New album out in August!
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- Genre:
- rock / country / punk
- Hometown:
- San Francisco
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- Tumbleweed / The Famous @ Miss...
Mission Ale House
Saturday, October 17 at 9:00pm - Sweet Chariot / The Famous / H...
El Rio
Wednesday, October 7 at 8:00pm - The Famous / The Arcadists (CD...
Mountain Charley's
Friday, September 25 at 7:30pm - The Famous - "Come Home To Me"...
Café Du Nord
Thursday, August 27 at 8:30pm - The Famous @ The RRBC
Russian River Brewing Co.
Saturday, August 9 at 9:00pm - Twang Sunday with The Famous
Thee Parkside
Sunday, May 4 at 5:00pm
The Famous
So any favorite Thanksgiving recipes or tips?
Here's mine -- brine that turkey! It really helps make it more moist and flavorful all the way through.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton
I use a brine similar to Alton Brown's but without the candied ginger, and instead... of canola oil I use a 50/50 mixture of butter and olive oil to coat the bird.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-Vic
www.foodnetwork.com
Food Network invites you to try this Good Eats Roast Turkey recipe from Alton Brown.
The Famous Vic's surf band The Aquamen are playing at El Rio this Saturday. Songs about drinks, drinks, girls and drinks.
Rockabilly! Punk! Garage! Surf!
Location:El Rio
Time:8:30PM Saturday, November 7th
The Famous Just in time for Halloween! Check out the Americana Rockmix Podcast featuring creepy americana from The Famous, Jace Everett, 16 Horsepower and more...
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Exploring the darker side of the the Americana genre. - Forgot I was Alive by Dax Riggs (from We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love) www.Myspace.com/DaxRiggs -
The Famous Big thanks to everyone who voted in the @TrueFireTV tweepstakes. Didn't win the guitar but humbled to have so many great supporters.
The Famous Let's get the Halloween spirit going - download this MP3 and pass it on! http://ow.ly/wDzW #musicmonday
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Michael Hey guys - when is your next show? I can't wait!
The Famous Did you know you can get ringtones from The Famous? http://bit.ly/24v8f3
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The Famous Help Vic win this guitar! He's in 3rd place - let us know you voted - if we win we'll record a song thanking you! http://su.pr/8vaLX1
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Over the past 30 days, we've challenged our followers on Twitter and fans on Facebook to post creative responses to our tweets. Not only were we impressed
The Famous Help Vic win this bitchin' guitar! Let us know you voted and if we win we'll record a song thanking you! http://su.pr/8vaLX1
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Over the past 30 days, we've challenged our followers on Twitter and fans on Facebook to post creative responses to our tweets. Not only were we impressed
The Famous Help Vic win this gorgeous guitar! If we win we'll record a song dedicated to all of you! Please repost http://su.pr/8vaLX1
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Over the past 30 days, we've challenged our followers on Twitter and fans on Facebook to post creative responses to our tweets. Not only were we impressed
The Famous And the winner is.... Cyndi Smith -- Congratulations on being our 100th fan!
Suzanne MacLeod Hughes Hey! Here's hoping for a really big crowd at Mission Ale Sat. the 17t!
The Famous Free show tomorrow night! We'd love to see ya...
Location:Mission Ale House
Time:9:00PM Saturday, October 17th
The Famous Help us get to 100 fans -- tell your friends/ re-post / retweet or whatever it is you do... 100th fan gets free signed "Come Home To Me" CD!
If it weren't for the '65 Ford Galaxie, The Famous might never have existed. Founders Laurence Scott and Victor Barclay met when Vic spotted Laurence and his Galaxie parked outside a Bay Area laundromat and remarked that he had the exact same car. While a friendship wa...s born that moment, it wasn't until several years and many intervening bands later that The Famous came into being. Formed late 2003 in San Francisco, The Famous are an indie-rock/americana act whose moods range from squalling and raucous to heartfelt and sparse – all bound by a common thread of emotional intensity and arresting showmanship. Some songs are sad and pretty, while others have a powerful, spooky feel. The melodies trick you into singing along with tales of paranoia, county fairs, revenge and renewed belief. Girded by the raw sounds of ‘50s-era country, but imbued with the spirit of The Pixies and other post-punk pioneers, The Famous forge powerful tunes that combine the intense desperation of X, the sincere melancholy of Hank Williams Sr. and the interstellar psychobilly of the Reverend Horton Heat. Part carnival barker, part honky-tonk crooner, vocalist Laurence Scott demands your attention with an unmistakable smoky growl straight from the heart of his native Texas. With notebooks full of abstract expressionism and wordplay, given life through an inspired and unbridled stage presence, Laurence thinks in lyrics and lives for performance. While Van Halen and Led Zeppelin boiled in his teenage blood, guitarist Victor Barclay spit and swore an eternal hatred for country music – that is until a friend turned him onto Johnny Cash’s Live at Folsom Prison. On stage, Vic’s deadpan one-liners provide the perfect foil for Laurence’s manic No Depression. Backed by longtime collaborator Chris Fruhauf on drums and native Texan G.D. Hensley (ex- Diesel Boy) on bass, The Famous are spreading the gospel with their incendiary live show to music lovers across the Bay Area and beyond. Their debut album Light, Sweet Crude, was released January 2005 garnering rave reviews from the music press and fans, and enjoying heavy rotation on college radio as well as continuing popularity with podcasters such as Adam Curry. Rolling into 2007, The Famous have reloaded and are firing off several rounds of new stories and sounds after a year and some days of playing international festivals and a sojourn in the desert Southwest. NXNE (North By Northeast) in Toronto and the South Park Music Festival outside Denver were but a few of the whistle stops over the past several months for the band. New material for stage, and some soon to be released recordings, were developed amid the cacti of the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona at Francisco Studios adjacent to the world famous Wavelab. Currently, The Famous are hard at work on their eagerly expected second album due out in 2008.
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