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Post by En on Oct 4, 2003 16:10:52 GMT -5
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
So, I went to see Josh Ritter last night. I'd seen him last November, opening for John Wesley Harding, and I thought his lyrics were really solid, but he just didn't have his act polished yet. Well -- it's polished now. The boy is incredible. He's not afraid to indulge in a laugh anymore, and he's just completely flowered out stylistically, and the lyrics! Damn! Check out "Bone of Song" if you want a real treat... or here are some other favourite lines (roughly quoted as this is from scribblings in my notebook in a smoky pub in Chicago at 1am ::
you say the heart has no bones so it won't break but the purpose of love is the poundin' that it takes ... she had eyes like champagne they sparkled and bubbled that night but in the morning, rain ... what makes the water holy, she says, is that it's the closest thing here to rain ... all the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights they try to shine in through your curtain, but you're too close and too bright they try and they try but everything that they do is a ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you ("Kathleen," which is on the top of the Irish charts at the mo)
And he's developed this brilliant stage presence, it's this blend of aw-shucks and unabashed poetry, a brown suit and red Chucks, wacky hair and this terrific smile he gets when he knows that something's really going well, that he's playing more than the strings of his guitar.
I'm a convert.
Check out his touring schedule. The boy is not to be missed.
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Post by Leia Skye on Oct 12, 2003 15:42:57 GMT -5
Thursday night, the 9th, I went to The Juliana Theory show. Ahhhhh everything was so great. ;D
Celebrity was on first. They um suck live. But you can tell they're good. The guy has an amazing voice. They were just a really shitty performance. Next was Copeland, and they were actually really good. I ended up buying a CD after the show. Awww the guitarists were so hot. iloveskinnyemoboys. ^_^
Hopesfall. Now this was interesting, since my friend Kevin is friends with the lead vocalist, Jay. I got to meet him after the show cos of this, and got his autograph. I also got his shirt, but he asked for it back. Only he was just kidding and I kind of didn't realise it. So then some other girl got it and I was like BUGGER. Anyway, these guys are...there isn't even words. I was blown away. They were by far the best performers. And I'm not even saying it just cos the mosh pit pushed me up to the stage...~_^
Ahhh and then there was The Juliana Theory. Well, besides me molesting Brett any chance I got, he grabbed my hand!!! Eeeeeeeeee he's so hot. The show was kind of annoying though since everyone was *censored*ing singing along. The attitude I have about that is, Okay, did you come here to prove you know the lyrics or to hear Brett's amazing voice? Jesus God. @_@ The other thing was, Brett's really full of himself. Everyone (myself included) loves him and he knows it. The shirt he wore said 'Everyone loves an Italian boy.' *rolls eyes* Okay, I admit I wanted the shirt desperately, but still. Ahhhahahaha he was also wearing these Italian aligator boots that looked like they came straight from Prada.
At the end, I jumped on the stage and grabbed the pick he dropped before anyone else could get it. I was gonna give it to my best friend Laura since she couldn't come =( but I think when I got Jay's autograph I must have dropped it. I felt like shit. Oh well, I tried, right? Haha I tried to get the towel that Brett wiped his sweat off with but I got yelled at.
All right, I think that's all. ~_^
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Post by fico the fur on Oct 13, 2003 15:28:50 GMT -5
i went to this concert last night, and it was really cool. the thing that made the entire show worthwhile: lyndell montgomery.
okay, backing up. ember swift is this up-and-coming artist, right? compared to ani difranco, and a lot of people respect that comparison. ember had a drummer named adam and a backing vocals/violinist/bassist named lyndell. (how cool a name is that?) anyway, lyndell was totally and completely into the music. i mean really into it. some people just have music rushing through their veins, you know? and she had it. it was way cool.
so, my general opinion of the band was that they have some growing to do. because they were really good instrumentally (even though i don't always like that style, i really liked it here), and they work incredibly well together.
i only have a small problem with their lyrics, because it feels like their trying a little too hard. it's kind of like the difference between having someone tell you they like blue, and then you buy them a blue shirt, compared to you just picking up that they wear a lot of blue, so you get them a shirt. you know? it's the difference between things being exposed or being hinted at. the difference between things being explicitly said or just alluded to. i really appreciate allusion. i like working in order to know what someone means. the lyrics were a little lacking in hints and ...
