A Love Letter to the City of Providence

I HEART PROVIDENCE: The People's Confessions from Mike Ritz on Vimeo.

Some of us get it tattoo'd on our backs....

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The Curious Case of Technical Difficulties at SXSW

http://earfarm.com/features/daily-feature/wednesday/2698 Click to read in it's entirety... now!

Actually it’s not that curious at all. Yes, bad sound plagued an alarming number of SXSW shows this past week, but how could anyone truly expect any other outcome given the way the whole colossal enterprise unfolds?

I would imagine sound guys hate South By Southwest. It probably approximates their vision of hell. In this fiery inferno, soundchecks don’t exist. New bands appear every 30 minutes and require an entirely new setup and mix. A frenzied 20 minutes is then spent achieving an acceptable mix, only to be dissembled moments later to make way for the next act – and oh wait, this next band has a horn section and only wants 50% trombone in their monitors?! An elusive perfect mix rarely occurs and goes unnoticed by the crowd, whereas a bad mix draws rubbernecking stares. Self-entitled bands accustomed to cushier environs complain and unleash their frustrations….on you, the sound guy. Welcome to hell.

Of course, it’s a two-way street, and bands certainly don’t have it any easier. Think about it. For four straight days, at any given public space from about noon to 2 am, a seemingly endless queue of bands stream in and out and perform half-hour sets….except these slots aren’t really a half hour; thirty minutes is just the time advertised in order to cram as many acts on a single bill as possible. So this means that in a single hour, at least two bands are expected to load all of their gear onto a stage, make sure everything is tuned, operational, and ready to go (often times with rented or borrowed gear with which they’re largely unfamiliar), frantically play until the club’s manager, sound guy, or event organizer mouths the dreaded “you got one more song guys” (or just pulls the plug mid-song, more on that later), and then rush everything off the stage to make way for the next band. Stressful! Also, this atmosphere doesn’t really lend itself to fostering the most natural and assured performance.

And still, the sound guy endures and absorbs the crowd’s confused stares and the band’s complaints. The band trudges on and makes do with shoddy vocal mixes, broken monitors, and the seemingly deaf ear of the sound guy. The circle of life at SXSW continues as it should, and this is a good thing. As I said before, how could anyone expect it any other way? We need to embrace the aura of bad sound, dropped signals, and feedbacking mics for the unexpected insight these nagging bits of misfortune provide about the bands we’ve assembled to see.

Please click the link and continue reading....It gets even more interesting. Read about Mikachu and Graham Coxon, and Late to the Pier's problems last week!

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Scott Avett's got a case of the Fevers [covering Haggard on the bus]

thanks to Heather from I am Fuel, and Crackerfarm.com for putting this session together!

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Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling on a Line [new video]

The Great Lake Swimmers' new album, Lost Channels, is dropping on 3/31 and I cannot wait. From the tracks I've heard, it sounds amazing. Enjoy, TDTD

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30 Rock : See the world through Kenneth's eyes

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The Postal Service - Live in Minneapolis Apr. 25, 2003

Everybody and their mom wants another Postal Service album to spring out of the heads of knob twirlers Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello. The 2003 sleeper hit Give Up jumpstarted the careers of Ben's DCFC, and Tamborello's DNTEL, and, after touring behind the album, both artists have been focusing on their primary objectives. Despite strong demand and speculation, it appears that, unfortunately, new material from The Postal Service just won't be in the cards anytime soon, says Ben.

I remember the night that they played in Boston. It was April 20th, 2003. I drove up from Providence, with a friend of mine. We knew that one of three things could have happened that night.

#1 We were gonna drive up there, and we were gonna score White Stripes tickets for their show at the Avalon. It was sold out, but wtf. We'd try. Well, we tried.
#2 The Postal Service were playing in Cambridge. We'd go and check that out, and see if we could get in. Um, that didn't happen either. They were at capacity and it just wasn't gonna happen.
#3 "Fuck it, dude. Lets go to the bar." I think we ended up at the Silhouette that night. Drinking the cheapest beer we could get our hands on and trying to stay just on the fringe of trouble.

