Don McCloskey

[noramac]

Don McCloskey is a kick ass musician. He is extremely talented and a down to earth..easy going guy. His live performance are insane. he gets the crowd going and everyone who goes to the shows knows and loves him! I am glad to see that he had the chance to go on tour with G.L.A.S.S He is having a great time! Don, I love you keep up the good work! P.S. I am Don's Little Sister and a huge fan!! If you get a chance to see him...you should definietly attend a show or check out his website...www.enormousd.com BUY A CD!!!

[ragmop]

Noramac, welcome to this very cool forum. No need to try and convert me, I'm already hooked. Saw your bro in Indy. Killer performance. Had the opportunity to meet and speak with him after the show. Very humble and funny man. Killer cd. Love it. Can't wait for no. 2 and live disc (?) he's suppose to be working on. Anyway, take a look around the forum--you'll like it.


Peace.

[Fake_name]

Noramac


Thanks for the link. I really wanted a cd, but cdbaby is out of stock. Do you know if he has some for sale by mail?
Edited by: Fake_name

[noramac]

ragmop...
glad you liked the show. Yeah he is working on disc #2 and very siked about it!! I am glad you love the cd it is pretty bad ass! keep listening and spread the word!

[noramac]

fake_name

whats up dude. CD baby is indeed out because my bro is just that good! haha nah..if you go on his website..there should be a place where you can buy from him and if not send him an email and you will definietly hear a reply! if you have anymore questions just let me know and i could help you get a CD. but try that first and get back to me.

[ragmop]

fake_name

..there should be a place where you can buy from him and if not send him an email and you will definietly hear a reply!





second that. I heard back from your bro within the hour by email. One cool brutha, is all I can say . . .

[ragmop]

ragmop...
keep listening and spread the word!



No problem there . . .

[ramble on rose]

welcome noramac, and let me say your bro rocks! I popped on his site after reading all the good words and I know it is something I will enjoy. I will have to get a copy of his work sometime soon. Just curious to know if he will make his way down to virginia anytime? One love. I don't know why I didn't look sooner I should have know if my man ragmop digs it, it must rock!

[noramac]

hey dude
im not sure if he will be playin in or near virginia anytime soon but you can email him and let him know that you are interested in him playing in your neighborhood. he is always down for playing in new neighborhoods and for new crowds. do what you can to spread the word and get a CD sometime soon...you won't regret it and the ladies dig it! hahaha yeah email him...he will get back to you in no time!

[BoPicasso]

I would LOVE a cd of Don. I wish Cdbaby would get some more SOON!!

[ramble on rose]

thanks noramac I will do that.

[Fake_name]

For those interested in ordering from cdbaby, I think they got more copies yesterday. I got a email today to say my copy is in the mail. i can't wait to listen.

[ragmop]

noramac, just wanted to say again that your brutha is the shizz. His cd gets better and better with more play. Peace . . .

[Fred]

There's a new song on his myspace page, perhaps a new album soon !
:)

[Fake_name]

Don is also on slackstring's live cd, another really good band. Check them out if you haven't already. If you like one, you will probably like the other. Don does a live version of return of the D!!!

www.slackstring.com/

[Fred]

New Cd is available, more powerful than the first Cd, chuck Treece on drums, G love plays harmonica on one song.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mccloskey2
:)

[ragmop]

aww hell naw!!! thanks fred. and people you have to check this man out--either live or on disc. saw him open for G in indy at the vogue in feb. 04. he's an unbelievable one-man show. his first disc, "bombs over bristol" is the real deal.

[sway2sway]

wow! that is great, I just listened to a few of the older tracks...how can you go wrong with discount ho's in the title of a song? a breath of fresh (fishy,syphillis ridden, with green purulent drainage) air. I also quite like, "rat-a-tat-a-tat, mama here I come, love the lyrics when they scat like that" (you know what? I do too love the scat. amazing)
but the older cd is still out of stock.