they lacked layers or something. like the difference between saying "he died" as opposed to "he sailed the styx". you know? they didn't have references to anything outside of their own music.that's it, that's what bothered me. they didn't connect things, they didn't make connections. instead, they made only the things themselves.
so they're definitely good, and if you have a chance to see them live, go. (god. stage-presence like you wouldn't believe.) but i don't know if i want to buy a cd yet. they had one song that i was willing to buy a cd for, 'cause it was really good. but they hadn't recorded it yet, and i really can't afford it right now.
so, and yeah. good concert. very cool people. and lyndell signed my notebook, and we connected over music. (we talked about susan werner and ani difranco and stuff.)
they're just cool people, and fun to talk to. (um... and lyndell and ember are both really good-looking.) they're political (both in their music and just their lives), and they care about things, and just good stuff like that.
oh, right, and they're canadian. ;D
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Post by En on Oct 14, 2003 13:44:45 GMT -5
*nods* I was doing box office duty at that concert and while I was waiting for the last stragglers to come in, I was reading the lyrics in the display copies of Ember's CD's, and I was like, she's got so much great political energy... but the lyrics aren't there yet. They're just talk so far, not yet poetry.
Like, you've got Ember talking about going to her ex-girlfriend's wedding: "Because you see, I boinked the bride." And then you've got Ani singing about a beautifully imperfect love: "It's better to be dusty / Than dressed up like some store-window mannequin. / Won't you touch me where I'm rusty? / Let me stain your hands." I could dig what Ember was saying, you know, because I've been to that wedding ("How exactly do you know the bride? / I swallowed a gulp of my wine, / thought of you and lied.") But Ani's images leave a picture in my mind, you know? It's like the difference between bread and a sandwich.
Ember did do a really cool rant-to-music about the current political situation in the states, but it's not the kind of thing you record, because (I hope) she changes it as things come up in the news. And it wasn't poetry, but it was making good points.
So yeah, mostly I'm saying, I agree with Gen
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Post by Rue on Oct 20, 2003 15:46:03 GMT -5
This isn't really about a concert, but it's the best related thread I could think of to post about it.
At my school they have a radio station, and my school has 400 kids, right?, with this radio station which is on 24 hours a day... which boils down to... if you want a show, you can have it, and for as much time as you can handle. ;D
I went to a meeting, and it seems really neat. The staton only plays on campus because of copyright issues, but I'm thinking of having a show 1 or 2 hours a week, and I can play weird folk and rock music, and tell the really ubsurd stories I always tell. I can even just bring my laptop and play the music off of it... so if any of you have any music you want to be known to probably the 5 people who on average would listen to the radio at the time I'm djing, let me know so I can show it to the world. ;D It just won't start up for a week or two, because currently the radio station doesn't have a room...
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Post by En on Nov 5, 2003 11:51:26 GMT -5
Quickie reviews of the shows I've been to / worked at lately (click here to see where I work):
Patrick Ball -- traditional harpist. Oh man, I love this guy. He talks half the time, and the other half he doesn't just play the harp -- he becomes the harp. It's incredible. He did this one piece that was a portrait of a woman in music, and it was so evocative, so poetic, without any words.... He's also funny as hell, knows his Irish history (but, being from the States, can tell a hell of a Boston joke)... yeah. You have to see him live, though, or get a live album. Studio recording would not do this dude justice.
Tanglefoot -- uh, what is this, swashbuckle-folk? Think something like Richard Shindell's historic narrative ballads, but with a higher humour content. They do a lot of stuff about the Great Lakes, and they have a terrific sense of humour (on the latest CD, legal counsel are listed as "Wallace & Gromit"). Very happy, very energetic... almost a little too energetic for my taste, but yeah, if you're into bluegrass or ballads at all, it's worth seeing them once. But watch out for their fan club (the Footheads) -- that is one terminally happy bunch of people.
Cheryl Wheeler -- I don't care what you're doing, and I don't care if you have to walk 400 miles to get to the show. This woman is bloody brilliant. Yeah, her recordings are pretty good, but you have to see her. She's funny, she's weird, she goes on these comic hyperbole orbits and comes back laughing, and underneath it all you get this awe-inspiring sense that here is a woman who has ridden down the shit and chosen to love life anyway. Plus, you haven't lived 'til you've heard her cellphone song. I think I may have come perilously close to losing my spleen from laughter on that one.
