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Ahhh...Remember the good old days when this was a small intimate event, with room to move and stretch out??  Those were the days.

Now get off my lawn!!

Low news.

http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/06/the-audacity-of-low-what-does-a-band-owe-us-when-we-pay-to-see-them-perform/

I wish more bands would do more of this kind of thing at festivals. Get a little out of the box.  Granted, less than a half hour of playing in a 45 minute slot might get my ire up. 

So far, Demons is the standout.

I really liked the direction High Violet was going, so I was hoping this to be a bit more, well, dynamic.  Trouble sounds so even...

I'll often play a new album back to back to back, kind of always on, and wait for a song or two to really stand out. Trouble is starting again before it's caught my attention.

The songs I've sat down and bored into reveal tremendous lyrics, bringing them to life

This is just a few days with the album. It'll be a grower I'm sure.

Monomania is streaming on NPR.org

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/21/177759938/first-listen-deerhunter-monomania?sc=tw&cc=twmp%3C/a%3E

Interesting the pricing of this tour. The $$ varies widely from show to show.  And the variety of venues too, from sheds to ball parks.  I'll be hitting the Bridgeport show, and it's all general admission for $68!

This isn't a rumor, just a fact: Jim James just announced a Calvin Theater (northampton) date on 6/21.  Maybe we'll see his mane strolling through the joy that is MassMOCA. Maybe we'll see him on a stage there. 

Now a Thursday night Northampton show would have made the weekend (more) perfect. But he'll be in portland that night...

Are they taking requests yet?  If so, anyone know how?

Low's new album is now streaming on NPR:  http://www.npr.org/2013/03/10/173452523/first-listen-low-the-invisible-way

Ahem, getting back to the thread subject...

Low's new album is now streaming on NPR:  http://www.npr.org/2013/03/10/173452523/first-listen-low-the-invisible-way

Please, please, no one request Heavy Metal Drummer, please!

Here's yesterday's NPR peice on The Relatives.

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/02/173079733/by-a-record-collectors-curiosity-the-relatives-return

I pulled the program from SS2.  Everyone except Wilco got either 45 minutes or an hour.

Joe's Field was used on Sunday too:  SS1 for solo Tweedy, and SS2 for Levon Helm.  

I'm assuming MMW will be closing out the fest on the Field!

At both SS, beer was $5 (a reasonable price).  The first year they served Magic Hat, and the second year they served Goose Island.  Lagunitas was available at the bar, but they ran out early.   They could certainly do better in the beer department...

MMW is playing Friday (so says their website).

Correction from a friend: 

The  SS organizer/promoter was just on WRSI talking at length.  MMW will close out the w/e with no Wilco or Tweedy solo on that day.

LOVED this show. Great flow. Hadn't looked at setlists this tour, and was pleasantly surprised by the little adjustments they've made. Either Way, my first Kamera, PoorPlaces>Art of Almost, a sublime Airline to Heaven. And finally, a show without Jesus etc!!! Great beer, great friends, plenty of room to move around, a little rain, and beautiful drive out and back to NH.

Right, and there wasn't any recycling for the beer cans you weren't allowed to bring into the camping area and for the beer bottles they asked you not to tailgate with in the parking lot. It must be Ommegang's fault that people threw their trash on the ground and didn't pack out their empties!? Pack it in - pack it out friend. Infrastructure shouldn't have to make up for a lack of personal responsibility.

ahhh....good point about Irene. Still, August is drier than June in New England.

For the love of God, move it back to August. Haven't they heard....It RAINS in June!

A Shot In The Arm was blasting out of my new downstairs neighbor apt as he moved in last weekend. Clearly a nice addition to the building.

No doubt...they're still selling out arenas after 35 years. I've seen every rush tour since GUP, and they are as good a live band now, perhaps better, as they've ever been. The documentary 'beyond a lighted stage' is a great look at this trio of silly, fun-loving old friends.

Is this the first mention of RUSH fandom from Tweedy, or is this 'common' knowledge? I hadn't heard it before, and it warms my nerdish rush-loving heart.

The Celestial Septet (ROVA Saxophone Quartet and the Nels Cline Singers)

February 25, 2011

Institute for Contemporary Art - Boston, Mass

The glass venue and the blowing snow made for an one-of-a-kind (perhaps once-in-a-lifetime) spacescape backdrop to the performance. Two sides of the room are 50-foot walls of glass overlooking Boston Harbor. The rain changed over to howling and sideways blowing snow early in the set, creating the sense of hurtling through space. The occasional ship passing by completed the illusion.

Transportive out-jazz, described as a blending of composition and improvisation. There was scarcely a groove to be heard, favoring layered soundscapes and moods. There was no obvious band leader, rather all took turns as musical director, with their near-arcane hand gestures marking position and direction.

The snow peaked during Nels' onslaught crescendo in the set-closing 'Who's to Know', a searing half-hour journey of multiple emotive states, personal expression, building and releasing tensions, and rising and dissolving harmonies.

ROVA should have been reason enough, but their pairing with Nels Cline got me down from NH in a snowstorm for this show. Wonderful to see him work his manic pedal magic with both hands and feet, jerkily and obsessively adjusting his sound while playing lightening-fast runs. Drummer Scott Amendola too displayed a mastery over his own electronics, looping toms and static and beeps and bleeps, most satisfying in the show closer, Nels' composition 'The Buried Quilt', when all left the stage save for Amendola whose sci-fi meets Sun Ra electronica was met with echoes from the quartet from the top and back of the room, slowly descending the stairs and coalescing on stage in some sort of alien communication and eventual realization of a common language, ending in a final free-jazz blowout.

A woman approached me at setbreak with her program in her hand and a quizzical look on her face. An obvious fan of chorale, she wondered, 'Where are the singers? Will they be out for the second set?' She was crestfallen to learn that the Nels Cline Singers were a purely instrumental trio.

In pvd, tweedy, after the first introductory chords of casino queen, with no audience response, asked 'doesn't anybody know this song?' At least one person did. I f*ckin let him know I knew it.

Thank You Friends - Big Star

Thank you, friends

Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you

I'm so grateful for all the things you helped me do.

All the ladies and gentlemen

Who made this all so probable

Thank you, friends

I rejoice to the skies

Dear ones like you do the best I do

As far as can see my eyes

All the ladies and gentlemen

Who made this all so probable

Without my friends I got chaos

I'm often a bead of light.

Without my friends I'd be swept up high by the wind

do, do.......

All the ladies and gentlemen (I said all)

All the ladies and gentlemen (I said all)

All the ladies and gentlemen

Who made this all so probable

Thank you friends (thank you again)

Thank you friends (thank you again)

Dear, dear friends (thank you again)

Thank you friends (thank you again)

And again, and again....

Never too late to start

sarahC.

I LOVE that photo. sepia rules. pat has moves and poses that rise to the medium CLASSIC photo

this was better acoustic-like on sunday