jiggs99

Almost four hours of Dylan covers. Very good sound! http://www.archive.org/details/goe2009-10-31.sbd.fllac16

LOL!

Haven't listened to any of BJM's recent stuff, but about 4/5 years ago one of my bandmates at the time lent me the Dig documentary. Wasn't all that impressed with it (I've seen enough people documented while destroying themselves or close to it), but when he was in semi-sound mind and body, I found Anton Newcombe pretty funny and thought he had some interesting thoughts on music in general. I paid their website a visit and found most of their albums zipped up and available for free, so I ended up listening to a large part of their catalogue. Newcombe is clearly a skilled songwriter, though the production on some of that stuff is woefully bad. Also, he tends to rip off his influences a little "too" much at times right down to the album titles (i.e. - Her Satanic Majesty's 2nd Request or Bringing It All Back Home Again). Still, there's some pretty good stuff in there. I'll take the Sadies any day of the week and twice on Sundays, but if the BJM were playing a show close to here and I knew about it, I'd probably go see it. I hear they are a killer live band.

Origin of the name: Diskdaddy (the keyboardist) bought a vintage "Bing Crosby Hat". Fiancee (now wife) didn't like it. He told her it was a vintage hat. She responded that it looked like a "dead man's hat". Presto. We enjoyed the gig as well, Hopefully we'll play more than once a year from here on out.. of course, we've had uncustomary bad luck with some gigs getting cancelled prior to this.