2003  July to December

Date: Wed Dec 31 22:04
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

..... as the new year rushes across the atlantic and wacks into the land on the other side, just let me tell you that 2004 aint so bad so far..... 5 hours from now it'll hurtle through tucson on it's way to somewhere in the middle of the pacific..... and that'll be it, it'll just peter out and just be a memory to us all.... so enjoy it while it lasts - hnyta

Date: Wed Dec 31 20:51
Mitch (burrowing upward):

Hi fellow sanders, and hola friends seen & unseen! Just wanted to send my very best regards to all those eyes world round. Hope 2004 yields great fruit for you all.

Date: Wed Dec 31 20:05
(t)odd Reggie (happy new year OWOM):

Date: Wed Dec 31 20:01
Graham (nation time!):

Any news on Chris Kirkwood? In stable condition? How(e) many Sand releases will 2004 yield? 2003 was a deluge. Thanks to all involved, and happy new year all around.

Date: Wed Dec 31 18:54
job (bib):

Happy New Year. Great Fandango.

Date: Wed Dec 31 18:48
J (Happy trails):

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Date: Wed Dec 31 15:34
Archivist (...):

Hey, Happy New Year from everyone over here at OWOM and the surrounding areas...

Date: Wed Dec 31 15:14
Colleen (bowling anyone?):

Veuille Afganistan et Irak soit rempli de station-service, hambergers de 99 cent, et droques de la prescription que sont vrainment de Canada mais ont les etiquettes couvert? Et a propos, Howe paient vos billets. Cela ferait une Nouvelle annee agreable.

Date: Wed Dec 31 12:52
howe (home):

hey....everybody... have a happy new year. here hopin' for a healin' to this po' world's reelin' -howe

Date: Wed Dec 31 05:15
buxfix (wishes...):

a happy new year! the best to everyone and a new giant sand release very soon ;-) think this wish is not too exaggerated...

Date: Tue Dec 30 20:14
krims (krims):

Bonne Année ŕ mes beaux modčles photographiques: le Krims... votre célébration au joueur de boules soyez un memoriable un. Beaucoup aimez

Date: Tue Dec 30 14:58
Lars (by the way...):

I've been told that Under Byen will be coming to the USA again. And this time they don't do New York. They will play at South By Southwest in Texas in March. Be sure to check 'em out, if you're around. Happy knaw yarns! / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 30 14:42
Lars (Jingly):

Esquivel's version of "Jingle Bells" from "Merry Christmas from the Space-Age" cracks me up! There is an audiosample of it at Amazon. Teehee! I think I gotta get that cd at some point, ha-ha. Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 30 14:16
Blaine (@work):

X-mas past -- The Band, The Kinks, Chris Stamey & Friends, hope someone recalled the greatest of all Vince Guraldi

Date: Tue Dec 30 13:52
conch--from the couch (Xmas past):

'Remember Christmas' by Nilsson. 'Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope' by Sonic Youth. 'The Little Drum Machine Boy' by Beck. 'Thanks For Christmas' by XTC. 'Christmas Time Is Everywhere' by The Beatles.

Date: Tue Dec 30 13:37
peter (nyc):

leon redbone's christmas island has been reissued. most entertaining holiday tunes.

Date: Tue Dec 30 13:03
geoff (?):

i don't think i spelled christmas carolling (?) right? not a word usage i often type.

Date: Tue Dec 30 13:02
geoff (christmas caroling):

buck owens, mojo nixon, and john prine all have nice albums of christmas tunes...timbuck three "all i want for christmas", the flaming lips "christmas at the zoo", bob neuwirth "lucky too", brian dewan "r2d2 we wish you a merry christmas", james kochalka "beautiful x-mas lights"...and though it's not specifically a christmas song...victoria williams "lights of the city" should all be added to the list of ear warming holiday treats...

 

Date: Tue Dec 30 05:11
SeanT (shows):

Is Bristol the only UK show in Jan ? and did someone mention a show in Spain ? Confused , alone and coughing so bad my eyeballs feel like they are going to pop out . Gurarrrrr.....

Date: Mon Dec 29 15:32
james s (stuff):

hello em. your absense here sucks. i hope you are able to get back soon. as for "christmas" songs, i don't think anyone has mentioned "(there ain't no) sanity clause" by the damned. hey, thanks for the eliott smith advice earlier. i've started with "either/or". very very nice. damn, where did 2003 go?

Date: Mon Dec 29 15:30
Lars (for Em):

Sorry to hear about your computertroubles, Em. And yep, I still the same place. Very much looking forward to whatever will find its way to my mail box. There really were some gems on yer last demo there. :-) Best greets! / Lars

Date: Mon Dec 29 13:51
e m ily (my computer's broken):

Hello every body. My computer's broken and I cannot get into this site(I'm now at a friend's computer)mysteriousley and cannot send emails. If somebody could email me an update of sorts about the fandango, that would be much appreciated as I am most curious about whatever happened to it. Lars, I hope the mailing address I have for you is still okay as in a couple of weeks I will be sending you some stuff I am working on to play with if you care to. Seasons Greetings to all and I have missed all the fun on this site:(

Date: Mon Dec 29 07:59
tHom (the grotto):

Surprised that in the listing of Xmas songs there's been no mention of the one by Big Star called, simply, Jesus Christ. I've always thought that, with such a great melody, it could sit well on any Xmas compilation record/CD. Yet I've never once seen it used that way or heard it played on the radio around Yuletide. Maybe it's due to that attention-deflecting aura that seems to surround all their stuff ...

Date: Mon Dec 29 04:26
J (eraserhead edited me out yesterday. ):

That's surely no way to treat a fandangoer?

Date: Mon Dec 29 04:24
J (xmas songs):

I always thought of @Breaking hands' from Gun clubs' 'Mother Juno' as a christmas song

Date: Sun Dec 28 17:22
johnny (xmas songs):

Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite arrangement is great, Soul Coughing's cover of Suzy Snowflake is a favorite, as is Kitty Wells' Old Kris Kringle and that whole 1st Loretta Lynn christmas album. There is also a cracked recording of Joseph Spence doing Santa Claus Is Coming To Town that must be heard.

Date: Sun Dec 28 07:27
Lars (winterly):

Nice ones, Paul. For me the funny thing is to find winter-themed songs on regular albums. Y'know, the ones that aren't really x-mas songs, but you really want them to be. Ha-ha! :-D The one with Spookey Ruben is quite funny actually. He's singing that he's a snowman and he sounds like he's suffering from a cold...."nasal"....caughs and all. ##### Wow, did I just get erased too? My goodness, Mr. Eraserhead is really active. What about just nicking the big cut'n'paste-ones and the direct "attacks"? Who IS this Lynchian character anyway? Mike? ##### Greeties! / Lars

Date: Sun Dec 28 06:51
Paul L (Xmas songs):

Lars, heres a few more possibilities for next years xmas compilation: Southern Culture on the Skids - Merry Christmas Baby, Jim White - Christmas Day, Buff Medways - Merry Christmas Fritz & Stille Nacht, The Headcoats - Reindeer are Wild, The Headcoatees - Santa Claus, Johnny Cash - Blue Christmas. Hope everyone had a good one!

Date: Sun Dec 28 06:16
The Controller (?):

I AM WATCHING

Date: Sat Dec 27 15:37
Conch (Ex-mas songs):

Hi, Lars. Interesting Yuletide carols on your list. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)by The Ramones is a favorite of mine.

Date: Sat Dec 27 12:21
bluetooth (eraserhead, you're so eventual)):

Date: Sat Dec 27 05:12
Lars (holiday greets!):

A bit late with the yule tide wishings, but let me just say then: have a happy newsens years, everybuds!!! Made my very own christmas compilation this year. Went through all my cds here in Aarhus and found quite a few surprising songs somehow themed along the lines of winter, snow, ice or christmas. I had to cut a whole lot just to fit them on one cd. Hm, well, here's the tracklist....just for the fun of it: 1. The Nightmare Before Christmas - What's This, 2. Low - Just Like Christmas, 3. My Morning Jacket - X-Mas Curtain, 4. Tom Waits - Silent Night / Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (Live In Sydney 1979), 5. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Kidnap the Sandy Claws, 6. Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol, 7. Piano Magic - Snowfall Soon, 8. Björk - Jólakötturinn, 9. Tiger Tunes - X-mas Rock Dream, 10. Denis Leary - F**k Santa, 11. Low - Little Drummer Boy, 12. Mogwai - Christmas Song, 13. Spookey Ruben - Snowman, 14. Amp - Just-Ice, 15. Damien Jurado - December, 16. Swell - I Hate Christmas, 17. Piano Magic - Snow Drums, 18. The Black Heart Procession - The Winter My Heart Froze, 19. Low - Last Snowstorm Of The Year, 20. Under Byen - Syng Hvide Nat, 21. The For Carnation - Winter Lair, 22. Mark Hollis - The Gift -------- Do you have any undiscoved Yule tracks on yer shelves? :-D Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Dec 26 22:59
claydingo (finvarra@chariot.net.au):

Appreciate that many folk will still be in some celebratory yule state but is there any chance of getting a set of complete backyard BBQ broadcast discs from a sporting sandfan. willing to trade - please contact me off the list.

Date: Fri Dec 26 21:13
in heaven (everything):

is fine...

Date: Fri Dec 26 19:42
eraser head (-be here yet-):

It is true. Robyn does take advantage of this arena to blabber beyond the point of good taste, but I have been hired on here to erase at will. And, actually, I love to erase. Live to erase. Look forward to erase. So at least she provides me with sweet fodder for my otherwise "list"lessness afternoons. Meanwhile, happy to be on board on this board and happy to wish you all a happy Happy New Year.

Date: Fri Dec 26 18:38
JS (one bad seed is all it takes):

Just curious, but I was wondering at what point does someone's right to free speech become public harrassment? And are there any appropriate & legal steps that could be taken to limit "a certain someone's" access to this comments board. To be honest, "she" is seriously putting a damper on the general affable and community like spirit this board has usually enjoyed.

Date: Thu Dec 25 21:27
FANDANGO? (w31162r@suscom.net):

Merry XMAS to all. Can anyone burn me a copy of "Fandango"? Will offer a 2:1 trade. Have ALL GS, Howe, Calexico, FODM studios/fanclub releases if interested. Thanks. William Rodgers(east coast US branch).

Date: Thu Dec 25 17:41
aphotograph (more here):

hi, anyone knowing the music of jon wahl! i recomend a lot and thanks for the new blacky album , !

Date: Thu Dec 25 16:08
J (Damn):

Thought I'd be the only yuletide poster! Luck to you and yours sandfolk. PS I take it that it's Aarhuus(SP) in the deer feeding thrilljockey pics? PPS James S thanks a lot,,,,

Date: Thu Dec 25 15:45
howe (home):

happy christmas me posties....happy christmas to all ...hoping you all have a warm tingle and a smooth sipper with your battery opererated gizmos and the odd fuzzy slipper. -howe

Date: Wed Dec 24 18:58
Glue sniffer (ho ho ho under the covers of darkness):

hello my little chums no time no spaeak long time long skwaqe oh yes brothers and sistiers of the sand unite and saing like the man who first made the traffic cone o. hope that atleatst regardless of hope faith denomitaion or style we all sit and say. christ at least it was you. did intent for more staralting orgiiganl postings but missed the last post today so will be late. I recomend life and cheese today for the futre you cant pln

Date: Wed Dec 24 15:14
PaulK (North Pole):

Happy Sandy Christmas to ALL of you when it comes Paul.

Date: Wed Dec 24 11:39
dave (Happy Holidays y'all):

"A Motown Christmas" or my old Temptations Christmas is a good thing in these matters...or a little "Dark Star" from Dick's Picks Vol 4 by the Dead fills the bill pretty well too...Have a great one!!

 

Date: Mon Dec 22 21:36
Alan (Japanese James):

In the early 90s there was a band called the Blue Hearts that, for a very short while, had a distribution contract with a small Portland label... the only and best punk-[50s?]-Japanese-pop I ever heard. Did a great song "Linda Linda" with altogether not too many more lyrics as I recall...

Date: Mon Dec 22 18:19
Blaine (@work):

The Go-Betweens ref jogged me to recall "Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express" as one great and vastly underrated album. Literate-chamber-folk-pop??

Date: Mon Dec 22 17:32
james s (yeah, conch):

listening to a little VU here at work today. Moe's gotta sweet voice on that one. Anybody here into Japanese noise/punk/rockabilly/ect..? A buddy made me a long compilation of stuff and MAN is it wonderfully over the top and fresh... I don't have a track list for it yet, or I'd mention bands and such... Sir Mitch, I'm going to have a copy coming to you soonish, though you may already be on top of this lovely madness, being the japaphile you is. Happy holidays to all of you. Signing out....

Date: Mon Dec 22 14:35
Conch (Mrs. Tucker?):

A Velvet's reference, James? All righty then, Happy Kawanza to all in Sandland.

Date: Mon Dec 22 13:20
james s (i'm sticking with you):

'cause I'm made out of glue

 

Date: Sat Dec 20 22:22
Todd Reggie ('Change is Now' cover...by Giant Sand):

I have not heard the original Byrds 'Change is Now'. Don't quote me but I heard that Paxil is banned in the United Kingdom. Weird (side) effects. "9.99 Women's floral print shirt with western styling, snaps...in sizes 30-38" - from the Thrill Jockey 'still lookin' good to me' small poster pinup.

Date: Sat Dec 20 16:30
Hulva (makenomore):

SPIRIT OF A VAMPYRE by THE GO-BETWEENS I was slowly dying in a clinic just outside of L.A. You came and saw me (thank you) that picked me up straight away. You said "Learn to dance, learn to act, learn the piano" And most of all you said "Learn to live again". That's when it starts. That's when it starts. The electric train of soft cylinder parts. Together at last. I dream of losing you, I wake up holding you so tight. I don't want to lose you now that I've passed midnight. I'm in deep with the blue waters around you. I'm in deep, so blue with everything around you. (chorus) (Chorus) That's when it starts. That's when it starts. The electric train of soft cylinder parts The dull mask of action on circus staff Mobility the hood of the Hindu scarf Together at last Making jewellery at last.

Date: Sat Dec 20 16:11
J (in the UK):

I'd like a fandango tracklist too... perlease

Date: Sat Dec 20 13:35
Conch (hmmmmmmm...):

That'd be The Go-Betweens, I think.

Date: Sat Dec 20 08:27
mctavish (royal college of shopkeepers):

think pisshead was being ironic (WHAT??) Now, can anyone tell me who said this? : That's when it starts. That's when it starts. The electric train of soft cylinder parts. The dull mask of action on circus staff. Mobility the hood of the Hindu scarf. Together at last. Making jewellery at last. (It wasn't Shane McGowan) HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Date: Fri Dec 19 21:04
kk (2):

The elves have the right to do whatever they wish...its the holiday season and lets keep it light bluetooth...smile for a while...do you think a high dose of Paxil would work?

Date: Fri Dec 19 19:59
hey blue toot been robin enuf space here now (buzz off!):

No one gives an eff about your sitch. nobody looks at your pictures. you contribute nothing, not here, not anywhere. pull yourself together. you're not just embarassing yourself, but your children. stop the idiot wind now! take responsibility and stop blaming others.

Date: Fri Dec 19 11:00
KK (1):

Is there a little elf removing some posts here?

Date: Fri Dec 19 10:08
SeanT (Blaine):

Yep I can't deny that Shane is a great songwriter but it makes me shiver when I see him , he's like an 80 year old .Still Keef's still with us,that man has an iron constitution.

Date: Fri Dec 19 10:03
Blaine (@ work):

Re: Sean & Shane -- I'll attest to that one. I saw Shane MacGowan not too long ago and he looks in scary shape. He's not that Dickensian street urchin any longer but a severely bloated and unhealthy looking guy who appears way older than he really is. (You might not even recognize a current photo of him.) He had to sit down to sing a bunch of the songs as I recall and the story when the start-time came and went, was that he'd been too wasted to even show up at the previous gig. Mind you, none of this stopped the audience from providing their hero with a never-ending stream of whiskey shots and Guinness draughts. As much as I love the guy's music, this was almost a freak show. It seems his demons are strong ones and so is the mythology. Soapbox-soapbox, Blah, Blah, Blah -- I've seen Townes Van Zandt drunker than a skunk and the Replacements numerous times in the blotto daze (myself included), and I'll take folks living for the long haul any time.

Date: Fri Dec 19 09:29
Lars (for those with the fandango...):

...how about revealing the tracklist? ;-) Hep-diddley x-mas! / Lars

Date: Fri Dec 19 07:42
SeanT (JD + drinking):

"And it never did Shane MGowan any harm " You've never seen a TV interview with him in last 20 years then ??!

Date: Thu Dec 18 23:37
ralffy (yfflar):

Tom - i believe howe is of the jewish persuasion so the "howe, get up that ladder,time to put those lights up!" sentiment may not fly...but what do i know?

Date: Thu Dec 18 23:37
cool pic of Howe (ill e mail ):

ghog22077@msn.com also a cool pic. of that giiitar o his,phill

Date: Thu Dec 18 23:30
Alan (oh man, I AM an academic...):

More than a quarter century ago Roland Barthes, in stressing the centrality of the reader to the meanings of the text, made an argument for the death of the Author -- the absolute, universal and complete fount of textual, photographic and (here, perhaps) otic meaning. Ought I now to understand "The Listener" as an assertion of perpetual openness to the negotiation of sonic meaning between our favorite artist and his audience? Having seen a very few shows, but also being engaged in the Sandman tree (we just took down a hickory in our yard today -- hope those PA bears find other places to hide and garbage poach here in East Lansing), it sure seems to me like Howe is a musical semiotician of materialist and historical bent. Wonder if any of my grad students or old grad school cohort would agee? My apologies for all obscurity, the boy hasn't slept much the last few nights... and the semester's over and professorial minds do wander (anyone seen my keys?)

 

Date: Thu Dec 18 19:39
Shaun H. (lend me some sugar.....):

...i AM your neighbour! favourite lyric of 2003.

Date: Thu Dec 18 18:08
McTavish (goat):

I once had a lovely dream about Chrissie Hynde but I guess I'll tell you all about that tomorrow

Date: Thu Dec 18 16:59
edinburgh man (benolin.bandol@matchingheadandfeet.con):

read richard hugo's poetry. norton keeps it in print for you fellows in the states. "Believe you and I sing tiny and wise and could if we had to eat stone and go on"

Date: Thu Dec 18 16:51
denzil (wasn'tborntofollow@melissa'shouse.com):

Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian is very good, in case you did not know. It sure beats the hell out of the Donnie Darko soundtrack. More footprints...........

Date: Thu Dec 18 16:46
pisshead (jd@onemore.co.uk):

Looks like this is becoming an alcoholic anonymous forum. Me, I love the drink. And it never did Shane MGowan any harm and, with regard to the last post, Kirsty never drank and look what happened to her.....

Date: Thu Dec 18 09:20
Tom [front desk] (North Pole):

Thought I would jump the gun a bit and wish all in Sand land a Happy Holiday.I m singing the Pogues Fairytale of New York on KXCI on Monday so I have been singing away to myself learning lyrics all night ,lovely song.Oh, Howe, get up that ladder,time time to put those lights up!

