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wow, time out and mojo manage to say virtually nothing then, out of nowhere,comes this piece of appalling pretension!
I thought this sort of reviewing died out in the late 70’s when NME decided to pull its head out of its arse and sell some copies instead.
This ‘review’ would make Adrian Mole blush.. I really don’t recommend anyone waste their time with it unless they are looking for a laugh.
k
<small>[ 10-16-2002, 11:14 AM: Message edited by: kockney ]</small>
Interesting that J said at that Dutch show that Tell The Truth is about 9/11 and what the perpetrators were claiming
I dont think Ive ever heard/read of J explaining a song before
K
Can anyone give more detail about how to order that hmv japan version of the album? My japanese is a little non existent!
K
Yes well, Maida Vale is a schizophrenic place. On the one hand it’s one of the most expensive addresses in London on the other hand there are large pockets of the ‘underclass’ still to be driven out.
On the plus side at least that mockney ‘The Streets’ (what a corny name) didn’t win with his juvenile ‘poetry’ and wigga beats. You have to be a white middle class fashion-chasing liberal to like that sort of meretricious rubbish.
K
So two tracks in we already see a different Mascis. Gone are the rather ‘formulaic’ song constructions and instead there is a playfulness and unexpectedness. I’m not sure what I think about the rather odd way the tempo suddenly increases in both songs, for a few seconds it sounds like a mistake and the ‘tape’ has suddenly gone wrong. But it’s interesting and no one wants J to remake the same tracks again and again
Well what an odd gig. J must be doing it on a tight budget. To get up on stage and, like some odd magician, pull various bits of electronic kit from a cheap backpack and assemble them in front of the waiting crowd was unusual for an artiste. For a while it looked like a ‘performance’ piece. The Metro isnt exactly a theatre is it, J couldn’t get off the stage so he simply began playing once he had all his boxes plugged in which suited me and most others Im sure
Still, very good gig. I liked the innovation of recording the main theme (it wasnt just the bassline, it was normally one riff repeated) of some songs onto a foot operated box so that he could trigger basic accompaniment for the solos. Some solos went a bit off the rails but overall the man did good. A lot of people around me seemed to be bored during many of the songs, but it seemed to me as I came in that I was the only person not on the guest list and guest list people dont really know the songs and so dont have the advantage of ‘hearing’ the song behind the solos. It just sounds like some madman trying to strangle a guitar.
you’re 14 and Im 41.
yes u prolly were the youngest, more grey hair there than a Grecian2000 advert.
k
I really enjoyed the brighton gig despite only getting there with 10mins to spare before the fog went on stage after a high speed 2hr drive from up north owing to mothers damn parachute jump.
Sound was loud but well balanced and not the usual sludgefest. Watt appeared to have finally learned what order the notes go in and was very good as a result. When Garrrison Keillor came on stage I was surprised but it turned out to be this Ron Ashworth fellow who delivered a guitar master class on how to play a blinder without breaking sweat.
He also demonstrated how much The Fog benefit from a second guitar – it stops the emptiness when J solos
What did stop was the PA toward the end, only the backline and monitors were working. This made the vocals on the last numbers inaudible to wimps like me standing a little way back but the sound from the backline was good.
Yes J looked tired but it seemed to keep him on course and so there were some fine guitar solos as result.
Much better than that mess of an Astoria gig I thought. And a pleasantly un-squashed venue altho my shoes got glued to the floor by spilt beer and I could only sway to the music like a ‘weeble’toy (weebles wobble, but they dont fall down)
Kockney
well if he gets all his backline in, we could all lose our hearing.
btw wherabouts is the pavilion, in the ‘pavilion’ itself? surely not?
k
Thanks for the url
Yes Foxton, it was just listening to old Jam records and hearing how tight and solid he was. No showing off, just underpinning the guitar and anchoring the rhythm.
‘too many notes’. yes that is pretty much what watt does, plus he likes to play high so clashing with the guitar. Maybe a frustrated axe man – never the best choice for a bass player
In fact, on the french tapes there are for me some excruciatingly embarrasing bits of bass playing that suggest that watt never really learnt to play bass at all and is learning as he goes along
His diaries reveal a kind of spaced out old hippy, nice enough chap no doubt and he uses Mac so he’s obviously got some taste, but I get the impression that somewhere along the line he took some bad acid and has never quite recovered.
K
Not a bad vid – locked off camera is a bit boring and the bass is way over mixed (not a good idea as Mr Watt isn’ t exactly a bass genius. what J needs is a bruce foxton -The Jam, for you young uns – to compliment him not drown him out with illjudged runs up the fretboard)
anyone still got the url for the french gig?
k
