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1. All Along the Watchtower – Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers
2. I’m Not There – Sonic Youth
3. Goin’ To Acapulco – Jim James & Calexico
4. Tombstone Blues – Richie Havens
5. Ballad Of a Thin Man – Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
6. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again – Cat Power
7. Pressing On – John Doe
8. Fourth Time Around – Yo La Tengo
9. Dark Eyes – Iron & Wine & Calexico
10. Highway 61 Revisited – Karon O & the Million Dollar Bashers
11. One More Cup Of Coffee – Roger McGuinn & Calexico
12. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll – Mason Jennings
13. Billy 1 – Los Lobos
14. Simple Twist Of Fate – Jeff Tweedy
15. Man In the Long Black Coat – Mark Lanegan
16. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) – Willie Nelson & Calexico
Disc: 2
1. As I Went Out One Morning – Mira Billotte
2. Can’t Leave Her Behind – Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
3. Ring Them Bells – Sufjan Stevens
4. Just Like a Woman – Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico
5. Medley: Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind/A Fraction Of Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie – Jack Johnson
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover – Yo La Tengo
7. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
8. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? – The Hold Steady
9. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
10. The Wicked Messenger – The Black Keys
11. Cold Irons Bound – Tom Verlaine & the Millions Dollar Bashers
12. The Times They Are a Changin’ – Mason Jennings
13. Maggie’s Farm – Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
14. When the Ship Comes In – Marcus Carl Franklin
15. Moonshiner – Bob Forrest
16. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine – John Doe
17. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Antony & The Johnsons
18. I’m Not There – Bob Dylan with The BandWhat I can’t tell you, bug, is if J played on every song that the Bashers played on…
Thanks, tonas. The G-Men have definitely overachieved. They’ll have to catch more than a few breaks to have any chance vs NE.
I see Holmgren is back for one last year with Seattle…maybe the Hawks will send him off into the sunset with The Big One!
I think J was on the soundtrack album as part of the Million Dollar Bashers…
Still waiting for "I’m Not There" to come to cow country.Well, who woulda thunk it? The Giants are going to the Bowl.
Oh, of course, they have no chance vs the Pats…
Just like the Bucs, ‘Boys and Pack.
It’s all gravy from here…
Built To Spill
Barry Divola
December 28, 2007When you’re young and you live in Idaho, you want one thing – to leave. Doug Martsch did exactly that by joining an alternative rock band and fleeing to Seattle in the late ’80s, just before it became grunge’s ground zero. Not that he was particularly into grunge. He was more into bands on the SST label: Husker Du, Meat Puppets and especially Dinosaur Jr.
"I remember listening to Dinosaur Jr’s album You’re Living All Over Me just after I finished high school," he says.
"It sounded like punk but the guitar solos were way louder than anything else. It was just an amazing sound to me."
Martsch’s stint in his first band ended, as did his time in Seattle. He returned to Boise, Idaho, where he still lives today, and started Built To Spill in 1992. Even he was a little surprised when major label Warner signed them three years later. Along with the Flaming Lips, their tenure at the company has been one of the longest and most astounding stays for a group that, let’s face it, is not a household name. Even bands who have long cited Built To Spill as an influence, including Modest Mouse and Death Cab For Cutie, have gone on to more mainstream success.
Surely Martsch must have contemplated the phone call he might receive from the record company one day that starts with the words: "Um, look, we’ve just noticed that you’re not Matchbox Twenty, yet we’ve been giving you money to make records for the past 13 years."
"Sure, we don’t make as much money for them as Matchbox Twenty," he says, laughing. "But their investment in us is not huge, we pay our way, we’re easy to deal with and perhaps we serve a function in that we make them look artist-friendly. And you never know, any time now we could bust out with a giant hit."
Well, maybe. But only if critical praise for epic, atmospheric guitar-rock with high, keening vocals is one day matched by sales.
"I can’t get that sound you make out of my head," Martsch sang on the 1997 album, Perfect From Now On.
It’s a line that sums up a lot of Built To Spill’s rapturous reviews but the band hit a speed bump last year. The touring schedule for their most recent record, You In Reverse, was disrupted when Martsch suffered a detached retina during a rough basketball game.
"I took a long while to recover, plus I was in a bad mental state and had a lot of anxiety," he admits. "After surgery I was worried about jumping around. Not that I jump around a lot on stage but I yell a bit and shake my head around sometimes."
No more basketball for Martsch, then?
"Oh, I still play a little pick-up ball if it’s mellow. Actually, my knees are worse than my eye. They’re bad now."
Martsch and the band – three members live in Idaho, two in Seattle – have 15 new songs written for the next album, which will be recorded in March in Los Angeles. To Martsch’s ears, they’re shaping up as the most conventional Built To Spill songs to date.
