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| Feb. 2007 | Want some news? Heres some news for you. POWERED BY SATAN IS NO MORE but from the ashes has risen that foul, foul fiend FLIBBERTIGIBBET Why? All kinds of reasons. 1] First of all, I was never too happy with the name. It had roots back to a previous project many years ago in which there were other creative forces involved. Some part of me always thought the name ought to be theirs. (Tim and John - thanks for the loan). 2] Does this have something to do with me moving to LA? Kind of. If I was on stage here, I'd be constantly thinking about the amazing sendoff I got from my friends and fans in Rochester, NY and however my performance went, the experience for me would only pale in comparison. It's time to start again and this is an exceptional place to do it. What will change: Ill be concentrating more on stand-up and performance gags. What will not change: The devil suit, the horns, the tail, the music, the codpieces, the cool stuff I do with cat litter (I've invented a few more), and my Nipplepalooza comedy showcase series. I'll still only be washing my leotards once a year or so. Would you believe that flibbertigibbet.com is already owned? Its one of those deals where some buttmunch in Russia buys up all the remotely relevent domain names he can think of and fills them with sponsored links for loans and teen webcams. I sent the aforementioned buttmunch an email asking him how much we was selling the domain name for. His answer was $50,000 so I guess Ill be staying here for a bit.
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Thurs Jan 4th 8:00 PM |
POWERED BY SATAN'S LAST EVER PERFORMANCE IN WESTERN NY Powered By Satan's going away party and fund raiser for Scottsville Veterinary Adoptions At the Bug Jar Featuring my good friends... The Peachy Neacheez : The PN are an eclectic and unpredictable outfit that are one or Rchester's most enduring bands. They are certainly my favorite. Worm Quartet is a freak among freaks and is a comedy music legend. He's also a great guy. Chicken head Jones is a psychedelic blues/rock band in which I play bass in plainclothes. I will really miss playing with my friends Dan Irving (guitrist/singer) and John Hryhorencko (drummer). A few factoids about this gig 1] I'll be doing some really amusing things with cat litter 2] I wrote the Peachy Neachees setlist. 3] The show is free but I'll be shaking everyone down for donations for the Scottsville Animal Shelter. 4] I'll be joining the Neacheez on stage to perform a song I wrote for my wife that I played at our wedding After 20 years in upstate New York, I'm off to Los Angeles. My family is in Los Angeles and my employment situation here is looking tenuous. A great career opportunity has presented itself in the "silicone valley" and I'm jumping on it. So I am giving up Rochester winters to contend with race riots, wildfires, smog, traffic, astronomical real estate prices, and earthquakes. I have no idea if I will ever be able to afford a home, but if I'm homeless, at least I'll be warm. I have no intention at all of hanging up my horns and I plan on hitting the LA scene like a wildfire. TO MY UPSTATE NY FANS - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT OVER THESE MANY YEARS! WHEN I CAN MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH ABOUT STUPID THINGS AND FORGET ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS FOR A WHILE, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE DONE SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE WORLD. YOU HAVE ALLOWED ME TO HAVE THIS WONDERFUL FEELING TIME AND AGAIN. |
Sat. Nov. 18th 9 PM |
A show at the A/V Space at the Rochester Public Market Powered By Satan Galactic Harbour: This band features my old bandmate, Tom Byrne. GH plays weird, chaotic, utterly spaced out free form jazz-rock-noise with Tom delivering some very strange rants on top of the cacophony. Foot and Mouth Disease: This is Larry Patti's one man noise machine. Larry is the quiet, dark haired guy we've all been seeing at shows since 1990. Rumor has it he's pretty good. Spontaneous Noise Ensemble: I'm guessing it'll be whatever musicians show up making unrehearsed noise. |
Fri.
Aug. 25th
8:00 PM |
Satan's Showcase of Acoustic Music That is NOT WIMPY (click here. It's got its own site) Featuring... Powered By Satan (you know who I am) Shawnee BoyEE -(weirded out stoner human beatbox psychedelia from Rochester NY...or perhaps mars. Virtuoso guitar playing. You GOTTA see this guy.) Brannon Hungness - One of Rochester's most prolific musicians. As Figure he recorded at least five that I know about) CD's of his experimental atmospheric soundscapes. As the frontman of Kill Myself on Monday, he belted out a strange but wonderful blend of harmony and dissonance. His acoustic performances are rare and very powerful. More information, including pictures and mp3's of all 3 artists are at the NOT WIMPY website. At Daily Perks Coffeehouse. 389 Gregory St. between Clinton and South. |
Thurs April 13th 7:30 PM |
Powered By Satan returns to the primordial ooze from whence he once crawled. Powered By Satan had his humble beginnings at the Pure Kona open mic at Java Joe's in Rochester, NY some time in the darkest days of 1993. It is now 2006. The Pure Kona series has reached new heights of literary and performance excellence. Powered By Satan has reached new heights of innanity, filth, and questionable hygeine. Once again PBS will be featured at Pure Kona. Pure Kona is now at Daily perks Coffeehouse. 389 Gregory St. between Clinton and South. |
Wed. Feb. 15th 8 PM |
Powered By Satan hits the comedy stage! at...the Comedy Block Party at Milestones in Rochester, NY. It was bound to happen. PBS has moved into the realm of stand-up comedy but don;t worry, there will be some songs also. I'll be playing with a bunch of talented non-musical comics who don't wear leotards - Richard Gagnier, Chuck McCoy, Kenyatta Decosta, and Courtney peterson. |
Sat. Dec 9th 10 PM |
It's NIPPLEPALOOZA II Monty's Krown in Rochester, NY Nipplepalooza I was the "We Are The World" of funny music. We packed the pffffriggin' place and rocked it to the ground and this time we're going to do even better because this time we've got The Great Luke Ski on the bill. Luke Ski is a titan of funny music. He does these hillarious parodies of rap songs with science fiction lyrics. He dominates Dr. Demento's charts and he's flying in from Wisconsin because he heard that the first Nipplepalooza was such a smashing success. On the bill will be... The Great Luke Ski who I already rave about. Worm Quartet is the bemulleted funny music legend who is also a force to be reckoned with on Dr. Demento's "most requested" charts. He put on a spectacular show at Nipplepalooza I and rumor has it we ain't seen nothing yet. Powered By Satan - the guy who's web site you are currently surfing, dumbass! Pisspot the Rabbit - is an internet cult hero, fuzzy headed comic, stoner, horndog, and media-savvy reporter. He was pffriggin' hillarious at Nipplepalooza I wherein he gave am empassioned missive on the power of negativity. He'll be the emcee of the night once again. The order of appearance will be random so be sure to show up on time. It'll be a measly $6. What a bargain!
