Re: Bad Company quote, URL
I'm impressed too, Slim, but I can top that... I went to a funeral (of a young guy) where they played "I've Been to Paradise But I've Never Been To Me". The part about holding a baby in your arms and making love to your man that night was particularly, um, poignant. g Sophie === Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Playlist 15 April 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia
Hi all! It's good to be back after my US adventures - listening to great music, imbibing many micro-brews and confirming that Postcarders and P2-ers are, indeed, the best people alive - thank you to all the nice folks who looked after me so beautifully - Seth, Stacey, Jim, Robert, Paul, and of course Steve! Last week's show was kinda short because Tony Joe White came in for a live-to-air - of course, I didn't complain!!! In the 90-odd minutes remaining, I played some of the purchases that are responsible for my looming credit card debt - more next week. cheers, Sophie The Gourds - Gangsta Lean (Ghosts of Hallelujah) " - LGO (Stadium Blitzer) Bare Jr - Nothin' Better to Do (Boo-Tay) Hadacol - Better than This (Better Than This) Bottle Rockets - I Wanna Go Home (The Brooklyn Side) James Intveld - My Heart is Achin' for You (James Intveld) Slim Chance the Convicts - Acting Like me Again (Twang Peaks) Kim Lenz her Jaguars - Up to my Old Tricks Again (Kim Lenz) Neko Case the Sadies - My '63 (Bloodshot 7") Damnations TX - Spit Tears (Half Mad Moon) Whiskeytown - Highway 145 (Bloodshot 7") Backsliders - Lexington Avenue (From Raleigh, NC) Robert Becker - Fairliner (new album) " - Vertigo (To a Friend Unknown) Kelly Willis - Take Me Down (What I Deserve) Charlie Robison - Waiting for the Mail (Life of the Party) Pete Krebs Gossamer Wings - Patiently (Sweet Ona Rose) Willard Grant Conspiracy - The Work Song (Mojave) Edith Frost - Light (Telescopic) - new Australian releases - Lisa Miller - Safe as Houses (single) Jeff Williams - Stranger to Your Love (Clearspace) Jeremy Hanley - My One Desire (Devotee) === _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Playlist 15 April 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia
Hey Slim! That's so cool that one of your family members heard you on the radio - howzabout that?!? I really love your CD and have been listening to it incessantly at home. It was so nice to meet you and hang out in Austin. cheers, Sophie === _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Wacos @ Hoboken tomorrow (Sat) night
I'm THERE! If anyone else is going please contact me off list. Sophie _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Joe Pernice Interview (long)
Warning: this interview contains jokes which dont look so funny in print as they were live in the studio! - Joe, were so glad that you finally made it to Australia you had a few dramas getting here last time, didnt you? Yeah, it was just one big drama, haha. Its good to be here, actually. I just flew in a few hours ago. - You look remarkably well for someone whos just been in a plane for 24 hours. So I dont look half-dead? I think Im two-thirds dead, haha. - Now I understand youre doing a solo show tomorrow night, and then play Saturday night with local band Golden Rough backing you up. Yeah, Golden Rough are only doing a handful of songs with me, like six or so. That should be a lotta fun. - And I hear youre gonna play a few old Scud Mountain Boys songs too on this tour, you havent done that in the states for a while have you? No, not since the summer of 97. Ive played a handful of solo shows in America where I pull out a lot of those songs, but for the most part when I do that, Ill play songs that we didnt play much as a band. So I havent visited a lot of the material from my first three records in a couple of years, it should be interesting. - Well, I begged you before to play a Scud Mountain Boys song for me will you oblige? Of course. How about In A Ditch, from the record Massachussetts? (heavy sense of sarcasm in his voice since I had hassled him mercilessly to play this song) (laughter) Hmm, that doesnt sound rehearsed! (slowly) How about IN A DITCH off the record . MASSACHUSSETTS? (laughter) - live performance - Joe, thank you so much thats a song that Ive often wondered about do you mind telling me about the context of the song? Ah no, I dont mind, but hahaha um, how about a more specific question? - Well tell me what its about! Well, most of the songs I write are based pretty much around real experiences, loosely