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Post by hobo on Jan 6, 2010 16:20:08 GMT -5
Boby likes Jesus Christ and that dude out of Kiss too
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Nothing
Dec 14, 2009 14:32:17 GMT -5
Post by hobo on Dec 14, 2009 14:32:17 GMT -5
before I saw the pics, I was harbouring a wacky conspiracy theory that it was a set up to get him sympathy. He owns a tv channel right? they have special effects guys? but that looks pretty real
good
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Post by hobo on Dec 4, 2009 14:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by hobo on Nov 19, 2009 15:18:13 GMT -5
"I also think the tune's his best for ages" possibly because he didn't write it. Of course, but he does give it some welly
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Post by hobo on Nov 18, 2009 14:55:41 GMT -5
this new video is a bit of a lark. I also think the tune's his best for ages. that's the kind of "what the?"thing Poolers used to say to get noticed I know, but I really mean it
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Post by hobo on Oct 23, 2009 13:00:17 GMT -5
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Film
Oct 5, 2009 16:00:20 GMT -5
Post by hobo on Oct 5, 2009 16:00:20 GMT -5
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Film
Oct 4, 2009 15:59:51 GMT -5
Post by hobo on Oct 4, 2009 15:59:51 GMT -5
and I decided NOT to go to the Pixies playing the whole of Doolittle tonight - tired, already been to football and I have seen them before, before and after the reformation.... bit boring really
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Post by hobo on Sept 1, 2009 15:51:49 GMT -5
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Post by hobo on Aug 29, 2009 4:22:29 GMT -5
RIP Oasis
This message is backdated to 1997 (except the brief candle flicker that was Lyla)
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Post by hobo on Aug 16, 2009 4:29:01 GMT -5
RIP Jim Dickinson - Jimmy Miller, Mick Taylor and Jim Dickinson are 3 of the four things that helped turn the Stones into the greatest band on the planet (the fourth is Gram Parsons but that guy gets too much misplaced kudos elsewhere these days) www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69labQKuuU
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Post by hobo on Jul 3, 2009 12:34:33 GMT -5
was that, like, a Serbian nose he had Cat? I mean, do you all look like that?
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Post by hobo on May 7, 2009 11:50:29 GMT -5
There's an awfully wide chasm between "I expect a polished performance" and "I expect a show so bad that I'm gonna want to leave before it's over." well quite but we are talking about a review where the guy liked the unpredictable, unpolished, ramshackle (blah blah) parts but you don't want to believe him for some reason.
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Post by hobo on May 6, 2009 14:31:50 GMT -5
Poke, you shot your own balls off there.
"somehow all of these things that fly in the face of what is legitimate performance get a positive spin" - where to begin with that? "Somehow" implies you find that mysterious and maybe therein lies the point. Plenty of that stuff is *why* it was a good concert. Are you genuinely looking for some kind of polished performance from Bob Dylan? Are you for real? This review is some guy who isn't into Boab but seems to be generally into music enjoyed it... I'd rather be with him than a bunch of whiney Dylan bitches who get pissed because the 26th time they see him he is boring and not playing the tunes they like and on and on and on...
Bizarro dorks man - what's Charlespoet backwards?
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Post by hobo on May 6, 2009 13:09:35 GMT -5
I guess so Digi but the Who touring is an infrequent event and they play an infrequent event type of show - all the hits, some of the new stuff to keep pete from peeing his pants... Dylan is out, for better or worse, all the freakin' time. I really don't get that "fuck you" feeling from the guy anymore. It's more... erm...here's an equation which might explain it...