Date: Wed Dec 17 18:45
paulK (Sonik):

Alan, mail me at p.kerr@ntlworld.com and I'll get a copy of sonik postcard to you. Is there a tree set up for Fandango?

Date: Wed Dec 17 12:55
job (snow and blowin ):

Hey Howe ya want snow, come on home and we'll give you a bucketful. I say as I watch it come down and wonder how I'm gonna get off this moutain and down to the Valley and back up the other mountain to home.At least it puts the bears in a sleeping mood, I should join 'em and wake in the spring.

Date: Tue Dec 16 23:42
howe (north):

its hard to explain.....but as the next giant sand record gets almost put to bed here ....i had to run up to ottawa to comence the follow up record for next winter's release...which i think is a solo record ...but now adorned with such a warming gospel choir from them frozen reaches. why is canada sooooooo good ? so .... so ..... can do ? -howe ......missing the snow already

Date: Tue Dec 16 13:21
alan (ooops):

I meant Matt where I wrote Tom below...

Date: Tue Dec 16 13:19
Alan (mike, lars, james s):

Hmmm, the tree is varously alive and broken... as mike knows (and for very good reasons his arborial talents appear to have been redirected of late). I'm on a dead branch, might I trade blanks for Sonisk Postkort and Fandango w/ someone as the tree is reassembled? (Blaine, Rene, Tom and Paul, I have made the copies of the WFMU and KXCI shows and am in the process of assembling mailers... soon, I promise, soon...)

Date: Tue Dec 16 12:43
Hmmmmmmm (Uhhhhh?):

RE: Reggie (Heaven's Train MP3 w/ Howe Gelb): www.oldreliableband.com...click on audio... That is a terrific song. Thanks Reggie.

Date: Tue Dec 16 12:36
Paul L (Fandango has escaped):

The Fandango seems to be making its way through the tree. I got my copy this morning and have emailed my leaves - wondered if there is a track listing available yet? Makes for an interesting and varied listen anyway.

Date: Tue Dec 16 12:12
J (james):

Who'd have thought a few beers could get such a grip on a thinking man

Date: Tue Dec 16 09:10
james s (J):

Ahhh, the dreaded drink. Funny how it always eventually turns on you. Kick it hard, the bastard. It's a tough S.O.B., and if you don't kill it, it'll get up and kick you back. I've been fighting him too.

Date: Tue Dec 16 07:31
J (james s):

thanks mate, all is well I think, now that I have kicked the drink!

Date: Mon Dec 15 15:23
james s (blaine / fandango / etc...):

ha. that would be fun for me... thanks to those of you who helped me out with some elliot smith advice... J, that "(j) come home" post has me concerned. Everything alright, my sandy buddy?

Date: Mon Dec 15 00:27
Reggie (Heaven's Train MP3 w/ Howe Gelb):

www.oldreliableband.com...click on audio...

Date: Sun Dec 14 21:51
Todd (liquid pig?):

...so I listened to 'Lullaby for Liquid Pig' and then from there two people had a problem w/ the name and cover...one associate liked the sounds. Alejandro's reissue 2cd is out. I'm so glad I went after 'Slush'.

Date: Sun Dec 14 20:15
Blaine (@home with homer):

It seems the gluemeister has done it again. Unless this titled was cribbed from vintage Python or somewhere I'd like to nominate the next Fandango (which might well be a James S covers alb)to be titled: 'atleast ive got my fish tank'

Date: Sun Dec 14 14:54
finn (three pints, a cigar and a btl of futures shiraz later):

what is it with this chap howe gelb... three years ago i was one of the uninitiated... now i lookat my tunes and invariably pick a disc touched in some way by the influence of the man, err i wont ramble on, ill grab another beer and listen to the rest of chore which i haven't heard for ages!!! ta.

Date: Sun Dec 14 06:48
Lars (zound...):

I've removed the sonisk Howe-mp3s from my website. Figured that you must have gotten the cds by now. I put up some other interesting files. Only one Howe there, though. The one with Vic Chesnutt from Aarhus, which has been there a while. But two new Under Byen livetracks (with "Torque"-Henriette of course). And a livetrack with one of my big new "discoveries" of 2003: French-American duo Berg Sans Nipple. I can't recommend their album "Form Of..." enough. This is the new address: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/mp3s.htm --- Greets, sandies! / Lars

Date: Sun Dec 14 06:26
glue sniffer (memwiories from an open fire door):

so another year has leapt passed me, dressed in such strange clothes i cant help but say 'atleast ive got my fish tank'. and with these toughts at such a festive time i slowly drop back ajust my hernia and let the old records role. sparrows may peck at my window with their poor satanic feet frozen hard to the outside ledge and i say ' with prices like that why did columbus ever leave. indians are another think confusing to have native american and indian is there a subbtle change of spelling or not. so deliver us from evil the power in all its gory detail and rebmeber. three wag tail french wing birds are worth 1 copy of s club 8. hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohho and some fudge for dady santa legless. ps no more cards the lady is getting suspicioius love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Sat Dec 13 22:24
tom (re : james scar):

Either/Or is the one, if you ask me, and you asked so I answered.

Date: Sat Dec 13 16:42
Jörg (Elliott Smith):

In my book "XO" is his definitive masterpiece, alone for the 'Waltz #2'- this has to be one of the finest songs ever written.

Date: Sat Dec 13 12:28
smucker(for james s) (igaveup booze@stilldrinkingtosleep.com):

Try 'Either/or' and you wont be dissapointed. Its the perfect mix between his lo-fi stuff and the later more studio material. And the songs are simply unmatchable.

Date: Sat Dec 13 11:57
james s (edit):

...wanna tell me the best... (insert into the place where the previous post makes no sense)... hey, where is our jelly baby? You still peek into this cave on occasion, Emmm?

Date: Sat Dec 13 11:54
james s (seeking advice, too broke to take chances...):

Anybody out there in Giant Sand land wanna give tell the best Eliott Smith record to get? I don't have any, and would like to start with the most essential and developed...

Date: Sat Dec 13 10:43
Lars (totmacher help from ze zhermans?):

Under Byen played a brilliant gig at Voxhall in Aarhus the other night. Marvellous! They played their new soundtrack-song with English lyrics called "Sacred Land".....which sounds ever-so-slightly (if not a lot) "Listener"-inspired. :-) Yep, some more cudly tango de la tongue. They also played that German song "Totmacher"....and now I've gotten more curious. Is it an old German traditional or what? When I google "totmacher" I only get the movie and some new version by a certain DJ Hell (ha-ha!). Does anyone here know who wrote it? Or where it came from? (besides the obvious: the real story of "the vampire from Hannover"). ##### By the way, I recorded the show through the soundboard. A handful of the songs were distorted even though I had set the volume pretty low. What a bummer. But I've made mp3s of the best of the new stuff and put them up at my groupcare accounts (in case you're interested): http://www.groupcare.com/en/invitation.asp?i=2311661&c=86861909 ---AND--- http://www.groupcare.com/en/invitation.asp?i=2425350&c=50755932 --- Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Dec 12 22:43
Todd (Vienna Two-Step Throw Away):

Hi Howe/Mike...is it true that there are Blacky Ranchette 'still lookin good to me' T-Shirts available?...Hearing 'Slush' as I type and ponder...Makes me want to hear more 'Lullaby for Liquid Pig'.

Date: Fri Dec 12 22:08
christine (vienna):

i love you all boys.

Date: Fri Dec 12 18:27
Todd (just got Slush):

...nice to hear the original 'Leather' and the recorded 'Cracklin' Water'...Lisa Germano has a nice new record out called 'Lullaby for Liquid Pig'...I've played the titled track on the radio...'Lost in Space' by Joey Burns is a good track...was there talk of an OP8 version with Neko Case?...perhaps that version was 'Blacklisted'.

Date: Fri Dec 12 05:19
J (j):

come home

Date: Thu Dec 11 23:54
Blaine (@the side of a sleeping hound):

PK(stooges) - contact me w/yr mailindg address

Date: Thu Dec 11 18:56
J (thanks for the advice?):

We've all got lives outside of here. What does a low key bar acoustic gig thing pay in yr town to an unknown stranger in spring?

Date: Thu Dec 11 18:34
smoke (smikey):

Todd - why are you trying to lose your Old Reliable t-shirt?

Date: Thu Dec 11 18:33
smoke (smikey):

Todd - why are you trying to lose your Old Reliable t-shirt?

Date: Thu Dec 11 18:23
paulK (Suttree):

There's a band called Buddy and the Huddle who have an album called something like Music for a possible movie called Suttree based on the book, atmospheric instrumentals mostly, quite nice, see it at http://www.buddy-and-the-huddle.com/htm/disc_sutt.htm .I'm also interested in the Stooges boot as the gigs got really good write ups.

Date: Thu Dec 11 17:41
james s (this is pretty funny):

you have to turn up the sound... http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16130

Date: Thu Dec 11 16:54
james s (blaine):

I don't know, Blaine. That combination sounds like a recipe for madness. I don't know about the racing bit. There are a couple of speedways in the area, and in Bristol. You familiar with "Twangfest" in St. Louis? I know the folks planning next year's bash. Let me know if you want me to pass along any Aimless Blades goodies. I don't know if they have the line-up picked out yet or not. Steve Wynn played at it last year. It might be a good little festival for ya. My wife's redoing the website for them. I'll send you a link when it's done. Oh, and thanks for the disks!

Date: Thu Dec 11 16:03
Blaine (@work):

James -- what if you listen to the Louvin Bros "Knoxville Girl" while reading Suttree. Maybe the K's chamber of commerce could come up with a new campaign. Actually, isn't Knoxville know for sprint cars or some auto racing?

Date: Thu Dec 11 11:50
Lars (4-track):

Thanks a lot Bouncing J. Sounds quite "technical". I'll have to look into that later. Hm, or maybe not? :-) There IS some strength in limiting oneself. Y'know, "less is more". :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Thu Dec 11 11:33
Flynn (development@wmpg.org):

Hey, Todd. I'm interested in the extra Lull you have, if it's still available. Let me know . Thanks

Date: Thu Dec 11 10:21
james s (blaine & alan):

Jeez, Blaine, that is a well-spent evening. I always thought it would be fun to spend a relaxed evening listening to Peter Mathiessien talk away the night. Alan, I am going to wait for a moment when I can write at length to give you the skinny on Knoxville via email. Here is a pithy answer to your request: if I could find a job there, I'd move back to K-town. Read Suttree by Cormac McCarthy to get a feel for the underbelly of the city. Check out http://www.wdvx.com, and http://www.yeehawindustries.com/new/home.html, and http://www.disgraceland.com/ for some of what's good about the place. More via email later...

Date: Thu Dec 11 09:44
Blaine (@work):

Tom - sure (blaine117622@yahoo.com)

Date: Thu Dec 11 05:59
J (Lars):

It's called 'bouncing' Record up to 3 tracks, mix them onto one leaving 3 free. Record 2 more, mix onto one etc. Best not to bounce lead vocals. Plenty on the web to keep you busy.

Date: Thu Dec 11 04:24
tom (Re Blaine):

I'm interested, do u deliver across the Atlantic ?

Date: Thu Dec 11 01:16
Blaine (@home):

Good coupl-a days entertainment-wise. Saw an interview w/writer Peter Mathiessien last night and caught the Waterboys (playing as an acoustic duo) at a club gig tonight. Kinda of folky Dylan/Van Morrison circa Astral Weeks, worth checking into. Also got a boot of the recent Stooges gig in Detroit, I'll make copies if interested.

Date: Thu Dec 11 00:16
Alan (James S):

Hey, couldja gimme the skinny on Knoxville off-site (rudya@msu.edu)? There's a job at UT-K I'm being encouraged to apply for... Thanks, Alan

Date: Wed Dec 10 22:55
tom (days as short as nights are long):

Woohoow and also Yihaa , tonight I got Center of the Universe, Ramp and The Love Songs from a dear friend of mine. No copies, the real thing.

Date: Wed Dec 10 17:38
james s (live):

a guy i really like from knoxville tn, r.b. morris, likes to remind his audience, with a shout, "this is NOT a movie."

Date: Wed Dec 10 15:46
Lars (well...):

...it's no way to get new friends or win someone's sympathy. Quite the opposite. ##### Enjoy the Modesto-boys! Don't forget: you're not watching tv - there's a live band on stage! ;-D Greets / Lars

Date: Wed Dec 10 14:52
deirdre (:Dublin):

Time for another band beginning with 'G' ie Grandaddy!! This site is in danger of being taken over by that lady Robyn who seems to be in a horrible situation. But I don't think any of us have done anything to deserve this barrage of unpleasant posts. I've been cheered up by getting to see Howe's protogees(!) Grandaddy play in the UK recently. It had been a long time but maybe I had to wait for my red face to cool down (again)!! They were wonderful, worth bearing the cold of Brighton in December for, certainly. Hope everyone has a happy Christmas and positive thoughts for 2004.

Date: Wed Dec 10 14:06
certainly ((an unfit parent below)):

zzzzz

Date: Wed Dec 10 06:25
Lars (forgot a ?):

So I'm not limited to four tracks if I JUST use the four-track?

Date: Wed Dec 10 06:24
Lars (Todd & J):

Todd, I found Lull on the web a while back. But thanks for asking! :-D ##### And J, so I'm not limited to four tracks if I JUST use the four-track. I DO realize that I could put the first batch of four tracks in the computer play them back while recording new ones, but I haven't figured it out how to do it on the four-track alone. It's a Fostex X-26, by the way. Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 9 22:29
Todd (Extra Lull):

Hey Lars are u looking for a copy of Lull (Some Piano)? Or anyone...cause Thrill Jockey is out of stock and I found a (cheap) used one at a book store in Edmonton. Curious

Date: Tue Dec 9 20:17
J (analogue):

4 doesn't limit you to 4, just be careful...

Date: Tue Dec 9 18:24
Lars (4-track....):

So do you all record on four-tracks or what? I just got one. Nice to use. Warmer than the computer (hisser-isser-wisser!) and simple to use....plus it's cool to limit oneself to just using four tracks for once. And no loops. A nice change from the computer. Have been doing some stuff with the acoustic. But got the electric G out the other day and tried a bit. Still just improvised sketches. I wonder when (or if) I get around to doing a real track?! By mistake I recorded on the low pitch this time around and the sound was even more "lo-fi". Much like some of the stuff on Vincent Gallo's "Recordings of Music For Film"....except what I do sound like...eh....cackkk! Well, there's a little four-track electric here: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/personal/music/mp3.htm ---- I'll try and do something better next time around. Got some funny little blues-grooves, but they stay in Denmark, ha-ha. Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 9 17:48
J (james):

Track's called Lieves... 'Living their lies, living their lives'

Date: Tue Dec 9 17:47
J (james.s ):

Highly touched mate. Sweet Christina languishes in my 4 trk box in it's hibernation zone. My favourite and cheapest geetar is missing (of all things) its' A string. Had to tune her low D and sulk. Open Invitation to fandangoers and latecomers: covers project by J/Woodpile to be fashioned through one off sessions mp3 email, whatever and subsequently distributed. I mean I would like loose collabaration on a given list of songs provided at some point by me. Artists will include- violent femmes, mark lanegan, dan stuart, willie nelson, ?the stray cats, the cure whatever I'm playing at the moment...

Date: Tue Dec 9 16:41
james s (hey J):

I'm at work listening to a mix CD that I made, and a track from your CD came up, with nice slide guitar work, called "live in your eyes" (??) Very nice. You are in good company on this mix, but your track stands out. Just thought I'd let you know, publicly, in case anyone else here wants to bug you for a dose of the J tunage.

 

Date: Mon Dec 8 23:28
(T)odd (Nick Luca Trio does 'Hatch'):

Got the opportunity to listen to the whole Nick Luca Trio cd. I have to admit the cover of 'Hatch' is very cool cause Howe is recorded. Kind of crazy to say (type) but that was the highlight of the recording. I also like the other version of 'Hatch' on OW OM 005...go after official bootleg series vol. 5 like I should of went after an older 'down home' when I had the chance along with that blue Giant Sand (arizona) T-shirt. Anyone out their want to trade for an Old Reliable T-shirt?...buy for now.

Date: Mon Dec 8 17:46
J (and not only but also...):

Now catching up with the releases upon which I have made no comment. Enjoying that...

Date: Mon Dec 8 15:50
J (alabama):

Yup!

Date: Mon Dec 8 13:48
james s (it's a strange day):

Welcome back, Mike.

Date: Mon Dec 8 11:01
Greg Haldane (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

God Save Little Poca Cosa. Write your congressperson and the City of Tucson. Homeland security, my a$$, they are destroying one of the Tucson institutions that must be saved.

Date: Sun Dec 7 22:16
conch (er...):

Uh..."Christmas Everyday"...uh GIANT SONGS TWO. But, of course, you might mean "Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You" on the IT'S A COOL COOL CHRISTMAS comp. Which you lookin' for, cowboy?

Date: Sun Dec 7 20:28
Phill (ghog22077@msn.com):

HOWE many of you sand fans know the one recorded holiday song done by Giant Sand and on what album? COME ON GIVE IT A TRY.

Date: Sun Dec 7 05:20
mike (....again):

..... one revision to that news.... piano album should be out on thrill jockey in february...

Date: Sat Dec 6 13:56
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

well....... back again. the fandango is not lost, apologies to all but what with the move, problems with work and now a family loss, time has certainly not been a friend to me. priorities will go to getting the fandango to all contributors and organisors and resurrecting the reorganised sandman tree...... and hoping that things will run much smoother in the new year.------ good news from howe though... the piano album is not lost but waiting for a release slot from thrill jockey - the new giant sand album is slated for a may release and is at this moment being finished with john parish at the helm. howe has solo shows in ottawa on the 11th december and then on the 12th in toronto opening for oh susana. then bristol on the 15th january with liege on the 16th and in february from 2nd to 15th with califone on tour in japan. the new giant sand will play it's first official show on january 19th in mallorca (some festival or other)and then possibly opening for modest mouse on their three week u.s. april tour. that's the news so far...........

Date: Sat Dec 6 13:48
Todd (Byrds Tribute & Japanese Import):

Yesterday I was fortunate to hear a couple of rare Giant Sand tracks. The first one was 'Vanishing Point' on the Japanese Trill Jockey Import then I went to a cassette copy of Time Between - A Tribute To The Byrds for 'Change Is Now'...both made my day alot better. Oh and I sorta don't think it's any of my business to wonder who's playing on the new Giant Sand record...too early right?

Date: Fri Dec 5 18:52
PaulK (For Blaine):

There's artwork for the archives set also on the Calexico Yahoo group files. If you're not a member mail me at p.kerr@ntlworld.com and I'll send them

Date: Fri Dec 5 14:39
Blaine (@work):

J -- Thanks for the artlink -- drop me an email when you get a chance.

Date: Fri Dec 5 14:36
archivist (one more bit...):

Note: first time ever noticing that at the end of the set Rainer mentions that Howe is playing as part of Das Combo.. First time hearing that and now clearly can hear Howe's guitar work.. So, looks like Mr. Gelb was part of Das Combo back on that special day in 1983.