sometimes less loosely and, uh, 95, as youll find out when you do your big trek across America is a major interstate. Uh, its just, you know, someone I knew was found on the other side of that road. That was their last journey. So its pretty much, you know, thats the story. - Its a pretty raw song a lot of your songs evoke a sense of loss Why, thank you. Thanks! Hahaha. - And I think theres quite a few angry songs on the new album, too Really? Oh no, Im not capable of anger. - Cmon, Monkey Suit is a pretty angry song Theres not an angry bone in my body. Monkey Suit well, yeah, thats a little angry Its more fearful, probably at least where I come from its probably the same everywhere but you live your life, you go down a track, and you end up working in a bank or something, and to me, that track would be I mean, I dont wanna offend any of your listeners who might be bankers, but it would do me in for sure. I hate bankers. Insurance, thats another thing if you underwrite insurance policies, god bless you. - Is music what you always wanted to do, or did you dream of being an insurance broker one day? I did! Hahaha. No, Ive always played music, but I never thought I would do it as full-time as I am. It just came as a fluke. I was in graduate school, and the opportunity came up it had always been a dream, I just had to do it. - How about writing? Last time we talked, we spoke about your studies in poetry and your interest in creative writing have you been writing lately? Mostly songs lyrics Im working on a book of poetry right now. I have a Masters in Fine Arts, but I havent had a lot of time, yknow. Ive just been focussing on playing music and writing songs and recording. It seems like Ive been really busy since, I dont know, the last year things have been pretty busy for me. - I heard a rumor that youre also working on a side project? Just finished an album two weeks ago, its pretty mellow like the other records arent, hahaha. We made it at home with a few of the members of the band, and my friend John from Jolene, he sings on the record, and Geoffrey Underhill from the Velvet Crush plays on it. It was a lot of fun, we werent really sure where it was going to go, and that was half the fun of it. We just jumped into it. I had a bunch of songs that didnt seem to fit the project we were doing, and the opportunity to make a record came up, so we got off the road wed been on tour for months and just jumped right into recording. Its gonna be released on Sub-Pop. Would you like to hear a song from that record? - Id love to. Ill try not to mangle this I reserve the right to stop in the middle of it When I left home two days ago it was 20 degrees fahrenheit and the street was covered in ice and its something else just trying to get your key in the lock of your car door, it can be an ordeal A writer whos influenced me a lot is a Swedish poet called Thomas Traumstromer (sp?) and I wrote a song thats a sort of homage to him called Solitary Swedish Houses which is a
Playlist Feb 11, 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia
Golden Smog - Fear of Falling (Weird Tales) Wilco - Candy Floss (Summer Teeth) " - Don't You Honey Me (All Over the Place) " - What's the World Got In Store (Being There) " - I Must Be High (AM) Billy Bragg Wilco - Hesitating Beauty (Mermaid Ave) Uncle Tupelo - Cold Shoulder (Still Feel Gone) " - Now I Wanna Be Your Dog (from one of those evil bootleg thingies) Sargent York - Guts (Fifteen Degrees demo) Gerald Collier - Whored Out Again (Gerald Collier) Birddog - Trigger (Ghost of the Season) John Prine - Gold (live at Mountain Stage) Acuff's Rose with David McComb - Bitter Angel (Never Coming Down) Jeff Williams live in studio - Loose Knees - Sweet Nothing - Clear Space Acuff's Rose - One-Way Conversation (Son of the North Wind) Townes van Zandt - Marie (No Deeper Blue) R.B. Morris - Roy (Take That Ride) The Band - High Cotton (Jubilation) D.Braxton Harris - Scarlet Red (Deep Dark Black) Toni Price - Misty Moonlight (Hey) Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers - Prayer of the Changing Leaf (Pacific Coast Rambler) Smog - Sweet Treat (Knock Knock) Songs:Ohia - Big Sewell Mt. (Songs:Ohia) Calexico - Over Your Shoulder (The Black Light) Little Sue - Strong (Crow) Hogwaller Ramblers - You Shook Me All Night Long (Hogwaller Ramblers) Next week - Joe Pernice! yay! Sophie == "Better living through denial" _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: OFF TOPIC: MPLS drummer wanted for Sargent York!
