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    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Wow, I've gotten slack. I need to pre-order it this weekend. I figured it would be early getting out, Pollard's stuff is usually released a week before the actual release date.

     

    All the hardcore Pollard fanatics are calling this the best thing he's done since Alien Lanes.

     

    The thing is, all the hardcore Pollard fanatics call EVERYTHING he puts out the best things he's done since Alien Lanes.

     

    (I would say the best thing he's put out since Alien Lanes is Under the Bushes, Half Smiles or From a Compound Eye, but what do i know)

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    good to hear the remasters are good. And Then There Were Three needed a lot of help. It always sounded muddy to me.

     

    this is the one genesis record that has totally not held up very well for me ... i think the songs are muddy, in addition to the recording

     

    the rutherford stuff just slogs along through the muck, doesn't it ... say it's all right joe goes on for what, 40 minutes? ... snowbound, deep in the motherlode ... really the only tracks that holds up for me are burning rope & down and out

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I don't mean to hijack the thread, but for what it's worth, I wanted to apologize for being an asshole in this public forum. It was ridiculous. I made assumptions and created unnecessary animosity. I am very sorry.

     

    Peace-

    Craig (Rider)

     

    cool

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Here's a review of the Irving show from Popmatters. Says Chris Masterston is the guitarist.

    http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/111754-son-volt-17-september-2009-fillmore-at-irving-plaza-new-yor/

     

    popmatters is wrong

     

    masterson left the band after the first leg of the tour and was replaced by walbourne

     

    chris got married a few weeks ago (to the extremely talented fiddle player eleanor whitmore) and is back in new york creating his own great music

     

    walbourne also plays with the pretenders, by the way

     

    he is a beast

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    after the original Phil story appeared, Phil backed off a little bit saying he doesn't know if he's definitely done drumming forever, but his back condition won't let him do it now

     

    but if phil / tony / steve / mike / peter want to tour with chester thompson on the kit and play only stuff up through lamb, i'll accept that as a genuine genesis reunion!

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    yeah, it was definitely one of the best son volt shows i've seen as well ... i think i've seen 'em nine times and farrar/spencer once (and tupelo once, but that's another level)

     

    it was the first time i've left a son volt show not disappointed that he doesn't play any tupelo stuff anymore (although can you imagine how good "whiskey bottle" or "looking for a way out" would sound with this lineup?)

     

    i thought walbourne was amazing and really energized jay and injected some new life into the band

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    better watch out. saying anything less than stellar about son volt will get you skewered. can't imagine what would happen to someone who said something critical about wilco, MMJ, DBT, etc. oh yeah, and radiohead.

     

    grow up

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    i would have preferred that he didn't continue to make fun of a fan after said fan wrote an apology. he's shown himself to be an asshole. another hole in the son volt facade.

     

    why would whether the drummer is an asshole or not have anything to do with your enjoyment of son volt's music?

     

    i mean, who cares?

     

    robert fripp might be the biggest douchebag on earth. doesn't affect my enjoyment of king crimson

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Ok, this may be a stupid question (and admittedly I haven't read through this thread and I don't keep up much on SV news) but when did SV get a new guitarist? I missed ole skinny jeans last night!

     

    masterson finished the last leg of the tour and then was replaced by james walbourne for this leg. very different players but both are fantastic

     

    don't know why chris left the band, but he did get married a week or two ago ... maybe he just didn't want to head out on the road again after getting married

     

    and he plays with the madison square gardeners and other people in nyc

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    i was steeped in the dead at that point. have tried a few times in the past 10 years to get into them only to enjoy a few songs. for some reason, half smiles is really sinking in, so i'm interested in what's next. thanks so much for the list. it's a good place to start:)

     

    a lot of gbv fanatics are also heavy-duty dead fans

     

    you couldn't find too more different bands, but they do share some qualities ... incredible musicianship, legendary live shows, hardcore cult following, astonishingly varied catalogue, richly detailed lyrics and a legendary obsession with a mind-expanding substance (dead = acid, gbv = miller lite)

    Robert Pollard, Etc.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    okay, i'm going through the GBV slowly. then probably pollard solo stuff. is there a website with a directory of his other side projects. it's exciting that he has so much shit out there, but overwhelming. right now, half smiles is in rotation. i love it! given another zeitgeist, pollard would have been an arena rocker. ironically, he lives near hara arena in dayton which was a mecca in the 70s and early 80s for the greatest music of all time.

     

    Rider ... your guidebook to GBV is www.gbvdb.com, a miraculous site that will answer any questions you have about what was released when, who plays on which records, what songs were played live, etc.

     

    the essential releases are all the gbv records from bee thousand on --> b000, alien lanes, under the bushes under the stars (that's the holy trinity - the greatest 3-record stretch in rock music history), mag earwhig, do the collapse, isolation drills, universal truths and cycles, earthquake glue and half smiles, which you have PLUS the best pollard solo releases: waved out, kid marine, not in my air force and from a compound eye PLUS side projects ask them (by lexo and the leapers), choreographed man of war (robert pollard & his soft rock renegades) and blues and boogie shoes (keene brothers with tommy keene)

     

    those 16 releases are a great starting point, but there are literally dozens more side projects, solo records, a bunch of early GBV records (vampire on titus and propeller are difficult but incredible) and the two legendary suitcase box sets (the third is out soon), each with 100 tracks that bob found on casettes in an old suitcase. some are as good as anything he's ever done. on top of that, there are literally dozens of CDs of unreleased stuff, demos, alternate versions, b-sides and rarities, etc.

     

    i don't think anything bob has released in the last four years (since From a Compound Eye in 2005) is essential, but most contain two or three great tracks

     

    it is truly a lifetime's work trying to keep up with Bob's catalogue.

     

    and worth every second

    Big Star

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    have tried for many, many years & never got the Big Star genius

     

    some ok stuff, occasional great songs, very uneven, honestly, not in the top 100 bands of the 1970s

     

    everybody says how great they are, but i don't know anybody who actually listens to Big Star (and don't get me started on the chris bell stuff)

     

    the Stones' body of work in the 1970s:

     

    1971 ... Sticky Fingers

    1972 ... Exile on Main Street

    1973 ... Goats Head Soup

    1974 ... It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

    1976 ... Black and Blue

    1978 ... Some Girls

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