Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

Does that actually work or do digital delays become apparent when trying to keep time?

i don't know, that's why i asked!

Gotcha- I'd give it a shot sometime in the future whenever I'm free!

i think lag could be a problem

Yes- lag was the word I was failing to conjure

just based on the guitar hero games, you had to calibrate lag with the plastic guitar controller and the falling notes onscreen to really make it feel exact and that was a wired connection like 4 feet away

i saw the steve gunn/michael chapman show in milwaukee. it was fun. i bought some random fairly recent self-released Lp from michael but haven't had a moment to listen to it yet.

what do people think of the new daniel bachman album?

Amateurist, I really enjoy that latest Bachman record. I think his last two have been great, seems to be maturing and hitting a stride to my ears, but I am maybe most excited to see what he comes up with on his upcoming Three Lobed record. Would like to see the weirder, or freer, side of his playing get aired out a bit, but at this point he seems like a sure bet on delivering an at least very enjoyable record no matter the direction.

For those not on the promo/insider tip, the new Steve Gunn record has just been posted as part of NPR's "First Listen" series:

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/350591891/first-listen-steve-gunn-way-out-weather

Haven't listened to the full album yet, but the title track and "Milly's Garden" that have been sent out into the world already are pretty great, definitely excited to hear the rest.

Man the title track "Way Out Weather" gives me Led Zeppelin III vibes (the pastoral side of course), which in my book is cool as hell.

Very excited to get to listen to that this morning! Thanks.

Yeah man it is really hitting the spot and I am only a few songs in. So many great guitar tones, and the production is completely spot-on for the songs. Black Dirt definitely on a roll.

Oh that reminds me! I FINALLY picked up that latest William Tyler EP and it is so fantastic. Makes me want to drive up the hudson and hang out outside all day.

Hopefully will get that W. Tyler at some point, really enjoyable stuff.

This Gunn record is definitely solid all the way through, no duds on it at all, though I found that the first half/side hit more buttons for me than the second half. Happy that it goes in multiple directions though, probably some stuff in there that will grow on me over time.

thanks for posting that davis, could've passed me by - had no idea it was premiered yet.

tonight thoroughly sucked, and this album is great. ripping it to a tape in the morn, fresh commuting tunes.

Neal sorry about the bummer night, but this record seems like a good "remedy" kind of album. Deep enough to get lost in, sad at times and not devoid of bummer topics but all approached with a light hand and sonics/music propulsive enough to lift you out if it. Think I'll return to it a bunch, definitely going to grab it at the show here in a couple of weeks.

global and i played a show last night with kyle fosburgh (owner of grass top who's reissuing all the basho stuff and an amazing player in his own right) and nic garcia who did some really great super spacious stuff that reminded me of a more american primitive paris, texas soundtrack by ry cooder...

anyway global did an amazing version of "dance of the inhabitants" wish i would have recorded it..

did get this one of kyle, really encourage y'all to watch it (the weird phase sounding thing on the guitar is an artifact of my phone not a pedal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vw89OHBGKE&feature=youtu.be

here's some nic garcia recordings, good stuff

http://nicgarcia.bandcamp.com

reminded me of a more american primitive paris, texas soundtrack by ry cooder

I clicked that bandcamp link extra quick for this reason^

oops meant to quote or italicize that top line

BTW the youtube video is blocked as "private"...

Loops try it now

That Fosburgh is nice, phasing effect and all. Must have been a good show all around, gonna go check that Garcia now as well.

i did manage to record that, here it is!

https://soundcloud.com/stpalm/dance-of-the-inhabitants-live-10114

nic was great and i thought you sounded awesome ums, sound-cutting-out notwithstanding. think the sound there is way better than at acadia tbh.

and worth reposting this if ppl haven't listened, this is seriously one of the best recordings i've ever heard of anything (Fahey live 1973 doing Dance of the Inhabitants), it is so insanely great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cTdPTrihlI

Yeah man this is the best. So damn good (that low end action around 8:30-9:45 is just so otherworldly and awesome). Really liked your version too.

i'm glad you dig it, a lot of what's awesome about it i think is the fidelity and recording quality. also live at Swarthmore 1968 (available on Delta Slider!) has some more awesome big slide stuff. (and a killer version of Some Summer Day which I think is like the heaviest thing I've ever heard)

Yeah man, the recording quality is great, just a beautiful sound. Gotta go grab that Swarthmore show as well.

