Music List for Dan O'Neil Last Update: Jun 3, 2004 |
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Addison Groove Project --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
04/03/04 | Higher Ground | 3 | CDR | Cut Crowd Chant track to fit in 3 discs. |
The Bad Plus --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
12/16/01 | The Village Vanguard | 1 | CDR | |||
02/25/03 | Pizza Express | 1 | CDR |
Charlie Hunter --- Approximate Hours: 1.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
04/15/98 | House of Blues | 1 | CDR | Source Detail |
Charlie Hunter Quartet --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
03/24/01 | Clark Art Institute | 2 | CDR |
Disco Biscuits --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
05/29/99 | Martyr's | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |
Dizzy Gillespie --- Approximate Hours: 1.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
02/09/53 | Salle Pleyel | 1 | SHN | missing Tin Tin Deo |
Donna The Buffalo --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
09/14/02 | The State Theater | 2 | CDR | Source Detail |
Flaming Lips --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
04/24/00 | Barrymore Theatre | 1 | SHN | |||
05/03/03 | Riviera Theatre | 2 | SHN |
Galactic --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
11/23/02 | 9:30 Club | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
01/29/03 | Jannus Landing | 0 | SHN |
Gov't Mule --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
02/02/04 | State Theatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |
Grateful Dead --- Approximate Hours: 35 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
08/27/72 | Old Renaissance Faire Grounds | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/06/73 | Public Hall | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
05/08/77 | Barton Hall, Cornell University | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
05/09/77 | Buffalo Memorial Auditorium | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
07/08/78 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
10/21/78 | Winterland Arena | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
10/15/83 | Hartford Civic Center | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
03/25/85 | Springfield Civic Center | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
10/18/89 | The Spectrum | 2 | CDR | |||
09/10/91 | Madison Square Garden | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |
Jeff Buckley --- Approximate Hours: 1.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
06/24/95 | Glastonbury Festival | 1 | CDR | A | Complete set with Grace and Dream Brother! |
Jeff Tweedy --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
03/02/99 | Lounge Ax | 1 | CDR | |||
01/08/03 | The Vic Theatre | 1 | shn | Source Detail |
John Coltrane --- Approximate Hours: 1.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
11/23/61 | Konserthuset | 1 | SHN | A+ |
Legion of Mary --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
??/??/74 | Dick's Gift | 2 | CDR |
Medeski Martin & Wood --- Approximate Hours: 10 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
03/27/96 | Covered Dish | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/22/98 | Vic Theater | 0 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
04/14/00 | Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts | 0 | Source Detail | |||
12/01/00 | Palace Theater | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
02/15/01 | Shibuya AX | 0 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
02/16/01 | Harajuku Astro Hall | 0 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
04/20/02 | Warfield Theatre | 0 | Source Detail | |||
06/07/02 | HIgh Falls | 1 | CDR | A | Source Detail | |
02/05/03 | Tonic | 1 | SHN | Source Detail | Annoying interviews between songs | |
06/13/03 | High Falls - Rochester International Jazzfest | 2 | SHN | A |
Miles Davis --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
04/09/60 | Kurhaus | 1 | SHN | |||
11/06/67 | Salle Pleyel | 1 | SHN | A |
Moore & More --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
09/11/98 | The Showbox | 2 | CDR |
New York! --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
05/21/97 | Club Toast | 2 | SHN |
Phish --- Approximate Hours: 393.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
12/01/84 | Nectar's | 1 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
04/29/87 | Nectar's | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/21/87 | Ian McLean's Farm | 3 | Source Detail | |||
??/??/87 | Trey's Thesis, Goddard College (TMWSIY) | 1 | CDR | A | ||
05/24/88 | Nectar's | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
10/31/90 | Armstrong Hall, Colorado College | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/02/90 | Glenn Miller Ballroom | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | Seems to be mix of Set 1 only source and then Set 2 from this source. | |
11/03/90 | Boulder Theater | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/04/90 | Fort Ram Nightclub | 2 | FLAC | A | Source Detail | |
07/15/91 | The Academy | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
10/13/91 | North Shore Surf Club | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
10/19/91 | The Catalyst | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/31/91 | Worcester Memorial Auditorium | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
04/16/92 | Anaconda Theater, UCSB | 2 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
07/25/92 | Stowe Performing Arts Center | 1 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | Jamming with Santana! What more can you ask for? |
11/22/92 | Bailey Hall, Cornell University | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/31/92 | Matthews Arena, Northeastern University | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
02/20/93 | Roxy Theater | 3 | shn | Source Detail | ||
03/22/93 | Crest Theater | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
