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except ... The Search is better than Trace! Jay Farrar is a brilliant songwriter, underated singer and very capable front man, and the guys around him are important but not critical to the success of the music Marah's strength was as a band, not in the individual talents of the Bielenko's

yeah, it's a bizarre situation don't know if i can think of a band that arrived with so much promise and has delivered so little the first record was fucking unbelievably great and their early live shows were mind-blowing and since then, they're really just drifted through lackluster songwriting, uneven records, constant personnel changes and rare live shows back in the day, i saw marah open for golden smog (sans tweedy) and they just blew 'em off the stage. i don't think the smog even wanted to perform that night. marah was transcendent

Joseph Arthur's drummer Greg "G. Wiz" Wieczorek is a good dude and a hell of a drummer

agree hell of a nice guy, too i'm very happy he's healthy again after such a scary stretch there i get chills thinking about them doing "love street" at that gig. unfuckingbelievably great

i saw world party in a club circa Goodbye Jumbo and not only were they incredible, i was blown away by what a great guitarist Karl Wallinger is

nice! i picked up a brinsley schwarz record in a cut-out bin at the record store i worked at in like 1979 and dug it & started exploring all that pub rock stuff -- i still think "Dancing the Night Away" by the Motors (who i think shared a couple members with Brinsley Schwartz) is one of the greatest unknown songs ever

yep

meet Robert Pollard unique in pop music because his best stuff now - in his 50s - is every bit as good as guided by voices' best stuff from back in the day i've never seen anything like it ... the guy has released something like 200 records and is still putting out some of the best music of his life

three all-time greats right there, kathyp was listening to the silos' cuba this morning and it remains an all-time top-20 record for me

i'm going next weekend in atlantic city have seen 'em about 30 times since 1972 no anderson, no wakeman (not the real one) who cares rock howe's on fire right now ... worth it just to see him

they would slay and they could do like 17 songs in the 12-minute slot "Hey, good thing they didn't pick Bright Eyes to do the halftime show. They SUCK! This one's called Game of fucking Pricks. Hope you guys are fucked up. Enjoy the second half! Manning's a fucking pussy! One-two-three-four ... "I've waited too long to have you hide in the back of me....")

couldn't agree more about lizard and especially islands. from lark's tongue through red, they were insanely good though

yes! will be worth it!!

hey, the show was at the keswick theater in glenside, pa. - just north of philly how far are you from chicago? they're playing the vic theater on saturday night this tour is the trick or the tail tour, which means they are playing what genesis played on the trick tour (same set list, same order, same everything) i was in chicago for work in 2007 and drove to indianapolis for a concert & made it back by the next morning, so i know it's do-able!!

so I caught The Musical Box last weekend. had zero expectations and was pretty skeptical. why would i want to see a Genesis cover band when I saw the real thing 15 - 17 times. but i'll tell you what, they were unreal. the nailed every nuance of every song, and if i wasn't sitting so close to the front and couldn't see the faces, i honestly wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. musically, they took no shortcuts - their arrangements, musicianship and instrumentation was all 100 percent honest to the originals. taking it for what it was - it wasn't genesis, but it was great to hear su

for me, the genesis record would be and then there were three ... has not held up well for me at all definitely both american central dust + wilco (the album) i have to think about this

kezar ... love that show ...

i don't like this record

is it the same singer? somebody said they use a different singer for the gabriel era shows? i thought they were kind of more into the gabriel stuff last night - cinema show, firth of fifth, the lamb medley, supper's ready were highlights the phil collins dude was a hell of a drummer ... both drummers ruled & the banks dude was phenomenal

saw The Musical Box last night ... was very skeptical ... "why would i want to see a genesis cover band?" blown away great stuff

check out the reviews of corrine baily ray's first record if ya feel like it i don't know if she won grammy's or american music bullshit awards or what, but this record was universally acclaimed and it's completely faceless generic middle-of-the-road adult-oriented urban shit

yeah, it's just about my favorite place anywhere to see a band the food is damn good too

i would think that's right about maxwell's capacity awesome place to see a show (but good luck parking)

sure yeah, whether you like 'em or not - and i was never a big fan although they were fun to see live - they had a #10 billboard hit with Here and Now, appeared on Conan, Letterman and Jon Stewart, were on the Melrose Place soundtrack and in the show, toured the world with cheap trick, had a major label deal with warner brothers, etc. so to see 'em at a gig with zero people there, yeah, that was a little odd a month later they sold out the TLA headlining in philly, so i would classify them as a name act, whatever you may think of 'em

Baby Blue Badfinger best song ever