[sway2sway]

beautiful girl in a beautiful car, on the newer one, it's got my old school, punk rock, clean breaks in it. de ne nah -de ne nah- de ne nah-de ne nah-DE!
sweet I'm enjoying this find on this morning, makes my 'given up' kind of a day, just a little nicer. :)

[sway2sway]

up in this- blood on the banjo remix. I am lovin' this. I feel like I'm a kid in a lyrical candystore, gorging myself on fireballs, fuzzy peaches, cherry blasters, fashioning a sticky candy necklace into a tiara to adorn my frizz, snorting a buffed up ascorbic acid powder through a pixie stick with the end bitten off, if you're looking to get some on the street, it's called the 'sour dust'

[ragmop]

sway, did you check his website for the older disc? if you have no luck there, just PM me and we'll discuss some dark and nefarious conduct which might help us hook you up with a copy . . .

[sway2sway]

thanks.
I like the word nefarious, I also like Nefertiti. 2 good words

[Fred]

Don has a nice new website http://www.enormousd.com/
it contains some unreleased songs, some photos with Garrett among others things.

[sway2sway]

....nice. I find most impressive the red theatrical curtains and the montage of broken down bicycle riders. it's visually pleasing. I also like the whatdoyoucallit recording thing on the music link, quite fancy how you can move the volume control.

[sway2sway]

I was at the gym this morning working off my rhubarb MUFFins (I ate more than a few) and the song 'son of it all' came on. I haven't really listened much to the newer album yet, cause I was still working through the older one.
Anyway, I'm really impressed with his lyrics. I think it's really something, when someone is a poet, not only a musician. I mean, if you looked at the lyrics on a page, they could stand alone as some sweet ass verses, without the 'melody and beats-melody and beats' to back it up.
On the other hand, I guess it's a musical feat in itself, when someone can say 7 one syllable words through a whole song and yet the thing kicks ass cause the melody and beats carry it.
I digress and obsess like a tigress that binged all out on mistah tiger's excess weak and slow antelope flesh. (that's nonsense)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-Ry3hfIt0
fuck, does that ever look fun, I want some--- not the discount ho's, but the party.
"$1.50 and a slice of cheese" I love that part.

[tinkerlion]

so i got norther liberties the other day and love it. so i downloaded bombs over bristol this morning. are there any other cd's i should be out searching for?

[sway2sway]

you got it all baby, though if you go to his site, under the music link, you can hear, I think 4, unreleased songs. big D big

[tinkerlion]

thanks sway, i failed to pay attention to the more button previously.

[Miss Shark]

Fab video sway thanks. Do you think it's a slice off of the big block of government cheese? Do you guys have that? From the very imformative urban dictionary:

A BIG, HARD MASS; A BLOCK OF ORANGE-YELLOW PROCESSED "USDA CHEESE FOOD" ISSUED BY "DA GUBMENT" United States GOVERNMENT to aid needy families by supplementing their food resources. Used for making Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and Macaroni & Cheese but ALSO CAUSES severe, bowel obstructing constipation, silent but deadly stinky gas, and / or "the runs" diarrhea in those who are lactose intolerant.

[sway2sway]

ha ha
in my paper the other day, there was a piece warning parents to be on the lookout for cheese in their communities and wary of children talking about cheese in manners other than the grilled cheese variety. So they say, cheese is a name for crushed up tylenol and heroin mixed to together to create a snort cocktail.

hey can I have some cheese food product? nice ring to it

[sway2sway]

this is rather cool, not to mention crafty.
video for Mr. novocaine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtUMwlU0vs

[tinkerlion]

very nice

[sway2sway]

he does a song on a live slackstring album, I've only listened to a few of their songs, but I think it's just part of 'return of the freak emcee'
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/slackstring2

[sway2sway]

I've been listening to the newer one a lot the last few days and the one taking the lead as my favorite is 'gimme somma your love' I like the lyrics, especially "hey, I know it's only 7:30, but your sheets are clean and my mind is dirty"
down the tangential road.....brought to my mind the song 'clean sheets' by the descendents, which, "hark!" I couldn't remember all the words anymore, so I looked em up and studied em, cause that's what freaks sometimes like to do. the don song is a happy one, the descendents one is a reflection of bitter misalignment, but it's a good song too.


