Musicological banter

Bagley wrote:
Q1-Yes,  expect him on piano for the most part.  Caution:  some folks aren't fans of his phrasing-I like it as long has he brings the energy.  He'll make one of his standards sound new!

Q2- He's playing 9 songs from the new record and then a smattering..Basically the same list every night i.e. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/2023/capitol-theatre-port-chester-ny-43a1a30f.html.  If you're a Grateful Dead fan, he's got three of their songs in the rotation.

Q3-Agree with Hutch^and Saturday works better for me.

Q3-approx. $2,500 capacity; any seat's a good one

I do find it ironic that some folks, friends of mine, who have seen him in the past ten or so years, complain that he sounds bad and you can't tell what songs he's playing. I think that besides his songwriting, he's always been known as an idiosyncratic interpreter of both his and other people's songs. As for his voice, I get how that can be a slap in the senses if you're completely unaware of how his voice has changed since even the 80s. If for a listener, he's a Classic Rock act, resigned to his Classic Rock era, then of course you're setting yourself up for disappointment. I think that my wife's only disappointment is that he probably won't play Maggie's Farm.

evilizac wrote:
he sounds bad and you can't tell what songs he's playing…I think that my wife's only disappointment is that he probably won't play Maggie's Farm.

It doesn't matter. You won't be able to tell.

Seriously. Don't go. It's bad.

evilizac wrote:I think that my wife's only disappointment is that he probably won't play Maggie's Farm.

he did just play it a few weeks ago…but that was rare for over a decade
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/2023/ruoff-music-center-noblesville-in-3ba39404.html

you never know…you may not have the opportunity again

Doh! I thought there was an artist named Dylan Meyerhoff! Sorry, been a long week.

I would strongly advise you go. Don’t believe the naysayers….in Dylan terms he is singing more clearly than in decades…just listen to Rough and Rowdy Ways before you go…you will enjoy it unless you are expecting his 60s hits

Obviously at this point every tour could be the final one..physically he is more frail and all on stage…

Basically the band is playing a bit lower volume and this helps Dylan’s vocals be more clear.

I do not see Bob touring into his 90s like Willie.

He is 82 and a half!

This is it.

Fun fact: Denver wrote the song while in Georgetown

I think Bill Danoff wrote it mostly….

Danoff also wrote Afternoon delight

How not for me to care about your musical output, announce an album to be released in January 2025…

I had done a courtesy re-follow on bluesky for a musician who just announced this, needless to say i've unfollowed them.. they were a bit annoying honestly tbh

Just here to drop a shot of a teenaged Dr. John sporting a guitar (which he would play with professor longhair when he was like 15!)

I guess the whole try to come up with a unique name for your group is really gone by the wayside… I noted awhile back the numerous Birthday Girl groups on Bandcamp.  Today i see around 20 groups going by (The) Dream Machine on Bandcamp, three in the Netherlands alone.  I guess as long as one is in a different genre/city/country it's all fair game…  At least we have Wet Dream Machine out of Eugene Oregon, not feeling to need to verify if there is only one by that name  ;D

Those wacky The Hives are seeking to franchise themselves out so local cover bands can preform as them around the world.. I have a buddy who could be totally up for that

Okay, dude, here's your new part. It shows 82 bars of whole rests and has three page turns but at least you don't have to count anymore, right?

FFS…

An Avett Brothers musical is testing the waters. Next stop: Broadway?

Places Johnny Cash has visited base on his song 'I’ve Been Everywhere'

Anyone remember when The Go played the Black Cat?  They didn't headline and I can't remember who all played that night, possibly the Melvins. I'm trying to figure if Jack White was still in the group at that point, or did he leave after the album "Wathcha Doin' was released.

I swear I talked to Jack that night not realizing it was him. I wasn't aware he was with The Go as well as The White Strips since they were also taking off in 1999. 

anyways, I found the couple of albums after "Wathcha Doin" hit or miss, but was listening to their fourth "Howl On The Haunted Beat You Ride" today and it's nice collection of Nuggets inspired 60's psychedelic

https://listentothego.bandcamp.com/album/howl-on-the-haunted-beat-you-ride

hard to tell if the are still active or not, last ablum from them out in 2013

TIL that Vacation, the seminal song by the Go-Gos
was originally released by the bassist in a slightly different version with her first band
Kathy Valentine was in the Textones in 1980 before joining the Go-Gos


https://youtu.be/8N-zJirmLzo?si=Nn9FEzNGJnVxvCau
Not as great as Vacation, but you can hear just about everything that makes the one you know a classic

evilizac wrote:
Q: Should I see Dylan Meyerhoff?? I have seen him in like 2004, at I think it was George Mason. My wife has never seen him and is aware of his current "sound".
Q2:I like a lot of his late-era work, how does he deliver live on it at this point?
Q3+: He's doing two nights, is one likely to be better than the other? Is he more likely to be less into a second night, or is it more of a situation that they'll have fully dialed in the sound on night two? (I'm really just trying to avoid an afternoon drive from College Park to Baltimore).
Meyerhoff Q: I assume they don't really have a large A/V setup thus, what sections are the best value for $$$?

This guy weighs in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/s/GpCQDSuSS5

Technically this is a re-issue but to lazy to find the thread

This is one for the Sonic Youth completist in your life.. It’s something their UK manager at the time released and was quickly pulled and now seriously sought after and bootlegged.  Sonic Youth are giving it an official release.

Walls Have Ears

https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/walls-have-ears

“Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s ‘Walls Have Ears’ appeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humor and audio verité on par with elements of side B of ‘Master Dik’ to come later. With a bit of complexity to the situation of the release itself. Deleted as quickly as it appeared, it’s now issued for the first time officially under the band’s auspices.”