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 Post subject: [2016-06-24] Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) "Greetings From Bunezuela!" YACA solo debut with guest vocalists (eOne)
PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:36 pm 
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Play this album and find yourself in a land where the vast panorama of rock's history is an endless source of fascination and delight, a fountain of youth burbling with wonderful songs that have fed a discerning rock star's musical diet since childhood. A place where the joy of playing with friends overpowers the need to show off in a spotlight. Where recording an album is a relaxed good time, not a fraught business undertaking. In Earth geography, Bunezuela - with ports of call in Chicago, Milwaukee and Rockford, Illinois is located in the great Midwest and ruled over by a kindly potentate: the drummer who was born Brad Carlson but known worldwide as Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. According to the fanciful liner notes inside the band's 1977 debut, the avuncular Bun a Venezuelan native from a family instrumental in the building of the Panama Canal - is short for Bunezuela. It's a good story, but the truth is better.

With his musical stature and fame recently certified by induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Carlos remains as dedicated a rock and roll consumer as he was growing up in Rockford.

On the other end of the spectrum, you d be surprised and disappointed to discover how many of your idols know a lot less about music other than theirs - than you do. He's still an inveterate record buyer and was a well known tape trader back in the day. If anyone has the taste and knowledge to make an album of other people's songs, Bun E. is your man.

Says Bun: For 40 years I've been talking about doing a covers album. All the bands we grew up with - the Stones, Kinks, Who, Beatles - all of their first albums were covers.

It was the band's election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in December that pushed Carlos to fish out the list of songs he'd been compiling for decades and get busy rounding up players and singers to join him for weekend sessions in local studios.

Greetings From Bunezuela! is a rocking and eclectic set of tunes drawn deep from a serious record collection, mixing the reasonably familiar Tell Me by the Rolling Stones, I Can Only Give You Everything by Them, Him or Me by Paul Revere and the Raiders and Dylan's It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry with lesser known classics. Armenia City in the City the cover that opens The Who Sell Out; Idea, a 1968 Bee Gees album track; and expert stumping selections I Love You No More by the Blackstones, Le Cactus by Jacques Dutronc, and Count on Me by the Norwegian new wavers Fra Lippo Lippi.

What you won't hear is a drum solo or Carlos vocals. The goal for Greetings From Bunezuela! was not to put the star up on a throne.

Closes Bun: I just went in to do what Bun E. Carlos does. I had no drummer statement I insisted on making. This record we served the songs.

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1. Do Something Real - Robert Pollard (Robert Pollard solo)
2. Him or Me - featuring Hanson (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
3. Armenia City in the Sky - John Stirratt (The Who)
4. I Love You No More - Alex Dezen (The Blackstones)
5. Tell Me - Alejandro Escovedo (The Rolling Stones)
6. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Dave Pirner (Bob Dylan)
7. Let the Mystery Be - Xeno (Iris DeMent)
8. Idea - Robert Pollard (The Bee Gees)
9. Le Cactus - Nicholas Tremulis (Jacque DuTronc)
10. I Can Only Give You Everything - Rick Rizzo (Them)
11. Slow Down - Alejandro Escovedo (Alejandro Escovedo)
12. Count on Me - Xeno (Fra Lippo Lippi)
13. I Don't Mind - Alex Dezen (Alex Dezen)

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 Post subject: [2016-06-24] Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) "Greetings From Bunezuela!" YACA solo debut with guest vocalists (eOne)
PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:40 pm 
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Hear Cheap Trick Drummer's New Song With Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard



Cheap Trick are all set to celebrate their history at tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, where the Illinois power-pop legends will take the stage to play a few of their classic songs. If all goes as planned, the performance will feature a reunion with drummer Bun E. Carlos — who hasn't toured with the group since 2010 — but the nostalgia trip ends there. Cheap Trick, sans Carlos, hit the road April 10th in support of their new album; Carlos, meanwhile, is set to release his first solo LP, the guest-studded Greetings From Bunezuela!, this summer. Below you can stream the first single, "Do Something Real," written and sung by Guided by Voices mastermind Robert Pollard.

Carlos' friendship with the famously prolific indie-rock songwriter dates back to 1999, when Cheap Trick opened for Guided by Voices at several East Coast shows. "Cheap Trick and Guided By Voices have toured together," Carlos told Rolling Stone. "I've played cowbell with GBV four shows in a row, and I DJ'd at GBV gigs in Chicago a couple of times."

Like all the tracks on Greetings From Bunezuela!, "Do Something Real" is a remake of a previously recorded song, and the drummer knows Pollard's vast catalog well enough that he chose to revive a relative obscurity: The catchy, hard-driving cut originally appeared on Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department, Pollard's 1999 album with multi-instrumentalist Doug Gillard. "I'm an average GBV fan with about 200–300 of their songs in my collection," Carlos says. "I had about 15 GBV songs I thought about covering, and 'Do Something Real' kept coming back to me. ... I could have done an entire album with Robert Pollard alone."

Pollard is clearly flattered to have been tapped for the project. "It was a pleasure," he told Rolling Stone of working with Carlos. "Secondly, it was an honor. To me, it's like working with Ringo Starr. That's how important Bun E. Carlos's work with Cheap Trick is to me. It's like I've been included in to rock royalty."

The rest of the album features a revolving cast of frontmen, an intriguing assortment that includes Wilco bassist John Stirratt, Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner, roots-rock luminary Alejandro Escovedo and original Cheap Trick vocalist Randy "Xeno" Hogan, among others. "I pretty much own the catalog of every singer featured on the album," Carlos says, "and I've recorded or toured with every singer on the album."

Some of the guests, such as Pollard and Escovedo, sing their own previously recorded songs on Bunezuela!; others, like the brothers of Hanson and Eleventh Dream Day's Rick Rizzo, reinterpret vintage tracks by the Who, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Them, and others.

According to Carlos, the concept for the record has been in the works for decades. "I talked about a covers album since 1978," he says. "After 35 years, I'm finally making this record." Accordingly, he took an old-school approach: "I made the album like people made records in my childhood. I cut two tracks at a time."

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Good for Bun E.! Excellent ensemble.

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 Post subject: [2016-06-24] Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) "Greetings From Bunezuela!" YACA solo debut with guest vocalists (eOne)
PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 7:44 pm 
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I've been wondering if there was ever going to be a second album by Tinted Windows. Glad to see he's working with the Hansons here, on what's my favorite Raiders song. Should be a scorcher.

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 Post subject: [2016-06-24] Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) "Greetings From Bunezuela!" YACA solo debut with guest vocalists (eOne)
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Hank wrote:
I've been wondering if there was ever going to be a second album by Tinted Windows. Glad to see he's working with the Hansons here, on what's my favorite Raiders song. Should be a scorcher.



Read someplace their was to be a second. If recorded, love to see that released. Meantime I'll be getting this release.

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 Post subject: [2016-06-24] Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) "Greetings From Bunezuela!" YACA solo debut with guest vocalists (eOne)
PostPosted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 12:12 pm 
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In anticipation of the album's release this coming Friday, the pre-order price has been reduced to $8.99:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESB8Q3Y/?tag=imwan-20

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