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Hats off to my alma mater. I knew they had it in them.

I've heard that all of the work is finished for the new album.

I don't think that's the case.

I have seen this thing go back and forth on this board for a year, and I can't help but get involved everytime. To be really impartial (as if thats possible, you may already know who I favor) stack up the Geraldine Fibbers, or the Nels Cline Singers against ANY Jay Bennett solo release.

I've never heard any of Jay's solo stuff, but the Fibbers are my favorite band of all time. To be fair, you should narrow the choice down to Butch, because that's the only album Nels played on. But it's a masterpiece and the 6 or 7 GF shows I saw rank at the top of my list of memorable concerts.

And then there are the Singers, the Nels Cline Trio, Scarnella, Destroy all Nels Cline...pretty much anything Nels (or Carla Bozulich) touches turns to gold.

Can anyone confirm that it was Deanna Varagona because I can't find anything with her connected to the band, and if it wasn't she sure looks a lot like her.

Her website says she's playing with The Altered Statesmen

its supposed to be a little cold tomorrow.

Uh-oh, I didn't pack anything but t-shirts.

And even if you've got no insider tips for me, is anyone from VC going besides me and whatdisay and his wife?

I'll be there. I'm flying in from SoCal on a conveniently arranged recon mission to scout for a place to live. I'm being transferred to San Antonio at the end of the month and I know nothing about the city.

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I saw them at DiPiazzas last night in Long Beach for the millionth time. It's fun to watch:

1) Norton paint

2) Nels play

3) Watt's slack-jawed stage expressions

4) Perkins' grinning

5) Willie's fist-pump-joint-smoking gestures

did anyone see them on letterman last night?

Video is here.

A few months ago, Pete Townshend's blog listed Wilco as one of his favorite bands. On tour with The Who once again, Mr. T had this to say in today's Ottawa Citizen:

Q: Are there any young guitarists out there today who

thrill you? Who do you listen to in the car?

A: I like a lot of new guitar players. It's hard to

listen to guitar players who are better than me and I

can hear them free at almost any decent music store.

In my car I listen to Yo-Yo Ma (especially with Edgar

Meyer), Wilco, Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Martha

Wainwright, Sean Lennon, Sigur Ros, Buddy Guy. I

listen to a lot of jazz and orchestral music too. The

usual classic stuff. For new jazz I go to BBC Radio 3

in the UK. For new orchestral writing the same

station. There are late night shows now that play the

most incredibly innovative music.

The entire interview is here.

Sock Drawer.

The San Antonio date is tantalizingly close to the arrival date for my expected transfer to Alamo Town. And the Nels/Glenn date in Philly is also within the zone of possibility for my pre-transfer training in that town. I guess I should try to pull a few strings and make it happeen.

and for something of Nels' that's completely different from that, you should check out the Acoustic Guitar Trio.

I have a few live recordings (probably the same ones that everyone else has) that I should get around to torrenting one of these days. One of them is Nels' solo acoustic show from Pasadena a few years back. Good stuff.

Just in case nobody's noticed it, I'll mention that there seems to be a problem with the search feature when searching for something and asking for the results to be shown as posts. The posts are displayed after the search is completed, but they only show the first 5 or 6 characters of the message - or nothing at all if the message begins with quoted text.

I assume it's related to the database issues mentioned here.

If there's any justice in the world, then Nels would've been playing The Nels Cline Trio's composition "Little Shaver" while Glenn was removing his moustache.

Ok I only listend to it once but I think impossible germany sounds like a song that I cant quite place. Maybe something by emerson lake and palmer..... Surely you can hear this , theres a resemblence to a song I hear a lot on classic rock radio but cant quite place it..anybody else know........... I do think its a good song and think the resemblece is very slight-just curious if anyone else knows the name of the song I'm thinking of

Yeah, I've had the same feeling. It reminded me of Ten Years After's "I'd Love To Change The World" when I first heard it. Then I started imagining Cat Stevens and Al Stewart, so I guess there's a definite 70s vibe in there somewhere.

From the looks of Nels' jazzmaster he seems to have that body chemistry that eats away nitro finishes.

He's been slashing away at that guitar with whisks and other objects for many years.