Sweet Papa Crimbo

North American, he must mean.

100% North American

20% United States American

80% Canadian American

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Mutiny in Boston? Reportedly 17 players attended this meeting. The whole Red Sox scene has gotten ugly. I think they should trade a dozen players this offseason and fire Valentine the next.

These are the same sniveling cowards who spit the bit and cost Terry Francona his job.

Selfish players underperforming.

I saw all I needed to know about the Red Sox in the last Series against the Rangers.

Dustin Pedroya gets called out on a checked swing strikeout. He rails at the umpire for long enough that it was surprising that he didn't get tossed.

The next inning, he won't let it go and gets tossed as David Murphy is hit by a pitch.

Selfish player.

Agree the Tele is not the best thing....but he does play over 100 songs over a tour...so say he played 20-25 like 99% of bands and the same every night maybe he would not need.

 

Fact is he plays 30-35 songs a night and if he does 2 nights in city he changes 15 or so...that is like 50 songs in 2 nights...plus he is getting old.

 

Max works his ass off every night 3-4 hours....all he can do to get through each night I bet.

Bruce uses the teleprompter on EVERYTHING. I don't know if his memory is really that bad, if it's a crutch or if it's simply a matter of expedience. Hell...he remembers the chord changes from his songs. He remembers the basic structure of the solos. Why not the fucking lyrics.

Secondly...Max has always been a plodding drummer. Yeah, he's a warrior and he plays hurt (so to speak), but he doesn't SWING.

The best bootleg ever is THE TIES THAT BIND...purported to be a copy of the original masters of the album that was supposed to be released November 1979 before Bruce decided it was to light went back in the studio to record more songs and eventually morphed into THE RIVER. ( i know it's a tortured sentence)

 

 

 

Almost agree,however do you know this one(no stadium crap just Bruce & guitar):

 

Bruce Springsteen (solo) - Coca-Cola Planet Live - promo disk PL\BSPRO1\01

promotional disc for radio broadcast

Austereo MCM, 1996

 

01. The Ghost of Tom Joad \ Straight Time \ Darkness on the Edge of Town 14:53

02. Born in the U.S.A. \ Dry Lightning \ Youngstown 14:55

03. The Line \ Across The Border 16:04

04. The Streets of Philadelphia \ The Promised Land 09:54

05. Interview: out there by yourself 01:36

06. Interview: playing small shows

 

Recorded at the International Congress Centrum , BerlinApril 19,1996

I like THE TIES THAT BIND, because of the alternate history aspect of it. PLUS, if you get a really pristine copy, it is an actually mixed down version ready to press and release.

Now that proper reverence has been expressed for Bruce, I have a couple of bitches to vent.

1. The reliance on the teleprompter is embarassing. That and the attempt to mask reading the lyrice by assuming the half-closed eye, pained, earnest artist look...sweet fancy moses.

2. If truth be told, Max Weinberg is a plodding drummer who, while technically proficient, DOES NOT SWING.

There.

Got that off my chest.

There was a release of some demo recordings that, if I remember correctly, came from a partner of Mike Appel.

The best bootleg ever is THE TIES THAT BIND...purported to be a copy of the original masters of the album that was supposed to be released November 1979 before Bruce decided it was to light went back in the studio to record more songs and eventually morphed into THE RIVER. ( i know it's a tortured sentence)

Like Springsteen - what an "abortion" ..... (i keed, i keed)

I have been a most vocal critic of Springsteen's reliance on the prompter. And the goofy pained artist face he uses to supposedly hide his reading of the lyrics. I am sure that is what has led to some of the off rhythm performances of many of his old warhorse standards.

Oh - it was alright. At least NBC showed most of it. We got to see Brian May tearing it up - that was cool.

 

I had heard The Who were going to play. I guess I'll have to catch the video. And - Scary Spice. She is ok in my book.

and just who the fuck is Jessie J and why was she so prominently featured? Guest vocalist with Queen? Really?

If she's reading this message (she has been known to post occassionally)...I'll say happy birthday from me and the boys

fun interview...lots of lazy journalism. proof that the news pretty much gets a lot wrong, or at least misses the nuance.

...and that's from PBS...damnit. It's a sure sign that we are going to hell in a handbasket

That's always been a tough song for him to get. I seem to remember a lot of boots I have where he flubs a line or sings the wrong verse at the wrong time.

 

--Mike

I'll take a flub or two over having him staring at a teleprompter

How can you not like a guy who sang Duke Ellington to his kids?

Nothing like commenting on a four old thread...

The worst thing for me outside of the pain and the symptoms is the feeling that I'm either going to die or this may be the time it never stops...

"Many more will be added".

A few thoughts (scratch that, many thoughts):

First of all you're not full of shit.

