Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:15 pm**

Everything you ever wanted to know about UHF.

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:38 pm**

I only ever saw the movie once when a friend put it on while we were doing acid. Very entertaining at the time.

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:20 pm**

+JMJ+

Thanx for this. Saw it a the theatre, but haven't seen it in quite a while. Might have to pick up the BluRay.

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:48 pm**

SUPPLIES

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:56 pm**

Apparently his last album was a bigger success than he'd anticipated. He's on tour supporting it now, and I've heard it might be his last.

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:34 pm**

Mandatory Fun was the first comedy album to debut at number 1 since 1964...or was it 1961? Did it win a Grammy? I don't pay attention to the Grammy awards so I don't know even though I suspect it did. I hadn't heard that he was thinking of retiring but I can't blame him--he is in his mid-50s now, has been recording and touring for 30 years, and should be able to retire in relative comfort. One other thing to consider: he is such a dominant figure in his niche that I don't think that any other parody bands exist or, if they do, they get no recognition because he is the only figure people see when they think of parody music. "Retirement" is relative for many music people, anyway, because many of them get into production, fronting the money for up-and-coming artists to be able to cut an album and get it out to the public.

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:03 pm**

wayfriend wrote:SUPPLIES

Posted: **Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:28 pm**

Hashi Lebwohl wrote: he is such a dominant figure in his niche that I don't think that any other parody bands exist or, if they do, they get no recognition because he is the only figure people see when they think of parody music

There really aren't any one hears of, are there?
But parody---pretty easy for a small chuckle and a one-off done halfway [several peeps around the Watch have done pretty funny games with lyrics, for instance].
More than that must be hard as hell, especially to really nail it more than once.

Years ago, [crap! almost 2 decades ago, now] there was a Weird Al tribute band wandering around upstate NY. [They may have ranged farther than that, IDK.]
Part of their schtick was to change the band name between sets...they'd yell at each in the middle of a song right before a break, break up the band, the sound guy would take down the banner with their name on it, then put up a different one. One of the names they used was FHUck.