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Post by Thorngrub on May 21, 2004 17:19:01 GMT -5
ok - i'm back -- Anyway, I honestly believe, to this day, that DAVID BOWIE is the #1 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC ARTIST ALIVE TODAY, PERIOD. The music that is closest to thoRny's heart is all drenched around the Bowie mystique: T-Rex is a band I adore like no other, and Roxy Music is up there high upon the altar of rock I worship. After all these years, peter murhpy has distinguished himself as not just a "bowie-clone", but a profoundly affecting singer/songwriter/artist in his own right. Iggy Pop is my fucking hero. And Brian Eno -- I can't even conjure words sufficient enough to do this man justice. He is the patron Saint of ambient music, and so much more than that. I met Eno once and was able to present him with my 2nd (self-published) book of poetry [entitled on mount drone] when he came into Boston many years ago to do a visual/audio presentation @the Museum Of Fine Arts, right around the time WRONG WAY UP was released. All these artists mean the world to me -- and they all seem to emenate from a nucleus that has David Bowie at its heart. My first true love turned me onto Bowie, all of 20 years ago. I suppose through bleedthrough and a gradual default process, that true love stain'd my soul for the man, and I remain duly affected by his music and legacy all these years hence. [thanx, VeryScaryCarnival ;]  Raise Your Glasses In A Toast to The Man, The Legend . . . Halloween Jack, The Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust, Screaming Lord Byron...the Goblin King...The Man Who Fell To Earth...the one, the only......DAVID BOWIE |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 21, 2004 17:19:48 GMT -5
gotta run. . . . . .back to answer your KING CRIMSON question later bowiglou  |
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Post by Mary on May 21, 2004 17:24:51 GMT -5
Yay bowiglou's avatar! Now I feel like all makes sense in rs.com castaways land  And bowiglou, i'm sorry to hear about that situation with your fiancee's daughter - there's nothing I could really say that you don't seem to already know (that it's pre-adolescent behavior, that she's sad and resentful about you taking her mother's attention AND "replacing" her dad, that it will take patience, blah blah blah) but even if you know where all the resentment is coming from it must still be hard to deal with in person. What does your fiancee say about it? I don't know how anyone could dislike bowiglou. I mean, everyone knows statisticians are totally charismatic and sexy, right?? That's why groupies are always showing up at statistics conferences...  Cheers, M |
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Post by RocDoc on May 21, 2004 18:09:24 GMT -5
...a great review belongs on Influential, don't it? Read, WILCO-philes! Chicago's pride....
'A three-guitar meltdown'
Wilco gives fans a taste of the band's powerful potential
By Greg Kot
Tribune music critic
It was fitting that Wilco unveiled their new six-piece lineup, previewed their forthcoming album and opened their world tour Wednesday not in some remote arena, but in the relatively claustrophobic confines of Otto's, a club in DeKalb, Ill.
The club has become a band favorite in recent years, and the capacity audience returned the enthusiasm. Though Wilco's new album, "A Ghost is Born," won't be officially released for another month, the fans packed close to the stage were singing along to many of the new songs. The sextet ran through 10 of the 12 new tracks, in a two-hour, 22-song performance.
Wilco's double-guitar, double-keyboards lineup explored the possibilities of a broader sound. There were a few tentative moments, particularly midset as the pacing sagged under the weight of too many mid-tempo songs. And there was the sense that newcomer Nels Cline, a gifted guitarist who has played everything from jazz-punk to country, has yet to be fully exploited.
Obviously, it's early --- the new lineup has been rehearsing together only for a week. But when Cline and fellow newcomer Pat Sansone joined singer Jeff Tweedy in a three-guitar meltdown at the tail end of "Handshake Drugs," a tantalizing picture of just how powerful this band could be roared into view. There were plenty of other hints: Cline and Tweedy's counterpoint solos jousted with Glenn Kotche's drums on "At Least That's What You Said" and turned "Hell is Chrome" into a stately, sinister invitation.
