Oil Can Boyd
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The title track came up on shuffle this morning so I went back and listened to the whole thing. It's a good one.
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Was supposed to go see the Feelies but it was postponed due to the ongoing manhunt ...
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William Tyler - Impossible Truth Mentioned this elsewhere but saw him live last night and he blew me away. Layered guitar pieces with beautiful melodies.
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Saw William Tyler last night (opening for a band in Boston) and he blew me away. What a talent. I bought both of his CDs and chatted with him a bit.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead
Oil Can Boyd replied to kidsmoke's topic in Tongue-Tied Lightning
It's been a weird 12 hours in the Boston area. I was out in Central Square in Cambridge (about a half mile from where they shot the MIT police officer) seeing a friend's band last night and I started getting texts about a shooting near MIT. As I was getting ready to go home (about 12:30) there was a text about avoiding the MIT area. The drive home was a little crazy. As I got close to the Charles River there was a steady stream of police cars. I must have seen about 40 or 50 police vehicles all racing past with their sirens on. The guys had hijacked a car and I guess the driver escaped at -
Ugh - Kinski on at 11:30 ...
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I've got the Feelies Friday night so I'm hoping tonight isn't too late ...
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Weird day in the Boston area. Hard to separate fact from fiction while it was happening. I'm a few miles away in Cambridge but there were still lots of sirens and a big police presence while I was leaving tonight.
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Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) - Walt Whitman Mall
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I am reading Rick Moody's novel Garden State and I had a funny realization last night. I have only seen the tail end of the Zach Braff movie called Garden State but I thought they were related. They are both about depressed, detached kids in suburban New Jersey who listen to music, take drugs, and try to figure out their lives. As I read the first half of the novel, I kept waiting for it to connect to the part of the movie that I had seen. I finally looked it up and realized that they have no connection ...
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Pretty spotty list with some great stuff and also some big holes - but that's inevitable. I was only at one of the shows on his list (Augusta Maine 1984) and while it was a great show, I'm not even sure it was the best one I ever saw.
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Yeah, it (Kinski's Cosy Moments) is really good. Wasn't sure what to expect when I saw a bunch of short songs but they fit in nicely. Looking forward to the show.
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Really enjoyed this ...
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Your musical Road to Damascus moment
Oil Can Boyd replied to Sweet Papa Crimbo's topic in Someone Else's Song
In the early to mid 1980s probably half the music I listened to was the Dead. Another 35% was a mix of Dylan, the Beatles and the Stones. The remaining 15% was "current" stuff that I listened to with a particualr group of friends - Replacements REM, Talking Heads. One day I came home and my roommate was playing Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and it blew me away. -
Yes! Out tomorrow and at the Middle East in a couple of weeks.
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I'm sure there is stuff left off. To your point, they re-released a version of Dead Letter Office in Europe a couple of years later that added two songs. Then in the mid-1990s IRS released something called REM: SIngles Collected that added a couple of things. And then the And I Feel Fine ... compilation had a disc of songs that were not necessarily official b-sides but it included a bunch of early outtakes and live songs.
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You may know all of this but the early B-sides were collected on Dead Letter Office - which also includes the fantastic first EP Chronic Town.
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Thought these were the highlights. Stagger Lee was particualrly intense. Agree that it was an amazing show. I was maybe 12 or 14 rows back but wish I was in the 4th row. When he walked into the crowd on the backs of the chairs was he over you? And did you take pics?
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Ben Daughtery (Squirrel Bait) Some other favorites who I have not seen mentioned: Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four) David Narcizo (Throwing Muses)
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Pretty amazing, wasn't it?
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Top Ten Rolling Stones Songs
Oil Can Boyd replied to Sweet Papa Crimbo's topic in Someone Else's Song
Looking forward to reading this (when it comes out this summer).