Founding Gheorgie Whitney hasn't been seen or heard much around these parts in quite some time. Some say it's because he grew up and put away childish things. Others that he's simply too busy to make his way to this remote corner of the blogosphere. (Still others can't believe we still use the term 'blogosphere'.) Clarence, who probably knows him the best, generally tries to change the subject when it inevitably comes up.
We think we might've solved the mystery, though. Whitney was always into music, and as the lead singer of Random Idiots and several side projects with Greasetruck, Almighty Yojo, Dave, and others, he perfected an everyman vocal style that was at once relatable and not all that good.
That's all changed.
Last month, Whitney released a new record. His voice has risen to a Bon Iver-esque falsetto, and the production values have improved significantly. His band now features horns, noodling guitars, and a melancholy affect, as evident in his first single, 'No Woman'.
While none of the guys in the band look particularly like the Whitney we know, the prominent use of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the video is a dead giveaway.
Whitney plays DC9 in Washington on October 6. If that's not a great opportunity for a mini-Summit, then I don't know what is. Maybe we can get Clarence there, too.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
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Why don't we hang out in rainy forests rocking pegged skinny jeans, Red Wing boots and barn jackets?
ReplyDeleteand throwing axes, z. don't forget that.
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch the whole video but I assume it was a Best Made axe.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bestmadeco.com/shop/products/the-axe-shop
Z, did you miss the part where the hipster chops the can of PBR in half with said axe? That's where it reached peak douche.
ReplyDeleteThe Whitney I know would jam every one of those dudes and tell them to stop taking their shitty music so seriously. The electric guitar player did have a couple of nice breaks. And I like horns, but they seem to be wasted here.
To answer Marls on the car being keyed - I got by w/ pleasant batter and obfuscation. Keying happened on driver door. I think I drove in front of a shady dude in a lot. Maybe folks in OKC stop in strip mall parking lots whenever anybody is remotely near, but in NJ we say fuck it and seize the good parking spot if it's not too close (and it wasn't).
ReplyDeleteI started aggressively chatting up the Hertz guy with the door was open. I left the engine on so he could see tank was full. I then shut the door and stood in front of it. He made a lethargic pass around the rest of the car and I shot off when the receipt printed. Hoping that's the end of it. Hertz has given me some real ugly clunkers this year, so I'm pretty qualmless about the whole situation.
Banter, not batter. I did not drink pineapple juice to create pleasant batter. That's a whole different way to avoid a charge.
ReplyDeleteGents, I believe we call those hatchets, not axes.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rootsy is right. I would also have said, hey cool outdoorsy guys, way to flick your lit cig butt into the leafy woods. Smokey would maul you. I wonder if you scream bloody murder in falsetto.
I was naturally eager to hear what this Whitney had to offer when I learned about them recently. The first song I played was called "Dave's Song." It's . . . soft and sweet. Not one of the Daves I know.
My take on Whitney the band: The voice is super high and the band is not too good . . . which is Random Idiots in reverse.
I like that song about aphasia but I can't remember the title.
ReplyDeleteClever girl
ReplyDeleteSqueak, Zman, et al - need quick bar recommendations in Boston, they are staying not far from Logan tonight. Good drunks, not needing high class hoity toity but our style of pub. Grazie. I said Foley's, not sure how far away that is.
ReplyDeleteI would make the effort to get away from Logan and go to The Lower Depths (featured on the non-recurring Beers Bands Bars podcast) or Bukowski's. Good pub food, excellent beer selection, usually excellent music on the hi-fi. If they want to do the whole Fenway thing (which will be a shitshow tonight with the Yankees in town) go to Woody's for the best pizza and wings in Boston. They have a good beer menu too. If they want to get a venereal disease, go to the Pour House on Boylston and buy any lady a drink. Faneuil Hall also offers the opportunity to SDB a la Slick Willy in a shitshow environment. Clarke's, Kitty O'Shea's, The Black Rose, Hennessey's all have that angle covered.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that Zman has a great post law career gig as a tour guide who gives you a real unvarnished view of the city.
