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City: Columbia
State: Missouri
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 

Current mood:  adored
Category: Music
We just found a very nice review that thee lone Columbia, MO zine wrote about our slab of wax and was too kind:


PAT BOONE’S FARM – “Garage, Dance, Loud’ EP....

      I picked up this EP at a Como Derby Dames benefit a while back (the band donated some copies for the cause) and had been waiting for a chance to get to this.  This is four on the floor garage rock driven by electric 12 string guitar and a feel that calls to mind mid to late 60s garage punk.  The four songs here are true rave-ups that reference girls, meat cows, records and the like.  Short, direct, and to the point, PBF’s music wears its roots proudly combining catchy as hell hooks with an in your face attitude needed to get this type of music across.  If you enjoy vintage garage rock and garage punk, then you’ll find a lot to like in a band such as Pat Boone’s Farm and this 7” slab of marble gray vinyl that hopes to rock you and make you like it.  (BOONE)




"The Trouble with Normal" comes out in print and is available online. It's a really great look at the music that is in and comes through Columbia. Link to the story:

http://thetroublewithnormal.tripod.com/id139.html
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music
I received a call last week from a very nice reported from the Missourian asking me if I had time to discuss Michael Jackson's death. I informed him that I always have time to talk music and we launched into a prolonged discussion of everything Jackson-related (anyone else remember the "Moonwalker" video game?) and I think he did an excellent job of distilling my rambly quotes down to something useful. Here's the article:

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/06/28/local-musicians-remember-jackson/

Local musicians remember Jackson

Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT
BY Erik Haugsby

COLUMBIA — Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday marked the passing of an American music legend, and his influence hasn't gone unnoticed by Columbia musicians and DJs.

Scott Walus, a singer and guitarist in the local band Pat Boone’s Farm, said Jackson's "King of Pop" title was well deserved.

“That man was so influential. If you grew up in the ‘80s or ‘90s, you knew how to moonwalk,” Walus said. “In general, it’s hard to find a musician today that hasn’t at least grown up with a Michael Jackson tape."

He said much of Jackson’s success came from how he made his music.

“'Thriller,' 'Bad' and 'Dangerous' are all fantastic appropriations of pop culture," Walus said. "If you listen to these albums, you can see how versatile he actually was as a songwriter and producer.”

“It was thoughtful pop, well reflective of the musical soundscape of the time,” he added.

Rapper and 2007 MU graduate Ray "Steddy P." Price said he's listened to Michael Jackson's music his entire life. 

“I would always stare at my mother’s copy of 'Bad' on tape. It was probably the first record I embraced and understood,” said Price, who now lives in Kansas City and still performs in Columbia.

He remembers dancing with his parents to the "Thriller" and "Do You Remember the Time?" music videos when he was 7 or 8 years old.

Tracy Lane, a former DJ at The Blue Note during the 1980s and '90s, is also a long-time Jackson fan. The first concert she saw was The Jackson 5 at the 1974 Missouri State Fair.

"He was this amazing musician who did these things that had never been done before," she said.

All three fans talked about the singer’s eccentric behavior, but preferred to remember his musical career.

“I hope when people think about Michael Jackson they think about him in his prime, not the last 15 years,” Price said.

“We’ll look back historically and see the kid out the window and the blanket,” Walus said, “but I’ll draw the parallel to Elvis Presley. There was the 'hunka-hunka' young Elvis, then the fat old Elvis. The punchline is that everyone remembers how great Elvis was.”

Walus said he thinks that Jackson will remain a popular musician in the future.
Lane also brought up comparisons between Presley and Jackson, saying her generation will remember Jackson like her mother’s generation remembers Elvis.

After hearing of the singer’s death, Lane got together with friends Brent Gardner, who was also a DJ at The Blue Note, Deb Rust and Robin Ayers to plan a tribute to the singer. Rust and Ayers, who own Tellers in downtown Columbia, hosted the tribute  at the restaurant this past Friday.

Lane and Gardner are also involved with "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Michael Jackson," a dance party at 9 p.m. Wednesday at The Blue Note. There is no cover charge for the event.

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Monday, June 01, 2009 

Current mood:  stoked
Category: Music
This is beyond neat:

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2009/05/27/cuttin-it-old-school/

Thank you Caroline Evans for being great and giving our label the ink and for appreciating our love of all things 1966.

