ARTIST: Red Collar
TITLE: The Hands Up
LABEL: 307 Knox Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 190kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 14m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-02-20
RIP DATE: 2007-04-23
Track List
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1. Hands Up (Radio Edit) 4:10
2. Witching Hour 2:48
3. Stay 3:34
4. Used Guitars 3:47
Release Notes:
What is ambition anyways?
When Bruce was some scrap kid in a ski cap, touring the East, jumping the gate
at Graceland, was that ambition? They called him a punk then. That was before
punk- in terms of music-was set in stone. His music seemed plain, a return to
revving it up when the main scene was adding more and more filigree. The
longhair rock gods would have said he wasnÆt ambitious enough.
How about Fugazi?
In refusing to play along with music business conventions, was that ambitious or
just pragmatic? Did they cheat by drawing their boundaries too close, by
refusing to get out of the small pond?
What about when your trip to college gets you out of your working-class town but
not much further? And youÆre sitting in a cube, with a spreadsheet up on the
screen, unchanged for hours, distracting yourself with the web, dreading the
upcoming sit in traffic. Your friends back home are still waiting for someone to
die so they can move up. They think it's funny how you moved down South, to one
of those college towns, and you donÆt have a winter coat anymore. YouÆre not
blue collar, but the white collar world ainÆt looking bright. YouÆre daydreaming
about the music youÆre writing at night. You get off the ladder and start a
band.
Ambitious? CanÆt tell.
Stupid? For sure.
The music Red Collar plays ainÆt bar rock (they donÆt even have bars down here,
not like home). ItÆs learned too much. It comes from Chapel Hill, but itÆs got
broad shoulders and thick skin. You canÆt explain it to your old friends or your
new bosses.
But you just canÆt stop playing.