[havershaw]

Just compared them…totally different recordings, different shows. ‘In A Jar’ ends with a bunch of extra mess on J Lou Murph and it doesn’t on Fuzzy Blast…beside the fact that the "thank you" is actually different. The one on Fuzzy Blast sounds like it’s some kind of Italian guy saying, "a-thank-a-you," whereas the J Lou Murph one is a guy much more clearly saying "thank you." Anyway, J Lou Murph is a soundboard recording, Fuzzy Blast is an audience recording.

[havershaw]

Thanks for the tips…I’ll check out all of those.

If you haven’t investigated Plaskett in a while, you should check out his ‘Down at the Khyber’ album. It’s really really good.

funny you mentioned it – I’m also just starting to investigate Vic Chestnutt…

[havershaw]

I’m cleaning up the Fuzzy Blast CD transfer as we speak. When I finish it, I can send it to whoever’s in charge of freesofree so it can be put up there for the world’s scrutinization. I’ll admit I haven’t given JLouMurph a listen in a while – but I could swear it’s a recording from the board, with vocals up pretty high (too high, maybe) on things like In A Jar, whereas Fuzzy Blast is almost definitely an audience recording (though a pretty decent one). Maybe it’s the same show, but I doubt highly they’re the same recording.

[havershaw]

Flying Cloud, I’m happy to share. J’s lyrical style changed quite a bit over the years, eh? I can’t imagine lyrics like that on Hand It Over or Without a Sound…

[havershaw]

I know both Giant Sand the Puppets, but I’ve only been in AZ for about ten years, so both are a little outside my timeline. People keep telling me I should check them out, so I probably ought to…

I was a big Hermit fan, and I love Joel’s new stuff, too. I actually engineered and produced Plaskett’s new record – he did it at my studio (well, I offered to let him use the studio for free because I was such a fan, and we ended up getting along quite well). I like Al Tuck a lot, too…his new record is quite, quite good, I think. I’m into certain eras of the Superfriendz, too.

I just visited Halifax for the first time this last New Year’s. You got some beautiful country up there. Plus, you get to watch Trailer Park Boys on TV. I have to wait for the DVDs.

[havershaw]

I’ve got it on CD. Anyone who wants it can email me or leave me a message.

I’ve also got JLouMurph…defnitely not the same thing.

[havershaw]

Hey SG, are you a Joel Plaskett/Thrush Hermit fan?

[havershaw]

yep, they do fly at dawn. check it out:

foraging through the uppings
a look a brick my head swings down
and where have all the innards gone
the shell is crumbling to fix my frown
despair where we can leave in undulation
and stepping on these pieces of pain brings a smirk
a ray trickles through to singe my eyes
and shades know where the heartache will lurk

drifting among this rubble
i guess the waiting wished i would
but i found a box untampered and true
the day has shown it understood

Forget the swan, the dreams are gone
The pain goes on, they fly at dawn

That’s all that’s on the sheet I got. There is a (2) at the bottom of the page, but these are the only lyrics that he used. By the way, Lou was also looking for the lyrics to another song later, and he thought I had them because I had these…but those other lyrics were never there. Believe me, I was dead center in front of the stage, and he never put any other papers down there besides his setlist. I can’t remember what it was. I guess I could listen to the Spaceland mp3s and find out…

I also got the string that J broke during the last song. It’s kind of lame to be so starstruck…but I’ve been a fan since Bug, and I only ever got to see them once, opening for Neil Young in Pittsburgh, PA, and that was from a million miles away because tickets were expensive and I was a poor kid. I did get to see the Fog in Tempe more recently…every time J went to do a solo, he’d turn on a pedal and he’d lose power on his whole side of the stage. I was cheated out of several solos that way…

[havershaw]

Thanks! Hopefully I can be a useful contributor from time to time. I posted a bunch of stuff I’m looking for in the mp3 trading section, but if anyone’s interested in any of the stuff I’ve got, I’ll gladly share. I just found an old box of 7"s that had two weird Peel Sessions bootlegs, both of which I can’t find any reference to on either Keeblin or SeveredLips. I’m going to transfer them to CD this afternoon.

Hmmm…what else do I have to share? I managed to grab Lou’s cheatsheet for the lyrics to ‘Forget the Swan’ at Spaceland…I can definitely say that every guess I ever made at the lyrics was way off-base.

[Author]

Posts