Well, let's raise a toast to never seeing Postal Service live. (cheers).  Here's the next best thing.  A SBD of their show in Minneapolis around the same time. Enjoy, you freeks.

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The Postal Service
Live at 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, Mn
April 25, 2003

01 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
02 We Will Become Silhouettes
03 Sleeping In
04 Nothing Better
05 Recycled Air
06 Clark Gable
07 This Place is a Prison
08 In Due Time
09 Brand New Colony
10 Such Great Heights
11 Natural Anthem
12 Against All Odds (phil collins)

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Uncle Tupelo: Live On Heat, NPR Radio July 18th, 1990

It's been several weeks since I've posted some material from the Uncle Tupelo / Wilco / Son Volt catalog that I have stashed away over here. I figure if I dangle the carrot....maybe a few more lucky souls will hit that big old subscribe button over there to the right.... If you already subscribe, thanks! If not, please do... just for the single purpose of making me feel like I'm reaching people.

So it's starting to get a little nicer here in Rhody, and what better to commemorate a 50 degree day with Uncle Tupelo, performing during a heat wave in NYC, in July, on a radio show called 'Heat' nonetheless. This occurs right after the now-iconic No Depression was released by Rockville records. And, since this is a shorter session, I've previewed one of the inbetween song interviews about the band coming up in the world.... Enjoy - TDTD

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Uncle Tupelo
Live On Heat - NPR Radio
Acoustic Session
July 18th, 1990


01. Atomic Power
02. interview
03. Whiskey Bottle
04. interview #2
05. Screen Door
06. Graveyard Shift
07. Life Worth Livin'
08. outro

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Jimmy Buffett - KSAN: Live @ The Record Plant Sausalito, CA October 24th , 1974

There was a time when Jimmy Buffett wasn't the corporate megamonstrosity inc. that he is today. Long before the Parrotheads, the restaurants, the novels, the collaborations, and even the soccer moms flashing their boobs in some suburban parking lot-turned tailgate party.... there was Jimmy Buffett, the Singer-Songwriter. The Traveler. The Raconteur.  The Bum. This is the Jimmy Buffett I like.

I don't need to pay a hundred bucks for a lawn seat to enjoy this bootleg of Jimmy and the Coral Reefer Band playing in-studio at KSAN's Record Plant in Sausalito, CA. One only needs to listen to the first couple of seconds of this session to know that this was a good old, hard-partying time in Cali. I don't think Jimmy realized that "whatever he was snorting" was very close to a live microphone.... (good times, good times)

Who's gonna steal the peanut butter?
I'll get the can of sardines.
Runnin up and down the aisle of the mini mart,
Stickin food in our jeans.

We never took more than we could eat,
There was plenty left on the rack
We all swore if we ever got rich,
We would pay the mini mart back.
Yes, sir, Yes sir! We would pay the mini mart back!

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Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band
October 24th, 1974
KSAN: Live @ The Record Plant
Sausalito, California


01 The Wino and I Know
02 Pencil Thin Mustache
03 They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More
04 Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
05 Saxophones
06 Door #3
07 Livingston's Gone To Texas
08 Railroad Lady
09 Dallas
10 A Pirate Looks at 40
11 Peanut Butter Conspiracy
12 KSAN Promo Jingle

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I also would like to point out before it becomes an issue, that this is not sourced from the Wolfgang's Vault version of this show. I would never pay 10 dollars for something that I recieved in a legal trade over 5 years ago. k?

Enjoy!

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Sorry for the lack of updates....but

..the fucking aardvark doesn't care!!!

Aardvark, anteater.....whatever, punk.

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Fastbacks (or the story is in the radio...keep your ear to the tapes)

Here's an homage to a group of Seattle-ites that got me thru my teen angst years. Short story....

On January 8th, 1995 I set my tape recorder up to record the very first Self Pollution Radio broadcast by Pearl Jam. They were going live on the air, and were gonna play some tunes and do some DJ stuff, and basically play by there own rules for a couple of hours and for the next couple of months, I listen to those tapes every night.

