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I would recommend that you have a listen to Dan Bern before you decide how excited you want to be about this one. I actually quite like Bernstein as he is known, but he is a real folkie and his style of songwriting is definitely not for everyone. Kind of like a male version of Ani Difranco though he is quite often likened to a new age Bob Dylan. Seen him a couple of times and it's quite entertaining but don't expect anything too mind blowing. Definitely will be fun to check out but it won't likely resemble The Slip much.

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The Slip involved with anything is pure gold. I remember a few people were skeptical of the Surprise Me Mr.Davis thing and it is probably the greatest ensemble ever put together with Nathan Moore. Mind you he is a big part of the behind the scenes of the Slip.

When I first met Sharon, she was a big fan of Bern, and I'm sure she played me some. I just don't recall what I heard.

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I am jealous of you guys. This will be amazing.

I must disagree with Weirdness (which I rarely do on matters of music, actually).

Dan Bern is actually quite diverse. He started out a pure folkie, but when he hooked up with his electric-rock band, The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy, he broke right out of that folk-mold, just like Dylan did way back when. (In fact, I was at a Bern show with the IJBC, when all the folkies in the audience complained that they don't like "rock music".)

I wish I could see this show. The Slip with Dan Bern? Gold.

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hmm.. i dunno.. outside of smmd, and obviously anything co-written with nathan, i dont really hear it so much. straight up slip songs seem, to me, to be born out of a more grandiose nature vs. nathan's sharp simplicity. especially anything marc gets his hands on.

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"before you were born" always comes to mind. Isn't that an example of a tune written by Nathan.

I'm just getting these thoughts from introductions to tunes by Brad. "This one's a song that my friend Nathan..."

Maybe you could help me compile a list of Nathany tunes?

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yeah, but i mean those are songs that nathan wrote all of, or at least half of. i really dont hear any of nathan's influence in songs that he doesnt have a hand in, i guess is what i mean... and i'd say he only has his hand in a small percentage of the slip's repetoire... i suppose it's growing, the more they do SMMD stuff, but still..

and yeah, i could help ya with a list..

off the top of my head:

back in 15 minutes

before you were born

i hate love

i think poorboy might be at least partially nathan, too.

the odd time they'll do as long as there's one of us standing...

there might be a couple more..

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ah! sleepyhead! yes, good one.. how could i forget... and yep, nathan words, brad music... i put that one in the smmd column, though.. hahah. :)

edit: btw - thanks for keeping my mind thinking on a slow day at work... thinking about my shitty vinyl, tryin to come up with nathan/brad collaborations.. the day has flown by!

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