{"id":6645,"date":"2013-09-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:48:13","slug":"third-stone-rocks-fat-city-tonite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6645","title":{"rendered":"Third Stone rocks Fat City tonite!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening at Fat City Bar and Grill, 55 S. Chestnut, Champaign, IL<\/strong>, old-guard rock fans will congregate in legion like it\u2019s 2005 \u2026 or 1999 \u2026 or 1993, even, for a band from our past will make its most triumphant return. Has it really<\/em> been eight years since the thundering sounds of metal gods Third Stone<\/strong> \u2013 Bryce Johnson<\/strong> on vocals, Tom Grassman<\/strong> on lead, David Ward<\/strong> on bass, Jeff Markland<\/strong> on drums \u2013 shook the pillars of Rock Heaven and the earth beneath our feet from their previous epicenter, the Canopy Club<\/strong> in Urbana<\/strong>? With the jubilant exclamation \u201cSmeg!\u201d on our lips, we\u2019ll happily relive those days of yore with a kick-ass quartet known for injecting high energy and humorous antics into their stage show.<\/p>\n

Although we\u2019re plugging this gig because your humble editor would have it no other way, we would not want gushing adulation to get in the way of upholding C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> street cred so let\u2019s connect Third Stone with the world we normally cover, dearest readers! Costumes, props, and doomed-to-fail magic tricks have cropped up in the reunion shows they\u2019ve played since their mid-Nineties heyday, but the most unique additions have come in the form of video segments engineered by University of Illinois<\/strong> librarian Ward. According to the teasers below, featuring band buddies like Erik Davis, Lynn Canfield<\/strong>, and Jesse Brown<\/strong>, something devilish is afoot and facilitating the band\u2019s brief return to terra firma<\/em> in a scenario that will presumably play out before or during the concert, in-joke references and all. Hrmmmm\u2026<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned 2005 farewell show-that-wasn\u2019t kicked off with a previous Ward joint, the 15-minute \u201cThird Stone Rockumentary\u201d dramatizing (in jest) how the group\u2019s \u201cColonel\u201d played by Josh Hartke<\/strong> coached his troops back to metal respectability after several years off the rock grid. The bit appears on a DVD released at the show, WHAT\u2019S THAT SMELL?<\/strong>, which also features concert clips, newscast appearances, and behind-the-scenes footage from their first decade. (Long-form media related to C-U musicians is a rarity, we\u2019ve discovered. Examples include Bob Zimmerman<\/strong>\u2019s recent OUT OF NOWHERE<\/strong>, the Braid<\/strong> \u201cfinal tour\u201d documentary KILLING A CAMERA<\/strong> (2001\/2004), and Poster Children<\/strong>\u2019s self-made ZERO STARS<\/strong> (2000).) Hardcore fans who failed to snag it the first time around might generate re-release interest by inquiring through this new Facebook<\/strong> page<\/a> and this old Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Third Stone had brushes with other filmmakers apart from taping their own tomfoolery. Producers behind the road trip indie 12 BUCKS<\/strong> (1998) licensed several cuts for their soundtrack, including The Stuff<\/span><\/strong> lead-off song \u201cAfterbirth<\/strong>\u201d which underscores the opening flashback sequence of the film. More notoriously, former Champaign underground artist Hart D. Fisher<\/strong> included \u201cR.D.A.<\/strong>\u201d from The Stuff<\/span> in his grungy serial killer drama THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong> (1993\/2009) which also features all four bandmates in bit parts. Fisher filmed a companion Third Stone \u201cR.D.A.\u201d music video in the north Champaign dance club Bradley\u2019s<\/strong>, to our knowledge their only stab at a song promo. Get on that, industrious bassist David Ward!<\/p>\n

Madness begins at 8 p.m.<\/strong> at Fat City. Opening for Third Stone, who just released a 20th anniversary edition of The Stuff<\/span><\/a>, will be ace guitarist Mike Bray<\/strong>, a.k.a. \u201cSasquatch<\/strong>,\u201d<\/a> who tours with the comedic Jack Black\/Kyle Gass<\/strong> rock act Tenacious D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> In the realm of unrealized things, here is yet another<\/em> MICRO-FILM<\/strong> edition that never was. (You can check out prior evidence of derailed efforts in this CUBlog<\/strong> post<\/a> and that CUBlog<\/strong> post<\/a>.) MF<\/strong> friend Scott Jenkins<\/strong> surprised us in late 1998 \u2013 more than a year<\/em> before MICRO-FILM 1<\/strong> came to pass \u2013 by mailing this neat-o \u2018zine mock-up to the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> without warning. Apparently, we covered Third Stone in this iteration\u2026<\/p>\n


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Dormant C-U group Third Stone returns to life for a one-off rock-and-roll throw down at Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign, IL, later tonight, Friday, September 20, 2013. We’ll show and tell you how movie-making has infiltrated their storied history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13,20],"tags":[1133,1134,126,1131,1130,1132],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video","category-public-events","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-12-bucks","tag-tenacious-d","tag-the-garbage-man","tag-the-stuff","tag-third-stone","tag-whats-that-smell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}