The Fastbacks were my main focus from those tapes. What I heard spoke to my core and to this day, I get the warm fuzzies thinking about driving down to Thayer Street, heading into Tom's Tracks and fumbling nervously through the bins, trying to look like I knew what I was doing, just mumbling to the clerk "Fastbacks?" and he, cooler than thou, and not being a dick about it, pointing to the back of the shop, on the right....

I had my copy, in hand, of Answer the Phone, Dummy.

Here, I offer to you, (within the drop.io d/l link), that LP, and the live tracks played on that radio show (God bless PJ fans for archiving that shit) plus one of their 7" singles from 1981. I love that birthday song.

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Fastbacks-
Live on Pearl Jam Self Pollution Radio Jan 8th, 1995


15. Vedder Intro
16. On Your Hands (live)
17. Run No More (live)
18. Old Address Of The Unknown (live)
19. Vedder Outro

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The Hold Steady 'A Positive Rage' trailer. Sign me up. NOW!

I'm not even gonna glorify this post with a write up. Ten words. There.

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A Post About Wilco : Monday (Live, Ashes of American Flags DVD)

I came across a clip of the band tearing their way through 'Monday', one of my absolute concert favorites, from the 'Ashes of American Flags' DVD. The collection, due out on April 18th, was recorded on the road last summer, and it's release will coincide with Record Store Day.

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Modest Mouse debut new song 'Satellite Skin' on Letterman

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I'm Sold* (With An Asterisk): Trailer for the movie Away We Go

It's sad that they have to go with the Juno rip-off animation here, but overall, I trust in director Sam Mendes. I think he should fire and sue whomever made the trailer though. The movie, starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, is aiming at the early-thirties, Garden State/lost soul market share, with it's themes of identity and the issues associated with procreation in an imperfect world. As a plus, the trailer soundtrack including Alexi Murdoch is definitely key (um...Garden State soundtrack anyone?)

So I'm giving this trailer an asterisk, for the film's lack of originality thus far, but under the surface it looks like we have a perfect little sleeper nugget of a movie here. Since it's being released in the early summer, it doesn't look like the producers are hunting for an awards (think fall for that), but hopefully this one is good enough to take off a la Little Miss Sunshine.

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A proper St. Patty's Day song (?)

As my friend Bill (Ivylander) pointed out this morning,

And yeah, call me humorless, but the depiction of Irishness as a
concentrete of boozy bonhomie and twiddle-dee-dee dancing is insulting in a way that no nationality should be forced to endure. (http://mog.com/ivylander/blog/1252336)

St Paddy's Day has become a day that the Irish culture is, frankly, puked upon. It's used as an excuse to get absolutely shitfaced and to embarrass yourself. This is quite a shame, really. The Irish culture has a rich and storied history that deserves to be remembered as well.

Today, I give you The Fields Of Athenry. The song is probably one of the most recognizable and memorable of Irish tunes. It tells the story of a man who is guilty of a petty crime, a crime that would have kept his young, starving family alive. The convict says his crime is that he "stole Trevelyan's corn"; a reference to Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior British civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle.


Fields of Athenry

By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young girl call:
"Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyn's corn,
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."

Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young man call
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down.
Now you must raise our child with dignity."

Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

By a lonely harbor wall,
She watched the last star fall
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
For she lived to hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

• The Dublin City Ramblers - The Fields of Athenry.mp3

• The Dropkick Murphys - The Fields of Athenry (original).m4a
  

both songs : http://drop.io/tystlrx

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Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry [Sgt. Andrew Farrar version]

This is a ballad version of the song so its slower than the
original DKM version. It's slightly modified as a dedication for a
soldier who died in Iraq. Sgt. Andrew Farrar (the soldier) was a long
time Dropkick Murphy's fan whose last wish, in a letter he wrote to his
wife, was that DKM play the "Fields of Athenry" at his funeral if he
died in combat. DKM accepted his request and played it while his coffin
was being carried into the church.

