I don't really think the guy had to name names, he certainly said enough
to identify who he was talking about. Obviously not a big fan of
insurgent/punk attitude.
I would have to agree for the most part. ALthough there seems to be a
market for this stuff . . . so some fans are diggin' it.
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, JP Riedie wrote:
Shryl Crow is one of the best big mainstream stars around. Not only is her
heart in the right place, her records are extremely well-crafted and
listenable, her melodic sense is stronger than many better writers and at
the very least she tries to express
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, David Cantwell wrote:
Sure, you can trail after previous influnces forever, but I'd argue that's
important intellectual work. As for the MOST influential, however, the way
to look at it, seems to me, isn't to idenitfy the influences upon an act
(in the way Oliver
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll chime in...cause I should be finishing this darn thesis:
Marshall Crenshaw / Cynical Girl
Kate.
Amen. I LOVE that damn song. 'September Gurls' by Big Star is nearly as
irresistable.
-jim
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Morgan Keating wrote:
Morgan "re-read "Life After God" recently and loved it just the same"
Ah my absolute funnest author to read. Here's my Douglas Coupland order
of things:
1.) Generation X
2.) Girlfriend in a Coma
3.) Microserfs
4.) Life After God
5.) Shampoo Planet
What Don said.
But what has really got my simple little mind all a-twist is how a band
rehashing many old sounds (Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc.) can be
used to accuse people of being too static to accept a new horizon??
remember i am a Wilco sympathizer and applaud the new
Newly returned Greg Harness asks:
2. What's the official P2 take on the Freight Hoppers?
Well there is nothing in the P2 FAQ g but I happen to LOVE the Freight
Hoppers and I think that they are probably the most exciting and
accessible Old Time String Band playing (and if you believe
Someone posted a URL on the list for SXSW photos and I wanted to check
them out.
But I of course deleted the message or something.
Help?
-jim
Flip a coin. I did BMI . . .
-jim
On 1 Apr 1999, Bill Gribble wrote:
I give up trying to look at the applications and figure out which one
is which. There are these songs, they are on a record, I want to
collect the big $$$ when they break the Top 40, and I have no
publishing
What Joe said.
This is my understanding too. You pay the fee they collect the royalties.
Which is why (in the 1990's-2000's) I say flip a coin. And yes Bug is a
publisher . . .
-jim
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Joe Gracey wrote:
Dave Purcell wrote:
I seem to remember reading that it's
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which reminds me, any minor or major Drake fan want to offer up a good
starting point into that artist's catalog? I need to go buy yet another CD
that I've never gonna have enough time to appreciate to its fullest. Sigh...
Oh my fucking God does
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, William F. Silvers wrote:
Nah, I bought FIVE LEAVES LEFT and I like it, but the corner hasn't been turned
into fanaticism yet.
I don't think I would have turned the corner ever with Five Leaves Left.
Definitely either Bryter Layter (orchestrated) or Pink Moon (solo).
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, John Magee wrote:
sweet for the song. "A troubled cure/ for a troubled mind" just doesn't sit
right unless sung by the spooked Mr. Drake.
"Time has told me
you're a rare rare find
a troubled cure
for a troubled mind"
fully agree. This is among my top two or three
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Matt Benz wrote:
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Subject: PLAYLIST: Fear Whiskey
3/29/99
Music this week includes tracks from three bands who are
playing April 17: Jim Roll the Deliberate Strangers at Pluto's,
and the Sovines who play the Next Decade. If I can
It was reported last night that Garth's next desire is to tour with Kiss.
I AM NOT kidding.
Stay tuned . . .
-jim
All of which reminds me of my favorite comic moment from SXSW:
Wacos are playing their Bloodshot Party closing set at Yard Dog and they
start a song with the following piece of banter:
Jon: this next tune is called 'Fire Down Below' . . .
Female P2er (gesturing towards her croch): hey
By far the best show I've seen at SXSW so far -- Shaver. Brilliant and I
haven't felt moved like that at a show in a long time.
more soon.
