{"id":1553,"date":"2013-12-11T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:20:05","slug":"ventura-rocks-in-ventura-breeze-121113-122413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/ventura-rocks-in-ventura-breeze-121113-122413\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura Rocks in Ventura Breeze – 12\/11\/13 – 12\/24\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Music Scene<\/strong>
\nStocking Stuffers<\/strong>
\nby Pam Baumgardner
\nVenturaRocks.com
\nPam@VenturaRocks.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Here we are right smack dab in the middle of the holiday shopping season and of course our favorite go to gift is the gift of music. Two bands who have made us proud over the years have new releases which will look sweet in your favorite person\u2019s Christmas stocking this year.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>Our first selection is New Constellation from Toad the Wet Sprocket. You practically couldn’t turn the radio on in the 90s without hearing this rock alternative favorite, so fans
\nhave waited patiently for years for something new. After breaking up, then getting back together, touring on and off for quite some time, Toad too knew it was time. With 11 new
\nsongs and 4 bonus tracks (various songs from the band\u2019s side projects reworked), I can\u2019t imagine one single Toad fan being disappointed. Toad member, Dean Dinning who calls Ventura home told us, \u201cYou know you look at the album New Constellation as kind of a best of everything that we\u2019ve all been doing for the last 16 years I suppose, and us throwing it all in there and making a Toad record out of it.\u201d I told Dinning I had been listening to the new album and that it was full of crazy good harmonies and hooks up the wazoo to which he replied, \u201cThank you! That was the idea to have really strong\u00a0 songs with sing along choruses and stronger individual identities and hopefully it wouldn\u2019t just all blend together. We wanted something that would get people\u2019s\u00a0 attention.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mission Accomplished.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>And secondly, we go to Ventura\u2019s very own, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (BBVD) who has released their second Christmas album, It Feels Like Christmas Time. We caught up with Scotty Morris, frontman for the band, and asked why a second Christmas record? He told us, \u201cAfter the first Christmas album was released, we started touring behind it with our Wild and Swingin Christmas Party and the tour just started to build a really large fan base. Every year it just kept getting bigger and more fun. So after ten years we felt it was time for a facelift.\u201d The record is everything you\u2019ve come to know and love about BBVD and each and every song will put you into the \u201cswing\u201d of the holiday season. Asking for a little insight into the record, Scotty divulged, \u201cAll but one song is a remake, the title track It Feels Like Christmas Time it\u2019s the only original tune on the record and probably one of my favorite tunes I have written to date\u201d which you know, is saying something special!<\/p>\n

And finally, you\u2019ll want to check out Polly Hoganson the MusicMuse and her top ten picks for local music for Christmas including CDs from Shane Alexander, the White Buffalo and the Milk Carton Kids. Check out Polly\u2019s new column, along with complete interviews with Dean Dinning of Toad the Wet Sprocket and Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at www.VenturaRocks.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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