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Thanks Susan! No I don't mean last night's show - I saw him in Seattle. Like I said, a real disappointment. The weird part is that by the jokes and stage banter, he seemed fully aware of what was wrong with the performance and the atmosphere, and yet he seemed unable to fix it. It was just too comatose, we wanted a little more action (yes I know he's not with a full band but you can still be lively with an acoustic guitar). And his hair is growing out again - bad idea. Keep it short Mark! There was one point where he did one of the songs from Down Colourful Hill and stopped in the middle and said "oh god, will someone help us grow up already?" Some folks in the audience I heard next to me speculated sympathetically that was "already sad when he started". He had admitted early on that he was nervous when he tried to make a joke. I heard a radio interview/performance he did prior to the gig and it was fine. In the end, I just wondered if it wasn't the fact that Modest Mouse came from Seattle that threw him off.

There was one point where he asked the audience how his physique was coming along, heheh. I wanted to yell out about his hair length, but I'm too polite. He's still pretty good at the on stage banter, though. Reading and communicating with an audience has never been a problem for him. One guy next to me yelled out for Free Bird - I said "oh for god's sake" and laughed.

During the interview he did on the radio (KEXP) prior to the gig he mentioned that he saw Morrissey & Bob Dylan as being exceptional lyricists. I thought that was kindof cool. I bet if you go to KEXP's website you can probably still listen to the interview somewhere. It was good.

― Bimble brings a lawn chair to antartica so he can sit and drink silver coff (Bim, Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, i think he's actually somewhat comfortable up there and a part of his sense of humor might be exploring all the uncomfortable shit that might come up and then acting it out...even if he does not feel that way and you don't either. its a silly fun immaturity you might as well indulge in b/c otherwise what are you gonna do..just sit there and play songs and take in the praise night after night? plus, i think artists should get a free pass for acting as neurotic as they need to stopping short of really insulting their fans, whicn i THINK he does. i don't know. i also feel totally guilty in expecting any kind of personality from him ... i mean its his life, i just buy the albums...but i also fully get that when an artist makes an impact, its hard not to want them to fulfill other needs expectations---as retarded as that is. anyway, fwiw (very little!) and in that vein, i like the long hair on him alot.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 20:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

i can't stop reading the stupid sadreminders fansite and how in every other concert he calls someone in the audience a stupid bitch or makes disparaging comments about the venue or town he's playing. :o i think i should stop. this is way too much to know. he named his cat pink. all this...in 1 man. and they call him The Koz.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 07:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Koz is his nickname though, made more known by that Mojave 3 song.

none of this behavior is new. I won't see him solo again, I don't think. Too many diminishing returns. I've seen Eitzel sink lower but not as often. In fact I don't think I've seen more than one good Koz solo set (and that was actually a SKM show with Phil, someone else, and a string section). But RHP back in the day was something else.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 08:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

what's wrong with him? was nicer back in the day?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 08:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 14:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

he just had less opportunity to talk

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 14:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://www.culturecatch.com/node/183

short film of interview and song, "Bubble". is great-

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Ghosts Of The Great Highway: One of the best discs of the decade.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

I sort of think April is just as good, maybe better.

― Kiptok, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 22:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

It was a little more polished, and it lacked some of the raw intensity of GOTGH. But April is also a v., v. good disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 22:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

The new one starts off really well but ultimately I think it might be... bad? Kozelek sounds so petty and cranky.

― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 May 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

admiral fells promises or is there some other new one? I didn't care for most of that album actually, it was pretty dull.

― akm, Monday, 14 May 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Among the Leaves, out soon.

― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

After the masterful "Ghosts Of The Great Highway" (Daniel's comment above OTM) it's been diminishing returns for each release. I didn't even bother with the last one, maybe I'll see if Spotify has it.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

April is a very nice album; not as good as Ghosts but it reminded me a lot of Ocean Beach (only not quite as good) and Songs for a Blue Guitar...really more like an RHP album. Admiral Fells just didn't stick with me at all.

heard the new one and it's somewhere in the middle. I like the band songs but some of the solo tracks kind of blow by me. But it has some funny stuff for once; Kozelek can be a funny guy and it shows, at least in the song titles (moderately talented middle aged man.... not much rhymes with everything's perfect all of the time). The song for richard collopy, who was a guitar maker in SF, is pretty touching.

― akm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

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