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The Beach Boys - Okie From Muskogee

In what HAS to be my favorite Beach Boys clip ever, we find the Boys wielding some crazy hippie facial hair (gotta go with what was popular, I suppose), and playing the Merle Haggard tune that they learned on stage with the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore in 1971 (I think that I posted that here somewhere...).






Thanks to HiddenTrack....

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Jack Kerouac and that one paragraph....

He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing.

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Iron and Wine - Live @ The Social, Orlando, Florida [preview/download]

OK, back in music hosting mode, finally. Thanks for bearing with me.

There's few comparisons with the music of Sam Beam. His sound is entrenched in hypnotic pulses of acoustic guitar and often highlighted by the perfectly dissonant harmonies that create a lush and somnabulent listening experience. Here, Sam brings a mostly solo set to a great climax, resulting in a nice session from The Social in Orlando, Florida. Enjoy!

Iron and Wine @ The Social - Orlando, Florida - August 17th, 2003


01. He Lays in the Reins
02. Sodom, South Georgia
03. Burn That Broken Bed
04. The Rooster Moans
05. Waitin' for a Superman (Flaming Lips)
06. Free Until They Cut Me Down
07. Lion's Mane
08. Upward Over The Mountain
09. Naked As We Came
10. Watch and Chain
11. Bird Stealing Bread
12. Dearest Forsaken
13. Muddy Hymnal
14. Each Coming Night
15. Jesus The Mexican Boy

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PHiSH - 2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra) from Lemonwheel

I know....not everyone wants to hear another Phish tune, but I'm testing out new file hosts, and this one just may work. It's Drop.io . Let's give it a whirl, shall we? If there are any issues on YOUR end, please let me know!

Phish -2001 from Lemonwheel -1998-08-16-mp3

To those that enjoy a good Phish Jam, enjoy! For those that don't, PLEASE bear with me for a few minutes and I'll post something enjoyable for every one of us. But in the meantime, please give this tune a shot. It's marvelous.

- thx, TDTD.

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Other People's Links: March 11th, oh, nine?

Links:

• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's new video for "I Am Goodbye" Creepy-good!

• The Dead are rehearsing for Summer Tour Dusty-old-good (thx fear and loathing)
  

• Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong on the Johnny Cash Show - Trumpety good.

• A brilliant video from Handsome Furs for "I'm Confused" Thanks Sub Pop!

• #nerdsday http://nerdsday.com/

• badpaintingsofbarackobama.com It is what it is. Just because you have paint....

• you heard it here second...Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore are officially married

• Rainn Wilson - Do You Really Have To Pee In A Girl's Mouth (To Make Babies)?


• Black Lips - 'Black Kids' Live in Boston[Video] Thanks OnTheDownload and ThePhoenix.com

Enjoy! TooDrunk

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Who in the HELL gave Zach Galifianakis a baby?

Quite possibly the most promising movie of the summer.

Teaser Trailer for The Hangover- starring Zach Galifianakis, Bradly Cooper, Ed Helms, and a surprise guest.

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PHiSH's first ten minutes back on Hampton's stage [Video]

When Phish took the stage in Hampton Roads, VA on Friday night, they stood in front of an adoring crowd that hadn't seen them since August of 2004. Nor had the band seen the crowd. The first song, "Fluffhead" was a gift of sorts to the crowd, a song that hadn't been played since the summer of 2000. Here's the result:

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Elliott Smith - Unfinished demos circa 'From A Basement' surface

Sorry for the lack of early-week updates here. I know you all are loving that George Jones song, and that alone should keep you going until next Thursday or so (just on it's own!) but today, before I put my nose to the grindstone (there's a Uncle Tupelo reference for you!), I'm gonna offer you up something nice....


Elliott Smith - Unfinished Basement Demos


These are nearly finished demos from the 'From A Basement On A Hill' era. Expect most of the tunes from that album [I just listened to Fond Farewell...love that song], and a Beatles cover as well as a Cat Stevens cover.