Welcome back Nick! And just to add my testimony... Sargent York are pretty special. Sophie == "If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Playlist Jan 28 1999 - PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia
Richard Buckner Faithful Shooter (Since) Richmond Fontaine Watsonville Waltz (Safety) Chris Buhalis Footprints in the Snow (Kenai Dreams) Brian Lillie the Squirrel Mountain Orchestra Too Early/Too Late (Row Boats) Birddog Fruita (Ghost of the Season) Last Train Home Who Could Blame Me (Last Train Home) - So Long Baby Goodbye (Blastered) Dave Alvin Laurel Lynn (Blackjack David) King Kerosene Help You Dream (Blastered) Jon Langford Im Stopping This Train (Skull Orchard) Waco Brothers Bad Times (To the Last Dead Cowboy) Bottle Rockets Chattanooga (Leftovers) - Things You Didnt Know (24 Hours a Day) The Gourds When Wine Was Cheap (Dems Good Beeble) Wagon Angeline (No Kinder Room) Beaver Nelson Drive You Home (The Last Hurrah) Bob Egan Satellite (Bob Egan) Wayward Angels Pay No Mind (Wayward Angels) Ghost Rockets Comin Up for Air (Bootlegs) Deliberate Strangers Marcella (Mood Music for Snake Handlers) Greta Lee You Just Dont Want Me (This Aint Over Yet) Matt Walker Ashley Davies Got You On My Mind (I Listen to the Night) Vidalias End of the Night (Melodyland) Uncle Tupelo Anodyne (Long Cut + 5 Live) Blue Mountain Epitaph (Dog Days) Rock Roll Summer Camp Sail Away Lady (Rock Roll Summer Camp) Trailer Bride Chatham Co. Militia (Trailer Bride) Jonathan Richman The Night Is Still Young (Im So Confused) == "If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Sparklehorse Interview (long)
Heres a transcript of my interview with Mark Linkous. It looks better in print than its gonna sound on radio. It was late afternoon but he sounded sort of sleepy and fragile, and spoke very .very ..slowly . Im sorta glad it was pre-recorded so I can edit out the long silences !! Cant wait for the gig on Monday. Cheers - Sophie - Mark, welcome to Australia, how are you enjoying our weather? Um well I havent really been outside - Can we start off by talking about the process of recording Good Morning Spider in your home studio. What sort of setup do you have? Its a fairly basic 16-track digital studio, and I just start by the old-school method, sitting around with an acoustic guitar and writing a good song and then recording it. I guess the difference is, when I go to record it, I try to make it interesting but the construction of it, the writing of it, is really traditional as far as structure goes. - Youve sometimes spent many months working on one song, does your perspective on a song change over time? Not really. I mixed Painbirds off and on for two years, but my perspective doesnt really change that much. Maybe perceiving things as needing to be more minimal, rather than more elaborate. - Do you feel that you stay truer to the aesthetic that you want to achieve producing yourself, rather than taking them to an external producer? Yeah, the majority of it for instance, the song Happy Man, I was really bored with it, and I made it sound like it was coming through an AM radio on the album, but so many people at the record company thought it should be a single, so I compromised but compromised in a way that was still able to retain a lot of the integrity of the song. Then I collaborated with Eric Drew Feldman who produced the first two Frank Black records -- he was also in Captain Beefheart. I went down to Memphis, to a studio that Id been wanting to record in, that the last two Pavement records were recorded in, some Cat Power records, Guided By Voices records. Ill compromise in a way where I can trust someone, someone I respect, rather than working with someone whos been recommended to me by some industry person, yknow. - Do you have to affect a critical distance at some point, to shape the original song into the finished product? The deepest that I ever perceive the song as a finished product is if my friends are gonna think its cool. A good way of judging myself is if I think its gonna sound good in five years. - When you listen back to the albums, do you have an awareness of how far the songs have come from their conceptual