sunken treasure

the mountain is bluegrass Earle, and it is indeed excellent...especially the title track...an American classic. will be covered on back porches in 100 years.

the best representations of Earle sound are probably Transcendental Blues, which is a good mix of all of his styles and his best album, I Feel Alright, or El Corazon. Start there and work your way through his other stuff. Guy is a great, great songwriter.

this tour is a dream come true for me, as someone who came late in the game and missed live GBV period. Seen Pollard, but never, NEVER(!!!) thought I'd get the chance to see him with Tobin and motherfucking MITCH MITCHELL

I'm hitting the DC date if the ticket thing comes through. if not, ill pay a fucking scalper. CANNOT WAIT

THE CLUB IS OPEN

come on come on

the cluuuuub is ooooooopennnnnn

thanks for these, hardwood. my collection of live geebs is ever expanding thanks to you

whole Mojo album streaming here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/music/news/story?id=5260264

kinda weird that its on espn.com, but whatever...I'm happy we get to hear it in it's entirety finally

I just recorded the stream at 320kbs mp3 and am splitting it up in ProTools now. I'm gonna tag it label it all in iTunes then I'd be happy to post it. Where's a good spot to upload files?

Probably sendspace or mediafire?

 

 

A couple d-bags were present yelling inappropriate things at inappropriate times. "Shawn thinks you're gay" exclaimed one obviously drug addled degenerate (who went on to clap loudly and randomly throughout the night). I'm a proud Pittsburgh native and he is not representative of our overall crowd for you non-locals that drove in for the show.

 

YES. that's the guy I pointed out earlier. He was such an annoying pest. kept yelling, clapping, getting up and walking in between my row and the row behind us, yelling weird shit at tweedy, what a dick.

it was really bad until the acoustic set when he left. i was totally prepared to turn around and punch him, but didn't want to risk missing out on the rest of a wonderful show

great great show, probably the best of the 5 times I've seen them. girlfriend was super-impressed, so it's legit.

i was, however, about to sock the drunk fat guy behind me who kept yelling "YESS SIRRR!!!!" every 2 seconds, clapping randomly during quiet parts, and booing when Jeff talked. He left right after the dinner giveaways....thank fuck

other stuff that pollard excels at:

http://tinyurl.com/y9q3dsn

uncle Bob!

people forget that the Pollard bros were sports wizards

he's multi-faceted

I'm actually half looking forward to Moses on a Snail

 

i need to check that one out -- is it from planets are blasted?

 

i would say the same thing about radical amazement ... an almost GBV-esque track

 

ya know, as good as some of these songs are though, there's still something missing ... that musical edginess gillard brought, usually in the form of lyrical, riff-based intros that are repeated later on in the bridge or coda ... seems like almost all of bob's recent stuff is chord based and not riff-based ... taken individually, it's no big deal, but album after album of it is a problem

Track 4 on planets

I agree about something missing...the songs are catchy, some get stuck in my head, but overall they've lost some of the magic. too samey

I could have sworn i saw someone mention something on DTS about Bob and doug currently working together...

28 songs...best of boston spaceships. i think it holds up pretty strongly considering Pollard's latest output.

Canned Food Demons

How Wrong You Are

You Satisfy Me

Keep Me Down

Big O Gets An Earful

Winston's Atomic Bird

Tattoo Mission

Psych Threat

Brown Submarine

Dorothy's A Planet

Two Girl Area

Question Girl All Right

Sylph

Andy Playboy

Radical Amazement

Queen Of Stormy Weather

Soggy Beavers

Let It Rest for a Little While

Rat Trap

UFO Love Letters

Ready To Pop

The Town That's After Me

The Comedian

Go Inside

Heavy Crown

Exploding Anthills

Mr. Ghost Town

Go For The Exit

Keep Me Down is the most GBV like song I've heard in years. Pumping power chords, "I'm driven to youuuuu, I'm driven to drinkkkk".....I can just see Mitch blowing smoke and hopping around with his Les Paul slung low at his knees.

i need to give planets are blasted another shot

Yeah, totally. Greg demos lays down some wild solos on tracks 3 and 4

It kinda trails off in the middle, but the highs are higher than brown sub,etc. One could make a killer best of boston spaceships mix...think ill tackle one later

Pollard just may be the greatest artist you can pare down and make mixtape upon mixtape of

Also, there's been more intelligent discussion of the man and his music in this thread than I've experienced on dts in probably 4 years...ill still lurk there to hear about new bands and new bob stuff...but I'm too scared to even attempt bringing anything to the table post-wise anymore.

 

I can't imagine he's selling copies of this stuff to anybody other than the hardest hardcore bob apologists who would snap up a three-CD box set of Pollard, Nate Farley and Chris Slusarenko belching, then get drunk by themselves and sign onto Disarm the Settlers and brag about how brilliant it is and how drunk they are

 

did Todd produce it?

have you heard 0 to 99? it sure ain't alien lanes, but it's significantly better than everything else since FaCE. it's the first record he's put out in five years that doesn't make me cringe.

