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speaking of the "someone here at VC turned me onto them a year or so ago"

Anyone in boston with sunday night free - i highly recomend coming to TTs to the US debut of Canada's the wooden sky. yes, full disclosure - my band is on the bill - but its not about getting people out for us - the wooden sky disc has become my favorite record in a year since someone here at VC turned me onto them a year or so ago. just fantastic rural folk and rock... of course we are psyched and honored to be on the bill with them - but if you are in town i highly recomend trying to make it out to TTs sunday to check them out - they will definitely be getting bigger and this is your c

ok. that settles whether i'm going to worcester or not. sweet.

I have no idea the real story - but - reading a bit between the lines into what billy said about "When I was in the studio, they carried on with Jeff. When Jeff wasn't there, they worked with me." maybe this is where the split in opinions about how much stuff there is comes from - maybe ALL of what Jeff worked on is out there - and maybe there was more stuff that was put on tape with the rest of wilco backing billy, that jeff/wilco never considered anything other than demo's or rejected material. just a guess. or it could be that billy's full of shit man.

you can download it http://www.therationales.com/TheGoingandTheGone_Advance.zip - thats a zip file with our whole press kit but the mp3s are there. Check it out if you are so inclined. Would love to hear what you think of it. we're sort of a rootsy/powerpop thing. hope you like it.

ugh. so very sad. My favorite floyd in that he added so much - quiet and unassuming. That piano playing alone was enough to cement it but when you Richard's voice in harmony to Davids it was the pure magic that made it all work. terrible loss.

if nothing changes this will make 3 straight albums with songs containing the name of a city in- or the state of germany. just observing.

Come see what all the sweat is about! we're making our NYC debut. 10pm (show starts at 7) at arlene's grocery 95 stanton street. leaving to drive to the gig from boston now!

duuude. forget all that. just take da T to quincy and have ah beeeeeah. no seriously. welcome to town - you've got enough good rec's there to start you on your way. lemme know if i can help in any way! though in current clubland - i'd correct that the paradise is 90% jam bands and lite-rock nationals now, and the middle east down is emo-screamo touring acts most of the time- stick with TTs, the lizard lounge, toad and church - and scan the others for touring acts that you want to catch!

Its actually part of the DEMO funtion on the mellotron. A mellotron has a bunch of different sounds and all are run by tapes. Magazine is full of 'tron strings and voices. and like many keyboards the tron has canned tapes that work as demo features for the instrument. I made a major fool of myself when I discovered this while overdubbing with a real mellotron at Q division on our new EP when we put the key in (you need a key!) and fired it up it played that intro and i started saying "MAGAZINE! MAGAZINE!" to which our non wilco obsessed engineer replied... "no. mellotron. mellotron."

have a blast martin!

see ya later pedro! whatever it is that is happening i hope its good.

The Rationales 9pm AM Stereo 10pm Eric Salt 11pm The Gentlemen 12 TT The Bear's. We'll be celebrating the official release of our debut EP - The Going and The Gone. Come out if you're near enough. Us aside, its a great bill! luff, Dave, Me. ps. For those of you in New York, we're playing at Arlene's Grocery on Sun. June 22.

The Rationales are playing a full set live in studio at 1030pm EST Wednesday on Tuft's University's WMFO - on the show On the Town with Mikey D - listen in here if you're so inclined: http://www.wmfo.org thanks!

not 'rock' per se but james taylor plays every year - lyle lovett has done a few shows there. prairie home broadcasts at least 1 show every summer with whatever hip musical guests are on that week so there's some 'popish rockish' stuff going on regularly for the last 10 years or so - but yes - to agree with your bigger point - i don't know of a headline 'rock' band show such as this anytime in recent memory! its going to be magnificent. as important as it is to most of us to get close to the band - this may be the one venue where being way back on the lawn is a distinct advantage among the fir

thanks everyone!!! what a birthday weekend i had! chicago and friends and cupcakes oh my!!! thanks so much! it rocked.

:lol :lol you mean... where you MOM touched me!

No worries - it went great- it actually sold out for our set - most crazy experience ever - we're one of those bands used to playing for 30 people on a tuesday - to all of a sudden have 110+ people really into our set was an amazing experience! thanks for all the well wishes - i'm on cloud 9 today - plus the rudds rocked and joyce and chick were not only fantastic - but they were super nice people - chris from anastasia screamed was out to see them - and they were all so cool and greatful to be playing again - just an amazing experience- joyce actually wrote a book about their story - for anyo

thanks guys - looking forward to it!

Yup! Chick and Joyce are 'opening' the show as an acoustic duo - Joyce has a new book out about all they've been through and they are getting scarce up off the ground again.

This saturday - downstairs at the Lizard Lounge - my band The Rationales playing with the Rudds and Scarce. Its going to be a great night based just on the other two bands - and we'll do our best to live up to the bill! feel free to drop in if you're in the area - the lizard is a cool hang. 8pm, $8 - free parking out back!

yep, boston area now - but went to fitchburg so played in worcester plenty.

was one of my favorites on AM at the time - i love the feel and the sparse sound and the vibe it creates. i realize that where he's gone lyrically and musically in the intervening years that a three chord song with those lyrics mustn't feel like his best work - but its simple - it works.

is that at Ralph's!?

do they have to be house hold name bands? if not - more ma: still currently working and local and great! the figgs (partial) the rudds the gentlemen the real kids the pills the shods halleluja the hills (led by former VCer Ryan Walsh) and of course - the rationales!! there's more to the crop of 90s stuff: letters to cleo juliana hatfield jen trynin folk stuff - catie curtis, patty larkin, etc. gillian welch started playing around town with david rawlings while here at berkley (and all the other bosstones, dropkick, godsmack, r. zombie & shit like that)