Robert Randolph Presale

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by Bags:
Who is Robert Randolph?

See also: Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, M. Ward, O.A.R., generic hippie shit.

No, no, no!
Generic it's not, Robert Randolph is a pedal steel player but plays the instrument like no one else. He's the Jimi Hendix of the pedal steel and came out of the gospel "sacred steel" tradition but with a rock background too. An exceptional instrumentalist and charismatic performer, his shows have the same kind of uplifting energy as Al Green.

Originally posted by twangirl:
Generic it's not, Robert Randolph is a pedal steel player but plays the instrument like no one else.

Oh, I'm sorry, let me re-phrase: african-american hippie shit.

M Ward is far from "hippie shit".

After a six-year stint with the trio Rodriguez, M. Ward began sketching out songs deeply rooted in the classic traditions of American country-folk. Rodriguez's home was in San Luis Obispo, CA, and they eventually recorded Swing Like a Metronome with Granddaddy's Jason Lytle.

And Robert Randolph, a steel pedal playing African-American, is far from generic, though there is hippie appeal.


Robert Randolph set the music world on fire in late 2000 and early 2001 when he began to play his first club dates in New York City. These were a result of being discovered playing his pedal steel guitar at the first Sacred Steel Convention in Florida in the spring of 2000. Randolph started playing the pedal steel as a teenager and started playing at his Orange, NJ, church just outside of Newark. The House of God Church, an African-American Pentecostal denomination, has been implementing steel guitars (or "Sacred Steel") in services since the '30s, with the pedal steel in particular being introduced during the '70s. Randolph learned to play by watching other steel players in his church.

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by Bags:
Who is Robert Randolph?

See also: Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, M. Ward, O.A.R., generic hippie shit.

TWANGIRL is right. that's why this elusive password in needed.

:D

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by Bags:
Who is Robert Randolph?

See also: Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, M. Ward, O.A.R., generic hippie shit.

Holy crap! Have you ever seen this guy play? He's fantastic. Those comparisons aren't even close.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Have you ever seen this guy play? He's fantastic. Those comparisons aren't even close.

Actually, yes, I have been to a RR concert. Just because he plays "sacred steel" and happens to be African-American doesn't make it any less of a Bonnaroo hippie "light em up" act.

So are Old 97's, Joss Stone, Mars Volta, Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, and the Legendary Shack Shakers generic hippie acts as well? They all plated Bonaroo this year.

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Have you ever seen this guy play? He's fantastic. Those comparisons aren't even close.

Actually, yes, I have been to a RR concert. Just because he plays "sacred steel" and happens to be African-American doesn't make it any less of a Bonnaroo hippie "light em up" act.

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
So are Old 97's, Joss Stone, Mars Volta, Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, and the Legendary Shack Shakers generic hippie acts as well? They all plated Bonaroo this year.

No, none of those are the traditional Bonnaroo-jam band type act, but you knew what I meant. When people say Bonnaroo, people think "jam band" or "damn hippie shit," not a few outlier bands that have played before. I could call a pop-punk band "generic warped tour tripe" and are you going to respond with, "oh, so they sound like eminem and limp bizkit," because they played a warped tour?

RR plays hippie jam shit, the kind where concerts last 2.5 hours and the setlist was only 8 songs. It's my contention it's hippie shit, and you're free to disagree, but you know darn well what I'm saying.

I guess Sonic Youth, Wilco, and Flaming Lips are "hippie-shit" as well.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I guess Wilco are "hippie-shit" as well.

Of late, yes…

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I guess Sonic Youth, Wilco, and Flaming Lips are "hippie-shit" as well.

i think it's interesting how the flaming lips have been embraced by the jam band "hippie-shit" community … it's a good match if you think about it, but a little odd nonetheless

is this presale now over even though its not 10pm yet? I go there and it says no tickets! Woudl have gone eralier but I was in DC (from Richmond) for shows the last two nights at MCI… :)

Originally posted by RatBastard:
is this presale now over even though its not 10pm yet? I go there and it says no tickets! Woudl have gone eralier but I was in DC (from Richmond) for shows the last two nights at MCI… :)

Try again now, the presale should be back up.

I can see you guys like to bicker of genre….i for one don't care what you call it.

but i still would like the pre-sale password. for a group who seems to think of themselves as a 'commumity' none of you seem to want to help. if you have a password, wheather you want tickets or not to this 'jamband', help those out who do.

went did helping become such a challenge. isn't this site devoted to music-lovers?

i don't get all the confrontation sometimes. just another hippie thought i suppose…. :roll:

Try the RRFB fan site….

I got my tickets. See yall at the show!

Thanks I got them…

Genre, Shmengre. Good music is good music. It's criminal to even say O.A.R. and Robert Randolph in the same sentence.

I was at Bonnaroo and the best shows I saw were Secret Machines and The Word (Robert Randolph, Luther et al from the North Mississippi Allstars, and John Medeski). Could not be more different.

Sometimes people on this board (ergo people everywhere) get hung up on labels. My friends say Secret Machines are a Pink Floyd rip-off. They say RR&TFB are a hippie jam band. Alrighty then, stay home and embrace your labels. I kinda say that you have to experience it before you can judge.

Go see Robert Randolph. You may not have a musical epiphany, but it may come close.