Because we were invited to be a part of this Alex Chilton tribute night, we will be making our live debut as a 5-piece on Friday, September 24th at Off Broadway.
Details about the show from KDHX.
The official Facebook RSVP.
Of special interest is that our bassist Steve Scariano will be playing in THREE bands this night: [...]
I’ve been playing drums since I was 9 years old. I took my first lessons at Baton Music in the U City Loop with a rental snare and a Beatle haircut. A year so later I received my first drum kit, a cheap, used Apollo with blue sparkles, the kind of thing teenagers probably [...]
Steve “S3″ Staicoff is one of the original Remodels, and a prodigious musician/songwriter. He now has a CD compilation spanning 20 years of his solo career, Play it By Year. Here’s a current track that is sadly beautiful:
Summer 2010, and The Remodels have resurfaced as an actual band with an actual show or two to get good for. For now, we’re live from a basement in Webster Groves with new members. Like John “Professor” Ellis on guitar (above left) joining original Remodel Toby Weiss (above right).
Above is Brian Smith, drummer extraordinaire, who [...]
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MP3: This Is Love - The Remodels
George Harrison is the coolest Beatle, OK?
Jeff Lynne is completely responsible for keeping George musically productive in the 1980s, and his signature sound is marvelous, within proper context. In the case of some of the material on Cloud Nine, his production had a tendency to suck the life right [...]
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MP3: Girl Don’t Come - The Remodels
A cover of the Sandie Shaw song, remodeled with this starting inspiration:
What if Plastic Letters-era Blondie were to do this song?
And here’s what we came up with:
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MP3: Love Is Alright - The Remodels
Once upon a time, Rick Springfield was a right good power-popper. Hitting soap opera, teeny bopper mega-success at the same time diminished his musical accomplishments in some eyes.
Working Class Dog still holds up as solid and exuberant professional power pop record. It’s got the songs, it’s got Neil [...]
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MP3: What Makes You Think You’re The One - The Remodels
Do you remember the packaging for the vinyl version of Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk? It was the most perplexing thing. Blessed was the day it came out on CD because it was now - finally - easy to access.
Did you ever make a cassette compilation of [...]
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MP3: When You Walk in the Room - The Remodels
Jackie DeShannon was a peer of Carole King, Ellie Greenwhich, and the other women songwriters who cranked out major hits for other artists. Even though she was not a shadow character in the film Grace of my Heart, some of her fabulous wardrobe seemed to [...]
Steve Staicoff (known by us as S3) got his first guitar - a tiger strip Stella Harmony acoustic - when he was 10 years old. He was only 3 when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, so he missed that… but luckily, his brother turned him onto KXOK radio and The Beatles at the tender [...]