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Post by orzelc on Nov 29, 2018 20:02:40 GMT -5
Ba-dump-CHING
(Needed some variety...)
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Post by orzelc on Nov 27, 2018 15:06:06 GMT -5
Email arrived today, so we're all good.
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Post by orzelc on Nov 24, 2018 18:38:51 GMT -5
I got a ticket for next Friday at the Brooklyn Bowl with the sound check/ happy hour/ Brooklyn tour add-on (XMas gift from my wife, who's too good to me), but haven't heard any details about the timing and logistics of that. This might be because that information hasn't been sent out yet, but it's just late enough that I worry it was zapped by some overzealous spam filter. I figure somebody on here must know something about it; thus, this post. Anybody know where I'll need to be when on Friday?
Thanks in advance,
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Post by orzelc on Apr 14, 2017 4:41:50 GMT -5
I like the idea of this, but unfortunately, there's basically no time when I have a free hour-and-a-half to actually listen to an audio interview.
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Post by orzelc on Feb 8, 2017 6:29:11 GMT -5
Yeah, the poster tube was so narrow and crimped at the ends that I ended up needing to cut it apart (carefully) to get my poster out. Not impressed with the shipping and handling.
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Post by orzelc on Jan 31, 2017 6:21:36 GMT -5
Very cool. That station is local(ish) to me; sadly, I had to take the kids to my parents' that weekend, so I wasn't able to go to the living room tour show, and didn't hear these on the radio. Great to see them online, though.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 28, 2016 15:19:30 GMT -5
"Resurrection" was before the break, actually, right after "Southtown." It was a very pleasant surprise, because I was expecting "Southtown" to end the set. And "Stay Positive" was in the encore, just before "Killer Parties." "American Music" also had the singer from the So So Glos. Great evening, will probably write something up about it later, but right now I'm completely wiped out, having gotten up early to drive back up to Schenectady in time to coach my daughter's 3rd-grade basketball game this afternoon. If the rumor that the Saturday opener is Lifter Puller turns out to be true, I'm intensely jealous of folks who could stay for that... How sure are you on all of that? Also, who was the guest singer for Stay Positive? I'm very certain that Resurrection ended the set, and that the encore included Stay Positive. There was a guest on stage during Stay Positive, but I didn't recognize him. I'm less certain about anything in the middle of the set. The rest of that seems right, but I'm not sure.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 6, 2016 16:37:04 GMT -5
I dunno. Did Meyers have Rocco Sifretti on as a guest, or something?
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Post by orzelc on Dec 6, 2016 14:10:47 GMT -5
Nice guitar swing by Tad. Great tune, one of my favorites, but kind of an odd choice-- I would've expected "Stuck Between Stations." I wonder why they picked that-- maybe a request by Meyers?
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Post by orzelc on Dec 6, 2016 6:07:04 GMT -5
Awesome, as always. I'm weirdly fond of the shots of the monitors over the bowling lanes-- I didn't think to look over that way, but they're great for capturing the venue.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 5, 2016 5:20:40 GMT -5
Awesome. I love the explanation of why they're playing it.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 4, 2016 10:07:56 GMT -5
Wrote about my trip down to Brooklyn on my blog: scienceblogs.com/principles/2016/12/04/the-hold-steady-at-brooklyn-bowl-12216/Additional items for here: -- Got to meet both Brendan and Rich Tarbell (with whom I commiserated about the high cost of camera lenses) at the happy hour, which was cool. -- Thanks to Dave Gottlieb for setting me up with an invite to the sound check. I had paid for the pub crawl with Galen way back when, but multiple attempts to schedule that hadn't worked out, and since I was going to be in town for Friday's show anyway, it seemed like a good swap. Though the brief conversation I had with Galen suggests that the pub crawl thing would've been pretty awesome, too... -- I have video on my phone of the sound check jam where Kyle from Montana played "Magazines." Not sure if it's any good, or about the etiquette of posting it-- I don't know if he's on here, but it seems like I should leave it to him to post if he is and wants to share it. But I'll mention it on the off chance that he's on here and somehow doesn't have video of it, in which case I'd be happy to share.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 4, 2016 6:34:08 GMT -5
I think Tad had a GoPro on top of the speaker right in front on him on Friday, too. He was fiddling with something on the speaker during the sound check, and I wandered up for a closer look after, and it looked like a GoPro.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 3, 2016 15:13:53 GMT -5
Following the sets and stories has gotten me both really excited about this band again and really bummed I'm not there. I do, however, hope they've got some Franz-ified Teeth Dreams stuff on deck for tonight. I'll be a little disappointed if the only thing (see what I did there) from this era that comes out is IHTHTDFY. They played "Spinners" during the sound check event Friday (somebody requested it), so they can in principle do that.
