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    Concert Marathons...most you have seen in short amount of time?

    in Someone Else's Song

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    the all-timer for me was Yes at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City on a Thursday night ... got home at like 5 a.m. ... went to school ... left school and went straight to the train station and into NYC for the Schaefer Music Festival Starcastle / Gentle Giant gig that started at 5 o'clock in Central Park

     

    did three shows in three nights last spring ... and all three shows were in different states

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

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    Great show in Philly last night. Wish I'd gone to more than one show on the tour.

     

    was indeed mind-blowing

     

    i thought on a different level than the 9:30 club show a couple weeks ago

     

    one of the best rock shows i've ever seen

     

    this band is a fucking powerhouse and they just blast out hit after fucking hit

     

    closer you are. motor away. echoes myron. game of pricks. unleashed: large-hearted boy. my impression now. exit flagger. shocker in gloomtown. i am a scientist. tractor rape chain. smothered in hugs.

     

    one after another

     

    they just keep coming at you like a fucking bulldozer

     

    i still prefer gillard-era GBV for the sheer variety of stuff you got at the live shows, but this was just two hours of rock 'n' roll sledgehammer

     

    loved it

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The Atlanta show was amazing. As I said before, I would've liked a couple more tunes from Under the Bushes...and I thought there'd be more since they opened with Cut Out Witch, but it wasn't to be.

     

     

    couldn't agree more

     

    if i remember in washington, they did cut-out witch, bright paper werewolves and don't stop now? and that's it? from under the bushes?

     

    how cool would have underwater explosions been. or official ironmen rally song, man called aerodynamics, lord of overstock, rhine jive click -- damn, any of 'em

     

    something off the beaten track would have been great but no complaints, it was a really good show

     

    hey, am i delusional or did cut-out witch not have the guitar intro?

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

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    was at the D.C. show last night

     

    they sounded great. was a hell of a lot of fun. loved every minute of it

     

    that said ... on the way home i was thinking that as much as I love that lineup & those records, I think I prefer late-period GBV when it comes to live shows for two reasons -- first, those shows were always so unpredictable. you would get 10 songs in a row from 10 different bands or lineups -- Storm Vibrations, then Subspace Biogrpahies, Time Machines, Liar's Tale, Little Lines, Stifled Man Casino, Run Son Run, Pricks, Chasing Heather Crazy. I loved that about late-period GBV. The versatility was staggering. And then Gillard's musicianship really took GBV to another level there the last several years. They were such a musical band.

     

    And I also think last night was slightly too much of a nostalgia act for me. I just love hearing new stuff by any band I see mixed in with the old stuff. An evening of entirely old stuff was a little depressing. As much as I think Bob's recent stuff is very uneven, the Boston Spaceships shows were fantastic because the material was so new and vibrant. Found myself listening to 0 to 99 on the way home and totally digging it.

     

    I would have liked to have seen a few tracks that were from that era but not so right down the middle. I mean, I LOVE every one of the songs they did. But something off the beaten path would have been cool, either from Vampire (although Tobin did do Gleemer, which was amazing) or one of the early records ... imagine this bunch of guys doing Captain's Dead? or Navigating Flood Regions? Mammoth Cave?

     

    But it was a great show & great to see those guys on stage together after so long.

     

    And Sweet Apple ROCKED

    Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame

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    We recorded 4 songs this summer at our friend Brian McTear's studio in Philadelphia

     

    great little studio

     

    Brian has picked up where Adam Lasus left off when he moved to California and recorded some amazing (mainly Philly) bands

     

    The Lilys

    Bardo Pond

    The Trolleyvox

    Bigger Lovers

    Capitol Years

    A Sides

    Danielson

    Matt Pond PA

    Mazarin

    Trouble with Sweeney

     

    rock 'n' roll

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Cubehouse is good. I've listened to it about 3-4 times now...I don't think it's as good as Planets or Zero to 99, but I have to give it time there are a few cool tracks: "Airwaves" is very T-Rex-ish; "Fly Away" has a great GBV sound; "Come on Baby Grace" is a great little rocker.

     

    Overall, it's good and better than his solo output by a mile in my book.

     

    i haven't heard cubehouse yet. need to pick it up, but really haven't heard anything overwhelmingly positive about it, other than from the kool-aid drinkers on DTS who say everything is great because they think it will make bob their friend

     

    zero to 99 is great. planets is pretty good.

     

    the solo stuff? the last three (elephant jokes, we all got out of the army and moses on a snail) are just brutal.

     

    the last great solo record was FaCE - although i dig a lot of normal happiness - and the last even decent one was crawling distance.

     

    IMHO

    "What a Fool Believes" cover

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Are/were you a fan of Pianosaurus?

     

    god bless you, dennis boyd

     

    not only did p'saurus play toy instruments, alex garvin wrote some of the finest pop songs i've ever heard

     

    fuck this guy and his doobie brothers garbage

     

    pianosaurus is one of the greatest bands ever

     

    i was lucky enough to see them in NY once opening for dumptruck and love tractor and they just blew everybody away. they rocked the damn place

     

    the record, groovy neighborhood (produced by peter holsapple) is an absolute masterpiece

    The first songs that come up when you hit "Random"

    in Someone Else's Song

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    first 10 songs on random:

     

    Train to Nowhere, the Rave-Ups

    Motor Away, Guided by Voices (Gabe's Oasis, June 18, 2004)

    Thousands Are Sailing, the Pogues

    Have you ever Seen the Rain, Creedence

    Boxful of Letters, Jeff Tweedy (solo acoustic)

    Dayton, Ohio, 19-Something-and-5, Guided by Voices (Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, Sept. 28, 2004)

    Something I didn't label, Capstan Shafts

    Sunny Girlfriend, The Monkees

    Blue Period, Smithereens

    Baby and the Stars, Mock Turtles

    Your top 20 Farrar songs...

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    I KNOW! not only one of his best, but for me one of the best F-ing songs in the entire F-ing world.

     

    couldn't agree more

     

    looking for a way out is one of my 10 favorite non-GBV tracks ever

     

     

    He's also done some killer covers - Mystifies Me, Looking at the World Through a Windshield, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (frequent closer on Son Volt's last tour), Going, Going Gone, Effigy, and Lucifer Sam immediately come to mind.

     

    the one time i saw Uncle Tupelo they closed with Effigy

     

    just absolutely freaking mind-blowing

    Your top 20 Farrar songs...

    in Someone Else's Song

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    love jay

     

    6 String Belief

    Barstow

    Catching On

    Chickamauga

    Cocaine and Ashes

    Driving The View

    Drown

    Highways and Cigarettes

    Jukebox of Steel

    Looking for a Way Out

    Loose String

    Methamphetamine

    Outside the Door

    The Picture

    Route

    Slate

    Still be Around

    Tear Stained Eye

    Underground Dream

    Whiskey Bottle

    Windfall

     

    wow, nobody else has looking for a way out on their list

     

    i think one of jay's best

     

    great stuff, though, love reading these

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