Aug
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2011

Please Come To See Me Play!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

(Add / View Comments) (0)Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 09:45:53 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
Well, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers aren't a band I've thought about in a while. Though I happened to randomly stumble across a flier on Facebook, promoting an upcoming Vegas show, billed as "Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers with The Refreshments, featuring Roger Clyne and P.H Naffah".

But that can't be true, can it? Surely not? Though I never imagined that Clyne would share the same stage as Blush ever again, and I was proved wrong on that last year.

Indeed, it appears to be true...

Vegas!
Somehow the House of Blues already leaked that we’re going to play “Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy” in order and in it’s entirety. True. I was planning on announcing it at the Foundry show, but might as well fess up now; that rumor is true. The Labor Day show in Vegas will be another long show; another “evening with” Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. We’ve never played our seminal album top-to-bottom, even in The Refreshments. It’s going to be a fun trip. We hope you’ll come along. I’ll don a loud Hawaiian shirt and my red Converse on for the first set, and will pull on my trusty, dusty Mexican cowboy boots for the rest of the show.
If this doesn't speak volumes about how hard up Clyne is to get people to come to a show, I don't know what does. It's pretty sad when you start pandering to the absolute lowest common denominator.

And "...with The Refreshments..."? Seriously, are Buddy and Brian going to be there. I highly doubt it, especially given the "featuring Roger and P.H" thing. Given that they never let go of the Refreshments songs, and over the years there is probably nothing off Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy that they haven't played as The Peacemakers. So how this is anything other the "Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers with...err...Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers", I do not know.

Pretty sad on all accounts. Especially since from what I can see, most people who (rightly) abandoned the band are actually being into this cheap ploy and going. Wow.

The Refreshments breaking up was rough. But the silver lining that become apparent to me so many years after the fact (it took a while to see it), is that they went out on a high. While terribly unfortunate that they imploded, there's no way to look back on them with anything but fondness. They burnt out prematurely, but that also means that they're one band that isn't tainted with becoming half baked and lame. Years ago, there was certainly a sense of being robbed, but all this time later, in times like these, that's been replaced with a deep appreciation that the band was always, and will always be flat out awesome. So Roj, how about you leave us all with that, instead of screwing with the The Refreshments thing. Enough with the Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy shirts with the sun tattoo replace with a petroglyph (can a t-shirt get laser tattoo surgery? [wink] ), and being "The Refreshments" with P.H to try make a buck. You were part of something pretty awesome once. How about you leave it that way and go back to your candy ass no more beautiful world Peacemakers. Make some more moonshine and sing about whatever lame ass crap you sing about these days. Paper plates and stuff, or so I hear. Let us remember that cool former self, that has long since gone, as how it was.

Edit: I listened to the entire Refreshments discography today, which reinforced how this band broke up before anything became tainted. And particularly listening to European Swallow from Wheelie, I was left screaming "how did it all go so wrong?". [smile]

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