Jay Farrar

First show witnessed: Labor Day weekend 1995 country one-hit wonder Ken Mellons (remember 'Jukebox Junkie'?) Central WI State Fair in Marshfield, WI It was free. I was but 12. First real show: 11/23/01 John Paul Jones (and his 'Orchestra' i.e. a power-trio) and King Crimson Barrymore Theatre, Madiso...

So Tonight That I Might See is a masterpiece. Their final album ('96) Among My Swan is nearly as good and has several tunes that rank among their best. Haven't heard much from She Hangs Brightly or Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions (with the drummer from My Bloody Valentine!) but I'm going to l...

Only song of his I truly dig is 'First Day of My Life'. Something about that one. Can't get past the trembling, about-to-cry voice and vocal timbre otherwise even though that song isn't really a departure from it.

How about The Blue Earth, for that matter?

I'm gonna quit this board...

followed by

...get a fucking life.

Oh, sweet irony.

Side reading: Blackhawk: the Battle for the Heart of America , by Kerry Trask. I need to keep my fiction to non-fiction ratio at close to 1:1, so I'm multi-tasking with this one, which looks to be pretty great thus far. Very nice! I read that one just over a year ago. Good read. Very scholarly in t...

Fifteen Keys for a locksmith business.

My favorite Soundgarden song easily.

Tired Eyes - Neil Young (Tonight's the Night)

he tried to do his best, but he could not...

Victory Waltz - Matthew Ryan (From a Late Night High Rise)

Minutemen interview on We Jam Econo.

*golf clap*

When someone says "winter of [insert year here]" it refers to the real dead-of-winter months of that year, i.e. January, February, March (beyond if you're in the far northern latitudes like our Scandy friends). I don't know that December of the previous year is generally counted (here in the US) sin...

Indubitably!

Who said anything about December, 2007? Winter 2007 means January-March, 2007.

Surely