scottieking

The centerpiece of Trey's writing during his time off from the road, "Time Turns Elastic" features long, orchestral passages intertwined with epic guitar lines and vocals -- written in the same vein as Divided Sky, Guyute and You Enjoy Myself.

*single eyebrow raised*

It's the first record I've bought this year from a band I already liked that didn't have a noticeable drop-off in quality.(DBT, MMJ)

Really? MMJ? That album is rock solid and a naturally progression from Z I thought.

"It's one thing to start it with a positive jam and it's another thing to see it all through..." Check!

While I liked the last two, Sea Change was the last Beck album that I really loved start to finish. It is one of the only albums I own that the musical canvas is the same as the album cover.

YES! YES! YES! New album this summer.

From Billboard.com

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Interesting, vedy interesting.

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."

Amen. RIP.

To those who aren't digging on the new slow tunes/ are a bigger fan of the "old" MMJ, try the Disc 2 end of this set

M Ward and Jim James (My Morning Jacket)

2008-03-15

St. David's Church - Austin, TX - SXSW 2008

Disk 1 (part 1) - M Ward (solo)

01) Sad, Sad Song

02) Oh Lonesome Me

03) Poison Cup

04) Rollercoaster

05) Duet for Guitars #3

Disk 1 (part 2) - Jim James and M Ward

06) Chinese Translation

07) One Life Away

08) Outta My Head

09) Wonderful (the Way I Feel)

10) Golden

11) Look at You

Disk 2 - Jim James

01) Bermuda Highway

02) It Beats 4 U

03) What A Wonderful Man

04) Sec Walkin'

05) Librarian

06) Smokin From Shootin

07) Thank You Too

08) I Will Be There When You Die

09) Gideon

http://www.archive.org/details/mmj2008-03-15.aud.flac16

Makes me reeeeally love the new tunes themselves now. Gorgeous reditions in a stripped downstyle.

I thought the new stuff really took hold last night. Great mix of old and new. Totally worth sitting behind my desk feeling like shit right now.

I'll need a setlist to recollect what blew me away proper and I have a great picture to throw up tonight.

FYI, opener is the Besnard Lakes. See y'all there.

yep. in and out. last day of class tuesday.

nice to hear your voice the other night, see you soon. Happy B-day, have fun at your BBQ.

That's a nice story. Thanks for sharing.

Man's arrogance has lead us to believe that we can define, identify and even communicate with a higher power, which coincidentally looks alot like us. I believe that the reality is so beyond our comprehension that "belief" should only be replaced with "wonder".

So maybe. But not by traditional (or any ) definition.

If you can get there, my favorite place in the whole of France is on the North Coast.

Mont St Michel is an island cathedral by high tide but is uncovered by low tide.

Plus while you are in the area you can visit some of the D-day sites.

hope its all healable. Is that a word?

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Thanks.

Seems to be alot of common sentiment coming up so I'll keep it brief.

I think alot of our thoughts actually have less to do with music more to due with age/maturity/station in life. Most of us can't tour anymore, having too many responisibilites. Of course our music tastes shifted. Otherwise, I'd still be going to Bon Jovi concerts. And I know that it will never be the same, but as I learned the hard way two weeks ago, you'll never be able to do things the same way you did them ten years before.

That being said, whenever my ipod shuffle throws me a Phish tune, it ALWAYS brings me around. The boys return will be all about nostalgia and quite frankly, I'm OK with that too. Better than trying to live up to 1997 every night. And when the tour swings through Toronto, or Buffalo, or wherever, I'll still give all of you who claim its over as big a hug as ever, magic hat or no.

Go on. Pick a Hood. Any Hood. Find a comfy chair or place to dance. Try not to smile. Take the Harry Hood challenge today.

Can't wait to buy you one of these!

Happy-b-day!

There are tracks that stick with me on this for sure (California Dreamer) I like it. It's good but it lacks the kinetic energy of the first.

Scott King on why he chose his username:

To be honest, Scottie King is the only true nickname I've ever had (well, I guess Sky King and Scoots are in play, and around St Thomas I'm known as Kinger). It's not really a nickname, but does tend to get pronounced as one word - phonetically - skai-kang. Maybe that's my new username right there!

Rumor has it that a certain industrialist will make an appearance in the new Hulk movie. STRONG hints for future team up movies and IMHO, the way to good. Yay, Marvel.

I'm going to go with generally not good. But funny the first two or three times. Then just wrong. Then gross. Then funny again.

happy day, steph.

Lined up in Guelph this morning and scored the early birds. Hillside bound!