Jay Farrar

Pavement was my soundtrack in the late '90s. My Baby Doll at the time loved them and we had everything they ever did in our library. Unfortunately, I lost it all when we split because she said she loved them more, but her argument was unfounded. (She couldn't/wouldn't listen to Trace and Straightawa...

The world would explode and put Chickamauga's town-leveling ability to shame. (Additional note: I can't make it through an entire playing of the battlefield song on the Austin City Limits DVD without the sheer killer instinct of the song freezing my player. Uncanny and true.) 3. Best of St. Pete: D...

Here's my top three. All you boarders join in otherwise. Grasshoppers, sen-sei's and guru's are welcome. The first one is obvious and easy: 1. After the first chorus of "Six String Belief," the Orange Peel, Asheville, NC--Stone, Steel and Bright Lights. Really, really--can anyone argue that this goo...

See how it's so easy to fire everybody up? nOt that I really did, and I don't really have a high impression of myself ... Are you on some sort of medication? If not then you need to be. The capital 'O' is a nod to the O-face. I'm sorry, especially to Calexico and Twitcher, for getting in the middle...

I'm in an Augusta, GA hotel room right off I-20 on a tenuous high speed wireless connection, headed for Charlotte, NC so me and Baby Doll can get our wedding license for April 1st ... no fooling, really, despite accusations that I should take medication in other threads ... ahem! Be gone with thy me...

At least he has Randy Rhodes on his back ... (is that how you spell the Crazy Train lick author's name? I used to have the Guitar World with Ozzy holding up Randy on the cover with his polka-dot flying V, and my double tribute album with teh sweetest version of 'Dee' is at momma and daddy's house in...

I'm glad I could get in on this when the gettin' was good. Notice the lack of a subject line for the host of historical and "a reason to read the archive indices" reasons. I didn't want to give anybody any ideas and I certainly didn't want Twitcher-san to hack on me like Calexico-hopper ... See how ...

O, Yogi, purple dog with 850 horns ...

I got "Strands" on my Nano now!

Yes, yes!

"No mercy in a poker face, lend an ear before you go ..."

Ben
"However a humble listener of all things Volt."

Thank you to everyone who shares!

Is nobody checking the board? I guess everybody with high speed connections are listening to Tweedy and Cline probably during the encore blowing it up. I'm out of luck without a sound in the headphones. Please, someone place Strands: yousendit.com Put up "Strands," live somewhere in the last 8 years...

I played this song for my friends, and Good Will, my bassist, said: "You sound like Eddie Van Halen." "I know," I said. "It's kind of embarassing when you're playing a folk song to sound like him." I can't help it. Mad props, Eduardo, (recoverer o' teh whiskey bottle) Ben On Acid (my new band)--kind...

I mean, Eddie Van Halen (Sir Edward), not Eddie--the Iron Maiden mascot.

Has everyone forgotten about Maiden?

Okay, another question:

Did you really, really name your child "Wolfgang"?

Ben

I'm so there. I hope they show Cline's opening act. And then the Tweedmaster. When I truly, truly heard "Being There" for the first--I mean, I'd heard it at parties and stuff, but when I put on the headphones and heard how teh Bennet had affected the world, morphed the songs, I thought: "Tweedy is a...

If you want good shows in Mobile, seek out a venue that is cool and would host a crowd like we would want to be around. You know, The Volt Vibe. Talk to the manager and ask him to contact High Road Touring, or whoever Jay's tour manager is now. If the manager of Monsoon's or wherever the venue is yo...

Ease the seat back ...

Oops. That's the zip cord song. You know the video? Eddie dangling by his leg and wearing that dice shirt? The same one from the back of '84?

Here's my favorite:

"C'mon Dave, give me a break ..."

Doesn't everyone want to be Eddie at some point?

Ben

Has anyone ever seen The Volt play this one live?

I would love to get a live recording of this one.

Anyone willing to put it on yousendit.com?

Pretty please with sugar on top?

Ben