dannygutters

time has not been friendly to steve earle

No 2 was hilarious.

Some more jeff photos are up on the festival website.

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

Sounds like a good weekend, I've loved to see Gillian and Hazel. And the New Lost City ramblers are little old men these days.

i'd say bitter more than actively pissed...

 

anyway..Visions of Johanna is the best song ever written, so I'd still go with Blonde on Blonde.

I'd say Self Portrait is his angriest album. In terms of I'll do-what-I-want-ness.

If you want to criticize Pitchfork for being elitist hipsters, this is not the example to use. This collection is a pathetic cash grab. If Columbia wants to release it, people have every right to criticize it for being inessential. If a different outlet had printed the same review, I am willing to bet you wouldn't be accusing them of being hipsters who think they are smarter than the rest of us.

another outlet wouldn't have written it in such a flippiant way and if they did they would get the same.

I didn't really like it, too much of it seemed self referential. But hey give it a listen i guess, he does some woody stuff.

I don't get what the hearings are going to accomplish tho. The whole point of hiring mercenaries is sidestepping accountability. It seems they are looking for a way to take the moral high ground while still writing checks. If they want them accountable have them join the army.

dylan is the columbia cash cow and they milk it rightly. They have this stuff for the casual dad fan and the bootleg series for the deeper cuts. The review doesn't get any points for pointing out this obviousness. What did bruce mccullah say in that kids in the hall sketch? "Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls!"

the comment about dylan's carrear arc in the review was definatly a hipster cred statement. Too many pitchfork reviews seem to try to hard to point out that the reviewer is smarter than anyone who would have the nerve to enjoy said record.

that being said, I agree it doesn't need to exist.

Get an old turntable, get it fixed right at your local hi fi repair place and enjoy them while they still exist. Just stop playing them with quarters (or even pennys)

LouieB

Hey Louie where would you reccomend for repairs in chicago?

Or you could think of it as moving the head of the fretboard, then you only have to learn your hot licks in a key such as G then when john hartford walks in and wants to play cripple creek in Bb you can just capo up Three frets and play your hot licks with G shapes while sounding B flat. G + 3 semitones = b flat.

oooh we're trashing DYLAN, we're so edgy. Hey we gave the dan deacon album an 8.7 even though we know in our heart of hearts it is uninspired hipster bullshit. We realize 'indy' has disolved into self deprecative whining, cheap panache and all the style over substance of the worst of 80s "music", Please help keep up the madness by not noticing.

-PFork

I dunno about Peter, but Nathan's beard is groady. I'm disappointed that Grandma Patrelli and Mr. Nakemura died before we got to see what their powers were (unless i'm forgetting). Did they have powers like linderman or were they more like claire's dad?

quarters can put too much weight on a record and bore a hole through it! (not really)

This is my concern. I tend to use the quarter for the records I have that skip on their own (espessially my live at the old quarter, boo). Is this a real concern or is it more snakeoil. Tho I have a pretty cheapo sony turntable, I'm sure the stylus is not weighted well.

what's wrong with the quarter on the arm?

It'll always be Burma to me

I like the song...

That's what I thought at first, the plank road folk scociety is out there too as well as the fox valley festival and livFest folk festivals, so there's probably a bit more demand for it from the elderly. But comon, why can't we show it at an old town event or something.

Really I think it's a money thing, I assume the film will make the rounds and either be distributed in a larger way or go to dvd. I may try to get out there this weekend tho.

Then again, maybe pete's still blacklisted from showing in chicago theaters.

Has anyone seen this documentary? It looks like it's only playing in a few theaters right now. The closest in chicago is in highland park. I've heard good things, and pete is the man.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/film...et.asp?id=61665

Try Via Carducci sometime and you'll never walk into an Olive Garden again. (That's just the one really good Italian place I know in Chicago ... there are probably better ones.)

 

You can make better breadsticks at home.

Rosebud on roosevelt! Is there even an olive garden in the city?

Fave Jeff quote of the night - after he prefaced the encore saying this next batch of songs is going to be early wilco, from about 95-96; he added "This is not late model Wilco!" HAHAHA!!!

Actually I think he said he wanted to get us "into a late model Wilco" like it was a car from the mid 90s he was trying to sell. Hilarious.

On a side note, we had some awesome seats, they told us they were 'obstructed view' pavillion so they were only $25 instead of 50, turns out they were dead center right behind that metal square thing in the middle of the pavillion, not obstructed at all. What a great show.

I just realized I own a lot of brown shoes..

Neko Case - Buckets Of Rain

Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel

Ed Holstein - If You Gotta Go, Go Now

Townes Van Zandt - Man Gave Names to All the Animals, "Rambling, Gambing Willie"

Move to chicago and hang out in the old town school lobby.

hmm I dunno I'll probably need to call them, I don't think I saved the newsletter.

Also, I've heard that Frank Hamilton (one of the performers at this show and founding member of the Old Town School) will be teaching a few workshops in the days leading up to the show. They will be posted on the old town class schedule if they aren't already.

what is the presale word?