Date: Fri Dec 5 13:52
archivist (Live on KXCI):

Hey check it out.. This Saturday KXCI celebrates 20 years on the air with a re-creation of the Big Broadcast of 1983 - starting at 5 AM and running till 7 PM. I will be hosting the last hour featuring highlights of the full day of live performances from 12-5-83 including a sample of the Giant Sandworms set and the FULL set of Rainer and Das Combo - digitally re-mastered from the original reel to reel recordings. More info at kxci.org in the arts section or http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kxci/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=576510&pid=218&sid=11 - listen on the web at kxci.org..

Date: Fri Dec 5 13:35
Lars (rawk!):

Anyone here interested in punk rock? Or things that smell a bit of it? I have probably mentioned it here before, but I do the website (etc.) for the band Kurve and have just uploaded new mp3s. It's punk with a flavour of "balkan". Check out www.kurvekanal.dk . 'Kurve' is the plural form of the word 'basket' in Danish, but the band name is actually Bosnian and means 'whore'/'prostitute' (more of a punk name, huh?). Uh, and check the site for a rather different version of The Beatles' "She Said, She Said" (also done well by The Black Keys, by the way). It's live-track no. 10. Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Dec 5 11:36
J (Blaine):

For some very nice artwork for the club crawl disc, go here http://casadecalexico.com/caliposa/1998.htm#980227

Date: Fri Dec 5 11:06
Blaine (@work):

Finally digesting the recent Down Home Ow Om. These homemade dogs def have a distinct flavor from most Giant Sand proper (whatever that is) albums. Here's some thoughts. "Suite, AZ" could be another chapter from the same book that "Soloman's Ride" comes from. Don't listen to "Belly of Fire" - I think it's that one - while driving, or you'll need to turn it down to hear what's knocking on yr engine. And "Motion Detector" is flat out brilliant and is destined to be called out as a request for years to come. A great story, well told in muted Cinmemascope. I think I know some of these people. Question: did CLub Crawl or the Archives set have any artwork or just track info?

Date: Fri Dec 5 10:48
Lars (Scrolling for German hamburgers):

Any of you Hamburg-resident Germans going to the Markthalle tonight for the "Hamburg muss laut bleiben" festival/fair? If you do then don't miss out on the band Figurines. Their Aarhus-based label Morningside Records will also be there to push some of their cds and 7-inches on your poor unsuspecting Germans. www.figurines.dk - www.morningsiderecords.dk - Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Dec 5 10:35
Lars (Scrolling for scrolling):

Just because....

Date: Fri Dec 5 09:19
Tommy Gailer ((scrolling back into the highlife again)):

Hi people, just wanted to say that i am back again...computer is workin, virus killed!######## Insurance job is working out pretty good the last months, and i got tons of cd`s too.######## Will there a new Giant Sand album be out???######If Anybody`s using my "scrolling" terms, he will get a kick in his ass! Got it? Except Lars, he`s allowed to...i sold him the rights for using "scroller".

Date: Fri Dec 5 09:17
PaulL (Stickers):

Just thought folks might be interested to know that the current NME comes with stickers which include ones of Calexico (separate ones of joey and john) and one of Evan Dando, courtesy of CWNN. They're all dressed in appropriate cartoon winter clothing (john is fishing!)and there is a winter scene to stick them on, reminds me of days gone by doing action transfers...

Date: Fri Dec 5 09:14
james s (by adopting the convex fuzzy decision):

J, don't despair. By the way, the UNCUT with the Clash tribute also has a review of the new Blacky R., giving it 4 stars and saying the usual friendly things.

Date: Thu Dec 4 22:16
peter (!):

not much more important, not here, i'll always love the giant sand guitar sounds and wonder howe? phony beatlemania has bitten the dust!

Date: Thu Dec 4 20:25
J (All lost):

In the supermarket. Who cares what geetar 'Can't find love' was pinned down with. There are more important things? Joe Strummer is dead, the Guildford Stranglers are but a fleeting memory, the fandango is lost, yet someone edits the the bird off the wire? I'm having 'howie__flag' as a cdr cover. UUUUUUUUHHH

Date: Thu Dec 4 19:39
Glue sniffer (i dont understand):

chiken? whats that i dont say. well it seems to me that as i get slowly older things instead of slowing down get faster so instead of having more time to do the things i enjoy i know have less time to do aal the things i hate. why am i like a fair ground ride the louder you scram is that esaly applicaple my brother got a new job and i still worrking and worring as photrographer i realise peopele enjoy the none pissed selfless rsnting more thsan the daily-weeekinly updates more and to be honest. WHO OWNS THERE OWN FIRE EQUISTNMQUESDHIER ? not eb=ven me and i say theat like this fffffff

Date: Thu Dec 4 18:37
dave (Strummer):

I like Streetcore a lot...I think it's makes for a pretty nice record...Great to throw on when friends are around and the beers are rolling...I liked the cover art too...I hadn't recalled a fluorescent orange cover...

Date: Thu Dec 4 17:18
peter (new giant sand?):

i asked howe when he was in nyc whether john and joey were gonna be on the new album (i didn't even know there was a new gs in the works until howe identified a song during his gig as being from the upcoming gs album) and he couldn't really give me an answer because some opera conniver was hogging him at the bar and i had already used up most of my howe time by buying him a drink and asking about his new national. not much intelligence there, but my take is that it's definitely not going to be some reunion album. i'd love to hear some glum-like and can't find love style guitar again though. anybody remember what howe was playing those days? gretsch?

Date: Thu Dec 4 17:08
peter (now get this! (james)):

strummer's streetcore is a nice piece of business. someone has already lifted my copy and i intend to get another. still stunned that joe is gone

Date: Thu Dec 4 16:40
james s (more):

well, some of the tracks on the clash tribute are interesting anyway. Has anyone one here heard the Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros that was just recently released? Opin? With Todd, I'd like to know the line-up on the forthcoming GS record. Any insider intelligence on this?

Date: Thu Dec 4 16:23
Todd (heard 'Pontiac Slipsteam'...):

...on the Alberta public broadcaster today...and yesterday they mentioned Howe's name after they played a track from 'Feast of Wire'. That makes me wonder if John and Joe play on the new Giant Sand record? "What you should have done: Calexico - MacEwan Hall. I'm not a fan of country. I'm not a fan of Spaghetti Western films. But there is something about this mariachi morphed band that translates to real ambiance in a live setting. With more mood setting crescendos than a trance opus, Calexico is definitely a wall of southwestern sound that you should kick yourself for missing" - George Lenior, CJSW (Calgary) izzum issue one. Anyways I have not seem them, missed both shows in Alberta.

Date: Thu Dec 4 16:19
james s (uncut):

the clash tribute vol 2 cd that comes with the new uncut is perty darned cool.

Date: Wed Dec 3 21:26
tom (please):

Glue ?

Date: Wed Dec 3 19:17
PaulK (downloader):

go to http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vivonzeureux/Pages/pidgsurprisepartie.html to download an album with a Howe track. It's creakin chair from the comes with a smile session so most probably have it already. Haven't listened to any of the other tracks yet.

Date: Tue Dec 2 19:31
Todd (All Along The Watchtower...):

...has some very nice cello at the beginning. I traded for Giant Sand 'Valley of Rain / Ballad of A Thin Line Man'...I can no longer use my car cassette player so I went after the double album cd. Enjoyed my driving time w/ GIANT SANDwich. Looking forward to the new Giant Sand album...too bad about shelvin' the new piano recording...perhaps that will come around.

Date: Tue Dec 2 17:25
Lars (scrolling for Geoff):

So Geoff, only the one animated segment from "The Five Obstructions" is shown? That's a shame. The whole documentary and the interaction between these two directors is very amusing. As well as the other segments. - And yeah...it's really a big small world....or a small big world. / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 2 15:03
james s (feeling molluscan?):

...like pisulina adamsiana in a shell, you in your mind are one as well... thanks Graham for the sonic sounds of sunshine and bbq.

Date: Tue Dec 2 14:41
odd rays (Uneven Light of Day & Left Again):

Picked up DIAB 831 also OW OM 009, 010, 008 and THRILL 138

Date: Tue Dec 2 14:23
Kim (kim@varst.dk):

Hey.. does anybody know the guitar tabs for "Warm storm" as it´s played on "Dreaded Brown Recluse"?

Date: Tue Dec 2 11:24
geoff (whoops and whoops):

1st--that previous email was from GEOFF to LARS, not from Lars as I mistakenly typed....2nd I meant cartoon, not carton...sorry

Date: Tue Dec 2 11:23
lars (waking bob sabiston):

hey lars...Bob Sabiston is the guy who wrote the program for animating waking life (as well as being the director of animation for it), and he is also the fellow who animated the aniamted obstruction for the leith/von triers film...which is actually one of the films (the perfect human: carton) in the showcase this weekend...very small world eh?

Date: Tue Dec 2 10:09
buxfix (@ alan & the WMFU recordings):

hello alan, is there a chance to trade the WMFU-recordings? send me a mail if it's possible and you'll get my list - would be nice to hear from you. greetings from hamburg webmaster@buxfix.de

Date: Tue Dec 2 09:56
Alan (I've gotten three takers, look for them to post in the next few weeks.):

That's all.

Date: Tue Dec 2 05:30
Lars (Ahoy Norway and Holland - and Denmark):

Gelb playmates Under Byen are playing at Markens in Kristianssand on the 3rd of December and at Blĺ in Oslo on the 4th (supporting Norwegian band NUD). On the 8th of January they are playing at the Eurosonic Festival in Groeningen, Holland. And us Danes get two chances this tima around: Aarhus on the 11th at Voxhall and Copenhagen on the 12th at Vega. --- Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Dec 2 04:07
Lars (Scrolling for Geoff):

Would be interesting to see your clips, dude. Too bad I'm way over here. The one picture on your link reminds me a bit of the colours and style of "Waking Life". By the way, I was at the cinema the other day to see the new Danish movie "The Five Obstructions" where one of the sequences was made by the guy who worked on "Waking Life". He did it well. "The Five Obstructions" is quite interesting and funny by the way. Director Lars Von Trier challenges another Danish director Jřrgen Leth (who he admires a lot) to remake his 1967-film "The Perfect Human" in five different ways with new obstructions set up by Trier every time. Oh, well, read more here if interested: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt035457 --- A film for the film-nerdy, I guess. :-D Greets! / Lars

Date: Mon Dec 1 23:48
geoff (anyone in santa fe?):

hello all, if any of you are out in santa fe this weekend...i put together an animation showcase for the santa fe film festival...one of the films in the collection is a driving stop frame animation melanie and i did with pontiac slipstream in it...there will also be two short bits from trip to roswell...anyway, you can look at www.swervepictures.com/aok.htm if you are interested. on an unrelated note...i'm glad to hear the howe show on the 29th in tucson went well. it was my 30th and the thought entered my mind, at least briefly, to trek out to tucson for it... happy belated thanksgiving to you all.

Date: Mon Dec 1 23:12
Dimwit (@):

Is anyone else having problems loding this page?

Date: Mon Dec 1 21:54
Tom (Paul K):

The photographs are nice, true, the lady is psychotic. Sandies, let us do what we always do, ignore that is. Nice reading Glue again. Cheers Dan.

Date: Mon Dec 1 18:57
paulK (Sorry):

Sorry for the double post. I noticed that the message I referred to had disapeared and clicked refresh, thus sending my message again.

Date: Mon Dec 1 18:56
PaulK (Robyn):

A long (and desperate) entry by Robyn. we've discussed this before and I think the consensus was that she has her problems and the best solution on this site was not to respond (I know, i'm responding). However I was intrigued enough to do a google search and came up with http://www.mainstreet-media.com/ROBYN/ Do check it out, I think the photographs are good. A further search brings up http://www.thefirstamendment.org/ncfechap1.htm which relates the sorry tale of an attempted prosecution over a photograph of one of her children. I think we should all send her best wishes and hope that she finds some kind of closure to all of this.

Date: Mon Dec 1 18:55
PaulK (Robyn):

A long (and desperate) entry by Robyn. we've discussed this before and I think the consensus was that she has her problems and the best solution on this site was not to respond (I know, i'm responding). However I was intrigued enough to do a google search and came up with http://www.mainstreet-media.com/ROBYN/ Do check it out, I think the photographs are good. A further search brings up http://www.thefirstamendment.org/ncfechap1.htm which relates the sorry tale of an attempted prosecution over a photograph of one of her children. I think we should all send her best wishes and hope that she finds some kind of closure to all of this.

Date: Mon Dec 1 18:25
glue sniffer (these hands that type......):

.....seem much older and the things they can convay suddenly frighten me. without warning these things can conect and replenish the self. there is obviously a case of not waving but drowning happening in our snider jaws veiw. i feel strangley compled with my new man like hands to comment on such things as i could never undr stand. what says the man who has nothing buit that which those own can not know. i realidse this may not be the answer but all togehter that is no phone. I dont speak for other though others often speak for me, those in any doubt leave a finger to recive. All Thoise empty vesesls need say is there is nothing left for me. for those and all our others....let it be let it be..(that words contain such illousin makes me quake)

Date: Mon Dec 1 16:13
Alan (WMPG Giant SandFarm disks):

North Amer-icans: just got the FOUR disk set of KXCI (7/11/94), and remastered WFMU (7/17/94 -- the whole Backyard BBQ show, and 4/23/95) shows from Graham. As always, the next three folks requesting copies get 'em for the promise to repost the same deal... waiting patiently... alan.rudy@ssc.msu.edu

Date: Mon Dec 1 14:52
thank you (dreaded black ice):

thank you

Date: Mon Dec 1 14:08
patriot (actor):

the trial is in 12 days. the system is working. the jury knows what to do. over and out.

Date: Mon Dec 1 12:28
Lars (stoop):

!

Date: Mon Dec 1 08:10
Lars (festival denmark awakens):

Uh, the very first artist for Roskilde Festival 2004 has been announced. And it's David Bowie! Neat! HEY, HOWE, any chance of a Gelbish gig there this summer? Haven't you got a Danish booker or something? You haven't played there since 1986 as far as I can see on www.roskilde-festival.dk --- Greets! / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 30 16:48
peter (cool sand from santa = coaxil & flaming lips):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000051TTC/qid=1070228502/sr=1-14/ref=sr_1_14/104-2944946-4372763?v=glance&s=music well i doesn't know if this above gibberish will hook you up with what i'm tiring to show you, but it's an xfm christmas compilation that features a song from giant sand and another from calexico, as well as grandaddy and other hepcats like dat. it's called it's a cool cool christmas. import. bad news is its $25.99. HO HO HO! LI DAZE.

Date: Sun Nov 30 16:38
james s (records):

Thanks, Howe, for the Listener and the new Blacky. It's some of the best stuff yet. I didn't expect, after seeing the word "Retirement" on the cover of Cover Mag, that 2003 would bring such an explosion of great new stuff. I hope the tour was fun. Come see us in Dixie on the next round, eh?

Date: Sun Nov 30 12:56
vicki (barriobean@yahoo.com):

The best Howe show at Solar Culture last night, replete with aural (and physical!) acrobatics- many thanks to Howe and them 'Danes for traipsing around an ephemeral flow of music that amazingly springs eternal.

Date: Sun Nov 30 04:32
Lars (Scrolling for Tom-Tom & Frank):

On mr. Waits.....scotch poured on to sandpaper, is what it is. And I totally dig him. That live recording from Italy a few years back is really cool. And Frank, yes the "Totmacher" play was based on that film. I am curious to see it at some point (the dvd is on eBay, I noticed). But the play just goes with the same intensity through-out. No real beginning or end to it. Thanks for the real title of the Under Byen-song. He-he, nice one. Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Nov 29 23:39
tom @ belgica (spinnin'):

Lars, have fun turning your plates. I'm gonna listen to some more Tom Waits live stuff. That man will always be my man. Any comments on that, fellow sandies ?

Date: Sat Nov 29 12:19
Frank C (Warte nur ein Weilchen...):

Hey Lars, now there´s an explanation why Under Byen covered "Warte nur ein Weilchen", that old folk song about mass murder Hamann! The movie "Der Totmacher" is interesting - but more in an ambitious documentary than entertaining way: Only one room, two chairs, one table, three actors; a chamber play only vivid through Hamann´s frightening and irritating monologue (who´s played by Götz George, one of the few serious German "movie stars" we have). I guess the film script is the basis for the theater play you mentioned.

Date: Fri Nov 28 18:27
J (Just added a comment in his head to say):

Listened to a (legally) downloaded track by Under Byen tonight whilst sweeping up playdough bits. Thanks Denmark. James s I have a lead guitarist on board who I have long wanted to work with. Big drive no time, Soon it will bear fruit.

Date: Fri Nov 28 18:09
Lars (totmacher - goods - vinylspinning):

Just got back from a theatre play here in Aarhus: "Der Totmacher". With music by Under Byen, by the way. Has anyone here (probably mostly Germans, if any) seen the movie ("The Deathmaker")? Won some awards, I think. Any good? ##### Getting more and more into Smog these days. Great stuff. And Nina Nastasia is still enjoyed a lot. Can't shake that "Run To Ruin"-album. ##### Bought both a record player and a four-track recorder the other day. Nice. Finally catching up. Gonna spin my "Goods And Services"-vinyl as soon as I have checked whether the pick-up is okay and doesn't damage the records (any way to tell other than maybe bad sound?). I haven't had a record player in years. And the last I got was bought as new. This one is an ooooldie (looks quite "camp" too). Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 28 14:13
Alan (Howe):

Aunti Lope? cool...

Date: Thu Nov 27 20:14
howe (ohm on the range):

where the beer and the anti-lope is a long play. thanks happy givingness. - howe

Date: Thu Nov 27 18:16
bd (boysbedroom.com):

thanksgiving at the ex wife's house and sitting up in my kids room cruising gs site. my kids dig howe they are 16 and 14 and have been hearing the sand stuff and howe for many a year. it's a different time here in good old us of a . a new america and we are a legend in our own collective minds. sorry for the turkey ramble but haven't written much lately and i feel a change coming over me. good thanksgiving day to all. a true family day

Date: Thu Nov 27 16:35
phill (peter):

Richmans drummer is Tommy Larkin. Thanks! Happy turkey day to all. Phill

Date: Wed Nov 26 20:47
job (uh Dave):

Could you define normal?? Just so I know whether to have a good turkey day or not. And this just in--bear season is over in Pennsylvania. The bears lost. The locals (happy? to report) are alive,kickin and still raiding my garbage.

Date: Wed Nov 26 18:40
peter (conch/phill):

thanks conch! I had just remembered his name and now i see that i listed phoenix rather than tucson so i'm obviously far more addled. i did not know of his earlier ties to giant sand as i am late to the fold although i do have those albums. it's fun to see him play with Richman standing behind the kit. happy thanksgiving everyone!

Date: Wed Nov 26 17:14
Conch (Richman/Rainer):

His name be Tom Larkins, and aside from living in Tucson, he was Giant Sand's drummer on Valley Of Rain, Ballad of Thin Line Man, & Storm, probably more as well but my brain is too addled at the moment to recall clearly.

Date: Wed Nov 26 16:30
peter (phill):

the connection is probably the drummer tha Jonathan Richman now tours with, and i can't recall his name right now, I think Tom or Tim Something, and I believe said drummer has ties to Phoenix, probably lucky enough to have known Rainer. Sorry for the disservice of not being able to properly recall his name as he seems like a good fellow.