• Elliott Smith - Unfinished Basement Demos - Fond Farewell.mp3
  

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Sleeping in the Driveway (Cat Stevens) [Video]

No one will deny that Will Oldham is an acquired taste. No one. After a few years of listening, and then a lot more listening, the music of the man who became Bonnie 'Prince' Billy has planted it's seed in a deep, dark portion of my brain. I'm gonna have a hard time digging that out someday. Or better yet, I'll just let it grow some more.

Here's his most recent collaboration, this time with musician/artists/ersat Super High 8 filmmaker, Brian Harnetty, with a cover of Cat Stevens' "Sleeping In The Driveway"

Sleeping in the Driveway from Brian Harnetty on Vimeo.

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George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care

YouTube - She Thinks I Still Care - A Tribute to George Jones

A Cover Song performed by Phish, sung by Mike Gordon, March 8th, 2009

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THIS DAY IN PHISHTORY

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PHiSH @ Ross Arena, St. Michael's College. Colchester, VT

I remember the first time I got this show on tape.

It was in high school, 1994, and the tapes probably cost 8 or 9 dollars from this mom and pop store in the city. The shop owner, an old deadhead, would get these n-th generation tapes from his buddy, and sell them in his shop. Well, this one actually sounded pretty good compared to most, and since the dude let me listen to whatever I wanted to, I sort of weeded out the shitty sounding ones before I plunked down the cash. The tracks were written all wrong on the tape jacket, with much of the second set just completely mangled and out of order, not to mention "Easter" "Run Like The Antelope" and "Big Black Fuzzy Creatures From Mars". I couldn't fault the guy who handwrote the 100x-photocopied j-card. This second set is more confusing than the NY Times crossword, with so many teases, and gozintas, and what-have-you's, its amazing he got any tracks right at all.

You see, this is how it worked then. Your tape source was like your dealer. He was the source. Every tape that I got pre-college was from him. And everything was on the cheapest blanks available. Everything usually sounded like it was recorded in a trash can. The tapes were recorded too poorly, resulting in the music being played too fast (Trey, or Jerry, sounding like somewhat of a chipmunk), or the tapes having the warples, and they usually broke in my car's tape deck.

But this one survived for a while. I treasured it. From the very first crackle of the tape leader and the shrill of the girl announcing the band, to the teases of a lighthearted Trey fooling around with the Archie Bunker theme and the Secret-language guitar signals on the second side of that first tape. Then the second set(and second tape too!). That set is ultra weird, with the Tweezer being twisted and mangled beyond belief, containing Mike Gordon singing I Walk The Line followed by a truncated and not-quite BBFCFM. then it gets ultra serious to finish out the set with a beautiful couple of songs featuring Gordon Stone on pedal steel.


11-19-92 Ross Arena - St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT

1:

Maze, Fee > Foam, Glide, Split Open and Melt, Mound, The Divided
Sky*, Esther, Axilla, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an
Antelope**

2:

Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug
Groove, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice, I Walk the Line, Tweezer
> Big Black Furry Creature From Mars > Tweezer Reprise, Big Ball
Jam, Poor Heart, Fast Enough for You, Llama, Lengthwise, Cavern

E: Bold as Love

• *Trey teases "Those Were the Days" ("All in the Family" theme by Adams/Strouse) during his solo.

• Axilla, I Walk The Line, and FEFY, all first time played

• **With "Those Were the Days" and "Lizards" teases, and "All Fall Down" language.

• Big Ball Jam - First time played; followed by explanation of how the "Big Ball Jam" works.

• Poor Heart, Fast Enough For You, and Lengthwise feature Gordon Stone on pedal steel.

• Mike's Song included an Ice Ice Baby Jam.

• Weekapaug included a vocal jam and "Price of Love" teases.

• Big Black Furry Creatures From Mars included I Walk The Line lyrics

• Lengthwise was performed in a more reggae style than previous versions and included a vacuum solo from Fishman.

• Bold as Love was played for the first time in 276 shows.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?nnnzmledzkm
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ztmydqmoml

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"The Mountain" by Steve Earle [video/audio] (and some Frames action too]

• Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain.mp3
  

• The Mountain (by Fiarce Aiken of the Frames) (Steve Earle cover)

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The Frames - Live at Vicar Street, Dublin 10-01-2006

"We have all the time in the world, to get it right..."

