Show Notes: The Jay Porks Experience Episode #11: Festivals For The Rest Of Us!

And we've got another episode of the Jay Porks Experience on tap for you here this week. Posted a day later due to technical issues, episode eleven is action pack with complaints about festivals. Head over to TheAndyDererShow.Com to check out all podcasts archived, or you can listen FREE on iTunes using the Podcasts app and searching Andy Derer Show, The Derer Network of Podcasts, taking over the world one podcast at time.. sort of.

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2:40 starts the Festivals rant. Why are we speculating 10 months ahead of time?

7:10 I mention there are 100's of festivals. I'm reading from the list I got at Jambase.com/festivals

8:00 I start talking about bands having cruises, here's a link to the details to the Weezer Cruise I mention.

10:35 Here's where we dive into my trip to Orion Music + More Festival in 2012. Here's a link to the recap of Day one and two. 

Below is a picture of what some girl tweeted at Concert Confessions after I posted. Cool photos, awesome videos. Check it out.

21:30 For the full review of Childish Gambino at Central Park the night after the inaugural Orion Music and More Festival, click here and head over to Concert Confessions.

29:50  Click here for the Lily Allen article up on AQ  titled "LILY ALLEN EMBRACES FAUX-FEMINISM IN HOPES OF EXTENDING HER 15 MINUTES OF FAME ON ‘HARD OUT HERE’".. it's a highly recommended reading

Show Notes: The Jay Porks Experience (Podcast Edition) Episode Nine - Stamp My Hand!

And we're back with another edition of The Jay Porks Experience. This week I ask for help picking out show to buy tickets to because for the first time in many months I am without concert tickets purchased. I also go over some music venues I hate (and love) here in the Tri-State area. Sit down, relax. Forget all the problems and listen to mine!

Of course all episodes of the Jay Porks Experience are made possible by The Andy Derer Show and the DererNetwork of podcasts (featuring myself, Andy and Tyler Kahl). Check them out, subscribe on iTunes and YouTube and follow us all on Twitter. Only cool things coming in the future!

1:40 – Phish debuted their brand new record Wingsuit on Halloween in Atlantic City. Internet rumors were that the band would cover an album by another band, but alas, the casual fan is let down.

2:15 – ConcertConfessions.Com ..::Live Music News And Reviews For Fans, By Fans::.. All Are Welcome To Join Our Family

3:10 - CristinaRocks.Com (...hang the dJ)::.. Click here for the Time Warp Playlist from this week

6:55 - I love the song Joey by Concrete Blonde. When Local H busts it out, it's always a good time. He's some footage shot by me back in 2011.

8:51 Antiquiet.Com YOUR SOURCE FOR QUALITY (I feel like they're write it in caps)

10:25 – Tweet from Johnny Firecloud co-founder Antiquiet during Voodoo Fest

Im all for girls with dirty mouths, sometimes, but Kim from Matt & Kim has said 'motherfuckers' at least 100 times during this #voodoo set.
— Johnny Firecloud (@JohnnyFirecloud) November 3, 2013

Three times as i typed that. No joke. Shit's obnoxious.
— Johnny Firecloud (@JohnnyFirecloud) November 3, 2013

11:30 Buying or NOT Buying: Arcade Fire – Reflektor .::BUYING IT::..

12:20 I really need a name for the segment where I trash venues I hate and praise venues I love. Tweet your suggestions at me @JayPorks !

13:30 Here's a link to my review of Soundgarden at Hammerstein Ballroom back in January of this year.
And why not click here to check out my write up on Slash and Foxy Shazam At Hammerstein in September 2012
Click here for my review of the  Pixies at Hammerstein in 2009! (This isn't even on Concert Confessions it's so old school!)
(Later that week...) Click here for my review of 311 at Hammerstein in 2009

17:20 ECW One Night Stand live at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City


 21:15 Link to the article where Neon Trees cancelled their show due to high ticket prices, click here

Click here for my Social Distortion show review from May 14 2011
And click here for my write up of Offspring, Neon Trees and Dead Sara Sept 9th 2012

24:40 This little 2 minutes here is asking all folks who attend shows to join the Concert Confessions family! Hit me up on Twitter @jayporks or hit up Concert Confessions @concertconfess and we'll walk you through that. Always love new folks contributing. Why not have people read your stuff?

