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I was at the Pearl Jam/Band Of Horses show in DC/Northern VA Thursday night and BOH covered "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Mats. Maybe that's something they do often, but I was happily surprised. I still enjoy Pearl Jam's records, including the recent ones, and always try to catch them at least once when they are on tour. They have always been such a great live band, but the crowds at their shows have gotten so strange to me. Considering many fans openly compare them to Zeppelin or the Who, it is odd that at a show most folks are sitting on their hands waiting for radio hits from the first fe

I agree with this. I've played those last two records so many times that I really can't rank High Violet right now. Having said that based on a bunch of listens at loud volume to what is notoriously a "bad rip" and seeing all of the songs played live, I have a hard time not seeing it matching the previous two at some point after I get a real copy. Honestly the last time I listened to a record this many times in a short period of time was probably right after A Ghost Is Born leaked. Right now I've had to step back from this thing for danger of over-listening.

The shows these guys played here in Richmond the last two nights were simply epic. Over the two nights they played every song from High Violet and holy crap does this stuff sound good live. Opened both shows with "Anyone's Ghost" which just owns.

Countdown! 7-8 hours away from the first show of a two night stand of "The National @ The National". Any other Richmond folks gonna be there? Also help finding a quality rip once the stream starts tomorrow would be appreciated. Not sure how many trips to atease my brain can cope with in a given week.

I got the exclusive DBT 7 in and the Galaxie 500 "On Fire" reissue. They laughed at me when I asked about the Hold Steady LP.

"Thank You Friends" is certainly one of the most sarcastic/meanest songs I've heard. That's what I love about it. Considering Jeff's comments regarding the chatty portion of the crowd, I'd say ending the main set with that made perfect sense. Anyways I was just glad to hear that be the Chilton song they chose to cover.

Just wanted to add that it was so great to hear "Thank You Friends". I had a conversation with a friend about how I thought Wilco might start covering a Chilton song as a tribute, and that is one of my favorites. Just a great, great show. Come back sooner than 13 years please! It was pretty nice being able to get to and from the show in 5 minutes.

8pm is the time listed on the tickets.

Well I hope these sessions leak cause I don't think anyone will hear them anytime soon otherwise. Here's hoping, but I ain't holding my breath. I love most of what he has done, but I can't think of anyone else who announces completing a record and there is good reason to think that you may never hear it. If you do hear it will be sessions/demos that Ryan would of course say weren't actually the record. I wonder if he even owns the masters to all the unreleased stuff?

Horrible news.

Big Star - Radio City

The lyrics to this are utterly ridiculous. That's why I thought they were funny.

It was a studio track with an r/b feel. The music sounded like what I'd expect some of the lighter moments on the next dbt record, "Go Go Boots", to sound like. Cooley raps Sly Stone style over the track, and as a fanboy it made me laugh. Hard. Topics included were to "sit back and enjoy yo-self", black beans and rice, and the fact that he doesn't speak spanish. I hope they come out to this track again - it was a fun way to start the show.

Charlottesville got absolutely OWNED on Friday and Saturday night. I've been going to see this band pretty regularly since the Decoration Day tour and they are STILL as good live as ever. I was going to skip the shows in Towson and Norfolk, but I think I might have to go to one of these now. Good times. David Barbe & The Quick Hooks opened both nights and had a brand new record on sale at the merch stand, which was a nice suprise. I am one of the folks who is a fan of the way he produces DBT's records, not to mention the work he did on the recent Cracker and Bloodkin releases. Neff

Yall dc peeps should take a trip down to The National in Richmond next time they swing through. They played 2 epic shows here last year.

Homegrown. Homegrown. Homegrown.

Nope. They still have good rips of the Velvets and Leonard Cohen Record Clubs, but I don't think they've posted anything from Oar.

I believe the r/b murder ballad record is currently called "Go Go Boots". Who knows if that title will stick, but I didn't think "The Big To Do" would stick either. I think they're both damn cool titles.

The Hold Steady - "Almost Killed Me"

I just went through the setlists and I can confirm that 39 different songs were played during the residency and they all appear on "Live at the Olympia". I might be the only one who cares but...

Thanks!

Anyone know if the 39 songs being released are all the songs performed during the residency? Having some trouble finding setlists from those shows and I can't find a press release with this info in it. Thanks!

You can see the tracklist he posted for Dear Impossible here... http://thesteamengine.blogspot.com/2008/12/ryan-adams-dear-impossible-foggy-demos.html I wish they had the rest of the posts Ryan made about this, because I really don't know if those indicated that these ever got to the Cardinals. I think he may have referenced taking them to the Cardinals at the time, but this was post Cardinology. I'm also pretty skeptical about anything that was on Foggy, which is what is around to listen to, being what was being referenced in the blog I linked. Eveything that is around is off Foggy b

First of all love your descriptions. I thought the first two were pretty good and the last one was great. Second - when you say the Dear Impossible album do you actualy have the whole thing or did you just do a comp or something? I have a lot of that stuff from rips people did off of Foggy and I think he even posted a tracklist somewhere at some point, but I never made a comp or anything. It would be pretty awesome if Dear Impossible showed up for sale on pax am at some point. Also I think Lost & Found is the exact same version that's on the Sad Dracula record Fasterpiece.

I have avoided reading much of this thread to try and curb my interest in these. I knew I would want the mono box set, Abbey Road, and Let It Be. I told myself that I really shouldn't be spending this kind of dough right now and figured I'd just spin revolver a few times to forget they were coming out. I also figured from stuff I heard and poking around the last few days that the mono box set was already out of print anyway. Imagine my surprise to walk into best buy this morning where they had the mono set for sale for $229! I immediately reviewed my portfolio with my stock broker and