Vacant Horizon

AMan is Mike!!!! never knew.

the things we do for music. glad you got your disc.

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curious about hackett/squire thing. anyone hear hackett's most recent album? can't seem to find it anywhere. he's always busy. collins putting out a motown record...not surprising, but still sad. can't believe it's the same dude who sang on trick of the tale and played drums in brand x!

i guess that's one of my issues with DBT, they don't have a good lead guitar player. cooley just can't play. of course that's part of their charm. however, i'd love to hear some tasty licks on some songs that didn't sound like they sound kind of good by accident. don't know if neff is any good on lead. great on pedal steel though.

very good point. it's a DBT album. nothing but the first song seems memorable to me. def not 'better' than the last two. however, if one loves the dbt sound, then this is you're album. i have a feeling this is going to be a fan favorite after all is said and done.

don't know if anyone cares about this, but i do. Andrew played 'boner' on growing pains. but, this hits close to home because he worked as a video editor on the podcast never not funny which i love. it's comedian jimmy pardo's podcast. andrew was pardo's brother in law. just very sad. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/25/growing.pains.actor.dead/index.html?hpt=T1

jff, you should go get a ticket outside at phillips with me;)

excellent point.

it's not the fact that it's called a killer whale. it's the fact that it is a giant giant wild animal that lives in a pool as big as my backyard. inhumane. i can't believe this shit doesn't happen more often.

your story is one of the reasons, in part, why indie record stores deserve to close. assholes who work there!

this should be fun. i'll head out to the phillips arena show and get a $20 ticket like i do for all shows there i'm interested in. seeing CSN is a bonus:)

ditto

whatever cortez.

yeah, old king is touch and go. fun though, especially when preceded by a funny story about the dog:)

i wish topographic oceans was a triple quadruple album...on album for each piece:) joke

very good points here. what got me thinking about all this is the ipod. it's so easy to condense an album on itunes and not have to deal with skipping songs. BUT, do we miss out on the album experience or the 'bad' songs growing on us? just some thoughts.

i don't think length is the issue. it's more tightness. i think of springsteen. he had a shitload of songs for born to run, and only put the 7 that fit the record. as for american central dust. i just think the album is much much stronger with out cocaine/ashes and sultana. double albums are a different story. long songs on a record are no problem, as long as they are compelling. i'm thinking close to the edge. of course, this is all a matter of opinion and i thought it would be an interesting topic to throw out there.

i prefer albums that are 8-10 songs long. 12 is pushing it. it's irritating that so many bands put out long long albums! DBT, Ryan Adams, and recent son volt work being culprits. so, do you guys take songs out? i've take a few songs out of decoration day, for example, and it is a much tighter record. at least for me. i can get through it, then. i'm toying with the idea of making an outtakes comp for all these artists i've taken songs from.

95 shows are unlistenable. how was the 7/2-3/88 a mad house? just curious.

i purposefully forgot about the atlanta show. i don't want to stand the whole night anymore. i've listened to some of the shows, and they sound pretty good, but very jammy, in a bad sense. at least songs are bit faster than ratdog's slow pace. the mixes are good and damn if jeff is an awesome harmony singer. btw, cant believe phil is gonna be 70 this year!!

pretty much saw every thing except west coast in 94. what a year to have available to tour extensively. that said, each show had at least one nugget. i wish they would start putting out tour comps of the best songs from a tour. kind of like without a net. (although, they really need to release every damn show from 1990. i would by the whole box set of that.)

so do we know what happened after the nuke? did it change everything? do they remember the 70s?

oh man that is so so great!

the downfall begins with the second side of H&Ds concerning KC, been digging the Thrak album lately.