Post by Matt DeMello on Dec 4, 2017 12:57:47 GMT -5
Hi Unified Scene!
I'm a long-time THS fan but new to the message boards and thought I'd give this all a try since I've been working from home for the last year and looking for a greater sense of community.
Anyway, I attended the 11/30 Massive Nights show at Brooklyn Bowl on a whim (thanks to Camie Heller for hooking my super broke ass up with last minute tickets) and found myself in the smoking section getting into several highly engaging conversations with brilliant individuals on the following topics:
> Which Hold Steady album is your favorite (answers ranged from sterling - and*convincing*- arguments for Teeth Dreams and HIW, to obligatory diatribes on AKM and SS)
> In the realm of Socratic ideals, which bootlegged performance of Springsteen's "Jungleland" contains the greatest quality of "Jungleland"-iness (if I remember correctly -- and I was pretty stoned at the time -- two THS fans in the smoking section after the show swore that a version of JL at the end of the Wrecking Ball tour at Mohegan Sun in May 2014 is indeed the *most* Jungleland of all possible Jungelands, and offered to send me the bootleg if we connected on the US message boards so I could appreciate their point... so here I am!)
> How I know/love name-dropping Matt Jones and the various bands he's been in because they've all been pretty uniformly great, whether or not I feel like networking/making friends in the smoking line at a Hold Steady show. Also, keep your ears peeled for Matt's newest band, Shrink Ray, because they're great -- all ass-kissing aside.
If you remember any of these conversations or me and had fun having them, feel free to drop me a line on FB -- especially if you have that Springsteen bootleg. My url is below.
www.facebook.com/mmdemello
<3 MD
I'm a long-time THS fan but new to the message boards and thought I'd give this all a try since I've been working from home for the last year and looking for a greater sense of community.
Anyway, I attended the 11/30 Massive Nights show at Brooklyn Bowl on a whim (thanks to Camie Heller for hooking my super broke ass up with last minute tickets) and found myself in the smoking section getting into several highly engaging conversations with brilliant individuals on the following topics:
> Which Hold Steady album is your favorite (answers ranged from sterling - and*convincing*- arguments for Teeth Dreams and HIW, to obligatory diatribes on AKM and SS)
> In the realm of Socratic ideals, which bootlegged performance of Springsteen's "Jungleland" contains the greatest quality of "Jungleland"-iness (if I remember correctly -- and I was pretty stoned at the time -- two THS fans in the smoking section after the show swore that a version of JL at the end of the Wrecking Ball tour at Mohegan Sun in May 2014 is indeed the *most* Jungleland of all possible Jungelands, and offered to send me the bootleg if we connected on the US message boards so I could appreciate their point... so here I am!)
> How I know/love name-dropping Matt Jones and the various bands he's been in because they've all been pretty uniformly great, whether or not I feel like networking/making friends in the smoking line at a Hold Steady show. Also, keep your ears peeled for Matt's newest band, Shrink Ray, because they're great -- all ass-kissing aside.
If you remember any of these conversations or me and had fun having them, feel free to drop me a line on FB -- especially if you have that Springsteen bootleg. My url is below.
www.facebook.com/mmdemello
<3 MD