In Boston, Saturday night at the Paradise, they didn't do "the Tain".
Did they do "Grace Cathedral Hill"? That's the song I missed the most from their D.C. set.
they told the soundman to shut off the PA completely and proceeded to play (acoustically) and sing with absolutely no mics.
Oh, wow. I would have loved to have seen that, especially given that "Red Right Ankle" breaks. my. heart even when amplified. Unamplified, I would be a sobbing pile of goo, in a really good way.
And Jon, did the Long Winters open for them in Boston? Got an opinion on them? We liked.
I quite liked the Long Winters' When I Pretend To Fall album.
I saw the Long Winters at last year's Bumbershoot in Seattle. I liked them quite a lot. "When I Pretend to Fall" has some really great songs on it; my favorite is "Cinnamon."
Long Winters: Gets kind of samey after a while, but a few songs are strong enough to cover that sin. Also, the lead singer guy has oodles of charm and is really funny. That helps too.
Also, the lead singer guy has oodles of charm and is really funny. That helps too.
Ayup. My friend declared he wa sher new rock star boyfriend. AND he helped Colin from the Decemberisrts replace a broken string, so: Charming AND useful.
I should get "When I Pretend to Fall."
my favorite is "Cinnamon."
Is this the song "Cinnamon" from your Buffista mix? Because me likey.
That's the one, Kate. When they played it live, they segued into Neil Young's "Cinammon Girl," which was pretty cool.
From the article Jon linked to:
"I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," [Husker Du's Bob] Mould told journalist Michael Azerrad. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.'"
I remember the night of the 1988 election (the night before I saw Richard Thompson at the Bayou -- woohoo!!). I was a senior in college. My friends Sean and Sara invited me and another of our classmates to dinner. Sean, Sara & I were full-scale pinkos. I adored our fourth, Anna (still do), but she was much more conservative and prior to that evening I wouldn't have had any confidence that she was supporting Dukakis. At some point during the evening, though, as we were discussing the election and our schoolmates she said bewilderedly, "I don't understand how people our age can vote for George Bush. I get my mother voting for him, but for someone our age it's just like saying, 'I give up. The world isn't going to get any better, so I'll just get what I can.'" Ah, Anna, Anna... such wisdom and compassion to go with such beauty. Too bad she had such awful taste in men. And I'm not saying that just because she wasn't interested in me.
