From my own spotify playlist featuring my favourite albums in full and at random. These three came right after one another.
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Not anymore, too much, too much.
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Was lucky enough to catch them out in the boonies just before they got YUGE after the Colbert bump. Fun show!
The new album is excellent. I have tixs to sees them live for the first time this Dec in MA.
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Ah, I should check it out. I didnât care so much for the one before that (they sorta lost me after Side Pony), and her voice can be a bit grating for me in larger doses.
Her first album with Vilray is lovely, however.
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Appreciate the heads up.
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Thousands of geese flying over right now, heralding Autumnâs peak. Those northern lights were incredible early last night. Weâre @ latitude 48° and that was quite a show!
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KK was a wildly talented man. I even loved his gravelly voice.
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The way to open a set:
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Sunday Baroque on NPR.
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How ROBERT FRIPP got the iconic guitar sound on âHeroesââŚ
"Well âHeroesâ was written a couple of weeks before Fripp came down. We recorded the backing track, and itâs one of the few times that David actually played piano live. Eno was in the control room with me. We really didnât know what we had. There were no lyrics yet. It was not called âHeroesâ. It wasnât called anything.
Finally we got something that sounded like, âthis could a verse, this could be a chorus,â and by that time we needed to do the guitar work. Fripp was available only one weekend. So he came to Berlin, brought his guitar, no amplifier. He recorded his guitar in the studio. We had to play the track very very loud because he was relying on the feedback from the studio monitors. So it was deafening working with him.
Whereas everyone thinks itâs an ebow, this magical guitar gadget called an ebow. In fact it wasnât an ebow, it was just the feedbackâFripp playing this âdah uhhhh dahh uhhhâ that beautiful motif. And Fripp recorded a second time without hearing the first one. It was a little bit more cohesive, but still quite wasnât right, and he said, âLet me do it again. Just give me another track. Iâll do it again.â And we silenced the first two tracks and he did a third pass, which was really great. He nailed it. And then I had the bright idea: I said, âLook let me just hear what it sounds like with the other two tracks. You never know.â
We played it, all three tracks together, and you know, I must reiterate Fripp did not hear the other two tracks when he was doing the third one so he had no way of being in sync. But he was strangely in sync. And all his little out-of-tune wiggles suddenly worked with the other previously recorded guitars. It seemed to tune up. It got a quality that none of us anticipated. It was this dreamy, wailing quality, almost crying sound in the background. And we were just flabbergasted.
I have to point out, like Marc Bolan, David doesnât like to spend a lot of timeâŚ
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Fun story: my PIC gifted me Bowie in Berlin, knowing how big a fan I am⌠TBH I never got through it bc most of it seemed to focus on recording details like the excerpt above â which was interesting, but I wouldâve preferred less technical mumbo-jumbo & more personal history from that time. Never finished the book 
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