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4 hours ago, Oil Can Boyd said:

Yes - I saw you sitting on the floor - but then I saw you leave before I could say hi!

yeah i thought Wand was getting on at 9 but turns out it was 9:30 so i could have seen their whole set. i assume they played "Natural One"?

2 hours ago, Brian F. said:

 

This was in Boston? Where did they play?

The Rockwell

22 hours ago, Oil Can Boyd said:

Folk Implosion 

didn't see you there! (but we got in kinda late, about 10 min before John started... talked w/ Bernhardt for a while and then sat on the floor).

fun show, a bit shambolic but i would expect nothing less. left a bit early to catch Wand at Crystal Ballroom a couple blocks away. 

kind of off topic but w/ all this discussion about EPs, i just want to toot my own horn a tiny bit and say that i contributed to a book that exalts the EP,  with a pretty exhaustive look back at some of the best ones:

https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/

On 7/6/2024 at 5:36 PM, Brian F. said:

Mine has some dark streaks on it, but it plays fine.

 

The record vendors at Solid Sound really took advantage of their exclusive with that $30-plus-tax price point for a six-song, 17-minute EP in a plain brown sleeve. Wilcoworld is selling it for $20. I got it as part of my Friend of the Festival package, so depending on how you account for the value of the other items that came as part of it, I arguably paid about $150 for it. 

 

It's ironic, because I definitely would not have paid $30 for the EP at SSF if it hadn't been included in the FotF package, but one of the things that spurred me to purchase the package was the promise of an "exclusive" Wilco release (that turned out not to be exclusive in the way I thought) that I effectively paid a multiple of $30 for.

i doubt that Belltower or Autumn set the price for the Wilco 12" but that's just a guess. 

Also, the edition you bought is different from the one that will be fulfilled via the wilcoworld pre-order. you got to customize the sleeve however you wanted, and it's an edition of 1000. the other will have artwork chosen from the ones submitted, and not sure what the pressing size will be or if it will be on white vinyl.

some enterprising soul has one of the SSF copies available for $200:
https://www.discogs.com/release/31102478-Wilco-Hot-Sun-Cool-Shroud

Thanks Charles and great seeing you again. Lovely photos as always.

is this thing still on?

https://bigtakeover.com/concerts/wilco-s-solid-sound-mass-moca-north-adams-june-28-30

 

i screwed up on Sat night and thought that Ribot was starting right at 11:15 when Wilco was supposed to end. So i sat in a pretty empty theater for 30 min before it started. at least i got to talk early 70s prog rock w/ a couple of people in the row in front of me.

our airbnb host just canceled our rental for Solid Sound; if anyone is going to be or knows of a place that can house 4 adults that would be swell. 

i REALLY despise airbnb. this is the third time a host has canceled on me for a specific event with limited lodging options so close to the actual event. 

lol, this is the second time they have had to change their name... don't they know discogs exists?

 

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Not God is theoretically the debut album from Finom because they've recently had to legally change their name from Ohmme (a name they pivoted to when they had to legally change their name from HOMME some years ago).

a friend of mine had a group bail out and is looking to move these to fans who need them... message me if interested!

been spinning a lot of my Albini records lately.

Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule

Rapeman - Budd
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Bulldozer

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Big Black - Headache
Big Black - Sound Of Impact
Shellac - The End of Radio

Just heard JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound’s cover of “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” at the Publick House. 

Cypress Hill and The Pharcyde

i guess in 2015? according to setlist.fm they played 4 of the AMF songs over the two nights. but they shook up the set list pretty well i thought. 

Nice! they kinda did this when the Alpha Mike Foxtrot box came out but i am down for a whole show of it.

there is an issue on one of the picks... "She's A Jar" and I forget the other song in the title bracket but it's not listed and "Outtasite" is listed instead as a choice. 

last night saw the latest buzz band The Last Dinner Party. they draw quite the rabid fan base. tonight i finally get to see Unwound again, after 30 years from the last time. 

Chelsea Wolfe

On 2/20/2024 at 12:19 PM, the3penguins said:

Honestly that would probably be pretty great! Though that Mermaid Avenue possibility has be intrigued as hell. Do they still have beef with Bragg or has that blown over with time? Be cool to get him out for a Mermaid Ave set.

when both artists played Newport Folk a few years ago, Billy joined for "California Stars"

Various Artists - Hey Drag City

most of my listening is either via LP or digital streaming; i do have a CD player but my CDs are in the basement and I rarely retrieve any as I have everything ripped to digital and can playback via Plex.

specs on my stereo:

Adcom pre-amp and amp (200 wpc), both purchased new in the early 90s.
turntable is a fully manual Rotel w/ Sumiko blue point II cartridge

stream is Cambridge Audio  

speakers are Paradigm Studio 60s

CD player is some generic Pioneer single disc player

Horse Lords swerves much farther into the Ranaldo/Moore guitar fuckery lane, without sounding like SY at all. 

My review is finally done, it's got a lot of words and photos in it so dig in:

Sky Blue Sky at The Big Takeover