...she appeared with Kenny White, who is a newbie to performance but not to the scene -- he's been a producer for years and is just now venturing to do his own music. It shows a little; his lyrics are still kind of tribute-ary; but there's no question the man knows his keyboard (he was adjusting for key changes and improvving like a pro when he played with Cheryl), and the riffs this guy pulled off when he just kind of settled into his groove toward the end of his solo set -- damn, it was like he was playing two songs at once, it was pure fireworks.
Violet Island -- appalling. I can't remember the last time I heard a band so bad that if they'd been playing at my favourite bar, I would have gone to a different one. They want to be Peter Gabriel, but their lyrics are boring and their sound is like "let's hit all the loop buttons on the synth and see what happens," and they did this self-important video thinger at the start that reminded me of nothing so much as a Koyaanisquatsi screensaver. Plus they're snobs. Boo.
Jeff Lang does some pretty dark lyrics, often to do with love gone wrong (don't worry, he's a really nice guy), but tune out the lyrics and just listen to the man and his guitar. They are one being. He can make sounds come out of his Churchill like I've never even heard before; he played above and below his chords; he rocked the house with a slide; he even had a sort of guitar-zither-mandolin hybrid thing he called a "lap acoustic" that had this incredibly sensuous sound. And he has blues influences, right, but he also used a lot of Eastern scale types for his riffs, and you haven't heard ragtime till you've heard it done in pentatonics. Definitely worth seeing.
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Post by MagPie on Nov 8, 2003 14:04:26 GMT -5
I used to go to a lot of concerts but I really hadn't been to any in a loooooooong time until this past summer. My mom and I went to see Bruce Springsteen...we had pretty good seats and it was an awesome show! I was amazed that this 50 yr. old guy was so energetic! I also recently saw Fleetwood Mac (one of my all time favourite bands) and they were phenomenal!! I don't know if anyone in here likes them or knows the history of the band, but there are only 2 things that would have made the show better: 1. if Christine McVie was with them and 2. If Lindsey and Stevie got back together after all these years...
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Post by gabi on Nov 16, 2003 16:52:59 GMT -5
Okay, so Thursday night I got to see Death Cab for Cutie at Nita's Hideaway. It was reallyreallyreally good. Like, amazingly good.
Nada Surf was supposed to play, but apparently there was a family emergency, and so Rueben's Accomplice, a local band, replaced them. They were pretty good, they had the typical Tempe-band sound, which I like, so yeah. But the best part was that Jim Adkins, lead singer of Jimmy Eat World, sat in on the set. ;D I got to talk to him a bit afterwards, and he gave me a high five. ;D
Then DC4C played, and it was great. They were amazing live and played all of my favourite songs. Their set was two hours, if not more, and I loved every minute of it. They interacted really well with the crowd, and on the whole were really nice, sweet, guys. This show is definitely a top fiver.
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Post by En on Nov 17, 2003 12:33:04 GMT -5
The Strawbs -- are incredible. If you like folk, definitely run to one of their acoustic shows. I didn't see any of their plugged stuff at their show last Sunday, but wow, wow, wow -- their sound is amazing, and the lyrics are mysterious and poignant. Lead singer Dave Cousin's voice is unusual, to say the least, and he does this weird sort of benedictive hand motion thing sometimes, but he's expressive and dynamic, and his between-songs chat, in his hypnotic, soft voice, is positively alluring.
Brian Willoughby on guitar is a second coming of Peter Green, and that is not a small compliment coming from me. Dave Lambert, backing up on vocals with a descant that must have been Garfunkel's model, adds rhythm and melody and does this beautiful gull-cry effect by scratching and plucking at his steel strings. Check out their album Acoustic Strawbs: Baroque and Roll to hear what I'm talking about. Beautiful.
Ned Massey is energetic and opinionated, his lyrics often political and evocative of those two most political feelings: desire and hopelessness. "Bosnia 1992" is a heart-slashing lament for the genocide victims in that torn land, and "A Life" is a bittersweet tale of a young man's passions. But the surprise for the night was the acapella ballad "Patrick O'Daugherty," about a Boston-born man who got drawn into the conflict in Northern Ireland. It's a Dylan-deep lament for good intentions, with a haunting tune. >Click here< for samples of Ned's music.
