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Weak Player's Poker Blog (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
I had a great day off. I woke up late, had some breakfast, read some blogs, and pretty much did fuck-all for the whole morning. This was somewhat forced as Don was getting the carpets cleaned and we had to hang out in the one room that was not being cleaned. In the middle afternoon, an old friend called me. She knew I was in Vegas and, by chance, she was too. She told me to meet her down at the Rio;...
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The Obituarium (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Thanks to Miami Don's post, I was reminded of one of the greatest moments in the history of the Murderer's Row home game. Though I was not present that particular evening to experience it, everyone's favorite Poker Geek tells the story so perfectly that we all feel like we were in attendance. It does help that we've all seen Chanel get bad beat hundreds of times, too. Go read this exceptional post:...
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Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
The Mrs. and I caught the Was (Not Was) show at the Wonder Ballroom tonight, and I pretty much got just one word: Wow. There's a lot more that one could write about this group of highly talented funk-soul connaisseurs from Detroit via L.A. The "brothers" Don and David Was pack a powerful punch, and their front line of lead singers -- "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, Harry Bowens, and Donald Ray Mitchell -- is...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Don Was -- bassist, songwriter and producer for the Detroit-bred band Was (Not Was) -- talked with Free Press pop music writer Brian McCollum in advance of the band's show tonight at the Majestic Theatre. The homecoming date is part of a tour supporting the group's first album in 16 years, "Boo!"
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Don Was -- bassist, songwriter and producer for the Detroit-bred band Was (Not Was) -- talked with Free Press pop music writer Brian McCollum in advance of the band's show tonight at the Majestic Theatre. The homecoming date is part of a tour supporting the group's first album in 16 years, "Boo!"
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
As a producer, Don Was has worked on critically acclaimed albums by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt to the B-52's. This year, he stepped back into the role of performer with his absurdist dance-rock band Was (Not Was), famous for its 19...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
You'd be hard-pressed to unearth a more unlikely band of '80s hitmakers than Was (Not Was), the Detroit funk-soul-bebop-rock band masterminded by fake brothers Don and David Was and fronted by powerhouse R&B vocalists Sweet Pea Atkinson and Sir Harry Bowens, who had both "Walk the Dinosaur" and "Spy in The House Of Love" land in the top 20 from their 1988 album What Up, Dog?
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
The Northwest Puppet Center's most ambitious opera yet, Mozart's "Don Giovanni," opened Friday night and runs through next weekend. Unlike several of the center's previous operatic offerings, "Don Giovanni" was not originally written for puppets. While it is full of comedy that lends itself to puppet portrayal, there is also a darker side to "Don Giovanni:" betrayal and anguish, grief and ambivalence,...
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The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008
Closing in on 20 years since their last album, the whole gang is here, pretty much — the core of Don and David Was and Sir Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson, along with Was (Not Was) vets Luis Resto, David McMurray, Wayne Kramer, Donald Ray Mitchell, and Randy Jacobs, as well as roughly a [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Don Was has led an extraordinary double life. As the bass player and co-songwriter of Was (Not Was), he has, together with his "brother" David Was, steered that most weird and wonderful of funk-rock groups from the clubs of Detroit to international cult status. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1980s and 1990s with hits including "Walk the Dinosaur", "Spy In the House of Love" and "Shake Your...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
As unaccountably gifted Jewish wiseacres with a sophisticated grasp of music and a penchant for darkly droll lyrics, operating as the twin-brained hub of a musical machine manned by impeccable players, Don and Dave Was have always struck me as being rather like the kid brothers of Steely Dan's Becker & Fagen.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
WAS (Not Was) belong to the "adult" school of rock that includes Frank Zappa, Steely Dan and Randy Newman, very smart men writing slick, sardonic songs that fuse different styles - in the case of Don and David Was, rock, funk and R&B.
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Scott Wolf inside USC (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Don Ludwig, who was the director of recreational sports at USC longer than I can remember and worked at the university for 35 years, was ``reassigned'' to a job in student affairs. http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/whats_happening/happened/spirit_and_traditions.html We hear this was not a voluntary...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
A politically charged 60 Minutes report about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was convicted of corruption, was not carried by the CBS affiliate in northern ...
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Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
Brothers Don and David Was are to revive their hit group Was (Not Was) for a Valentine's Day showcase in Los Angeles. In what will be the group's first official show since touring with Dire Straits in 1992, the "Walk The Dinosaur" hit-makers will perform at the Orpheum Theatre with Kris Kristofferson and Brian Wilson.[...] Read more!