Cuttin’ it old school

Columbia’s Cavetone Records rocks the vinyl

JOON HYOUNG KIM
Remember the glossy sheen of a newly pressed record as you gingerly placed it on your wood-paneled turntable? Cavetone Records founder Scott Walus uses his basement-based record press to create the experience anew.
By Caroline Evans
May 27, 2009 | 12:00 p.m. CST
Scott Walus stops in the kitchen on his way to the basement and takes out a small wooden box. The lid opens, revealing what looks like a turntable and needle. When he is finished with his latest record, a venture with local garage act Monte Carlos, that small box will cut grooves into a wax cylinder and create a mold from which vinyl copies of the record will be pressed.
Walus, sporting a black New York Dolls hoodie and a nose ring, is the founder of Cavetone Records, a vinyl-only label based in Columbia. Last year, Walus produced singles by local acts Pat Boone’s Farm, in which he also plays guitar, and Monte Carlos. He’s currently working with a Chicago band called Blackbelts. Walus records in his basement, but cables, instruments and reels of tape often spill into the living room and kitchen.
Cavetone Records is analog-only, meaning the songs are recorded and edited using tape and never fed through a computer. Walus waves at an old Byrds record spinning on his turntable. “Listening to these records right now, the cool thing about it is that the sound waves that are on there are the exact same sound waves that were recorded in the studio,” he says while sitting in a basement crammed with vintage amplifiers, consoles and microphones. “They’ve never been sampled or altered.”
Walus finds himself in the growing company of vinyl enthusiasts. Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America reported that vinyl sales in 2007 were up 37 percent from 2006, but compact disc sales were down 18 percent. By the end of 2008, sales of vinyl, which totaled $57 million, were at their highest since 1990. The industry is catching on, and labels such as Sub Pop now issue codes for mp3 downloads with each vinyl record, completely bypassing the compact disc.
But in a world of digital downloads, vinyl is still the preserve of audiophiles and devout fans. Lou Never, bassist and lead vocalist for Monte Carlos, believes there is a rich niche market that goes with his band’s 1960s garage sound. “With vinyl, we felt it would be easier to sell records than CDs, and it’s turned out to be the case,” he says.
Brandon Kramer, co-owner of Happy Time Media, a local record store that specializes in used vinyl, thinks analog’s appeal lies beyond a retro fad. It is a better technology for listening to music. “Digital only includes sound frequencies that are audible to the human ear,” he says. “And just because the human ear doesn’t hear something doesn’t mean that it’s not perceived, that it’s not there.”
Never has a simpler way of saying it: “Analog is an entire sound.”
For Walus, analog is more than a format. It is a process rooted in an era of session musicians who had to finish a song in one or two takes to keep the tape from wearing out. “You can’t go back, you can’t go ‘Oh, oh, oh, I messed up the bridge, can we go back and cut the tape?’” he says. His studio is set up for the whole band to play and record live together – the same way the Byrds record he has been spinning was recorded in the 1960s.
As far as effects go, Walus doesn’t use software or auto-tune; his equipment is more primitive but way more fun and requires ingenuity to build and experimentation to work properly. For example, an old telephone receiver with a battery duct-taped to the handle creates an eerie vocal sound. He acknowledges the convenience of the digital format but believes that it can lead to an obsession with perfection that amounts to glorified cutting-and-pasting. “They are ‘perfect’ sounds, they sound like what a kick drum should be, but the problem with it is that music isn’t perfect,” he says. “You just miss the human touch.”


http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/may/28/cool-dry-place/

This is an article from the Columbia Tribune previewing the show that we just played with Gonn. Just thought it was neat and worth posting.

Sixties garage-rock icons GONN playing lone stateside date at Fugue before embarking on European tour

By Pete Bland
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Fans of the little-late-to-the-game, more extensive “Nuggets” and “Pebbles” compilations and box sets — or just garage rock in general — take note: GONN will be performing tomorrow night at The Blue Fugue.
Known almost strictly for “Blackout of Gretely” — considered by collectors, aficionados and the like as one of the top songs in the history of the aforementioned genre — the Keokuk/Fort Madison, Iowa, band still is riding its notoriety from that 1966 track to tour stops around the world. (“Doin’ Me In” — which was slated to be their second single but wasn’t released until years later — also has gained immense respect through the decades and has been covered by Columbia’s own Untamed Youth, among others.)
The Blue Fugue appearance is the warm-up show for GONN’s upcoming European tour, and it’s the only stateside concert scheduled before they begin their overseas excursion next month. The date was set up by local openers and GONN MySpace friends Pat Boone’s Farm, who proposed the idea to the garage icons more than a year ago.
Even with most of the members now around 60, GONN’s 1967 lineup of Craig Moore, Gerry Gabel, Rex Garrett, Larry LaMaster and Dave Johnson is still intact. They’ll take the stage after Pat Boone’s Farm, Kansas City’s ACBs and Lawrence’s Another Holiday.
Doors open at 8 p.m. For more information, contact The Blue Fugue at 815-9995.