"We’ll see what happens when we record them," he says. "Maybe we’ll have to throw in some things to f— them up. There are a couple that sound like Tom Petty or something."
Maybe those are the hits that will convince the record company not to make that phone call for another 13 years.
"Yeah, maybe I should leave them exactly as they are."
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/27/1198345143846.html”>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/ … 43846.html
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BUILT TO SPILL Announce Winter U.S. Tour Dates
BURBANK, CA–(Marketwire – December 10, 2007) – Boise-based indie rock legends BUILT TO SPILL have just announced their first official tour for 2008 in support of their most recent LP, "You In Reverse." The month-long tour, which launches February 22nd in Los Angeles, will criss-cross the U.S. with a string of twenty-five confirmed dates, wrapping up in San Diego on March 21st.BUILT TO SPILL most recently released two reggae-inspired recordings — a brand-new song titled "They Got Away" and a cover of The Gladiators’ "Re-Arrange" — in July 2007. The tracks are currently available from online retailers, including http://store.warnerbrosrecordsstore.com”>http://store.warnerbrosrecordsstore.com as digital downloads and in stores as a 12"-vinyl single. Upon completion of this upcoming tour, BUILT TO SPILL plan to record yet more new material for a future album.
Confirmed tour dates are as follows:
Fri Feb 22 Echo Plex Los Angeles, CA
Sat Feb 23 Echo Plex Los Angeles, CA
Sun Feb 24 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Mon Feb 25 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Wed Feb 27 The Depot Salt Lake City, UT
Thurs Feb 28 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
Fri Feb 29 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
Sat March 1 Ridglea Theater Fort Worth, TX
Sun March 2 Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX
Mon March 3 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
Tues March 4 Howlin’ Wolf New Orleans, LA
Wed March 5 The Venue Gainesville, FL
Thurs March 6 State Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
Sat March 8 Free Bird Live Jacksonville, FL
Mon March 10 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC
Tues March 11 The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
Wed March 12 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
Thurs March 13 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN
Fri March 14 Headliner’s Music Hall Louisville, KY
Sat March 15 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
Sun March 16 The Blue Note Columbia, MO
Mon March 17 Madrid Theater Kansas City, MO
Wed March 19 Launchpad Albuquerque, NM
Thurs March 20 Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff, AZ
Fri March 21 Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CADinosaur Jr. to play ‘loud, fuzzed out’ rock
By: VALENTINA TAPIA
Posted: 12/3/07Neil Young may be the godfather of grunge, but according to Gordon Lamb, he owes that to Dinosaur Jr.
"In the early ’90s when (Dinosaur Jr.) was so enormously huge, (bassist Lou Barlow’s) vocal style pretty much (sounded like Neil Young)," said Lamb, a columnist for Flagpole and music blogger at 24hourpartypooper.com.
Lamb said he has lived in Athens for 18 years and has been in its music scene since 1989, whether playing in bands or working at Caledonia Lounge.
Dinosaur Jr. plays tonight at the 40 Watt with Awesome Color and B-B-Q Pants.
"The first album that came out was called ‘Dinosaur,’ that’s my favorite album still," he said.
"I’ve seen Dinosaur Jr. every time they’ve been in Athens since ’92," Lamb said. "Dinosaur Jr. was the loudest band I’d ever seen until I saw My Bloody Valentine open for them. I’ve never seen them do a bad show. They’re loud and fuzzed out, and the songs just go one into the other and they just rock."
Velena Vego, booking agent for the 40 Watt, also has a long history with Dinosaur Jr.
"That (1992 show was) one of my first shows actually when I started booking the 40 Watt," she said. "It was them one night, Fugazi the next. It’s been 17 years – it’s a long relationship."
The band, having reunited its original lineup in 2005, including Barlow, guitarist J. Mascis and drummer James Murphy, now tours in support of its most recent album, "Beyond."
"Barrie Buck, who is the owner, has ("Beyond") and loves it," Vego said. "(She) has been playing it between shows, I know we’ve been playing it at the club."
Phillip Buchan, a 2006 University alumnus from LaGrange and former WUOG music director, said "Beyond" resembles Dinosaur Jr.’s early albums.
"This one sounds pretty much just like their late ’80s rock," he said. "They sound like they haven’t aged a bit in 20 years."
Vego said she expects tonight’s show to be a great example of all-out rock and roll. "It’s only a three-piece, very guitar-driven, so I’m assuming that it’s just balls to the wall there with rock," she said.
© Copyright 2007 The Red and BlackMy Giants have overachieved so far with a 7-3 record. But, seriously…who is going to stop New England from going 19-0?
Year-round play where you’re at, SD_V? There’s snow on the ground in Central NY; the ’07 season looks over!
I think the learned around here, sleepy, would advise you to get maximum "noise reduction rating" (NRR) on plugs – – looks like 33 is the #.
