I meant, did John Paul Jones tour with them (9 years ago would have been when they were in Billings, Montana too)?
He did tour with them back then.
They played Billings and Spokane in September 2014; I was in Spokane for work later that fall but missed those dates. I'm not finding any info on their Billings dates.
I meant, did John Paul Jones tour with them (9 years ago would have been when they were in Billings, Montana too)?
The whole thing about Isbell making people cry: yeah, me too, and I am not a big fan of intentionally subjecting myself to anything that does that so I've never bought any of his records. But I am thinking his live show would be worth it. Will report back!
1. What? Like just for that show, or did I miss it when Dave Rawlings Machine played around here?
2. I have never been able to listen to his music without going into a funk. It's powerful stuff to be able to do that though, and I agree he's a once-in-a-generation force. Even though I avoid his records, I want to see him in his element. Might change me. Also, Jason and the 400 Unit played in Jackson Hole several years ago and HobieJoe and I stared at that marquee for a long long time, trying to figure out how we could ditch our families and go.
1. I think Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch did a whole tour like that. It was {yikes!} nine years ago. It took another couple of years before we got to see them perform as Gillian Welch.
2. I was a Drive-By Truckers fan even before Isbell joined them, and after he did, I thought it was an even more amazing group. He got fired from the Truckers, went out and did solo stuff, got sober, and released the very acoustic and poignant "Southeastern." I heard the song "Traveling Alone" about the time I was getting tired of being on the road all the time for work, missing my girlfriend / wife. Also on that album is "Elephant," a beautiful song about spending time with a friend who has terminal cancer and trying to make it more about "the friend" and less about "the cancer." (Isbell said once before playing it, "when grownups hear this song, they cry; when kids hear this song, they learn the word 'fuck.'") And at that particular time, my work travel was allowing me to spend a lot of time in the DC area where some of my college friends lived, including my freshman roommate Kevin; until recently, Kevin was "the person I have spent the most nights in the same room with." (Kevin and I roomed together throughout most of college, and college for me lasted longer than my first marriage did.) So, I first heard "Elephant" not long after we all learned that Kevin's pulmonary sarcoma had returned as a "secondary pulmonary sarcoma." Kevin joked that "apparently my oncologist is unfamiliar with the work of Doctor Seuss, who says it's GOOD when your heart grows two sizes larger!" but the median survival duration after diagnosis of a metastasized sarcoma is 11 months, and that's the only time in his life that Kevin was ever anything at all like "average."
Isbell's music kind of speaks to me, and he always delivers live.
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If I were in NY, I'd pick this show! https://www.thecapitoltheatre.......although Wilco and Phil Lesh & Friends w. John Medeski are also very tempting!
Haven't been to a good live show for a few years, last one was YES and folks was that somewhat of a treat.
Now booked to see BJORK 'S CORNUCOPIA show which has so far been getting good reviews, so looking fwd to it as I also get the chance to have my baby sis along too.
Oh-oh. Alberta Bair. Not sold out but get your wallet out. It's ptooey's birthday too! They're sitting a few rows in front of us.
EDIT: BUT they're at the Elm on March 10. It is sold out but you should get on the wait list AND go down there mid-afternoon and see what's up. When we were at the Wilco show a few months ago, about 4:30 or 5, before people were lined up, they put a note in the window that they had some cancellations or something and sold some tickets FCFS.
We saw Dave Rawlings Machine a few years ago and John Paul Jones was their mandolin player.
Scott, enjoy your Jason Isbell show. He's amazing, I think he's one of the best things we have these days.
1. What? Like just for that show, or did I miss it when Dave Rawlings Machine played around here?
2. I have never been able to listen to his music without going into a funk. It's powerful stuff to be able to do that though, and I agree he's a once-in-a-generation force. Even though I avoid his records, I want to see him in his element. Might change me. Also, Jason and the 400 Unit played in Jackson Hole several years ago and HobieJoe and I stared at that marquee for a long long time, trying to figure out how we could ditch our families and go.