27:30 Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake I'm forced to eat because the Jets beat the Saints. My football team fucks me even when they win. Anyway, I refer to this as the Ryan Adams Cheesecake, and I encourage everyone to do the same.

29:10 Click here for the Bowery Presents Concert Calender. Suggest things to me! And as you know, the Jay Porks Experience is now hiring someone to drive me home from shows. Inquire within!

31:35 I'm not mad at Phish for not covering some awesome record but instead debuting their new record 'Wingsuit'. I don't feel like it was a big cock tease or anything. Not at all. #Sarcasm

The Jay Porks Experience (Podcast Edition) Episode Seven : "Pearl Slam"

We're back with another podcast this week here at the Jay Porks Experience. This week, my hatred for the band known as Pearl Jam is revealed. Before listening I want everyone to take into consideration that this was recorded BEFORE Pearl Jam week on Fallon was announced. Could only imagine my delight to find out that that was happening, not that I watch Jimmy Fallon anyway, but taking over my  life via social media and television is something the band has become good at.

Yes, this picture above is stupid. It's what comes from LA Weekly, complete and utter nonsense. But you'd be surprised how hard it is to find a suitable picture searching the terms "Pearl Jam Sucks". What can I say, you people have taken over the internet. But before you people run to the people I try and write for on the internet and try and have me fired, think about this for a second: I hate this band. I'm not telling you to hate this band. I have an opinion, I'm not telling you how to think or what your opinion should be. If you're so offended by my statements (which I see no reason for you to be), I invite you onto my podcast to talk about it. I'll google instructions on how to use this program to patch in people on Skype and we'll have a chat. I wanted to begin having guests anyway.

The second rant in this week's podcast comes thanks to the National Football League who are doing a wonderful job covering up a growing problem in their sport, that'd be CTE (or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). I am not claiming to be smart enough to explain all the nooks and crannies to the laymen, because that's exactly what I am. I'm just a guy who watched a documentary, and I think it'd be best if everyone who is a fan of having Sunday's be a day full of laziness and beer to take a look at it. You can head over to PBS Frontline to watch the documentary by clicking here. 

Back to the Meat Puppets, I'm still in awe of the Backwater > Sloop John B >Open Wide > Cathy's Clown > Lake Of Fire mind explosion the boys dumped on us back at the Brooklyn Bowl on October 12th. I've got a place you can go to get tons of video (TONS of video for the visual learner), awesome photos and if you like to read, words too. That place is only Concert Confessions: Live Music News And Reviews For The Fans, BY The Fans. Click Here to check that out

Tapes:

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(only if you want to)

Tap me on the shoulder and share bands with me, albums I should check out. I will. It doesn't have to be a new record, maybe an album that you think I'd enjoy that I may have missed along the way, or been ignorant towards. Whatever. Don't worry, I'll never go Pearl Jam on your band because the band you're going to show me hasn't annoyed the shit out of my life for the past 20 years. 

Here's the article Krist Novoselic tweeted in which Kurt Cobain is compared to painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Interesting read, click here for it 

Tweet at me @JayPorks .. ask me random things, give me things to bitch about. Things to love. Let's be friends! 

The Jay Porks Experience (Podcast Edition): Episode Six - "Porks And Recreation"

And here we are back with another podcast, another few minutes of me sharing with you the pleasures and displeasure's of my concert experiences, both present and past. Today, we're sticking with the present,as I've just come down from the trip known as seeing the Meat Puppets live. It was my 13th time, great as usual. You need check out my words, photos and awesome videos from the gig by clicking here to get to Concert Confessions: The only place on the internet to find your Live Music News And Reviews For Fans, BY Fans.

