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| From | garymaher@juno.com |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V1 #612 (14 msgs) |
| Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2003 03:09:28 -0400 |
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Thanks!
That band always inspires me to want to be more creative.
http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/
But I am only 1/4 as creative as most of the people on their discussion
list: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/
g
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:00:38 -0400 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> ~~~~what a GREAT post, gary!! kudos!
> jocelyn
> --- garymaher@juno.com wrote:
> > Oh, there goes Gary droning on again about Belle &
> > Sebastian, and he
> > doesn't even own a duffle coat, and he hasn't been
> > seen sporting a bowlie
> > since at least sophomore year in college, and what
> > exactly does he see in
> > those young Glaswegians anyway, with their
> > undertrodden underground
> > undergraduate uberantihipsterness from half a world
> > away, and even if he
> > does find some way to identify with them and their
> > music and their french
> > horns and their vibraphones and four string players
> > and the siren whistle
> > thingy and don't even get me started on that
> > vibraslap, and them lugging
> > a dozen guitars across the ocean to play them on one
> > song each, and
> > letting four people play keys at a time, and
> > remembering the two
> > recorders because one wouldn't sound quite right for
> > the 12 bars they
> > dueted, and even if they did dedicate a song to the
> > Zombies, which was
> > their own Jonathan David, and even though they did
> > play a dead-on version
> > of Love's arrangement of Little Red Book, why does
> > he think anybody else
> > on the Audities list could give a flying fuck about
> > the show they played
> > in Brooklyn tonight, although some Auditeers might
> > be interested to hear
> > about Ben Kweller and how he came across so well to
> > a bunch of people who
> > hadn't heard him or of him and with his 12-year-old
> > looks and his Beckish
> > swagger and his Foldsian piano pounding and what
> > with him playing loud
> > acoustic guitar and brilliantly covering Ice Ice
> > Baby and impressing the
> > shit out of people who were more than twice his age
> > and looked, through
> > their age and his youth, to be four times older than
> > he, before the Scots
> > and their entourage hit the stage most
> > appreciatively, playing songs all
> > the way from their first record all the way to the
> > new one, even though
> > it's not being released until October, with lots of
> > sunshiney pop sounds
> > and gorgeous harmonies that will maybe finally get
> > the attention of more
> > people in general and more people on this list in
> > particular, not that he
> > needs to have to fight through any more people to
> > get to the front at
> > their shows, but that's just Gary droning on again
> > about Belle &
> > Sebastian, and he's probably never going to get over
> > that. So let's just
> > ignore him, ok?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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