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Post by RocDoc on Jun 7, 2004 12:38:18 GMT -5
The closest I come to a fan club is being on the 'RT List' which is a Richard Thompson newsletter from which I recieve their postings everyday.... a very cool group of people with some of THE most wide-ranging musical tastes I've probably ever seen...outside of a few individuals here...like maarts, phil, dr d, JAC....
Unfortunately I end up deleting aLOT of their mailings, unread...when my mailbox stars to get to the '95% full' level. It's usually a pretty dense read, so I don't always choose to immerse myself in them, UNLESS there's an RT show that I'm going to, coming up....
NP Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
This is that disc that the Cure did their interesting version of Purple Haze....Clapton, Buddy Guy, Nigel Kennedy(!)...the Jeff Beck/Seal 'Manic Depression' is unREAL here! Just heard Body Count(Ice-T's band, which I didn't know)do a wonderful Hey Joe....
Hendrix IS was GOD!
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Post by Meursault on Jun 7, 2004 12:42:05 GMT -5
My most played Hendrix cuts of the last year or so....
Angel
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I Don't Live Today
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Post by bowiglou on Jun 7, 2004 12:44:04 GMT -5
rn....I like the use of the word "interesting"..appropriately vague!!.......and c'mon RN, why aren't I in your list of those with diverse tastes...for example, I like everything from The Doors debut to the Doors 2nd LP: Strange Days.....now, talk about diversity!!!
I did hear a new song from the Cure the other day and gotta admit, sounded great
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 7, 2004 12:46:52 GMT -5
Richard Thompson fan club? Cool. The dude is a highly original axeman.
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Post by Meursault on Jun 7, 2004 13:07:49 GMT -5
Yeah a lot of people could be on that list...
*stares at Jeffy Lee Lewis Disk sitting on top of Antonio Carlos Jboim, no to of Bad Brains, n to of JJ Cale, on top of Stone Roses, on top of Tom Waits, and top of Slayer, on top of Foreigner*
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 7, 2004 15:28:37 GMT -5
Yeah, Bow...you're just voracious in your anything-goes eclecticism...  ....but you're getting better. Didn't you just get an Emmylou Harris disc a few months back? See? Variety is good.. ...Shane, yeah you DO surprise me with the stuff that interests ya...and I mean in a good way. ~ I Googled 'Guiness Fleadh' cos I wanted to see if they were doing ANYthing this year(answ: No) and read a review of one which I attended in '98 and saw that I hadn't even realized that X had played there, among like 50(I swear!) great bands there....I mean, I DID see Richard Thompson, naturally...and Wilco and Los Lobos and John Martyn. ...but here's a really great excerpt on the X performance. Some broken-fingered someone here might enjoy this... .......
It took a band like X to snap us out of our stupor. I don't even remember what their first song was. I don't remember them setting up or anything... they were just there! John Doe, D.J. Bonebrake, Billy Zoom, and Exene Cervenka -- the original members in all their raw, underclass glory.
Put the double disk Los Angeles/Wild Gift on shuffle and you have their set list. Everything they played (with the exception of "The New World") came off those first two albums, and despite the lines and wrinkles in their faces, they had all the energy and power they must have had in 1981. "White Girl," "We're Desperate," "The World's A Mess (It's In My Kiss)," "The Unheard Music"... they just kept throwing them at us all night long. No talk between songs. No bullshit.
There was no way to stop dancing, they looked better than they did back in '81.
They weren't all strung out on drugs. John Doe looked every bit the rock and roll rebel he has always been, with his cut off T-shirt and black, belted boots. The Freddy Mercury mustache was kinda gay, but otherwise he looked good. D.J. Bonebrake didn't do any of his flips like he used to, so maybe he has back problems now. Exene Cervenka looked downright sexy as she rolled her bedroom eyes at the audience. I'm not saying she looked good (like a model). I'm saying she looked sexy. Seductive. She had some kind of power.
