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Friday, August 21, 2009
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from rootstime.be. can anyone translate? | THE
FANCY DAN BAND - BORN FANCY |
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Platen
die ons werkelijk van de sokken blazen krijgen we niet elke dag voorgeschoteld.
Maar soms, heel soms gebeurt het nog wel eens dat een nieuwe cd ons zo
bij de keel grijpt, dat we er weken aan verslaafd geraken.
Dit is deze zomer absoluut het geval voor ‘Born Fancy’, het fantastische
debuutalbum van The Fancy Dan Band. Wat weten we over deze nobele onbekende
Fancy Dan Nordheim? Dat hij opgroeide in het Amerikaanse midwesten als
zoon van een leerkracht /dominee. Dat hij zich op de hoes in een smaakvolle
country outfit presenteert. En dat hij zijn eigen muzikale roeping vond
in de omgeving van San Francisco Bay. Daar vormde Dan in 2007 de band
waarmee hij ongeveer een jaar later een pelgrimstocht ondernam naar Nashville,
Tennessee. Het viertal blikte er in slechts drie dagen tijd de twaalf
songs in (all written by Fancy Dan) die op dit verbluffende album te horen
zijn.
De openingstrack ‘Wake Up Fancy’ is de spreekwoordelijke schop onder de
eigen kont die de zanger zichzelf geeft om tot actie over te gaan en wat
blijkt? De vonk slaat meteen over! Vurig gitaarwerk dat doet denken aan
het beste werk van Elvis of Cash uit hun ‘Sun’ periode, droge ploffen
op de drums,een ultra fijne staande bas en een goede stem brengen ons
meteen in bovenste beste stemming. Country-Rock’n’ Roll van superkwaliteit
is het keurmerk dat hier past.
‘What You Do’ hobbelt nog even verder op hetzelfde pad, terwijl Fancy
Dan met ‘So Long’ bewijst dat hij ook in staat is tot meer complentatieve
songs, in dit geval een nummer dat klinkt als een openlijke schuldbelijdenis
aan het adres van het ex-liefje. ‘A life of sin will do you in /until
you can't even begin /It's been so long since I did what I did’.
Bij momenten (‘Sore Heart’ en in mindere mate ‘What Was I Thinking’) schoten
ook herinneringen aan Ray Davies en The Kinks ons door hoofd, al blijven
Elvis, Johnny Cash en Hank Williams wel de meest aanwijsbare invloeden
op deze plaat.
Tenslotte verwijzen wij volgaarne naar het catchy ‘Poor Rich Man’, dat
zichzelf, in de beste Cash-traditie, reeds na één enkele beluistering
in het gehoor vastankert en waarin Fancy Dan treffend de maat opneemt
van de beter bedeelden in de Amerikaanse samenleving.
Ook al verwijst ‘Born Fancy’ graag en vaak naar muzikale merkpunten uit
het verleden, de plaat klinkt op geen enkel moment goedkoop ouderwets.
Wat ons betreft krijgt The Fancy Dan Band dan ook alle kansen mee voor
een mooie toekomst. Te beginnen bij een vermelding in het eindejaarslijstje
2009 van ondergetekende. Check it out, folks!
Shake
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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Greetings Fancy Dan Fans,
Exciting news to report! The Fancy Dan Band is going on a tour of
the Pacific Northwest and it all starts tomorrow! Along with good
friends Adam Balbo and The Yellow Dress, The Fancy Dan Band will be
embark on an 11 day journey spreading joy to the good people of the
Pacific Northwest. Fancy Dan will be playing solo for much of it with
the rest of the band joining on August 11. If you are in any of these
cities or know people who might be interested in catching a show,
please pass this along to your friends and neighbors. Here's the full
schedule that begins with a local show tonight:
San Francisco, CA: Wednesday, August 5, 7:30pm
Dog Eared Books, "Lessons In Adventureneering"
900 Valencia St. @ 20th
NW Tour Farewell Show
Arcata, CA: Thursday, August 6, 11pm
KHSU, "The Leg Room"
In-studio performance and interview at Humboldt State University radio (khsu.org).
