In addition to Fuchtman, who plays guitar and provides backing vocals, Salt Fox includes Michael Rogers on lead vocals and Jacob Pauli on keyboards and drum beats. So that’s what we chose.”Ĭourtesy of Andy Fuchtman A copy of Salt Fox's "manifesto," which directly inspired many of the band's songs. “I stuck them in my pocket, and then many years later, we started playing music and realized we had to have something we believed in, or else the music wouldn’t really stick.
“Buried down, deep in the apartment, was a list of thirteen goals that the man had made as a contract to himself,” said Fuchtman. It was Fuchtman’s job to clean up after the apartment was vacated, and that’s when he found the list. “Fortunately, she used bleach as an accelerant, so all she did was get some marks on the carpet.” “The couple who had lived there, the guy had cheated on the girl, and she tried to burn down the whole building,” said Salt Fox member Andy Fuchtman, who was working for a landlord at the time. Salt Fox have come to refer to this list as “the manifesto.” An overheard conversation in public could turn into song lyrics, or the perfect turn of phrase could pop into a songwriter’s head while they’re in the shower.Īnd there’s the Cedar Falls-based indie pop band Salt Fox, whose entire basis for existence comes from a list of self-improvement goals they found in an abandoned apartment. Jackson" and "B.O.B," the dirty South calls the shots.Part of being a musician is never knowing when, or where, inspiration is going to strike. 'Course if hip-hop nation is gonna demand gladiatorial spectacles of this scope, it's gonna have to reconcile stripped-down mike checks like Ludacris versus arena-rock pacing where the hits come at the beginning and end, but when you can end your set with two of the dopest radio beats in recent memory, "Ms. Big ass throwdown aided by the Goodie Mob toward the end of the nearly two-hour Armageddon. "So Fresh, So Clean," "Humble Mumble," "We Luv Deez Hoez" - all present and buggin', with Andre doing the gorilla bounce back and forth across the stage and B-Boi standing front and center while spitting his rap like preacher turned politician. Dwellers of Stankonia freaked right off the bat on the fuming "Gasoline Dreams," Andre and B-Boi posse-d by guitar, bass, backup singers, a quartet of ninja catchers doing the Solid Gold dance in between backstage wardrobe changes, and a DJ towering from a centerstage podium looking like Bedrock's Trump Tower. Doing his best Bootsy, Andre 3000 strutted out in an intergalactic jumpsuit - sleeveless, electric orange foil with protruding pee-pee - while Big Boi sported wig and sunglasses too, but let OutKast's new line of duds do the talking through his partner. "April Fools!!!!!" And then it was on, the banner for hip-hop nation rising to reveal a stage-set straight outta The Flinstones, D'Angelo by way of early George Clinton. "What's up San Antonio?!?" hollered the Poon the moment the hall went black. Quicker than you could say stop-time set change, ATL was back fucking with ATX. "I don't think Texas knows who I am," he taunted. "White people make some noise." They did the ladies sang every word of "What's Your Fantasy." Y'know, wanna lick you from your head to your toes. "All I see is white people," said MC LC, cocky, cagey - charismatic.
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With no time, no fancy stage set, no full house, young Luda had to bring the noise hard and fast, and choosing the obvious pistol pumps from First Time - "Stick 'em Up," "Catch Up," and just-add-ice classic, "Ho" - he came faster than a Catholic priest.
"Representing the southside of ATL," Ludacris, his two MCs and one DJ brought enough beats and bounce to burn down Atlanta a second time. Given opener Ludacris' double-platinum Def Jam South debooty, Back for the First Time - Nelly-style scratch with extra X's - ol' Dixie's already been restitched. "We love the dirty South," announced MC Poon Daddy at 8pm straight up, out front of an enormous American flag. Outkast, Ludacris Austin Music Hall, April 1 The South has risen again. OutKast's Andre 3000 at the Austin Music Hall
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