The Frames... what to say. In a long, slow, dramatic history between myself and this band, our relationship has blossomed into something that is well beyond the standard. The feeling and emotion that is conveyed through their music is so overpowering and universal. It envelopes the listener, delivering a beautiful product that transcends and transforms. I don't like to be without them.

So today, I offer up a show from Dublin, their hometown. While the recording itself isn't, by any means, perfect, I find it to be an enjoyable listening experience in front of a great hometown crowd. It's of a band lifted on high by the energy in the room, beautiful music that reminds us that U2 aren't the greatest Irish band in the world. (sorry, had to.)

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THE FRAMES
Vicar Street
Dublin - Ireland
2006-10-01

Recording & Artwork: Niko Springstein

This recording is dedicated to Mic Christopher (he still travels with us)

Setlist:

Disc 1:
01 True
02 Rise
03 Lay Me Down
04 God Bless Mom
05 Falling Slowly
06 Seven Day Mile
07 Finally
08 Dream Awake
09 Sideways Down
10 Song For Someone
11 Revelate
12 Fake
13 Your Face
14 People Get Ready

Disc 2:
01 Neath The Beeches
02 The Cost
03 Santa Maria
04 Pavement Tune
05 Star Star ** / Hotellounge
06 encore
07 Sad Songs
08 Skylarkin` (with Aimee Christopher)
09 Medley: a) Out On The Weekend (by Joe Doyle) (Neil Young cover)
b) Blue Mountains Of Virgina (by Rob Bochnik)
c) Spencer The Rover (by Colm Mac Con Iomaire)
d) Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (by Johnny Boyle)
e) The Mountain (by Fiarce Aiken) (Steve Earle cover)**quite possibly my new favorite song
10 Fitzcarraldo

"Remember one thing: you can never do enough for Ireland!!" (intro to Fitzcarraldo)

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For more of The Frames:

Archive.org for live music
http://www.theframes.ie/v4/music/
CD and Merch from Insound.com (My fav is their latest CD, The Cost)


Enjoy!

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Favorite First Set: PHiSH 7/25/99 Deer Creek, Noblesville, Indiana

a.k.a. you can't keep a good hippie down!
a.k.a. think whatever you'd like of the band, but Phish is solely responsible for my happy musical addiction.

I remember getting back from a long summer break to UMass in September of 1999. I had seen a couple of Phish shows that summer and had put a ton of miles on my red subaru. I couldn't kill that thing. Arriving back at the dorms was a welcome change and signaled the beginning of a new fall semester in Amherst. One thing I was excited about was the inevitable reenergizing of my bootleg collection and I had a fresh brick of Maxell XLII tapes to fill as quickly as I could.

A friend of mine, and a musical soul mate, Chris, had arrived back at school looking a little haggard and road weary. He had been on tour with Phish for the majority of the summer, basically making a business out of it, and I won't really go into further details... but he had spent the summer getting in to a bunch of shows, around the country that summer. He asked me to get him a few tapes, and he was going to fill them to the gills with new music from the tour. He had made good with a bunch of tapers, and they would dub him their night's worth of recordings in exchange for his services.

Walking to class one morning, I popped the new tape into my Walkman. And immediately, this one particular set slammed me in the face. It was from the first night at the renowned Deer Creek Music Center in Noblesville Indiana, a mecca of sorts since the days of the Grateful Dead, with it's on-site and nearby camping sites. Deer Creek was a multiple night stop for large touring bands.

The set started off with Meat, an odd Mike Gordon tune from Story of the Ghost. The stop-start feel of the song combined with the overwhelmingly deep and clear bass response made for an incredible start to the show. It helped my ears hearing the crowds' resounding cries midway through the song. To this day, I never want the song to end.

Mt Friend, My Friend comes next armed and ready, and quickly hits the ceiling at around the 4-minute mark and drifts into a "Type 2" jam called My Left Toe. All 4 members playing equal parts, lumbering along, pulsating, Trey interjecting crystal clear, skygazing guitar lines time and again... notes floating onto the lawn in a stream of consciousness with no identity except for the common, collective force that sets the band apart from any I've seen. Never meandering, and extremely concise.

