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bring your own lampshade, somewhere there’s a party

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on August 8, 2008

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lets kick off this weekend in grand style, shall we? tonight for your listening pleasure are some sire era mats demos/outtakes. some of em are a little rough, but all are definitely worth the download.

in other news, you ever go to open the door and you start proceeding through said door only to find that the door has met your foot first causing you to hit your head on the door? instant headache…awesome!

btw, i love how smangs shows up and all of a sudden i am changing the way i do shit around here. it’s just like a woman to go against the grain and expect us to fall in line. yet, sadly thats exactly what i am doing. bitches, man, bitches. i am assuming that the whole posting a few tracks but providing a full zip/rar is cool with everyone? understanding that i/we will never please anyone, i would like a general consensus.

1. little mascara

2. valentine

3. red red wine

4. empty is your heart

5. time is killing us

6. never mind

7. alex chilton

8. red red wine

9. run for the country

10. goin out of my head
11 learn how to fall
12 trouble on the way
13 make this your home
14 learn to fall
15 rock n roll ghost
16 someone take the wheel
17 only if we must
18 my little problem
19 someone take the wheel

zippo

i dont have any spit

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gregor

on February 12, 2008

in fm broadcast and shows

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if you happen to be a amy winehouse fan the men of owl and bear have what i would assume to be a good to great quality recording for your downloading pleasure. if that wasnt enough, they also got wilco, lambchop, nirvana and of montreal shows available.

file this one under, just leave em be. sure most of their early stuff sounds like shit but thats half the allure. anyway, the first three mats records are getting remastered. will i buy em? sure. will i be happy about it? no.

here is an fm broadcast of the much under appreciated, at least stateside, teenage fanclub performing at the paradiso in amsterdam on 11.20.95. its an fm broadcast, btw.

1. intro

2. about you

3. star sign

4. what you do to me

5. escher

6. dont look back

7. the cabbage

8. radio

9. mellow doubt

10. verisimilitude

11. neil jung

12. sparky’s dream

13. the concept

i was born a poor black child

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gregor

on October 2, 2007

in paul westerberg, shows, swivel chairs and wooden shjips

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for you smokers out there. am i the only one to have a thousand lighters, but never one actually on my persons? its just a given that i never have a lighter and i since i dont actually carry money on me, i refuse to debit a buck for one. i have been trying to quit so you would think that the absence of a lighter would be a sign, but its not.

ex-varnline and all around awesome guy, anders parker is playing tonight at the earl. he’s got a new live record out called 14th and division: live in portland, oregon august 2.2005. its awesome, by the way, and can be purchased through his site, on his current tour and maybe on itunes.

tell it to the dust

anders parker site / myspace

there’s something strangely comforting about jeremy grites and jason brown’s swivel chairs. i cant quite my get head around them just yet, though. they must have been raised in the 80’s cause their is something about their guitar tones that leads me to believe they nurtured their brand of rock/pop on the cassette tape. they just dont sound like a band from the 00’s and maybe its cause i have been listening to a bit of xtc lately, but brown’s plaintive delivery on “afterthought” is quite andy partridge-esque. pretty cool stuff…

afterthought

10 g (say so)

swivel chairs myspace

i love spacerock. plain and simple. sadly, there arent too many groups tripping down that road worth mentioning now-a-days. out the other side of my mouth, san francisco’s wooden shjips travel and as far as i am concerned, own that road. they got a new self title record out now on holy mountain records.

i highly recommend that you listen with whatever kind of headphones you may have.

we ask you to ride

lucy’s ride

wooden shjips site / myspace /holy mountain

i dont know you, but when i want to dive into the westerberg book of songs i more often than not reach for his solo rather than replacements stuff. its a strange phenomenon though cause his best penned words, i think, can be found on much of the replacements records, but i find myself connecting more to the “grownup” paul. even if at the time, i was kinda down on a few of his solo records, most notably eventually and suicaine gratification, cause i wanted him to be stupid, drunk and 20 forever. i was probably projecting some of my own shit about growing up onto him in some weird way.

here he is playing and being interviewed by former del fuego, warren zanes @ first ave on 9.23.07. thanks very much to the original taper!

EDIT: TRACKS TAKEN DOWN AT REQUEST OF ORIGINAL TAPER

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dude, she’s got a bit of a ’stache

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gregor

on July 19, 2007

in shows, the replacements and youtube

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looking back the replacements was not as “enormously funny” as mr lyons wanted to lead us to believe.

15. white and lazy

16. color me impressed

17. kick your door down

18. move it on over country

19. move it on over hardcore!

