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I read about Mike Watt’s book in this thread and ordered it–it came yesterday and it’s a really beautiful book. I love his writing/spieling, reminds me of Kerouac, Neal Casady, Whitman, without being derivative or nostalgic.
His photos of pelican faces, wave foam spray, wings, flattened suns, goose teeth, burning shoreline are so precise and luminous, like the accompanying text. You can see the awareness behind the camera and words in this book; a brimming, positive, clear view from the deep present. Thanks for posting on this book, it’s great.
< <<<"And this song," he says, while cranking the volume for Marlow and drummer Murph in the skylit studio upstairs, "is so goddamned catchy you should have seen me and my 6-year-old doing a little dance to it at home."
Spiked with a layer of keys, it’s a fleet-footed cousin to the vocal-less, locomotive cut guitarist J Mascis — SPIN’s 5th best guitarist of all time — is listening to on repeat at a stereo downstairs, his eyes cast forward. Its “working title,” Mascis purrs, is “Downtown” and it’s as muscular as one might expect. >>>>
Who’s Marlow? 🙂
The syntax is ambiguous and there’s a lot of vague pronouns, but I read the “Downtown” title as referring to the ‘vocal-less locomotive cut’, not the album title.
Girl is right (hollaback Girl), Annastefka– injuries can be subtle and it’s easy to not know something’s wrong right away. I’ve pedaled home with a bent rim and a broken radial head. Speaking of which, Levi Leipheimer got hit by a car on a training ride in Spain a couple of weeks ago and they didn’t know his fibula was broken until he got back to the US. As for shunning anesthesia, not sure why kids should have to feel heavy pain if it’s avoidable, plenty of time for misery when they’re bigger (‘aguántate’ is kind of an adult concept).
Annastefka, I have lady parts and I gave birth to my kids, though I let the nurse midwife spiff up the delivery room afterwards. Kudos to you for multi-tasking–impressive!
Tony, you can find Dinosaur Fossils on ebay.
Dinosaurs wasn’t just a bunch of hippies, they were the cream of the psychedelic bands and were exactly incredible live; saw them many times at free shows in the park and at local clubs in my teens/early 20s. I saw Barry Melton play with his band (he’s playing with members of the Youngbloods and the Blues Project now) a year or two ago at a little venue in the redwoods and he sat next to us for a while; I wanted to ask him why he sued Dinosaur over the name but didn’t get the chance; next time.
Hope Alvaro feels better soon. Arnica’s good. I roller skated down some gravel-covered stairs and broke my arm in 2 places (one should avoid those places) when I was 13. My arm looked like a Warner Brothers cartoon broken bone with a stair-shaped bend. When I got to the hospital I didn’t want the doctor to inject the anesthesia into the broken bone because it looked too painful so they re-set the arm with no anesthetic. Big mistake! Not sure why they listened to my opinion on it. Since then, I’ve broken ligaments, elbows, lacerated tendons, done the natural childbirth thing, and not much compares agony-wise to having your bones set straight. Live and learn!
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It is a shame that it doesn’t really look much like J though…The guitar doesn’t look too much like a Jazzmaster either; maybe a Teisco…
Re. rigs and mic stands tipping, gravity vortices are a thing.
I went to see Cheap Trick, Heart, and Journey with a friend 3 or so years ago in Sacramento and during Journey’s set the whole amphitheater was swaying and holding up their cell phones like they were lighters. I was talking to my family about it afterwards and my kids were all, ‘Yeah, there’s apps that are lighter images that’re for holding up at concerts’. Weird.
As far as gas goes, alternatives exist. I’ve run my VW Golf on biodiesel made from recycled french fry oil for the last 8 years and 150,000 miles. It’s a drop in the bucket but it’s easy to do.
I hear ya. Some of his playing I like a lot and some of it doesn’t do it for me. Still, he’s a great guitar player, rocks out, and plays a lot of different kinds of songs (Vic Chesnutt, Steve Kimock, George Clinton, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, etc) with a lot of different people–incl. Dave Schools, Nels Cline, Funkadelic, Bernie Worrell, and folks from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. I like the music he plays with the Faraway Brothers best.
Yeah, very.
Did Eric McFadden really open the show, and if so, how was that?
I’ve seen him play with Alan Hertz etc., he’s awesome.There’s a preview on the shows in the Anchorage Daily News:
http://www.adn.com/2012/03/29/2398178/headin-the-clouds.html
and by the same journalist, a Q & A with J:
Great video–thanks for posting this and the setlist.
I like how when the mic stand falls over J catches it and doesn’t miss a note, keeps playing until someone comes over and repositions the stand. Way to flow.
To my ears, Dinosaur Jr’s sound with 3 people is already very full and complete; there’s already a big wall of sound, so the addition of this bright, reedy, invasive loud saxophone, loud backup vocals, etc. doesn’t improve anything.
That said, I’d like to hear Ornette Coleman, Didier Malherbe, David Boyce, John Yi, Karl Denson, and/or the saxophone players from Xhol Caravan, play Out There with Dinosaur Jr; this saxophonist in this context not so much. I’ve liked David Sanborn’s playing okay in other settings if that’s who’s playing here, but the sax here is fairly unappealing–abrasive, unmelodic, crowded, tense, noisy, and not in a good way.
Though it’s still a pretty great performance/clip in spite of the all-star band feel, fun to watch Murph play air drums with his feet.
I like the cognitive dissonance of this performance but the backup band joining in is a mistake, with Paul Shaffer’s chimes clams and the sax way off at times and sucking in general. Is that David Sanborn? Whoever it is, his playing style and tone is super unpleasing.
‘Out There’ sounds sort of like the beginning of Ligeti’s ‘Musica Ricercata II’ (used in Eyes Wide Shut).
Jeremiah and laurenedonnell get the lucky prize for coolest parents.
My mom never bought me tickets to shows but my grandmother once lent me the money to buy tickets to see The Who and the Clash with openers T-Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, and David Miner at a Day on the Green at the Oakland Coliseum, good times.
