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Oil Can Boyd

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  1. Wow - I used to listen to that a ton. I haven't listened in ages.
  2. I've been listening to a lot of Hitchcock recently - going to see him in a few weeks.
  3. The latest edition of the Jokermen podcast discusses the album. I like the podcast but I haven't listened to this one yet.
  4. Yeah, I'm a big fan of that album (and Quine). But I haven't listened in a while. Maybe I'll put it on now ...
  5. Been on a big Lou kick recently. Dating myself, but when I first got into Lou and the Velvets the first three Velvets albums were hard to find. This and 1969Live were my intro and I still think of this as the definitive version of Heroin.
  6. And the other? The Feelies seem to only play the DC to Boston/I-95 corridor these days. I know at least one of the band remembers doesn't fly.
  7. Granted they have not put out a ton of music but the Feelies first record came out in 1980 and their most recent album came out in 2017. There's some stuff on the latest one that's as good as anything they've done.
  8. Enjoyed that one (and the follow-up Stella Maris) - though I will admit that I'm not sure I got everything. Might be worth a re-read.
  9. Happy anniversary to one of my favorite shows (and favorite Dark Star): 2/13/70
  10. Been listening to this recently, partly because singer/guitarist Paul Janovitz (younger brother of Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz) died recently. It's pretty solid 90s grunge-era rock. Trivia: drummer Paul Harding went on to write Tinkers which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  11. No - I've been meaning to. Maybe I'll listen right now ...
  12. I just read Frankenstein. It was great - and really different than what I was expecting (based on comic books and cartoons). I read it, in part, because I recently read Rob Delaney's really good but sad book (A Heart That Works) about the death of his young son. He references Frankenstein a number of times in talking about loss and grief.
  13. Billy Bragg (who co-owned Fort Apache at one point) wrote a nice piece on Facebook and also noted "The Mermaid Avenue tracks that just feature Natalie Merchant and myself were recorded under Gary's supervision at the Fort."
  14. Gary Smith - producer and manager of a ton of bands I love - died the other day. He ran Fort Apache Studios in Boston, and produced Pixies, Throwing Muses, Tanya Donelly, the Feelies, Blake Babies, The Connells, Juliana Hatfield, Scrawl, 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant, and Billy Bragg. A lot of great stuff was produced at Fort Apache including Uncle Tupelo's No Depression, Radiohead, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, Buffalo Tom, Superchunk, and Yo La Tengo. Sad day.
  15. Related to this topic, I recently saw Time Out of Mind referred to as a "mid-period" Dylan album. That struck me as laughably wrong until I realized it came out 25 years ago (and 35 years into his career).
  16. My parents live pretty close to that nature center. It's a beautiful spot.
  17. I was listening to the latest season of the Deadcast and they were talking with some of the people from the Stanford AI lab. After a minute I realized one of them is the dude who lives across the street from me. He's away for a bit but I can't wait to see him when he gets back. I had no idea about his involvement in early online Dead stuff.
  18. That's too bad. I'm going to see them in a few weeks.
  19. Well really "Live! The Other Night!" but I saw the Feelies last Friday in Jersey City. They opened as themselves under the name the Willies where they played all instrumentals and mostly covers (a couple of Eno songs, two Bowie songs, Kraftwerk, Hendrix). It was great. And then they played their own amazing Feelies set. It was lots of fun.
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