Brenda Weiler has a beautiful voice. Sweet and bird-like, yet with all the body-deep passion of a spiritual (and her rendition of the old spiritual "Poor Me" is stirring), she can hold a room spellbound with mere sound. The show Friday, however, surprised me -- she seemed low-energy, and she'd lost the almost Ani-esque laughing banter. I don't know if it was just an off night, or if the generally slower, sadder music of her newest album, "Cold Weather," is getting to her, or perhaps it's just early in a tour and she hasn't gotten into her groove. Nonetheless -- check out her song "Trickle Down" (a beautiful tribute to the women who influenced her), available on her website, and keep yo' hands off my copy of "Crazy Happy," with my favourite of her tunes: "In the Morning."
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Post by Ritsu on Nov 17, 2003 16:20:11 GMT -5
((did I get the right colour this time? :)
Anyway, I know it's been almost two weeks since November 5th but I've been so away from the boards that I didn't have the chance to post about it on this wonderful thread. And I'm not a$$licking. It is a good thread. I mean, I've been growing really passionate for music and concerts so *thumbs up* Oh and Gabi, that's so cool that you got to talk to the lead of JEW. I mean, it's not like I know much of their songs but it's always exciting to meet up randomly with the singer of one of our favourite bands. Just imagine me finding Molko... ah, just the thought of that.
Anyway.
So, November 5th, at about 5pm, I was already in Lisbon, in front of the Coliseum, waiting for the Forum group to show up. I was gonna see Blur. Blur means a lot to me... not that their songs are good. I mean, they are good but many people seem to find them stupid. But listen to 13 and Think Tank, specially the latter, and you'll fall in love. They've changed so much *tear* Anyway, I've started liking Blur when I was about 14 because beeing the teeny that I was, I was obsessed with Damon Albarn, hence, his band. The thing died away a bit, but I couldn't miss an oppurtunity such as this since internationally known bands like this don't come to Portugal everyday. They should. But they don't. So there I was, on my own in a town that was not my own ((though I wish it was)) waiting for a group of people I didn't know. Funny enough, they passed right under my nose and I didn't even ask if it was them.
I ended up joining this group of total strangers and went to MacDonalds with them. They were really nice... specially a girl, called Joana. She was a Radiohead fanatic, which by itself, is cool. She said she thought Muse were kinda copying Radiohead, I said I couldn't know because I never heard Radiohead that well. Though I really want to. Then, I noticed she was looking at me rather suspiciously... reason: I was all in black. Black pants, black shirt, red top, black eye-liner, black eye-shadow, black nails. I was so... ;D ((hooray for restored self-esteem )). Anyway, I obviously started talking about Placebo and then she looked at me like "ooooh, so that explains the black". Precisely. I don't wear black nailpolish everyday. My dad called me a farmer. Moving on...
So, we went back to the Coliseum and the conversation sort of died away and I was kinda like "... I'm in the middle of nowhere with a group of strangers, this is so... weird" and I was feeling kinda guilty for no special reason when finally two of the people I'd been waiting for arrived. Tiago and Joana. Joana was... a kid, basically, she reminded me of myself when I was her age, drooling for Damon all over the place. Tiago was insane. He still is. But it's what Gabi says... concert friends are always cool but you stop talking to them very fast. True. But they were really cool. And then out of nowhere Joana gets this message saying that the group of people I should be with was right in front of us. So we joined them. I was kinda squeezed between a group from the North and *my* group. Though I didn't mind it that much So yeah, moving on...
The opening band was supposed to be a Portuguese one, called Blind Zero, and yes, they sing in English, and yes, they're good but I don't like them. They're stupid and think they're so important. They cancelled it because of copyrights or whatever. Jerks. If they ever want to be succesfull, they must put in their thick heads that there's always gonna be someone in the audience with a camera or a recorder. Bah. And what annoyed me the most was this... in a recent interview they said something like "We don't want to be known as a Portuguese band, we want to be known as an international band". Hang on. It's not that I'm patriotic or whatever, but that wasn't nice. So as I was saying, they didn't play. So we were like one hour waiting for Blur, tired of seeing the soundcheck guys coming back and forth, back and forth, forth and back.
((One thing that annoys me is the soundcheck guys - I know it's necessary; but they annoy me, they're too slow))
I was in the second row. Squeezed between a 30 year old-ish and two guys with Oasis shirts ((some of us were annoyed by this because Oasis and Blur never really got along, but... I mean... why not? It's not like I'm not gonna like Oasis just because they were constantly fighting with Blur)). And then yes. Lights went out, everything turned blue-ish, and Blur came on-stage. The house fell down, basically. It was lowder with Placebo but... don't compare. Placebo sold out. I just think it's important to say that Blur now play with an ex-The Verve, who's replacing Graham Coxon.
