hardwood floor

god bless you fast doesn't impress me. fast & melodic does we did a dixie dregs show at my college, outdoors in from of one of the dorms ... steve (and all the guys) couldn't have been nicer great stuff

i went through about 20 uncle tupelo shows and didn't see it but here's son volt doing it on april 5, 2005, at Bergenfest ... bergen, norway http://www.sendspace.com/file/eug6da converted from flac to *.wav to *.mp3 for convenience ... hope the lossy folks don't yell at me for soiling the lossless pool

I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer the Shins' live show to My Morning Jacket's. First time I saw either one of them I saw them on the same bill. My Morning Jacket had explosive energy and little else. Their show rang hollow after a while because the songs just weren't there. It was just a bunch of guys jumping around and howling. Got old quickly. I understand a lot of people dig them. I don't. Shins just kind of stood there and played, but they had songs. Great ones. For me, that's the ultimate measuring stick.

was just listening to fripp's solo on peter gabriel's white shadow ... just mind-blowing ... one of my favorite solos ever agree

what does relevant mean? relevant to who? and who is deciding that? i dig the shins, have always dug the shins, and i'm not going to decide what i want to listen to based on what is "in" or out or based on what some smirking hipster pitchfork asshole tells me is cool right now or isn't cool relevant? either it's good or it ain't good ... who cares beyond that?

barrier reef is an all-time top-50 song for me

interesting stuff i never felt that the keys fit into what the shins were doing live. always thought they held 'em back so i'm curious to see how they sound this time around

great stuff, lode & speed i like everything i've ever heard of his

i saw ribot playing in marianne faithful's band a few weeks ago at a free at noon show at world cafe in philly (although she never indentified him) the guy is absolutely insane and should have been on my list

wonder who i picked last time too lazy to check richard thompson steve howe lindsey buckingham kevin salem jay farrar

sonds like a very cool experience B-Rox are great Brian is awesome & I always dig his thoughtful and funny posts on the son volt message board Gas Girl is the best song ever

i'm waiting till Musical Box does the Congo tour

maybe he felt like he exhausted all other means of getting what he thought was fair ... negotiating, talking, lawyers meeting, etc. and finally just felt he had no choice i have no idea who's right here, but don't think it's fair to judge jay just because he waited to file the suit. maybe he was hoping to resolve this without litigation but just no longer felt that was possible

wow, pennsylvania is one HUGE town!!

nice to actually have an REM release i can look forward to!!

i guess blood oranges are mark spencer's old band? worth looking into them?

just heard the pernice brothers on a sherwin-williams commercial awesome

would just like to say i freaking love the crap out of son volt and possibly the only band ever whose studio stuff i prefer to live shows

i really loved the search & find the songs actually even more enduring than those on trace i like this one too

ahhh, dunno ... maybe it was $3.35? it's all kind of a blur everything before tuesday of this week is a blur whatever minimum wage was i was probably earning

yeah, that's true ... there wasn't any improv or anything ... but they just sounded great and had awesome dynamics and precision ... all the crap i craved as a teenager ... yeah, other than earning $4.35 an hour or whatever it was! saw probably 50 shows that year

god bless you it's an absolutely remarkable record when i was 18 i was working at a record store, and the guy from epic records would always give us backstage passes so i was backstage at a boston show at nassau coliseum when boston was at the height of its powers, probably 1977? they were all really nice guys. one of them -- i think the guy with the big hair (sib hashinian?) was hitting on my girlfriend. which was cool. i went to school the next day bragging to everybody how the dude from boston was hitting on my girlfriend fucking awesome they were really great live too. just kille

bluegrass remake of mr. roboto can't wait

sounds really good so far

simon had a string of very cool, very quirky hits in the seventies mother & child reunion ... me and julio ... kodachrome ... loves me like a rock ... et al i was never a huge fan, but i always thought it was cool just how different those tracks sounded on AM radio once upon a time