At about 8 minutes in, Mike and Fish solidify a beat and begin their descent back into song-form. the jam that develops when Trey starts forming a guitar line sounds like The Allman Brothers "Whipping Post", but a cover of the song would be unlikely, because, well, Phish has never played the song...cept for Fishman belting the song out in the 80's a few times, but still...it sounds just like a tease to these ears. Until..."I've been rundown...". And then it just skyrockets into the stratosphere from there... Hey isn't this a first set?

Oh, and I WISH I still had my original tapes from that 7/25/99 show. To this day, that one particular Audience source is not available anywhere on the net. Someday I hope it surfaces, because it blows away the source I posted. Or maybe it's just my old ears remembering a great source among the triple generation tapes I was listening to at the time!

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Stream: My Favorite First Set PHiSH 7.25.99 Deer Creek

To d'l the 1999-07-25 Deer Creek show, head to the following links:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2chidz1fmbu
http://www.mediafire.com/?zd1v2ylytu2

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Hey Phish heads...

I've found "The Spreadsheet"

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p8WKkpP-TKpO1VnQgcff6EQ&gid=10

Do you remember the days of snail mail, trips to the post office, and the unmatched anticipation of the magical package arriving in your mailbox? I do! ( http://www.db.etree.org/jameson ). Now all of that can be found on a server somewhere.... Awesome and a little saddening at the same time.

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UPDATE (On "DELETED")

My last post (from this morning) detailed what I woke up to find happening here on GoE. Basically, when I logged on to Ghost of Electricity this AM, everything appeared fine. When I logged on to my hosting service (let's say it begins with something like....hott clink philes dot com), my screen told me that the file I was looking for did not exist. Well, that happens sometimes. Often enough for me to get really annoyed. But a couple of refreshes later and everything is fine... my files are always there. That didn't happen today. I posted all about that. I essentially sent the entirety of that post in an email to fartclinksmiles, and I told them that a return email explaining their TOC wouldn't suffice, but that's all I expected from them.

Well, I got home from work/gym about an hour ago, and lo-and-behold, most of my files are back in my account folder! Success right? No.

Every single one of the files that are back in the folder has an entirely different address now, so nothing is going to play correctly until I have the desire to fix them manually.

Thanks a fucking handful pot-stink-miles.....

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Deleted?

OK, so at the moment, it appears that all of my shared files have been deleted.... I'm working on a solution, while trying to pinpoint the cause. I really have no intention of leaking files or posting sensitive mp3's at all, in fact, if you have noticed, I generally tend to post material that is obtained thru legal tape-trading, concert material and demo material. I wish that someone would have asked me to remove ONE certain file instead of making my host delete them all. Thanks.

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New Art Brut video for "Alcoholics Unanimous"

Official video for Art Brut's "Alcoholics Unanimous", the first single being taken from their upcoming album "Art Brut vs. Satan" (due 20.04.2009 in Europe on Cooking Vinyl, produced by Frank Black)

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Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town [Henry Rollins Show]

I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down.
I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced.

Embedded Video

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I'm just fooling around here. I'm testing the FLOCK browser's built in blog editor. Hmm, Pretty easy so far. Carry on....nothing to see. 'Cept Rufus melting your face off.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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Jim James - Steamengine, R.S. sessions [video]

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Jim James and M. Ward - "Golden" Live @ Newport [video]

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John Roderick (The Long Winters) - "Hindsight" [Video]

Here's John Roderick, the singer/songwriter of The Long Winters performing his song "Hindsight" off of 2006's Putting The Days To Bed. I listened to the first half of the album this afternoon at the gym, and I must say that it's one of my favorite albums to come out in a long time. Still.



The third installment of the "One Shot at The Croc" series filmed during the construction of The Crocodile, promoting the re-opening of the renowned Seattle venue.

