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    SOLID SOUND 2017

    in Just A Fan

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    If YHF wins the popular vote it is still possible for the Electoral College (the band) to pick Being There, right? They could also play YHF in its entirety over both nights, perhaps in 2-song increments.

     

    I was hoping for some YHF shows a few years back, around the time of its tenth anniversay when album shows were coming into vogue again. I also agree with those who posted that A Ghost Is Born would be great to hear as a whole.

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I wonder why Eddie did not get Pete Townshend to induct the band? I don't know if the other guys are Who freaks, but Eddie sure is.

     

    Well, Neil was the original pick, and he really had a huge impact on PJ, helping them out in the mid-90s when it seemed they might fall apart any moment. PJ were originally Stone and Jeff's band, but Eddie bore the brunt of celebrity (stalkers etc) and also seemed to be taking over control of the band musically as well.  I recently read an interview where one of the band members said that Neil taking PJ (minus Ed) on tour as his band for Mirrorball really helped remind them of their value as musicians. I don't know that Pete had that kind of mentor role across the board with the band. They'd also been doing Neil's Bridge School shows almost biannually since 1992, so Neil I'm sure had plenty of advice for them along the way as they found their ground.

    Share a Solid Sound Memory, Any Year

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    A couple more:

    After the Sunday show of SS '13, friends of mine asked me to join them for dinner. They didn't have a long drive home but I did. I went out anyway, and we went to a Mediterranean place down the street from the Mohawk Theater. The food was good, and we were entertained by the owner's daughter (8-ish years old?) who came by our table so often to dance or be silly with her kinda-shy friend. It was great to have a quiet, casual, relaxed meal after the hubbub of the event. I ended up leaving town around 9:15pm for a 3+ hour drive home. But I had the company of the rising supermoon bouncing off the back of the Berkshires on my way across Williamstown and Hancock and then on my way down Route 22 in NY. It was a perfect weekend of perfect summer-kickoff weather, and a great night to be driving down the countryside with the windows open and a tape of the covers show playing on the car stereo.

    (Unfortunately said restaurant was closed by 2015 =/   )

    SS '15 Sunday evening, having said goodbye to friends parting ways for distant places, I sat down in the lobby to decompress for a few minutes after a weekend of being rained on, long periods of standing by the front of the stage, arriving early for the book-signing, and just three days of scheduled music and events, finally a chance to relax with no where to be - I was staying over Sunday night this time. Anyway, as I sat down the most calming come-down music is playing in the lobby. I let my camera run in video mode as staffers came in and out of the front door, packing up boxes and breaking down display tables. The video (linked here) isn't much of  a video but the music is my lasting memory of that weekend - it seems to be a cover of Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams. If anyone recognizes the artist, please let me know!

    Favorite All-Time Musician

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Pete Townshend, even if all he did was write Quadrophenia. Throw in Who's Next, and thenTommy... Who comes up with such epic material in just a 3-4 year period?

     

    Los Lobos... I've been following those guys for a long time. Kinda forget they were so young and baby-faced with full heads of hair not that long ago. Or, shit, 1987 now is a long long time ago. So glad they are still at it, and cranking out new music from time to time. One Time One Night is one of the all-time best songs ever. Will the Wolf Survive is another great one.

    Wilco- March 19, 2017 Beacon Theater, NYC (night 2 of 4)

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Great show, I would enjoy hearing this setlist again. Interesting to hear CA Stars mid-set, and Misunderstood back in the early portion again. After Reservations>Impossible Germany>CA Stars I half-expected Jeff to say "Thanks, good night!"... .There was a mix of audience standing/sitting for the first 2 or 3 songs, then after that it was pretty much all standing, at least what I could see on the floor. Jeff seemed to be digging on the audience for the sitting/standing issue, which perhaps was a problem the other nights but didn't seem deserved this night.... Getting into the venue was smooth, no long lines tonight, and merch table before and after the show was fine. Poster was nice.

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    The Hall's rules seem arbitrarily applied. It is weird that neither drummer from Vs through Yield, the era of the band's ascendancy to rock stardom, is inducted with the band. PJ are certainly at a new level of rock celebrity now but as a live band, as their studio output hasn't been as great since the 1990s. Very good, but not as great. They could get into the hall on the first three albums alone, if a case could be made for the inclusion of Dave A who drummed on two of those records. They wouldn't get in just on any three albums with Matt Cameron. Matt certainly deserves to be in there for his service as their longest-tenured drummer, but there's room for the other guys too.

    Great "Train" Songs

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Please Hold On While the Train is Moving - Old 97s

    Old Familiar Steam - Old 97s
    I'm a Trainwreck - Old 97s

    Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
    Runaway Train - Adam's House Cat (proto-Drive By Truckers)
    Monkey and the Engineer - On the Grateful Dead covers list, but I wanted to single it out as one of my favorites
    Down - perhaps the closest thing to a Pearl Jam train song, which borrows the line "You can't be neutral on a moving train" from Howard Zinn

     

    End of the Line - Travelling Wilbury's. Does that count? I think of "end of the line" as a "train expression."
     

     

    Also, Freight Train by Sister Double Happiness (covered often by Kraig Johnson)

    Orig. version
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgQ_6m6OCHA
     

    Interesting write-up on that song.

    SOLID SOUND 2017

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Yeah, event bright? Was I buying tickets or was it just telling everyone on facebook I'm going? LOL. Entering gender/birthdate/age for buying tix? That was new. I wonder if the will-call option is just the wrist-band or if they will indeed provide an actual hard-copy ticket. 

    What took you so long! Classic albums you just discovered

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Well, I've been listening to Temple of the Dog non-stop since I saw them last month. I had a copy on tape back in the day, but only liked 2 or 3 songs. Never got into Soundgarden/Cornell. But now I'm all over this one. It commonly takes seeing a band live for me to really dig their latest album, but that's usually not long after the record comes out, a few months maybe, not 25 years later, LOL.

    A more realistic example would be Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, generally regarded as Mark Lanegan's finest solo album, and probably better than anything by Screaming Trees. Back in the mid-late 1990s I was really into the Winding Sheet and Scraps at Midnight, but for some reason Whiskey didn't click for me the first time I heard it. I put it away and then played it again like 8 or 10 months later, and then the switch was flipped.

    Wilco in 2017

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I have been having firefox issues overall for the last week or so. Runs sluggish at work, and seems to have some kind of complete java incompatibility issue at home, rendering certain buttons and videos on websites totally inoperable. To the point I had to download and install chrome if I want to buy something. I've heard from other people with similar issues, basically that "firefox is bloated" now and no longer such a reliable browser.

    Took me ~15-20 mins, but I scored rear orchestra for Sun & Weds. at Beacon Theater. I'm cool with that, especially as orchestra was less expensive than loge, go figure.  I don't know the Beacon though, only ever been once - does the loge overhang the orchestra really far?

     

    Strangely I found that Safari worked a lot faster than Firefox. Firefox didn't seem to do the extra level of anti-bot measures (no picture selection screen) but took considerably longer pulling tickets.

     

    Seemed like there were still decent pairs of seats popping up 15-20 minutes in, so hopefully everyone on the board got something. I won't be able to make all 4 shows, but a long run makes things easier for everyone. Beacon plus Solid Sound is making 2017 seem like an embarrassment of Wilco riches.

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