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? > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno > > SpeedBand! > > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up > today! > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------ ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!