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So we've had this Tuesday May 5th shindig at 3rd and Lindsley booked for a while.  It wasn't until a few hours ago the lights came on at the Moderately Sauced compound and a revelation appeared amidst the beer cans and rubble.  May is the 5th month of the year and we're playing on the 5th.  The word five in spanish is "cinco".  Holy shit Bat Guana guacamole!  We're playing Cinco De Mayo!!!!!!

So in true spirit to all things Sauce, we are officially changing our name for one gig.  Moderadamente Sauced, our moniker will reflect a renewed vigor and swagger. 

Thus we must put on the absolute best and most ludicrous party ever in honor of all things Cinco y Cinco.  Pinata's and Porn...that's the theme of our very special Cinco De Mayo presentation.  A fiesta to end all fiestas!  Yes there will be Pinata's filled with decadent and sweet treats.  There will be tequila shots, there will be Margaritas, there will be Corona's.  The Saucettes will be there in full Mariachi Vixen attire.  Will there be porn?  That depends on whether you get your mom or sister to show up.  Either way we promise you a LOCO Fiesta GRANDE CHUPA Bien Tiempo!

We here at Sauce Headquarters located somewhere in lovely West Nashville, receive alot of emails here on myspace. The good people out there have no idea what it says, but we believe you have a "right" to know.  Let's take a look at some of the frequently asked questions and their respective answers.  Bear in mind we receive most of our messages in the wee hours of the morning folllowing a live performance.
 
"Your bass player has a rather nice package, is he single?"

Thanks Steve, but unfortunately for you he's currently studying to be a catholic priest, so that will only work for you if your catholic.

"What's your favorite booze?"

Whadya got?

"Can I hire the Saucettes for my Bachelor party?"

No you cannot but you can hire our roadie "Chicken George", he gets drunk real easy.

"I love your drummers tattoos where does he get them done?"

Mostly on his arms and some on his chest and back.

"Rachel is awesome why does she waste her time playing with you guys?"

She's not wasting time she's just watching time get wasted.

"Why does your guitarist wear eyeliner?"

It's "guyliner" to you pal, we're just thankfull he lost his cherry lip gloss, baby-steps. 

"When are you assholes gonna play something from this era?"

When this era learns to write a good song and or clone John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and Keith Moon.

"If I come out on Tuesday April 7th 9:30pm at 3rd and lindlsey, am I gonna get laid?"

You will definetely get laid and our good friend "Nacho" will be giving handjobs behind the dumpster out back. 

So the new "Guns and Roses" CD is being streamed on myspace at the moment.  I put "Guns and Roses" in quotes because it's not really Guns and Roses. 

So I clicked on over and sat through about as much of it as I could take (it wasn't long).  I was only able to skim through a few seconds of each song. 

I noticed all the positive "Good Job Axl" type comments on the page,  but in my opinion it all stinks to high heaven. 

Guns and Roses was once a band people, a band of guys that slept in the same shitty apartment, starved together, squeezed the same girls, and generally reaked havoc on the Sunset Strip. They climbed from the depths of Hollywood and rose to the top. They were an unstoppable force, at one time. 

Fame, money, and greed enters the picture as well as drug addiction.  The first member to fall by the way side was Steven Adler.  Some may argue this point but once his "less than perfect" drumming was gone so was the band.  Sure Matt Sorum is a way better drummer, but the vibe of the original band was gone.  Slowly fame went to Axl's head and the desire for control became greater and greater. 

Axl stopped caring about the fans a long time ago when he decided to go on stage only when and if HE was ready to do it.  His desire to control everything eventually drove out Izzy Stradlin, a key writing component for the band.  The band soldiered on with another "hired gun".  They put a bandaid on the gaping wound and became the Axl Rose revue, replete with horns and back-up singers and gasp a keyboard player?!?!?! WTF!

So when I listen to Chinese Democracy with all it's "new-age" synth intro's and sound effects, the biggest thing I miss is the roar of Slash's guitar riffs.  From what I heard there's not one ass-kicking song on the whole damn record that equals the worst track on Appetite For Destruction. 

Axl employed at least 6 different guitar players, some all on the same track to try and replace one guy.  Guess what he failed! I'm not saying Slash is the greatest guitar player in the World, he's not, but he is the perfect foil for Axl's voice and he can't be replaced. 