Date: Wed Nov 26 15:54
gazelle (hello to the hoople):

HAPPY TURKEY DAY EVERYONE!!!! Capacity is cooking up a storm, Dilemma is celebrating her 26th, and I am learning how to drive -- hehe. I was delegated the responsibility of picking up the latter in Modesto, and I'm like -- backroads baby! Finally bought the Band of Blacky, from Kristin Hersh's daughter no less. They put on a fine display at the Great American Music Hall, complete with Howe's jokes, Andrew's whistling and Hershey's bad dream stories. It was truly a night to be remembered. I wish I had it on tape. It turns out I have nothing on tape because I forgot to record the interview :( Double bummer. Hope to catch Howe on the fly. Thanks again, Jaime

Date: Wed Nov 26 15:00
glue sniffer (breathe again for the man is back):

well i been away in london and saw the suit and it was nice dressed as a priest but only slight smoke and mirrors stuff hope youre all felling well and smiling in the cold i am smiling big shout out to mike p invader who forced me to take bear from him such is life. say hello to the hoople

Date: Wed Nov 26 14:58
dave (Happy Turkey Day):

..To those of you normal ones, and you know who you are.

Date: Wed Nov 26 14:06
peter (phill):

the connection is probably the drummer tha Jonathan Richman now tours with, and i can't recall his name right now, I think Tom or Tim Something, and I believe said drummer has ties to Phoenix, probably lucky enough to have known Rainer. Sorry for the disservice of not being able to properly recall his name as he seems like a good fellow.

Date: Wed Nov 26 13:43
Lisa (wicca@hotmail.com):

no

Date: Wed Nov 26 12:55
Jasmes ( I meant James):

sorry

Date: Wed Nov 26 12:53
phill ( Jasmes,also turning upside down-home):

I Picked it up at Howes Phila. Pa show. Can someone explain the connection in regards to Johnathon Richman and Rainer, For as he plays on the Rainer tribute disc. to downhome 2002 I am enjoy Unsung Sage.

Date: Wed Nov 26 12:20
james s (oh, and it's...):

once again time to pull out your copy of "Dead City Radio" by William Burroughs and play "Thanksgiving Prayer." Thanks for the memories. Have a swell turkey day, or tofurkey day, comrades.

Date: Wed Nov 26 12:12
james s (listening to downhome 2002):

it was a good idea to revive "spun". so true.

Date: Wed Nov 26 00:29
Blaine (@home):

????? www.borismccutcheon.com - anybody hear this guy?? His press compares him to Dylan/Neil/Howe/StEarle and prob a few others who wear big shoes. Looks like he rec'd some stuff at Wavelab.

Date: Tue Nov 25 19:26
Leo (Ring a Ding Ding):

Hey that was a Dominoes Pizza number.

Date: Tue Nov 25 18:33
RadClamberClaw (Please...):

Will someone please get her blabber out of here! That chic is over the big hump of life, but I'm afraid she wants us all to get stuck in the cobwebs of her mind. Drop kick her through the goal posts, please.

Date: Tue Nov 25 17:16
james s (I call unto thee,):

Spoink? Cranky?

Date: Tue Nov 25 10:38
james s (burning ear):

I'm glad a couple of you liked the MP3. I can't wait to hear the other submissions. Mitch, my experience with Alabama has been not unlike your experience with L. A. It's not as bad as I'd expected it to be. Access to more ethnic foods, a few more people who lean politically to the left, a decent movie theatre... these things and others the place could use, but there are good points too. Come visit. It's cool to know I was remembered there in the city of Angels in a conversation between you and Mary. She's perty cool, is she not? Kurt is a fortunate man. He didn't sneak any new Lambchop into yer hands, did he?

Date: Tue Nov 25 06:57
wave of mutilation (waveshavenomails@ocean.world):

Hi! Been up all morning playing giant sand records to myself. Feels good to leave them for half a year or so and then miss them like crazy...my ex-girlfriend seems to have stolen my copy of "center of the universe". Too bad! Have to have it before this day turn to night. Anyway, a silly question from a guy who don´t hang out too much... is it too late to contribute a version of a sandies-song? If it is...well...ok with my decay... if it´s not...where do I send it and is there a deadline? Take care you all / Wave

Date: Tue Nov 25 03:50
conch (lame insurance salesmen trying to get child support to supply our habit):

Speak for yourself, Keith.

Date: Mon Nov 24 20:06
keith (whiskey@hotmail.com):

Yer welcome, yer welcome, hey I've never read the Bill of Rights or even the Ten Commandments for that matter and just like Bush and Chainy I'm a devout Christian, Catholic as a matter of fact. But really we're all just lame insurance salesmen trying to get child support to supply our habit.

Date: Mon Nov 24 18:03
SeanT (james s):

Hey James a nice Way To End The Day indeed ! excellent version , some strange stuff going on in the background there. You should do some more.. Sean.

Date: Mon Nov 24 17:55
Mitch (for James, etc.):

Hey, James. Life out here in L.A. isn't as bad as I'd imagined it would be. Go figure. How ya doin' in Alabama? Your ears must've burned a little last night, because Mary Mancini and I talked about you--had no idea you're working on library science? Right on, my friend. Anyway, yep, I'm at the same address. Hi, Em, Patti, Jim, and all you other Sandlanders.

Date: Mon Nov 24 16:58
J (james):

nice tunage. Got to go...

Date: Mon Nov 24 15:37
FLYNN (development@wmpg.org):

Howe played a new tune at his show in Boston and said it was from the new album, to be released in Spring of '04. That makes me think it'll be later than February . . . (at least up here in Maine we'd never get away with referring to February as Spring). For what it's worth, I've been enjoying Sun Kil Moon, as well, and I really like the Books' new CD, 'The Lemon of Pink.'

Date: Mon Nov 24 15:30
james s (outside enlightenment music notes and fandangoish):

I hope they don't shelve the new Giant Sand beyond February. Isn't that when it's supposed to be released now? Yeah, I guess releasing one album every two years or so would be less taxing than releasing one every few months. Ha. On a non-sand musical note, that Nina Nastasia, "Run to Ruin", is sweet. Thanks, Lars. Also, if any here have a liking for the pretty moody semi-slow-core tunage of Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters), his new one, "Ghosts of the Great Highway", is very sweet. His new band name is Sun Kil Moon. Also, while I'm intruding here again, I've posted my Fandango track, Way to End the Day, on the "sounds" page of my website. http://www.jamesscarbrough.com/sounds . I'm not a patient man. If you don't want to hear it out of it's proper and complete Fandango context, then don't come listen to it, and, for God's sake, know that every track on the Fandango is going to be very different, so if you think mine sucks, don't judge the Fandango by that... Oh, come Fandango, COME! I can't wait to spin that thing.

Date: Mon Nov 24 14:54
Blaine (@work):

Seems more like enlightened outsiders round here. Could someone other the Thrill Jockey (non U.S.) release the alb and get it to the states as an import? TJ seems a fairly small outfit and Howe's album of the month club could be just plain taxing the bankbook.

Date: Mon Nov 24 11:52
Adrian (**):

I've been told by Thrill Jockey's UK press company that Howe's latest piano record has been "shelved". Whether that means forever or just for a while, I don't know (and they didn't seem to know either). Any more enlightened insiders know anything?

Date: Mon Nov 24 09:44
james s (howdy, mitch):

nice to see your name pop up here. how's l.a. treating you? working? missing the arched gneiss of the metamorphic core of the santa catalina mountains? damn it, i still owe you a couple of CDs. soon. seriously. address the same, i presume.

Date: Mon Nov 24 04:52
Mitch (Postcard from L.A.):

Well, I've been out of communication with my fellow Sanders for a while, but thought I'd give a brief rundown of tonight's show at The Troubadour (where, I believe, Bob Dylan once hoped onstage in '64 or '65 to play harmonica with the little house band called The Byrds). Twas a wonderful evening, with Andrew Bird starting the proceedings, then Howe & The Danes, and then Kristin Hersh. The encore featured all three performing together. Very relaxed feeling for the last show of the tour, and everyone seemed to be having a good time. Among the Sunday crowd were some interesting folks in the audience, including Kurt Wagner, Grant Lee Phillips, and Robyn Hitchcock--who shook his head in time to Howe doing "Johnny Hit & Run Pauline". Otherwise, the temperature is moderate here, no chance of rain on the horizon.

Date: Sun Nov 23 12:54
Todd (Thrill 138):

up here in northern Alberta Blacky is charting in at #4 for Tuesday Nov.4/03...cjsr.com...curious to know when the new Howe Gelb piano recording is coming out. Bye for now

Date: Sat Nov 22 14:44
bosco (fujihoto):

oh man i wish i could make it to tucson tonight and see the fasionistas play down @ vaudvilles with the rosano bros. virtual quartet. i was planning on goin but i've got a gig myself so ill have to wait. i was listening to the rosano bros disc and heard upright bass that wasnt listed on the credits. anybody know dwho that is by chance? their take on mingus''s haitii fight song was perticulurly good. chow!

Date: Sat Nov 22 11:47
glue sniffer (ho ho ho ):

hello my little chums how is life i am in london and i know about bears. cut off their skind and make bearsuits see and the music will be good tonight i am excited as im going to a gig my first in london since the last howe show wich is slack on my half but i have been cut in halfam doing much beetter than the last visit due to not having drunk my own weight in beer juice. welkl see you all love dan xx

Date: Sat Nov 22 05:07
Tom (once again,with feeling):

Sorry,I thought she was on the links page,anyway her web address is -the little red studio.

Date: Sat Nov 22 05:00
Tom (again):

If anyone thought the cover of Howe s Listener was cool,the artists name is Pasualina Azzerelo and her web page is on the links page.She used to live here in Tucson and is a great artist.

Date: Sat Nov 22 04:42
Tom (front desk):

I am looking out my window,and I see a bear eating c.d.s,a lovely flag eating cedar tree and a mad woman.The bear has finished the c.d. and is still hungry.......Aaaaarghhhhh ,oh the humanity. okay ,I lied ,I see the work in progress new Tucson train station......and a bear.

Date: Fri Nov 21 23:23
job (james):

Nope not a sleeping bear around. They're all out trying to get as fat as they can before they hit the sack---usually mid December,they'd be wise to go to bed a tad early considering the fact that here's a 3 day bear season starting Monday. Give up my copy of Purge and Slouch--nah it'd probably be just like feeding them--"yum that was tasty, may I have another?". Then I'd never get rid of 'em.

Date: Fri Nov 21 16:49
bs-er (Dilemma):

Thanks Ro-bin-ladin...... WE now know what the song Dilemma is all about....

Date: Fri Nov 21 15:42
f (wondering how to become a witness for the prosecution):

Does a 20 year prison sentence also mean not being allowed access to the internet? In this case I really hope so. Sorry, couldn't help it. Thought I'd go ahead and excercise my freedom of expression. I'll say no more.

Date: Fri Nov 21 15:36
The Inter-jector (again):

Hi all. Just for those on the comments board who haven't yet figured it out: Bluetooth is another of Robyn's many personas on this message board. Please don't respond directly to her or her odd rants, as it will only further her desire for attention.

Date: Fri Nov 21 15:05
Piet (From The Archives):

Recently received the From The Archives discs (thanks again Graham) and I'm really enjoying them. Does anybody know the song title of track 19 on disc 3 (last track, starts with "no one had a bad trip"). Are any of the other KXCI shows circulating?

Date: Fri Nov 21 13:53
Frank C (Supertanker):

Yes Lars, that´s what I meant: it takes looong time.

Date: Fri Nov 21 12:36
Lars (flame on...):

Have the American tv networks showed the British Bush-tipping?! I thought it might had been left out to keep the airwaves "patriotic"? Hm, flagburning....I would be surprised if all Brits thought their flag was just a piece of cloth?! Flagburning is a internationally understandable statement. Hm, ever wondered why it always seems that it's the stars and stripes that goes up in flames? I guess many Americans do - just not the ones who actually SHOULD get the message. Hmm, "the cost of freedom" is less freedom? Who cooks up logic like that? #### Thanks for the review-link (and to Supertanker), Frank! You're still linking to underbyen.com, though. / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 21 11:21
SeanT (bluetooth - Bush):

I was wondering what the attitude to the flag burning would be America ? I know that's often a sensitive issue in The States , here in England we look at a flag as a piece of cloth...

Date: Fri Nov 21 11:20
Frank C (for promotional use only ...):

Looking for reviews of Calexico and Under Byen concerts? Curious how german words look like? Wondering if there are other websites besides giantsand.com out there? www.the-listener.de Took a long, way to long time to finish this one but maybe future editions will be more on time (well, maybe not). Lars, your remarks on the Under Byen discography (yes, only 2 full size cds) and website (yes, it´s http://www.underbyen.dk/ now) are absolutely right and well known now, but it takes a loooong time again till it´s also known to our rookie website. Have a nice weekend without 2 second gaps y´all!

Date: Fri Nov 21 10:26
Lars (eh):

"Aarhus city centre"? City center? The center of Aarhus. Ehm, well, not a mall!

Date: Fri Nov 21 10:24
Lars (where I am...):

To quote someone we all know: "I'm out here with all the grey skies". Yep, Aarhus, Denmark, is entering "winter mode". And yes, until we get some snow (that stays put and doesn't run away)....I really do think it's a bummer. Also because the women-here-that-really-look-that-way are now all packed away in jackets and long jeans, ha-ha. ;-) Sitting here in my one-room nest on the 2nd floor (with the local mosque on the 1st) and looking out my window: small church spires poking their way up between the roof tops. There's light in the big windows in the taek-won-do gym on the other side of the street (in Aarhuzonian Howespeak "The Tower Of Pain", if I remember correctly). No one punching holes in the air there just yet. Just replaced Polly Jean's "Is This Desire?" (mesmerized by track 8: "In The Garden") in cd-player with "The Listener" (it's been a little while since last time) which makes me think of the slippery cobblestones a couple of hundred meters away (yeah, the Aarhus city centre is quite small). Good think I don't wear cowboy boots. I would probably fall on my a** in no time. - The Salvation Army "used stuff" place is closing down across the street. And the chainsaw massacre of trees out my other window (which woke me at 8 this morning) has finally stopped. In my window there's a slightly tilted agave plant and a small and tasteless plastic moose with flaring nostrils holding my mobile phone with a smile that suggests utter madness...... Not terribly exciting here at the moment. Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 21 07:29
james s (job):

Say to the bears, "If you'll go and scatter my neighbor's garbage, and leave mine alone, I'll give you a copy of Giant Sand's 'Purge and Slouch'." Then, show 'em the cover art. I think they will accept that deal. Remember too that when folks started heading to the hills, the bears all got together and said, "Does anyone know any nonlethal remedies for humans?" They decided that the best thing would be to scatter the humans garbage. By the way, when do these critters hit the sack for the "Winter"? Is it cold up there yet, I mean real late November cold? The last couple of days here in Alabama have felt like warm spring days, but folks are calling it a cold snap. What the...?

Date: Thu Nov 20 22:14
job (out my back door):

Hatchy Malachy Land is in Northeast Pennsylvania==NEPA. Hatchy Malachy is to NEPA what Wallace and Ladmo were to Arizona. I live on the side of a mountain that goes by the name of Paloka Mt. (named after a cartoon strip chacter),right off a road that's called Giants Despair. Looking out my window I see trees and through the trees I can see the Wyoming Valley and the Susquehanna River. Along the river I can see the city of Wilkes Barre (Howe used to call Wilkes Barre home until the river got a bit nasty and sent everyone headin for the hills). For the most part it's a nice place. Used to be--up until about 30 some years ago--- a coal mining region (Howe wrote a song about that a while back), but greed and the river put an end to that, they tunneled too close under the river bed in one of the mines, the river broke through and flooded all the mine in the area. No more mining. It's a nice place if you like to fish, camp and hunt. Lots of mountains, streams, rivers, woods and critters. A lot of the critters end up in my yard, especially bears. Bears suck round this time of year (and early spring)they get real hungry and eat my garbage and scatter all over the place and make a general pain out of themselves. Anyone got any non lethal remidies for bears?

Date: Thu Nov 20 19:14
PaulK (2sec gaps):

EAC can usually remove these but there are copies without the gaps so don't pass them on. Really really really looking forward to the BBQ hitting these shores.

Date: Thu Nov 20 18:54
Frank C (Grandaddy - Club Crawl):

Jörg, thanks for the hint! I can remove the gaps again with "Nero" but I guess it won´t fit perfect. Maybe the information is usefull for others, too. Just arrived back from Grandaddy in the Schlachthof Hamburg. It was a nice concert but the sound was quite distorted and noisy (in a bad way). Got better during the evening, though. Wished there were more subtle or calm parts in it. They played about 90 minutes including 2 encores ("Hewlett´s daughter" and "Pilot", if I´m right). Well, in the end I have to admit I liked their support Christian Kjellvander more. He played acoustic songs with guitar while another one played singing saw and violin. Reminded me of Richard Buckner, but with a deeper voice. Listening right now to Kjellvander 2000 project "Songs of Soil" which I bought tonight. Ah, if you´re interested they sell the bonus cd-edition of "sumday" now at the merchandise store! (and posters for free...)

Date: Thu Nov 20 18:07
J (Job?):

Where is hatchy malachy? I'm looking at my keyboard, but outside it is Suffolk uk. Long way from birthhome in this small planet. Previous ignorings reuptaken re:either way angel snapmaker go away,come back Mike, delete the postings and post the fandango

Date: Thu Nov 20 14:28
Jörg (Frank - Archive&Crawl-discs):

Frank, the Club Crawl and the Archive-Discs both are without gaps originally. Someone must've burned them TAO along the way. So I think the version with the gaps should not receive further trading or weeding or whatever.

Date: Thu Nov 20 12:24
what the???? (as if my day needed to be any more surreal):

...and I thought I was a strange ranger.

Date: Thu Nov 20 10:38
Frank C (Castenholz@web.de):

Today I got my copies of Club Crawl (1 disc) & From The Archives (3 discs). THANKS GALORE, DOUG! If there are any Europeans out there who still don´t know these recordings I´d be willing to burn and send (if you´re gonna share this way, too). First 3 incoming mails will be served. Information on the sets are on HTTP://GEOCITIES.COM/CALIPOSA1998/CALEXICO-CCRAWL.HTM WWW.KXCI.ORG/RAINER/SAND/II-3-01CS.HTML Club Crawl is a really nice show with some rare Calexico songs and a hard rocking Giant Sand performance. My favorite right now is Music Arcacde mixed with Temptation of Egg. The sound quality is not perfect but good enough to enjoy, seems to be an audience recording. All discs are track-at-once recorded. That means there are 2 second-gaps between the tracks. For my own collection I´ll try to remove the gaps and make it disc-at-once. You can choose then which version you like to have...

Date: Thu Nov 20 10:33
tHom ((window in the working day)):

Hey Job, I follow this page in much the same way and I like your idea. My office just moved to the third floor (second floor in the UK where the first is called the ground floor) so I get a low-flying bird's eye view when I look out the window. This being semi-rural England I see another office building across the way and behind that several treetops - one beautiful cedar amongst them - but I suppose the most notable feature is the clock tower of a 15th Century church in the graveyard of which lie the remains of three heretics, their tombstones attesting in Latin to the fact that they were burned for refusing to renounce the Catholic faith. This being England, as I mentioned before, the whole scene is grey, overcast, slightly damp and, this being around three thirty in the November afternoon, it's all growing rapidly dark.