05/05/93 | Palace Theater | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | With 3 track soundcheck |
08/02/93 | The Ritz Theater | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/09/93 | The Masonic Temple | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/20/93 | Red Rocks Ampitheatre | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
08/28/93 | Greek Theatre, Univ. of California | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
05/07/94 | The Bomb Factory | 1 | Source Detail | |||
06/11/94 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/16/94 | Summer Stage at Sugarbush North | 3 | A+ | Source Detail | AUD copy of Live Phish #2 | |
06/19/95 | Deer Creek Music Center | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
06/22/95 | Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center | 2 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
06/26/95 | Saratoga Performing Arts Center | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/09/95 | Knickerbocker Arena | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/28/95 | The Centrum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/29/95 | The Centrum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/29/95 | The Centrum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/31/95 | Madison Square Garden | 3 | Source Detail | |||
08/04/96 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/05/96 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/06/96 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/07/96 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/16/96 | Plattsburgh Air Force Base | 4 | Source Detail | |||
08/17/96 | Plattsburgh Air Force Base | 3 | Source Detail | |||
11/02/96 | Coral Sky Amphitheater | 1 | CDR | A | Source Detail | |
12/06/96 | Aladdin Theater | 3 | Source Detail | |||
02/13/97 | Shepherd's Bush Empire | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
02/16/97 | Alter Wartesaal | 2 | VCD | |||
07/01/97 | Paradiso | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
07/02/97 | Paradiso | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/05/97 | Piazza Risorgimento | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/06/97 | Spiaggia Di Rivoltella | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/06/97 | Spiaggia Di Rivoltella | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/10/97 | Espace Julien | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/29/97 | Desert Sky Pavilion | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/13/97 | Star Lake Amphitheatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/15/97 | "From the Archives" Broadcast | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/16/97 | Loring Air Force Base | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
11/13/97 | Thomas & Mack Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/14/97 | E Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/16/97 | McNichols Sports Arena | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/19/97 | Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
11/21/97 | Hampton Coliseum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
11/22/97 | Hampton Coliseum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
11/23/97 | Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
11/26/97 | Hartford Civic Center | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
11/28/97 | Worcester Centrum | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/29/97 | Worcester Centrum | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
11/30/97 | Worcester Centrum | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/02/97 | The Spectrum | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/03/97 | The Spectrum | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/05/97 | Convocation Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/06/97 | The Palace | 2 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/07/97 | Ervin J. Nutter Center | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/09/97 | Bryce Jordan Center | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/11/97 | War Memorial | 2 | SHN | A | Source Detail | Bittersweet Motel Show |
12/12/97 | Pepsi Arena | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
12/13/97 | Pepsi Arena | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/30/97 | Madison Square Garden | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
04/02/98 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
04/03/98 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
04/04/98 | Providence Civic Center | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
04/05/98 | Providence Civic Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/06/98 | Lucerna Theatre | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
08/08/98 | Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/09/98 | Virginia Beach Amphitheatre | 3 | Source Detail | |||
10/03/98 | World Music Theatre | 1 | VCD | |||
10/03/98 | World Music Theatre | 1 | VCD | Phish Farm Aid 10-03-1998 New World Music Theatre Tinley Park, IL Video Broadcast (CMT)>VHS(unknown gen)>mpeg>avi> virtual dub (audio extraction)> Soundforge 6.0 > MainConcept MPEG Encoder (new audio patched) > TMPEnc > VCD took the video from a previous post and synced it a much better audio recording. Very nice all around. Im planning to torrent a DVD of this as well, for those of you with the capability. Enjoy. Teddy D Disc 1: Birds of Feather% Farmhouse Moma Dance Runaway Jim* -> Arc** -> Down By the River*** Moonlight in Vermont# Will the Circle Be Unbroken## Amazing Grace^ Uncloudy Day %Between "Birds" and "Farmhouse," Trey encouraged donations and mentioned a recent success in Vermont against the expansion of a factory farm. *Neil Young came out, plugged in, and started playing just prior to the final chorus. **Members of the Neil Young newsgroup are labeling this jam as "Arc" ("Arc" is the name of a sound collage culled from performances on Neil's 1991 tour and released as a companion to the "Weld" live album). ***Led by Neil Young; entire song/jam (which included a "space jam" and a "dissonant jam") lasted about 26 minutes. #Willie Nelson and Paul Schaffer enter the stage; Nelson on lead vocals. ##Joined by four Native Americans. ^With guitar solo by Trey. | ||
