Even though it’s almost as rare as a solar eclipse, Beck is known to play an amazing show when he comes to Milwaukee or Chicago. Amazingly, he finds a way to replicate some of his great samples – those catchy loops that are an essential part of what made his early records so terrific –but live, in concert.
Pabst Theater PR Director Sara Peronto and I consider ourselves Beck super fans, so before Beck plays the Riverside Theater tonight at 7 p.m. – his first visit to Milwaukee since 1997 – we scoured his samples to come up with our favorites. We agreed on these.
1."Beercan" – sampled from the Care Bears' "I Feel So Alone" (0:21)
2. "Hotwax" – sampled from Bernard Purdie’s "Song for Aretha" (0:00)
3. "Where It’s At" – sampled from Mantronix’s "Need to the Groove" (3:12)
4. "Sissyneck" – sampled from Dick Hyman’s "The Moog and Me" (0:00)
5. "Nicotine & Gravy" – sampled from Les Baxter’s "Hogin’ Machine" (0:40 and 1:07)
6. "Debra" – sampled from David Bowie’s "Win" (0:09)
7. "Get Real Paid" – sampled from Kraftwerk’s "Home Computer" (1:38)
8. "E-Pro" – sampled from the Beastie Boys’ "So What’cha Want" (0:09)
9. "Go It Alone" – sampled from Brethren’s "Outside Love" (0:02)
10. "Cellphone's Dead" – sampled from Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" (0:01)
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
