Alright, this week you've got TWO chances to catch The Chinese Take-Outs

FIRST

Thursday, January 18, 2007
The Airliner
with our friends, Hold Me Like a Gun
2419 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA
Show starts at 9pm
$5 cover


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The Palm Springs trip was pretty good. As expected, it was pretty damn cold. But the most part, it was relatively fun.

Of the good/bad highlights:

-- fucking with yellow-jacket-guy--at the Palm Desert/Palm Canyon (whichever) Westfield Shopping center, while Brent was waiting for his frappucino to be made at Starbucks, I decided to take it upon ( Read more... )

we were inside the Rite Aid in Palm Springs because Chris wanted to buy some allergy medicine. Brent and I proceeded to look around the store. We walked over to the magazine section which was located right next to the paperbacks section which was being occupied by a scraggly old guy wearing a yellow jacket. Brent saw a rack of calendars that ( Read more... )

This week's lot...


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I'm about 1000% sure that absolutely nobody but me cares about THISThe UK chart rules are ever changing. When I first started really collecting imports, the rules for singles were pretty loose. You could release as many different formats (7" single, CD single, 12" single, etc) with whatever marketing gimmick you could think of (posters, postcards, ( Read more... )

The Chinese Take-Outs finally found a lockout for rehearsal. Up until now we had been doing the hourly thing at a rehearsal studio in, of all places, Lawndale. The good thing is that it's pretty cheap and we can rehearse twice a week without having to worry about draining our wallets. The bad thing is that we're sharing it with 2 other bands so we ( Read more... )

stolen from aairplane because it looked interesting.

1974 - my mom squeezes me out, The Ramones play their first show at CBGB's

1979 - my parents buy me my first record player and my first album, the Bee Gees' Greatest

1981-ish - i hear Neil Peart's drum solo in YYZ on Rush's Exit...Stage Left and decide that I want to be a drummer ( Read more... )

Setlist:

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pizza
the recluse
it don’t feel right
sneakers
RnFnRMF! (new song #3)
trainwreck
loco mocoEssentially the same set as last week plus the last two songs that we didn't get to play. Overall, it was good set. The energy was there but the sound was unbalanced. I heard a ton of Eligh's bass, a bit of Joe's guitar and vocals but virtually ( Read more... )

A couple of goodies. A couple of duds.


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