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J was awesome at Valentines! He opened the show with the Lung!! Excellent choice. They had a bit of a problem at the beginning with the sound. J’s vocals just weren’t loud enough. He blamed it on the sound guy. Or could it be that HE was playing too loud!!! And J’s drummer couldn’t take the smile off his face the entire show. They are a fantastic band!!
I hear it! The last song, Outside, is 3:44 long and just as Mike said, as the track ends there is a loud POP. It sounds like an amp or mic being plugged in or pulled out.
Mike, perhaps we should turn it down a bit!!
Bob
What a great show this was! Let me tell you about my night. I went to the show with a group of friends, some fans, some coming along to see what I have been talking about for all of these years. We arrive at Valentines and one of my friends points to someone in the crowd and sure enough, it’s J! So I approach him and introduce myself and ask permission to have my picture taken with him. J says that’s fine and my wife takes a couple of photos. One of my joker pals is getting a kick out of seeing me so excited that he gets behind J and does rabbit ears over J’s head! Very amusing.
J goes off into the back for a while and returns with a backback on and goes onto the stage. J then proceeded to set up his own equipment, you know, the pedals and all. He sits down on what look likes someones old kitchen chair and he takes a stuffed monkey out of the backpack and rests that down on the floor next to him. He tunes his guitar and the show begins.
The setting was perfect. Valentines is a small club with an easily accessible bar and the sound was awesome. J’s set rocked! My favorites were Little Fury Things, Waistin and Repulsion. This was my second time seeing him. Both were great, but seeing him in such an intimate setting made it that much better. I took a few more pictures during the show and I dropped my camera and the back opened up. I picked it up, closed it and it rewinded back to frame 1. I kept my fingers crossed that some of the pictures would come out.
After J’s set concluded one of my friends who had a seat on the side of the stage was going to grab the set list that J had on the floor, but either J took it or someone else grabbed it. So she goes up and takes his water bottle, puts the cap on it and hands that to me. A funny keepsake from the show. I stuck around for a while and talked to people for a bit and then we decided to go. We walk outside and J is standing out in front talking to a group of people. Once again I approached him. I told him that it was a great show and he was very cordial. I am a golfer and I know that J is too, so I asked him if he has been golfing much. He told me that he has played a bit this year and the next day he was going to Brattleboro (which is in Vermont) to play. We talked about what kind of clubs he uses and how good he really is. I asked him if he was planning a tour with the Fog in support of the new release and he said he didn’t know yet.
Well I had the film developed and luck was with me that night because some of my pictures did turn out okay. I had a couple of enlargements made and J’s picture now graces the wall of my downstairs family room.
Here’s info on the Albany show. Tickets are $12 and they are still available. The show starts at 8pm. The opening act is Chris Brokaw who was in a band called Come. (not to be confused with the techno band Cum)
I live only 15 minutes outside of Albany, so I don’t even need to travel!
Let me know if you will be going (you too Rosa) and we should meet.
Bob
I want someone to tell ME whose words these are:
Level with God and you’re in tune with the universe
Talk with yourself and you’ll hear what you wanna know Gotta rise above ’cause below it’s only gettin’ worse Life in time will take you where you wanna goThink hard!
den buck,
i am impressed! movin’ out. off of their first album and the first song that tyler and perry ever wrote together!
Foglight,Half-man, Throbby and Ryan,
Thank you all for the great reviews!
I too am interested in how you taped the show. Does J allow that??
Bobocap
Okay, I am new to the board and now you will all think that I am an old man!
drum roll please……….37!
A long, long time ago a good friend of mine that knows my taste in music let me borrow the first album. I listened to it more as background music than actually really hearing it. Then one day I knew that I would have to give it back so I decided to "hear" it! From Forget the Swan on, I was hooked! I was thinking these guys can’t sing, they don’t seem to play all that well, but their words were just great. I have to admit, it was Repulsion that really caught my attention. After that I bought everything I could as soon as it was released.
In addition to great tunes, DJ albums always have the best covers! Am I right or what??
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I just discovered this board and I have a lot to say, so this board can’t go anywhere!
I was pretty surprised that there are this many J fans out there. And here I thought I was the only one!
Since checking out the boards I have been able to download a bunch of live stuff that I never knew existed. When I saw J a couple of weeks ago, there was a guy videotaping the show. I asked him
what he was doing with the tape. He said it is for the archives. (???) Does anyone know if this kind of thing ever comes up for sale or trade??Bobocap
I saw J on the 16th in Northampton. Incredible. He opened with Thumb and played everything that you would have expected him to for around 50 minutes. Flying Cloud was my favorite. As usual, he didn’t say too much. A couple of thank you’s and that was about it. The last song was Repulsion.
This was my first show and if you have never seen him before, I can tell you that his playing is 1,000 times better live that you would expect. J’s got me wanting to see him with the Fog! He is awesome. Really, he is.
Sonic Youth was Sonic Youth. Exactly what you always get. A good show and a lot of fun. Thurston makes me laugh the way he tunes his guitar for 2 minutes at the beginning of each song….like it makes a difference. I mean that in the kindest way.