-jim
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jerry Curry wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, John Magee wrote:
np: Shaver, "Victory". Nothin' like a little sangin' about
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Gregg Makepeace wrote:
I guess I don't buy a Richard Thompson album for the cool percussive
effects or keyboard noises. Amnesia doesn't really have too much of the
heavy handed stuff on it but "Mirror Blue" sure does.
this sums it up perfectly. I really really agree
Well,
I went and listened to 'the Mountain' (Steve Del) in the car at a decent
volume and I want to ammend my earlier comments. This is a great record .
. . not a good one. Really excellent performances and sounds. ANd the
songwriting, while tailored to the outfit, is first rate as usual.
Hey Bob Soron or somebody else. Can you send me a private e-mail with the
recent Buckner interview where he is so surly??
-jim
ps -- I posted that SPIN review of Wilco a few days ago in the midst of my
rant and neither Purcell nor anyone else seems to have noticed. Damn
those kill files!! g
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Terry A. Smith wrote:
guess I'd make Thompson's decade end in the mid-90s). The point is that
for me these two artists are very similar -- masterful songwriters and
arrangers, killer vocals and guitar, and every song makes a point. Even
though critics and fans have
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Hill, Christopher J wrote:
I don't think it's your imagination. Ryko's eye-catching green tinged
cases break the most often for me, personally.
OH My God!! that is the truth. The Ryko Green cases seem to come broken
about 70% of the time for me. THey are brittle
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Gregg Makepeace wrote:
A new RT album with full band called "Mock Tudor" will be released
later this year. Froom only guests on keyboards. It's produced by Tom
Rothrock and Rob Schnapf, the two guys are that did the latest Beck
and Elliott Smith albums. Not sure what
Just when I thought Purcell and I were from different musical planets, he
writes a post that I agree with word for word (except I am not much
worried about Steve Earle burning out, but that is a minor point).
ALong these lines I have these impressions of my latest 1999 purchases:
Kelly
Actually as absurd as this is gonna sound, you are not really the
pedant/intellectualizing type Terry. I am sorry. You did manage to get a
little condescension in there in my opinion, but ultimately your initial
post had a bit too much passion. I am sorry. g
-jim
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Terry
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Don Yates wrote:
of that's no doubt the usual hipster cooler-than-thou pose (which can be
found in just about any musical subgenre you care to name), but I'd like
to think that it's also an implicit recognition of the value of tradition
in country music. OK, I'm foolin'
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Steve Gardner wrote:
And I see no reason to call someone like Wayne Hancock anything but country.
The man talks sense. I think that most of the people we are talking about
are country. i.e. Wayne, Tom T. Hall, Merle Haggard, Emmylou, etc. I
mean maybe instead of
OH boy. Man Terry, you really have my blood boiling up here in Ann Arbor,
and I am sure this debate has happened here before. But I am gonna bite
anyways.
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Terry A. Smith wrote:
This stuff confuses me, as does the idea that a "movement" evolved around
Uncle Tupelo and
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Dave Purcell wrote:
reference to Tweedy because I'll gladly nominate Jack as the most
overrated of the Beats. No one would've heard jack about Jack if
Ginsberg hadn't tirelessly shopped and promoted his work. "On
The Road" will always be a jackoff work compared to
On 5 Mar 1999, Bill Gribble wrote:
ND is *some* people's bible. Honestly I have never even seen a single
issue of it. Last night I read a couple of the interviews in the ND
book and I was not blown away by the writing. And I have never
listened to a single Uncle Tupelo album. I saw Son
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Terry A. Smith wrote:
ps I think Jim might have taken my post a little bit wrong, because, I'll
admit, it didn't have a great deal to do with Tera's post that was copied
in that message. Her post just indirectly sparked those thoughts; I
wasn't necessarily challenging
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Terry A. Smith wrote:
And how does "No Depression" as a name for a magazine prove anything about
Uncle Tupe's music itself? They're the media, right? If they see Uncle
Tupelo as big influential innovator, that's fine. But it doesn't
necessarily prove anything. -- Terry
Jeff Copetas dreamt this up:
Exactly, man. The facts is the facts. Hell, I went right out and I bought a
pistol right after I heard "Gun" because I worship Uncle Tupelo. And that's
not all - when Anodyne came out I rented a car and drove to the New Madrid
fault and slept there for a few
Michael Hall and Walter Salas-Humara present the 4th Annual 'Swollen
Circus' at The Hole In The Wall in Austin on Tuesday night, March 16.