Unpacking my tapes and records today after moving into a new place and glanced at my copy of 2012's "With Endless Fire" by Ilyas Ahmed. I don't know why but seemed to have not thought about his records in a while. I have no idea if he has released anything recently, anyone else a fan here? Another of his most recent ones was a collaboration with Liz Harris of Grouper. Pretty sparse, downer-inclined stuff compared to other stuff here, but it's pretty great. I don't know why we haven't heard from him in a few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CetntS5czpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmK9PBqVhF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtdSyFB-M8

Oh man, yeah here we go. His stuff like this is damn good, a solo guitar one:

Ilyas Ahmed - 'Shumsun'
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Ilyas+Ahmed+Shumsun

i got on an ilyas ahmed kick after discovering him a few weeks ago, thanks for reminding me how awesome he is.

good writer too, search that back-n-forth interview w/Ms. Harris in an older Yeti magazine

so! got Dance of Death from the library and finished it this weekend! Read it real quick, obviously knew the broad outline of his career/life but definitely a lot of good details (though really weird feel like he maybe didn't interview Kottke or Lang? they seemed like they could have had more input)

anyway man, I knew he was troubled but WOW he's like a compendium of all troubled musician problems: Dylan's sometimes casual cruelty to others, Townsend's childhood neurosis-grandiosity/inferiority-complex, Jim Morrison's belligerent alcoholism, Neil's sort of remote manipulativeness/impulsiveness, Brian Wilson's infantilism/weird childish idealism of love/women/relationships/at-times laziness

agreed that the later period stuff was best, if only because it was less documented...Lowenthal is definitely a fan but not blinded to Fahey's personal or musical flaws....could have been twice as long/more detailed IMO, but as is a necessary book and I'm glad I read it

one other thing:

did anyone else wonder if he was relying too much on bluegrass music destroyed my life for the childhood stuff? cuz...i mean...i was never quite sure if that "gang" of kids he was in in the great koonalaster shit was even rooted in reality or if it was total fiction???? didn't seem like he tried to fact check if any kids by those names went to fahey's school etc?

Haven't read Lowenthal's book yet, but seems like a really odd thing to rely on "How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life" for veracity/reality at all, though surely parts of it are true to Fahey's life in some respects. Hard to imagine you wouldn't fact check anything from that book if you were going to use it.

i think the main thing that that book nails is his obsession with his childhood, like even if the stuff in his bio is fictionalized, the extent to which he fixated on it is nuts, like even the act of creating a mythology about your childhood is pretty next-level weirdness.

paul metzger and peter walker were great last night. paul did his usual thing (be awesome) and peter blew me away, i hadn't ever listened to him before really. hard to believe he's 77, he was so youthful. definitely recommend seeing him, although don't know how much he tours or plays or if this was a one-off deal

Man seems like you and UMS are striking gold with shows these days. That show sounds great, would love to see Metzger live at some point.

yeah i was out of town and just got back into town sunday late afternoon so i couldn't leave the fam to go out

finally (?!) caught up with the new steve gunn and i like it -- it all sounded instantly familiar since i've heard him in concert several times this year. but i like the band sound.

i bought that william tyler EP and i have to admit my strongest feeling was "this is incredibly boring." i went back and listened to his last LP to see if it "held up" and while i was more engaged I still got boring vibes. oh well.

which, the lost colony or that blue ash montgomery one? i could see the latter being a bit boring, ya

Lost Colony is incredible to me. It's hard to imagine being bored by it.

i think lost colony rules. i admit i wasn't as taken by impossible truth as everybody, a lot of good tunes but the extra textures and instrumentation seemed a bit overcooked or something to me

I enjoy W. Tyler plenty, but his playing can come across as "just" pleasant at times because of how smoothe and effortless his playing sounds (imo). If I am not in the mood it can come off as a little toothless and send me looking for something else.

Pretty cool video of Steve Gunn talking show w/ Matt Sweeney. It is the day of Steve Gunn all over the place, as the record is officially "out" today, but this was the most enjoyable for me:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-gunn-unfurls-his-acoustic-roots-young-guns-20141006

oh yeah i've gotta get that steve gunn lp today

I love these episodes! Loved watching the episode with Cass McCombs, too. Very fun to hear all my favorite musicians talk in depth about guitar playing.

I'd love an episode with Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele for one.

that's a great series. and there's a cass mccombs one? awesome!

Yeah- I guess the show got rebranded? Same thing though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thclj_CDwxs

new steve gunn is great on first listen!

seems to go a bit farther in each direction than time off, more pastoral in part and more television-gone-hippie in others....

the end of "fiction" could have gone on forever as far as i'm concerned.

dude is a seriously great player

excited, should pick up a copy at the fetus after work today

I specifically held off on buying this last weekend because I was hoping to grab one from the merch table this coming Sunday! Can't wait.