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Thought I'd start off a general Van appreciation thread with a review of the concert I went to see on Friday night. Van played the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco and turned in a virtuosic 90 minute set.
Highlights included "Have I Told You Lately" recast as an upbeat ska number (I liked it better that way, I find the original a little syrupy), the obligatory "Moondance", "Bright Side of the Road" which found Van doing the last chorus in a Satchmo imitation as the lights bathed the stage in brilliant sunlight yellow, and the slow and gorgeous "Beautiful Vision", on which Van's daughter Shana Morrison added harmony.
Van sported a ten piece band that was one of the most talented groups that I have seen in many years of concert going. Never have I seen so many multi-instrumentalists in one band: there was a fiddle/mandolin player, a pedal steel/banjo player, and a trumpeter/rhythm guitarist who also happened to be one of the back up singers. (Not mention the stellar organ player and guitarist). This is much in the tradition of Van himself, who played acoustic guitar, harmonica, and of course the alto sax throughout the evening.
Casual fans are often unaware that Morrison is an excellent sax player, and listening to him play that evening really made clear to me how much his sax playing influences his vocal style. Unlike say, Percy, Van's voice was never about acrobatics; his voice is a tonal instrument. So unlike Robert, who has to constantly contend with past glories, Van sounds the same as he ever did. If you have a chance to catch him live, I highly recommend it.
An interesting side note- my folks and I decided to arrive a little early and eat dinner somewhere near the venue. We stumbled around in the rain and decided to eat at the Fairmont hotel, which was the closest place. Once we'd been seated we quickly noticed Van himself, about four tables away, enjoying a private dinner with Shana. (We weren't sure it was her, but confirmed it when she came on as the opening act.) We didn't disturb them by approaching or anything, but it was nice to see them doing regular daddy-daughter stuff.
All in all, a memorable evening.
Who else likes Van the Man?
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Me and my friend on Christmas Eve
I love this picture! It has the Christmas spirit about it. Did your friend enjoy spending the holiday with you and your fam? Big difference from Mexico, for sure.
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That sounds even more perverse...
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Next you'll be finding perversity in my religous ecstacies or my speaking in tongues.
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Where's your other hand, Sam?
(sorry..had to do it for old times' sake...)
Holding my string of rosary beads, you perv.
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Suddenly it's a runaway, 5-2!
Take your time Celia. Relax, you just got home from a long journey!
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So 3-2 . . . it's a tight race here!
On the other hand, it IS three girls to two guys.
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Pro!
Lookin' good!
But I also like the "hairy" Sam. The douchie picture's a bit scary...
I'm laughing because I remember when you used to post bathroom pictures all the time! Remember how we used to make fun of you because you didn't have pictures that WEREN'T in the bathroom? And we used to speculate why that was? I do remember. The hurt ran deep. :'(
Seriously, though, I kinda avoided having my picture taken for a long time. I HATE how I look in pictures and video and how I sound on tape. Makes me cringe. But I wanted to be in the "We're real, we've posted pictures" club, and it was a quick fix.
Thought of taking these in my work bathroom so they would be the same. But I changed up and took them at home.
Okay, so it's 2-1!
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You shaved the stache? WHY!?!?
I guess that would be a "con". So it's one to one!Don't hate me if I give less credence to your opinon cuz you ain't a woman, DN.
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Perfect!!!! I'm gonna repost it in Matt's thread.
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In a fit of pique I shaved off my facial hair. I know these are lame bathroom self portraits, but I thought y'all would want to see, and I'd like to know if you're pro or con:
And one more for "Make Your Own Hot Chicks With Douchebags Post" purposes:
Not gonna loompa out, though. I have my limits.
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Oh my God!
I played some of those songs, and Dave came out of the other room and said "please turn that crap off. What the hell is it anyway?"
I wasn't quite sure how to take that...your going to this concert...
Nothing wrong with a little country music.
Of course, what comes out of Nashville these days really isn't country music, you know.
What comes out of Nashville these days is crap.
Seriously, though- Slim Jim and the Mad Cows is tongue in cheek, it's theater as much as it's music. And they have the chops to pull it off.
Wish I knew how to post their version of the Immigrant Song. That'd make them some fans. Or get me flame broiled, can't decide.
