 |
 |
|||
 |
||||
HOME | UPCOMING EVENTS
| MUSIC : BAND PROFILES : CD REVIEWS | GALLERY | |
||||
By Dan Jenkins THE COREY
FELDMAN BAND | The Royal Grove | November 9, 2000 |
||||
|
|
|||
|
||||
HOME | UPCOMING EVENTS
| MUSIC : BAND PROFILES : CD REVIEWS | GALLERY | |
||||
By Dan Jenkins THE COREY
FELDMAN BAND | The Royal Grove | November 9, 2000 |
||||
 |
He takes the stage like a god: an atonal god. He is carrying the biggest didgeridoo this
side of Tasmania. I expect little from The Corey Feldman Band, but after waiting through
two of the worst local bands in recent memory, I deserve to be entertained. Corey does not
disappoint. Oh sure, his music is hardly fresh or inventive, original or even a tad bit
enjoyable, but he is a STAR. And I am impressed. |
|||
His guitar player is a dead ringer for Nebraska’s own Terry Piper doing a Keith Richards impersonation. He is from the Netherlands, where junk/smack is legal and I believe use is encouraged by the powers that be. I suspect he has had many dances with Mr. Brownstone. Talking to him later, after the show at The Day’s Inn, out by the Lincoln Municipal Airport, my suspicions are confirmed. Clean for 10 months. (yea, right....) I think his name is Nord, but I was drunk and unsure. His backup singer: 19 year old recent L.A. transplant. Hangs out at the Playboy mansion and has the gold bunny pendant to prove it. I don’t doubt her for a second. She can sing. Corey needs a lot of help in the vocal category, and help she does. His keyboard player is inaudible in the mix. I suspect this is a good thing. His drummer and bass player are originally from Lincoln. Local boys do not interest me and I pay them no mind. Corey dances, he air-guitars, he shakes and shimmeys, he “sings”. Lost his voice the night before he tells me. Hey, whatever man, you were in “The Goonies”!!!!! Great fuckin’ flick, man!! And what about “Stand by Me”? My God, man, the second best Stephen King movie ever!! But it’s not about the movies, he says. This is his music. This is what he does now But does HE enjoy it? Is this what HE listens to in his spare time? Probably. I want to ask him: “Hey do you still hang out with Cory Haim?” “Did you ever do smack with River Phoenix?” “Do you still have to audition or do you get your juicy roles purely on reputation and talent?” But I ask none of these questions. I can’t shake the vision of Corey strapping on his guitar and strumming like he’s been playing for 2 months. I can’t shake the vision of Corey stripping off his shirt during the encore to sing “Stand by Me” in front of a Lincoln, Ne, crowd: mixed with creepy women who want to sleep with that one guy who was in that one movie, you know which one I’m talking about, and people like me, who just want to laugh. (Does anyone remember laughter?) No, I didn't ask about Hollywood or the movies because i couldn't shake these visions. For now, Corey Feldman is out of the pictures. Now he plays rock ‘n roll. With these thoughts in mind, I had little to say to Corey. But as I sat next to him on the hotel bed at The Day’s Inn, out by the Lincoln Municipal Airport, located smack dab in the middle of the heartland, I put my hand on his back and told him the God’s honest truth: “It’s alright, man. It’s alright...........” As I walked out of The Day’s Inn, I glanced back one more time. Corey Feldman was standing in front of the hotel vending machine, staring blankly, with quarters in hand. I can’t shake the visions. They haunt me still. -- Dan Jenkins |
||||
HOME | UPCOMING EVENTS | MUSIC : BAND PROFILES : CD REVIEWS | GALLERY | FINE ARTS | STAGE & SCREEN | LINKS | FUN & GAMES | ARCHIVES | ABOUT | MESSAGE BOARD Copyright 2000/2001
Lincolnzine.com |
||||
 |
 |
|||