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2nd fret held down on both B and E strings (making a D and G, respectively.

I think you mean 3rd fret. In any event, I've always played it:

D to E strings: F A D G

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we have a real estate agency down here called TJ Doherty!

He's pretty hard to google. I was hoping there'd at least be an interview from an electronic-geek magazine. I'd like to hear Analogman weigh in on the issue.

This guy seems to be Wilco's house engineer, and with good reason! Does anyone have any info on him? He engineered Sky Blue Sky and Born Again in the USA, as well as the latest Sonic Youth and Malkmus records.

I've always listened to Born Again in the USA as a little bit of a companion to Sky Blue Sky, even though it's decidedly more rocking and loose (no pun intended). I'm starting to realize the similarities I'm hearing might be the TJ magic. He gets such a clean guitar signal. Really nice and crisp sounding. I even hear it on the Sonic Youth.

Not that Jeff and the boys aren't geniuses in their own right, but I think some of the love on the whole "vibeyness" of Sky Blue Sky ought to be thrown TJ's way. Let's hear it for TJ, man!

1. where to start with the replacements?

Shoot for the middle period and you'll be fine!

Top Tier

Let it B

Tim

Pleased to Meet Me

Middle Tier

Sorry Ma

Don't Tell a Soul

Hootenany

Bottom Tier

Stink

All Shook Down

SST is still in existence?

They still release Greg Ginn related albums.

This is sweet news! Let it Be and Tim are in serious need of a remaster. The 80s, man.

Fingers crossed for the Huskers to be next.

okay, production issues aside, i spun this a lot today while ponying up a review for my blog...this really is a great body of work. i actually liked his last one okay, but this really is a pretty amazing disc.

I don't know if Bob's ever made a bad album. But Body of Song made no impression on me whatsoever. Same with the new one. It was all downhill when he started going to the gym.

Great record! I'll go down as saying it's better than Plastic Ono Band and All Things Must Pass. I said it!

I agree that he's still great live, but man, I couldn't even get through this, seriously. I don't really like anything he's done post-Sugar. Don't know what happened to the guy, but I can't get on-side for the life of me.

Maker is on the mark. The last album I loved was Last Dog and Pony Show. I wish Bob would drop the vocoder.

Obviously, they're fans of the guitar solo.

That's a great record!

The Magnet article from the way back machine (YHF, Jeff's a janitor in the photo spread) mentions it was a way to pass the time on the tour bus. I'm pretty sure it's only crept into a couple of songs. She's a Jar possibly.

From Yo La Tengo's myspace:

As in the past, each show will begin with an opening band, followed by some comedy, and then a Yo La Tengo set. And perhaps more. That's all we're going to tell you, so don't ask who's playing. We can guarantee that it'll be great, and that no matter what night you're there, you'll wish you had come another night instead. That's just the way you are; there's nothing we can do about that.

In the end, I had a blast, and I was thrilled I went, but I'd still prefer Ira with an electric axe in his hands. The requests were cool, and it was nice to hear a bit of background on the band. But at the same time, I'd have preferred more playing and less talking. And since the audience got a chance to ask questions, there was a funny moment when someone in the audience stood up asked the band "Who is Tony Orlando?" So you have to deal with a bit of that.

I saw the Freewheeling tour in Bloomington, IN and that was exactly my take on it. For my 7th YLT concert, it was really cool to see a different setting, but I don't know how it would work for an initiation. Still though, it was sweet when Ira looked at James and told him not only were they were doing a song he had never heard before, but it was a Chesterfield Kings song written by Dee Dee Ramone, recorded for Fakebook, and then abandoned (!!!!!). James said "you had me at hello," and they launced into it. They also told a really cool story about psychedelifying the Simpsons theme song and meeting Dan Castellaneta.

Jeff's Flying Burrito Brothers suit was amazing! Hopefully some pictures will surface.

I love those clips! Someone Else's Song from that show really cooks!

Notorious Byrd Brothers: Side 1

Five of those records changed my life!

With Kicking TV so heavy on the AGiB material, I think another live record would be warrented after the next studio record or so.

Tough call. When pressed, I have to say Being There, but I really tend to favor any of the even numbered studio albums.

GO

 

They are an awesome band. If your son likes Wilco I think he will dig them.

I agree! One of the best bands out there right now.

We're Just Friends, on Summerteeth.

Second. That's a total Plastic Ono Band homage.

This would fulfill my wish that Wilco pull a Neil Young and release at minimum one live document to accompany each studio album.

Hendrix incorporated Blues, Jazz, and R&R and fused it into a psychedelic sound yet to be heard at that point. He made feedback fashionable/listenable. He broke ground by playing Rock guitar (hence my disticntion) previously unheard of. That is reinventing the instrument, imo.

I was going to make the same point about the feedback. Granted he wasn't the first to use it. But compare the accidental feedback 2 years earlier on the Beatles I Feel Fine to the Are You Experienced album and tell me he wasn't doing something different with it. Even Velvet Underground albums, the feedback is microphonic, and annoyingly screechy. Hendrix is the earliest, at least in my musical consciousness, to purposefully manipulate it into something pleasant sounding. Or at least cooler sounding than a high school PA going apesh1t.

Hendrix just used the blues, and, in a way, beat it to death. That's not reinventing guitar to me. If you mean reinventing showmanship, then I could give you that, given his guitar burning, chewing, and smashing. To me, reinventing means taking the guitar to areas before entirely unseen. And limiting the scope to rock is just pointless, in my opinion. I speak in terms of all the genres of guitar music.

 

Granted, I'm the kind of person that doesn't applaud technical skill as much as doing something new with the instrument. Having come from a classical background I know what technical playing is and, to be honest, the violin is much more friendly towards technical playing...take, for example, Saint-Saen's Rondo capriccio, or Wieniawski's Polonaise brilliante...

 

As you can see from my classical background I couldn't care less about techincal skill. Anyone can pick up and play quickly. It takes a real person to make it into something more.

Speaking as someone who has grown to appreciate Hendrix over time, I have to say there's a lot more to Hendrix's playing than just blues. Sure, you've got Red House and Voodoo Chile, pretty much straight blues, and IMO not high points in Jimi's catalog. My favorite stuff of his is very non blues. 3rd Stone From the Sun - instrumental pre-fusion. Are You Experienced? - eastern-tinged psych. Manic Depression - 3/4 time, classic "heavy trio" sound. Good stuff all around.

I think there's a bit of a Hendrix backlash because every 13 year old beginner guitar player, or burnout stoner dude has a poster of him on his wall. I think it's time we all embrace our inner 13 year old beginner guitar player and/or burnout stoner dude. Seriously though, going on the singles, "Foxy Lady," et al, it doesn't seem nearly as impressive, but there's a lot of musicians the same could be said for.