And finally ...
Nov. 26th, 2005 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericcolemanTakes on Halley Came To Jackson and I Want To Kill Everybody.
I'm going to burn these to CD monday, then see what needs to be changed. Then back in next weekend for seperate takes on voice and guitar.
More fun ...
I'm going to burn these to CD monday, then see what needs to be changed. Then back in next weekend for seperate takes on voice and guitar.
More fun ...
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can we hear them?
Date: 2005-11-27 04:22 pm (UTC)Re: can we hear them?
Date: 2005-11-27 04:41 pm (UTC)In the storage space on my email list (there is also a link on my webpage to that) there are three older songs.
Re: can we hear them?
Date: 2005-11-27 04:43 pm (UTC)I'm coming in midstream, I know, but how did you pick the covers?
Re: can we hear them?
Date: 2005-11-27 05:18 pm (UTC)The songs I have included so far I picked because
Roman Wall Blues (Auden/Harvey) from my favorite singer from the 70s. The lyrics are by William Auden, a scottish poet from the 19th century. A great song about the confusion of the warrior.
New Dawn Fades (Joy Division) - Not the JD song mentioned before, but a brilliant song about dislocation, like so many JD songs.
Rockaway Beach (The Ramones) - I was in Iowa's first punk band, some things you just never get rid of. I do it as an almost country blues. One of my all time favorite songs.
Yesterday Is Here (Tom Waits) - I do several Waits songs, this is one of my faves.
Halley Came To Jackson (Mary Chapin Carpenter) - One of the first songs I heard that was even vaguelly connected with the filk world. She is one of my favorite songwriters and my serious songs owe a great debt to her. This is about a woman who managed to be around for the last two passes of Halley's Comet. It's a lovely song that I really don't do justice.
I Want To Kill Everybody (Ed Haynes) - a sarcastic masterpiece. About a guy who wants to rule the world by getting rid of everyone in it. I dedicate it to the Dub when I do it onstage. I am currently working on a fansite for Ed. His most recent CD, Snacking With A Vengeance, is one of the best CDs of the last year.
I do a few other songs, mostly picked for some sort of obscurist bent, and the ability to fit in with my own stuff.
2 more things
Date: 2005-11-27 05:24 pm (UTC)2 - What was a gerbil doing at an open mic?
Re: 2 more things
Date: 2005-11-27 05:27 pm (UTC)2 - Playing all cover songs. He still goes to the same open mike, and still plays the same cover songs. And talks loudly during anyone elses set.
Re: 2 more things
Date: 2005-11-27 05:38 pm (UTC)Also, there used to be some folkie running around philly who would whip out his folk cover of guns 'n' roses' 'sweet child of mine' at the slightest opportunity. Just so as you know.
Also also also, I don't know if there available out there but Dan Littleton, guy with a band called Ida, did some gorgeous acoustic covers of Madonna tunes. It's worth a look.
Re: 2 more things
Date: 2005-11-27 05:49 pm (UTC)The greatest guitar player ever
Date: 2005-11-27 06:05 pm (UTC)Re: The greatest guitar player ever
Date: 2005-11-27 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: The greatest guitar player ever
Date: 2005-11-27 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: The greatest guitar player ever
Date: 2005-11-27 06:08 pm (UTC)"You have some of the same sort of darkness as Richard Thompson"
I got down on the floor and kissed their feet.
So yeah ... just a bit
hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:13 pm (UTC)RT plays Shake rattle and roll and whips out a solo encapsulating 200 (+?) years of western popular music, celtic into post civil war ballad into turn of the century billy murry frank crumit style victoriania into hot jazz into django into bebop into cool jazz into surf into british invasion into surf into psychedelia into 70's metal into 80's new wave and then back to jerry lee lewis.
How do you feel about james brown?
I mean, I think once you've covered those two, you've got Western civilization under your kilt, at least the good parts.
Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:17 pm (UTC)James is good, even if he stole all of Prince's moves ducking
Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:38 pm (UTC)Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:18 pm (UTC)Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:43 pm (UTC)Am I kidding? Well, liisten to What was coming out of Kingston before Papa's Got a Brand New Bag hit the charts and then after. Ah! See?
I know, it's way too reductionist but there's a thread of causality there. Deny it! I double dare you! Also, while we're at it, are you fmiliar with the Residents and their versions of TGOS's hits?
Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-11-27 06:52 pm (UTC)The Residents are a band I admire, and respect, and cannot listen to. They are too resolutely unmusical. Funny ideas though
Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-12-07 05:37 pm (UTC)Like food which is better than it tastes
or books which are better than they read.
Re: hyperbole fails me
Date: 2005-12-07 05:54 pm (UTC)Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 05:40 pm (UTC)I read somewhere (online no doubt, source of all dubious knowledge) that the slow down from Ska to rock steady to reggae was a result of the Summer of '66 being the hottest on record and everyone in kingston was too beat by the heat to dance as fast as ska required so they cut the beat in half.
Re: Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 05:57 pm (UTC)http://www.liveatthespace.com/edo/flash/abilene/
Re: Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 06:59 pm (UTC)Re: Ska vs. R
Date: 2005-12-07 07:04 pm (UTC)Damn ... lost my bubblegum go on ... come up with the movie reference, I dare you
presumptive surrender
Date: 2005-12-08 02:07 am (UTC)Re: presumptive surrender
Date: 2005-12-08 02:16 am (UTC)There was a movie called Drive In in the 70s, the theme music was What Ever Happened To Randolph Scott, which ran through the credits and showed up throughout the film if I remember correctly ... the main female character was named Glowie ... at one point the younger brother of the main male character (who ends up with Glowie by the end of the movie) is your typical horny pre-teen movie character. He looks down her shirt at one point and says "they're pink, pink as bubblegum"
it's a line that has stuck with me for years, and the song reference set me off, I apologize
its a sweet little movie too, wish it was out on DVD so I could see what a rotten movie it really is, and how faulty my memory is