They started with "Ambulance", which is so much better live than on the CD. It's just surreal. And, in my opinion, it was the best song they could pick for the opening. "Beetlebum" came next. And then I lost track of things, because for me that was more like a dream, I'd been wanting it for so long. I just know that Damon is a little teaser. He loved coming near us, so everybody started pushing and shoving to get near him. So in the middle of it all I was more sandwich than human being. I grabbed Damon's arm during "Brothers and Sisters" ;D Anyway, during "Song 2" everyone from the Forum started jumping on those guys with the Oasis shirts And since they were squeezed to my back, people jumped on me too. So me being the mosh-lover that I am and the claustrophobic that I am, I just had to move. So during To The End, which isn't a personal favourite, I went to a most quiet place. It was too quiet though, I was the only one jumping, screaming, singing and waving my arms. But I didn't care. Highlights: "Sing" and "The Universal". Above all, I wasn't expecting these two. And specially those two.
All in all, the concert was really good. Really really good. Sometimes the music was too loud though, and we couldn't quite hear Damon's voice but... who cares? Really. I never thought they were so good live. But... Graham Coxon was missed. Absolutely. Though the ex-Verve guy is very good, Graham... is Graham. The set was good, they didn't just focus on recent songs, they had a very nice mix between new, old and classics (Girls and Boys - don't like it much - Song 2). So I really liked it. Really really.
Gabi, what about after-concert friends? Because on Thursday (the concert was on a Wednesday), I started talking to the Oasis guys and they're, basically, awesome. They're much older than me, but yeah. and there's more to this but i won't tell
So, I'm gonna leave you all now with a list of songs for those who're interested... because I'm that boring, yes.
Leisure: Sing, There's No Other Way, Repetition, Bang. Modern Life Is Rubbish: For Tomorrow, Blue Jeans, Chemical World. Parklife: End of A Century, Parklife, Badhead, Magic America, This Is A Low. The Great Escape: Best Days, T.O.P.M.A.N (stupid song), The Universal, Mr. Robinson's Quango, It Could Be You, Globe Alone, Yuko and Hiro. Blur: Beetlebum, Song 2 ((lost the album)) 13: Tender, 1992, Coffee and TV, Swamp Song, Trimm Trabb, No Distance Left To Run; Think Tank: Ambulance, Out Of Time, Good Song, On My Way To The Club, Brothers And Sisters, Caravan, Gene By Gene, Sweet Song, Battery In Your Leg.
Sorry for bothering.
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Post by Dora the Explorer on Nov 18, 2003 21:47:31 GMT -5
!!! Has anyone heard about this new Broadway musical called Avenue Q? I heard about it on NPR. It like a grown-up Sesame Street, complete with puppets! My family is moving up to the VA/D.C. area this summer (my dad is moving after Thanksgiving; he has a job at the Pentagon!!!) so I want to see it maybe for my birthday. It looks absoloutley HEELARIOUS-but some of the songs are meanigful as well. Check out the site: www.avenueq.com/yes i know this is not a concert, and i haven't seen it yet...but oh well.
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Post by Nie on Nov 24, 2003 5:03:09 GMT -5
I'm thinking I might go to the BDO here in Oz when it comes round. Not till early next year, but that's really not all that far away anyway. Always wanted to go and never got the chance, but since I'm in Sydney now I figure I may as well. So long as I can find somone to go with me. I wouldn't want to go alone. I'd get lost in the mass of sweaty bodies and it just wouldn't be any fun.
Maybe I can rope .lain into going with me. I can use the excuse that he can crash at my place.
Oh, for those fo you that don't know BDO stands for Big Day Out and is like this huge full day music festival with bands from around the world playing. Attracts alot of bands like Korn and Grinspoon and Marylin Manson and that, but also lots of good DJs and other cool artists.
KoKo, I know that you know what I'm babbling on about at least.
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Post by Ritsu on Nov 25, 2003 8:24:33 GMT -5
Hey, I know what BDO is. I'm absolutely jealous of it, in fact. I know that Silverchair and The Vines usually play there, which leaves me *grrr* What bands are going this time? [don't say Placebo, don't say Placebo].
