October Tour Dates
We have added three new dates to our tour:
10/29- Keith Albee Theatre- Huntington, WV
10/30- Louisville Palace- Louisville, KY
10/31- Ryman Auditorium- Nashville, TN
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October Tour Dates
We have added three new dates to our tour:
10/29- Keith Albee Theatre- Huntington, WV
10/30- Louisville Palace- Louisville, KY
10/31- Ryman Auditorium- Nashville, TN
via joelaz: Jackson 5 covering Jackson Brown’s “Doctor My Eyes.”
![In honor of Michael Jackson - here’s how he did that whole Smooth criminal bit on stage, Via Wikipedia:
“The effect in the video when Jackson and the dancers lean forward a seemingly impossible distance was achieved using special harnesses with wires and magnets. It was desired to replicate this effect for Jackson’s stage show, but it would have been more obvious and cumbersome to use wire harnesses in a live performance. Jackson and his team devised an alternative way to achieve the effect on stage. The props needed for their technique were patented in the United States by Jackson in 1993,[6] and consist of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment, and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be thereby attached to the stage temporarily. These allow the performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of gravity directly over their feet.”](http://28.media.tumblr.com/7hC2usH0Npaulalltdp7jlm2o1_250.png)
In honor of Michael Jackson - here’s how he did that whole Smooth criminal bit on stage, Via Wikipedia:
“The effect in the video when Jackson and the dancers lean forward a seemingly impossible distance was achieved using special harnesses with wires and magnets. It was desired to replicate this effect for Jackson’s stage show, but it would have been more obvious and cumbersome to use wire harnesses in a live performance. Jackson and his team devised an alternative way to achieve the effect on stage. The props needed for their technique were patented in the United States by Jackson in 1993,[6] and consist of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment, and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be thereby attached to the stage temporarily. These allow the performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of gravity directly over their feet.”
You Ain’t No Picasso has an early release of the title track from the Avett Brother’s upcoming album.
What is a mini LP?
“A mini LP is a CD version of something that was originally released as a 12” (12 inch) vinyl LP.
They are also known as LP replicas as they tend to exactly replicate the original packaging of the first vinyl release.”
The Avett Brother’s new album is entitled “I and Love and You” and it drops July 28th.
1. I and Love and You
2. January Wedding
3. Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise
4. And it Spread
5. The Perfect Space
6. Ten Thousand Words
7. Kick Drum Heart
8. Laundry Room
9. Ill with Want
10. Tin Man
11. Slight Figure of Speech
12. It Goes On and On
13. Incomplete and Insecur
I’ve lost interest in most of the Guitar Hero/Rockband type games it seems - but this trailer for the Beatles edition of Rockband is really cool. Doesn’t make me want to play the game as much as it wants me to go to Vegas and see the Love show again, but there you go…
The Avett Brothers come to the Kentucky Theatre on 6/23/09
For those of you who don’t know, Sara and I are in St. Petersburg, Florida right now visiting her brother. St. Pete was the first extended stop on Sam Handwich and Nathan’s tour of these United States.
We made the trip because Sam, Nathan, and a new friend of theirs got an opportunity to play a gig at a local lounge/hair salon called Star Booty (performing under the name The Pygmy Rattlers).
They did awesome. Sara and I were really impressed and proud. I took a little video of each song and I’m gonna compile them into one big clip and post it. In the meantime, here’s the only clip small enough that You Tube would let me put it up without compressing:
So you might have read some stuff I wrote here on my blog about Matt Fraction before. He’s totally my favorite comic book writer. He’s the only one I’ve ever felt compelled to write an email to, even though I felt dumb and awkward after doing it. You might have seen me list his book Casanova as one of my frequent buys on my pull list posts. I just really like his stuff.
Reading a recent issue of Casanova I noticed a couple of lines of dialogue that appeared to be lifted from a Mountain Goats song that I love. I went over to Fraction’s website and, like a nerd, asked him if they were indeed taken from the song. He confirmed that they were and I had a nice little inside moment where my favorite writer borrowed from a band I like and I recognized it and blah, blah, blah…
Anyway, Fraction was recently asked to create a playlist of his five favorite Mountain Goat songs by a website called Cable and Tweed. He spends a little time unpacking why he picked each song and how the band has made their way into his work. It’s a really interesting read and showcases a lot of the reasons I love Fraction’s voice.
I said I most likely wouldn’t be posting during my vacation, but I lied. Sometimes things happen and they have such a profound effect on you, that you have to get it out.
Saturday night Dirty, E, Sara, and I went and saw Sunday Valley for what, by all appearances, was their last show together. They didn’t necessarily say that from the stage, but it seemed pretty obvious. I resigned myself to the fact that the band was no longer together a few months ago when their website went down and they stopped showing up at the Dame, so last night shouldn’t have really been that big of a deal. Shouldn’t have. But it was. Mostly because it was a really strange, unsatisfying show and I don’t want that to be my last memory of a band that I loved.
The crowd was strange and rowdy. Not fun, dancing, cheering rowdy - but pushing, shoving, crowd surfing rowdy. There was a really uneasy vibe in the room. I don’t know where it was coming from. Maybe the stage. Not to say that Sunday Valley was putting off a bad vibe, but you could tell things weren’t like they used to be. Stu, the lead singer, made some cryptic remarks about not being happy with the band’s success. He also made sure everyone knew, in no uncertain terms, that anything going on behind the scenes was nobody’s “fucking business.” He mentioned the fact that he’d struggled with whether or not he wanted to be an entertainer or an artist. I won’t pretend to know what that struggle looks like for him. As a fan of the band I’m disappointed he couldn’t find a way to be both inside the framework of Sunday Valley.
The music itself was great as always. Which just makes the whole thing that much sadder. My only complaint was when some of Stu’s buddy’s were brought on stage and allowed to sing a couple of Sunday Valley’s songs. It seemed self-indulgent and unnecessary. Dirty said he didn’t mind it. Honestly, it was probably just the mood I was in.
Anyway, like I said, they never actually admitted from the stage that it was their last show together but I feel pretty confident that it was. Too bad. I always enjoyed myself at their shows and I never introduced anyone to their music that didn’t love it. If Stu, or Gerald, or Ed, or Billy read this. Thanks a lot for all the enjoyment I got from your music. I’m sorry to see you go.