Many artists folow a bell curve - most are shaped more like a steep triangle.

Personally, I think Wilco would benefit by bringing in someone else to mix/produce their next album.

Many believe you should not produce your own albums.

Most people say that YHF was Wilco's best, but I don't think it would have been so well received if their original mixes had been released as the album.

I realize that the music we hear on the Sam Jones film or the engineer demos, were just that, demos, but I think Jim O'Rouke really made a difference on that album.

Certainly the sonic mixing he brought to AGIB is evident, especially if you listen to it on headphones.

He has a remarkable ability to focus your attention on one instrument or vocal in a recording.

I think the last album would have been a lot better if he had gotten his hands on the tracks.

 

Last thought: why does everyone seem to want to judge a Wilco album as a whole?

In this day when you can buy one song at a time, why not make your own album?

Personally, I'm not a fan of Billy Bragg, so my version of Mermaid Avenue is one album with just the songs Jeff sang.

I don't like some songs on A.M. or Being There so I have cut some songs out and made two single albums to listen to.

My version of Summerteeth begins with Pieholden Suite and ends with The Lonely 1.

I guess sometimes we feel like we have listen to an album like the way my parents used to make me eat dinner: '..you can't have dessert until you eat your peas & carrots..'

If I just want to eat dessert, I'll eat dessert.

If I just want to eat carrots, I'll eat carrots.

Wilco makes a lot of good meals and they can still cook, but ya don't have to like every course.

Just take what you want or like and enjoy!

But that's just my opinion and I'm full of shit too.

I tend to consume the artists work as they conceived it.

I do love Sriracha but not sure about this:

 

 

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That makes me sweat just looking at the picture.

We are at the end times when we look to the internet for political inspiration. Look to the original sources of political thought to arrive at your opinions. Plato, Voltaire, Locke, Smith, Jefferson, Marx Madison, deTocqueville, the Durants, Hegel, Chanakaya, St. Augustine, Voltaire, Bentham, Dewey, Kant, Paine...(I always had a problem with Chanakaya, but I bet Machiavelli read him extensively).

Man's relationship with society and the evolution and role of political association has descended to catch phrases, ad hominum attacks, fund raising and brinksmanship.

The internet is an unruly, enabling sandox filled with bratty kids screaming at the top of their lungs...present company included.

The quality of the material used in the t-shirts is really shoddy.

Well, maybe not shoddy. But they are certainly insubstantial.

I rarely wear the t-shirts I bought at concerts and bundled from Kung-Fu.

Not yet.

 

 

 

There it is.

 

Mitt Romney made a point of acknowledging the cultural superiority of a country that is highly successful, while it is the 4th highest recipient for USAID (that's non-military funding, nestled right between such dissimilar countries as Haiti and Kenya) and has a budget surplus. We worry about our deficit, yet were donating to a wealthy country with a surplus.

 

All that aside, you have taken a cautious and well measured stance to moderate what could be unfair accusations against Gov Romney. What are your motivations? Are you looking for something redeemable enough in him to vote for?

Yeah...Lord knows that cautious and well measured stances have no place in an internet discussion group. Let the ad hominum attacks and wild sword fights continue!

Any list that has the RHCP that high loses all credibility.

RHCP are the Grand Funk of that generation.

1. The band must be a true band: a GROUP of musicians that created a body of work, not a backing band for a solo artist. Hence, The Supremes (who were a successful group before they were rechristened “Diana Ross & The Supremes”) are eligible; any band with an “ampersand” that was really a backing band for a solo artist (Prince & The Revolution, for instance) was largely considered ineligible. (You’ll recall that Bruce Springsteen famously petitioned the Rock Hall of Fame that he should enter the Hall as a solo artist, independent of the E Street band, who he hoped would be considered later on their merits separately.)

agreed. i do not think he will do well at all.

He has a .171 interleague ERA.

He won't have to bat

Dylan has really been on cruise control for the last 5 years...setlist short and basically same night to night....still plays around 100 shows per year which is very cool. Not in same league and Paul or Bruce (both play 3 hours sets everytime). Paul's setlists are the same but if you see it you will be amazed....just classic after classic....just amazing. Don't try to compare to Stones, totally different situation.

 

I agree, Wilco should look at this as a challenge and expand the sets a little.

 

Also, Bruce does like the new songs but he is only 1/2 done this tour. Will be judged when he plays into 2013 if songs are still in setlist.

I threw in Sir Paul and Zimmy because I didn't want to be a total Bruce Partisan. The Stones and their malaise needs no comment from me.

I think you will see that, for at least Working on a Dream tour, he shunned that record for the most part (good God what a tortured sentence).

Maybe it's because the European audiences are a lot more sophisticated and ALLOW Bruce to play his newer material...American audiences (especially in the Northeast) are not as open.