Clean sheets mean a lot to a guy who sleeps on the floor
I wanted your love, and a shelf in your dresser drawer
you tucked me in, stopped my tossing and turning
But I turned back the covers and saw those sheets are dirty

Even though you'll never come clean
you know it's true
Those sheets are dirty
And so are you

The warmth of a bed to a guy who sleeps on the floor
Was enough to perpetuate all the lies I heard before
I want to hold you, I'll hold my pillow instead
Cause my pillow will never lie or be with a stranger in my bed

Where's the love I was looking for
It's out the door
I'm afraid to see you anymore
so it's back on the floor
Cause those sheets are dirty

Woke up this morning alone on the floor
Thinking about those clean sheets and the way it was before
When I looked in the mirror, I saw your face and thought of the past
But now I know how dirty you are, I took my fist and smashed the glass

Those sheets are dirty
Those sheets are dirty
Those sheets are dirty

[Miss Shark]

Oh yeah, the Descendents!!!! I found this piture on line from a show at the Metro in Chicago sometime in the mid 80s. I can't say exactly when because I can't find all of my flyers. That's little old me there the very last person at the stage on the left. Some things never change....

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s127/RebeccaLB/Descendants02.jpg

[sway2sway]

ya lucky ducky
or ya
funky punky
I've never seen them, did they sound good live? or ehhh?

[Miss Shark]

Oh geez, as far as I can remember they were great. Not in my top 5. I know you can guess one of them...

[sway2sway]

does it rhyme with 'plaid veins'?

[Miss Shark]

Hee Hee You guessed it Mad Reigns.

Wanna see a really bad photo of me from back in the day?

[sway2sway]

oh you betcha. I don't seem to have any of my back in the day photos anymore, but if I did, I'd show you a god awful graduation photo, you know the kind with the wall of books backdrop behind you, clutching the piece of paper tied with a ribbon that meant not too much to me, a freshly shaved burgundy mohawk, a few nose rings, a couple more pimples, a bracelet made of bike chain, and black nail polish. every mama's dream

[Miss Shark]

By this time I had decided to grow my hair out. My mother had already told me to take 'that thing out of my nose or get out of her house'. Nothing she could do about the tattoo, not shown in the photo. I opted not to go to my HS graduation ceremony.

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s127/RebeccaLB/IMG-1.jpg

[sway2sway]

that is a beauty picture, not god awful, you look like you could join the b-52's. Funny, I opted not to go to my high school graduation either...I felt it wasn't worth the pomp, something I could coast through that easily didn't seem worth all that, felt like frivolous froo ha ha. I didn't go to my university graduation either, I'm just not into the ceremony crap.

[sway2sway]

ha hah ha, nice, fudge tunnel right over your bed, our poor mama's, huh?

[Miss Shark]

That was my friends band, Russ. Last I heard he was making films, and was the latest edition to Cynthia Plaster Casters collection.

[sway2sway]

I was listening to mr. novocaine at the beach yesterday and I said I could hypothetically imagine a situation where I could kill myself. Now, I don't think this is the kind of thing that other people want to hear, it creates unease I think.
I said that sometimes when this world seems like nothing but atrocities, pain, and injustice- it hangs over like a storm cloud....maybe add in a thunderbolt of guilt for having so much when others have so little. When I feel like that, it's like I'm standing on the edge of a deep black ravine. On the other side, past that yawining abyss, is the madness. I can sense it a bit, it's not like a foreign entity to me. Maybe it's akin to smelling KFC from 3 blocks away. Anyway, I can imagine, if I ended up on that other side, that there would then be a long dark tunnel stretching out the back, with a faint light glimmering in the distance. That would be release. Not that it would make any sense to my self on this side of the ravine, but I think if a person crossed over to the other side, then all bets would be off.