Date: Thu Nov 20 02:06
Conch (where i'm at):

Hey, Job...I'm in Modesto. Where you be?

Date: Wed Nov 19 23:12
Jim Dice (homers@mchsi.com):

A friend and myself saw Howe Gelb perform in Madison, Wisconsin on Nov. 13th. We drove 3 hours to see him and six hours home (getting lost lost on the way to Berlin). The show was musically interesting with a strange pop orchestral violin player opening then joining Howe on stage. Later Kristin Hersch came on. She was what most of the people had been waiting for. Chad (the aforementioned friend) and I were drunk with a good dose of beer and just enjoying hearing Howe Gelb live. We've been listening to Swerve and Long Stem Rant for years. Being perpetually broke and untogether we've never picked up much else. Nevertheless, I know that Howe's tunes and artistry shall continue to resonate throughout the galaxy for years to come. Thanks so much for sticking it out. Jim Dice On a disused highway in Rock Island Il and Davenport Iowa.

Date: Wed Nov 19 20:12
job (hatchy malachy land):

I kinda hang around here and read what everyone has to say. Occasionally I even have something to say myself. Been doing that for a while. I also have a curious streak and was wondering if ya'll could do me a favor---tell me where you're from, walk over to the window and look outside --tell me what you see. Just curious.

Date: Wed Nov 19 19:22
sport (cradle robyn):

f scott fitzerald explains the green light in the great gatsby.

Date: Wed Nov 19 18:18
J (can not ignore):

that shite

Date: Wed Nov 19 15:43
Not Interested (.................):

Robyn, who are you talking to??? Go somewhere else please..

Date: Wed Nov 19 14:11
smucker (schumcking@libertine.org):

if i was in a car on the way to success, id be in the trunk. Does Howe ever play 'yer ropes' live, or anything from center of the universe. because both times i saw giant sand, the back catalogue goes relatively ignored it would be interesting to see old setlists.

Date: Wed Nov 19 09:44
Jörg (Live At Sin-E):

I'm no J. Buckley fan, but I agree that this new edition of Sin-E must be one of the best live albums ever recorded. It's awesome - the inspiration, the skills, the choice of songs, the guitar-work & the voice, of course...

Date: Wed Nov 19 08:20
treygoba (rambling and bumbling):

Mostly been gone as of late...lack of functioning home computer dammit. glad to see the GS board is frisky. Thought I'd share a couple of musical gems from the past week. 1. Saw James McMurtry at a dive last weekend. He always puts on a good show, singing his biting songs about the demise of communities, etc. Even better is his ability to play guitar. It doesn't show up on his studio work, but criminy that guy can play. See him if you get the chance. 2. Finally found the album "Cockadoodledon't" by Those Legendary Shack Shakers. I was afraid that the album by the world's scariest live band wouldn't transfer, but it does. If this quartet comes near your town, make sure you get front row seats. These turbos are not to be missed. 3. Purchased the new double disc of Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-E. Oh my God!!! I can't make it stop. I keep crying when I hear Halleluiah. The voice is an obvious one, and oh what a voice. But his guitar work? The guy was a wizard. Don't believe me? Listen to "Strange Fruit". All improvised on the spot too. I sort of knew of his guitar prowess, but now I'm sure. This may be the best live album I've ever heard in terms of snagging the core essence of a musician (whatever that means). This is a must have if you're a Buckley fan...the best ever.

Date: Wed Nov 19 07:20
Lars (hell's grannies :-D ):

He-he, no I wouldn't say that the silly one is a "must have". All the cds cost a 100 DKR. (13 Euro), so I took the chance. New cds cost 20 Euros here in Denmark. The cd certainly has some Grandaddy sonics, but the rhytms and lyrics are ehm...not so much. It features songs like "I Like Lo-Fi Recordings", "You Know You're Fuc*ed Up" and "The Pus*y Song". You can read a bit about it here: http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2003/06/2001.cfm ---- and here ---- http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/grandaddy-030903.shtml #### Enjoy the show! Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Nov 19 06:51
Frank C (Gran Ole Daddy again):

Hey Lars, thx for the info on the concert and the merchandise! So I have to bring all my silver and gold to the show, I guess. Still not sure if I should buy this strange cd you mentioned. "silly" doesn´t sound like a "must have". Need furter instruction ... By the way, I didn´t make it to Nina Nastasia. But she´s on my watch list now.

Date: Tue Nov 18 18:04
J (james, not):

A Guildford Stranglers thing, more an any coverscollaboration thing. Got 3 on board so far I think. (Collaborators that is, not actual done works)

Date: Tue Nov 18 17:47
Lars (Scrolling for Schmucker):

"Is A Woman" was my entry into WagnerWorld. Well, still haven't got that much of their stuff, but I'm planning to. :-) When I first heard "Is A Woman" I was very impressed. It's just one of those sublime "evening records"....and yes, I agree with Schmucker....it DOES work well for those intimate little get-togethers. ;-) / Lars

Date: Tue Nov 18 14:15
Conch (lambchop):

ditto on "How I Quit Smoking". Also "What Another Man Spills" and "Jack's Tulips" are personal favorites.

Date: Tue Nov 18 14:09
james s (Kurt's falsetto ):

Nixon is my least favorite, for the same reason. Is A Woman is great, as is How I Quit Smoking, and, if you can get your hands on it, the "tour only" Treasure Chest of the Enemy is wonderful.

Date: Tue Nov 18 13:54
dave (chop):

Thanks for the Upper Midwest concert reviews Alan and Blaine. Here's to hoping there will be a Howe show with a band or Giant Sand show 'round here in '04...I've tried to like Lambchop in the past. I own "Nixon" and have held onto it primarily because I throw on "Up with People" when the mood strikes, but I have a hard time getting past Kurt's falsetto for a whole record.. I heard Soaky in the Pooper on the Rough Trade compilation, very funny in a David Lynch sort of way...Any opinions on what THE Lambchop record to own is? Great grammatical sentence, huh?

Date: Tue Nov 18 12:47
james s (lambchop):

that's great news, Smucker. i knew that Kurt W was busy working on a new record, or at least recording, but I had no idea that I'd be soon seeing double.

Date: Tue Nov 18 11:27
smucker (smucker@smucked,com):

Lambchop are set to release two brand new albums on the same day in February. That is a good reason not to go vegetarian if you ask me. Lambchop for me are one of those bands who have had a deep impact on my life and i forget this until i start playing their records. admittedly 'is a woman' passed me by slighly, but it does work as a great album to get cosy with with a lover to. Songs like 'lets go bowling' 'grumpus' 'all smiles and mariachi' 'life #2' to name but a few are simply some of the best songs ever created by american musicians. That is my humble opinion and im aware that sometimes opinions can get you into trouble, but when it comes to Lambchop some things become more than opinions and lean somewhat towards the truth. 'playing good guitar with busted strings' 'why am i so hard on things'

Date: Tue Nov 18 06:16
Lars (on da granmuddafukker's show):

It was a great Grandaddy gig last night. With new visuals since last European tour I am told. Although for the first four or five songs I constantly caught myself just looking at these (brilliant) visuals and forgetting there was a live band on stage (not good?). But it changed through the show. They played a lot of Sumday-songs....a cd which I still haven't bought. Also some songs from Freeway and Slump, of course. The songs sounded pretty much like on the albums, but a few (two?) were re-arranged. "Lost on Yer Merry Way" was dedicated "to Mr. Howe Gelb who spends his summers here". :-) They only did one encore, but it was "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot"....which was fantastic. I wish I had known the new songs. But still, good thing I didn't buy it yet, if there's that bonus-disc version out (damn that! I refuse to buy the same cd again, when the labels or bands do that). Plenty of merchandise at the show (not bonus-versions). There also was an album called "The Ham And Its Lily" by the band Arm of Roger....which according to the note next to it also was a Grandaddy record. So I bought it. And it's 30 minutes of very silly songs....but still quite cool. Well, I like it anyway. Good to see the band having a sense of humour. :-) Here end today's live report.... ;-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Nov 18 06:11
SECRET KIDNAPPER (front desk):

Greetings Sand fans everywhere.Bad news I am afraid.I have kidnapped Mr.Gelb and am holding him hostage .His freedom will cost.Deliver his National Resaphonic guitar to me and he will be released.He is trying to convince me that he is not Mr.Gelb,he tells me his name is krishna from Nepal and is a cleaner here at hotel congress,I am not convinced,the guitar will be mine,oh yes it will be mine.Cue maniacal laughter......

Date: Tue Nov 18 02:46
J (Barbecue set):

Put me down for a copy (In theUK)

Date: Mon Nov 17 23:56
Alan (Ann Arbor show):

OK, so I showed up later than I'd hoped and missed the first half of Howe's solo set (the last three songs of which were amazing -- and playful... sadly the two women who sat next to the stage during the penultimate song really had no idea what to make of Howe's depositing of an empty{?} popcorn cup on their table). Who's idea was it to start a show on time, anyway!? And Andrew Bird really is quite a musician but, while I certainly understand Blaine's Buckley/Wainwright references, Bird was almost a parody of the pained, at times self-referential, art poet/wanker. I really liked his violin loop/playing (though his guitar left me cold) but the posing really set me back... esp. after the "naturalness" of Howe's stage presence (and before the restrained fury of Kirsten Hirsch -- she likes snakes and dogs tho, neat.) My favorite moments were when Howe plunked the piano with his guitar neck and then during a Hirsch song strummed the piano strings with a quarter (at which point Kirsten all-but jumped out of her skin, smiled very robustly (e.g., came out of songly character), and subsequently shook her head with wry smiles abounding.

Date: Mon Nov 17 23:04
Graham (here's David Bromberg if you need him):

It is with gratitude--to Tom Flynn and his ladder of thanks (ascending through WFMU to Mr Blackwood to Mr Gelb)--and great excitement that I offer to the list the complete Backyard BBQ Broadcast recordings to the list. This is a four disc set comprised of the radio show in its entirety (as rebroadcast on Portland's WMPG) plus two discs of the related radio shows that supplied its bulk. This is a spectacular set, not to be missed. I'll send copies to the first two U.S. members to write me at grhsmith@hotmail with their address and a promise to reweed to the group right away--no one will be left out on this if it circulates as planned. Fire away, friends. I'll contact the first two on the morrow.

Date: Mon Nov 17 16:27
james s (wait a second,):

That came out wrong. It was my introduction to something OTHER than commercial corporate shite.

Date: Mon Nov 17 16:12
james s (when you're walking down the street at night...):

So, J, let me see if my dull mind has understood this. You are inviting me to submit a (Guildford) Stranglers cover for a project you are working on? If so, I think I'd like to do something from the Black and White record, as it, along with Blondie's "Plastic Letters" and Patti Smith's "Horses", all three of which fell into my hands at the same time back in 78, was my first introduction to non-commercial corporate shite, and thus had a big influence on the flow of my being thereafter.

Date: Mon Nov 17 14:55
J (Thinks):

We'd all like a tracklist

Date: Mon Nov 17 13:51
Blaineagain (@work):

Forget to mention Bird also played gtr, xylophone and whistles like a bowed saw player.

Date: Mon Nov 17 12:06
Frank C (Grandaddy encore):

There´s a new limited package of "sumday" out with a bonus live-cd (Glastonbury and Black Session 2003). The 2nd disc means further 8 tracks and about 46 minutes more Grandaddy worth buying and having and hearing! Very nice stuff. Sorry for you poor guys out there who already bought the first edition of "sumday"!It´s really a very difficult and sometimes disstressing thing to buy a cd nowadays (remember the 2nd edition of Calexico´s hot rail? And then the french edition with bonus single-cd. And then...) Lars, have you been to the concert? I have a ticket for the Grandaddy show on thursday in Hamburg.

Date: Mon Nov 17 11:55
james s (show reports):

thanks for the show reports, keep 'em coming, though it makes me jealous.

Date: Mon Nov 17 11:46
Flynn (development@wmpg.org):

I saw the Howe - Hersh - Bird show in Boston 11/6 and really enjoyed it. Howe had some mic trouble but his set was strong, including "Getting It Made" and "Blue Marble Girl." I especially liked a new Bird tune "So They" with Howe and Hersh accompaniment. Also picked up a Bird live CD at the show, "Fingerlings" and have been listening to it quite a bit the past week.

Date: Mon Nov 17 10:55
Blaine (@work):

Howe in Madison -- Andrew Bird opened with some really cool tape loop tunes highlighting his violining skills. Kinda like a gypsied version of Tim Buckley, might even remind listeners of Rufus Wainwright. Mr. Bird is one talented musician. Howe stepped out of the shadows next and picked on his trusty and battlescarred ol Gretsch. A few emphatic hoots (no hollers) from the good size crowd, but a lot of open ears (instead of blank stares) as this is Howe's first ever trip to Madison - no to mention a college population that turns over every 4 years or so. Then he swapped to electric with the aforementioned Howlin Wolf National and a small suitcase amp that had a really great sound. (He later said it was hot rodded by a guy in Philly?, and he was not gonna let it slip away.) Highlights were a trippy take on "Always Horses Coming", "Shivver" and "Blue Marble Girl" - those last two really sound to be marked as a pair of the most enduring songs he's written. The crowd just wasn't up for between song banter -Howe tried. Andrew Bird joined for a fiery take on "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline", then Howe introduced Kristen Hersch. Apparently she is having eye troubles and needed to wear dark glasses. Which was appropriate b/c much of her set had a real Appalachian murder ballad tone. While Bird seemed to have some of the crowd in line for his set, this was pretty much Hersch's house. It's been some time since I listend to Throwing Muses, but solo Hersch really delivered the goods in an almost southern gothic lit-meets Townes Van Zandt vibe. Bird joined her on "The Coo-Coo Song" which is a tune older than dirt, and it was really an amazing moment. Howe joined them playing atmospheric slide and harmonica, and also played some of the wickedest racket since he was on Steve Wynn's album. When they traded songs as a trio it really came together well and it was obvious they were listening as well as playing. Howe said it was kinda like surfing. With any luck, the bootleggers started their engines on this one. It would be worth hearing the entire night. They closed with Skynyrd's "Gimme Three Steps" (Just kidding.) I had been hoping to catch him in CHI w/the great Danes, but this was a pleasure. Chatting w/Howe afterward he had some cool things to say about Fandango - he was hearing it w/o a running list and that added to hearing the interpretations w/ fresh ears.

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Date: Mon Nov 17 08:11
SeanT (www.stompandstammer.com):

So Howe , what's your handicap ?

Date: Mon Nov 17 04:17
Lars (scrolling for Dave):

There are plenty of recordings with the Howe Home band. "Those craaazy Germans" record everything, y'know. ;-) So I guess pretty much most of the recent European tour has been "documented". :-D Of the newer stuff I've got his short-ish gig as "support" for Vic Chesnutt. #### There are still a few Danish live-tracks on this page: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/howe-soniskpostkort.htm #### Tonight's Grandaddy night....yeah! Greets! / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 16 22:58
dave (Chicago Old Town show):

Had a wonderful evening 11/15 at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Andrew Bird opened. Howe joined him for his last song and then started his own set. Lars, the danes were excellent. He started with just the bass player. As far as I recollect, he played "Jason's List" "Cowboy Boots" "Felonious" "Blood Orange" "Lying There" "Getting it Made" "The Muss of Paradise" and a new song I didn't know. Marie Frank joined them on Blood Orange and Lying There and the new song. The mandolin player played some nice licks. Howe seemed to be very relaxed and in a good mood...played some nice piano, Gretsch and electric...His set was far too short...I love to see a full show with this band...Howe and Andrew backed Kristen but she seemed to be suffering from the cold or the flu and seemed to want Andrew and Howe to take over her show since she was so miserable...Howe played Blue Marble Girl during Kristens' set and played I've Been Working on the Railroad during the encore. Howe played some nice piano and electric slide guitar during Kristen's set...Very nice evening..Very attentive crowd..Maybe it was a Kristen Hersch crowd, because not many seemed to recognize the Listener songs...Considering his back catalog, it was very impressive that he had such a good set with just the material released on Thrill Jockey this year...I'd love to hear more of Howe's shows with this band from Denmark. Too bad the Sandman chain is not chugging along.

Date: Sun Nov 16 18:43
james s ("Come in," said Phillotson. "And your cousin, too."):

Thanks for that link, Graham. I too wish he'd pay a visit to Hotlanta or therabouts. Hello Em. Ah shucks, thanks for telling me I looked pretty. Now I'm gonna go and git the big head. (for those of you who don't know southernspeak, that means I'm going to become vain and proud)

Date: Sun Nov 16 12:47
Graham (www.stompandstammer.com):

One of Atlanta's music monthlies, Stomp and Stammer, has a nice cover story on Howe. Now if he would only come visit...

Date: Sat Nov 15 21:50
e (m...mmm):

Hi everybody!!!! I just have a very quick second but I just wanted to greet everybody for once in a long while and to tell Lars that his rendition of 'Reasons' is beautiful and once I get a longer minute, I will tell more in an email. So, I hope everybody's good and James you looked very pretty in the French Maid uniform!!!!

Date: Sat Nov 15 13:10
Lars (larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk):

Well, I must admit that it was some of the Freeway tracks that first made me notice the 'daddies. Can't remember the titles. Still think that Slump is brilliant....although more "streamlined". Maybe not so much a varied sound over the album, but it fit just right. Which might have got me thinking "uh, please not more of the same" when Sumday came. / Lars

Date: Sat Nov 15 09:54
MGBADA JOE,ABA,NAIJA (MGBADAJOE@ABA.COM):

I LOVE THIS PAGE. KEEP IT UP.

Date: Sat Nov 15 09:27
smucks (smuckererd@point1.com):

I feel that the Sophtware slump is the weakest of the grandaddy albums. The new on merges those early rough sounds with the plush soundscapes explored on 'Slump' and the results are brilliant.

Date: Sat Nov 15 08:10
Lars (snotty dane):

Ha-ha, "well-intending snot". Hm, one of those guys who just can't help it?! Well, I think it's be great. And I'll probably have a few strong beers before the show. Might help a bit too, ha-ha! Any news on the fandango yet? Ciao sandinos! / Lars

Date: Sat Nov 15 05:49
Bluster Frump (grandaddy):

You well-intending snot, Lars. Yes, it's true.

Date: Sat Nov 15 04:46
Lars (Live in Aarhus :-) ):

The Grandaddy boys are playing at Voxhall in Aarhus on Monday. A little piece of "howeness" is back in town, ha-ha. Quite looking forward to the show. Haven't seem them since their show at the Roskilde Festival a couple of years back. Don't got da new album yet. I've heard that initial reactions to it was that it was a bit of a pale imitation of Slump....but that after a while it opened up and got much better. True? Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 14 19:29
glue th e rowing not row but argument sniff (whats going om):

WENT FOR QUITE DRINK AND MET MY NEIGHBOUR HE TLOLD ME ABOUT SOME EVILL HEDGEHOGS AND WE LAUGHED APPAERENTLY WE LAUGHED THE WRONG WAY.there are two kinds of drunk. one where the keys are too close toghether and the other were they are a conitinent apart

Date: Fri Nov 14 15:16
bluetooth (mail2norway):

The first step to clean up this mess is to impeach Bush and his "cronies" including C Boyden Gray.

