~~~~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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