ReplyDeletesdb, y'all
ReplyDeleteYou should see my zZagat's Guide review of Roanoke. It does not involve season 6 of American Horror Story.
ReplyDeleteThe Lower Depths' "about" section of their website is informative, here's a highlight:
Why is the music so loud?
Because we’re a bar, not Starbucks. If it’s too loud, go home.
Can I put on my music?
Hell. No.
Do you have WiFi?
You’re in a bar. It’s time to chill. Put the laptop/phone/iPad/whatever down and talk to your friends, random strangers, or us.
SDB = Shoot da Boot?
ReplyDeletestill
ReplyDeletedicking
bimbos
Love it
Revis Peninsula
ReplyDeletewow. sorry whit, i wish your eponymous band was cooler. you can always call your solo act "the real whitney"
ReplyDeleterob or whit: did we watch seinfeld in college?
ReplyDeleteRidiculous question
ReplyDeleteJets are up 30-24 w/ 4 mins left. They score w/ a run up the middle easily. Almost too easily, as if the Bills knew letting the Jets take a two score lead immediately (as opposed to having 2+ mins grinded off the click first) was optimal. No mention from Simms or Nantz.
ReplyDeleteWhen they score and go up 36-24, they then go for one, a very dumb move. Going for two gives a 14-pt lead. No mention from Simms or Nantz.
Nantz NOW mentions the Jets should've gone for two, after 90 secs of play. And Simms literally hops in on the commentary, like he knew the whole time. Maybe you can actually understand the facts at the time, and not need a producer to whisper it in your ear, tools.
ReplyDeleteBills will make onside kick w/ ~60 secs on clock and 2 TOs. Told Bowles' decision to go for one was DUMB DUMB DUMB.
ReplyDeleteHi gheorghies
ReplyDeletehola gheorghies from jolly ol' england
ReplyDeleteAnother GTB ripoff.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/hillarys-health-and-history-shes-not-the-first-candidate-to-face-major-medical-questions/
When someone else does the cereal mascot all-stars, we go ballistic.
ReplyDeleteThe NFL Thursday night games are usually terrible. Last night's was the most entertaining that I can remember.
ReplyDeleteIt probably won't work nearly as well against a good defense but damn I enjoy that Jets offense. Fitz chucks it all over the place and those 3 huge WRs make up for less than pinpoint accuracy by being, well, huge. And good.
There was a lot of chatter on Enunwa in pre-season. He's lived up to the hype. And Marshall losing 15 lbs has helped. The switch from Ivory to Forte has worked out better than expected.
ReplyDeleteThe big concern into the year was the O-Line. D'Brickashaw retired, and a starting guard has been hurt. Clady is healthy (for now) and the others have played well. It Fitzie can play like the ~15th best QB in the league, his weapons and that D-Line will make them a playoff contender.
Teej, you must be knackered from jet lag. Hope you have a smashing time in the Isles.
ReplyDeleteMatt Forte on pace for 472 touches.
ReplyDeletegood touches, tho
ReplyDeleteProps to Eric Decker's wife too. She's hot and called him "Big Dick Decker" on snapchat. What more could a man ask for?
ReplyDeleteOn the topic of celebrities and the people they insert their penises into, I grabbed drinks w/ a female colleague last night who lives in Houston. A good friend of hers, who is 32 and freshly divorced, got picked up by A-Rod when the Yanks were in town last. It was at the bar at a Morton's Steakhouse. The internet says it was in late July. I saw a pic of the woman. She is blonde, pretty and fit. A-Rod apparently discussed dating her, before he disappeared.
ReplyDeleteI also heard independently that he took home a stripper who works at the Men's Club in Houston, one of the high end cabarets (so I have heard). This also happened during that trip.
So A-Rod's been laying the wood all over Tejas as of late. I guess he had no reason not to, considering he knew he wasn't going to play and the end was near.
SDB.
ReplyDeleteTR's jets/fitz assessment is identical to mine from last year except last year he said it was wrong.
