dimafleck: the living legend.

why? i understand the record industry selling cds, becasue thats what they do... they distribute a totally useless medium and then complain when people don't give a shit to buy it.... why not sell download cards at concerts if you are an unsigned band?? download cards seems like a much better medium these days. download cards should be sold in stores as well as cds. those, i would buy. but i just feel jipped paying 20 bucks for a disc that i wouldn't play anywhere because every where i listen to music, its through my ipod. ITS THE NEW MEDIUM I TELLS YOU. fuck record stores. fuck all that shit. the record industry should switch to download cards I TELLS YOU. DOWNLOAD CARDS!! think about it... there are so many places you could sell em.... specially clothing stores catering to specific music tastes... coffee shops. etc etc etc. download cards.

11/17/97

i think its a good long drive album.

oh my god. a while back, i asked for some people to recommend albums to check out. well, i just got around to listening to this and it is the greatest thing i've listened to in ages. i can't wait to barrel down the highway at night on my way to NYC for new years and blast this GET THIS ALBUM! and thanks soooo much.

some one please tell me you are goin tonight

yes its tonight. they played last night as well. Coffin is also doing a seminar at the Howard Johnson Building (U of T) today between 3-5. right behind the rom planetarium.

Jeff Coffin-Sax (of Bela Fleck & The Flecktones) Michael Occhipinti-Guitar Roberto Occhipinti-Bass Barry Romberg-Drums i saw this tonight at the rex and it was absolutley amazing. the best show i've show that i have seen at the rex by far.... fantastic tight jams and the band was having a ball. the crowd was super respectful and loud mouths were told to shut their dirty traps by waiters. an amazingly contained jam session. guitarist blew my mind almost as much as seeing Jeff Coffin in such a small enviorment. totally chill during setbreaks.... so you can totally go have a chat with jeff.

other than the electronica club scene.... toronto is such trash on new years.... its really a shame.

lame.

you're a dirty hippy that requires escapism to change who you are.

Every year, the Bonnaroo Music Festival draws over a hundred thousand concert goers to the heart of Tennessee to partake in a four day freak out. Hundreds of bands, comedians, artists and bohemians transform American farmland into an enchanted playground filled with wonder and reckless abandon. The festival boasts the most eclectic line up in the summer music circuit and its environment is totally sequestered from the outside world. This festival brings out of broad range of music fans of different age and class backgrounds. It is these reasons that make Bonnaroo an excellent candidate in observing “mechanisms of engagementâ€, the culture industry and the “carnivalesqueâ€. It will become apparent that one may enter and exit the realm of play, however, only in the world of the carnival can one alter his or her performance. The festival is a four day playground for its participants. Much like Bakhtin writes in his article on “Carnival and the Carnivalesqueâ€, participants of Bonnaroo “live in itâ€, there is no division between performer and spectator (Bakhtin, 250). It is for this reason that Bonnaroo is a different kind of play. Unlike a sport, game or any other kind of leisure activety, Bonnaroo is a place where individuals must live, and therefore, it calls for a new kind of performance. Bakhtin refers to this kind of behavior as “new mode of interrelationship between individuals (Bakhtin, 251). However, participants are still limited by the boundaries that are established by their everyday performance. In an environment where people are encouraged to push these boundaries and the the themes of escapism is sprinkled throughout the event, participants might push or briefly escape from their performative boundaries. However, they will never cross into the realm of taboo. It is for this reason that even in the most inclusive, demanding and all encompassing kind of game, participants of the still adhere to their performance. An individual who experiments with natural psychedelic drugs on occasion will no doubt partake in this kind of activity. However, if their performance as an individual involves a taboo zone of“ no chemicalsâ€, than they will not do so, even in an environment where drug us is widespread and widely encouraged. What makes Bonnaroo the ultimate kind of game, is it does have the capacity to push boundaries to the point of a breaking. An individual who normally would not partake in chemical drug use, might in fact indulge while in the environment, however, any break of boundaries is still inherent to the performance, it just required the proper enviorment. Furthermore, any kind of break would in turn, become the performance itself. In essence, Bonnaroo is the ultimate game because it is the all encompassing carnival that Bahktin refers to. For a brief moment in time, “the laws, prohibition and restrictions that determine the structure and order of the ordinary is suspended†(Bakhtin, 251). Only in this kind of “world turned inside out †can performance be stretched to the limit and be reshaped into something new. Participants leave the four day gathering with a new idea of what it is they are; no matter how minute, their performance has been altered. It is this kind of altering of performance that makes environments such as Bonnaroo an incredibly powerful cultural force. In the study of popular culture, MacCabe writes that the most influential of cultural products break the national grid (MacCabe, 9). Motown, The Beatles, Joyce’s Ulysses have all had their own sphere’s of cultural movements and influence. He suggest that in the study of popular culture, we must look at the “fault-lines opened up by these cultural products â€. It is in the realm between play and performance where culture is forged. Adorno theorized that the culture industry had effectively integrated itself with society and created mass consumption to organize “free†time (Berstein, 4). Here, he presents mass culture as the negative integration of capitalist ideals within society. Applied to Silverstone’s concept of play, the culture industry has created an environment where playing is no longer even about personal fulfillment, but only provides “easy amusement from the relief from labourâ€. Once again, we are presented with the understanding that the games that we play within our culture do not alter our performances. However, inside the world of Bakhtin’s “carnivalâ€, the game is different, and inherently, so is the play. Only in environments where one must exit the world in which they perform can the performance be shaped, reshaped and altered. As children, we were able to enter the world of pretend, now we must enter the world of the carnivalesque.

looking like NYC for moe. have a place to crash so it should be cheap. like the budgey.

poor gordon

god damn the fucking opera house.

damn you!!

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saw it last night..... amazing. no credit, no musical score... you just sit down, and the second it starts, you are sucked in. the pacing is amazing. everything about this movie is flawless. althought i didn't really understand a few things..

loved the show....

some of my fav music in a while... canadian to boot. did i just say to boot? kill me

BUMP~! PLLLLEEEEASE.

so i recently paid off a 30 dollar fine from the Sound and Moving Image Library at York U, but pretty much means I have free access to virtually anything out there as far as music or movies go. what should i get? myself into|??!

even though i live in toronto, i don't think a toronto show would be the real deal.

you guys should totally do moe.down9. that would rock. seriously.

a times, especially in the begining, i thought they were sloppy. the show started strong... then the energy was alittle down (i think the slopppyness of some songs did it) .... and then got incredible towards the end. Their live show doesn't hold a candle to their albums... but they are one the best albums out there.. so its understandable. the show is a run through of favorites and a run through of WEEN songs is amazing anyway you shake it.... the song writing is amazing. do u think the show was MINDBLOWING... not at all... just a really fun time... one of the better shows i've seen all year... and they through in some cool jamming towards the end. at around the 11:15 mark... for a band that hates moe. ... their jam sounded alot like em. thanks to c-towns for the ticket and the beer... my girlfriend and i got into a fight and spent the show apart... so PISS UP A ROPE was definitely my highlight.

the worst part for me is logging on and scoring two tickets but decided to "wait till tonight" becuase i didn't have the fcard i wanted to use. later that same night= sold out.