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Friday, February 20, 2009 

Current mood:bloggy


Some stuff about our records and our label:

We're starting to see the bottom of our pile of "Garage * Dance * Loud" vinyl with about 150 or so left out of the 500 copy print run, so if you want one you've still got options...

1. Happy Time Media (20 S. 9th St. in downtown Columbia) now carries all Cavetone Records releases. They are the exclusive retailer of Cavetone in Columbia. Additionally they have impressive piles of vinyl and cassettes. A local blogger even noticed. 

2. Click the Paypal link on our page (or on Cavetone's www.myspace.com/cavetone ), music will be shipped to your door for 5 easy dollars.

3. Get it at a show, we've got a good one coming up.

pat boone's farm and monte carlos make awesome smelling records on Cavetone Records

Upcoming news, we're doing a quad split where each band records their theme song. Full-length LP out in Fall. Until then, remember, 12 is better than 6.

-scott/thee farm


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Thursday, January 22, 2009 

Current mood:  sick


http://www.palestra.net/music/gig-guide/20457

I'm not sure how this happened, but the nice folks over at palestra.net have a gig guide and added the show that we played in Tulsa, OK at the Monolith to it with a pretty picture and a nice description of us. It starts at about the 1:15 mark. Give it a viewing if you like. We'll hae a blog about our southern excursion down to Texas soon. There were good times.

xoxo,

scott/ thee farm

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Friday, January 09, 2009 

Current mood:  frisky
As any vinyl nerd will tell you, the all-analog tracking, mixing, and mastering of a vinyl record is a pain in the ass and a dying art. But on the upside, the band has a wonderful sounding recording that will spin on turntables for decades to follow. I'm writing this due to experiences that I've had lately with the confounding of the term "record" with anything that is recorded. We played Eastside Tavern here in Columbia last weekend and in the process of selling merch, I would ask people if they wanted a record, to which they said yes, handed me money and then said, "oh wow, it's actually a record." A record is vinyl.

I blame this communication breakdown on the throwing around of the phrase. Think about how many times we've heard "Our new record is out on Smarch 15" or "Buy our record at Wax Eater's" when the individuals discussing the tracks that they have recorded are discussing a compact disc. As the compact disc has outlived its digital novelty and the albums we all grew up knowing line and verse came out on vinyl, I can see how an artist would naturally gravitate toward calling their recordings a "record." The term "record" has more of a storied history. We carefully drop the needle on our turntable and put them back in a sleeve while CDs live in binders, in stacks and the floors of our cars.

So this brings me to my conclusion. You can call it whatever you want when you release recordings but for the sake of argument I'll suggest some viable alternatives to CD as we have seen it is indeed a dirty word to many. If a full-length recording is released call it an "album" or an "LP." A few songs released can be called an "EP." If you go through the hassle of pressing vinyl however, by all means call it a record.

Discuss.

-scott thee caveman
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 

Current mood:  electric
Category: Music
So as any good band nerd should, we keep a running list of the shows we play and since it is the end of 2008 it seemed only fitting to post it. It was a noise where we lost more hearing year with 40 shows and putting out a vinyl-type record and met a lot of incredible people and bands which makes our constant uttering of "what?" to seemingly basic statements completely worth it.

Pointless bit of trivia, the two bands we played the most shows with 08: Monte Carlos (5) and A Bit Shifty (4).

Without further adieu....

December 19 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ Cockleburr Slough, Thom Donovan, Soulstace

December 5 @ Getcha! (Columbia, MO) w/ Spectravox, The Black Nancy, Dinofight!

