Ghost of Electricity

This news sucks. Good vibes from me too.

oh man, that's nice and you look like one happy camper in that picture. it reminds me of a joke, but i'm too lazy to type it. congratulations!

This guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKT_eeCVNI by the way, i used to be able to easily embed videos, now, not so easy...

Great man, great life. We'll miss you, Pete.

Back in the day I used to have a cassette of REM's outtakes and a few covers (Toys in the Attic, King of the Road, There She Goes, i don't remember the name of it off the top of my head). Peter Buck wrote the liner notes, I used to enjoy unfolding the insert and browsing through his memories.

from their "website" JAN 29th @ The Corner Melbourne, Victoria w/ Total Control, Constant Mongrel JAN 31st @ Laneway Festival Brisbane, Queensland FEB 1st @ Laneway Festvial Melbourne, Victoria FEB 2nd @ Laneway Festival Sydney, NSW FEB 5th @ The Standard Sydney, NSW w/ Total Control, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys FEB 7th @ Laneway Festival Adelaide, SA FEB 8th @ Laneway Festival Fremantle, W. AUS then to Uk it looks like. not quite close enough for me to get there:(

Sometimes I hear Pavement, sometimes Television, sometimes VU, sometimes the Feelies, some Beck on the new ep as well. If we consider those bands to be in the same extended family, rather than call PC derivative, I'd say that they're just carrying on the family tradition. And doing it justice, methinks.

So going through the "top lists" doing my make-up homework I came across these guys and have to say I'm pretty impressed. If you haven't, I highly recommend them. If you have, then gush here.

would you prefer this thread to turn into a thread about football contracts or submarine sandwiches?

would my wife find out?

the true worth of a guitar isn't determined by the price tag. I love my cheapo Danelectro 59DC RI.

well, ST, i'll give you...definitely should be put on trial in the Hague crimes committed in the loudness wars.

i used to play JWH when I dj'ed at the college radio station back in the day. When you started talking about him I thought about youtubing him for 15 or 20 seconds. Then I proceeded with my life.

don't know if it's blasphemy or not, but: Slim>Bob

You're sounding a bit like a Hold Steady song yourself with that post! I'm not going to disagree with anything you say above, except for maybe the part about folk songs. Because a folk song, unaccredited and existing in many different versions, anyone can take that change a few words, add a verse, delete another, vary it to some degree large or small that makes it their own. But i think a distinction should be drawn between folk songs and covers. A cover song is one that (generally speaking) references the original for the sake of referencing the original. (It's true you get your Elvis

Some nice observations Louis, although one or two of your points which were intended to be negatives i would put down as positives: especially the second one. If someone writes a song with the intent that someone else will sing it, then that singer is that much more remote from the material, and the writer isn't necessarily writing from a personal perspective to begin with. And as Dylan says "if you believe what you're singing that elevates it." (or words to that effect) So those songs may come out more universal in a sense, but also more generic and therefore less meaningful. There are

Blood and Chocolate 1986

The term "favorite band" doesn't have as much meaning for me as it did twenty years ago, or even ten. What does it mean, really? does it mean that I listen to them more than any other band? Does it mean they've had more of an affect on my life than any other band? Does it mean (as someone suggested) that they're the band I would see live, if given a choice? Are we talking right now at this moment or in the scope of my entire life? What counts as a band? Does Dylan count? Sparklehorse? Are we considering the body of work as a whole or the importance of just the best examples? The more I th

I find myself moving away from pedals. I'm currently at three, a fuzz face clone, a timmy od and a tuner. I miss the trem and delay a bit, but I have trem on my amp and i only ever really used the delay for slapback. What I don't miss is lugging all that shit around. And, I've found that by using the guitar volume knob i can get most (ok, all) the tones I need anyway. I'd still like to try a hotcake, though, since i use a vox...

that'll give me a reason to survive the winter

what number am i thinking of?

How old are you?

When they were younger "Casino Queen" was a favorite, and "Reckoning" a proud father moment happened when my older son rushed to turn off Beethoven and put in Velvet Underground (he was 7 or 8 at the time) another was when my younger son (the 3 or 4) asked to hear "country music" by which he meant the Harry Smith Anthology. Then they saw Iron Man, and it's been nothing but ACDC. Until recently, when Kiss became acceptable. They're young, they have time to discover, but I'm getting a bit sick of Back in Black. A glimmer of hope earlier today when my older son (almost 12 now) asked about Th

Is Daft Punk considered pop?

theBlue Mask and New York are my faves