20. i hate you/hey good lookin

21. sweet home alabama

22. mr whirly

23. johnny b flat

24. jailhouse rock

25. ill be there

26. submission

27. gimme noise

28. i walk the line

29. i hate music

30. talking

31. willpower

32. go

33. unknown

i didnt even know this video for “when it began” existed

“bastards of young” as far as i am concerned one of the greatest videos ever for one of the greatest songs ever penned

romulox!

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gregor

on July 19, 2007

in shows, the antlers and the replacements

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early concert warning for atlanta! rilo kiley are playing at the variety on sept 29 in support of their new unreleased record under the blacklight. under the blacklight is set to be released on aug 21. check the rilo kiley site for dates and pics of jenny.

if you are not in the atlanta area and are up for a roadtrip next weekend, july 25 -28, you could do much worse than wast your weekend in athens @ the 10th annual summer fest and blue ribbon ball hosted by team clermont. the blue ribbon ball, yeah its sponsored by every hipsters beverage of choice pabst, is an actual prom like event. what would a prom be without some spiked punch, an actual prom photographer, balloons and streamers, and some of the artists doing some cheesy ass covers? sounds like a grand time to me, and i might actually try to make it over there. for 2007, the sexy theme of the ball is james bond. yeah get it? 007. awesome! oh, yeah theres also a kickball game going on sometime during the weekends. i used to kick total ass at kickball. i had quite the leg on me it was pretty well known within my zipcode.

the main headliner is chicagoan and all around character, bobby conn. i never was able to get into any of his records but he is very entertaining in a live setting. shows will be going on all weekend at the 40 watt, caledonia lounge and go bar! a few of the artists taking part this year include starlight mints, summer hymns, ladybug transistor, deerhunter, bottom of the hudson, alina simone and more! heres a sampling of the artists.

pumpkin - starlight mints

going numb - tin cup prophette

spring hall convert - deerhunter

handwriting - bottom of the hudson

start swimming - summer hymns

skeleton key - a northern chorus

king for a day - bobby conn

check the team clermont blue ribbon info page for tickets, show times, etc.

the antlers is 21 year old peter silberman and the music he creates is quite glorious. its damn kids like this that make me sick. only 21 and creating stuff that is way beyond the paltry sum of his years. who the hell does he think he is? why i oughta!!!! anyway, his 5th release in the attic of the universe reminds me of sparklehorse cross bred with chin up chin up and then mated with arcade fire. its being re-released, after initially being offered for free, via fall records sometime this fall. in the mean time you can stream it on his site.

the universe is going to catch you

on the roof

stairs to the attic

when you sleep - my bloody valentine cover

the antlers site / myspace / fall records

i was 9 years old in 1983 and on aug 1 of that year the replacements played at fitzgeralds in houston. my age during that time really has nothing to do with anything, just thought i would mention. this particular performance is quite an interesting listen. it sounds as if there are like 5 people in the audience cause there’s alot of interaction between the mats and the audience. this is going to be a two post affair since its 33 tracks long. the remainder will be posted later this evening.

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desperation….its the world’s worst cologne

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gregor

on May 3, 2007

in shows, the replacements, tunes and youtube

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i have waited for more than a year for this day to arrive. of course i just didnt know it was going to be may 3, 2007. i speak, of course, of the leak of my most anticipated record of the past few years, jason isbell’s sirens of the ditch. apparently its been finished since before the release of the truckers last record but they decided to sit on it until after its release. that could all be internet created gossip but hey thats what i read - i think. anyway, i have yet to give it a proper listen but i will definitely have more than enough time tonite at work to delve into it.

here is jason performing the gorgeous “dress blues,” which is on sirens, at stubbs in august of 2006.

since 1988 there have only been two shows that i regret not attending. my biggest regret was my failure to attend, what turned to be out a monumental jeff buckley show at uncommon ground, in chicago, back in 94. i was sick, but not that sick, and was being my typical bitchy self when i feel a little under the weather. it would have taken me all of 3 minutes to get there but it was cold and snowing and like i said i am a little bitch when i am sick. here is a little info on that fateful evening.

my second regret, and this is fairly big one too, is that i missed what turned out to be the last replacements show, featured below, at taste of chicago in 91. i dont remember what kept me from attending but i am sure it was something as insignificant as a really awesome sega genesis marathon.

1. i will dare

2. bent out of shape

3. achin to be

4. merry go round

5. happy town

6. swingin party

7. one wink at a time

8. waitress in the sky

9. when it began

10. someone take the wheel

11. talent show

12. nobody