And not too many others here must know either
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
i just saw him in March. he was... ok. very affable, and charmingly self-deprecating. his young back-up band was very underwhelming / under-rehearsed. they played several songs from the new Cardinal lp, but they were very different--straight guitars/bass/drums.
i saw him do a solo set opening for Tobin Sprout in 2000 which was fanstastic. just him and an acoustic guitar; did an early version of 'Kal'. kinda makes me wish he'd stick to that format. nonetheless he's an oddly compelling talent.
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
I saw him years ago, I think after Telegraph. Then, his band was pretty tight, but I wouldn't say it was a mind-blowing show. I don't see him as the kind of person who puts on mind-blowing shows, though I've always wished that video of the Moles might surface, because it seems like they might have been mind-blowing but I'm not sure.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Davies in NYC in '98 - notable for being the night I first met Gail O'Hara and for being briefly introduced to another pop hero of mine, Kurt Ralske. I don't recall much about the show...I think I was ill...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
huh i guess the book was out on this guy a long time ago, i saw him comment on an ilx adjacent person's facebook thread and click on his profile wow he's really got a brain full of right wing conspiracy worms
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 April 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link
Yeah, pretty much was exactly that! I feel happy to have mostly ignored him, though I had the Cardinal album at some point I think.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2024 15:01 (one month ago) link
I remember having one of his Sub Pop albums on CD and enjoying it, kind of chamber pop thing Zombies type deal iirc but it's been in a box for years
but yeah like he's faaaar gone wow
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 April 2024 15:07 (one month ago) link
I read quite a few posts itt before realising it was a revive - "maybe that's why he feels it is time to make an appearance again, the political climate should make him more popular this time around" as plausible a sentiment for right wing fuckers in 2024 as 2005.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 28 April 2024 15:08 (one month ago) link
Wow, what an absolute jackass. And to think I sorta liked his music. I even posted a comment on his website many many years, a question about something, why didn't he do this or try that (I honestly forget what my interest was) and his reply was "I'm happy on my own island so I never learned how to swim" which makes a bit of sense now seeing his isolationist worldview.
― henry s, Sunday, 28 April 2024 16:02 (one month ago) link
many many years *ago*
― henry s, Sunday, 28 April 2024 16:03 (one month ago) link
I think he blocked me on FB as I can't find his profile there anymore, I must have argued with him at some point
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 28 April 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
I pondered reviving this thread a couple of years ago when I first heard It's Heavy in Here. Some beautiful melodies, not all of them sung; but he has a dispassionate-to-blank vocal style, and cryptic lyrics (though a couple of them hint at moral condemnations that perhaps indicate his conservative outlook).
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 29 April 2024 02:09 (one month ago) link
I remember reading an interview with him in The Big Takeover where he bragged about not having a single MIDI cable in his home studio, such goofy shit.
― spastic heritage, Monday, 29 April 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
I guess at the end of the day it's not a huge surprise a musician that fetishizes vintage recording equipment while eschewing modern technology might possess political views that are, shall we say, less than progressive.
― henry s, Monday, 29 April 2024 11:33 (one month ago) link
I don't think that means anything actually
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 April 2024 12:00 (one month ago) link
Oh, of course it doesn't. Then again, I can't say I'm surprised.
― henry s, Monday, 29 April 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link