I'm sure people will buy Chinese Democracy, it will do huge numbers bought by fans starved for Guns and Roses and good rock n roll in general. But when you buy this record you are a supporting a guy (Axl Rose aka Bill Bailey) who made original members of the band sign over their rights to the name and eventually one by one drove them each out of the band that they had all worked hard to make succeed. Chinese Democracy indeed!

All the while original member Steven Adler struggles with drug addiction every day and longing for the original band to put aside their differences and play together if only for just one night.  Then and only then will Guns and Roses exist.  Chinese Democracy.....I'll pass.

The following is a mid eighties interview with Frank Zappa, and it rings true as much today.  We live in a soceity that celebrates mediocrity in their music.  We here at Moderately Sauced know our audience has a very sophisticated ear.  So enjoy a look here.....

Option Magazine:In the past you have said that "art is dying in this country." What do you
mean by this?

Frank Zappa: Much of the creative work I find interesting and amusing has no basis in
economic reality. Most decisions relevant to expenditures for what gets produced and
distributed are made strictly on a bottom line basis. Nobody makes a move without talking to
their accountant first. There will always be people who will take a chance, but their numbers
are dwindling. Those who are crazy enough to take the chance on spending money to make
some unusual object or event take place are an endangered species. The spirit of
adventurousness at any level of American society has been pretty much legislatured away. In
the eighties, with a repressive Republican, yuppie-oriented administration installed and ready
to perpetuate itself with Supreme Court appointments that will keep us in trouble for the next
half century, the prognosis is not good for things which differ from the viewpoint of the
conservative right.

Option Magazine: Do you think anything can be done to reverse the trend?

Frank Zappa: Perhaps. I tend to view the whole thing as a conspiracy. It is no accident that
the public schools in the United States are pure shit. It is no accident that masses of drugs are
available and openly used at all levels of society. In a way, the real business of government is
the business of controlling the labor force.

Social pressure is placed on people to become a certain type of individual, and then rewards
are heaped on people who conform to that stereotype. Take the pop music business, for
example. Look at the stereotypes held up by the media as great accomplishment. You see
guys who are making millions of dollars and selling millions of units. And because they are
making and selling millions they are stamped with the seal of approval, and it is the millions
which make their work quality. Yet anyone can look at what is being done and say, "Jesus, I
can do that!" You celebrate mediocrity, you get mediocrity. People who could have achieved
more won't, because they know that all they have to do is be "that" and they too can sell
millions and make millions and have people love them because they're merely mediocre. And
that is reinforced over and over and over.

Few people who do anything excellent are ever heard of. You know why? Because
excellence, pure excellence, terrifies the **** out of Americans because they have been bred
to appreciate the success of the mediocre. People don't like to be reminded that lurking
somewhere there are people who can do some shit that you can't do. They can think a way
you can't think, they can dance a way you can't dance. They are excellent. You aren't
excellent. Most Americans aren't excellent, they're only OK. And so to keep them happy as
a labor force, you say, "OK, let's take this mediocre chump," and we say, "He is terrific!" All
the other mediocre chumps say, "Yeah, that's right and that gives me hope, because one day
as mediocre and chumpish as I am I can..." It's smart labor relations. An MBA decision.
That is the orientation of most entertainment, politics, and religion. So considering how firmly
entrenched all that is right now, you think it's going to turn around? Not without a genetic
mutation it's not!

Option Magazine: If you would focus on the message of pop music for a moment, what do
you see as the issues of the 1980's that music can address today?

Frank Zappa: It can address anything it wants to, but it will only address those topics that
will sell. Musicians will not address topics that are controversial if they want to have a hit. So
music will continue to address those things that really matter to people who buy records:
boy-girl relationships, boy-boy relationships, boy-car relationships, girl-car relationships,
boy-girl-food relationships, perhaps. But safe. Every once in a while somebody will say
"War is Hell" or "Save the Whales" or something bland. But if you talk about pop music as a
medium for expressing social attitudes, the medium expresses the social attitude perfectly by
avoiding contact with things that are really there. That is the telling point about the society that
is consuming the product. If society wanted to hear information of a specific nature in songs,
about controversial topics, they would buy them. But they don't. You are talking about a
record- buying audience which is interested in their personal health and well-being, their
ability to earn a living, their ability to stay young at all costs forever, and not much else.

Option Magazine: How about the role of music in society outside the pop music industry?
For example, Kent Nagano (conductor of the Berkeley symphony) said in a recent interview
that "a composer has a job to do within a culture. Which is not to say a composer should
write what the public already wants to hear, but rather that the public is employing the
composer to lead them, to show them a direction." What do you think of that?