10/17/98 | Shoreline Amphitheatre | 1 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
10/18/98 | Shoreline Amphitheatre | 1 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
11/02/98 | E Centre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/13/99 | Tweeter Center | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
07/13/99 | Tweeter Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
09/12/99 | Portland Meadows | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/11/99 | First Union Spectrum | 2 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/30/99 | Big Cypress Seminole Reservation | 4 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
12/31/99 | Big Cypress Seminole Reservation | 10 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
05/23/00 | Roseland Ballroom | 4 | VCD | |||
05/23/00 | Roseland Ballroom | 4 | VCD | Source Detail | ||
06/??/00 | Tour Soundchecks | 1 | CDR | Just 6/13, 6/14 | ||
07/11/00 | Deer Creek Music Center | 2 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/17/00 | KLRU Studio 6A | 1 | VCD | |||
02/21/03 | US Bank Arena | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | No Trades, sorry! | |
02/26/03 | Worcester Centrum Centre | 3 | SHN | A | Source Detail | |
02/28/03 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 3 | SHN | A+ | Source Detail | |
07/08/03 | Coors Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/09/03 | Shoreline Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/13/03 | The Gorge Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | A | ||
07/15/03 | USANA Amphitheatre | 3 | FLAC | A | LIVE PHISH | |
07/17/03 | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/25/03 | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre | 3 | FLAC | A | LIVE PHISH | |
07/27/03 | Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek | 3 | FLAC | LIVE PHISH | ||
07/29/03 | Post Gazette Pavillion at Star Lake | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/30/03 | Tweeter Center | 3 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/31/03 | Tweeter Center | 3 | FLAC | A | Source Detail | LIVE PHISH |
08/02/03 | Loring Air Force Base | 4 | FLAC | Source Detail | LIVE PHISH | |
08/03/03 | Loring Air Force Base | 4 | FLAC | Source Detail | LIVE PHISH | |
11/28/03 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 0 | Source Detail | |||
11/29/03 | Wachovia Spectrum | 0 | Source Detail | |||
12/01/03 | Pepsi Arena | 0 | Source Detail | |||
12/02/03 | FleetCenter | 0 | Source Detail | |||
12/28/03 | American Airlines Arena | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/29/03 | American Airlines Arena | 3 | CDR | |||
12/30/03 | American Airlines Arena | 3 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
12/31/03 | American Airlines Arena | 4 | CDR |
Phish archive radio --- Approximate Hours: 10 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
08/14/98 | Loring Air Force Base | 4 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
08/14/98 | Loring Air Force Base | 4 | SHN | Source Detail |
Radiohead --- Approximate Hours: 7.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
09/16/00 | Goffertpark | 2 | CDR | |||
06/23/01 | The Gorge Ampitheatre | 2 | SHN | A | ||
06/07/03 | Giants Stadium | 2 | SHN | A |
Sim Redmond Band --- Approximate Hours: 1.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
07/06/02 | Great Blue Heron Music Festival | 1 | SHN |
The Slip --- Approximate Hours: 2.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
12/30/03 | Lupo's at the Strand | 2 | CDR |
Soulive --- Approximate Hours: 12.5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
07/01/01 | Wetlands Preserve | 3 | SHN | |||
07/20/01 | Umbria Jazz | 1 | SHN | |||
12/31/01 | Irving Plaza | 4 | SHN | Source Detail | ||
07/07/02 | Gathering of the Vibes, Indian Point Country Club | 2 | SHN | Peter Prince set too |
Steve Kimock Band --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
02/22/03 | The State Theatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |
String Cheese Incident --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
10/07/99 | Barrymore Theatre | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |
Trey Anastasio --- Approximate Hours: 5 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
05/31/03 | Warfield Theatre | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
04/11/04 | Higher Ground | 2 | CDR |
Umphrey's McGee --- Approximate Hours: 3.75 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
12/30/02 | Vic Theatre | 3 | SHN | Source Detail |
Wilco --- Approximate Hours: 6.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
05/23/95 | Fox Theatre | 2 | SHN | |||
04/27/02 | Memorial Chapel @ Union College | 2 | CDR | |||
??/??/02 | YHF Demos | 1 | CDR | Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos 01 - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart 02 - Ashes of American Flags 03 - I'm The Man Who Loves You 04 - Magazine Called Sunset 05 - Reservations 06 - Kamera 07 - Not For the Season 08 - Alone 09 - Nothing Up My Sleeve 10 - Venus Stop the Train 11 - Rhythm 12 - Poor Places 13 - Won't You Let Down 14 - Heavy Metal Drummer 15 - Instrumental 1 16 - Instrumental 2 17 - Instrumental 2 (alternate) 18 - Kamera (alternate) 19 - Magazine Called Sunset (alternate) 20 - Alone (alternate) 21 - Not For the Season (alternate) Story from... http://www.neumu.net/drama/2002/2002-00030/2002-00030_drama.shtml Wilco's "Basement Tapes" The "YHF Demos" are the great lost Wilco album ? now if only someone would release them. The ink that says "Wilco YHF Demos" is slightly smeared on the home-printed white cover of the CD that arrived the other day. The 21 songs on this "Basement Tapes" CD, sent from a friend, were downloaded as MP3 files from some Web location. I don't use the phrase "Basement Tapes" lightly. It's an intentional reference