My Pavement Wowee Zowee reissue finally came yesterday. Along with the limited edition 7" and poster. It’s gooo-oooood shit. The original album is still as great as I have always said, and the disc-and-a-half worth of bonus material is as loose, experimental, and weird as you might assume. Definitely a just buy, particularly if you love Wowee Zowee already or you’ve never heard it.
^hoping that is out in the UK…although finding the Slanted reissue is more of a priority for me.
I’m on Chips Ahoy! by The Hold Steady, per Grabs’ reccomendation…
Ryan Adams “Gold”
pretty good album
i imagine it would be better if i were drunk
i am currently totally absorbed by andrew bird. ESPECIALLY the mysterious production of the egg. you guys ever heard this shit?
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
Great song…seeing these guys when they come round here in Febuary…
^good call on a good track! I have been in love with this album for some time now. It is such a fun album.
However, I have a chance to see these guys twice and they were terrible both times. It is actually a very dissapointing experience. Particularly since I subjected myself to it twice. The songs are so dense and complex with two guitars, bass, and keyboard lines all dancing around each other. They cannot really pull it off live. That plus homey’s voice is actually worse in person. Oh well, not everybody can perform like our heroes in Phish.
How’s the live stuff that was for download? That’s the main reason I woulda had for gettin’ that Preorder, but I have dial up, so yeah…
^^ Yeah…I saw those guys on Conan a couple of months ago and it was really terrible…I was expecting something half-decent at least…but it was just so out of tune and such horrible singing…I really couldn’t watch the whole thing.
CYHSY?
I saw them on conan a while back too…
I didn’t dig it then. I heard the song later though and really dug it!
Hmm…I caught the last couple of songs of their set at Reading and they seemed alright! Maybe the Friedman produced tunes will fit the live arena better?
Other than this amazing show (11/27/92) I have been listening to a really good amount of country music. I’m making a 5 disc (at least) “Country Music” Compilation for this chick. I’ve got tons of nuggets out of my personal stash, and it is not all easily defineable as country, but it all has basically the same sound. It becomes really hypnotic actually after a few hours. That same solid backbeat and 1-2 rhythym is everpresent all throughout the compilation. I’ve listened to so much pedal steel guitar that I’m pretty sure I could just sit down and play one now.
The reason I’m making this compilation for this chick is kind of an interesting story. Basically, she wants to go to Ireland to live for a while because her brother is living there. She doesn’t make much money, as she just makes clothes out of raw wool and sells them, but she makes some really cool stuff…I digress. The point is, she doesn’t have money.
So her brother, who works in/manages a pub in Ireland is going to have a fundraiser night there for her to get some money. He wants the night to have a country/western feel, so he asked her to send him some Country music. She goes asking people if they can burn her some country music. Apparently a number of people started telling her that I’m the guy she has to talk to. So she calls me up and tells me that if I can make her some mixed country c.d.'s she’ll hook me up with a big bag of sweet B.C. bud.
What could I say? So that’s how we come to this.
There is no way I can post every song that I’m putting on this, as it would take forever. This is at least 5 straight hours of country and these songs don’t jam (with minimal exception), they are just good. Anyway here is a list of artists I have so far anyway.
Bill Monroe
Marty Robbins
Bob Dylan
Beau Brummles
Hank Williams
Allman Brothers
Neil Young
Manassas
Louvin Brothers
Pete Seeger
Gram Parsons
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Rolling Stones
Michael Nesmith
Area Code 615
Johnny Cash
Country Joe McDonald
Chet Atkins
The Byrds
Lovin Spoonful
Waylon Jennings
George Jones
Merle Haggard
Flying Burrito Brothers
Ween
Ryan Adams
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Replacements
Railroad Earth
Grateful Dead
Phish
String Cheese Incident
Emmylou Harris
Ringo Starr
Pure Prairie League
It’s all intermixed. You’ll have a Merle song next to a Ween song?(country album Ween obviously) next to a Dylan song, but it somehow works…but it is hypnotic…did I already say that? Anyway, I might have to sendspace this shit as I have worked hard on it…we’ll see what happens. I gotta get her her copy first. There are still a few more bands I might add, but the clock is ticking.
anyway, that’s what else I’ve been listening to
hey man, have you ever heard of the stanley brothers? they are the REAL DEAL as far as roots music goes.
also, toss some stuff by the band on there. maybe “evangeline”?
and since it’s ireland, you’ve gotta put some clancy brothers on there.
listening: “Right Off” by Miles Davies.
thanks Onebadsoulbrotha!