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Sat. June 10th 8 PM - ? |
Powered By Satan will be playing at Eric The Taylor's annual Piano-burning party. This shindig is a huge-ass event with 7 other acts. Also on the bill are... Blue Lightning Chad Oliveiri (weird-ass noise) Duke Galaxy and the Pipeliners (virtuoso surf instrumental0 Kill Myself on Monday (who are one of the best bands in Rochester IMHO) Cave Brides (This is the new band of Scrappy Joe from the NOD) Distorted Octave C. H. Appell (who will be delivering one oh his mind-expanding readings) Soometime during this event a piano will be set on fire. This event is semi-open. In other words, you can come even if you don't know Eric provided that you are not a Bozak. How do you know if you are not a bozak? Just email me and I will be happy to tell you. If you are in the "Not a Bozak" category then I will give you directions and we will share BEEF! You can email me by clicking below
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Tues. Feb. 8th
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Powered By Satan will be playing live on WITR's Rochester Sessions show. WITR is the Rochester Institute of technology's radio station and it's 89.7 on the FM dial. WITR is a true friend ot local music. Satan likes WITR! UPDATE: This was my third time playing live on WITR, but my first time in the Post Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction broadcasting environment. Everything seemed to go pretty well. The phone lines lit up during the CD giveaways and I got a lot of great feedback from people who had been listening. It was only later that I found out that there were "complaints" and that two of the DJ's who had booked me and had helped out with the show were suspended for six months. A communique was issued listing two pages of lyrics from my songs which were potentially FCC violations and which, in the worst possible scenario, could have been worth upwards of 1.5 million dollars in fines. Some of the things which could have been considered "obscene" were kind of baffling to say the least. Most of the things on the list I would never in a million years have thought could be fineable offenses. I'm not going to list any of them since that could serve as ammunition for the Church Police are out there and who do take it upon themselves to "monitor" small radio stations for content. As the facts filtered in over the next few weeks, it turned out that the "complaints" were actually one "complaint" and that it was from another station DJ or affiliate and not from a listener. I do not know how much station politics play into this but two well loved DJ's with a lot of professional integrity and a real love of street level music were suspended as a result and that sucks moose balls. I am tempted to say that all this worry about FCC complaints is just people being paranoid hippies but apparently, small radio stations with no legal budgets are, in fact, being targeted by self-appointed morality cops and the broadcasting environment in the post Michael Powell era is very different from what it once was. I was left feeling like I had gone to sleep and woke up in a completely different country. |
Sat. Apr.9th 10-? |
Powered By Satan, the Earl Cram Revue, the Rockstars, and the White Devils will be playing a quadruple header at the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY. Powered By Satan will be getting on at 11, but by all means you should check out all four bands. The Rockstars are rock goddess Aimee Lane's most recent band. They are a crazy, unpredictable, completely out of control trio with absolutely saturnalian stage antics. The Earl Cram Revue features Suzy Whitney on vocals and she's got an amazing set of pipes and an off the charts stage presence. The White Devils are a straight ahead bluesy rock and roll outfit consisting of guitarist extraordinaire Paulie Rocco, Rob Filardo (of the Veins, the Priests, and a billion other bands), and Frank DeBlase (frontman of the legendary Frantic Flattops). Looks for lots of hot shit slide guitar here.
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Sat. May 14th 10 - ? |
Monty's Krown in Rochester, NY Powered By Satan will be sharing the stage with Worm Quartet and Pisspot the Cigarette Smoking Bunny Rabbit in an orgiastic showcase of music and comedy. Worm Quartet is the bemulleted funny music iconoclast who is consistently dominating Dr. Demento's "most requested" charts. It's about time he played Rochester. Pisspot the Rabbit is the emcee of the night. Pisspot is a cultural terrorist and the star of the cable TV show "I'm Going to Make a Drug With My Mind." His motto is "Inside every puppet is a fist." His claims to fame include covering the Republican National Convention and exchanging insults with his arch nemesis - triumph the Insult Dog, infiltrating the limo of a famous Christian Rock band and appearing on Nightline. Wherever he goes he drags along his bitch, Arthur Ratnick. keyboardist. banjo player, and singer for the Peachee neachees. |
