A little update regarding closing or selling the site.

I’m a big late night TV watcher and love watching the talk shows. Obviously when Gordon announced his late night talk show, I was “N”. Definitely had a shaky start, but I could see the possibilities in it. He seemed to try too hard at first, but I think he has such a big audience already from the ticket, the show had to have decent numbers. Then they moved him from Thursday nights to Saturday nights. What a huge move. With the writers strike, no big deal, but now that SNL is back, he is competing with SNL’s last half hour. Tough call.

Anyhow, just a brief intro to the Gordon Keith show. If you don’t watch, you definitely should. I think he needs an hour though. Between commercials and a short time, everything seems rushed. But this post is about Gordon’s musical guest this past weekend, Black Tie Dynasty. I first heard of this band through the Hardline. Corby was having his Nude Music Thursday session and played their music.

I don’t know about how everyone else judges new music, but usually I can tell if I like something within the first 5-10 seconds of a song. I’d say 95% of the time my intuition is right. Black Tie Dynasty’s first few seconds hit an internal chord for me. It had the influences of bands from the 80’s that I couldn’t get enough of, like Depeche Mode, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen. I love to hear this sound coming back around and people are taking to it. I loved it then, I love it now. I’d say I’m a connoisseur of music, but I’m definitely not a musical snob like big dumb Danny, the afternoon cloud. Danny reminds me of my old bands singer. He always seemed to hate music that was popular but liked music made by local bands he knew personally somehow.

So back to Black Tie Dynasty, if you like music, or if you liked the sounds of the 80’s mentioned above, you need to give them a listen. Their performance on Gordon’s show was great too. The bass player looked like a bass player, messy, uncoordinated, horrible look, yet was great at playing the bass. The lead singer/guitar player has a cool look and most of all he has great moves. It’s always interesting to see a band members moves on stage because some people really get into it, some people try too hard, some people are just way out of their element.

Ok, I’ve rambled too long. Go check out Black Tie Dynasty. Here are some links to check out:

Black Tie Dynasty Website

Gordon Keith Show Episode with Black Tie Dynasty. (The episode isn’t up while typing this, but they’ll have it up quick.)

Video from Dallas Observer Awards

BTD at Granada
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbCtrmPb_I]

More BTD at Granada
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTbKLRm6wk]

Black Tie Dynasty “I Like U” Video
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXbs4N8nmU]