THE FOURTH ANNUAL SWOLLEN CIRCUS
10:00 - The Naked Barbies
10:20 - Jim Roll
10:40 - Gurf Morlix
11:00 - The Brooders (Michael Hall)
11:20 - Lisa Mednick
I think that the bottom line is that Alt-Country is the commercial kiss of
death. Nobody has really broken thru (Lucinda not excepted), and the
radio format is a complete commercial wasteland. When you consider that
these people (Wilco, etc.) are on major labels, and have been at this a
long
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Bell/Wrightson wrote:
But, Todd, there are several Jim's on the list...which one do you mean?
Well he couldn't mean me or Caligiuri!! GGggg
-Jim
I think that it would be tough to be an artist who was tabbed with a genre
nickname and dubbed its founder.
In the case of Jack Kerouac he distanced himself from the 'beat' tag the
bast he could but in some ways was unsuccessful. He tired quickly of the
trend and the other writers who rode the
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote:
Actually, Hot Rize mostly got the advantage of using a single mike - the
nifty "choreography" - without sacrificing the advantages of a multi-mike
setup by using 3 unidirectional mikes sprouting from a single mike stand.
actually along that lines,
Neil et. al.,
I'll be playing SXSW Liberty Lunch at 9pm on Wednesday March 17th, with
the Silos as my band (Walter Salas-Humara on Drums!!). It should be fun.
As far as other P2 related bands go, I saw the Meat Purveyors on the list.
I'm sure there are more??
-jim
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 [EMAIL
I have a pre-release tape of the new Ray Wiley Hubbard studio album due
out on Philo later this year. Very nice passionate stuff that picks up
where Dangerous Spirits left off. Lloyd Maines produced with the usual
cast of characters plus a bunch of greasy slide guitar from Ray himself
and some
Admit it Matt. You are not really a Gourds' fan at all, are you??
C'mon?? I have the sneaking suspician that, in the grand tradition of Andy
Kaufman, et al. you have decided to deconstruct fandom by creating the
absolute most obnoxious fan you or anyone can imagine.
Your real genius (c'mon
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Matt Cook wrote:
How am I obnoxious?
well not obnoxious in a bad way . . . perhaps it should rather be said
that you are remarkably consistant and persistant.
The narrator is not always the author.
thus my performance artist theory!! g
The joke is all at my
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, marie arsenault wrote:
all the bands I spoke to said that they had very positive experiences.
Sponsor presence was subdued. NEA really seemed to be about the bands
and the music.
I have to agree. NEA was a good experience. As Marie mentioned, the
sound/mix people
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone of the bands get anything to cover gas, hotel, or anything other
than the "exposure".
the standard package is that bands get either $175 cash -or- wristbands
for all band members and 1 crew member and a badge for one member of the
My cue.
I have a lot of problems with the original Damnations pre-release . . .
but I am gonna reserve comment until the final release comes out (they
reportedly did go back to the studio to brush it up).
But anyways, count me in as skeptical re: the Damnations TX disc. They
are talented as
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What was the name of that unlisted Clash track on Sandinista! ?
I think you mean Train in Vain on London Calling??
-jim
They featured a Joe Henry tune on Felicity last night!! woohoo!! It
sounded like a male Kate Bush meets Sarah McLachlan. But I am open to
hearing the whole thing . . . I mean he is an old Ann Arbor-ite g!!
-jim
ps -- for those of you who missed it Felicity tried to have sex. It was a
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