November 29 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ Trio Kablammo, Midtown Thieves, Free Collective, Go-go dancers from Moonbelly Dance Studio

November 19 @ The Wedge (St. Louis) w/ Georgia Jet, Summit

November 12 @ Mojo's (Columbia, MO) w/ The Black Nancy, Spectravox, and Doctor Carney's Emporium of Marvels and Oddities

October 31 @ Mike's Tavern (Kansas City, MO) w/ The Tambourine Club, The Billy Bats, Thomas Aikenhead

October 25 @ CJ's (Rockford, IL) w/ Egan's Unicat, Andrew Huber

October 24 @ The Elbo Room (Chicago, IL) w/ Carta Marina, Bruiser, Curb Service, Hail the Black Dragons, Thomas Pace

October 11 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ Tone and Niche, Tenement Ruth

October 10 @ Eastside Tavern (Columbia, MO) w/ Spectravox, The Black Nancy, Hanukkah Jones Band

September 3 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ A Bit Shifty, The Livers, The Sexy Accident

August 23 @ Cal's Liquors (Chicago, IL) w/ The Animal Party and some last second replacement band

August 22 @ The Frequency (Madison, WI) w/ The Real ID Act, El Valiente, Czarables

August 9 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ The Kickback, 5 Star Crush, Georgia Jet, The Passion

August 4 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/Emily Bronsky, The Hooten Hallers, ZAP!, and more bands that I do not remember

July 11 @ Lemmon's (St. Louis, MO) w/ Johnny Nobody, Devils in the Jukebox

July 5 @ The Fallout (Columbia, MO) w/ The Turn Offs, Velociraptors Can Open Doors, Cockleburr Slough

July 4 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) ("Garage * Dance * Loud" Record Release) w/ The ACBs, Monte Carlos, Followed by Ghosts

June 21 @ PK's (Carbondale, IL) w/ Monte Carlos, The Dammit Boys

June 20 @ Cafe Kanichiwa (Springfield, IL) w/ Hemisaurus, Leslie B. Hardy III

June 4 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) (filmed for CATV) w/ The Goldbugs, The Educated Guess, Upright Animals

June 3 @ 2 Cents Plain (St. Louis, MO) w/ A Bit Shifty, Paper Dolls, Summit

May 24 @ Eastside Tavern (Columbia, MO) w/ Diablo Blanco, The Voodoo Zombie Kings

May 23 @ Lemmons (St. Louis, MO) w/ The Animal Party, A Bit Shifty, Diablo Blanco

May 10 @ The Fallout (Columbia, MO) w/ Monte Carlos, Common Era, Velociraptors Can Open Doors

May 3 @ The Blue Fugue KOPN Benefit (Columbia, MO) w/ The Passion, Trio Kablammo, Darlene Motel, Slippy LaRue

May 3 @ The Best of Missouri Life Festival (Boonville, MO) w/ Yellow Dog

April 26 @ Sigma Phi Epsilon parking lot (Columbia, MO) w/ Slippy LaRue

April 19 @ Paulie's (Bloomington, IL) w/ The Wabash Cannonballs

April 16 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ A Bit Shifty, The Passion, Makeshift Gentlemen

April 11 @ 2 Cents Plain (St. Louis, MO) w/ The Nevermores, The Sex Robots, B&E

March 22 @ Cal's Liquor's (Chicago, IL) w/ The Cut*off, Altgeld Forgotten, Royal Pines

March 21 @ Crusin' Rte. 66 (St. Louis, MO) w/ B&E, Grand Handstand, Bitch Slap Barbie

March 15 @ Dan Turney's Basement (Columbia, MO) w/ Monte Carlos, The Make Outs, The Turn Offs

March 5 @ The Blue Fugue (Columbia, MO) w/ Three Headed Moses, Nova Lunacy, Slugtrail

February 22 @ Prairie Room in the Bone Student Center (Normal, IL) w/ The Run Around, Endless Mike, Close Enough, Solar Electric

February 9 @ Eastside Tavern (Columbia, MO) w/ The Goldbugs, Rutherford

February 8 @ MACC Activity Center (Moberly, MO) Battle of the Bands (third place baby!) w/ Smokewagon, Let Lions, Oakshore, City of Ai, Sunifyde, Dino-Mite!, Heavy Devil, Awoken Shadows, Treasure Junkie, Few Days Late, probably others that I can't remember the name of...

January 19 @ Lemmons (St. Louis, MO) w/ Left Arm, Mississippi Hippie Killers

January 12 @ Eastside Tavern (Columbia, MO) w/ Monte Carlos, Thee Fine Lines


Thanks for listening and reading the ramblings of three vinyl nerds and wel'll see you in 09.

-thee farm
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 

Current mood:  touched
How did Pat Boone's Farm end up writing and recording a television show theme you ask. Well...