Thanks to the Andy Derer Network of Podcasts, I've been given the opportunity to just click record and share my thoughts and complaints from the only person from the Forgotten Borough.. Staten Island, New York that you know.

Head over to Cris Kirkwood's Art Website, CrisKirkwoodArt.Com . Tons of cool stuff available there, and like I mention in this weeks episode, you'll want to grab some of this stuff as the holiday season is right around the corner. 

Here's the "Open Wide" shot on my IPhone 5 that I mentioned. The picture quality is some epic stuff, and we should be hitting more shows in the near future and getting some awesome picks. This guy does have a birthday coming up after all.

At 13:50, I'm not kidding about the driver.. If there's anybody who wants to hit shows in the New York City metro area, and can offer me a ride home from a show in exchange of a ticket that I will purchase for you. Or even if your somebody who doesn't like to go to concerts but enjoys driving and making money off folks, send me an email at JayPorks@GMail.Com, we can work out some sort of arrangement. I'm too awesome an individual to have the low amount of friends that I do. Tweet me @JayPorks , be my friend. My only friends can't live in different states, I can't get to them. 

If you're out west and plan of hitting one of the many Meat Puppets shows out in the Golden State, Washington, Idaho, Vegas, etc., hit up the article I have up at Antiquiet with all the Pups tour dates here. or you could even head to TheMeatPuppets.Com/Tour to get tickets and stuff.

The Jay Porks Experience (Podcast Edition): Episode Three

As you may have read right here last week, I now have my very own podcast thanks to my buddy Andy Derer of  the Andy Derer Show fame. And you know I couldn't be happier about that. I've got tons of complaints about everything from the land of topical music news to the shit that pisses me off at work-and everything Meat Puppets in between. On a weekly basis, I'll try to come here and post show notes as they're needed.

Episode Three contains an opening rant about the restaurant I work at, and the type of customer I deal with from day to day. Contrary to popular belief, I am not having a nervous breakdown in that first 8 minutes.

8:22- Obvious end of segment one, a much calmer Porks hits the microphone.
9:00 - Read all about the Violent Femmes rain out by clicking here.
10:30 - Head over to the official website of the Boomer and Carton Morning Show by clicking here.
17:15 - The Meat Puppets are most certainly coming to a town near you. Check out all their tour dates by heading to their official website here.
20:30 - Concert Confessions.. Live Music News And Reviews For Fans, By Fans
21:30 - Mexicali Live is a rock venue located in Teaneck, NJ.
22:10 - I actually used to call Pam's jeep the "Pam-Van", the "Pam Wagon" refers to the newer vehicle.
22:50 - Check out coverage of The Black Box Revelation over at Concert Confessions by clicking here
23:45 - You guys all remember the Adventures of Pete & Pete

The theme song is by a band called Polaris, fronted by Mark Mulcahy.

25:40 - It would have been Doug Sahm's 70th Birthday. It just so happens his son Shandon is currently destroying the skins as a member of the Meat Puppets. So the boys got Shandon out from behind the kit to  sing lead on Doug penned song called "She's About A Mover".  Shandon played Curt's guitar, Curt got behind the drums. Magically moment. Sound is awesome, video slightly grainy. Check it out:

Full review from that show courtesy of yours truly can be found up at Concert Confessions. Click here for the full scoop. 

20:07 - Meat Puppets at The Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg October 12th, come be my friend! Get tickets here.

28:06- Polaris doing Hey Sandy

31:00 - Check out the epic failure of iHeart Radio first reported at AntiQuiet.Com by clicking here. It's too perfect.  

35:05 -  Two years and 99 pounds ago, I was on WSIA 88.9 FM, the College of Staten Island's on campus radio station. That's also on YouTube. 

