Also, he drums on the latest Queens of the Stone Age album.
'Bring On The Night'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I'd recommend Viva Last Blues, David, which has consistently brilliant material, but There Is No One, etc., Days in the Wake, and Lost Blues & other songs are certainly good choices. Don't get the Greatest Palace Music album under any circumstances (well, ok, the only reason to get it is to compare its slick production to the earlier, superior, rougher takes), though. That album makes me physically sick to listen to.
sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
It's Trudy's tribute to John Cage....
Trudy's slutty, but demurely so.
This CNN story about Quine was listed as one of their top stories (front page, not entertainment section), which strikes me as bizarre. The people he's most "famous" for playing with aren't that well known. Yeah, Lou's got giant influence and elder statesman status, but what percentage of CNN readers have heard anything other than "Walk on the Wild Side"? Sure, lots more than have heard of Richard Hell and the Voidoids, but...
This CNN story about Quine was listed as one of their top stories (front page, not entertainment section), which strikes me as bizarre.
I'd never heard of him until yesterday.
I've been listening to Rain Dogs a lot lately and Quine's guitar on "Blind Love" is the very definition of sublime.
Vaguely apropos of this, Richard Hell did an in-store appearance at the Tower Records in Boston while I was working there. He was remarkably gracious to every person who crossed his path, a phenomenon that was not often at work during "celebrity" in-stores.
My first impression of Quine remains the strongest - his guitar on "Blank Generation" is utterly savage and completely swinging - a very rare mix of daring and chops.
Entertaining interview with songwriter Jim White today on Soundcheck. Liked him more than the songs they played, but I liked them, too.
One of the Calexico guys will be on Fresh Air tomorrow.
Funny interview with Peter Stampfel at furious.com. From the intro: "Even though this interview may seem lengthy, his musings and answers are interesting and enlightening enough to be printed in full. If you think I'm being sentimental, tell me you don't want to hear about Connie Francis meeting Jeff Beck, making love to a gazelle in a zoo, trading a banjo for a car, The Motherfucker Creek Babyrapers and getting guitarists from Jeff Buckley and Lady Complainer."
David, are you familiar with Lester Young's "Crazy Over J-Z"? Good tune -- that's not why I mention it, of course, but it is primo Pres if you decide to play it for the missus.