Cline also added distinctly nontraditional pedal steel guitar to the ebb-and-surge dynamics of the lovely "One by One," and wave after wave of keyboards by Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen invested "Company in My Back" with orchestral-pop grandeur. John Stirratt's harmonies brought a fierce momentum to the set-closing "War on War."
The two encores were particularly strong, as the band dropped its routine of playing warhorses "Casino Queen" and "I Got You (at the End of the Century)" in favor of some more adventurous choices. "Theologians" kicked into motion with Jorgensen's gospel piano, embroidered by Cline's deft fills, while Tweedy's falsetto voice hovered over a soul shuffle beat. "I'm a Wheel," which comes off as the slightest of the "Ghost is Born" tracks, took on a rampaging power with the newly added guitar muscle, and Tweedy's scream added an exclamation point.
It brought the show to a fevered peak, and the singer then addressed the audience about his recent stint in a rehab clinic for treatment of migraines and addiction to pain killers. He thanked the fans for their support: "I've had a bit of a rough time lately …" Shaggy haired and more slender than usual, Tweedy was in strong voice even as he acknowledged his vulnerability. He brought the night to a close not with a wash of more feedback, but with an acoustic "Lonely 1." Cline's pedal steel wrapped around the lyric, a fan's love letter to music, and it served as a poignant summation of the road back.
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Post by PC on May 21, 2004 18:19:14 GMT -5
I've heard a lot of great things about Wilco's upcoming album.
Thorny, that Bowie tribute was beautiful. *tear* I think Bob Dylan was even more influential (he influenced the Beatles, for crying out loud), but Bowie is definitely up there.
~PunkChick
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Post by RocDoc on May 21, 2004 18:19:41 GMT -5
FWIW Tony Levin was a part of King Crimson from Discipline on, playing the bass and the wonderful Chapman Stick for them....Sara Lee w/Crimson? No.
Tho they ended up getting a bass player AND another Stick player to replace him, after Levin bowed out from their organization...
Like achn, Discipline was also a taste-changing album for me....got me interested in some other very progressive very 'technical' rock/metal guitar players...like Allan Holdsworth for one. What an incredible player...oh....my....GOD!
I'm pretty sure my love for Al DiMeola's technique was sort of concurrent with Discipline pinning back my ears....
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Post by Ryosuke on May 22, 2004 3:45:01 GMT -5
Man, what I wouldn't give to have bow as a father. And I think most of the younger contingents here think the same way. He's 5 million times cooler than my dad.
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Post by Meursault on May 22, 2004 5:29:58 GMT -5
You mean your dad doesn't surf?
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Post by Meursault on May 22, 2004 5:38:49 GMT -5
I like your new nickname Punkchick. Where'd you get it from?
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Post by ScottsyII on May 22, 2004 10:52:12 GMT -5
I really don't know enough about King Crimson, and they're a band i really should find out more about and hear their stuff...
I do know that I LOVE Tony Levin's work with Peter Gabriel. There's little wonder why Gabriel has toured and recorded with the guy for nearly his entire solo career... the guy is a fucking brillaint bassist and he plays multiple instruments like an absolute master of each.
He is truly wonderful to watch playing as well.
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Post by PC on May 22, 2004 11:37:39 GMT -5
I like your new nickname Punkchick. Where'd you get it from? I like the color silver, I like stars, and my B-Day is 10/28 (hence why I was PunkChick28, then PunkChick10, and now SilverStar28). But everyone can still call me PunkChick. ~PunkChick |
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Post by Meursault on May 22, 2004 14:35:34 GMT -5
Hehe last night I had a dream i was listening to Ziggy Stardust but it was way cooler, believe it, and he was singing about a silverstar, and i'm like "what's the deal with the silverstar?"
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Post by PC on May 22, 2004 18:02:30 GMT -5
Cool dream Shane. Yeah, Silver Star does sound like it could be a Ziggy Stardust B-side or something.
