Big Star

Thanks Tyler. Gold.

i'll try to reup the beale street green/breakdown discs sometime soon too.

Just quickly browsing through those shows and they are AMAZING. Not always in a good way, but a great sense of where Chilton was at that point.

version of "Take Me Home And Make Me Like It" is really pretty amazing on there.

yeah -- nyc show is pretty together, philly show goes off the rails. in an entertaining way!

Hi -- Message me if you're interested -- have a spare ticket for the Big Star Third concert at the Barbican tonight. Think they're £25 ish. You'd have to sit next to me though :/

GOOD GRIEF TERRIBLE SHOW

No one said yes, but GOOD MOVE

ha, really? what was so bad about it?

Ach, just way too "tasteful". I love Third - hearing the songs live made me bawl - but it was so bloodless. Made me realise what an underrated vocalist Alex was. Jody looked AMAZING though.

Sole redeeming moment was Robyn Hitchcock turning up to do "Downs" and dedicating the song to Tom Hibbert.

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great.

Those songs just don't lend themselves to that treatment – on the record they are tearing the songs are being pulled apart from the inside. On stage, with revolving musicians, they necessarily have to be anchored. That meant that too much of it plodded, as a result of imposed order. The slow ones were miles better than the rockers.

John Bramwell opened with Nature Boy, then obviously just went and got pissed. He all but missed his cue for Thank You Friends, running back to the stage late, and through the second half he was sitting behind me, chuntering on at conversational volume through the show. Twat.

Although, arguably that's totally in the spirit of Third!

ha, yeah, that sounds about right.
they should open the shows with "whole lotta shakin'".

gotta say, this looks pretty fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUr6Gz29PK4

Can anyone provide a basic guide to the chords of 'I am the Cosmos?' I can tell it's capo-ed. Is the first chord just a straight up D-formation? Can't really tell with all the layering and phasing.

http://www.bigstarreference.com/tabs/cosmos/cosmostab.html

http://www.docnyc.net/film/big-star-nothing-can-hurt-me/#.UJhIg1H4Ia6

my friend co-produced this, go see it

That looks amazing.

want

there are only 2 events on that showings calendar! :(

looks great

would love to see this

Won best doc at Indie Memphis film festival.

will try if i'm feelin OK.

Saw it at the London Film Fest (& contributed to the Kickstarter). Fantastic.

playing again IFC Center Thursday 7:30. Can't make it, but y'all should go.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdleti7Zws1qm0waao1_400.jpg
the butts band!

and ed begley jr.!

Don't forget the two one-hit wonders appearing in the coming weeks.

i had to look up chi coltrane, i thought maybe it was like john coltrane's younger brother or something
http://www.bibleetnombres.online.fr/image11/chi_coltrane1.jpg

Was Ed Begley Jr. doing music or stand-up or what?

He was the drummer in the Thamesmen.

RIP

Didn't realize the documentary would be playing here next week until my friend alerted me. (Not having read this thread closely enough, didn't even know it existed.) Anyway, got a ticket and looking forward to it.

so want to see that

anyone know a good way to track a movie to see when it will come to a certain city? something akin to songkick for films, I guess.

They've got a site with a calendar--this may help.

http://www.bigstarstory.com/events.html

The documentary's really great. I think it'll get great reviews, win awards, be a big deal.

The director must have gotten some grief over the Replacements movie, because this time the music's front and center. (I'm going to henceforth view that film as a practice run, a chance to learn about how to interview people.) Lots of time given to specific songs--"September Gurls," "I Am the Cosmos," others. The film really honors Chris Bell's part in the story; it's almost as much a film about him as it is about Chilton. As I've said before, I've never been a Big Star worshipper--I have their albums, love a few songs, but couldn't name more than six or seven. I will spend some time with them now, and listen closer.

Two great comic-relief detours: the inaugural (and last--geez, it was such a good idea) Rock Writers Convention in 1973--I think you see Mike Saunders and his Oscar Gamble-size afro flash by--and the brief section on the Cramps. Lots of good interview footage with Billy Altman, whom I'd never seen before. One surprising omission: Christgau, who was probably the band's highest-profile supporter. I've seen lots of Christgau, so I didn't mind. (Maybe he disliked the Replacements movie so much that he declined this time.)

is there any good footage, clemenza? I can sorta imagine/recall from the bio that there could be some that eggleston shot

That's probably the best stuff: a documentary Eggleston (I'd never heard of him before) made in '74 about local crazies. There's not a whole lot of Big Star footage, but there are some great clips from when Chilton was bouncing around in the late '70s and early '80s. There's one photograph of Chilton's girlfriend during those days--very beautiful.

Eggleston doc = "Stranded in Canton" and i believe it's still up on youtube in its entirety.

Will be checking that out thanks.

There's a brief shot of Robert Fricke with his arm around Jody Stephens, which has no need to be included

Robert Fricke, the five-star dentist in Los Altos, California? Honestly, not sure who that is.

Stranded in Canton, that's it--thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1eDzz5fKio&wide=1

looks like there's a soundtrack to the doc coming out too, with "21 unissued tracks"... which seems a little bit astounding, considering that box set was packed with unissued stuff. can't imagine there'll be anything totally amazing, but, i guess i want to hear it!

http://floweringtoilet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/record-store-day-2013-big-star-nothing.html

ah ok -- alternate mixes, "movie mixes"! pretty much what i figured.

Did any of the other (ie, not what ended up on Radio City) Dolby Fuckers stuff get a legit release? Or were those tapes erased?

Big Star's Third: An Orchestrated Live Performance of the Legendary Album
Featuring Mike Mills, Jody Stephens, Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, Pete Yorn, Marshall Crenshaw, Pete Yorn, Reeve Carney and many more
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Central Park, MN
7:00 PM – 10:00PM -- FREE EVENT - Arrive Early for guaranteed admission
Artist Website: http://bigstarthird.com/

Big Star's Third is a full performance of the iconic album by an astonishing who's who of rock music featuring famed vocalists including Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, Marshall Crenshaw, Pete Yorn, Reeve Carney (Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark), Jonathan Carney (Mercury Rev) and Beck Stark (Lavender Diamond), supported by an all-star band including Mike Mills (R.E.M.) on bass; Mitch Easter (Lets Active) and Chris Stamey (The dB's) and Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star) on guitar; Charles Cleaver on keys; Django Haskins (of The Old Ceremony), Brett Harris and Skylar Gudasz on harmony and guitar; and original Big Star member Jody Stephens on drums, all backed with a twenty- piece chamber orchestra including the famed cellist Jane Scarpantoni. In addition, the concert will feature a selection of earlier songs, including the much-hailed “September Gurls” and “In The Streets” (which was used as the theme of the popular TV sitcom “That ‘70s Show, performed by Cheap Trick).

pete yorn and...pete yorn!

i remember admitting to my high school crush that i liked the pete yorn song that was on the radio at the time. things did not go well.