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Tiger Army covers "The Loop" again

posted by davidt on Thursday December 18 2003, @10:00AM
Javier Obregon writes:

American Psychobilly band Tiger Army covered Morrissey's "The Loop" in concert Monday Dec. 15th at Soma in San Diego. They were there on tour with Rancid and played to a fairly large audience. Before Tiger Army took to the stage "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side" played over the loudspeakers during the Interlude. Nick 13 (Tiger Army's lead singer) spoke to the crowd about 4 songs in and said something to the effect of "We know there are a lot of you in San Diego who like Morrissey." He asked how many Morrissey fans were in attendance and got a few scattered hoots in reply. He then introduced the next song as a Morrissey song and said it was called "The Loop." It sounded really good, except for the fact that the rhythm guitar was lacking, although he played the lead part really well. If you remember back to a previous posting on Morrissey-Solo, from a Skratch Magazine article with Tiger Army on the cover, Nick 13 had stated he always wanted to do a live cover of a Morrissey song...maybe even "The Loop." Looks like he made good on that one.

On a side note, I first discovered Nick 13 was a Morrissey fan a few years back when Morrissey had the "Oye Esteban" DVD signing at the Virgin Records Store on Sunset, in Hollywood. I ran into Nick 13 outside. He had just purchased his own copy of the DVD. I asked him if he wanted me to take it up to Morrissey and see if he'd sign it for him. He obliged. When I got up to the front to meet Morrissey I asked him if he'd ever heard of the American Psychobilly band Tiger Army. He responded by saying he had not. I explained that Nick was outside and wasn't able to get a wristband to meet him, but he wanted his DVD signed. He said he would sign it. As he started to sign he looked up at me with a curious smile and asked "Should I sign it to Nick, or Nick 13?" I shrugged. He signed it to "Nick 13."
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  • isn't it fun being the first post? maybe cos its a lame storyline. nevermind. hey catherine cox of 7 boulderside close norwich, limpets galore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1(but none for Richard Martin of Whitgift School).
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 18 2003, @02:58PM (#82365)
  • yea...TIGER ARMY is badass!!to me it seems as if there were a chain reaction to liking certain bands....if u like the smiths ur most likely to like....depeche mode, 80's synth pop, the cure, death on wednesday, social distortion, tiger army, nekromantix,..and it keeps on going..
    psychobillyhellcat -- Friday December 19 2003, @11:56AM (#82417)
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  • Tiger Army are a really great band. I saw their performance last month in DC and they blew the roof off of the place, and everyone responded really well to "The Loop". It's hard to recreate the song in it's entiriety with a 3 piece band, but they did a damn good job. Moz has always been an inspiration/idol to Nick, and in fact I believe that cover of "The Loop" is going to be on their third record that's coming out in April.
    Anonymous -- Saturday December 20 2003, @11:54AM (#82474)

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