Kate, I'm so sorry for your loss. Your grandfather sounds like a wonderful person to know.
Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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.
sumi - Aug 05, 2005 10:33:22 am PDT #9600 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Jon B. - Aug 05, 2005 7:54:51 pm PDT #9601 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm having a brain freeze: A free jazz legend -- plays piano. Not sure if he's still alive. I saw him at the Western Front in Cambridge 15-20 years ago. Name????
Hayden - Aug 05, 2005 8:15:46 pm PDT #9602 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Albert Ayler. Matthew Shipp.
DavidS - Aug 05, 2005 8:22:48 pm PDT #9603 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A free jazz legend -- plays piano. Not sure if he's still alive. I saw him at the Western Front in Cambridge 15-20 years ago. Name????
Piano? You probably mean that guy with the dreads who likes to hammer the block chords with his forearms, right? Cecil Taylor.
Jon B. - Aug 05, 2005 8:25:32 pm PDT #9604 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ayler was more known for horn and died in 1970. My mystery man was a piano guy and was still alive in the mid-80s.
Jon B. - Aug 05, 2005 8:26:33 pm PDT #9605 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Cecil Taylor!!!!!1!
Thank you, David! I shall give your wife a big kiss for you when I see her Monday.
DavidS - Aug 05, 2005 8:28:32 pm PDT #9606 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I shall give your wife a big kiss for you when I see her Monday.
Everybody's getting spanked kissed but me.
Michele T. - Aug 05, 2005 9:03:11 pm PDT #9607 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Reasons tonight's Hold Steady show rocked:
1. Craig Finn invited the whole audience to come out for a drink with the band afterwards. Said please, even, and repeated the address of the bar at the end of the show. I hope no one takes him up on the five-dollar haircut offer, though.
2. The sheer joy radiating from the band. The sheer joy radiating from the crowd for the band. Two sold-out nights headlining in a hometown venue where in April they were the opening band -- that must feel damn good.
3. The resultant insane musicianship. Finn looked and sang like he was going to explode. The guitar solos were jaw-dropping even for a non-guitar-solo-fan like me. And even the quieter numbers like "Certain Songs," they threw their hearts into, and you could tell. One of the people I went with was like, "The last time I saw them, they were so great. And this time they were, somehow, even better!"
All the chatter I heard in the bar beforehand was about editors and word counts -- my friend Maura said she wanted to print up Rock Critic Bingo cards for these sorts of gigs. This was also the first show I've been to where an mp3 blog got a shoutout from the stage (among the dedicatees of the last song was "the people teaching the indie kids to dance again. Have you seen how indie kids dance? It's not pretty.") But don't let the scenesters scare you off -- the band themselves come off as totally unaffected, and you know, the thing about rock critics is sometimes they know good music when they hear it.
(Theholdsteady.com has mp3s if you haven't heard them -- imagine a smaller version of the E Street Band, made up of English majors. Also, Sasha Frere-Jones's review of the current album, here. .)
Hayden - Aug 06, 2005 1:00:17 pm PDT #9608 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Cecil Taylor.
Crud, that's what I meant to say. Brain spasm of my own.
DavidS - Aug 06, 2005 4:46:53 pm PDT #9609 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Crud, that's what I meant to say.
No credit for you! t /soup nazi
That's okay. I had to look it up on All Music. I did the styles search for Free Jazz and - of course - he was listed in the blurb as a major artist in the genre. When I read the Voice regularly it seemed like there was something about Cecil about twice a month, so he's kind of slipped from my brain as my Voice reading has gotten irregular.