Portland, OR: Friday, August 7, 5-6pm
KPSU, "Live Friday"
In-studio performance and interview at Portland State University radio (kpsu.org)
Portland, OR: Friday, August 7, 8pm [$5]
Good Neighbor Pizzeria, 800 NE Dekum St.
Restaurant & bar show with: Guantanamo Bay Watch
Olympia, WA: Saturday, August 8, 5pm [$5]
Chez Puget, 1139 Puget Street NE
Huge backyard house show with: Generifus; Masters+Johnson
(Seattle); Herr Jazz (Seattle); 1985 (Seattle); Summer Blondes
(Portland); Brainstorm (Portland); Bad Weather California; Moon
Runners; Lazer Zeppelin
Olympia, WA: Monday, August 10, 7pm
Finger Complex, 203 Rogers Street NW
House show with: Sundance Kids; Papermoon; The Long Mornings
Bellingham, WA: Tuesday, August 11, 8pm
The Sick Dagger House, email for address
House show with: Go Slowpoke; others
Port Townsend, WA: Wednesday, August 12, 7pm
Boiler Room, 711 Water Street
Co-op coffee shop show with: TBA
Seattle, WA: Thursday, August 13, 8pm
The Josephine, 608 NW 65th Street N.
House show with: Norman Baker; Gene Pool
Tacoma, WA: Friday, August 14, 8pm
Silent Music, 8016 Durango Street SW
Warehouse show with: Stereo Suns (Seattle)
Eugene, OR: Saturday, August 15, evening
Co-op show
Details coming
Sacramento, CA: Sunday, August 16, 6pm
Tangent Gallery, 2900 Franklin Blvd.
Art gallery & cafe show with: Christina Antipa
If you or anyone you know would be willing to offer a warm place to
stay to a traveling group of musicians, please reply to this email. Any
support you have to offer would be much appreciated. We're very excited
about this opportunity and can't thank you enough for all your support.
Yours,
The Fancy Dan Band
fancydanband.com
myspace.com/fancydanband
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Friday, June 19, 2009
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Fancy Dan interviews Adam Balbo about songwriting and G.I. Joes. Check it out at owlandbear.com.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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5 Star Review from Alt Country Netherlands. Can anyone who speaks Dutch translate for us?
http://www.altcountry.nl/blog/2009/03/cd-the-fancy-dan-band/  Een van mijn favoriete platen aller tijden is The Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn, een elpee die in 1986 eindelijk weer eens duidelijk maakte hoe cool rock-’n-roll kan zijn. Een plaat met tien liedjes die levenslang leuk blijven. Iets met de sfeer van Happy Days, maar dan zonder de knulligheid en verpakt in rootsy klanken door Vaughn, Aldo Jones, Gus Cordovox en Lonesome Bob. Koop die plaat! Of als die niet meer te vinden is de serie cd’sVaughn Sings Vaughn 1-3 waarop Ben het onbeperkte leven van zijn oude nummers bewijst door ze opnieuw op te nemen. Natuurlijk moet deze lange inleiding ander goed nieuws brengen. En dat is ook zo. Nooit eerder namelijk werd de sound van The Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn zo dicht benaderd als op Born Fancy (eigen beheer) van The Fancy Dan Band. Wie is deze Fancy Dan? Soms denk ik werkelijk dat het Ben Vaughn zelf is. Maar Fancy Dan verklaarde desgevraagd doodleuk dat hij nog nooit van Ben Vaughn had gehoord… Anyway, Dan groeide op in het midwesten van Amerika als zoon van een dominee en een leraar en heeft nu een fantastische band gevormd in de Bay Area van Californië. Born Fancy is American Music zoals The Blasters het ooit bedoeld hadden. De ingrediënten van rock-’n-roll, blues en country zijn er door de stijlvol geklede Fancy Dan door elkaar gehusseld totdat het ultracool is gaan klinken. Dit is verwant aan Johnny Cash in zijn Sun-periode, zonder ook maar een moment als retro (en dus namaak) over te komen. Met zulke droge klappen van de drummer moet je ook wel in rockabilly duiken. We hebben het dan over het soort rockabilly waarin het draait om dansbare liedjes met droge humor. Overigens werd de cd opgenomen in Nashville met Cheyenne Medders, van wie we al eens een fraaie softrockplaat ontvingen. De ook op deze site bekende JJ Schultz zei het erg mooi: “Fancy Dan got some Hank in his voice and some Elvis in his hips”. Fancy Dan heeft het dus helemaal. Koop daarom niet alleen iets van Ben Vaughn, maar ook dit Born Fancy van The Fancy Dan Band. Verkrijgbaar bij CD Baby.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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From www.hickswithsticks.com, Newsletter #204, March 24, 2009: THE FANCY DAN BAND LIVES UP TO ITS CLOTHES
 Bands with concepts risk that their idea will not stand up to time. It was fame that freed the Beatles from their pudding bowl haircuts, and even Kiss ditched their makeup for awhile.
