Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner performs a solo set at Urban Simple Life Festival tomorrow, and he promises to include the hits that propelled his band into the pop mainstream. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/12/03/2003489984/1 _______________________________________________________________________ The lineup at this weekend's Urban Simple Life festival (簡單生活節) is filled with Taiwan's pop elite and indie rock darlings, but there are a few surprises on the bill, such as Dave Pirner, front man of the American rock band Soul Asylum. Pirner will be certain to rekindle a few rock radio memories during his solo acoustic set tomorrow afternoon. Soul Asylum, which started out in Minneapolis in the early 1980s playing a hybrid of punk and grungy hard rock, hit the peak of its popularity in the early 1990s with Grave Dancers Union. The multi-million selling album propelled the band into the pop mainstream with instantly recognizable hits like Without a Trace and Runaway Train. Fame bothered Pirner at the time. It's big as the band was getting, I stopped playing the hits. And it was just to be difficult. It was just to be punk rock,鐠he told the Taipei Times in a telephone interview earlier this week. With self-deprecating humor, sarcasm and plenty of expletives and laughs, Pirner, 46, came across as philosophical about his past. He also raved about his home of the past 12 years, New Orleans, which he describes as 濯ike Mecca鐠because of its firmly rooted music scene. He rambled a little about his fascination with second line,鐠the traditional street parades led by New Orleans brass bands, but was more plainspoken and blunt about Soul Asylum's success in the 1990s. It's kind of a shitstorm,鐠Pirner said when reminiscing about the photo shoots and meetings with record executives that occupied the band's time when Grave Dancers was released. I think back and I think, wow, it was chaos. It was really running ragged just to get from one appointment to the next, so that you didn急 really have time to sit around and pat yourself on the back. So I understand that people think there is a lot of debauchery and decadence and success in the music industry. It's just not the way you think it is,鐠he said. there're plenty of Spinal Tap moments, to make a long story short.鐊 Pirner says Soul Asylum is close to finishing its latest album, due out sometime next year, which is a follow-up to the band's 2006 release The Silver Lining. That album wasn's as big of a commercial success and included the last work by the band's founding bassist Karl Mueller, who died of throat cancer in 2005. But the recording received a favorable response from fans and critics, and Pirner says the band came away with the 断erfect鐠drummer, former Prince backing musician Michael Bland. Taking over bass duties was fellow Minneapolis legend Tommy Stinson, formerly of the Replacements, who also plays for Guns N鈠Roses. Given his top-notch band and its electric guitar-driven sound, Pirner says that solo shows, such as tomorrow旧, can be daunting. It旧 a situation where I have to be really good. There旧 no props, there旧 no wall of noise 霠[in terms of difficulty] it旧 the closest thing to stand-up comedy, besides stand-up comedy,鐠he said. And it旧 also really challenging and sort of terrifying in a way that I can急 resist the challenge 霠sort of a love/hate thing, but I know it旧 a necessary thing for me to be able to do. If these songs don急 stand up by themselves without all the noise, they虐e shitty songs,鐠he said. As for tunes such as Runaway Train, Pirner says he no longer resists playing them. Nowadays, I don急 care. I観 not going all the way over to ... Taiwan to make a punk rock statement,鐠he said with a laugh. 戦挙e now pretty much subscribed to the traditional cliche of 褜eople drive a long way and they spend a lot of their hard-earned money and they come to see you play a fuckin鈠song and you might as well just play it for 蟇m.銔 Other international artists at Urban Simple Life include Velvet Underground cofounder John Cale, who also performs tomorrow, and Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova star Lisa Ono, who appears on Sunday. Visit the festival旧 Web site, simplelife.streetvoice.com, for a full schedule of events. PERFORMANCE NOTES: _______________________________________________________________________ What: Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum, live at 2010 Urban Simple Festival (2010簡單生活節) Where: Huashan 1914 Creative Park (??1914), 1, Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei City When: Tomorrow at 3:50pm Admission: NT$1,200 for a single-day pass at the door (NT$900 for single-day pass or NT$1,600 for two-day pass when purchased in advance). Tickets available through 7-Eleven ibon kiosks, at Books ticketing outlets or online at www.tickets.books.com.tw On the NET:simplelife.streetvoice.com -- --

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