Ecstatic Wax

A modest library of music-related topics, essays, humor, and interviews

Friday, May 29, 2015

Pin the Singer on a Pinto

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You know you’re in trouble when your record label believes so much in your new album that they slap a Ford Pinto on the cover. Named for ...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Reggae Fever

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I’ve always been fanatical about music, and that fanaticism goes way back —all the way to when I was a toddler and my parents would send ...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Wretched Records and Crappy Covers Again: One More Wicker Man

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Oh, Danny Boy! Sharp-dressed in his wicker nest. Discovered another Wicker Man hiding on an old SD card. I snapped this pic last year...
Monday, February 23, 2015

The Virgin Suicides

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The Living Stones, four singing sisters and their poorly conceived suicide note. Taking their lives might have been the most selfless a...
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Friday, December 5, 2014

Wretched Records and Crappy Covers: Let's Get Physical

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Hmm … judging by the illustrations, this doesn’t look like any ordinary exercise album. Backdoor pantomiming, pelvic thrusting, and che...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Wretched Records and Crappy Covers Redux: Wicker Up Front

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We may never know what begot the wicker chair trend of the 1970s, but it hardly matters. The fact of the matter is that these specimens of ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

When My Burning Airlines Concert Preview Crashed and Burned

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I've been digging around in my archives lately in a futile attempt to locate a nice little write-up I did several months ago about th...
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Joe Ehrbar
I've written lots of words (some of them good even) on the subject of music for more than a decade. Among the esteemed publications to feature my byline are The Spokesman-Review, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Matte, Backfire, Revolver and The Rocket--where I was Managing Editor and Editor from 1998-2000. I don't write as much or as often as I should, so don't come knocking for new content every day. But stop by periodically for some new, original writings and a whole host of mildewy works from my archives. Please note: This blog is kind of my digital playground, a place to test out ideas, explore random thoughts, or invent dumb, fictional (and sometimes funny) stories about real musicians or recordings. In other words, don't take what you read here too seriously.
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