 

and best of all, todd tobias has nothing to do with it (except producing bob's vox)

yeah, I've heard it all.

0 - 99 is great, but I think I'd put Planets are Blasted over it as the best Pollard release since FaCE.

That run of first 5 songs - Canned Food Demons, Dorothy, Tattoo Mission, Keep Me Down, Big O is great.

so i agree that he has been criminally underappreciated but i think he's brought a bit of that on himself

...interesting angle. I'm trying not to do any drive-by diagnosis shit on Bob, but I have to say I just don't get where he's at right now.

He seems alright with the 2,000 or so fan base that snaps up every mediocre release...I honestly sense bitterness that he never "made" it...perhaps that's why he's not even trying anymore.

that being said, the guy still gave us over 20 years of great music. that's more than most fans could ever ask for, and we'll always have that to fall back on. I do believe he still has a few great records left in him...if only he'd take things in a new direction.

The last two albums he did for Merge at one time had only sold 2,500 apiece.

 

is that all he sold? jesus christ. that depresses me.

it's fucking criminal he isn't more popular

i think Why Did you Land goes back earlier than 1996, right?

 

was just marveling last night at what a powerhouse that is

 

the guitar sound is just massive

 

i know it's an original Power of Suck track, and I think that's early 1990s?

 

but i'm gonna add it to my 1996 mix anyway

yeah, some of the tracks that came out that year go back pretty early...but as far as I'm concerned, if the official release came out in that year, it counts....haha

have you seen the footage of Mitch playing that? i think it's on Some Drinking Implied or something

1996 mix:

Man Called Aerodynamics

Systems Crash

Cut-Out Witch

Why Did You Land?

The Official Ironmen Rally Song

June Salutes You!

To Remake the Young Flyer

No Sky 2:04

The Key Losers

Lord of Overstock

Acorns & Orioles

Get Under It

If We Wait

He's The Uncle

Bright Paper Werewolves

Your Name Is Wild

At The Farms

Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something And 5

Carnival Boy

Flat Beauty

Atom Eyes

Beekeeper Seeks Ruth

Big Boring Wedding

To My Beloved Martha

The Winter Cows

Sheet Kickers

Heavy Metal Country

Drag Days

Optional Bases Opposed

It's Like Soul Man

Redmen and Their Wives

Psychic Pilot Clocks Out

Don't Stop Now

best GBV cd ever? the amount of great songs Pollard and co. put out in 1996 is absolutely staggering

there's some food upon the taaaaable, boys.

With very few exceptions, I pretty much already do.

in the pantheon of Bob, that's one of the best years to live in.

Bushes, Sunfish Holy Breakfast, Not In My Airforce, Tobin Sprout's Carnival Boy

goddamn, that was a great year

also, I think we should change the title of this thread to the "Bob Pollard discussion"

 

OR being willing to back him up because of their admiration for his past work is okay by me too, but I still would not buy it. Certainly everyone has the right to express themselves, but I find it painful. But again that is just me.

 

LouieB

I'm not sure that Okkervil River is a band well suited to Roky's style of music, but I'll be checking it out regardless.

The new album is absolutely amazing.

Will Sheff did a brilliant job producing - and Okkervil couldn't have been any more tasteful with Roky's songs.

Album of the year...This is like Time Out of Mind, Bone Machine, etc.

Seriously, Bob can't sell no more than 1,000-1,500 tops for those Circus Devils albums. The last two albums he did for Merge at one time had only sold 2,500 apiece.

 

I think this is the overall problem with Bob's current situation: he's releasing music to a small but none-the-less fervent fan base but is doing little to grow or develop as an artist. He may be fine with that and more power to him, but it would bug the shit out of me if I were allowing myself to be marginalized as an artist. As a fan I know he can do better but...he's not. Plain and simple.

go listen to Under the Bushes and live in 1996 forever then, mannnn.

there was a show I saw in 2007 at St. Vincent's college where Jeff started getting in a security guards face during Kingpin I think?

I'm not really sure what the issue was - the guy was just standing there doing his job...but Jeff berated him pretty bad for not rocking out and singing along. It was funny at first, but he did it for like 3 minutes straight...by the end I felt kinda bad for the guy.

Jeff was cranky that night.

i've tried many times but just don't dig circus devils

 

at all

 

a few good tracks here and there (bull spears, pattern girl) and i give bob credit for pushing the envelope, but ... it ain't for me

Its 99% crap. Some of bob's most ridiculous, drunken vocals laid non top of eerie Todd music....I'll give them the music...its decent background/atmospheric noise, but I probably wouldn't spend money on it. The bob fan I used to be probably would...but I've spent to much $$ on shit like nightwalker and acid ranch to do it again. I'm strictly Bob proper and Boston Spaceships from here on out......pass the koolaid.