Date: Fri Nov 14 14:54
Blaine (@work):

J-affirmative

Date: Fri Nov 14 14:48
peter (pwbrueggen@hotmail.com):

lars shoot me an email and i'll send you a copy of the pub crawl and a couple of disks so you can fix me up with howe and vic. btw, the pub crawl is one disk.

Date: Fri Nov 14 12:58
finn (finn.b@virgin.net):

Yup...Doug! count me in for club crawl thingy...off to see handsomes now! cheers

Date: Fri Nov 14 11:14
Lars (crawling for scroll):

Is that the pub sand crawl thingie? How many discs is that? 2? Hm, I gotta get some new blank discs (but damn, they cost $2 a piece here!). I've got the Howe & Vic Chesnutt two-disc from the Aarhus show where they played together. Good stuff. / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 14 08:30
J (Blaine...):

Are you Mr.Schultz?

Date: Fri Nov 14 05:24
doug (dwr1212@aol.com):

many thanks to paul k. for weeding "crawl & archives" to me. anyone still to be sand-blasted by these offerings? first three will be filled - use above e-mail address to contact.

Date: Fri Nov 14 04:09
Lars (Tucson tones...):

Hm, that's what comes from typing when sleepy. Sorry, Anders, it slipped my eyes that bit you wrote with Peter. Embarrasmento... By the way Is anyone recording that Tucson show? (Mr. Blackwood?) I would love hear the Howe Home band "go heavy metal", ha-ha! (I just misspelled that "heavy mental"...hmmmm). / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 14 02:52
Blaine (@home):

J - as it's near invisible, I see no problem. Yr address?

Date: Thu Nov 13 20:22
J (yes glue and):

it has turned windy. Guildford. Research it james. A neighbourhood 13 miles from my upbrought home, they later dropped the g'ford. Also can't find time to archive my GS collection, or listen to it. Blaine, Storm from vinyl? save me trubba?

Date: Thu Nov 13 19:46
glue sniffer (how windy is this?):

wooooosh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope were all ok and smiling ole goeorge is on his way over here he aint o popular but i hope the weather holds

Date: Thu Nov 13 17:10
Lars (scrolling for "Andee"):

Hey, cool with some rockarolla there, Anders! Won't Peter need a bit more boom than just the box for that? ;-) Well, you just go....og sparke en bunke amerikaner-mĺs! Ha-ha. Ha' det godt! / Lars

Date: Thu Nov 13 17:02
james s (j):

Yepper, I've long adored the Clash. Guilford Stranglers? Is that the same as the Stranglers? I know the Stranglers... kind of like the "Black & White" record.

Date: Thu Nov 13 16:45
J ("sandinista basement tapes concentrate"):

I agree on that score, funny to hear of an 'ol boy in Alabama about the clash. Ever hear of the guildford stranglers? Doorsian Hammond. I would like (Je voudrais) board persons to submit tapes/cd's to a personal cover project to be completed somewhen within the next couple of years. james.s I swear this is a must. When I have time it's the most important thing. Like the fandango only more sad... WHAT I mean is: I have a list of songs, for the last couple of days featuring mainly Stray Cat Strut and Morning Blue. My gut string has a broken 'a' string. I never had that before for so long and it's enlightening. I'll post my jam with list soon. prefer to work from 90 min 4 trk tape.

Date: Thu Nov 13 15:31
Andee Pee (slidethemando) (AP_Navigator@hotmail.com):

Glad the show at the Knit was appreciated, i guess Lars is right, so far the danish band has pretty much been an acoustic affair, however the plan for the show in Tuscon on the 29th is to go electric, have Peter play the drums, Thoger shift between electric and upright bass, me adding heavy electric guitar to the arsenal (guess I could do some slide there too...)and rock the kasbah....that'll be a lot of fun!!! Hope to see some of you guys there.

Date: Thu Nov 13 09:08
james s (flannel and jeans in a fancy restaurant):

Center of the Universe is my favorite of the pre-1995 records. It's a noisy wonderful batch of essential sandy song. Purge & Slouch seems like an "off the cuff" experiment that has some fine accidental moments, and some dull ones too. The title of the record is perfect. It sounds like the boys crammed as much playing and recording as they could into one drunken weekend and had made up their minds in advance to release whatever the result might be, like sandinista or basement tapes concentrate. I wish my "off the cuff" could produce results this interesting. It's got a handful of essential moments on it. I'd of course get anything you can get your hands on, while you can, even if they don't all get played that often.

Date: Thu Nov 13 08:10
smucker (none@nomail.com):

Center of the universe. Is without doubt the finest Sand album out there. Controversial i know, but i love that album. 'Thing like that' is a hugely underated and unappreciated Giant Sand moment of magic.

Date: Thu Nov 13 01:54
six years WOW (all sandies go here):

http://weeklywire.com/ww/12-01-97/tw_feat.html

Date: Thu Nov 13 01:28
Eddie (streaming radio):

Well allright.KXCI is streaming again. Jim Blackwood has a morning show.

Date: Thu Nov 13 01:15
Blaine (@home):

The winter winds hit the midwest today, bike at yr own risk. Universe contains the alltimegreat "Soloman's Ride", among other gems. The vinyl 2 disc version of P&S has the great long pancakes song. Truth be told it borders on the indulgent "just hit record" approach. Some cool sonic moments, but an editor might have been useful. ...meanwhile, I finally got a cd burner and inaugurated it with Storm. Hope to catch Howe & crew in CHI or Madison this weekend. Archived radio -- try WMSE. They archive the programs and have a great state of the art studio where everyone from Chris Whitely to Kevn Kinney to Marshall Cranshaw that current Swedish group with the Buddy Holley name I can't think of has done sessions.

Date: Thu Nov 13 00:46
Will Rodgers CENTER RULES (w31162r@suscom.net):

I bought "Center of The Universe" the day it came out. Still love to hear the threesome unload some "raw power"! "Live To Tell" and "Year Of The Dog" are 2 killer back to back slabs of ROCK EXCELLENCE!!! Will

Date: Wed Nov 12 19:01
peri ((wfmu)):

meredith ochs had a great show, trash twang & thunder that i used to listen to pretty religiously--and was so happy to hear her play howe fairly regularly. but i just noticed a month or so ago she's no longer on the schedule--i REALLY hope it's temporary! her show was twangy delicious. --peri

Date: Wed Nov 12 18:27
SeanT (sean.tracey@btinternet.com):

If there are any sandies out there who know of any good U.S internet radio staions that archive their live sessions , could you send them to me on the above mail address ? Cheers Sean.

Date: Wed Nov 12 18:11
dave (purge, center):

thanks for the info

Date: Wed Nov 12 17:28
peter (wfmu peri):

love the fmu myself. but it's been months since i sent that delightful idiot vin scelsa a copy of glum along with a letter about why he apparently never has played any howe or giant sand, particularly since he keeps fawning over and playing calexico and steve wynn. i even sent him an email prior to his chan marshall interview to ask her about howe. why is it so many people are sand deaf? their loss.

Date: Wed Nov 12 16:39
J (centre_center?):

Stuck is my favourite, Soloman's ride close second. Bought my copy in Alkmaar NL, way back. Re-release the bats... Storm, Heartland, Love Songs.. Still thrilling to the gypsy violin on Dylan's Desire. Have an upside down 'got the builders in home' and need to do a covers project again. (james s) currently playing with stray cat strut in D and (Dan Stu's Morning Blue...)

Date: Wed Nov 12 14:46
peter (buy purge and slouch):

i forget what's on it, but it's got over an hour's worth of giant sand. all i can remember right now is an awesome version of corridor, the album's sort of all over the place otherwise but more hits than misses. center of the universe really rocks too. love that milkshake girl.

Date: Wed Nov 12 14:10
Itasca (Fargo):

The Police woke me up this morning at 7am banging HARD three times at my door...I asked "Who is it?" "FARGO POLICE" was the answer. I hopped outta bed ran to the door flung it open before they could pull their guns and said "Yes?" "Are you, ahh, Kevin, ahh, Smith?" I looked at them with disbelief....."No"...for anyone that knows me, do I look or sound like a male? Kevin Smith, huh? They quickly left. I got dressed, went down to the Police station to fill out a report but they didn't want me to because I was only suppose to talk to an officer in person....but they were all in a breifing. I said, "Hey, I gotta go to work, I CAN'T just fill out a form?" Finally they let me, I brought it to the library and scanned it along with my other daily news and ALL of my e-mail accounts shut down. Face it people FASCISM IS FACSIsM NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.

Date: Wed Nov 12 13:12
peri (peri@pbrainmedia.com):

hey, thought y'all might like to know that Marie Frank will be performing live today (wed. nov. 12) at 2pm New York time on the wfmu stream--www.wfmu.org. the wfmu site says: "Danish chanteuse Marie Frank will perform live on Irwin's "Gender Bias" segment from 2-3 pm on Wednesday, November 12. Marie will perform new songs composed by New Yorker Neill Furio, who will provide electric bass accompaniment to Marie's voice and guitar." wfmu rocks! --peri

Date: Tue Nov 11 22:01
dave (World Cafe):

Coincidentally, I heard Andrew Bird on the World Cafe radio show earlier this evening. Pretty interesting stuff. Looking forward to the Old Town show. I unfortunately realized there probably won't be any Howe cd's for sale that I don't already own...Oddly, I was in the Music Mart in the Loop Sunday and found Purge and Slouch and Center of the Universe for sale..Where did they get those? Anybody have any comments about these records? I haven't had time to listen to them yet

Date: Tue Nov 11 21:56
job (Hatchy Malachy Land):

The Philly Show was Phine and I would like to thank Mr Gelb, Ms Hercsh, and Mr Bird for a fine evening of music. Ms Hercsh--how'd you pack so much voice into such a small frame? Beautiful. Mr Bird the sound and the talent were well appreciated--and I knpw what you mean about the Jersey Turnpike. Howe --as always good to lay eyes on you and when the hell are we going fishing? Thanks to all--come back soon, come back often.

Date: Tue Nov 11 17:47
Phill (Yo Lars):

The Philadelphia show was Howe, Andrew Bird, Kristin Hersh. Howe was on stage with Kristen doing some of her songs then left, Andrew Bird came up and helped with some of Kristen songs,they both left Howe hit the stage, Did 4-5 songs then andrew and kristen came back.to do a trio (thing a ma jig)Andrew Bird was amazing! Hersh on the other hand was not my cup of tea, but very talented women,her guitar work is wonderful,but very dark angry stuff.

Date: Tue Nov 11 16:04
james s (what's a plater?):

I watched the "Cynthia Plaster Caster" flick last night on DVD and found it pretty hilarious. She didn't just plaster cast the members of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck... in the movie, they had interviews with (and casts of) Jello Biafro, Jon Langford, etc... There's a long scene in the "deleted scenes" in the extras that is shot backstage with Jeff Tweedy and Sue. Tweedy wanted to be cast, but Sue wouldn't have it. Pretty funny. Hey, I wonder if Howe has been memorialized in this way? Hmmmm.

Date: Tue Nov 11 13:32
peter (yo lars):

i was at the knitting factory for friday's nyc (howe played a new song about nyc where the lyric goes something like "spells 'nick' [knick?] to me". his band was quite good but the set was too short (1/2 hour give or take a second) to really let their personalities emerge. and of course it's nice to see Marie as well as hear her for a change. i think she's still in town, maybe with the boys but i don't know, for a gig at the living room thursday maybe. howe was in fine form himself, playing a new geetar (some telecaster-resembling National; howe told me he had just bought it before the show), piano, and the ole gretsch (almost no finish left on that one, but sounds good as ever). came out later to join ms. hersch and mr. bird too.

Date: Tue Nov 11 13:20
peter ( yo james):

check out paul westerberg/grandpaboy, he's been working his way out of a similar struggle with some quite decent results of late, most of his stuff is just written and recorded on the fly now and he's keeping himself amused.

Date: Tue Nov 11 07:28
Lars (Scrolling for Phill-adelphia):

So was that solo or with the Howe Home band? I'm a bit curious how the American audience receives the new "backing band". It's not so much rock as dusty-jazzy-bossa-fun there. :-) Greets! / Lars-who-can't-stop-spinning-that-"Run To Ruin"-album

Date: Mon Nov 10 19:35
Phill (ghog22077@msn.com):

got to see Howe last nite in Philadelphia (great show)Got a couple pics, if you would like I will email them out . phill

Date: Mon Nov 10 11:29
james s (jscarbrough@mindspring.com):

Oh, by the way, do any of you guys or gals do the Friendster.com thing? If so, connect up with me. It's a semi-fun waste of time. Marcia got on it, so then I wanted to do a profile too. Pretty interesting who you find there. I've got Will Oldham and Kid Congo Powers in my "network". Ha.

Date: Mon Nov 10 11:19
james s (supposed to be):

I'm torn on this issue. On the one hand, I feel like there is soooo much crap out there, so much posing, too much emphasise on the visual, too much importance placed on looking and sounding like everybody else (within a genre), too many bands out there trying to "make it". Oh, I see how cynical I've become, and it wasn't always so. I was playing clubs as soon as I could play two string bar chords. Once, I played a show, me on guitar, and my friend Roger on "drums". He was no drummer (yet). In fact, he had only that day purchaced his first percussion: a beat-up used snare and a very cheap cymbol. Yet, that night, we played, making up the songs as we went. The audience went mad, loving the novelty of it, I suppose. Man, I wish I could get back to that attitude. At some point, I looked back at my own musical history and was sick with the realization that it wasn't that spectacular. Then I started discovering all this music that I thought was spectacular. Suddenly, I couldn't accept making music that wasn't spectacular. Thus... paralysis. I stopped playing, for years. With the recent "James Scarbrough" CDs that some of you have heard, I was trying to knock down that wall with a return to playing "off the cuff", to intentionally having no regard for playing well or for song craft, to get back to the "no rules" philosophy. I haven't quite convinced myself. God, I wish I could discover "sonic reducer" and "beat on the brat" all over again.

Date: Mon Nov 10 10:09
Blaine (@work):

Tom -- I agree w/ you wholeheartedly. I think there are enough of us out there who were intimidated by what music "is suposed to be", until we find out there are really no rules. That opened the big door, for me at least.

Date: Mon Nov 10 07:32
Guni (tom – you're lucky):

I just came back home from the 16 Horse's Power gig in Fribourg/Switzerland. Hell-O, it was absolutely unbelievable. Fantastic concert! And I was happy enough to catch the Tiger Lillies this spring in Germany. Now that is really something else! Have a lot of fun, tom!

Date: Mon Nov 10 06:04
Tom (front desk rant):

I think if everybody spent all their time worrying whether or not they were authentic or not or were alt this or new that no music would ever get made in the first place.When I first wanted to buy a harmonica in my early teens I had to really muster up the courage to go into a music store to buy one as ,being musically ignorant, I thought I might be ridiculed,so there is already that elitist factor in music without the added pressure of feeling you actually have the right to play an instrument ,or sing, just because of your social status[that goes both ways,too rich or too poor],color of your skin ,blah blah blah .Music should be available for everybody to participate in.

Date: Mon Nov 10 03:59
tHom ((names and noise)):

SeanT, you're right about pigeon-holing. Every time I play Howe for different people I am often surprised by the comparisons they make and also by which songs they like and which they don't etc. Just goes to show you can't pigeon-hole your friends either ... Alan, I guess Steve Wynn practices a basic individual right to make as much or as little noise as he desires at the time - more power to him ...

Date: Sun Nov 9 22:00
tom (little piece of state of belgium):

saw St Thomas as aftershow at the My Morning Jacket gig some odd days ago, and the Norwegian cowboy was funny as ever, gonna see Radiohead day after tommorrow, next day Mr. David Eugene Edwards at Ancienne Belgique, then four days of London to see the Tiger Lillies and have light refreshments , will be happy to land in Brussels on Sunday evening, have my ticket for Nina Nastasia on Monday. U in London nxt couple of days Dan ?

Date: Sun Nov 9 13:07
Lars (ninappendix):

By the way: there are 30 second clips of all the tracks on both albums at CDUniverse.... http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=3032454&cart=163920728&style=music +++++ http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=5860605&cart=163920728&style=music +++++ My favourites are "This Is What It Is", "I Say That I Will Go", "The Body" and "On Teasing". But seriously: there's no fillers on "Run To Ruin". 31 minutes of "perfectness". There are two mp3s at her site: http://www.southern.com/southern/band/NASTA/ +++++ I believe some Tom Waits fans would like it, because some of the instrumentation (her voice is probably not to be compared as it's mostly clear as crystal). :-) Hep-diddley sand-ee-rinoes! / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 9 13:00
Lars (nina n + radio):

Cool, James! I've been more or less mesmerized by her "Run To Ruin" all this quiet Sunday. It's amazing! Bringing in the drums, accordion and hammer dulcimer (I want one of those it imitate some John Barry!) is a cool move. And the Steve Albini-production suits it well. --- SO, YOU GERMANS: GO SEE HER LIVE!!! --- About Radiohead: When I early on suggested that Backdrifts was one of the coolest tracks on Thief people told me I was crazy. Well, I still think it's brilliant. Weird groove there. :-) Has anyone here heard Jonny Greenwoods solo effort "Bodysong" (soundtrack) yet? It got some good reviews. / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 9 11:41
james s (lars):

Lars, thanks for bringing Nina to my attention. I had never heard of her. So far, I've only heard Amazon clips, but they sound very nice. I must get my hands on the record. Also, my brother in Sand, listen to "Hail to the Thief" again.... and then again if needed. I promise it will begin to yield great pleasure for you. I realize that there is subjectivity in these judgements, but the record is very good, and I think, as good as, if no better than, anything they've yet done. The arrangements and melodies, perhaps not immediately grabbing, are wonderfully addictive. They grow and grow. There is not an average or mediocre moment on the record. At the end of every track, I want to start that one over again... and then the next tract begins and is as good as the one before. Thus sayest the James.

Date: Sun Nov 9 09:52
Alan (tHom):

The loudest show I ever saw, almost tied by the Fleshtones in '83, was the Dream Syndicate at Maxwell's in Hoboken - I think it was 85 or 6... ears rang for two days. My guess is that the good Mr. Wynn is a very site-, mood-, and partners- specific individual when it comes to volume and influences... more anon, excited about Howe in AA, MI, next Thurs.

