LouieB

I like Lucky Town, but I like Tunnel of Love more, but really they are both reasonably good, if not classics. I think The Rising was good in the wake of 9/11, but there is little on it I would listen to now. Meanwhile I degrooved (literally) my copies of Bruce's first four albums. LouieB

Wow, I missed that this person didn't listen to Born to Run. One of the great albums of all time from anyone. Don't miss that. Repeating myself and everyone...Nebraska....also one of the great albums ever. LouieB

Not to be contrary for the heck of it, but all three of these records are subpar conpared to the others we mentioned. Only once you love the other stuff, maybe you could like these three. I think Devils and Dust and Tom Joad are mostly boring and The Rising is of its time and has some good songs. The one exceptional song on Tom Joad is Youngstown, but then again I am from Ohio originally. LouieB

Definitely Nebraska....Tunnel of Love is a good one too. LouieB

TV is the only way I have seen him too. Frat boys kind of come with the honky tonk type scene at this point I would bet. I think you will have a good time anyway. Have some beers, get some beer goggles going and it will all be about equal....for them too..... (Strangely I think his song...the Road Goes on Forever is done better by Joe Ely...) LouieB

There you go... LouieB

And we are of the same generation..(and Robert Earl's)..when did you sneak in here? It is worth checking out if you live somewhere with limited entertainment options. I am not dissing Robert Earl Keen by saying this. He is part of the whole Austin honky tonk scene, including Willie Nelson and all the rest. His songs are covered by others and he oovers other songs. He certainly has cranked out the albums over the years. I am sure he will talk a whole lot and play a bit less. Either way you can be sure he has plenty of rabid fans, but then again I have no idea where you live so maybe not

Exactly...Dylan was trying a bit too hard....(or maybe those were the drugs...) LouieB

I have not seen him in person but also have several of his CDs. he is a very good songwriter, but old school in that respect. If you don't like old style Texas singer/songwriters, then pass him up, otherwise he is pretty good. (Not as good as either Guy Clark or Townes Van Zandt, but I still bet he is fun to see....more like Jerry Jeff Walker I suppose.) I also find his albums to be only so so, but some of the songs are quite good. (I know that sounds like a contradiction...) LouieB

That's a good one..brought to us by John Ciba... Engaging in some nostalgia.... Poco...a long forgotten band....on LP. I am working at home today so I can dig this stuff out of the piles of LPs I have picked up and never listened to. LouieB

I don't know what the CDs sound like because I have only listened to the original vinyl copies. I love being old. They sounded perfectly fine to me. Darkness is one of my all time favorite albums. Just like lots of material from the 60s and 70s, I find I have little desire to listen to those things anymore. Not because I don't like the material, I just listened to it like crazy over the years. They spoke to me then and they might not now. I don't know. I would not consider getting the deluxe set of Born to Run for the same reason, but the extra material from these sessions does hold some

Wow, that's weird. I gotta get that too.... LouieB

Fred Neil....reissue of Bleeker and MacDougal... LouieB

I have had this for awhile, bought new on LP and it sounds incredible. LouieB

Heads up for all those of the Jewish persuasion...Chanukah starts early this year....December 1 is the first night. LouieB

John Fahey.... LouieB

I donno...I grew up with those early Bruce records and they sounded fine to me. I am actually excited about the extra material from Darkness. I had not read much about this until this weekend, when there was a good article in the NY Times on it. LouieB

This has little to do with this thread other than I caught up with some of Jay's recent work lately. I bought copies of Gob Iron and One Fast Move. Both are actually pretty good, with the nod going to the Kerouac disk. Some of the material on Gob Iron is lackluster, but pleasant. One Fast Move actually has some bite. Both of these disks don't stray far from Jay's basic MO, but working with other people at least help change up these records a bit. LouieB

...and original mono LP found at a resale shop...not bad for a buck. LouieB

Together Through Life really sorta sucked. I bought a used LP of it the other day and my son and I started listening to it and even he also thought it sucks. I am all in favor of Bob keeping on keeping on as long as he puts a bit more thought into new material. Meanwhile there are numerous masterpieces on Whitmark. And there are some songs which have not been widely covered which well could be. The Christmas album is a total hoot and relatively listenable, if mostly for a laugh. LouieB

Low were terrible, which was a shame. Deerhoof was terrible also, also a shame. My vote for the best two opening acts...Andrew Bird and Califone. Great opening act that sounded horrible due to bad sound...Nora O'Connor at the Rave. Loudest opener ever...Rosehill Drive in Ashville. LouieB

CHIRP radio...Chicago Independent Radio Project. LouieB

I was fortunate enough to see John Cage give a talk at Northwestern many years ago. He as very engaging and interesting. I have a second version of music for prepared piano I have never played..guess I need to dig that out. As long as MF more or less told the audiance what it was doing then the reaction certainly part of the peice. Fun idea. LouieB

Did they actually announce that they were "performing" the piece or did they just leave the audiance wondering?? Performing this piece is a pretty cool thinhg if you at least give the audience a slight heads up by sitting in front of your intruments, etc. The ambiant noise is what the piece is about including the audiences reaction. A few months back there was a great article in the New Yorker about John Cage. I can't remember why this was, maybe there is a new bio out or something. LoueiB

Hmm...i didn't notice. Good call. The quality makes up for the lack of a missing take or two for sure. I bet there are other alt takes, but you may know better than I do. Dylan should skip putting out new records and just keep finding stuff from the vaults. There is a ton of stuff from this period that has not yet been released. LouieB