27 lipca 2006
Local Music News
It looks as though Campo Bravo have broken up. Mark Matos has a long ramble on the band's MySpace page with his reasons. It sounds like the biz just got to be too much for him.Matos still promises to play a scheduled date at Plush on September 2, and seems to hint at a continuation of the group with only him, Ryan Egleston and Dimitri Manos.
Campo Bravo earned plaudits and comparisons to Howe Gelb and Neil Young, and seemed on the verge of a Calexico-level breakout. It's too bad, really.
NOTE: When I first posted a picture, I posted one from an old Weekly article that I got when I googled. It turned out that the pic was of some other alt-Country band called the Mendoza Line. Like Mendoza, I'm batting really low right now.
Tonight! Luminarios, Van Christian, Gun Runners, Nelly y Javier, Bruce Halper and Stefan George will be playing at Plush in a benefit for Billy Sedlmayr.It looks like Billy Sed himself may take up the guitar for a bit too.
Sedlmayr is a seminal figure in the local music scene, being a founding member of the Pedestrians, the first "Punk" or "Indie" band in Tucson. He was in the first line up of a little band called the Giant Sandworms, which dropped a sylable from their name around the same time he left the band. He has Hepatitis C, for reasons that you can divine from his having been a seminal figure in the local music scene.
I'm usually not one for these sorts of benefits, you know, musicians playing a show for their friends. In this case though, this guy was incredibly important to the cultural scene in Tucson, so I can see the enthusiasm to help. It's only five bucks, right?
Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.
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I checked the website for the club but I was not able to find anything that would send me to a link to donate to this guy's cause.
It is not a surprise that his friends have held a benefit for him, from what I understand mucisians have a hard time getting medical insurance so many of them just get sick and are unable to get treatment until they are at death's door. Yet another reason for a universal health care system in this country. Maybe we could stop having our musicians die on us for lack of decent treatment.
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It is not a surprise that his friends have held a benefit for him, from what I understand mucisians have a hard time getting medical insurance so many of them just get sick and are unable to get treatment until they are at death's door. Yet another reason for a universal health care system in this country. Maybe we could stop having our musicians die on us for lack of decent treatment.
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