Date: Sun Nov 9 05:04
Lars (WOW!):

Nina Nastasia was absolutely brilliant! Cello, violin, acoustic guitar and her great voice and good songs. Quite interesting arrangements. The cello guy really did things I hadn't seen before on that instrument. A perfect evening. If you live in one of the cities she comes through on her European tour then don't miss out!!! Bought both her cds as well. A they are magic. Beautiful stuff! - Best greets! / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 9 00:39
phill my adress (ghog22077@msn.com):

tell ya monday

Date: Sun Nov 9 00:37
phill (the day has come ):

again I will travel by automobile to the wonderful city of Philadelphia Pa. Only good things on my mind, Pat`s cheesesteaks,Freaks on south street, used c.d. stores, bad parking,and maybe some Lorenzo`s pizza if time is granted,Then BAMMMMM !!!!!! off to the SHOW !! I my friend am going to be sitting before the WHO KNOWS WHAT WE ARE CALLING THE GODFATHER OF ?? THE HOWE himself. And I`m gonna buy him a beer when all is said and dunn. happy, I`ll report back with the rest On Monday. see ya , phill

Date: Sat Nov 8 10:38
Lars (Nastasia in Germany):

So anyone here going to see Nina Nastasia in Germany these next few days? She plays in Denmark tonight. I'm going down to see her. Does very good stuff on her albums. She plays Hamburg on the 11th and Berlin on the 12th. Check out the tour here: http://www.southern.com/southern/tour/NASTA ---- Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Nov 8 07:23
PaulL (St Thomas (rather good)):

Anyone else make it to St Thomas last night at the Spitz? Thought that they were magnificent and funny (was a bit cheesed off to leave at 11.20 to run for the last train only for it to be an hour late... par for the course on connex). All the other bands were cool as well Lumiere Brothers (a duo, one of them a girl?!), The Lovers and Adam Selzer. The crowd was very noisy with plenty of inane chatter, always makes me wonder why some of the people are there (making fun of country music) oh well a great night anyway, if only we could have stayed longer. Anyone catch the whole thing?

Date: Sat Nov 8 06:47
foof (fruf):

But the word 'stone' usually means exactly that...a stone.

Date: Sat Nov 8 05:59
SeanT (lABELS ):

tHOM - I guess you have to have reference points when describing things sometimes , it's just I don't like pigeon holeing things , like how do you describe Howe to those that don't know him ? Alt- country , rock , country , I don't know . I just do a tape and say listen to this it's great .

Date: Fri Nov 7 23:06
tom (...):

applause in the small state of belgium

Date: Fri Nov 7 22:39
glue sniffer (whats goiing on):

i am out and now in like a u2 song music is like balloons. when i say this i mean we all klnow ballooons and we all can think of many differtnt types of ballon. we all have our favroite balllonns and we al;l have our faviorte drinks and sugar to p[ut in the ballooons. some polelpe like purple model;ing ballons to make dogs other people especily early teen boys like red ballons that look like falus and then some growen ups only like hot air ballons for sprecial occasions. every like ballons on ther biethrday and we all exceorpte different ballons for birthday retiring and all kampers. so here we ahve the gluegun modle 1 of music its ll ballons exect for militrary tatto pipes music and marches there more like ice cream thats been left out too long in a house boat you know. what time i s it? so to conclude before the interlude that has acrewed all but the last ship(genuise) to sumise we all eat ballons ballons make smiles but condoms will never fit again after full inflation. glove tents bouncy castles inflatealbe fun . f

Date: Fri Nov 7 20:23
Don DeLillo (Libra):

"A word is also a picture of a word."

Date: Fri Nov 7 19:21
tom (labels labels etcetera):

The word 'stone' for instance is not a stone, it is an oral pattern of vocal, dental and labial sounds or a scriptive arrangement of ink on a white surface, but man pretends that is is actually the thing it refers to. Every time he wishes to tell another man about a stone he can use the word instead of the thing itself (Stephen Fry, 'The Liar')

Date: Fri Nov 7 13:43
Lars (sigma):

He-he, well, I DID write that I thought the vocals were cool enough. But the instrumentation was just like "new age with a bit of umf!". It's just too nice. Well, you CAN make nice AND cool music with that kind of instrumentation, but this is just to....eh...perfect....and....something. It doesn't shake you in any way. There's nothing (in the music/instrumentation) to create a stir to make you care. And if it should make room for the words it should be less "interruptive" (contradiction? Well, I mean "lower volume" then). I guess it's just me who needs either a bit of dust, or some edges, or something that comes and bites me in the assss. I listen to a lot of stuff, also of electronic music, and the music here has no teeth. And I really couldn't say it better than it was "the sound of yesterday" (or maybe just the medieterranean? Greece? Vangelis? Yanni?). It'd definitely not what's to come (electronics are way ahead there). Well, maybe it'll come in another retro-wave in a few years time...?! (my goodness). But yes, cool that Howe tries new things. Although the project suggests to me that it's the poetry in it that has its drawing power...? / Lars

Date: Fri Nov 7 12:05
tHom (those comparisons again):

Alan, I haven't heard the new Frank Black yet but last night I tried to explain to my girlfriend that Steve Wynn wasn't always that loud (she wanted to know why I hadn't warned her) and that he also did "sort of country" stuff, like on the Flourescent record. Seems it's hard enough to compare Steve Wynn to Steve Wynn, let alone else ... Long live diversity. Anyway, a grand weekend to you all. See you on the other side.

Date: Fri Nov 7 11:46
tHOM (you dance with those who brung ya):

SeanT, respect to your father; he sounds as wise as mine. And on the subject of musical styles, I don't know if you caught both support acts last night but it made a very strange mix. The first was ... (searching mind for convenient label) well, I guess "pure" Americana or alt.country will do (now I understand how the music press works). But the second - and I hate to make these kind of comparisons but ... well, Throwing Muses/Tanya Donnelly/Belly without the tunes comes to mind. I wrote that to illustrate a point. I was trying to tell a friend about the gig and ran into this same problem, which I think lies at the root of most of the labels and categories imposed on music. How do you describe a work of art to someone who hasn't seen or heard or read it without making reference to other works of art which they maybe do know?

Date: Fri Nov 7 11:46
Alan (tHom et al.):

In re: Steve Wynn... has anyone else listened to the new Frank Black and the Catholics CD? The more I listened, the more it sounded like -- or had a very similar feel to -- a Steve Wynn solo recording, which struck me as no little bit odd.

Date: Fri Nov 7 10:44
SeanT (Steve Wynn):

Hey THom I was at Steve Wynn last night and as always he put on a storming show. Don't really know or care what alt-country means , as my old man used to say "There's only 2 types of music , good and crap "

Date: Fri Nov 7 09:57
Itasca (Iceland):

Uffda, it's cold....did anyone catch Steve Earle on Cspam? I thought 20 years in prison for being in Afganistan was alitlle Facsist sentence for John Walker Linde but then again I'm facing 20 years for calling my children on my birthday...tsk,tsk...what next? Hey, on the bright side, someone just donated 200 million to PBS, WHAT ABOUT THAT STRING THEROY?

Date: Fri Nov 7 09:56
DELIA (snot_younger@aol.com):

Lars, I think you have been quick to be harsh on the Sigmatropic album. Howe's version is excellent & I can't believe you didn't single out Lee Ranaldo, Steve Wynn & Robert Wyatt as well. Ho-hum. Maybe... YOU are sooooo Nineties! I think the album has a brave concept & it is good that Howe has done something different instead of the customary trodden path of Americana music. It gets my full marks as it is a very atmospheric album.

Date: Fri Nov 7 07:52
tHom (back from the borderline):

I guess what I really meant to say about authenticity and genres is that it all begins and ends with individuals. They then have some agreements (and disagreements) in common and between themselves etc. Last night I saw Steve Wynn + the Miracle 3 playing as part of the Way Beyond Nashville thing (a variation on the alt.country moniker, I guess). I think it's fair to say they rocked. And yes, he commented on the Beyond Nashville umbrella and the tenuous connection between what he was playing and whatever genre it was supposed to be part of. Anyway, pleased to report that the recent stuff stands up well next to the "classics" - they ended with several Dream Syndicate numbers. Call it what you like, bass, drums and two guitars simply doesn't get any better than this...

Date: Fri Nov 7 03:56
J (STEP):

Out of the car sir...

Date: Fri Nov 7 02:39
M.C. in C.A. (hmmmmmmm...):

How about just calling it "Music That Doesn't Suck Ass", and leave it at that?

Date: Thu Nov 6 19:19
dave (Alterna wha happen?):

It's all the British' fault...The Beatles Help soundtrack was somewhat countryish...ha-ha...The only things I would add are that: A) Uncle Tupelo was the best to combine distorted, overdriven amp guitar sounds with country and folk (the Scorchers and Lone Justice had done it, but not as well) Up to this point, country rock was pretty straightforward Burritos et al instrumentation and sound.B)Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia probably did more than ANYBODY to keep traditional hard core folk and country in the mass public conscience (sp?) between '68 and, well, now as far as Dylan goes...if you think about the size of the audience they've reached in the last 35 years..I saw the Dead in '81 when Reckoning was released, which contained Dark Hollow, Babe It Ain't No Lie, Jack A Roe - all these real old songs that had a huge effect on my appreciation of music. Everybody always wants to cite Gram Parsons, etc, but I think Bob and Jerry (who got a lot of credit for other things) were huge in keeping this chain of music going..Bob still includes this type of stuff in his sets..

Date: Thu Nov 6 17:03
james s (sings a song in a shaky voice that was....):

Remember the “cow punk” moniker bandied about during the early Scorcher’s period? Yikes, that sounds kind of dirty, in a bestial sort of way. I suppose, if pressed, I would associate “authenticity” with originality more than with regional identification and the like. I grew up in East Tennessee, near the Great Smokey Mountains, and I can tell you that the television shows and strip malls of the foothills look the same as they do anywhere, and while there may be a great roots music tradition there, most of the people living there don’t know anything, and don’t care anything, about it. I imagine the same is true for the desert states, for Memphis and the Delta, etc… If I, being a later-day hillbilly, decide to pick music that connects somehow to the hillbilly music tradition, does that put me in the “authentic” camp? That Sparklehorse dude is a hillbilly too, if I’m not mistaken, and I think the crazy sounds he makes are a lot more authentic than anything done by some comfortable suburb-dwelling mountain music expert singing songs about muleskinnin’ or riding on a coal train… The bad thing about so much of the so-called “Americana” or “Roots Music” is that it’s ranks are filled with imitators who think that “staying true” to the forms of the various genres keep it “authentic”. Having lived several years in Nashville for several years, I became BORED to death by "Americana” performers singing ramblin’ songs about riding the rails when there wasn’t any truth in it. I reckon I find a music "authentic" when it gives a new sound to the world, and a new word. I’ve always liked it when someone uses a traditional “roots music” , or even straight forward pop (as Sparklehorse does) as a launching pad into something else, something that stretches the form even unto breakage. Giant Sand is the prime example of that which I write. Simply mouthing the words, or playing the scales, of past forms doesn’t make it “real”. Simply singing it in a shaky voice doesn’t make it real. Giving a respectful nod to the lovely Americana forms, and then taking them somewhere new, that’s what gets through to me, and that’s when it gets damned hard to decide what to call it!

Date: Thu Nov 6 16:04
Blaine (@work):

Yup, Americana deepens the murk. Like any other media-defined genre (sub-, sub-sub-, or otherwise), it works best when a group of like-minded folk - this comment board f'rinstance - can cyber nod in agreement that we all pretty much know what it is supposed to mean. The next step is to agree that we can't really nail down a definition. Desert rock from a PA cowboy? ("Cleveland's quiet and the desert's cold" w/TVZ's echo again), in Gillian Welch's case a Berklee music-school grad turned thrift-store hillbilly? Uncle Tup used to play the bars here and sound like Husker Du, then nod into "Down by the River" for an encore. If Gram Parsons is truly the patron saint of morphine and tequila, maybe Americana is anything that will make Ralph Emery lose his teeth. And if you really want to get scholastic try picking apart the Frankenstein nature of Nashville's old-monied Vanderbilts vs the white trash hillbillies who made the city a recording center, and themselves millionaires. I think we are circling back to that great Robert Altman analogy from a while ago. But let's face it, anything is better than being called Y'allternative.

Date: Thu Nov 6 14:55
peter (when did this trio hatch?):

what's the nick lucas trio all about? i saw hatch on the tracklist. it's a 2001 (i think) import on loose records. anybody hear this and i hope i got their name right. sticker says it features howe gelb, john and joe too.

Date: Thu Nov 6 12:33
subcomandante (subcommandante@gmx.at):

Re: "the real thing" - one of the "wisest" ;-) comments on the art of music and art in general I've read until this very day. very often it's the same thing with political theory or activism - pointing out mr. marx for that matter (a bourgeois background and a not so exclusive analysis of the economic status quo of his time which to me is - surprisingly enough - even more accurate for our days). hope everyone's doing well in sandland and adjacent! sub

Date: Thu Nov 6 10:39
tHom (the "real" thing ):

Been following the Americana debate with interest and couldn't resist picking up on a tangential point already well made by james s. Just to add my tuppence worth, it has always struck me as strange that the question of "authenticity" is apparently such an issue when it comes to judging an artist or a group. All music of any kind is an artform and all forms of art are, by their very nature, an act of illusion or fabrication (a chore of enchantment, if you like). To put it simply, you do not have to be in love to write a love song. In fact, it probably helps if you are not. Americana or alt.country or whatever you call it is, like punk rock and the blues, one of those genres of popular music which suffers more from this false standard than others. You don't have to be a poor dirt farmer to make country music. And the Beatles were a bunch of genuine working class lads from the North of England who came across as the kind of boys a girl could take home to tea with mother, while the Stones were middle class boys from a comfortable London suburb transformed by media manipulation into ... well, the antithesis of the Beatles, would be one way of putting it. And yet they all became "rock'n'roll icons". Does that make any of them less "authentic"? Artists make art. A complex variety of influences will lie behind their output. Whether these influences come from subjective personal experience or from something they read in a book or heard on the radio, they are all equally "authentic". It's an act of imagination after all, on the part of the artist and the audience both. Incidentally, I seem to recall that back in the mid-Eighties there was an attempt by the UK music press to identify a new movement they dubbed "desert rock", which comprised Giant Sand and Thin White Rope plus ... no-one else I can recall. TWR susbsequently went out of their way to shake off any "desert" connections to their work and Howe was none too pleased with comparisons between the music of the two bands. So much for "movements".

Date: Thu Nov 6 09:56
Lars (oh well....):

Hm, the sigmatropical haikus finally landed in Aarhus - with bonus disc and all (and extra taxes on the receipt). I can't say I'm too impressed. Yep, interesting "lyrics" and great vocal talent there, but the rest of the sonic landscape leaves my quite indifferent....it's just.....so eh....nineties! Ooold! And more than once it sounds as if the vocals weren't made for that kind of instrumentation. I can only single out the contributions by Laetitie Sadier and Cat Power as being better than average. All I can say is that the overall sound is so....past-century. Hm, whatever, I wonder if I can block out that and just concentrate on the words and the voices. I don't think so. Damn, it cost me Ł14.69! :-/ ##### Hmmmm......well, 'noise' is the new punk :-) (well, it's not new, just now coming to the surface). / Lars

Date: Thu Nov 6 09:23
Alan (Tom):

Now, if we could only get Howe et al. into the Borscht Belt circuit in northeastern PA and upstate NY, the change might be upon us (Chuck Prophet played the Catskills (and western Mass., too) this summer...

Date: Thu Nov 6 08:32
Tom W. (Tiger rules the Tap ):

I had Borscht, wich as well as being fun to say is a Russian dish with beets ,spuds and sausages .It is a good winter meal and er..... has loads to do with alt. country and the discussion there of.

Date: Thu Nov 6 07:52
Conch (longing for the early afternoon Tap Room vibe):

Hey, Tom, I had Asparagus Spears for dinner.

Date: Thu Nov 6 06:45
Smucker (none@nomail.com):

I think Conch has made a valuable point there. Obviously bands like Giant Sand, Smog, broken family band etc have country influences rooted in their music. At least 'alt-country' is a bracket which avoids these bands being lumped in with Alan Jackson, Shania Twain etc. I mean when was the last time you saw 'yer ropes' on CMTV.

Date: Thu Nov 6 04:09
Tom W. (front desk insomnia):

Asparagus Spears are probably more genuine than most of the alt. vegetables.

Date: Thu Nov 6 01:46
Conch (2 cents):

As annoying as it is, the "alt. country" moniker did have one initial important function--and that was to draw a line in the sand between "corporate country pop" and those dog-earred musicians who were working hard to create an artistic alternative to that vapid Nashville ear-scape.

Date: Wed Nov 5 23:44
tom (and I quote johnny quaid from my morning jacket):

" Britney Spears is probably more genuine than most of the alt country"

Date: Wed Nov 5 21:57
Alan (Smucker/PaulK):

Generally agreed. Smucker: The one thing I'd watch is exaggerating the desert thing/theme. I'd never speak for Howe, but there've been many bands (perhaps Thin White Rope most clearly) who always hated having their music thought to be rooted in the environment. For TWR, part of the problem was that they were from Davis, CA, which is a pretty wet place even if it is in the west. How do we make sense of Brian Adams and the North Carolinians if the western desert or plains is the, or even a, key? For most of the Paisely Underground, while LA may be desert in some ways that's not generally the tone of the place -- a little more "Mediterranean" is what is usually the ecoclimactic descriptor. Always remember, for example, that the best surf and spaghetti-western instrumentals of the late 80s and early 90s came from Canada... and the best (or most visible) young "blues" guitarists of the 60s came from Seattle and the UK... Who's more Americana than the Mekons and that Welshman, Jon Langford?? Paul K: The I think you are very right about the ethic, the key for me being that it's (the less intentionally pop/commercial variety) really a variant of DIY and that's why the tradition's always drawing on country, but also the blues, folk and a myriad of other indigenous forms. It is this that made esp. early Uncle Tupelo so cool, the Minutemen play with the Carter Family at Byrds reunion show accompanied by the dBs. They were never as diverse in their playfulness as Howe/Blacky/Sand but pretty darned neat -- and from the town of my wife's birth to boot! BTW: The Calexico cover of the Minutemen on the Club Crawl made me VERY HAPPY en route to Madison.

Date: Wed Nov 5 19:42
paulK (Americana (with chilli sauce please)):

Without going into scholarly debates the whole Americana thing to me is a theme that has popped up from time to time although the coinage has been different. In the seventies I was listening to bands like the Burritos/Byrds, NRPS, Poco, Ozark Mountain Daredevis, Nitty gritty Dirt band and essentially the idea was the same, to reclaim "American (?country?) songs and present them to a "rock" audience. This died down but revived post punk with the early 80's cowpunk bands and then again with the "no Depression/Uncle Tupelo" movement. Essentially, who gives a toss? Good point though about white v. black heritage. That again has been ongoing, Hank williams was as blues as Muddy Waters but sold more records. My favourite appellation is "Cosmic American Music", attributed to Gram Parsons and I would stay that the essence of it is distilled on the first side of Jerry Garcia's first solo album, which I am listening to right now.

Date: Wed Nov 5 18:32
Lars (alt):

Alt. must be an "alternative to the norm". Like grunge was before it became the norm. And so on. It's a cycle. But I guess if you stay "uncommercial" you could be an alternative to mainstream...and keep doing that...?! Ha-ha... / Lars

Date: Wed Nov 5 18:29
J (s'pose you can just tell):

when something is good. What about Steve Earle? How Alt. is Alt?

Date: Wed Nov 5 18:17
james s (with a name like...):

how do you judge what music or musician has "authenticity"? any ideas? what ingredients add up to being authentic? authentic what? Hmmm.