to the recordings Bob Dylan and The Band made up in Woodstock in the late '60s. At an hour and 15 minutes, this is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as a two-record set. But it's also much more expansive, and not just because of length. It is an amazing album, and I certainly hope that Wilco will choose to release it. I find it captivating in a way that the official album isn't ? probably due to the inclusion of "Venus Stop the Train" and some others that didn't make it onto the completed album. But also because, from start to finish, it works as an album, as a body of work that I want to hear all the way from track one ? a version of "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" ? through an alternate take of "Not for the Season." With Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy drew a line in the sand. No, he was not that alt-country guy you wanted him to be. If you thought Summerteeth was just a diversion, think again, he seemed to be saying. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is, perhaps, his way of declaring himself a major artist, as daring as those who clearly have inspired him, including The Beatles and Brian Wilson. An artist not content to work within the established structures and sounds that define musical genres. So he started fucking with the material, adding odd sounds, deconstructing songs, creating a kind of art piece. And he was successful. The album is good, and the world now sees him as a very different kind of artist than they did before. Only, for me, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot turned out to be one of those albums that you appreciate intellectually, that you know is "good" and that you should like, only you never seem to play it. Or you play a couple of songs, but don't listen through from start to finish. Well, don't know about you, maybe you played your copy to death, but I've hardly played mine since my initial attempts to dig into it. I must add that, because of all the drama surrounding the official album ? record company politics that found one AOL Time Warner label dropping the band while another signed them up ? my initial experience of the album was a letdown. The YHF demos are something else. With no real expectations, I put the CD in my car stereo on my way home from the post office the other day, and I've been playing it incessantly ever since. It's hard to generalize, but a lot of this album seems to be lamenting a romance that didn't work out; beyond that, Tweedy seems to be catching the disillusionment that many feel now ? both disillusionment and nostalgia for a past that we likely recall via romanticized memories ("Heavy Metal Drummer"). "I miss the innocence I've known/ Playing Kiss covers, beautiful and stoned," he sings in "Heavy Metal Drummer," a different version of the song that appeared on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It's not that these demos are stripped down. They're not (or at least some of them aren't), and thus they feel more organic. It's just that, for the most part, the arrangements are more... traditional. "Alone," for example, a song that didn't make it onto the official album, rocks along to an old-time melody and some honky-tonk. It has the feel of Dylan and The Band doing "Don't Ya Tell Henry." "Nothing Up My Sleeve," also not on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, is a folk-rocker with double-tracked vocals, just a single acoustic guitar for accompaniment and a Beatles-esque melody. Won't Let You Down is like the Rolling Stones doing country-rock. The lyric is simple, almost a clich?, only it's not, because of the way Tweedy sings it. His voice is scratchy, a bit frail, echoing Jagger from the Stones' Beggar's Banquet days. He makes the song's sentiment sound like it's being expressed for the first time. "When you're getting older/ The weight will lift from your shoulders/ There's one thing to remember/ I'm not gone." And then into the chorus: "I won't ever let you down/ I won't ever let you down... I promise..." Tweedy sounds like he means it on every song, but there's something more low-key throughout about his vocals, like he's having fun trying out different voices. And over the course of the18 songs that have vocals, there's a feeling of intimacy. This isn't the artist making "ART," it's just a passionate singer who writes moving songs getting them down on tape. But it's also a self-conscious artist experimenting within traditional song structures, rather than trying to break them down. There are three instrumentals (well, two, and an alternate take). The first is a pretty interlude with piano and strings, a gentle melody that repeats again and again. The second is a kind of country-honk affair, strummed acoustic guitars and backwoods rhythms, that suddenly breaks open into a kind of Abbey Road-styled bridge with drums, synths and God knows what else. The alternate take of that second one is an even trippier piece that takes me back to The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. The piano-based ballad "Venus Stop the Train" is another stunner. "I kept my distance. 'cause she fell in love with everyone," Tweedy sings. "Smoking grass and taking Christmas trees/ She fell in love with me." "Rhythm" is just Tweedy singing over simple piano accompaniment. The way the vocals and piano were recorded for both remind me of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band recordings. I guess you could accuse me of being a tease ? after all, getting a hold of these demos may not be the easiest thing. Or you might think I'm doing that rock-critic thing I made fun of recently, raving about songs most people may never hear. Fuck it. This stuff is too good, and you oughta know about it. And if you can find it, more power to ya! |
Yonder Mountain String Band --- Approximate Hours: 6.25 | ||||||
Show Date | Venue | Media Count | Media Type | Rating | Source Info | Notes |
11/01/03 | Moore Theater | 2 | CDR | Source Detail | ||
02/21/04 | Newport Music Hall | 3 | CDR | Source Detail |