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Califone - villagers
https://califonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/villagers
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On 3/24/2023 at 4:53 PM, Oil Can Boyd said:
I don't mean to crap on Weir - I really like his guitar playing - but in thinking about my favorite Dead songs, almost none are his. There are some I like: the Other One, Cassidy, Estimated.
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You don't like Jack Straw?
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A tape of the late show of Garcia & Saunders (11/5/74) in NY where legend has that John Lennon attended has surfaced in the usual sites. You can hear John's voice commenting on the show!
Jerry Garcia's middle finger explains the thing
https://jgmf.blogspot.com/2023/01/between-bottom-lines-lennon-and-garcia.html
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GD and jazz. My only Christmas song is Run Rudolph Run, wit. Pigpen's GD. Otherwise, I run away from christmas music as quickly as from the devil.
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On 3/5/2009 at 5:43 PM, Guest wrinkleintherug said:
yes.
Same here...except for Johnny Cash cover of Personal Jesus
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Yesterday Wilco played in my hometown Madrid...although I could not attend this time. Here is a (unedited, sorry) Google translation of their sold-out gig. Original Spanish chronicle in https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/musica/2022/06/28/62bac20421efa0d94b8b45ca.html
Surrendered to Wilco
The Chicago band, which presents a new album, uncorked its powers in a dazzling concert. A master class that, departing from the country, married to Gram Parsons with Television
PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOUAFP
Jeff Tweedy metabolized the pandemic by writing dozens of songs. Every day he sent a model to his cronies. When they were over fifty they got together again in their home studio in Chicago. Playing live, as they hadn't done since 2006, with instruments sizzling together, they recorded Cruel Country. A majestic and melancholic album, which takes them back to the roots sounds before any krautrock experiments, to the days of A.M., their stringy debut, and even to Uncle Tupelo, Tweedy's previous group, pioneers of the so-called alt-country. After several decades rejecting the label, and in the year of the twentieth anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, that abrasive ode to the disoriented post-9/11 USA, Wilco unashamedly assumed his country streak, his debts to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, stripped of mannerisms. A drunken trip of spectral woodwind arrangements, ululating lap steel solos and tepid folk gallops. A somber album that smells of infinite spaces, lunar deserts and frontier cities, and now presented live. Yesterday they landed in the Botanical Gardens of Madrid, ready to die or kill.
They put the accent on their new creature, but the director was far from a museum trip through the chests of tradition. Neither in the studio nor on stage are they capable of putting on the bracelets of supposed codes. Far from accumulating clichés, they bring to their field the most canonical genres, subverted while they put the magnifying glass on the contradictions of a turbulent, fascinating, fierce country. The United States, for so many admirable reasons, at times schizophrenic, polarized into schismatic factions, violent and welcoming, disparate and free, stained with blood but also the object of justified adoration for millions of refugees from hunger, is the object of open-hearted scrutiny that does not hide love or make up the horror. Erected as supreme chroniclers of his and his own, incandescent wonders like I am my Mother or Cruel country fell, skilfully combined with classics of the caliber of Impossible Germany, Vía Chicago, War on war, Jesus, etc. or California stars
Favored by a sound of many and glittering carats, fluffy by the return of guitarist Nels Cline, who missed several of the previous concerts due to covid, Wilco displayed with overwhelming naturalness a repertoire that was at times intimate and sometimes violent, with occasional psychedelic broadsides. that put the counterpoint to his sweetest polaroids. All commanded by a Tweedy with an incisive voice, while the band enjoyed themselves and the public broke their hands.
Immense Wilco, always restless and always resounding, ironic without abusing, deep without taking themselves too seriously, playful with a cause, imperial at the controls of their instruments but far from sterile virtuosity, attentive to unfold songs full of questions, that comfort and question . Between The Band and the most lyrical John Lennon, between pop frivolity and the glorious vice for storytelling, indebted to Gram Parsons and the Dylan of the Basement tapes, but also to the Velvet, Wilco are the custodians and innovators of a scorching legacy . I'm still alive in your hands.
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Kyiv Calling (official cover "The Clash - London Calling")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLCiA38No3Y
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I am old enough to recall my parents paranoia with the missile crisis in Cuba in the '60. My only hopes for this horror are a rebellion of oligarchs or a coup d'état in Russia.
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Upcoming Scorsese biopic on Jerry/GD https://deadline.com/2021/11/jonah-hill-jerry-garcia-martin-scorsese-grateful-dead-pic-apple-1234875832/
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song popularity as a contagious process...
"Electronic music has a basic R number of 3,430, making it the most infectious music genre"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2021.0457
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Thanks for the heads-up tinnitus, I will check out that band. As for jams, I have enjoyed some by Spafford
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Jeff sings For You (I'd Do Anything) in the tribute to Rocky Erikson
https://lightintheattic.bandcamp.com/album/may-the-circle-remain-unbroken-a-tribute-to-roky-erickson
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Not on ECM but it could have been therein, I think; I have been enjoying Markus Stockhausen - Wild Life http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/video/markus-stockhausen/27658
Merry Christmas, VCers!
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GD is electronic Dixieland... Crosby on Jerry https://variety.com/2020/music/news/david-crosby-remembers-jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-anniversary-1234729939/
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Peter Green RIP. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53539989
...the only Fleetwood Mac I cared
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"Why Do So Many People Love The Grateful Dead Now?"
https://uproxx.com/indie/grateful-dead-young-people-popularity/
really?
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Bandcamp is one of the few online platforms that's actually fair to the bands and today they are waiving all associated fees for any purchases. i am sure we all know musicians who are really struggling right now, so do what you can and help out (and obv get some awesome music in return).
Thanks for the heads up, I'm gonna buy some Califone
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Another Dylan message, I contain multitudes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEP8teNXwY&feature=youtu.be
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I have two of his "impossible" compilations. The guy got Keith Richards to cover Mingus and Tom Waits singing Disney, not within everyone's reach! RIP
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a dissection of the Dylan song
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Wow! this song is... fantastic!
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Stay safe folks. The thing is getting scary here at the other side of the pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcTDq1GqII&feature=youtu.be
Washing all the HandsSome folks trust their doctorOthers trust their gutI don?t trust nothingCuz I know we?re in a rutSay it once again nowWhoa I hope you understandBefore it?s done and overPlease just wash your fucking hands!Washing, washing all the handsOutbreak, outbreak on the landSome folks look for hand soapOthers look for bleachSome folks up in CostcoBut it?s always out of reachI can tell your futureOh just look what's on your hands!But I can?t stop this virusI?ll just wash my fucking handsWashing, washing all the handsOutbreak, outbreak on the landAll alone in a towerAt COVID?s commandYou just keep a scrubbingWe all need to wash our handsAnd if a man among youGot the virus on his handsLet him keep his distanceAnd just wash your fucking hands!Washing, washing all the handsOutbreak outbreak on the land -
This is exciting!..Am I alone in hearing some Califone in Wilco's Ode to Joy?
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I don't think OTJ is such a departure from the previous Wilco catalogue. I hear distant echoes of YHF, ST and AGIB, in particular with the headphones on, as some VCers mentioned. I would love to hear the band playing it in an intimate setting
Overall, I think is a great record. It has soothed my soul along the autumn and early winter. Thank you Wilco!
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Hala Madrid!