The person I was speaking to said that people don't kill themselves because they can't take the global pain of the world, he said it is because of their own problems they can't deal with. I thought that was kind of a funny response....kind of like,'nope that ain't right, sorry you can't feel that way.'

Whatever, doesn't really matter, creative abstraction, I suppose.
ya think I think too much?

The song really has beautiful lyrics though, you can hear it a page or so back on a you tube link.

[sway2sway]

you know what else I thought about. (dear gods, can you hear me?) I do this thing where I care so much for a while, till I reach the breaking point, then I say fuck it all, it's a hopeless, it's too broken, it's too messy, too many loose cannons, too much greed, too much looking out for #1, too much divide, it's all too much. I wallow there for a while, then I'm ready to start again. But could this just be a crutch, the easy way out? Is this a mechanism of my own invention to create an alibi for myself? If it's just too much, then I never have to really dig deeper, try harder, be an agent of change. That's possible, but it's also possible that this just be my wiring.
I don't know, life is sure crazy, huh?

[tinkerlion]

The person I was speaking to said that people don't kill themselves because they can't take the global pain of the world, he said it is because of their own problems they can't deal with. I thought that was kind of a funny response....kind of like,'nope that ain't right, sorry you can't feel that way.'





that is a strange response to me. i think that we all have our own way of feeling lost or overwhelmed. what creates that feeling in each of us is individual, there's really no way for someone else to tell them if that feeling is right or wrong.

[tinkerlion]

i'm digging 'that love card' today. got it set up to be the first song on the ipod in the morning. anyone else ever do that, try to predetermine what will be the first song you hear the next day?

[Miss Shark]

that is a strange response to me. i think that we all have our own way of feeling lost or overwhelmed. what creates that feeling in each of us is individual, there's really no way for someone else to tell them if that feeling is right or wrong.

Exactly

[lietuvaite]

fun pic, miss shark

sway, your chat on the beach reminds me of the book secret life of bees. anyone read it? anyway, that's def. a ignorant response to your comment that was made

[tinkerlion]

i read secret life of bees on sways recommendation.

[sway2sway]

ooooh La La
and
aaaaaaaaaahhh
WeeeeeWeeeeeeeee

what's a 40 of O E?
I know what a 40 is, I query the latter?

[sway2sway]

hahaha

HA!

if you're A cup
and you don't like me
smoke the banana peels
an' hire a vigalante...
and I'll be plastered on the ceiling
bits of brain and lose your hearing..........

:eek: gimme a few hours this may get good, for the record, no smokes yet, but that could change, sorry to say

[ragmop]

ooooh La La
and
aaaaaaaaaahhh
WeeeeeWeeeeeeeee

what's a 40 of O E?
I know what a 40 is, I query the latter?

O E = Olde English (malt liquor)

[sway2sway]

thanks ragmop, that really was puzzling me for a while there.

[sway2sway]

if you're A cup
and you don't like me
smoke the banana peels
an' hire a vigalante...
and I'll be plastered on the ceiling
bits of brain and lose your hearing..........


lemme try again, that one sounded like I'd joined the lesbian mafia, must be the alcohol, has made me kiss girls and break things, in my distant past, of course.

take 2:

ooh la la, ah wee wee,
throw away your wallet and let me see,
if you're still fun
and you're down with me,
drink a fishbowl
and go for a rolly.
We'll keep the 'pickle tickle'
and the 'slap my fanny'.
throw on the vinyl of Geeeeeeeeee,
and we'll be wigglin' like wormies,
and high on believin'
that we are slimy motherfuckersssssssssssss.

