lost highway

I run a part time studio. I use my computer to record on. Right around the same time my roomate got the new fangled Mac (G5 at the time I think.....) my neighbor helped me build a computer. He did have a tower to give me, but other than that we ordered parts off of some website. My three hundred dollar computer has the same specs as my roomies which I think was around two grand. I can change/upgrade my pc with cheap parts myself and not void the warranty cause there is none. Mac makes great stuff. It costs a great amount. PC is the classic American example of DIY. At work I use Mac,

Why did they put in that lame disco beat on Part 2. That song seems like it's going to be the grand gesture of the album with its cool synth intro and eight minute build-song format, but those disco drums are so freakin 'The Killers' it's nauseating. And I love that drummer, he's part muppet too.

I think one of the most creatively damaging mythologies in American culture is that Poems and Songs are cloud like wisps that drift in from unknown places. Like a table they have architecture. Whether you understand it in terms, or in an intuitive sense these things have nuts and bolts. When you work with them you can feel them, rearrange them, construct them. Their logic is not at odds with their emotion. People who pedal that crap are just anti-intellectual.

From the Roots: Kids call theyself killers let they hammers do the talkin Don't even know the meaning of life, ain't seen a thing and you dream of floodin the scenery with, llello and greenery But for now, you stickin her with the heavy machinery Wonder how, you lift it up, be only 17 And like e'rybody he wanna shine, young brothers on the grind Holdin somethin in they spine, "Bowling for Columbine" Stressin to me how it's all about a dollar sign Dig the way you out of line, out of sight and out of mind Up against the clock and damn near out of time "The Tipping Point" has arrived, and that'

What line up was that. I definitely saw Mikael, but was it Leroy on the other side?

Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kwali 99ish(?)). Best hip hop album ever. I love it . Every year I get addicted to it for a month. Just checked out the Blue Scholars. Also awesome. Philipino MC from Seattle rapping about the Reagan administration with a guy holding a music degree on the turn tables spinning jazzy keys and big beats. Hell yeah.

Well there are a few on the website that are not sold out, which is a rarity these days. But....being a Coloradoan myself, I know the cultural meccas of Grand Junction and Colorado Springs might be a little slower moving in the rock and roll world than Denver. But, I'm driving through the snowy Rockies to see them in GJ so I can assume someone else is.

Yeah it said the band was recording. The band. Recording. For a record. I think.....

The band.....mini-hiatus.....to record. Can I get a hell yeah?

Favorite Fairport Conv. albums? I will go on record with a strong lean towards Unhalfbricking. Still haven't heard the one named something like 'On Our Summer Holiday'. Lieg and Lief is good but Unhalfbricking seems to be the masterpiece.

Yeah I got a Fulltone Fulldrive 2 with my tax return. Easiest time of year to spen 180 bucks on a metal box with buttons.

I've got one. But I've also got two or three other overdrive/boost/fuzz pedals. It is very distinctinve. Not so much a chord pedal, works better with single notes and leads. But you can actually turn off the part of the effect that makes it so freaky and its a pretty warm overdrive. How to explain......its like a really gnarly fuzz where you hear high harmonics on top, but when you hold a note the high harmonics change making this sweeping tone over the sustaining fundamental of the note. Or in other words it goes "Byuuuggge, byuuuuge!" Very psychdelic Nuggets type of lead tone. If y

Interesting......... I guess that's true about Z it does kind of lose its thread. Maybe those guys just have a different sense of symmetry. Oceanman-your love for Ween puts your love for Evil Urges in a new light. I get why you get it. The other thing I love is that we still have bands that are important enough to so many people that any new release causes such passionate conversation. That's why I feel extra impatient for the follow up to SBS.

Oh I have it then. Now I want to find the Denny version and compare. Ah, the dorky ways I get through my day.

You are after all the Analogman. I don't think I remember Dead Landlord. Have to look through my records.

Wait what? What leaked?

Thats actually a Leonard Cohen song. You should check out the original it's equally awesome. Yeah, I don't like Fairport Convention without Sandy Denny except maybe the S/T. 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?' has got to be so classic its a freaking standard. Great voice. I need to check out the Fortheringay album. Good call Analogman.

Yeah those guys operate under total secrecy sometimes (re-new DVD?). They (probably wisely) don't talk about an album much until they know it is done. And the members are all prolific in other projects so recording can mean alot of things. But it could mean new Wilco.........

One of the most helpful things for me happens away from the instrument. (This works better with a whole band) I like to think of sounds when I'm driving or walking. Sounds of certain songs that I really like, that have a unique approach. I then mimic this idea or approach. Not melody or chord progression just general arrangement style/dynamic/tempo. So if I am really feeling "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" I don't learn it. Instead I write a song in a minor key with arpeggios from one guitar and fuzzy leads from another. Keep it slower tempo with some heavy downbeats from the drums. U

This is where we conceed that what we are arguing is so subjective that argument is a little funny.......and then continue anyways because we like talking about the band- 1) I've heard all the re-released demos etc. and they have never done anything quite like "Highly Suspcious" 2) Any argument that demands hearing obscure parts of an artists catalog to appreciate a new LP is 'highly suspicious'. 3) Even if you're sold on all of the songwriting on Evil Urges, do you really think it has as solid of a unity and flow as Z or It Still Moves? 4) The Muppet Show rules (maybe thats why Jim se

I've had more time with it (and I need to hear it at least 3 more before I know) and I think it's a mixed bag. I think the title track is fairly on cue with their 'new direction' and does so in an excellent way. 'Highly Suspicious' is a total throwaway. Some of the ballads don't seem like a step forward at all, which is fine, but they don't hit me as strong as the older ones. He also started employing a singing voice that is much more Dylan Nashville Skyline era, which is weird, because I already thought James had that tendency. Now it's just more. The closing track seems really interes

I like the fact that they mentioned recording.

Anyone not really loving this album right now. At first glance I think it is pretty poor.......but it is also a shocker.

Was Sam Jones filming several days in Chicago in a row evidence enough? I don't trust anything until there's at least some gossip. Gossip----someone's got some.

Seriously. Someone who knows these guys on here has to at least know if they got a look at Canty's footage and plan to do anything with it. Bueller?