hardwood floor

that reminds me ... i saw robert pollard's last show with the narducci/keene/wurster/phillips lineup in philly ... the day before he cancelled the rest of his tour because of his "calf injury" (yeah, right) it was pathetic ... in a city that always packed large theaters for gbv and bob's first few solo shows, there couldn't have been more than 50 people there by the end (maybe 125 when it started?) bob was despondent, we could see his wife crying backstage, the band was pissed ... was depressing as hell ... a lifeless show from a guy whose live shows are legendary two years later, he cam

what was the lightest-attended gig of a name act you've ever been to? over the years, i've been a part of some depressingly small turnouts for great bands and performers but the smallest was a free Letters to Cleos show at a local college ... i walked into the gym at 7:55 p.m. for an 8 o'clock show and the place was ... empty. if not for a huge stage with gear set up, i would have thought i was in the wrong place this was just before they hit fairly big with an appearance on i think Beverly Hills 90125 or one of those shows so they came out and the only other three people in the gym we

book of invasions horslips brilliant concept record by an all-time great band from ireland

fripp seems to be pretty much of a dick but king crimson was astoundingly great in its initial go-'round

i agree that the R&R H-o-F is a joke, but in a way it's also a pretty significant occasion that a prog band is getting inducted ... it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the core group of hackett/banks/rutherford/collins/gabriel to be together one last time and be recognized for some incredible music, innovative and influential ... for gabriel to shrug it off like this, it's just offensive to a lot of people. suck it up and get up there and do Carpet Crawlers with the old gang and it would mean a lot to a ton of people get chester thompson to play drums so phil and pete can share a

this is stupid ... milton keyes in 1982 he did the entire set ... in cleveland, he would only be dong one freaking song with them ... i can't beleve peter gabriel and genesis would have to rehearse at all to stand up there and do I Know What I Like or Carpet Crawlers or something this is just peter gabriel being contrary

i was really disappointed to hear about this, although he did say "probably" and not "definitely" i'd rather hear pete sing "In the cage" than "my body is a cage"!!!

i would echo moxie's post ... i dismissed fleetwood mac very quickly ... "thunder only happens when it rains?" are you kidding me? about 20 years later i realized buckingham is a freaking genius

i thought that guy did a tremendous job on this piece hey, mpolak ... last i heard magnet was planning to continue the print magazine, but you can always email them at magnetmag@aol.com

interesting notion, frank ... i do agree that genesis & floyd were more song-based and yes (and elp) was more performance-based, but i think yes made it work. what examples of yes music would you consider rubbish because they get too complicated? their stuff has never hit me that way. i've always felt tracks like heart of the sunrise, close to the edge, perpetual change, starship trooper, sound chaser, going for the one, etc., are great songs with amazing arrangements whose complexity makes them stronger

great record, although the story is kind of hard to follow let's see ... Rael goes to New York, then ... Banks plays a synth solo ... after that i get lost

would be the grateful dead for me also i made way too many assumptions about them instead of actually listening

wait ... JT? Jethro Tull?

i dig when a band sticks a random measure of 2/4 in a song but does it so seamlessly that you can't really tell unless you're tapping your finger or something i do hate key changes though (really, just the predictable key changes, in a coda, between choruses - bleh)

RE: Springsteen the guy is a pathetic nostalgia act he hasn't written a good song in 20 years

i think accelerate is the biggest piece of fraud in pop music history it's REM product it was like, "Hey, we can't write a good song anymore, so let's make a record that SOUNDS like when we were good, maybe people will start buying our records again." it sounds like old-school REM but without any of the depth REM was once the best band on the planet REM is now the worst band on the planet

I lol'd agree with all of 'em actually like that band name though!

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have you heard his stuff post classic-period GBV and you don't like it? or are you just trying to be clever?

i think underwater explosions starts with the same chord as ... hmmm, what was it ... something else really, for the amount of stuff he writes, nothing sounds the same ... it's remarkable could any two songs be more different than, say, wondering boy poet and christian animation torch carriers?

great unknown band

interesting concept 1960s ... Headquarters, Monkees (1967) 1970s ... Close to the Edge, Yes (1972) 1980s ... The Book of Your Regrets, The Rave-Ups (1987) 1990s ... Bee Thousand, Guided By Voices (1994) 2000s ... Quixotic, Matt Keating (2008)

phil sang the HELL out of supper's ready on the 1978 tour his vocals from like 1976-80 were every bit as good on the gabriel material as gabriel and steurmer could play circles around hackett!! phil singing afterglow was the fucking SHIT ... amazing singer

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