Bob's limited musical technique + Bob's intuitive musical ability + loving the Blues and country and wanting to mine the seam + not being afraid to try it out in real time + solid but uninspiring band + not altogether misguided feeling that some of the people there want to hear the hits (remember only Bobcats saw his shows in half-full arenas in the 80s) + also giving the Bob cats some "thrills" along the ways (Billy anyone?...for fuck sake... genuinely who, WHO, wanted to hear that?) = fun for a rich old man who also has like millions to pay in alimony and horse gonad injections to fund
somewhere in all that you get the truth. £50 to see him is steep but i didn't see one empty seat
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Post by hobo on May 5, 2009 13:45:33 GMT -5
he did something in liverpool for georgie - wonder why he didnt play raplh mctell' the streets of london at the roundhouse is ralph still alive? maybe so nick, ever been at the roundhouse back in the serious days? lovely place - the boby show was dreadful as usual but at least i been listening like a rolling stone with a stone sitting in front of me "ITS ROGER, DUDE! ROGER FREAKIN' DALTREY!" (the sound of the canadian boy while running into roger daltrey at the end of the show) Is it bad that I called him "Mr. Daltrey"? I'd like to think not, given he's more than double my age. Dude had the tinted glasses and and flowery shirt on...it was Roger F'in Daltrey, man. He said, and I quote: "he's takin' the piss out of his audience with that fackin' organ!" Legend. cool story but I would have felt compelled to remind Mr Daltrey of that last Who record before he goes around talking about people taking the piss out of their audience - unless he thinks Who fans are all into bad prog and student theatre from 1982
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Post by hobo on May 4, 2009 4:42:26 GMT -5
Saw the old man last night at the Edinburgh Playhouse which is quite a small theatre. I have to say I enjoyed it fine. He played a lot of crazy lead guitar and his organ playing was - for the first time that I have seen him - not offensive. In places it was pretty funky. Singing was pretty good too. All in all, it was consistently decent or good right through, which is a rare Boab gig for me People who aren't morons know that Bob's band is a plaything for a rich guy who just wants to indulge his love for blues and country music. His albums are now part of that process - that's why he's laughing on Together Through Life, he's a kid in a sweetie shop with that band. He doesn't give a fuck about new sounds or finding a new toy - he's an old, rich guy indulging the thing he loves. If he was my Dad he'd be fishing all day. This was all very clear to me on Highway 61 last night when he seemed to stumble on a nifty little blues riff that fit with the tune. I might be wrong and this was part of the usual arrangement but I don't think so... seemed like he'd found it and you could tell he was very pleased with himself - like a monkey smelling his own fart. Although that's unfair because it was actually pretty nifty and brought the song to life - he changed his vocal delivery and basically marshalled the band to start following this new lick. Most of the time that sounds horrible but last night it clicked... then he did it for the next six fucking minutes. That's basically what happens with the records now too. He's playing with his toys and you can either listen or fuck off. I think that's fair enough UPDATED TO ADD this guy gets it too - spot on ishotamaninrenobook.blogspot.com/2009/05/dylan-edinburgh-playhouse.html
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Post by hobo on May 2, 2009 13:52:43 GMT -5
i went to an album launch party at the Roundhouse once - seem to recall it was very disorientating with the stone corridor rings with archways - cool place to get drunk or stoned in one would suspect. guess that's why those nice little public school boys liked getting all freaked out there with their lights and their pedals and that lot
the roundhouse is a pretty cool building - it was a place for trains to get turned around which explains why Nick could see it coming in to (I presume) Kings Cross Station
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Post by hobo on Apr 30, 2009 15:48:46 GMT -5
Jolene is the first Bob tune since Sugar Baby with a melody 12 bar blues ? melody ? I think you'll find there is a melody in there Digit - its actually quite obvious. Also I think you might be getting your musical terminology mixed up because I could make my fingers bleed listing 12-bar blues songs with melodies. However, Bob's recent habit of forgetting to add them is what makes Jolene a nice enough surprise.
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Post by hobo on Apr 27, 2009 15:36:19 GMT -5
OK, I am listening to the new record and here's some initial reasons why I already like it much more than the last one (maybe even the last two
- It's really well produced - great live sound - the accordion and Mike Campbell - this is a question of relativity I guess, but I'm quite liking the relaxed Bob vibe in most of the vocals. I was ready for most of these reviews about the "fun" in the record to be proved as gushing PR bullshit - but, no, it's quite good fun - Jolene is the first Bob tune since Sugar Baby with a melody - it's a great wee number - Shake Baby Shake is a lot of fun - Change Coming On likewise - I am a sucker for this kind of thing - little like mid-period Band (more booze, less coke though)
Modern Times I listened to once all the way through - that was enough. I'll be giving this a few more listens. It's an album whose company you don't object to.
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