41:00 - I'm too lazy to enjoy the intricacies of vinyl records. I like to have them to hang on my wall, but I'm not one who thinks a needle scratching against a dead cow. I have a load of classic cassette tapes if Cassette Store Day ever is invented.

Thanks for putting up with my bullshit! Get those three W's going!

JayPorks@Gmail.Com if you'd like to get at me and have anything to do with this podcast

The Jay Porks Experience (Podcast Edition): Episode Two

   

 It's been years since I wanted to start my very own podcast. Luckily, my buddy Andy Derer envisioned a world where I'd be able to be hosting podcast of my own, airing every Monday here on the interwebs. I'll be discussing and digesting all things going on in the land of music (including my personal live experiences along with topical music news) and in land of Porks. That means I'm gonna use this to also vent about my life frustrations. Things like mass transit, the struggles of living in Staten Island surround by folks I refer to as The Walking Dead because of extend periods of Oxycontin and/or heroin use,  my dead end job and my annoying family are just the tip of the iceberg.

Weekly if needed, this is where we're gonna post the "show notes". Notes of things I may have worded not so clear, and links to the stuff I'm talking about. Even though  I have diarrhea of the mouth, I find that I tend to leave things out when under the gun of recording. Never claimed to be a grounded, stable person. So take a listen to the podcast, linked above, and view the little show notes below. Thanks for putting up with my nonsense for a little while, any suggestions please feel free to send them over.

2:30 - Have me read your LRC's if you got them, hit me up JayPorks@Gmail.Com
3:08 - I should have edited out that little pause myself. Will be better prepared in the future.
8:45 - The soliloquy about not being able to smoke cigarettes in the park, "Bloomy" is my nick name of  New York City Mayor Micheal Bloomberg. I'm not sure if everyone was able to get that.
13:35 - I say the Femmes played "Add It Up". I was there, so I am fully aware that the song is actually "Kiss Off" (because I have the first minute and a half on video). That's me misspeaking because my favorite part of "Kiss Off" involves a verse with counting. When I think number, I think "Add It Up" because of simple mathematics. So this isn't me being wrong, it's just me saying the wrong thing.
17:15 - The "Sucked" inserted there is in light of the situation at hand and not the performance of the band. Even though the weather was a train wreck, what took place on the stage while the band was on the stage was pretty surreal. Who knew this band would ever play again?
17:37 - When I say "Enjoy" it, that's not to say I do not enjoy shows from behind the lens. Actually usually I enjoy them more that way. I meant I didn't run to the pit and scream like a little school girl and jump up and down. I didn't live in the moment, I chose to capture it. And that's my main passion about hitting shows. Capturing the epicness.
18:37 - Mark Sanchez got a raw deal is the point I'm after there. We've got plenty of weeks for sports related podcasts

24:06 - Here's the awesome picture I was talking about. Click here for my full review over at Concert Confessions.

25:25 - If you can play 10-15 seconds of a nifty guitar riff or something for a theme song, hit me up at JayPorks@Gmail.Com
26:42 - These are the videos I referenced:

As we wrap up, Hank Moody is a fictional character in Showtime's series Californication played by David Duchovny. He is one of my heroes. 

Thanks for listening, we'll meet up again next week at TheAndyDererShow.Com where all the Jay Porks Experience Podcast Editions will be hosted. 

Curt Kirkwood Interview w/ Larry Flick on Sirius

Recently, radio host Larry Flick got a chance to sit down with one of his favorite musicians: Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets. The two discussed a number of topics, one in particular that struck my attention. Curt discussed how beer got spilled all over his peddle board at a show and he was completely miserable the entire night while everyone loved the set and he fake a good time not to be a bring down. I was at that show. It's John and Peter's in New Hope, PA.  Let me say this, that new hope show was completely nuts.


It was such a magically night, and now I feel guilty having enjoyed it. Check out the interview below on my new Soundclound account thingie.