A while back, we filmed a television show with a gentleman name Luc Abshier for filmlife productions. We have a fancy link on our page of the video. A while later he writes and asks me how I feel about writing a theme specifically for the show. At this point, two pleasant feelings washed over me. 1. This guy, who had spent countless hours filming and editing our show still liked us enough to ask us to write the theme for his baby and 2. This'll end up on the "boxed set" of CD-Rs or mp3s, or gadzook microchips or however they listen to music in the future, that we make. As nerdy as it is, I always loved it when 60s garage bands would do a jingle for a company. The American Breed for Partridge Weiners, Shadows of Knight for Jay's potato chips, The Monkees for Kellogg's ( K - E double L - O - double good, Kellogg's best for you!), all fantastic snipets of kitsch. I've never been one of those "man we don't sound like anyone, I've got my own musical style" guitaristss, sitting around, strumming together weird chords to try and make a sound no one else ever has. Assign me something. "Man, we should write an instrumental," or "We should do a Halloween song." I thrive on it. So I said I'd do it on one condition, that we could use a different instrumentation.

A couple days later I was noodling, trying to transpose a vocal riff to guitar, brought together the bridge and chorus thing (another weird thing about anything I write, look at the structure: bridge-esque swell, chorus, verse, pre-bridge?, chorus,  discussion about fuzz solo needing to be in the song, crazy fuzz solo, bridge-esque swell, chorus), I call Nate, Luc needs the song for an episode coming up. Nate has never heard the song before, not a problem, throw a couple mics up, wait, no, that's way too many drums, how about 2 drums and 2 cymbals? Neil Peardt would weep openly. So he's got his drums set up and I sit on a stool a few feet away with my trusty Gibson LG-0 acoustic and we go over it a couple times, he complains he can't hear me, I tell him I'll give him a few of my patented head fakes and we'll be good. Toss a dynamic (ahh! blasphemy!) on the acoustic in the sweet spot. Set levels, hit record, try to figure out where imaginary words go, hey, that sounds like a song. Rewind the reel, sure enough. Keri asks about the lyrics. Oh lyrics...

Leyrics have never been something that I plan in advance very well. In the world of musicians, there are singers who play guitar and guitar players who sing. I have always belonged to the latter, so for me lyrics have always been a way to sing lead guitar while I played the rhythm and I have a nasty habit of just making up words. Not just at practice, at shows, recordings, pretty much most of the time. The entire mythic concept of "the tortured poet" with his or her notebook scribbling out these deep lyrics about "the pain of it all" just always seemed absurd to me. And how will they know if they match with the music or not? I always have an idea what the song is about (ex: spending a month "freaking out" and watching time go a little too fast and out of control for my liking, or a "meat cow" saying "fuck it, I'm getting eaten anyways, hedonism seems like the right path"), this song was about a television show. I watched an episode, giggled a little bit, ran downstairs with an acoustic and scribbled out some words on the back of an old poster, and that was close enough. We all gathered around a microphone and figured out the vocal parts. In this situation, I feel like a field general directing troops, ("Nate, you're fucking loud, step back, Keri, sing louder like Nate"), checked levels and there it was. We had one track left and tossed the organ and fuzz solo (it's a germanium Arbiter Fuzz Face for those of you nerdy and into archaic transistors) on there, a quick mix and on it went to Luc and the Internet in the handy music player above.

On a side note, we filmed a video for it that was supposed to be in the intro to the show, but I'm not sure if that footage will surface. Either way, I'm sure The Monkees would approve of the whole ordeal.

scott
thee farm
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Monday, July 14, 2008 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
A few months ago, the good people at IT'S came and filmed a performance of ours at the Blue Fugue. In typical farm fashion, we played our "long" set and it was still about 5 minutes short or the 30 minutes that they needed. Luc (thee producer/director/all around decent guy) was nice enough to come to our house and talk to us to fill those 5 minutes. 30 seconds of that time was made into this neat commercial for our upcoming television featurette. Kean!



ItMS! - Pat Boones Farm Coming SooN!

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 

Current mood:  distractable
Dear other bands who do not accept friend requests from other bands-

Try to remember at some point people could have cared less about your music. When I listened to your songs, I went "hmm, that's pretty neat, I should add them as a friend." Upon seeing the white page of doom informing me that you do not accept friend requests from bands, it quickly turned into "To my shitlist you go!"

Let me apologize for all of the over-zealous bands that posted giant images of their band or an advertisement of a show that is 8 states away with an embedded music player on your page, but don't let that jade you. It might be thatt you're just better than me if you don't need the patronage of other bands. At that point, you're probably also too good for my money and time so I won't annoy you by purchasing your record or seeing you at a show. Thanks for letting me know before I tried to become a fan of your music.

xoxo
scott thee caveman
12 stringer and vocalizer of thee farm
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