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Posted by MaskedVigilante at January 17, 2008 12:05 PMTim is a great album.
Not quite on my Desert Island Discs list but it still gets regular play on my ipod.
Posted by snark at January 17, 2008 12:10 PMsnark, you are now my favorite commenter here, for picking up on the 'Mats quote. My favorite band of all time by far. My youngest kid is named Tommy, middle name Paul. No joke.
Do you keep up with their solo stuff? Westerberg's made a couple of real good albums this decade. Records them right out of his basement, plays all instruments.
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 17, 2008 12:24 PMWhat's on your DID list? How many? How about the top 3?
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 17, 2008 12:26 PMAh, gee, Jeff. And I was trying to get my pal to get a Germs CD - autographed by all of them (got pics of their recent show in LA) - just for you! Harumph.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 17, 2008 12:30 PMI have to admit I sorta lost touch with them after they broke up. The 90's were a transitional time for me. When I got an ipod I started digging through the old cd collection and rediscovered them. (I've actually got Tim and Pleased To Meet Me on vinyl.) I remember going to meet them at Tower Records here in NYC for a record signing. Saw them a few times in concert. Good times. I'll have to check out Paul's new stuff.
Posted by snark at January 17, 2008 12:33 PMCoyote, as soon as I wrote it I immediately regretted it, you were my first love here, don't worry, I'll be faithful. I need to ask you for some more technical support sometime soon, too.
Snark, I recommend Westerberg's "Stereo/Mono" (2 for the price of one) and "Come Feel Me Tremble." The new book "The Replacements: An Oral History," by Jim Walsh is essential reading, also.
Wow, Replacements vinyl. (chills)
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 17, 2008 12:45 PM"Tim" was a great album back then when there wasn't much great. "Here Comes A Regular" always reminded me of a shorthand "A Fan's Notes." Getting drunk in a bar in fall. "Left Of The Dial" was just a great anthem. I always thought "Waitress In The Sky" wasn't all that great a song, the music was a ripoff and the lyrics were kinda dumb. History has proven that banning smoking on airplanes was a good and wise decision, Mr. Westerberg.
Posted by Bob In Pacifica at January 17, 2008 12:51 PMWell, it's hard to think of what you'd take if you could only listen to those few things for the rest of your life.
But if I had to choose 5 (in no order);
Rubber Soul
Empty Glass
Legend
Beethoven's 9th symphony
And something by Coltrane or Stan Getz.
Or maybe some Ella Fitzgerald.
Posted by snark at January 17, 2008 12:59 PMBob, I have friends in MPLS and the last time I was up there we stopped by the inspiration for "Here Comes A Regular," the CC Club, and consumed a burger and a couple too many drinks. It's located 2 blocks from the Stinson home and caddy-corner from the record store where Westerberg handed the band's first demo to Peter Jesperson of Twin/Tone Records. I thought I was visiting Abbey Road or something.
And by the way, it was a perfectly brisk, fall day.
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 17, 2008 01:05 PMsnark, I'd tend toward Mozart myself - chamber music or piano concertos (and yes, I do have Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes on vinyl, as well as some Led Zep bootlegs). I also prefer Muddy Waters and Clapton to any of the newer stuff, though I could listen to Alice in Chains all day...
Posted by iamcoyote at January 17, 2008 01:20 PMJeff, you have my email, glad to help!! And I'm still working on the Germs thing - they may do a mini-tour of the Left Coast, I'll let you know.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 17, 2008 01:22 PMAwesome list, snark. 5 in no order...hmmmm....
Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (Best of Replacements)
Exile On Main Street
Blonde On Blonde
A Love Supreme
Faces: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 17, 2008 01:28 PMinteresting Jeff...A Love Supreme would be on my list also. Along with James Brown Live at the Apollo, The Who LIve at Leeds (CD version), They Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and Freddie King Sings. I guess I'd have to sneak a Bo Diddley album in also.
Posted by T2 at January 17, 2008 01:52 PMcoyote,
Bach, Cello Suites.
Never got much into ELP or Yes.
Of course we listened to all the Zepplin, Who and Clapton stuff growing up.
And the Doors. Hooky as Manzarek's Moog (I think it was a Moog wasn't it?) synthesizer playing was I still love me some Doors.
And Beck. Not Jeff.
Posted by snark at January 17, 2008 01:56 PMFor chills down the spine, "Ann Colter Hums the Hits of Wilhelm Richard Wagner" works for me.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 17, 2008 02:44 PMI like cello, snark, and piano; I just found the Goldberg Variations on youtube, some lovely stuff - great for predawn Sunday surfing. I've always loved Beck, though J. Beck was my least fave of his contemporaries. Funny, I was all Zep; never got into Stones, and found the Who much later. I was in Detroit when Yes and ELP were the nazz, and Bowie, too, big time. Gotta say, when you're trippin', watching Keith Emerson's moog shooting fire and Palmer's drum kit flying thru the air is pretty magical. (Heh, all done while ditching an old boyfriend in the crowd. Yes, I'm evil - and he's now doing life for murder, so I'm smart, too.)
Posted by iamcoyote at January 17, 2008 02:46 PMELP concerts...now there are some great memories....Zepplin live in 70, Yes concerts, all good times...
Posted by headxray at January 17, 2008 04:08 PMGrowing up in San Jose, we had access to the best of shows. Everything from, Led Zep at Kezar Stadium in "73" (w/ZZ Top and Lee Michaels) to the underated Savoy Brown playing "Hellbound Train" in Santa Cruz. Neil Young in Berkeley or the Dead playing 5 nights in a row at Winterland Arena, better yet free in Golden Gate Park. Literally sitting on stage watching Hot Tuna perform at Stanford. The New Years Eve all-nighter at the Cow Palace watching the Allman Brothers perform with members from the Dead. Watching Santana show up at an Eric Clapton show at the Frost Ampitheatre on the Stanford campus.
Then Bill Graham promoting incredible shows for San Francisco schools because they were missing funds; I think it was called SNACK Sunday, w/Bob Dylan, the Band, and the usual San Francisco line up, then the school district finding the missing funds.
Going to Winterland was cheap in those day compared to a movie ticket. I could go on and on and on.
Savoy Brown! SoS, you got all the good shit! I didn't get to SoCal until '79, so it was all Tull and Yes by then. But man, Allman Bros. I played Live at Fillmore East over and over again. On vinyl! Whippin' Post!
Posted by iamcoyote at January 17, 2008 06:40 PM