THE ELMS TO APPEAR AT FARM AID 2008!

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August 27, 2008 by THE.ELMS

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THE ELMS will join Neil Young, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, The Pretenders, Jakob Dylan, Kenny Chesney, and many more to perform a special set at Farm Aid 2008 on September 20 at the Comcast Center outside Boston, MA.

THE ELMS are thrilled to announce their affiliation with an organization that has raised more than $30 million in support for American family farmers. Localized farming is an enormous part of the economy of the small cities that the members of THE ELMS reside in, and so the band are excited to lend their support to this extraordinary event, which has been held annually since 1985.

Farm Aid 2008 is already sold out. TheElms.net will make every effort to secure video of the band's performance. Stay tuned to THE ELMS' official website for more very exciting information from the band within several days! For more details on FarmAid, go HERE.

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Culture, Music, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, rock, the elms, Dave Matthews, farm aid

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saburke104
saburke104, August 28
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I hate this band, I guess when your Wanchecks favorite boy band you get all the cool gigs

David Lindquist
David Lindquist, August 28
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It's possible you're not getting any response from Mike Wanchic because you keep sending e-mail to "Wancheck"?

saburke104
saburke104, September 2
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It was a pun obviously lost on someone who cannot handle any one who questions or has opinion in this forum about the validity of a horrible band connected to the Mellencamp mafia.

Keep on with your great reviews and lazy journalism of rib fest bands man. I'm sure it's really inspiring to have to write such drivel. Anyway hope to see you out on the local scene, oh I forgot, that's a once a year outing for you.

The only thing I would ever contact Wancheck/Wanchic about; is where can I find another uninspiring crappy band that everyone likes because Mellencamp's guitar player thinks they are awesome. Land of the musical sheep, but I'm sure they are nice to you, because they need your great artistic sense of what is not cool... Try to channeling Lester Bangs, those are the kind of reviews and critiques that may get you out of Indiana and to a better gig in New York, LA or Nashville.

David Lindquist
David Lindquist, September 2
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Thanks for reading.

I'd like to zero in on this pun, because I hate to miss a joke.

"Wancheck"

A standard definition of the word "wan": of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color.

I'm assuming "check" is a reference to money or the power that's associated with money?

Good one, I guess?

Regarding the Elms, I think you'll find they're a band that paid their dues on the contemporary Christian circuit before signing to Universal South.

In probably a dozen conversations I've had with Mike Wanchic during the past three years, the topic of the Elms has never come up. If he's the muscle behind this band, he's not flexing much.

saburke104
saburke104, September 2
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Cool, You are high road kind of guy and I appreciate that in one's character. Thanks for taking the time to go a round or two with me, I'm sure they paid their dues. I know you have,,,, I just don't like their music and was expressing an opinion/assumption on how they get high profile gigs... I'll call uncle on this one as I cannot begin to fathom the actual inner workings of "The Elms"

The intended pun was in the mispelling of the name (because everyone knows who Mike is and knows how to spell his last name correctly (He's been around for 30 years and I'm quite familar with his body of work as it is played on Q95 40 times a day...not that funny I admit it). It was not intended to be a play on words

I would like to leave you with this quote for no particualr reason, I just think it is something a music crtic should comtemplate.

"Well basically I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren't that special, really. It's just a guy, just another person, so what?" L.B.

No hard feelings.. I will continue to read your articles, because I have followed music of all kinds for many, many years (35). I guess I just miss the angst man and tried to stir the pot a bit. Thanks for making it more interesting than keeping an opinion to myself

Best Regard

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