It was good to have Billy Zoom back. The wide-eyed guitarist from Dubuque, Iowa. Playing the straight man to the rest of the punk insanity, his hair was combed back, his legs spread cowboy style as he laid out one sharp 50's riff after another. That searching grin he was always known for was almost creepy in real life.
Seeing X live was the realization they were that rare commodity, the perfect band. John Doe's Elvis-like hiccup backed with Exene's strung-out, almost whining backup vocals, punctuated with D.J. Bonebrake's punchy drumming and Zoom's stinging Chuck Berry guitar riffs. And don't forget Ray Manzarek's keyboards (yes... that Ray Manzarek, from the Doors -- he was on their first two albums). A truly original sound. All of this, plus the writing that could be funny and apocalyptic at the same time: "Set the trash on fire, and watch outside the door/A thousand kids, bury their parents... " Wow! That's scary!
Where would they have gone if Billy Zoom hadn't left the band?
Well, they're back now. See 'em when they come to town. Wear your dancing shoes.
......www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_08/live_ink/guinness_fleadh_nf.html |
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Post by bowiglou on Jun 7, 2004 16:29:16 GMT -5
cool review of X RN..there was another review of X concert in the newest Big Takeover which I just got this weekend.......and if I may so immodestly state, also has a review of Bowie's show in LA by your's truly!!!!!.................
Also, for you Clash fans out there, there is a new Uncut/NME special issue solely about the Clash.................
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Post by Kensterberg on Jun 7, 2004 16:31:04 GMT -5
An Uncut/NME issue on the Clash? I'm heading over to B&N this week to get my copy ... and I'll grab an extra for RocDoc. |
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Post by bowiglou on Jun 7, 2004 16:34:31 GMT -5
.....and Ken, you're gonna love the lead article by Catherin Coon about the state of punk circa 1976.........................
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 7, 2004 16:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by Mary on Jun 7, 2004 16:50:26 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the X review, rnr! Sounds about right... except (fortunately?) when I saw 'em, John Doe was no longer sporting the "gay" moustache! Bit of a weird set list, too, because all three times I saw them, they played quite a bit from Under the Big Black Sun too - musta been a shortened set since it was part of a festival, so they couldn't play as much.
Oh shit, I'm sorry to hear about Robert Quine's passing... also too young to go. Heroin OD? I'm tempted to say "when will they ever learn?" but the fact that the article says he was basically grieving his wife's death makes me much more sympathetic - I guess he just wanted something to dull the pain.
Crap. It's hard to type with fucking splints on my fingers.
M
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 7, 2004 16:52:04 GMT -5
How'd you break your finger, Mary?
NP: Richard Hell and the Voidoids--Blank Generation ("Liars Beware")
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 7, 2004 16:53:35 GMT -5
I just realized how cruel it was for me to ask that, and therefore require you to type more. Sorry.
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Post by achn2b on Jun 7, 2004 16:57:01 GMT -5
i'm gonna throw a massive bummer all over everyone, but i need to vent somehow, and i know you guys will listen.
it appears as if i'm going to have to put my cat down. my bestest bud for as long as i took him in as a stray back in either 1994 or '96, i can't even remember. he hadn't been eating since friday, and couldn't even keep water down. the vet says his kidney functions are almost entirely gone, and she doesn't know if she can even bring him back to a point where he can continue on with lots of treatment and care in the future. and even if she can, i don't know what kind of life he'll be living then. she says that even if he does recover now, this is something we'll be battling pretty much constantly, and no idea whether he'll get much better even with all the treatment.
so if he hasn't made much improvement overnight, i'm gonna bring him home for a day or two, and then do what i'll have to. and i knew this day would come sometime, and would really affect me, but i wasn't expecting it so soon. his personality was so amazing for a cat, he was more like a human than an animal, and he bonded with me like no one ever has, perhaps because i did rescue him. and i know i have to let him go rather than have him suffer, but i'm gonna miss him so much. it's just been a horrible day.
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Post by maarts on Jun 7, 2004 17:18:35 GMT -5
Truly sorry to hear that mate. The last thing anyone wants is for their loved ones to suffer, so I know that whatever decision you have to make, it'll be the right one. All the best.
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