When passing through Chicago, almost any show is worth seeing at the Old Town School...fantastic programming and beautiful little theater with great sound.
I am on my fourth trip through this album, and I do enjoy it. I had a better first impression than Hazards of Love, this one is less dramatic and heavy. There is a little more alt-country to the songs, the first cut sounds a bit TomPetty-esque to me.
@Greg - I like the Greg Allman disc. It is a blues album, nothing like the long jammy tracks of the earlier ABB albums.
A little earlier, in the car, doing 3 miles an hour in a blizzard:
So many of the albums that charmed me as a teenager turned into pumpkins in the fullness of time that it feels like a guilty pleasure listening to 1980s synth pop. While nostalgia is surely floating between my ears and the speakers, it does seem to me that some songs on here (only some, mind you) have weathered quite well. "Feel me now" is still a great song, propulsive in a slightly crazed, rabid kind of way.
Avebell "Dark copper bells, giant stone trees.
Sad birds looking in the lake to peck their distorted images.
Hairy grey grass growing fast on the inside.
And every senior ghost has its own bell.
There is not night or day - just fog from swamps.
There are no clouds, just slimy paper made zeppelins.
Thoughts and dreams are slashing each other to death.
Romans and greeks are the only citizens left.
And two venetian old fools.
They all look translucent like projected
by a huge Merkur portable projector (35mm - 1922).
Soldiers with led boots marching indefinitely,
Do not reach the battlefield ! There is Avebell."
"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage." - Morris West
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Craig
Try finding a cover for an album called Outhouse recorded by Outhouse!!!
Craig
(harvey milk - a small turn of human kindness)
I'm going to be seeing Dave Alvin in a few weeks too!
When passing through Chicago, almost any show is worth seeing at the Old Town School...fantastic programming and beautiful little theater with great sound.
I am on my fourth trip through this album, and I do enjoy it. I had a better first impression than Hazards of Love, this one is less dramatic and heavy. There is a little more alt-country to the songs, the first cut sounds a bit TomPetty-esque to me.
@Greg - I like the Greg Allman disc. It is a blues album, nothing like the long jammy tracks of the earlier ABB albums.
(Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow)
So many of the albums that charmed me as a teenager turned into pumpkins in the fullness of time that it feels like a guilty pleasure listening to 1980s synth pop. While nostalgia is surely floating between my ears and the speakers, it does seem to me that some songs on here (only some, mind you) have weathered quite well. "Feel me now" is still a great song, propulsive in a slightly crazed, rabid kind of way.
Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - React
In theory I ought to like this. I'm trying bravely. So far it's not growing on me.
Avebell
"Dark copper bells, giant stone trees.
Sad birds looking in the lake to peck their distorted images.
Hairy grey grass growing fast on the inside.
And every senior ghost has its own bell.
There is not night or day - just fog from swamps.
There are no clouds, just slimy paper made zeppelins.
Thoughts and dreams are slashing each other to death.
Romans and greeks are the only citizens left.
And two venetian old fools.
They all look translucent like projected
by a huge Merkur portable projector (35mm - 1922).
Soldiers with led boots marching indefinitely,
Do not reach the battlefield ! There is Avebell."
arhiva7 - [arh021] - (December 17, 2009)
"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage." - Morris West
- Brilliant !
Oh... My... God !!!