Red Mosquito

Jocko Homo wrote:I saw Chelsea Light Moving in Utrecht a couple of weeks ago and it was amazing!
Got to talk to Thurston outside of the venue.
Very nice guy.

bodysnatcher wrote:listening to Washing Machine for the first time in a looooooong time right now

Lee Ranaldo
2013-07-30
Maxwells
Hoboken NJ

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann TLM-102s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-08-03

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:45:23]
01 [intro/wedding proposal]
02 Stranded
03 Waiting on a Dream
04 [banter - irish wake]
05 Tomorrow Never Comes
06 Off The Wall
07 Angles
08 [Xtina intro]
09 Xtina as I Knew Her
10 Keyhole
11 Hammer Blows
12 Lost
13 [Shouts intro]
14 Shouts
15 Last Night on Earth
16 Everybody’s Been Burned [Byrds]
17 Thank You For Sending Me an Angel [Talking Heads]
18 Fire Island
19 She Cracked [Modern Lovers]
20 Lecce Leaving
21 [encore break]
22 Home Courts
23 Genetic
24 Revolution Blues [Neil Young]

Birds in Hell wrote:Thanks for the heads-up on the recording too, Pete. Downloading now.

Birds in Hell wrote:Lee's new LP came out today, really looking forward to hearing it.

Her story: Kim Gordon, 60, musician in Sonic Youth and Body/Head

Bill's an amazing guitar player. He's been around on the scene in Northampton, Massachusetts, where we both live, for a while. My first impression of him playing was that he was both explosive and sensitive, though he's not explosive in person. In fact, he is very easy-going – he's pretty tolerant of me, anyway.

Playing with him feels natural, like coming home. I feel a little protective of him because he's never done anything like pictures or interviews before. When you do a lot of interviews or read reviews, it makes you self-conscious about what you're doing, and I don't want that to happen.

We talk a lot about film. Bill is the kind of person that wakes up and looks at IMDB first thing for news and movie trailers. Before we started playing together properly we were both into Catherine Breillat's movies and I had this book about her art that I showed him. We came up with the Body/Head name [from a phrase in the book] and then we were like, "We have to start a band because that's such a good name." Then I started showing Bill different YouTube clips of early Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd in '68, where he plays a prepared guitar sitting down the way Bill does, and of people dancing to long noise sections of psychedelic music.

Our working relationship is non-verbal so it's hard to compare it with our friendship. We have to have a fair amount of trust because our music is all improvised. We would rehearse in a basement, but it's not like we're rehearsing songs; it's more like basketball players shooting hoops and warming up. His willingness to go wherever I go in the music and vice versa is very confidence-building. We just have a certain musical alchemy.

His story: Bill Nace, 36, musician in Body/Head

Thurston [Moore, Kim's ex-husband and Sonic Youth member] introduced me to Kim 10 years ago at a festival. I remember she had a flask of single malt scotch, which I thought was really cool. She offered me a sip and we just stood there – two shy people standing together in silence. I played with Thurston for about six years so they became like family. We had also started playing as a trio, but then they split up, he went on the road, and now I don't see him that much. The way the whole thing went down, it couldn't help be anything but awkward.

Kim got invited to Paris with [French fashion label] Surface to Air and we booked a tour around it and that was how we became a band. It's sink or swim that way – you figure out what's working and what's not pretty fast. When you're in a band like ours, it starts to blur between the band and the friendship. It becomes one thing.

When we're not on tour, Kim will invite me over and we'll watch a movie, or TV. We watch Friday Night Lights together, that's the big one. She makes chicken tikka masala and, sometimes, fried chicken. And she'd probably kill me if I didn't mention her lentil soup, too – it's really good.

Musically there's always something that Kim does that's so open and wild. That's something I try to cultivate in my own playing. There's a lot of pressure on her because people have certain expectations, but I think the fact she's just doing a band she wants to do is great. She's definitely not playing it safe – not that she's ever done that.

VinylGuy wrote:i listened to A Thousand Leaves today. Great album.

Sunday

Fuzzcharger wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:i listened to A Thousand Leaves today. Great album.

Sunday

I love Sunday and Wildflower Soul.