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Count
Dante releases free MP3 in salute to his now famous hometown.
Today the Count's ancestral homeland of Redwood City is famous, or maybe more appropriately, notorious. The Scott Peterson trial is taking place there starting this week and swarms of reporters are standing in front of the Fox Theatre (where Count Dante reportedly saw "Jaws" and "Godzilla Vs. Megalon") and saying things like "Dateline Redwood City," or "This breaking news just in from Redwood City..." Breaking news from Redwood City!?! I never thought that I would live to see the day! Ross McGowan on "Mornings on 2" even proclaimed, "Today, the eyes of the nation are focused on Redwood City." Before Redwood City was Redwood City Murder City or Redwood City Trial City, Count Dante dubbed it "REDWOOD CITY ROCK CITY" with his classic hit of the same name from his debut album. Earlier in this still young century, Count Dante, joined by Matt "The Ladies' Choice" McGowan and Ed "Zen Machine" Faine, took the stage at Portland's Ash St. Saloon for a very special night of rock and roll. The concert hall was filled to capacity with drunken sailors gallantly serving our country, Northwest dirtheads and hair-pulling strippers who kept on picking fights with people. Luckily, this special performance was captured on tape with the magic of DIGITAL SOUND!!! As a tribute to the Real Redwood City Rock City, home of heaps of cheap tacos, the Count himself is making this rare recording available below. Please download it, rip it, strip it, burn it, sell homemade copies in front of the Walgreens in Hunter's Point, send it as a gift, give it to your grand ma, or pirate it over the internet. Just Rock out and remember... Redwood
City Rock City NOTE: Although hailing from Redwood City, Count Dante & the BDFS have never actually performed the song "Redwood City Rock City"or any other tune in Redwood City itself. When the Count heard that Pizza & Pipes was booking lousy punk rock bands he send Jim Ch'i Master of Drum Fu to the eatery to book a show but to no avail. Count Dante also attempted to play the Kiwanis Farmer's Market, but was denied. Now this isn't as much of a stretch as it sounds like because the KFM did book Extreme Elvis! Dante thought that he was a shoe in for the gig because Dante is a native son of RWC and never pooped or peed on anyone during his set. Seeing as how the Kiwanis Club of Redwood City did book Extreme Elvis and didn't book Count Dante, maybe Elvis impersonators, feces and farm animals are what RWC's local Service Organizations are into. The place has never been the same since the Niners stopped practicing there. |