“Saturday afternoon | Yellow clouds rising in the noon
Acid incense and ballons | Saturday afternoon
People dancing everywhere | Loudly shouting I don’t care”
August 17th, 1969. Picture waking up in (or somewhere near) your tent at Woodstock. In my experience, most live tracks don’t convey much about their setting: you might get the echo of a music hall [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Here I go again with another “now-Brooklyn-based” band. Look out, hypocrisy, here I come! So I reverted to the purist, classic-rock approach for a while — and it worked. Now it’s time for me to ease my way back into modern music, carefully. I’m not completely selling out: until Real Estate’s Wikipedia article becomes longer [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
“Monday morning feels so bad | Ev’rybody seems to nag me
Coming tuesday I feel better | Even my old man looks good,
Wednesday just don’t go| Thursday goes too slow,
I’ve got Friday on my mind”
This post would have been exponentially better if I had posted it at 7:00 this morning, when I awoke to start and finish a 16-page [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
“Let me take you baby, down to the river bed
Got to tell you somethin’, go right to your head
Cause I got a line on you, babe”
I went through Spirit binge two summers ago after catching “I Got a Line On You” on the radio. Most stop at identifying “I Got a Line On You” as [...]
Curious how many covers have made it onto TBTV…
You’ll remember “Too Little Too Late” as that Platinum-reaching single JoJo did a few years back— something my sisters undoubtedly loved when it hit the radio. The story goes that Daniel Rossen, of Grizzly Bear, reinterpreted the song as a birthday gift for singer Ed Droste, who [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Ah, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp — the first album I ever reviewed. Mr. Webb’s grade 11 English class.
I picked up this LP at an underground record store in the old Stockholm at the owner’s recommendation. The background he gave to me: GGF turned into King Crimson — a more playful band [...]
