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(But yes, I NEVER go out and about in the natural world or anything.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

YOU GUYS SHOULD MUDD WRASSLE

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

THERE MIGHT BE SOME MIGHTY HAIR PULLING

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

My flowing mane etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to wrestle Ned! In or out of the mud. He'd murder me.

No, I wasn't even directly addressing that to you, but it seemed like it was posted in a spirt of, "Can you believe what this guy said?" and I see "trying to discover ways to include interacting with wilderness in our daily routine," ande "Hey wilderness has a place in our human experiences" and I'm like, OK.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I believe we were criticizing *how* it was said -- and while interview transcriptions capture all of us at our worst, I think, that was a bit of a ramble.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I like this record more every time i hear it - coincidentally or not, I've been higher each time I listen to it than the previous time. Also, pretty much ideal for those long stretches of highway when the gas tank is full, and no one's hungry or talking or has to pee.

It's like if Califone were really really good or if Movietone were into Kissing Spell reissues instead of jazz. Sort of. I dunno. I think it's really good.

― Metal Machine Moustache (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really have an issue with the sentiment expressed, and I love "the wilderness" and even the specific wilderness he's talking about (ie, Northern California = one of the most beautiful places on earth). That particular passage does strike me as kind of silly and banal though, perhaps because the love of nature is professed in the context of rather stupid material terms (ie, going out into nature doesn't cost money, unlike, say, the pasttime of making records and doing press, which y'know doesn't cost any money at all of course - also neither private or public land is "free", etc.)

That being said I am looking forward to hearing this record based on the comparisons being made (Fender Rhodes + Spiritualized + Dr. John = me like), and I couldn't give less of a fuck about whether or not the lead guy is a dippy hippie or whatever.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

if Movietone were into Kissing Spell reissues instead of jazz.

??? don't hear that at all, good man.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Maybe it's the sleepy way the Rhodes is played, the breathy reverbed vocals, and the slightly loungy interaction between the drums and guitar. Maybe I just really miss Movietone.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

this is contending with the matmos album for my fave record on matador this year.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

and HEY ROG, i ran into LUA4S a few days ago. we live in adjacent neighorhoods now.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

this is contending with the matmos album for my fave record on matador this year.

faint praise...

Maybe I just really miss Movietone

i hear the movietone, just not the kissing spell.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

posting in this thread ... WTF?

― Lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Lmaoborghini OTM

but I guess I"m guilty of it. but who knew there was such interest for such bland band

i guess long hair gets people excited

― kevin barking (arghargh), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW dude is seriously nice and not like judgemental or particularly spacey, regardless of his nature-love (which i dont really have a problem with either) and willing to talk at length on almost anything you ask about. big minor threat fan, too.

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

and he's touring with d higgs of lungfish, which i think is tres cool

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

i guess long hair gets people excited

I should hope.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh ned! i forgot about our past. goodtimes , sigh goodtimes

― kevin barking (arghargh), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

well apparently i'm missing them tonight because the wife takes too long to get ready.

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

those wives. bitches aren't they?

― kevin barking (arghargh), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

yours maybe, mine just takes a long time to get ready

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

What's (slightly) off-putting about the quote is this:

"...it doesn’t take any money to interact with wilderness, all you need is food, so if we could incorporate, as a society, wilderness as a daily routine, the maybe it would help dissolve classism a little bit, because your pastimes wouldn’t be determined by how much money you have."

Standard-issue hippie lib-kid entitlement. Blissful lack of awareness of other people's often wildly different circumstances and views. "We could all be happy if we were all (unencumbered, young, white, middle-class, educated) people like me, and we all shared my ideas. We could all be happy if we all had access to the same freedoms I do."

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

put me in the completely clueless column as well, as a shoegaze lover I find this one goes wide left.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

really enjoying this. and i think enjoy is the right word...

and i'm not a shoegaze/Spiritualized/Dr John fan.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

This is a nice enough album. I have to agree it doesn't exactly strike me as memorable, but it's all together pleasurable. what's their history, does anyone know?