~PunkChick
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Post by bowiglou on May 22, 2004 22:14:32 GMT -5
oh my gawd (insert Valley Boy inflection).......that bowie=genuflection by Thorny absolutely resonated.......Bowie fanatics hold a special place in my heart, and Thorny (similar to some of Ken's synopsis of the Thin White Duke) are perfectly articulated and capture why we are so enamored of the man...........Thorny, don't be surprised if you find something a little bit extra in your channukah stocking!!
hey mary, et al....thanks for the extremely cool things you said given my current set of circumstances....yes Mary, my fiancee (being a Clinical Psychologist) has addressed all of these disturbances with the too-be daughter in law, and at least for today, she has really done a 180!!.....quite honestly, and this happened last night, she was told that if she couldnt be happy for us on this most happiest of days, then she needed to reconsider being the maid of honor..and today has been a much different day...but then again yesterday, the loathing of me was astounding........I know its a phase, and I hope some day she can appreciate me for what I am....I'm not pretending to be her father nor am in anyway an imposing figurehead........so I suspect I just need to be patient and try to build up a bit of a thicker veneer...but that really isn't my standard operating procedure (i.e, to be intentionally disengaged/aloof)........
But the stuff you cyber-friends said was very affecting and I sincerely appreciate your support.......
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Post by achn2b on May 22, 2004 23:11:42 GMT -5
...a great review belongs on Influential, don't it? Read, WILCO-philes! Chicago's pride....'A three-guitar meltdown'
Wilco gives fans a taste of the band's powerful potential
By Greg Kot Tribune music critic It was fitting that Wilco unveiled their new six-piece lineup, previewed their forthcoming album and opened their world tour Wednesday not in some remote arena, but in the relatively claustrophobic confines of Otto's, a club in DeKalb, Ill. The club has become a band favorite in recent years, and the capacity audience returned the enthusiasm. Though Wilco's new album, "A Ghost is Born," won't be officially released for another month, the fans packed close to the stage were singing along to many of the new songs. The sextet ran through 10 of the 12 new tracks, in a two-hour, 22-song performance. Wilco's double-guitar, double-keyboards lineup explored the possibilities of a broader sound. There were a few tentative moments, particularly midset as the pacing sagged under the weight of too many mid-tempo songs. And there was the sense that newcomer Nels Cline, a gifted guitarist who has played everything from jazz-punk to country, has yet to be fully exploited. Obviously, it's early --- the new lineup has been rehearsing together only for a week. But when Cline and fellow newcomer Pat Sansone joined singer Jeff Tweedy in a three-guitar meltdown at the tail end of "Handshake Drugs," a tantalizing picture of just how powerful this band could be roared into view. There were plenty of other hints: Cline and Tweedy's counterpoint solos jousted with Glenn Kotche's drums on "At Least That's What You Said" and turned "Hell is Chrome" into a stately, sinister invitation. Cline also added distinctly nontraditional pedal steel guitar to the ebb-and-surge dynamics of the lovely "One by One," and wave after wave of keyboards by Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen invested "Company in My Back" with orchestral-pop grandeur. John Stirratt's harmonies brought a fierce momentum to the set-closing "War on War." The two encores were particularly strong, as the band dropped its routine of playing warhorses "Casino Queen" and "I Got You (at the End of the Century)" in favor of some more adventurous choices. "Theologians" kicked into motion with Jorgensen's gospel piano, embroidered by Cline's deft fills, while Tweedy's falsetto voice hovered over a soul shuffle beat. "I'm a Wheel," which comes off as the slightest of the "Ghost is Born" tracks, took on a rampaging power with the newly added guitar muscle, and Tweedy's scream added an exclamation point. It brought the show to a fevered peak, and the singer then addressed the audience about his recent stint in a rehab clinic for treatment of migraines and addiction to pain killers. He thanked the fans for their support: "I've had a bit of a rough time lately …" Shaggy haired and more slender than usual, Tweedy was in strong voice even as he acknowledged his vulnerability. He brought the night to a close not with a wash of more feedback, but with an acoustic "Lonely 1." Cline's pedal steel wrapped around the lyric, a fan's love letter to music, and it served as a poignant summation of the road back. and i just downloaded a copy of the show. ;D |
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