[sway2sway]

this is a really lovely rendition of discount ho's, it's got the clarity and feel good warmth that will make it a xmas classic for years to come.............you know $ is tight around the holidays, gotta pinch the pennies wherever you can, but cheese never seems to be in short supply, now does it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSRq9PGlFMY

[sway2sway]

I'll share with you what a dingbat I am. yesterday when I heard this youtube version of the ho song, I was like there's a whole other second half of this song, and I'm thinking is this just an extra made up part, only for the live experience AND SO I played it over and over, a few times at least, trying to figure out the lyrics, which was not too successful. then i remembered that my song which ends at about 2 minutes, ends sort of in a crackly noise, which i've always thought was a rather poor dismount, but in reality turns out not to be the ending once I redownloaded the gimp off itunes.
but i was very intent there for a while trying to get the lyrics off of youtube, 'wrinkley derriere like you don't care, something menopause, ride the walker and the depends ya daddyO pimp of the gimps, even ugly people gotta get laid and everyone gets a zit on their ass now and again, ain't no shame in that game.'
so you can see how I wasn't doin too well with lyrics, the sound quality of youtube is too blame, cd quality is stellar, no crackles, clear enunciation, you can hear his whiskers vibrate.

fuck what the hell have I gone off on now. big Sway, the wacko bullshitter, that's what they call me and you can believe I've got shit to dirty you for a lifetime, it's the return of the crazy hazy lady, that's what they call me.

stop for chrissakes sake.

[vincitverita]

Just wanted to let everyone know that Don's video for "Mr. Novacaine" was an Editor's Pick on YouTube a couple weeks back. Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtUMwlU0vs


Another song, "Live From The Other Side" is featured on MTV's "The Hills". It's heard in episode 302 "Big Girls Don't Cry" which is the second episode of the new season 3

[vincitverita]

Don McCloskey will be appearing at the House Of Blues in Atlantic City on Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Is anyone going to this show?

I went to the last show he played here on the 5th of July and it was a burner. The band was killer and the new drummer was tight.

[sway2sway]

i wish

[vincitverita]

Don McCloskey will be playing on 9/18 & 9/24 (both are tuesdays) @ The Fire on Girard Ave in Philly with his full band. He will also be playing a solo acoustic set Saturday 9/22 @ The Tin Angel in Olde City. Catch him if you can. Don & the band have been working out some new material during 'The Fire' shows for the enthusiastic crowd.

[sway2sway]

man, I never knew.... and it is a beautiful thing. My only quibble would be is that the plaid pants Stu is picking up in the store are sweet ass-double legged funk---- In my opinion, an improvement, but that may an aberration of popular belief.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9okTi-4tg

[tinkerlion]

i'm with ya on the pants sway. much better, but the shirt needed some work. nice find, thanks for sharing.

[sway2sway]

does anyone know how to do that thing (I think it's a thing you can do)
where you take the audio off a youtube video?
I want the song 'outlaw love' on my ipod and there is a real good vid of it on youtube.
(maybe i should've checked if there were any shows in that archive, I think I tried that a while ago though)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3D2R6H21dI

[Miss Shark]

I tried it with a program that is supposed to be able to do that, didn't work. If I were you I'd ask the ggm1977 guys for it. They found me I'm sure because of the vid I have at the Vic Chuck Treece with GLaSS. Couldn't hurt. Did you see the vid of Chucks' kids drumming? So cute!!!

[sway2sway]

thanks for trying shark, I appreciate it--
sweetest surprise getting home from work, a benefactor bestowed aforementioned song upon me, made my night.....even better than a geisha waiting for me at my front door, handing me a gin & tonic and massaging my toes with an essential oil mix of kukui nut, bergamot and heliotrope, as I recline on my unattractive sofa.

[sway2sway]

anecdotal glockenspiel Spiel:

my 4 year old is in kindermusik which includes a parent participation component, a weekly cornucopia of sugary joy. A momentous day last week....dum dum de DUM, the first instrument (though kindermusk teachers are quick to point out instruments are many and varied and do not have to be something you can buy, it can be your belly or a box of granola. But as far as FORMAL instruments go, we got one), the FOCKEN GLOCKENSPIEL.