We went on a whim in September. They got rained out at an earlier date at Atlanta's Chastain Amphitheater (which frankly is sometimes a disappointment) and I was only halfway kicking myself for missing it, "it's not like I'll have a lot of chances to see Robert Plant live. Eh, I can skip it, I've had enough Chastain shows for one middle-age, and I did see Alison Krauss thirty years ago." I saw there were tickets available for the rescheduled date and asked, "we're seeing a lot of shows this month, want to see one more?"
It was far better than I expected - it was a REALLY good show. They were extemporaneous enough to make it feel special and to seem like they were enjoying it, but they're also polished enough that you can tell "wow, they are both REALLY good at performing live." The are both evidently pros. Plus, I think they sound just transcendent together, more than the sum of their parts. And at times I was reminded "oh, right, even without the singing, she was really known as a fiddle player as much as anything."
(So now we've seen basically half of Led Zeppelin. We saw Dave Rawlings Machine a few years ago and John Paul Jones was their mandolin player. We are big Gillian Welch fans, and when they play as Dave Rawlings Machine it tends to be louder and livelier music with more string-bending guitar work, and I couldn't help but wonder the whole time if Rawlings was thinking to himself, ironically, "YEAH old man, bet you've never seen it done like THIS before!")
I hope you enjoy your show as much as we enjoyed ours.
Scott, enjoy your Jason Isbell show. He's amazing, I think he's one of the best things we have these days.
Not typical of this band but it's fun. So anyway, thanks to Beaker on FB for sharing a FLA tour graphic that pointed out they'll be in Billings Montana, May 11. I don't own much of anything you'd call "industrial" but live, it can be pretty intense. So we'll see how popular tickets are and give it a try.
This one sounds like a cross between Yello and Trans-era Neil Young :lol: right up my alley
Oh by the way also on the bill: Ministry and Gary Frickin' Numan.
For the uninitiated, FLA is one of the genius co-lab projects of Rhys Fulber.
Rhys and Bill Leeb are those largely responsible for Delerium and Conjure One. Pretty frickin talented dude.
Also, GARY FRICKIN' NUMAN !
There are not enough superlative words in the universe to express what I think of Gary's performance in this vid!
Ministry tour promo video:
Can't say I ever got into Ministry tho... still doesn't seem to be quite my thing.
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Feb 15, 2023 - 9:04am
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Yeah I left my $40 earplugs at Druid Labs so ...what were those ones you recommended? I'm going to get 4 pairs. If the kids want to go hear oldies, that is. In that concrete box it's going to do some damage.
Yeah I left my $40 earplugs at Druid Labs so ...what were those ones you recommended? I'm going to get 4 pairs. If the kids want to go hear oldies, that is. In that concrete box it's going to do some damage.
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Feb 15, 2023 - 8:41am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Not typical of this band but it's fun. So anyway, thanks to Beaker on FB for sharing a FLA tour graphic that pointed out they'll be in Billings Montana, May 11. I don't own much of anything you'd call "industrial" but live, it can be pretty intense. So we'll see how popular tickets are and give it a try.
This one sounds like a cross between Yello and Trans-era Neil Young :lol: right up my alley
Oh by the way also on the bill: Ministry and Gary Frickin' Numan.
I saw an ad for that show a little too late - we'd already bought tickets to a Filter/Ministry/Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie show down at Fiddlers Green. Though to be honest, I find the thought of FLA/Ministry a little terrifying in that particular room. My ears are getting old.
Edit: Wow, they booked Milky Chance, too. Someone is killing it up there.
Not typical of this band but it's fun. So anyway, thanks to Beaker on FB for sharing a FLA tour graphic that pointed out they'll be in Billings Montana, May 11. I don't own much of anything you'd call "industrial" but live, it can be pretty intense. So we'll see how popular tickets are and give it a try.
This one sounds like a cross between Yello and Trans-era Neil Young :lol: right up my alley
Oh by the way also on the bill: Ministry and Gary Frickin' Numan.
