Oil Can Boyd

This was the intro: To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. Traditionally, the "greatest guitarist" timeline begins with Robert Johnson magically conjuring the blues, nears perfection with Eric Clapton mutating it beatifically, and then ultimately reaches a boomer-baiting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame apotheosis with the free-spirited Jimi Hendrix shooting it into space like feedback-laden fireworks. For this li

Dumber than Jam Master Jay at #10? But I agree that overall it is not a bad list as these things go. They are certainly trying to think differently and included a lot of people who I really like and who are rarely included in these sorts of things. Kristin Hersh? I love her guitar playing ... (And I also never knew the story of Tom Tom Club screwing over Adrian Belew.)

Keep reading ...

My namesake in the news: http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7879759/dennis-oil-boyd-says-used-crack-entire-86-season

If you google "Wilco Engineers Demos" you can find several sites that have that whole set as a download (in mp3 or FLAC).

I like the Wild Flag album but I've been on something of a Sleater-Kinney binge recently. I hadn't lsitened to any of their stuff in a while and sort of forgot how much I liked it.

Interview with Kevin Shields and stream of one of the unreleased songs on Pitchfork yeterday: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8809-kevin-shields/

LouieB: got any sources on that? It surprised me so I poked around some and even found her original 1978 New Yorker review which is pretty positive. A different reviewer for the Nww Yorker (Penelope Gilliatt) didn't like it much but Kael seems to be a fan. She is quoted in other articles as calling it "the most beautiful rock movie ever."

Hadn't listened to Sleater Kinney in a while but I'm going through them all right now.

I'm a big fan of Lou but this doesn't do it for me. There is just too little time and too much good music that I own and don't listen to for me to spend an hour listening to that.

I'm another person who has been playing it recently after putting it aside for a while. It is holding up well for me.

Agreed. I like the stuff on the third disc except for that tune.

Feelies - May 12 in Boston

Yup - it's pretty distressing to watch. It was not too long ago that I thought this ownership group was doing all the right things.

Came out 20 years ago today ...

I wonder if he is in the best shape of his life ...

Finished this last night and thought it was great. (It also made me realize how many books I read that are set in NYC ...) Next up is this. It's one of the few books in the 33 1/3 series that is a novel.

Pretty accurate prediction so far ...

And I'm going to see them again tonight.

Blood on the Tracks being turned into a movie? http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118052289 'Blood on the Tracks' gets film adaptation RT Features acquires rights to make Bob Dylan classic into a movie By Dave McNary Brazil-based RT Features is moving on a simple twist of film, acquiring rights to adapt Bob Dylan's 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks" into an English-language feature. RT Features toppers Rodrigo Teixeira and Fernando Loureiro will produce and are seeking a director after buying rights from Grey Water Park Prods. that include the ability to use the music in the film. "

Magnetic Fields

I was just in the Harvard Book Store looking at a copy of Rick Moody's new book. It's a colleciton of essays about music and includes a piece on Wilco. While I was flipping through the book trying to decide whether to buy it, Reservations came on. I bought the book ...