From The Long Winters album, "Putting The Days To Bed", available on Barsuk Records.
http://www.barsuk.com

January 2009

http://www.thecrocodile.com
http://vimeo.com/oneshotcrocodile

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Bonnie Prince Billy - Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness [Video + Mp3]

Bonnie Prince Billy - Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness.mp3

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Willie Nelson and Ryan Adams - The Harder They Come (Live)

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In Case You Missed It : Leonard Cohen @ The Beacon / NPR

"I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of song" - L. Cohen

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So let me start this off by saying that I don't actively listen to Leonard Cohen. But when I sat down to listen to his show broadcast by NPR's All Songs Considered on Friday, I was smitten with his contrasting images of dark and light, love and loss, heartbreak and betrayal. His lyrics are wrought with a sense of someone who has truly lived the tales he spins. And at the tender age of 74, Mr. Cohen could very well have.

Leonard has embarked on his first tour on U.S. soil in 15 years. The Beacon Theatre show in NYC was his first. Following that, (as in RIGHT NOW), he's touring the States, and probably coming to a town near you. Please support him and his music.

Here's a sample of "Tower Song" as performed on Feb 26th, and as broadcast by NPR. I really shouldn't have ripped this track, but if it gets your attention, please use it wisely, and download the entire performance from the amazing podcast brought to us by All Songs Considered.


Leonard Cohen-Live At The Beacon-2009-NPR-SAMPLE-Tower Song.mp3

A broadcast of the entire show:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101034642


Thank you, and enjoy!

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M. Ward @ KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Sept 2006

Image via Wikipedia

This past week, we heard M. Ward performing on NPR's All Songs Considered, and the launch of his latest studio album Hold Time. Last year saw him producing, playing on and promoting She & Him Vol. 1 with Zooey Deschanel, and before THAT, he was touring around his most excellent lp Post-War.

On 09-28-2006, M and his band stopped by the KCRW Studios for a session on Nic Harcourt's Morning Becomes Eclectic

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M Ward

Live On KCRW 9-28-2006 Santa Monica, California.

Source: FM Broadcast
Live In Studio Session


01. =Intro=
02. Chinese Translation.mp3
03. Post-War
04. Cosmopolitan Pap.mp3
05. Eyes On The Prize
06. =Interview=
07. Poison Cup
08. To Go Home.mp3
09. Right In The Head
10. =Outro=
11. Paul's Song

Setlist And Info Copied From KCRW's Website


The Band:
Matt Ward: Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Vox
Rachel Blumberg: Drums, Perc, Keyboard Controller, Bu Vox
Jordan Hudson:Drums, Perc
Adam Selzer: Bass, Gutiar, Bu Vox
Mike Coykendall: Bass, Guitars, Bu Vox

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Download the entire salami
HERE:

http://drop.io/xmvwjry

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I've never heard of drop.io. What the hell is drop.io?
http://ghost-electricity.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-use-dropio.html

Firefox users: Drop.io + DownThemAll work together like Pigs and Blankets

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A Project Playlist Update: brought to you by NMH and MCD

Once again, it's time for another Project Playlist update. If you recall, I've pledged to DEMOLISH the 6,400 tracks on my iPod that have sat motionless for the last year and a half. Well, I'm pleased to say that I'm on my way....

So today marks the month and a half anniversary of the start of the Project, and I've knocked the playlist down to.....4,546. A reduction of almost 2,000 tracks. Go me. I hope to have it down to 3,000 real soon. That was the initial goal of the project, and if that number becomes easy to meet, then I'll just keep going. The number is a never-ending number, due to the fact that I listen to so much music. It's sort of a sickness really.....


So anyway, I've been dipping into the back catalog, and some major listening's been going on. Today, my tracklist looks like this:

Just listened to the studio version of:

• Neutral Milk Hotel - 4-12-98 A Baby For Pree-Ferris Wheel On Fire.mp3
  

and before that:

• Murder City Devils - Johnny Thunders.mp3
  

and before those:

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welcome to 2007 - AMC's Breaking Bad

Long story short, I just watched the first episode of Breaking Bad and DAMN. Good shit right there.

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