We can play hot cross buns (B-A-G) hot cross buns (B-A-G)
one a penny (gg gg) two a penny (aa aa)
hot cross buns (B-A-G)

well, so far just I can play it (kindermusik is an integral part of my self-esteem), good thing since I took god knows how much piano, if I couldn't figure out beginner glockenspiel, then I'd know I really screwed up my brain (PSA fried egg enter left).
I will end this sharing session with this, the part of the glockenspiel which has made the greatest impression upon me, is the faggy way in which you must hold the dinky little mallets- elbows out, use the whole arm like you're a marching wooden soldier, hold the lil wooden pecker with your thumb & 2 next fingers. I believe it is encouraged to stick your pinky proudly out to the side; but, I really can't confirm this at this point in my glockenspiel journey.

(I'm high on outlaw love, listened to it like 7 times while I've been making cookies. or maybe it's the cookies? cookies & love? or is that cookies & outlaws? oooh yeah)

[Miss Shark]

We're quite the pair 'balatantly subliminal.

Hold the wooden pecker in a faggy way...I've always thought that gays have better sex then heteros, being more familliar with thier instruments.

[Miss Shark]

Here's one for you sway for providing me with some much needed comic relief today

http://download.yousendit.com/8D53DCCD0DBC5B26

[sway2sway]

fuckinA-I say.
that is a sweet ass song I never did hear. love it in fact.
thank you.

you know what I need today: distraction. I got the itch. Feeling good + 2 days of no work stretching out in front of me= itch. I've been 'itchy' since 5 this morning. I can't even trust myself to drink the afternoon away, cause next thing I'll be buying the smokes and then I'll be making deals with the gatekeeper in my brain.
well, so far I've been to the gym, got my hair cut, now I'm going out for lunch. tick tock tick tock.
(ha ha this is rather funny, I was on the cross trainer and it has the pulse sensors in the handle, which don't seem so reliable really, but- I'm going at 120 to 140 pulse, then I start daydreaming about illicit activities for a song, then I look back down and it's at 184. damn I'll give myself a heart attack in fantasy even)

[vincitverita]

Yo Sway,

I don't know how to remove audio from you tube vids but I have the audio track from that Cinco De Mayo show at the Tin Angel. It is where and when that video was shot.
Are you in the Philly area?

[sway2sway]

no, not quite. if we were a word search puzzle, I'd be the first letter of the super long diagonal word and you'd be the last-- unless the word started at the bottom, then it'd be reversed--those ones are tricky.
bc canada

[sway2sway]

big D's got his site all pimped out, fresh pleather mini skirts, see through tube tops, white tassel boots, and maybe even cut out panties (figuratively speaking)

on the music there are some live tracks that weren't on there before. the beginning of freak emcee is quite funny...lions and gazelles, oh my.

http://www.enormousd.com/

[sway2sway]

a medley o'sweets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNn2_210Yk

[tinkerlion]

i think you heard some of big d in colorado. and i seem to recall you liking it.


on another note eric made a big mistake. he was trying to delete things we didn't listen to off the extra hard driver and deleted big d:mad:. i'm ok until something happens to my ipod.

[sway2sway]

"oh my god, bigD blew up my ipod"

you were just asking for that one

[Fred]

Christmas song up on myspace

[sway2sway]

and you can download it.

there are also 3 new live tracks on the player.

personally, I have an aversion to xmas songs.

[Miss Shark]

This Just In...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ-zAACNp0&sdig=1

[sway2sway]

they make really good videos, ggm productions

[sway2sway]

this is sweet, new video for focken glockenspiel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dSOk3eIzII

[hencoop]

The vids are a bit campy for me, but I LOVE his music! Plus, he's funny as hell - I crack up all the time while listening. Can't play it in front of the kiddos though...

[sway2sway]

can't play it in front of the kids?

whaddya mean? my handbook says nothing about that....

nothing cuter than a 5 year old singing, "i got no cheese to buy my trees."

[hencoop]

how bout' "I need some stinky on my pinky" my boys roared at that one when I was driving - my hand hit the eject button immediately! (No whammy's! Stop!)

[ragmop]

plus the good ol' "asshole" chant intro . . . .


as well as "Big D is up in this . . . . m-o-t-h-e-r-f-u-c-k-a-a-a-a-a-a !. . . ."