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Contributed by: YourHub.com on 4/25/2006

I can't help but feel like I've betrayed the many generations of self-important rock critics before me, but the notion that a band who's "just about the music" is somehow desirable needs to be deflated.

It's never just about the music.

Ever.

It's something I've been putting a lot more stock into since seeing the Haggardies, an Englewood ska-punk band, a few times. Back on April 20, the militant para-Haggardies collective of girlfriends and boosters, the Haggarditas, put on a bake sale outside the show at the 3 Kings Tavern to raise money to record a new Haggardies album.

Is there really anything more undeniably cool than new ideas like that? And can't we all handle a quick cross-promotion from PBR in exchange for cheap-as-free beer? And then there's the trunk full of dated Sunday best, suits, lab coats and so on.

Okay, so it's gimmicky. Unabashedly, unashamedly so. That's what's so absolutely great about it.

There's a reason, y'know, that "song" gets bottom billing in "wine, women and song." Incidentally, it takes up the rear of "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll," also. (It looks like there's room for scholarly debate on the comparative values of substance and sex.)

The whole thing sounds pretty cynical and debased, but what other reason is there for live music? You can hear orchestras and ensembles put in different interpretations of other peoples' work, but when four or five guys with guitars play the same 16 songs once a week, there's got to be something bringing them back.

You know what it is already. Beer tastes a hell of a lot better when the amp's at 11. The opposite sex looks better, the problems of the world look smaller, and damn if you didn't just rediscover your dancin' legs right now. I mean, hey, that's your jam right there.

Music is something far too pure and holy and good to profane it with our incapable little minds. Bands like the Haggardies have figured that out.

The new ethic for the new century: Tune in, turn off and rock out.

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Submitted By: John Zwick

posted on 4/25/2006 @ 2:12:54 PM

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Do we flip the sexes for bands of women? Generally, most guys are such suckers for a girl with a guitar that you could probably make a male auxilary really easily.

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Submitted By: Eric Lubbers

posted on 4/25/2006 @ 1:51:50 PM

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Every band, and I mean every single band, should have a mandatory ladies' auxiliary. I'm trying to imagine the Slim Cessna's Auto Club auxiliary and having a hard time. Also, why does the term 'Haggarditas' make me hungry?

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Submitted By: Brendan Leonard

posted on 4/25/2006 @ 1:06:08 PM

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I would argue that sometimes it is more about the music than the other things. For example, when I brought home "The Very Best of Big Daddy Kane" the other day and my girlfriend laughed herself silly at the cover art and pictures in the liner. Then, it was just about the music. When Big Daddy Kane was big, four-finger rings and fat gold chains were the style. Now, they look a bit foolish. The music, however, has staying power.

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