I wonder who plays Bass. Is Rollum a bass player? This a 3/5ths of Character. Will be nice to see Dave, Ryan and Luke playing together again. This will be cool.

It also happens to be 75% of The Privates.

Rollum drums. My guess is either Paulson or Schneider on bass.

Pitchfork shout-out. Go Grimey's.

Who the hell cares about this??
I mean, really!?!?!?!

are people suffering from such a dirth of ideas that they have to invent ANOTHER covers show??
especially, covers of The Walkmen??

Is Grimey trying to win an award for his support of all things unoriginal/covers, whatever you call it??

Meant to spell it 'dearth'...

anyway...........................

who the hell goes to see a cover band of a fuckin band thats still together?

i think it's rad. i like all the musicians playing, like the walkmen, and am hoping for free beer?

it's kind of a killer business model, too, if may get all Owen on your ass.

not to mention it's at 6 pm - "tobin the gnome" might even show up.

Killer business model??? How?? it should be called the Grimey business model: have popular locals play other people's music and, then figure out how to make money off it...that's what Guilty Pleasures is all about, right??
Is it killer b/c the show is at grimey's therefore people might buy stuff while they are there? I think you mean to say 'in-store.'

wh, I assume you write for this esteemed blog/publication, so it's no wonder you think this is rad.

and i meant to spell it 'dearth.'

the show is in anticipation of the new record's release

yeah, i hate when i hit the "i" key instead of the "ea" key.

shit. i'm not sure what's so lame about wanting to go see some free music played by good musicians at a cool record shop. especially when there may be free beer.

re: who cares??

i mean, aren't we in agreement that there is in fact, business taking place? that's what gets you so riled up: business over art. i seem to think it's an even mix; fuck, if it weren't business (just friends of the band) lord knows i wouldn't be invited.

Isn't the Nashvillecream party an event where people cover other still-existing bands' music, too? Why come down so hard on a group of people getting together to play music for fun? You people should be assholes about something worthy of being assholes about.

Why would this blog give this cover band shit a write-up?They should call this "lame shit going on at the basement and grimey's cream"!

I completely see what's annoying with a blog covering a group of really good musicians getting together to play songs by another really great band (who happened to say thank you on their website, by the way) to celebrate a new record. It's so much more annoying than reading jaded comments from people who evidently love music so much, they want to mock their local record store for trying to sell records and interact with the community.

This was fantastic. And oh-so-charming to see those guys playing what are obviously a bunch of their favorite songs.

Thanks to everyone who came out and had a blast and enjoyed a free beer and some great music, whether or not you bought anything. Anybody who knows us knows we're not all about making "sales". We promote community with what we think are cool ideas and doing fun things around music which is a passion that we all share at Grimey's to a fault. If all we cared about was business, Grimey's would be a much less interesting record store to browse I guarantee you. We carry a ton of stuff that doesn't really sell but we want it to be available in a store in Nashville because that's what I would want. We're just trying to build the kind of store we would want to shop in.

The idea for the Walkmen covers set was from uber-Walkmen fan Luke Schneider (who played bass, btw). He roped all the other guys in and presented the idea to us and we actually turned down 2 other in-store requests from bands for that date because we knew this would be so much fun. We might have sold more "product" if the other bands had played and I don't care. We buy the beer we give out. It comes out of our pocket. We spend so much money on these types of things that I'm constantly arguing with my bookkeeper over it. Haters will hate but we'll keep on doing fun things and loving music and trying to make a difference in this town for those who share our passions.

If you guys only cared about business and making money you wouldn't have opened a record store, right? Call me crazy, but I don't think anybody tries their hand at record retail if all they're looking for is a quick ROI and fat stacks of green backs.

The irony is that 90% of what goes on at Grimey's Records is why most bands move to this city anyway. It is the central nervous system of the Nashville Music Scene. It seems those who are dissing this show are just jealous for attention. I say this only as a fan of Nashville and observer of Nashville music. Whether Doyle Davis and Mike Grimes are rich or not (and I'm sure they are not) they are famous. I've heard reports of people seeing Grimey's T-shirts on other continents... I don't think the same would could be said for Phonoluxe or the Great Escape. Bob Pollard shops there, Elvis Costello does record signings there, Connor Oberst does a show there (hey, he's famous).... and the list goes on. Maybe some of those who thought the Walkmen show was a bad idea should have come to check it out before saying something. I couldn't be there, but I bet it was a lot of fun, like most things Grimey's does... nothing more, nothing less. I can say without hesitation that it wasn't a lame cover show by lame dudes, it was an fan appreciation show. Most of those guys I am personal friends with, and they are big time fan. And had the Walkmen been in the area, they would have done it themselves, just like so many others.