Aaron Scholz

10 years gone

This Wednesday marks a special anniversary: On July 19th, 1996 I played my first show here in Madison. I was still living in Ames at the time but I came up for a week to celebrate my birthday (On the 16th a group of us travelled to Milwaukee to see The Reverend Horton Heat and [...]

Weddin’

I’ve spent the last few days hauling through a mountain of vinyl to put together a perfect set of wedding music. The choices for the Non-Wedding band (which I guess should be the Anniversary Band since these folks are already hitched) are actually quite easy–most of what was played last year (plus whatever we didn’t [...]

Hearing Impaired

I’m part of a supergroup wedding band, which is a supergroup mostly because everyone (besides me) is a member of another major local band (including The Super Eights, The New Recruits, The Outtatunes, and YAR!) We did a one-off gig last year for the “reception” of our friends Adam and Erika and everyone had so [...]

Everybody’s Talkin’

The other night I was doing an image search for 70’s pop singer Harry Nilsson and found the usual assortment of his album covers, fan pictures, etc (I’m constantly on the lookout for images to use on compilations I put together or just nice things to put in My Pictures for the screen saver) and [...]

A Loser Out of Me

I don’t usually watch television on Saturday nights as I’m out in my cab. I took a break around 10:30 this past week to restring my guitar and turned on Austin City Limits. I watched twenty minutes of some band I took to be Franz Ferdinand (as the listings said and who I wouldn’t recognize [...]

HYPE

I used to hate it when someone would say something like “Oh you’re into (insert band here)? You’ll definitely be way into (insert similar sounding band).” The person telling me this would be doing nothing wrong but ultimately I would discount their opinion immediately. Why? Well, music was something that I spent most of my [...]

Love Comes to Town

We have a date for the first Rock Opera show: APRIL 30
Bob Koch, Peter Fatka and I will be doing a cover-to-cover cover of Forever Changes, the classic album by Love. I’ll be doing acoustic 12 string, Bob will be on bass and Peter will be soloing and pretending to be whole string charts! We’re [...]

Music for the Messes

My Sunday night gig at Mickey’s has been a great experience for me. Friends of mine who had done this sort of thing had a wide range of opinions about playing week in and week out: some grew to loathe the obligation; some said they were bored after a certain point every week while others [...]

Act Nice and Gentle

To all the nice folks who offered me Ray Davies tickets tonight–your kindness is wonderful and it hurt to turn you down but I really had to stay in. Soren has a cold, Deanna just ran a triathalon after week of stomach weirdness, and I got a migraine on Friday and some bastard version of [...]

For the Record

I’m quoted in an article about B-Side Records in this week’s Isthmus. Record stores are a sacred place for me and many folks of my generation. I grew up in a small college town but in the early 80’s Cedar Falls had a couple of decent record stores. I loved going into just to look [...]

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