Hey Axilla, any interest in the new Plus 44 album coming out next week?
I was thinking about it…I don’t know. I hope it sounds more like early B182, but I don’t see that happening really…
Country music…
It’s all about the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
And right now, I’m listening to some Taj Mahal, self-titled. I love this guy.
^ Yeah Dirt Band! I wanted to include some, but my while Dirt Band collection is on vinyl and I just don’t have the time to digitize that.
^Is it difficult to convert vinyl to mp3 or wave format?
I have an old album of ym uncles kickass blues band and I’d like to convert it. My cousin (it would be his dad) can’t play it becuase he doesn’t have a record player.
Could I hook my laptop directly up to it somehow and use my Garageband…?
^ I don’t know about Mac’s…I’m pretty sure that’s how my buddy did it with his…Garageband…but I know it is not all that difficult. Great xmas gift for anyone with lots of vinyl, but no means of playing it.
The Dead
Bonnaroo 2004
Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzman, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, guy who plays keyboard for Ratdog
Golden.
Absolutely golden.
Tennessee Jed opener, we knew it was going to be alright.
Dark Star->Shine On You Crazy Diamond->Dark Star, amazing.
Mr Charlie is the easy highlight of the first set.
Drums->Space->Morning Dew. Unbeatable. Warren’s voice on Morning Dew are hard to beat. It fits the song perfectly.
from shnflac:
willbreathes
11/11/06
07:37:24
My last Bonnaroo after three.
The fungi was tearing my head up this night.
Went and watched Steve Winwood who was on just before this, and loved every single moment of it. THEN came The Storm, much like the Columbus '00 Phish monsoon, this thing seemed like it was never going to stop.
When the stage hands came out to cover up the drums, 80,000 people began to chant “rain or shine”, and it was quite a surreal moment, because I think the Heavens heard us as the storm had passed by us. Which was a good thing, because while I wasn’t completely bummin’, a few of my group were definitely ready to head to one of the tents.
So, the storm passes, and as soon as they took the covers off the drums, I can feel the wind change. And that damn cloud came right back over us. It rained for a bit more, but soon The Dead came out, and I was lovin’ it.
After this set I stumbled/climbed/crawled through the mud to get to Primus for some late-night psychedlia. And I was damn impressed for not seeing Primus (atleast the original line-up) in years.
Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring on stage together for this, can you go wrong?
edit- And I hope it came out great, listen to the crowd reaction to that opener. Reminded me of Phil & Friends at the first Bonnaroo.
Went to see Hornsby last Thursday at a local stop on his solo tour, just him and his piano. Wonderful show, a personal glimpse into what it must be like when he plays all by himself. His impromptu meanderings before, during, and after each of his standard songs was the part of a Bruce show that I aways enjoyed the most.
And the guy is just so comfortable on stage and happy to be performing for his audience, in this case, a sold out crowd. His “downhome” demeanor, from everything I’ve read about him, is as honest and enjoyable as the sound he creates from the piano. Even the moment he walked off the stage, when at the quiet start of one of his numbers, a cell phone rang out in the dim of the venue, was an honest expression of frustration at a moment he was trying to build for everyone. And yet he didn’t castigate the culprit. He just came back to the bench, sat down and shook his head before beginning the song again.
On top of a great evening’s music, the price of the ticket included a copy of his 4 CD and 1 DVD release, Intersections. It’s a wonderful compilation of Hornsby over the past ten years, with and without the scores of artists he’s performed with. I’m only through the first two CDs and it’s just great, especially if you’re a fan of a keyboard artiste.