Artist: Peter Holsapple
Live Reviews from web archive February 2, 2009
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
“I always say I have short-term memory loss because of my youthful indiscretions,” Peter Holsapple explained as his longtime playing partner Chris Stamey fiddled with some technical difficulties involving a noisy guitar cord. “Chris and I have been playing in bands together since we were 14, 15 years old, and I can remember his songs [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – Mavericks
When dB’s founders Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple reunited to record again eight years after Stamey had left the band, fans got excited to hear the cult outfit’s jangly, jagged college rock again. Their 1991-released record, however, delivered something slightly different: acoustic-based, harmony-heavy folk-pop, more Everly Brothers than Big Star. But what initially seemed overly [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Peter Holsapple- Some thoughts on the past, present and future of New Orleans music. Beans and Rice.
Today, in Nashville, I have met up with musician friends of mine from the band Beatin Path who had been displaced from their homes in New Orleans. We are having rice and beans at Mike’s apartment, cooked by his wife, who has taken the kids to Wal-Mart to get clothes. After dinner, we stand on [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – McCabe’s (Santa Monica, CA)
“It’s really him, It’s really me/We’re all together for the world to see/Up here on stage were we ought to be.” So sang Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey in their opening number. There wasn’t a better tune to begin the first full-length concert in over a decade by the two former dB’s leaders. The song, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Peter Holsapple – Out of My Way
Don’t know about in your town, but here in Los Angeles, “Adult Album Alternative” (aka Triple-A) radio stuff tends to be watered-down folk-rock and HORDE-iness with a side order of Steely Dan, Dire Straits and Peter Gabriel. Sure, there’s the occasional surprise, say, some old Dylan or Van Morrison, and it is just about the [...]
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