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[birdsoundrecrds]

This town is so full of ghosts its freaky..i swear all i'd have to do is find a class on how to listen to spirits and i'd never want to be awake or alone again. Though, it'd probably make for some intresting song fodder

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[anonymous]

hay ben- i hate to sound annoying, but could i get a copy of the metronome show? i could pick it up at your house or muddies or wherever. also, are we going to practice again this week-or just wait till monday? mike will be here! cool beans.

jb

[birdsoundrecrds]

fuckin jb is so annoying...always wanting copies of our shows and shit, like a liitle bitch... ok i guess so. ill make a cd and bring it to my work tonight. im not sure about practice cause thursday seems like the only night...friday or saturday too? any takers

[artsandgiraffes]

i'll be annoying. friday we have tickets to see that play.
xoxo.a

[birdsoundrecrds]

i pictured you saying that in a voice like marcy in Peanuts, when she starts describing the real meaning of Christmas. Yeah there's no way i can practice Friday.

[anonymous]

i gotta say that metrognome show is not that good. maybe tanner is right-no more shows after jan 9th. practice practice practice. all i can hear is my crazy-ass mother yelling her head off.

jb

[birdsoundrecrds]

whataya think of the bit that starts around 28 min...i think thats really strong, no doubt with a little help from delay, but that is pretty great for us live. the rest im not so into...

[anonymous]

there were moments.. but i never think that my drums sound the way they should when i hear these cd's. not loud enough or something. also, we gotta do something about mixing the horns a little lower next time.

jb

[birdsoundrecrds]

you need to remeber thats it is a soundborad recording and not really representative of how it sounded to the crowd. different levels are higher because the drums can be heard live and the trombone can't be. next time we should set up a mic in the back of the room. who knows how it sounded there, all i heard was LOUD

[anonymous]

my 2 cents on the metrognome set:

it seems to me like you guys played it too safe that night. tried to play 'tunes' and whatnot.
maybe cuz it was 'big' show or the venue or the presence of parents and friends. i dunno.
i think you guys had a chance to make the Cush looks totally totally square. and that didnt really happen. i think its best for those bigger shows (whatever that means) to bring your weirdest and most outrageous shit and really go for it hard.

the best NM sets in my opinion are the ones that get wild and woolly and weird.
when you guys are really loose, improvising around ideas but focused.
and when all the folks are on the same vibe. and everyone is really going for it and is IN it.

anyways, thats just my opinion on it.
you can tell me to fuck off at the potluck tonight if you want. haha

peace,
gd

agreed

[anonymous]

i'm with greg.
no, literally.

mandy

Re: agreed

[anonymous]

thats good to hear. i appreciate that a lot. its definitly hard to plan a show that people can 'get into' and then either not get the response cause your simply not delivering, also not feeling it yourself.
things really need to have a degree of spontinaity but then nobody in he band really feels comfortable with 100 percent that...who knows.
the only way i'd tell you to fuck off, Greg is if you said that Dylan sucked.

Re: agreed

[anonymous]

thats what i'm saying!! tunes are for emerson lake and palmer & the strokes. we just need to inspire baby. word

jb

Re: agreed

[anonymous]

ben,
im listening to the bootleg series this morning.
after watching that movie, i realized some new things about dylan and gained more respect for him. he didnt seem so cocky and prickish and unapproachable which were things i thought previously of dylan. i like the zen side of dylan. keep doing different things. keep changing and being in the moment regardless of people's expectations of what you should do (at least back in the day). even his lyrics and vocals have this channeling chant style stream of consciousness thing. and also that he did what he did well and was there IN it. but its not the most important thing in the world, its not holy scripture. its just dylan. that part where ginsberg says that dylan was like a column of breath i thought was really something.
so im really feeling dylan right now. i still pretty much dig the earlier acoustic stuff mostly. although some of the early electric and country-ish stuff is really good too.
peace,
gd