TR is a notorious flip-flopper. He should hang out with John Kerry.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't take long.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/682350-bill-clinton-still-dicking-bimbos
I think TR just named ZZ Top's next album : "Laying wood all over Tejas"
ReplyDeleteIs John Kerry SDB? Was he ever even DB?
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda loving this. My initials are SDB.
ReplyDeletewhy is that a ridiculous question? i remember watching cheers, but was seinfeld big yet? right after college, you guys dressed as the characters, but were we watching it IN college regularly? i am reading a book about the show and i vaguely remember giving cliffy shit about being jerry but i don't remember if we were fans
ReplyDeleteWe watched it
ReplyDeleteI don't remember what you're talking about, Zman, so you're clearly wrong.
ReplyDeleteKerry is not DB, but he made himself rich rich rich by wedding into the Heinz family.
The abnormally high percentage of augmented chassis in TX always catches me by surprise. And folks' manners are so nice that it's unnerving. A receptionist at a corporate building y/day called me "kind sir" about five times in a 10-minute span when I was waiting to go into a meeting. I am neither of those things, but I smiled b/c she was polite. And b/c she had giant, fake breasts.
pictures please
ReplyDeletewounds thoroughly licked today
ReplyDeleteSo many blonde and fake boobs combos in Texas.
ReplyDeleteoh, man, we need to make an sdb t-shirt for rootsy.
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked Dave couldn't remember watching Seinfeld in college.
ReplyDeleteHe was always busy still dicking bimbos
ReplyDeleteRootsy, Rootsy, SDB
ReplyDeleteStill dicking bimbos with an STD
your goddam fake jug band makes me say
the band should leave, the fake jugs can stay
Clarence, Clarence, don't tell it to me
ReplyDeleteI dicked the bimbo you brought, now it burns when I pee
My jug band's as real as any you've known
I don't care for fake jugs, I like 'em naturally grown
actually I was personifying you in the fake jug band slag, like saying it to someone else. I know rootstone is real
ReplyDeleteDude, we're freestyling here. Don't screw it up worrying about my feelings.
ReplyDeleteMy bad, buddy. And I freestyle often. No sense creating extra laundry just because you might dribble a little at the urinal.
ReplyDeleteRootsy, Rootsy, it's a dadgum pity
ReplyDeleteHe's done gone and fled the ol Star City
He's gone with the wind, whichever way the wind blows
He's got whiskey in his windpipe
and
Still
Dicking
Bimbos
Marconi plays the mamba, Listen to the radio, don't you remember
ReplyDeleteWe built this city
We built this city still dicking bimbos
I stuck my dork in Mrs. Roark.
ReplyDeleteWell my friend Clarence had money to spare
ReplyDeleteUntil he dicked the bimbo with the curly blond hair
Now he's bumming on the corner of 13th and Winslow
With a tin cup and a sign that says
Still
Dicking
Bimbos
ok, i looked up seinfeld season two
ReplyDeletemy memory needed a quick review
but mainly i remember quantum leap
i was either watching that or gettin balls deep
dicking bimbos, dave. dicking bimbos. try to keep up.
ReplyDeletecoulda gone with 'watching melrose' to make the verse work
ReplyDeleteI'm digging these freestyles
ReplyDeleteAs I'm sure y'all know
My fantasy team name?
Still dicking bimbos
one, two, three, clarence, dave and me
ReplyDeletewhite on white and swarthy makes three
we're three emcees and we're on the road
spittin' out lines, still dicking bimbos
not happy with the repeat of three. gotta do better.
ReplyDeleteIt's not rhyming with itself, so I'd pass it. You could use fo fi fee in its stead, though.
ReplyDeleteGot the Timbos on my toes
ReplyDeleteThis is how it goes
While your girl blows Weeblos
Bill's still dicking bimbos
Dave loves the self rhyme.