― boonah (boonah), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I thought these guys were a bit boring when i saw them with Espers a bit ago, but i bought thier CD and listen to it all the time. I like how warm and relaxing it is.

― peter x (bucksbreeze), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

anybody else see these guys in LA last night? nabob threw a fit and left the stage, and the rest of the band had to finish the last two songs without him. i was still impressed.

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

throwing a fit on stage and leaving your band to finish without you=never cool

― kevin barking (arghargh), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I hear it is if you're female and/or mentally ill! I don't know about the reliability of my sources though.........

― unnamedroffler (xave), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

details? yikes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

apparently he started insulting LA and the audience (which was only 1/3 full) and swearing, and being a dick and then stormed off stage. LAME

― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

city babylon

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

apparently he started insulting LA and the audience (which was only 1/3 full) and swearing, and being a dick and then stormed off stage.

That would have gone down a treat at ArthurBall, I'm sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about him insulting L.A. or the audience (I actually thought I heard him say, "You guys are great"), but it was pretty empty. Dan Higgs wasn't there, which pissed me off.

But yeah, about three-quarters of the way into the set, a backup singer came on (Mariee Sioux, maybe?) and Nabob's guitar amp started erupting in feedback. The sound was pretty shitty, but he stopped in the middle of the song and started futzing around. At some point he came over to Rabob's Rhodes and was trying to get her to stop playing (or something, he kept messing with her hands and she refused to stop). He then proceeded to run upstairs, looking for the sound booth. When he found it, he threw himself into the door a couple times, and, unsuccessful, started throwing shit at it (I think). (Meanwhile, Rabob and the rest of the band are all playing with embarrassed looks on their faces. The backup singer is standing there and not really doing anything). Security (and the sound guy) rush over to confront Nabob (this is all upstairs in the VIP lounge-y thing at the Troubadour). I don't really know what happened next but I was told that the guy who replaced D. Higgs on the bill (some guitar-y folk guy--Embrace? Entrance?) threw a bottle, either at security or at Nabob, and some hippie chick in a poncho was rushing back and forth. Rabob and the band played one more song (to heavy applause) and then got off stage pretty hastily.

The Troubadour has really shitty sound, but it was pretty inexcusable to storm off like a baby and throw shit at the the sound booth, especially for a guy like Nabob, who seemed like (in the 40 minutes I talked to him) a decent, if spacey, guy. But--more respect to the band's other 4 touring members, who played well despite the distraction. I have to say that I liked it a lot both with and without Nabob; as long as Nabob's not going to pull a diva act, they're worth seeing.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

aggro organic teepee life

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Weed can do such things to your mood ... tis why I've been mostly on the wagon with it since college. Shit gets too dark occasionally.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Also, as shitty as the Troubadour sound was, I can only assume that the feathers Nabob attached to his mic didn't help it out at all. Nor did the logs strewn atop the monitors.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I heard the sound guy was pissed because they tried to build a working sweatlodge on stage.

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, blame it on weed, dipshit

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

can i get a little more peyote in the monitor?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

he was annoyed by the thread title and threw a hissy to make it retroactively otm

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

i saw them at will's pub here in orlando a few weeks back. it was great. i snapped a sort of cool picture of nabob also:

http://homepage.mac.com/jmcgonnell/look/brightblack_1.jpg

― jason m (jason m), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

nice pic! can you send me some more, dude?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

this band is douchey

― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

keep saying the same thing over and over, it's much more convincing that way

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone heard what kevin barking thinks? and whether or not o'connor still smokes weed?

― gear (gear), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

ain't nobody heard a word 'cept the bird, gear. Whatever the hell that means ... ;-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's the same feather-getup thing he put on his mic at the Troubadour.

― max (maxreax), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah probably the same guitar and shirt he's been using all tour too! crazy how that works!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

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