beginnings? Not really I mean, it starts and ends with me. On the majority of stuff, I play everything, unless its cello or violin or something. It begins and ends with my brain I think its because Im so isolated, Im not affected by other peoples ideas. - Ive read that your dreams are a great source of inspiration for you does music tap into the subconscious for you? Yeah I think so I think that dreams and feelings and wants and wishes are a little more simple and more prevalent in your subconscious than they are in your conscious state. In the conscious state, theres so many details of the world, youre bombarded by so much miscellaneous junk. - Does your rural lifestyle help you to be in that inner space being away from the city? I guess so, I mean Ive lived in the city Ive often wondered that if I moved I was gonna move to Spain and I wondered if stylistically my music would change I think its just something that you carry with you Im not sure if it has a whole lot to do with your environment. I mean, a lot of it does have to do with environment, but more of it has to do with how much of your environment that you absorb. - You spoke earlier of a sense of isolation would you experience the same sort of isolation if you were living in, say, Los Angeles? Yeah but when I lived in LA I was pretty isolated I lived in a van and didnt really go out much I was pretty isolated there, too. - You did time over there on the alternative-rock circuit with your previous band the Dancing Hoods. Is Sparklehorse a kind of attempt to break out of that whole american-pop-group paradigm? I gave up on all that when the band I was in moved to Los Angeles. We were trying so hard to get signed, and I just quit and came back home and just gave up on all those aspirations of being a rock star, pop star, whatever. The business I was so fed up with the business I just let go of all that bullshit, and thats when I started making good music. - How do you accommodate the business side of it now dealing with record companies, music journalists, people like that? Well, thats absolutely the hardest part of it, trying to deal with all that. I always thought that when I started making Vivadixie, I wanted it to come out on Matador or Drag City. Being on a major label and being stylistically, vaguely in the same category of a band
Sparklehorse Interview
I'm interviewing Mark Linkous tomorrow night (gulp) and I'm wondering whether I dare ask him about his 80s power pop band Dancing Hoods. Does anyone know whether he's reluctant to talk about his previous work? They don't rank a mention in any of the interviews I've seen. thanks people Sophie == "I started out with nothing still have most of it left" _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Playlist PBS-FM, Melbourne, Australia, Jan 14 1998
Steve Earle Someday (Guitar Town) Bap Kennedy Angel is the Devil (Domestic Blues) Greg Trooper These Sunday Nights (Popular Demons) Colin Leyden Interstate (For the Wicked) Kevin Gordon Dissatisfied (Cadillac Jacks # 1 Son) Lucinda Williams Still I Long for your Kiss (live at Philadelphia 98) Cry Cry Cry Speaking with the Angel (Cry Cry Cry) Ron Sexsmith Summer Blowin Town (Ron Sexsmith) Neko Case Jettison (The Virginian) The Barkers Baytown (Edges From the Postcard 2) Okeh Wranglers The Calm Before the Storm (Lonesome Vistas) Tim Easton Hey Rosine (Special 20) Haynes Boys Goody Boy (Guardian Angel) Bottle Rockets Skips Song (leftovers) Clodhopper 1000 days of Shame (Reds Recovery Room) The Gourds Dying of the Pines (Dems Good Beeble) Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) Another Day Full of Dread (I See a Darkness) Smog Teenage Spaceship (Knock Knock) Dolly Varden The Wheels Have Left the Road (The Thrill of Gravity) Last Train Home St Elmos Blues (Last Train Home) Uncle Tupelo Moonshiner (March 16-20, 1992) Slobberbone Little Drunk Fists (Barrel Chested) Greg Garing Dream Too Real To Hold (Alone) R.B. Morris Bottom of the Big Black Hull (Take That Ride) Two Dollar Pistols A World So Full Of Love (On Down the Track) Paul Westerberg that song towards the end about the actor... cheers, Sophie == _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