Fancy Dan's dapper threads work because they aren't a gimmick; they're who he really is. He may be lookin' good but he's no stuffed shirt like the Fancy Dan stereotype who would do in Spiderman. The Fancy Dan Band's leader is as amiable as a Midwestern preacher's son and his band has the chops to back the threads. It's all explained in the self-effacing humor of "Wake Up Fancy," the lead track on Born Fancy, the band's debut CD.
Listen to any one or two songs on the CD and they'll stand up well, but a funny thing happened on their way to the pressing plant. The live show features some good kick from Michael Loebs' lead guitar, the rhythm section punches it out, and Fancy Dan is up front and on it with his voice and rhythm guitar. But Nashville, where the songs were recorded, ran all these assets through the Tennessee homogenator, and though they didn't make the band sound country-politan, they did take away just enough edge to remind West Coast bands that they don't need to go to Nashville to accomplish something that a couple of hundred California studios can do better. Luckily, Californians can see this band live and still pick up a copy of the CD as a worthy souvenir, which, as we might expect, comes in a package as spiffy as its muse's.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
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Last night I dreamed I started a series of phone calls with Bob Dylan. Somehow I came up with his number and started calling and leaving mysterious poem messages every once in awhile. Eventually he started answering and would talk to me in verse, choosing his words carefully. During our conversations, I would never say my name or anything about myself, but one day I called Bob when I was feeling especially desperate and proceeded to tell him my situation. As I was going into detail, Bob stopped responding, but stayed on the line and I could feel my tongue thickening by the second. Finally when I was at the point where I was telling him, “my name is Fancy Dan,” my words weren’t coming out and I had a severe lisp and couldn’t get “Fancy Dan” to sound intelligible. Finally Bob hung up and I lost him.
A few minutes later I got a text message from Bob saying, “you’re losing right.” I immediately knew what he meant, that I was thinking too much and trying too hard. My right brain was losing a battle with my left brain and it was painfully obvious. He proceeded in sending me several more short text messages, which were full of all kinds of poetic advice. Finally when I was about to respond, some Dylanolgist came in the room and somehow knew that I had messages from Bob as well as his phone number so he tried to wrestle me for the phone. I wasn’t about to lose this priceless advice to some collector so I was hanging on for dear life. Just then, I woke up.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Born Fancy got reviewed by the San Francisco Bay Guardian for their music blog. Check it out here!
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Born Fancy has been reviewed by Nate Seltenrich for the East Bay Express. Check out his review here and feel free to leave a comment letting him know what you think!
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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Here is the very first review of Born Fancy. Thanks so much to our friends at The Post-Rockist for such a great review! Check out the review here and let them know what you think by leaving a comment!
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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Current mood:  impressed
Some children have taken it upon themselves to call me by my true name of Fancy Dan. In the past, children haven't called me Fancy too often, but it's something I think I can get used to. I just heard a great story from some friends of mine who have a 5 year-old boy named Cole. As told by Megan, the story goes something like this:
"Cole and Chris are on the J train, and Cole sees a man wearing a fancy suit and shiny shoes. Cole goes up to the man and says, 'Hey, are you related to Fancy Dan?'"
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