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Post by orzelc on Dec 3, 2016 15:10:46 GMT -5
Friday night setlist; Positive Jam The Swish Chips Ahoy! Same Kooks You Can Make Him Like You Ask Her for Adderall Your Little Hoodrat Friend Charlemagne in Sweatpants First Night Constructive Summer Hot Soft Light Citrus Party Pit Stevie Nix Stuck Between Stations Massive Nights Don't Let Me Explode Sequestered in Memphis Southtown Girls Encore: Hornets! Hornets! How a Resurrection Really Feels Killer Parties American Music (Violent Femmes Cover) "Resurrection" was before the break, actually, right after "Southtown." It was a very pleasant surprise, because I was expecting "Southtown" to end the set. And "Stay Positive" was in the encore, just before "Killer Parties." "American Music" also had the singer from the So So Glos. Great evening, will probably write something up about it later, but right now I'm completely wiped out, having gotten up early to drive back up to Schenectady in time to coach my daughter's 3rd-grade basketball game this afternoon. If the rumor that the Saturday opener is Lifter Puller turns out to be true, I'm intensely jealous of folks who could stay for that...
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Post by orzelc on Dec 2, 2016 10:48:22 GMT -5
Getting on the road shortly, driving down from the Albany area. Never met anybody here before, but looking forward to it-- if you see a really big white dude in a black T-shirt that says "Science" on it, that's most likely me. Nobody burn down the venue before the show, or anything like that.
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Post by orzelc on Oct 22, 2016 7:13:04 GMT -5
Alone in the sense of not bringing anyone else with me, yes, but I'm hoping there'll be several hundred other people there...
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Post by orzelc on Oct 13, 2016 7:00:11 GMT -5
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel in Literature. Didn't see that coming... I've seen him live three times: once was terrible, once magical, once okay. Wish I could've seen him back in the day, though, because this version of "Like a Rolling Stone" is amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrlLDG0ynUAnd the obligatory THS content: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwxM899DzzISmart play by the guys to cover a little-known song, and a great version.
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Post by orzelc on Sept 29, 2016 6:12:50 GMT -5
I've landed on a grand jury, and spent the last month-and-a-half of Tuesdays and Thursdays in the county courthouse listening to a variety of people testifying about terrible decision-making. And it only just occurred to me, when shuffle-play served up the right track from Stay Positive, that what I've been hearing are basically low-rent versions of the dude from "Sequestered in Memphis."
"Now they want to know exactly which bathroom. Dude, does it make any difference? It can't be important..."
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Post by orzelc on Sept 15, 2016 5:11:31 GMT -5
i have a version of 212 Margarita but I'm not sure if it's this same one. can't even remember where i got it. hm. There's a couple of live versions out there, plus an acoustic version was released on iTunes on the Virgin Digital Sessions. This one definitely isn't the same as the version I had already, which is the Virgin Digital Sessions one. I think I like the tinkly piano in the older version a little better, though that might be mostly familiarity. There are a few lyrical changes too, I think. I didn't have "Milkcrate Mosh" before, so that was great to get.
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Post by orzelc on Jul 28, 2016 18:22:32 GMT -5
Was just thinking that about "Our Whole Lives!" Which BTW has been woefully underplayed. Our Whole Lives might be my favorite Hold Steady song. I still maintain that HIW is a very unfairly maligned record. It's definitely my favorite HiW song. Good hook, lots of great little bits in the lyrics ("making guitars out of tennis rackets," "Gonna make a pre-emptive strike, hit the 5:30 Mass every Saturday night," "I didn't know you could dance like that; I'm gonna have to ask you to take two steps back"). Better than most of Stay Positive, too, though I'm not sure it's competitive with the best of Sep Sunday and BAGIA. Would be very psyched to hear it live, regardless.
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Post by orzelc on Jul 22, 2016 15:38:04 GMT -5
I'll be driving down from Albany for the Friday show; way too early to know about timing and so on. I only got a ticket for the one show, so no soundcheck for me, but I'd be up for pre-show beers somewhere.
(Saw them with Franz in a tiny little bar in Albany during the Stay Positive tour, and without in a different Albany bar during the Teeth Dreams tour...)
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Post by orzelc on Jul 20, 2016 4:56:47 GMT -5
In for one night, probably Friday so I'm not sticking my wife home alone with the kids on a school morning.
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Post by orzelc on Jun 5, 2016 8:51:02 GMT -5
To be fair, the subject line of the email announcement used the words "Our First Two "Boys & Girls in America" 10th Anniversary Shows," which implies there will be more, but it's been nigh on three weeks without anything new.
Now, I generally agree that it's not good to overinflate expectations, and calling it a "cock tease" is definitely overwrought. But I can understand some frustration about the lack of further news. (He says, hoping to have the chance to make a run down to NYC for a show...)
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Post by orzelc on May 20, 2016 4:45:11 GMT -5
I live here, and I wouldn't go into Shaker Heights for a show! That's disconcerting. I see what you did there... (I have no opinion on Ohio 'burbs, but will definitely be making the trip down to NYC whenever they announce a show there. Even if it's a weeknight and I have to cancel class the next day...)
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