ReplyDelete"And rhyming Homer with homer? "
Still dicking bimbos like my name Bill Clinton
ReplyDeleteFreestylin on the mic like the man George Plimpton
Can't wait for my Toto so I can be clean shittin
Grammar ain't my thing, infinitives I'm splittin
rappin like a muppet, ghooglin like a pro
ReplyDeletegheorghe on the mic with romanian flow
hadron collidin with the nappy higgs bo's
gtb stylin still dickin bimbos
Unsubscribe
ReplyDeletetr mad i dropped comment six nine
ReplyDeleteridin in soft with that wall street whine
TR likes Jets talk
ReplyDeleteAnd blonde haired hoes
If they've got big fakes
He's dicking bimbos
Good morning, gheorghies. My internal body clock betrayed me last night. Went to be at 10. Actually fell asleep? 3am. #daaaagger
ReplyDeleteRainy day in Louisville. I remember the last time FSU rolled into Louisville for a football game soaked in rain. They lost in exciting fashion. Here's to a repeat.
ReplyDelete1st travel soccer tourney for my youngest. I now officially have two in the machine.
ReplyDeleteI am hardcore Dadding from 7-5 today. At least there's no good college ball on today.
First week of kindergarten and zson already brought some respiratory virus home. Only 16 more years of this.
ReplyDeleteThe upside is that there will be quite a few good games left for you this evening, TR.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I have a buddy out at South Bend today. He's sipping bloody Marys at a massive tailgate in perfect weather. I kinda hate him right now.
ReplyDeletebobby petrino
ReplyDeletecan certainly coach 'em up
still dicking bimbos
FSU getting boat raced will never not bring me joy.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Tennessee is struggling mightily with Ohio. I'm feeling alright (for the time being) about next week.
ReplyDeleteIowa deserves to lose to North Dakota State just because they were dumb enough to schedule them.
ReplyDeletesame exact feeling about fsu, mark. but wasn't gonna say it for fear of jinxing it.
ReplyDeleteBison, bitches.
ReplyDeleteIs Louisville really gonna beat FSU by 50+? Wow. I thought Louisville would win but. Not. Like. This.
ReplyDeleteGreat stat on ND St:
ReplyDeleteNorth Dakota State now have more Power 5 wins in their last 5 games (5) than Kansas has in their last 58 games (4).
Took zfamily apple picking. zson peed in a port a potty. I admonished him "don't touch anything." And he listened. Up until the last second when he slowly dragged his index finger along the surface of the blue urinal cake. It was not awesome.
ReplyDeleteworked the finish line at a very large high school cross country meet today. first time i've done that. kids barfing, collapsing, gutted as they crossed the line, and our job to keep them moving, pick up the ones that fell so they didn't get run over and get them to the medical tent. pretty fucking crazy. but pretty cool to see the kids of all abilities busting their asses to get across the line.
ReplyDeleteDukes with 2 drives and 2 td's. Up 7 against the heels. Kicker a Winc boy. His mom is the queen of Facebook posts and that was prior to him becoming a college player. I'd put the over/under at a dozen posts with pics per week.
ReplyDelete3 drives. 3 td's.
ReplyDeleteBama down a couple td''s. Granted they'll likely come back, but I wonder what the odds would have been on ole miss to win 3 in a row against the tide. That would have been a big number.
ReplyDeletei'm been very firm with my children that all sports without a ball are joyless and for insane people. so no cross country. and zman, if you want to avoid that shit, kids should pee on trees! outside. no hand washing
ReplyDeleteMy 13 year old loves cross county. He ran 2 miles in 12:42 on a pretty happy hilly course here.
ReplyDeleteOf course he likes soccer more, even if he's riding the pines a bit so far this season.
Tirico instead of Hammond. Yes and thank you.
ReplyDeleteNotre Dame is an 8-win team.
ReplyDeleteHopefully.
ReplyDeleteOhio State not so much.
Looks like Florida's QB may have torn his acl on a late hit. Thats a fun development for my weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'm not happy about no coming back as it will only make the loss that more gut wrenching.
ReplyDeleteSo how is the Appleby kid Mark?
He lost the starting job at Purdue last year so...not great. Better than Treon Harris was last year but definitely a downgrade from an already slightly above average QB.
ReplyDeleteGood touches, tho
ReplyDeletetreat