Jay Farrar

Hey Catherine - did you see Walt from Fayetteville?

Dittos on Steve Miller Band, Bound. Drinking at the State Park, 18 years old, O! bid time return. And I insisted we listen all the way through "Wild Mountain Honey" when the others tried to push stop/eject. I liked that old Simon & Garfunkel greatest hits, too, the one where Simon has the 'stache an...

Yup, in St. Louis. It felt like we were right next to the train tracks, except without the train. I also felt the aftershock the next morning.

I know there are some Blue Mountain fans on this board. I'll repost here what I posted at the new Blue Mountain list - which you can find at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/bluemountainmusic/ if you're interested. And the crawfish offer applies to members of this board, too. I'm so very pleased...

Hey <Catherine> - fess up - you gotta give us a band name.

SSLYBY is from my town, lil' ol' Springifield, MO. We're proud of them. Nice fellows too. Plus they let me master their first CD, so I may be a bit partial.

Acoustic, why do you consider someone crazy if they don't like something their favorite band puts out? I take it back. I don't think people who dislike OATMOR are really crazy. Nor do I think people who post frequently to this board are crazy. I saw a M.Truslow gang-up in process, and thought I wou...

Dear M. Truslow,
As you see, there's a peculiar ripple in the fabric among those who frequent this board most often. And that is, they don't like Okemah. They are, of course, crazy.

Doesn't bother me - Richard Thompson is playing the Pageant on Feb. 11.

Or "fucking hate".

Yeah, well I'm not a journalist, so I get to say things like that. Good ol' first amendment.

Yes, I would still respect him. My point was, I can't decipher from his newscasts what his political leanings might be, and I respect that as good, old school journalism. Don't worry about calling me out for tipping my hand. I fucking hate George W. Bush.

Jim Lehrer and Jay Farrar - two people on my most-respected-humans-on-earth list. I had never noticed the resemblance, but now I'm going to pay attention, starting with tonight's newscast. Unfortunately, unlike Jay, Jim is in no position to state his true feelings about George W. Of course, this is ...

I'll give another listen to AGIB with this in mind. When you say complete opposite, do you mean that the album is quiet compared with others, or that it's loud but crappy sound-wise?

Have you noticed how loud OATMOR is compared to other CDs? This becomes especially noticeable when the iPod is in shuffle mode and the Okemah tracks explode out of the earbuds. I engineer/produce recordings, and I've been paying some attention to the loudness wars in the music business. Mastering en...