We're gonna have some sort of BDO too in Portugal next year, called Rock in Rio. I know it's a Brazilian festival, but for some reason, they're also doing it in Portugal next year. Fine by me. Silverchair usually go to Brazil so maybe... ((Silverchair is like one of the few bands I like I haven't seen nor will see in the future... the other is Muse but they like Portugal, so there's hope)) Guns'n'Roses are coming. Bah.
A Perfect Circle will be here January 20th. Which rocks, I'm in love with them right now. I'll tell you about it later, of course, adding my stupid details and song suggestions.
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Post by En on Nov 25, 2003 14:52:03 GMT -5
Meh... I really want to see Avenue Q, but nothing like that ever comes to Iowa, and anyway... one of the people involved and I have uh... reason not to want to see each other? Yeah. To make an exceedingly long story short, there's a woman I care about a lot (was in love with her for years) and he made her life really miserable. But that's not a good reason not to appreciate art, I know....
Haha... so about A Perfect Circle (I like them too; don't know them so well but like what I've heard)... it cracked me up that the one time I had a chance to see them, they were playing alongside Nine Inch Nails. Heh. (it's the, er, symbolic juxtaposition of the names that is making me chuckle)
*sigh*
Hamell on Trial -- Ed's a nice guy, in a not-afraid-to-tell-jokes-so-vulgar-they-shock-even-me kind of way, and the music definitely has fascinating lyrics, often expressing political sentiments with which I'm entirely in agreement. I'm looking forward to listening to his new CD, which is on the Righteous Babe label, which is Ani di Franco's label and has pretty consistently awesome artists. But I guess I'm not sure what audience he's going for, and I'm not sure he knows either. Maybe he should figure that out before he tells the mouse joke again I'm all for free expression, but I'm also all for making choices that make more free expression opportunities likely, and I think he might do more good in the world if he works out which kinds of shocking convey his message in his style to his audience. Yeah.
Storyhill -- A pair of singer/songwriters who do music not at all unlike Simon & Garfunkel or The Indigo Girls. (In fact, they did a cover of "The Boxer.") Great dynamics onstage; it's fun to watch them play to each other (they both play acoustic guitar) and since they've been doing albums together off and on over about 10 years, it's no surprise that they have a really funny Old Married Couple type sense of humour. Their songs are ballad-like and often universal in theme; I can almost guarantee that there is a song by Storyhill somewhere on their 11 albums that you will recognize as being something like your experience.
...meh, without meaning to make too big a deal out of it, the lyrics aren't quite up to S&G or IG standards; there are too many mixed metaphors and not quite enough... I don't know... well, you know those little bits of image that make the ballads of Paul Simon so vivid? "The moon rose over an open field" and stuff like that? Or the places in IG songs where they use phrases with multiple meanings to add even more philosophical depth? These guys don't have that. Yet.
But the talent is definitely there, vocally and as a potential in some of the lyrics. They had just done a new song (not yet available) like 2 nights before I saw them that was definitely S&G/IG quality... I wish I could remember the words, but the gist was that it was one partner in a relationship telling the other partner that s/he loves hir, but the other partner needs to get some trust... there was a bit where the one partner says some reassuring things and then says "can you hear me / you're cutting in and out" and it was just... musically, the line was perfect, a heart-wrenching twist of tune set with poignant words.
So I'm going to reserve judgment on them for now... and when that song comes out on their next album, I'll buy it... and we'll see what happens.
Eric Taylor - I was so not in the mood, so I'm going to be really unfair. I mean, his lyrics are good; there's a reason that he's been called the William Faulkner of country music. But I don't dig country music except insofar as I like the blues, in general, so all I can tell you is that he is technically quite exceptional as a guitar player, lyrically well above average, and... he talks a lot. A lot. I think it might have been partly the beer he consumed while playing *sigh* I'll try to think about it and listen to some recordings and come back to reeevaluate.
In other news: GORKA! John Gorka is coming in January! I am SO all over that....
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 27, 2003 8:27:17 GMT -5
(Pardon the ignorance, but qui est John Gorka? )
I know I'm a bit of a teenybopper nerd, but I got 2nd row tickets to see Robbie Williams in December. ;D So yeah... something to do then, and I'll let you know what it's like. I'm not really into the music anymore, but last time I went, well, he's a great all-round entertainer. I just thought I'd share this because I actually have the tickets on my desk... and it's exciting. ;D
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