver - if at this point in the digital revolution it really is such an important thing anymore. Self-recording was fun and educational, but now I encountered some prob as a result of my dialysis years. The general lethargy caused me to fall way behind in knowing about recording software, and I did not have enough solid material to fill an album. Plus that damn TIA had done a number on my left hand, the one a rightie like me uses to form chords. Not really a prob, though, in that I phoned Moses, Mike and Kit and soon there was enough songwriting ability dexterity and technical know how to flesh out a GREAT new album. Oh and how could I forget - Kramer has also been brought in to really up the technical know how aspect. Wow. Plus we have real specific ideas on what the first couple Headflap projects will be and I'm about ¼ done my first return to one-man-band Bernie Bernie Headflap. So it's all gonna just keep comin'. (Moses)- We first appeared on a compilation from Creep Records called "Who Gits Da Deer." Another band on that same CD, Brody, had as their guitar player a shy young man named Fred Mascherino. Fred is of course now in the band Taking Back Sunday. Our first full-length CD was Cheese on Wheat. Matt had bowed out by then, so Alan and I played his guitar parts. I then reluctantly went on hiatus from the band for a few years to start teaching college. From time to time over the next decade, Alan would call and ask me to come play; for example, we did a week in Austin, Texas in the late 90's. We're now working on an album called "Fear of People". At first, I was basically a studio musician on "FoP"; I played a bunch of drums and bass for some tunes Alan wrote. Things have blossomed to the point that I just finished the recording of the seventh song I've written for the album, called "Neddy, Echo, Shot, and me (Annihilation, pt. 2)", inspired by the Chuck Palahniuk novel "Rant". 7-With the band not playing any live shows for along time you guys must really be chomping at the bit to get back out there and play again? (Note: between the time of this interview and now the band performed their first show back). (Alan)-I'm writing this 4 days before the show, but this won't get posted till afterwards. I am looking forward to the show immensely but have the usual jitters also. Worried about turnout and disappointing anyone who doesn't know I don't play guitar anymore and that as our first show we only have a short set prepared. (Moses)- Chomping? **Drooling**. We play the Khyber in Philly on September 23rd. I can't wait. (Kit)- I played my first show with BBH at the khyber after only two rehearsals, I was real excited, but incredibly nervous. I think it went rather smoothly, but I was shaking when I got offstage. I can't wait to do it again and again. 8-Your web page mentions about a new, 'soon-to-be-launched cousin band, Headflap,' will the two bands coexists with the same members? And how will the second band be different? (Alan)-Headflap will be me, Moses, Kit and whoever turns out to be our new drummer. We are holding auditions on October 20, and on the site, we mention that we will favor multi-instrumentalist songwriters to fill the position. The hope is once we tour and record as Headflap, we'll be relying on all 4 members almost equally for material
a wider variety of perspectives and approaches, especially if our new drummer is not a white male like we 3 are. We will try really hard to make genre-specific cohesive albums, not the mishmash 'all over the place' albums we currently make. Our CAREER will still be all over the place. But we will try to stick to one genre per album. For instance, it's looking like the first Headflap album will be a prog. rock album written mostly by Moses with a few songs by me and some by Kit and hopefully the new drummer. Then I'm throwing around an idea for an ep. I'm not exactly sure why I'm concerned about album cohesiveness. Download trends of people mainly buying singles seem to mean that albums mean nothing. But as an artist and label CEO, looks like I'm deciding more with my heart to believe that albums - and physical product, at that - still matter to some people. Bernie Bernie Headflap will return to its one man band phase, pretty much just myself putting out all over the place albums probably becoming more and more experimental and weird. I see Headflap continuing to record and perform certain essential Bernie Bernie Headflap songs., possibly simplifying those songs that mainstream type folk felt were too busy, long or confusing. I do have a real interest in entertaining the people, not just forever being a band's band well-respected by an elite few who lean towards the extreme. For all these reasons comes the name change. The old name is clearly polarizing and a deal breaker for many people who would otherwise listen. Why keep doing that to ourselves? I do not see myself ever putting on any one-man gigs. (Moses)- I'm in Headflap, but I don't know much beyond that. :) 9- This is the soapbox question where you get the chance to talk about anything we missed that you would like to get out to our readers? (Alan)- Hey all perfectly healthy people. Please fill out donor registration cards and give blood! (Moses)- I've probably babbled enough already. :) (Kit)- Music is not a hobby or dalliance. It's an itch you gotta scratch. I am pleased to be working with people of the same mindset. !Viva la Headflap! ... | | By: Indie Music Stop | | |
| | CD Review: Bernie Bernie Headflap- Less Like Penguins | | 2007-09-23 21:35:00 | | CD Review: Artist: Bernie Bernie HeadflapTitle: Less Like PenguinsWebsite: http://www.headflap.comStyle: Alt. Rock/PunkLabel: HumanInHuman RecordsRating: 8.8 out of 10By Senior Writer C.W. Ross Trying to explain Bernie Bernie Headflap's music is about as hard as trying to talk with someone in a foreign language that you don't understand. The release has an experimental feel to it blending various styles of music. The band's music has been compared to groups like, They Might be Giants, Beck, and Smashing Pumpkins. They list some of their musical influences as, Pixies/Frank Black, David Bowie, Talking Heads, ELO, and The Cars. Less Like Penguins is a 2007 remaster of the band's 1998 original recording. On the 20 tracks that are found on it you'll find everything from hard rock and alternative music to hardcore and punk. After listening to their music you know one thing for sure, this band has loads of talent and can't be placed in any of the traditional music genre boxes. The songs feature catchy melodies to go with the high-speed guitar parts and forceful drum beats. The main driving force behind the band is founder Alan McCabe who handles lead vocals. His vocals are like a chameleon changing to fit the style of the song. After having to take a break from live gigging due to some serious health problems Alan had to deal with the band is getting back to playing live shows in their home area of West Chester, Pennsylvania. If you're tired of listening to the same old stuff then give Bernie Bernie Headflap's music a listen. ... | | By: Indie Music Stop | | |
| | The Bernie Bed | | 2007-08-10 21:11:21 | | From Vurv Design, this Bernie Bed is crafted as a platform bed with the side tables already integrated into the design. It’s perfect for those with smaller spaces…or people contented with sleeping on just a mattress without any support or frame to go with it. You don’t necessarily have to sacrifice aesthetics and function [...]... | | By: Mattresszine | | |
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