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"Run To the Hills!"
My dad LOVED the original song!
I also loved the original. Getting into Cream rescued me from my metal phase. There was a time when I was a total maidenhead.
Wait. That doesn't sound right at all.
Sadly it isn't on their MySpace, but Slim Jim also covers HMMT and the Immigrant Song. It's a fucking laugh riot.
BTW, here's a gif of their new sign, that they unveiled at the show I went to.
Their next show is performing in between periods at a local women's rollerderby match.
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^ your smilie has a mohawk.
I got the smiley hookup! No one brings fresher smilies than me.
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Last night, Slim Jim and the Mad Cows made me happy.
Slim Jim and the Mad Cows MySpace - Listen to Ace of Spades!
They play similarly countryfied versions of the Immigrant Song and HMMT on their album Homebrewed. At their show last night the Mad Cows were both dressed up as Amy Winehouse. The band debuted a new sign with their logo surrounding a mounted wooden carving of a cow's head, with chasing light bulbs all around the border. It fucking ruled.
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Saw "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" last night. It was impeccably acted, great performances by PSH, Ethan Hawke, and Albert Finney. But a depressing movie, not the sort of thing I usually think of as a good time.
Well, except that you got to see an awful lot of Marissa Tomei naked.
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My favorite "album" is disc 2 of the Bootleg Series 1-3 box set. That version of Tangled Up in Blue is the best version I've ever heard, maybe my favorite Dylan performance period. I also love If Not For You with George on slide, Wallflower, the piano version of Like A Rolling Stone, it's awesome.
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And today, I'm starting Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for the first time!
I've often thought of reading that one, you'll have to tell me how it is!
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No Country For Old Men Spoiler Warning!!!!
Okay, I've just seen No Country For Old Men, and I wanted to post my thoughts about it. In the beginning, you really feel that the whole thing is kind of a straight up western- but in the last section of the movie, it becomes clear how metaphorical the movie is, how everything in it may just be a dream in Tommy Lee Jones' head, his struggle with aging and mortality.
At first, I really wanted to see the villain, Anton Chigurh, get taken out. I thought "No man is impossible to kill or escape! And more importantly- I know it's the 70's and all, but that hair! So awful! This dude has to go DOWN!"
But then, after the movie took it's big left turn with the death of who we *think* is the main character, I started to think about the movie more symbolically, what the weaponry of Chigurh- the pressurized cow killer- might represent in the mind of Tommy Lee Jones, what all the cryptic cross references might mean. And then it dawned on me:
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For those who don't know, the dude in the second picture is Death in Ingmar Bergman's classic the Seventh Seal. It all makes sense: Chigurh's awful hair is in fact his cowl, together with his all black clothing evoiking the shrowd of death. He is death incarnate. Take it a step further- his esoteric weapon, the pressurized cow killer is not a martial weapon, but a practical tool like the scythe of the classical grim reaper. When I was looking for an image of Chigurh, I ran across this poster for the movie. Look at the tag line:
There are no clean getaways from death itself, indeed. Think of the characters in the movie that "always say the same thing"- bargaining uselessly with death as we all inevitably will in our darkest moments.
Now, my take on the movie isn't fully formed. I really have to see it again- it's the rare movie that I see, good or bad, that I don't feel like I fully understand on a single viewing. But this is one, and I want to go back fully armed with my theory and see if I find elements to support it. Also- I have to admit to not actually having seen the Seventh Seal- I just recognized the imagery. Anyone who has seen it have anything to add here? And what do you all think in general? Discuss.
P.S. I wonder if Chigurh or elements of Anton Chigurh means anything in another language . . .
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Make sure you sit through the animator talking to get through to an amazing and appropriately creepy animated video for one of my favorite Peter Green songs, Green Manalishi.
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I can take or leave Stevie Nicks era Fleetwood Mac (though I think Lindsay Buckingham is very talented) but I LOVE Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac! Jimmy has sited The Mac as an influence, and I think there's plenty to inspire a Zep fan Green's work.
Here are some vids - more to come!
A lot of people have pointed out the similarities between Oh Well and Black Dog, see what you think . . .
Besides, It'll grow back easy, trust me.
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