Frank Zappa: I don't think a composer has any function in society at all, especially in an
industrial society, unless it is writing music scores, advertising jingles, or stuff that is
consumed by industry. I respect Kent, however I think he takes a very optimistic and naive
attitude toward what it takes to be a composer. If you walk down the street and ask
anybody if a composer is of any use to society, what kind of answer do you think you would
get? I mean, nobody gives a shit. If you decide to become a composer, you seriously run the
risk of becoming less than a human being. Who the **** needs you?

A songwriter is different. [in a facetious sing-song voice] You write a nice song, then you're
important. Because with a song, now we have a car, now we have love, now we have a this
... but a composer? What the **** do they do? All the good music's already been written by
people with wigs and stuff on.

Option Magazine: So the public doesn't need composers. What about composers? Do they
need a public? For example [electronic music composer] Milton Babbit, in an essay titled
"Who cares if you listen?" has advocated the virtual exclusion of the general public from
modern music concerts. What is your opinion on that ?

Frank Zappa: That's unnecessary, they're already excluded; they don't go! Have you been to
a modern music concert? Plenty of room, isn't there? Come on Milton, give yourself a break.
I hope you're not going to spend money trying to exclude these people. What are you going
to do, have it legislated in Congress, like those assholes who wanted to make it a law that
you couldn't put anything backwards on a phonograph record?

Option Magazine: So, given all this, what do you think art will be like 20 years from now?

Frank Zappa: Since I'm not in that business, it's hard for me to really care. [Author's note:
Zappa does not think that his work is perceived as art.] I can lament its passing. I don't think
anything that a reasonable person would describe as art will be around. Not here. I'm talking
about art in terms of valued, beautiful stuff that is done not because of your ego but just
because it is beautiful, just because it is the right thing to do. We will be told what is good
and it will be mediocre. There's always a possibility that an anomaly will appear - some
weird little twisted thing will happen and there will be somebody who's doing it. But who's
going to know? In the dark ages there was art, but who knew?.. --> / message -->.. --> sig -->

Last night Rachel Rodriguez made an appearance on WRVU radio, the Pajama Bar.  She played several cuts off her solo CD, then debuted the new single from Moderately Sauced, "RED LIGHT MIND". 

The DJ said that the kids at the station had been talking about the band, apparently there is quite a buzz on the street and it's not chemically induced. 

Then all hell broke loose as "BAD" Brad called in to the station.  "Live from your naked steaming earholes", calling from his compound in West Nashville, he plugged the upcoming Moderately Sauced show thursday.  "We're experimenting with certain compounds and chemicals and when we reach the proper formula, the new CD will be available", he said.

Then by popular demand they played "Red Light Mind" one more time in it's entirety.  A damn good time was had by all.

On the eve of what is indeed a monumental moment in random trivia, Moderately Sauced heads into Funky Tymz studios tomorrow to begin work on their new EP.

"We’d like to say we are delighted to get into the studio but the reality is fisticuffs, fits of uncontrolled laughter, followed by crying and constant finger pointing will indeed riddle the sessions largely making anything produced probably unusable"

Still the band has great hopes that kids from Ivy League Schools will download the EP for free thus negating any ill will within. 

"It’s great that we as musicians can help the underpriviliged college  kids out there, I can imagine times are tough at Harvard, Yale, and the like..glad we could help out bra!"

Meanwhile the band will feast on Van Camps "Beanie Weenies" while trying to reinvent the musical wheel. 

"At last after much procrastination, we are getting into the studio, may the force be with us".

This taken from Heather Byrd's column in the Nashville Rage.

MODERATELY SAUCED

Valentine's Day can be the most miserable day of the year for a single gal like myself, but this year's celebration of love was absolutely fantastic.

I traveled down to 3rd & Lindsley to catch Kata Rhe's soulful set and was surprised to find her back-up vocals supplied by none other than stylist to the stars Debbie Dover. The show included plenty of tunes on the subject of female empowerment, but the house was really brought down when Rhe grabbed her fiddle and killed Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." It doesn't get much hotter than that, folks!

Afterward, our party of pals, including make-up artist Brady Wardlaw, stylist Derek Lachney and shoe connoisseur Casey Stribling of The Perfect Pair headed over to Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar to check out Moderately Sauced, a band fronted by the talented Latin songbird Rachel Rodriguez and Brad Henderson, a truly remarkable guitarist. For nearly three hours I danced at the foot of the stage, lapping up song after song after song. Is there anything better than great music to cure the blues?