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Right now, Ning must be riding on an elephant, cleaning out his gun, and looking daggers at his Trio, exclaiming to Lesa, "Lovey, I say the boys are talking about everything under the sun except the band! School For the Dead! When's the next flight home? Why do I let the inmates run the psych-ward??". (then he accidentally shot the gun in the air, scaring the elephant, who took off full speed through the jungle, but luckily Ning grabbed a passing vine and swung back and landed next to Lesa on her elephant. Hat askew. Those two...)
Calm him down, for here I go.
Hey, I bet Max (a member of School For the Dead! See?) would vouch for this, but you know who put on a really swell show the other night? The Mitchells. This was at the Eagles Club.
I have a tape of a show Ken and I did as The Pop Up Book, at the Fire and Water in like September '95. I think the Mitchells were on the bill, or at least we were using their old bass player Bill. We were all part of the same scene at the time. It was the last time Ken and I would play together for 5 years. Anyway, on the tape
I bitterly say into the mic, "maybe The Mitchells can teach us after the show how to keep a band together for longer than a year" (at the time, like some playboy, I'd been in 5 bands in the last 5 years, all of which broke up just when things were getting good).
But really, Mitchells--TEN years? I know, playing on bills with Storm King make you feel young.
But yeah, the show was totally awesome, and their songs were completely engaging. Let's do a show with them.
Obscure artist tip: Ian Matthews. I don't know what he does now, or how his career has evolved, but in '73-74 he put out 2 great albums, "Valley Hi" and "Some Days You Eat the Bear, Other Days The Bear Eats You". He writes good songs, but also covers fairly new (at the time)songwriters like Tom Waits, Steely Dan, Richard Thompson, Randy Newman; plus Gene Clark, Jackson Browne and Michael Nesmith. Nez produced the first album. And the two of them came up with an arrangement of "Seven Bridges Road", which a year later The Eagles stole and had a huge hit with. He also does Crazy Horse's "I Don't Wanna Talk About It", which Rod Stewart soon after had a huge hit with (and hearing that song all the time back in the Stop and Shop days, I had no idea that song was written by pre-Neil Young Crazy Horse)
I'm also digging the CD release of Neil Young's "On the Beach". He just recently allowed this to come out on CD, because for the longest time he thought it was too personal and dark an album. I had avoided it because 3 of the 8 song titles have the word "Blues" in it. But it means it much more as a mood, than a style. Ain't no BB King on this sad, stoned album.
In between the Sox game, and the debate, I'm getting a haircut.
And hey, what's up with all this talk of Bush wearing a wire that feeds him answers?
The bulge in his jacket, his saying 'Let me Finish' when no one was telling him to stop...it's frightening.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/
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