Peter Case C/D?

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I say classic all the way for both the Plimsouls and his great solo catalog.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Plimsouls, yes. The solo stuff...uh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the NERVES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

nah

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Stamey's solo records are really good. And Tommy Keene did a great live version of "Kill Your Sons". oops, wrong thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nerves, Plimsouls and about half of the first solo record: classic
The rest: dud

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beat were the better Nerves follow up, though.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic in that I listen to "The Man with the...." constantly. S/T album not so much, though I do like the "People in Hell want ice water" song and the Pogues cover.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Peter Case Sings Like Hell" is a really good one.

― pauls00, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought Peter Case thanx to its high ranking on a Pazz & Jop at the time (yeah, I used to do things like that), completely unaware of what it sounded like, and after I got it there was...there was just some indefinable thing about the record that just made me never, ever want to listen to it. Every time I'd cue it up on my turntable, I'd find some reason to listen to something, anything else. A really weird stumbling block. Maybe it was because he looked like a young man in old man's clothes. I think I eventually made it through one side before I gave it to a friend of mine who loved it.

You have to admit that The Man with the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar is one smug-ass title.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true. I can't even finish typing it!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Get well soon!

On January 15 I underwent emergency open heart surgery, at a hospital in Santa Monica. The surgery was successful, but I am now on a long program of recovery. In other words, I'm glad to be alive, but it really kicked my ass.
The UK/Euro tour has been postponed. I'll have news on this later.
We've rescheduled the McCabe's 'Peter Case 25th Anniversary' show (25 years as a solo artrist) for April 3.
Classes are rescheduled, tentatively, for March.
I'll have some more news on all of this in a few weeks, but I'm dropping out again for now. Thanks to everybody who wrote or called, thank you for your thoughts and support.
best, Peter

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 1 February 2009 05:26 (seventeen years ago)

whoa jeez. hope he's ok.

my favorite peter case memory -- my only peter case memory, not counting multiple viewings of valley girl -- is that i saw him and victoria williams do a show together, probably in the late '80s, and only about 15 or so people showed up. there was a dance club upstairs, with a loud whoomp-whoomp-whoomp beat coming through the ceiling, so instead of trying to compete from the stage, peter and victoria came down on the floor and had everybody sit in a small circle with them, and they both played and sang and got everybody to sing along. hokey, but it was sweet and the songs were pretty good.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 1 February 2009 05:58 (seventeen years ago)

My fave Peter C. moment: he and Alejandro Escovedo singing "Two Angels" as they strolled through the crowd at a little place here in Atlanta, the Red Light. You could've heard a pin drop. It was lovely.

― ellaguru, Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

hope he's up and around again soon, as well. His last one "Let us now praise Sleepy John" is very good folk stuff. Have seen him a few times in the last 2 years, and he puts on a great show. Even got the opening act to back him up on "A Million Miles Away".

― pauls00, Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

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