Date: Wed Nov 5 17:14
Lars (the a at the end...):

Hmm, I kinda thought that "Americana" was a genre name that was "invented" (or re-invented?) to sell the stuff to Europeans. The same way that eletronic music from Europe suddenly got named "electronica" once it got to the USA. There used to be more genre names overhere, but the "electronica" label boomeranged so now everything that's not done with rock instruments is suddenly "electronica". He-he, and everything with is "Americana" even though it's bloody European. What'll be the next? "Iwillpissupyabacka"? ;-D 'Ave a nice evenin' all! / Lars

Date: Wed Nov 5 15:52
Smucker (richardperrins@hotmail.com):

Cheers everyone with their help and advice so far, its been a great help. I personally am not convinced by the 'alt-country' tag but i do find it hard to dismiss it entirely. Im extremely interested in this 'no depression' idea that i have seen scattered around the various different relative websites, and now on here. This genre has been established now into the mainstream with even the Oxford English dictionary entering 'alt-country' as an official phrase. The term is loosley associated with alomst anything which has a twang, or like you say doesn't quite have a place to sette. Im intrigued to discover whether this genre is a term of convenience or a real emergence in music culture. Those dreamy/romantic visions of America are very much kept alive within the Americana idealism. Through bands like Mercury Rev and Lambchop to Jack Keroauc and David Lynch. This romanticism attached to 'americana' is off putting but strangely enticing as well. And with the desert being such a traditional Western image, I appreciate the aunthenticity that Mr Gelb has provided music with. As far as im aware a great deal of the Sand stuff was recorded in the desert and Howe himself lived there for many years. The cover of Confluence is one of my favourites of all time. Ive kinda lost track of what im saying here but i basically sense a lack of authenticity in a great deal of this 'Americana' material. something Richard Peterson eludes to through his work on country music.

Date: Wed Nov 5 15:35
Robyn (robyn@mail2minnesota.com):

Anyone know how Keith Stoutenburg blocks this sight from my computer?

Date: Wed Nov 5 14:36
Itasca (Hanamani):

Oh, Dad, you're not such a great speller yerself...it's skRaeling.

Date: Wed Nov 5 14:34
Haio Hwa tha (skraeling@mail2Iceland.com, old3legs@mail2world.com):

skaeling, wolves, Itasca has become near sighted and can't afford glasses let alone lasik surgery...she should have written Ramiah, which Howe is. Anyone know Nahamani?

Date: Wed Nov 5 10:43
Alan (Smucker and Alt-Ameri-country-punk):

Hey Smucker, here's my two cents. The whole Americana thing is, as others have suggested, a flawed construction. On the one hand, it is a product of not knowing what to do with Uncle Tupelo, the Jayhawks, Victoria Williams, etc. at the time of the rise of Grunge (otherwise known as the death of what was the early-to-mid-1980s wave of the underground-label-but-then-bought-by-corporate-music cycle). On the other hand, it is a product of historical revisionism. Whether it is Rank and File, Green on Red, Giant Sand, The Dream Syndicate, The Long Ryders, The Minutemen, The Replacements (see Tim esp.), The Violent Femmes, The Meat Puppets (see Meat Puppets II), The Windbreakers, Alex Chilton, or much of the North Carolina and Athens, GA, scenes, meldings of a alt- or DIY sensibility with the tradition of The Byrds, Neil Young, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and so on significantly pre-exist the late-80s midwestern emergence of "No Depression" -- there's always another moniker in the wind -- music. After all, what exactly is Tom Petty, in many ways, but a popped up Americana artist? The key is that there is as much continuity as there is change and creativity in the history of this kind of music. What the new labels do is represent modes of band promotion (normatively positive in my case) and corporate appropriation and marketing (normatively negative in this case). Lastly, and this only comes to mind because you stimulated the thoughts, Americana does a great job of continuing to stress the "white" character of America -- looking at the Black Keys, for example, and then on back to the British Invasions of the 1960s -- what is more American than the blues-based foundation of rock and roll (and here we see the celebration in Americana of Woody Guthrie at the expense of Leadbelly...) Well, maybe that was five cents, anyone else have thoughts along these lines?

Date: Tue Nov 4 19:05
PaulK (Americana/altcountry):

Smucker, try http://www.insurgentcountry.com/

Date: Tue Nov 4 18:22
dave (TVZ):

That's true Alan...its a good point...I hadn't thought about Townes in awhile...I have some old vhs tapes of Austin City Limits with some Townes stuff..a buddy of mine says he's buying himself a dvd recorder for Christmas with his Christmas Club money now that he's divorced...Maybe he can transfer the old Townes stuff to DVD...White Freightliner or To Live is to Fly would have fit right into the Blacky program.

Date: Tue Nov 4 14:05
peter (for smucker):

see this site if you're buying into the existence of alt-country. www.americana-uk.com uncut magazine hyped the "genre" as well during its ryan adams worship faze.

Date: Tue Nov 4 11:41
Blaine (@work):

Alan - you just put me in gear to pick up the new Blacky, if only for the fact that I once had a few drinks w/TVZ in Madison pretty near Halloween. James, my roof is done and I'll get the archives to you -- and hopefully the next Aimless Blades album soon.

Date: Tue Nov 4 09:56
Alan (TVZ???):

Hiho: Driving along returning from Madison, WI -- where I got me the new Blacky, to East Lansing, MI -- where I couldn't find such a thing, I found that Howe/Blacky was definitely channeling Townes Van Zandt... ah, the glory of ghosts (did I say I bought the CD on Halloween?) Others feel/sense/embrace this???

Date: Tue Nov 4 09:33
Dru Down (sonofdietmar@yahoo.com):

And "Not Even Stevie Nicks" is the song of the year, with all apologies to those in need of them.

Date: Tue Nov 4 09:31
Dru Down (sonofdietmar@yahoo.com):

Hail to the Thief will someday be appreciated by the masses as every bit as good (if not better) than their previous output. Howe in NYC on Friday! How about a little "Hatch" (even though I'll be in Brooklyn catching the Polyphonic Spree that same night)?

Date: Tue Nov 4 08:40
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for James):

James, i was also absent on the Wilco board too, `cause of technical problems...will never leave giantsand.com really ... new Radiohead sounds good in my ears too by the way...right now listening to the new Strokes.

Date: Tue Nov 4 07:13
smucker (richardperrins@hotmail.com):

Hello everyone, Im looking for a bit of help if possible. I am a student at university in my final year and i am planning on writing my thesis on 'alt-country' and country music in general. Literature on these kinds of things is slim and im having difficulties finding resources (especially those that deal with 'alt - country'). Seeing as Giant Sand are heralded as the Godfathers of 'alt-country' i figured this might be as good a place as any to ask for help. Giant Sand are of course the greatest band of all time and not many people no this, but hopefully at the end of this project some people may be more enlightened. So if anyone has any useful information for sources i would be more than grateful (websites, books etc).

Date: Mon Nov 3 21:27
tom (morning glory):

anyone heard the new album by My Morning Jacket yet ? check that out. james s, thanks for the thanks and the promise.

Date: Mon Nov 3 15:41
james s (I've got a fever of 103, come on baby....):

Thanks, Tom, I'll check out the Marcian Volvo. Come on, guys, don't hate me just because I'm beautiful. Ok, J, no costumes (until Oct 31, 2004).

Date: Mon Nov 3 15:16
J (I A):

gree with the scanned (By me) sentiments in the aforementioned review. Any sneaked out word on the fandango? Now working on my own cover thing. I'll be in touch shortly james.s, as long as you promise to leave your costumes at home... Mike? You connected? Dibsy? Lttle J? aaaaaarrrrggghhhh.............................................

Date: Mon Nov 3 13:46
Itasca (skraeling):

By any chance is there a Ramirah out there?

Date: Mon Nov 3 05:20
Insider Sand (****):

Here's a link to another Blacky Ranchette review: http://www.adequacy.net/reviews/b/blackyranchette.shtml

Date: Mon Nov 3 03:50
Lars (radioween...):

Listened to the radiotheif yesterday for the first time in ages. And thought: even though this is a great album, it's still the Radiohead-album I've heard the least. Maybe it's because I've got the bloody special edition cardboard-thingy, so the disc is harder get out?! Or maybe it's a really good album, but not brilliant even though it kinda sounds like it? ##### Currently enjoying Manta Ray's "Estratexa" from the Acuarela label - and is still waiting for the Haikus! And yeah, I gotta check out that Mars Volta-thing soon. That "Lantern"-track is awesome! ##### And James, I know Halloween is supposed to be scary and all, but take it easy, okay, dude? ;-) / Lars

Date: Sun Nov 2 21:46
em (James-):

yeah

Date: Sun Nov 2 21:06
tom (and by the way):

I think 'Hail to the thief' comes in second, as being best rock album of this year. First is 'De-loused in the comatorium' by The Mars Volta. check it out, if you want to, that is. peace.

Date: Sun Nov 2 21:03
Tom (james s):

you really scared me there

Date: Sun Nov 2 19:57
james s (a wolf at the door):

on a more serious note, and i know this is old news, and i know radiohead is a popular band and they don't need any adverts on this giant sand board, and that no one here ever mentions them or even likes them for all i know, but "hail to the thief" is a wonderfully addictive record. ok. back onto the character of james the obscure i fall. hope a good hallow's eve weekend was had by all. if you wanna see me as a french maid, and i know you do, go to http://www.jamesscarbrough.com/journal/archives/000034.html

Date: Sun Nov 2 19:18
james s (hey em...):

do you suppose the jellybabies might ever do a cover of "hot blooded" by foreigner? Just curious.

Date: Sat Nov 1 18:12
J (hooray for the Dead):

indeed

Date: Fri Oct 31 20:24
Blainestained (@home):

Viva la Muerte

Date: Fri Oct 31 17:48
J (Blacky):

gracing the headphones.

Date: Fri Oct 31 13:15
Itasca (Old3legs):

Happy Halloween Everybody

Date: Fri Oct 31 11:57
james s (too rare):

Good to see your moniker pop up, Scroller. I thought you were scrolled out, off to the no-scrol Wilco site forever...

Date: Fri Oct 31 08:30
Tommy Gailer (rare-scroller):

just wanted to say hi; inbetween my computer fu**ed up and i gave it to a friend who`s tryin to bring it back to life.#### the blacky album is bringing me back to life...great stuff, especially my fave "mope along". See ya people soon.

Date: Fri Oct 31 04:02
Jörg (Hisser Vinyl):

Wow, didn't know that - it must've been the V2-version (right?), as Glitterhouse released it CD-only. This Hisser LP-sleeve must look awesome, I think it's one of the best GiantHoweBlacky cover artwork (the V2-version, not the G'house one). Gonna look out on e-bay for it...:-)

Date: Fri Oct 31 03:23
pfft (Giant vinyl):

Thanks for the info Jörg - I guess I'll wrap up my search for the Glum vinyl... One correction, though: "Hisser" was indeed released on vinyl - I stumbled across a sealed copy a couple of years ago...

Date: Fri Oct 31 00:41
Blaine Capers (@home w/a disconnected range):

Dave -- Reverborocket 2

Date: Thu Oct 30 23:49
Piet (piet_raedts@yahoo.com):

Graham, I would love a copy of the archives set. Sadly I'm still burnerless but I could do B&P. Thanks for offering.

Date: Thu Oct 30 22:05
Kyle K (kkotchou@cox.net):

Graham - Would love the archive set.

Date: Thu Oct 30 20:28
Graham (back on the borderline one more time):

Any US sandfans need a copy of Mr Blackwood's stellar "From the Archives" set? I'll burn three copies (it's a 3 disc set) for the first three who promise to burn again back to the list. Not to be missed!

Date: Thu Oct 30 18:20
dave (this whole trip is a power):

Deluxe reverb

Date: Thu Oct 30 18:16
dave (Glue -- Don't go changin'):

Half way makin it, half way fakin it with Henry and the H-Bombs...Don't remember where we got the name from...all I know...Happy Halloween y'all. Motel Hell is a good rental in these matters...

Date: Thu Oct 30 17:33
peter (waiting for the hoople):

hey glue you is inimitable, no substitutions accepted. glad yer all healing well. still smiling about co-axil. put em back where it belongs. then howe will be hoople too. just my $75,000 worth.

Date: Thu Oct 30 14:32
tom (glue):

anomouse respect

Date: Thu Oct 30 13:33
glue sniffer (guilty as charged ):

this is as plain as it can be. the whole idea of these boards and the people who sit guard over them is to alow a floater language a nice tone a seperation of state. The beauty of this machine is that i remain anomouse and free i could be a merchant banker or a student i could be anything but instead im not. I realy not on form or substance but text. read me like a cheap kitten birthday card bought at the last minuet and If it makes you feel better i am almost certainly a egg.

Date: Thu Oct 30 12:07
howe (maybe just plain ol' hank today):

there once was a goo snifter from nantucket. who thought corn was best when you shuck it. for crying out loud, his mom was so proud...that his own baby pix got got cuz she snuck it. -howe the hoople (still not the mott)

Date: Thu Oct 30 09:39
Hank*ster (on re-releases):

Howdy Howe & sand community, I was just thinking the other day, that someone should definitely re-release "Yer Ropes" as a single. The video back then was great and it's just a great great song that simply deserves to be played on the radio all over the world. Same with OP8's "Sand" and "If I think of love" or "Shiver". Big time potential, especially these days. Thrill Jockey or whoever should seriously consider it. Seriously.

Date: Thu Oct 30 06:00
Tania (just curious is all, really):

Hi, glue. Hope you don't mind me asking, but I've been wondering why it is that you mask your self in slip-sliding, overall casual--while totally aware-- wordspeak? Nothing personal, just curious is all. I just get this general feeling that you're at risk of becoming a parody of yourself, which isn't such a bad thing if you can do it well.

Date: Wed Oct 29 22:40
Fotoman (Glue):

The Smiths were unable to conceive children, and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife and said, "I'm off. The man should be here soon." Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer rang the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning madam. I've come to..." "Oh, no need to explain. I've been expecting you," Mrs. Smith cut in. "Really?" the photographer asked. "Well, good! I've made a specialty of babies." "That's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat." After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?" "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple on the bed. Sometimes the living room floor is fun too... you can really spread out!" "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work for Harry and me." "Well, madam, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results." "My, my, that's a lot of..." gasped Mrs. Smith. "Madam, in my line of work, a man must take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but you'd be disappointed with that, I'm sure." "Don't I know it," Mrs. Smith muttered. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus." "Oh my gawd!!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, tugging at her handkerchief. "And these twins turned out exceptionally well, when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with." "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep, pushing to get a good look." "Four and five deep?" asked Mrs. Smith, eyes widened in amazement. "Yes," the photographer said. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling, I could hardly concentrate! Then darkness approached and I began to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just packed it all in." Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "You mean they actually chewed on your um... equipment?" "That's right. Well, madam, if you're ready, I'll set up my tripod so that we can get to work." "Tripod??" "Oh yes, I have to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big for me to hold for very long. Madam? Madam? Good Lord, she's fainted!!"

Date: Wed Oct 29 20:27
glue sniffer (the question is):

When will i see you again. What a song. Think the walls are moving in with the bank to reclame all my lost property and overdue fines. Somtimes its hard to be a feeling worked at a fashion show last night and talked the talk to all the talker walkers movers molders and shapers. sat straight faced and listened to a man look me straight in the eye and say (deep voiced english gent type) "i make Ł75,000 from babies.." what the !!! this makes no sense he photographs babies and sells the pictures to the mothers at hugley inflated prices gettin gthem with the "you know theyll never look this way again so inocent and loving..." this man a man of my proffesion was a cheap car sales man and it made me mad. but folowing a late nioght on friday (not getting in till after 4.30am) i was off the booze and so was stunned that one man, one man could be sutch a smug ballbering wearer, he asked me what i did in a realy not that interested way like"mumumum whatyodo?" only not scotish. i said that i was fdoing this that and trying to be ethical and all my sales pitch and he loooked at me in a cold frightened pathetic way and i could see these things were not entering his head. not for the money? the cancer living in his brain was too deeply set in too worry too much anbout my moral crusading almost doorstoping ly jawdropping sudo muslim feeling about wealth borowing and aftersales service so he left. Leaving us all here with this line. Let us try each one to say " i make (insert aporopiate curency here-) 75,000 a year from babies. See how you feel. well bed time again rely cant go to sleep and can never wake up. glad to see were allhappy dum dee dum hello ? no ok well goodbye/ paul mccartney hell o and rember 75,000 a year.....

Date: Wed Oct 29 19:10
Lars (tour + rerelease + haiku):

Good news there, Howe. Too many people earn too much money on second hand copies of the old albums (even on cd). Enjoy your shows. Will be fun to see what el americano fan base will think of the new backing band (should be okay - 'cause damn, you guys have gotten tight by now). :-) ### I just ordered the Haiku-cd through Roughtrade.com who took VISA. Even though it's not stated online they say they have the double-cd version, which I told them I wanted. Just had a taste of some of the tracks online today. The Cat Power and "Stereolab" tracks sounded really good. I hope they're not that short though. I know that Haikus are usually short because of the "rules" attached to them....but what about the songs? Anyone??? Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 29 18:06
Eddie (Solar Culture):

Danes in tow?

Date: Wed Oct 29 15:49
gazelle (hey howe):

i'll be at the sf show, turlock turtles in tow :OP interview will be essential, beer too...keep up the good work, and god bless ewe!!!!

Date: Wed Oct 29 13:37
howe (hunkered):

the new york show and chicago will have all the danes in tow. maybe san fran, though its not yet a plan. and all those early records will someday be re released.....it will take about a year from now once we re master them-a-piece. -howe the hoople

Date: Wed Oct 29 12:24
Delia (snot_younger@aol.com):

I heard the Howe track from the SIGMATROPIC album on UK VIRGIN FM show called Captain America. Sounded great. He said he will play more next Sunday.

Date: Wed Oct 29 11:37
Jörg (Giant Vinyl):

GLUM was never released on vinyl (at least to my knowledge, and I always prefer the black plastic, too) - as well as Backyard BBQ, HISSER, SELECTIONS and the OP8/SLUSH - record. Grab the new Blacky on Vinyl, too - it looks so fine (to me, haha). (And of course it sounds even finer...)

Date: Wed Oct 29 10:43
matt (....with a spongey brain):

mid next year i read somewhere (cant remember where)

Date: Wed Oct 29 10:37
james s (I wanna be a tough-skinned bitch, but I don't know how...):

So, who is Captain Howdy, and what is a spirit ditch? Anybody see any word on when to expect new Sparkles from the horse?

Date: Wed Oct 29 09:57
Lars (nice!):

Hm, guess David Fricke is not the only one at Rolling Stone who likes Under Byen. I would characterize this as a QUITE positive review: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18876 --- "She could be singing Dutch poetry or the proverbial phone book, but Bennenvalot's voice has a way of sounding as though it where whispered into an individual attentive ear at a time". Ha-ha. Yeah, I get that feeling too. Also on "The Listener" (but moreso on their own most recent album). Uh, and what a misspelling of her name. :-) It's Sennenvaldt, if I'm not mistaking. --- Have a nice day! / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 29 08:09
pfft (bleep@operamail.com):

Was "Glum" ever released on vinyl? This is the only 'regular' G.S. release I don't have on this format...

Date: Wed Oct 29 08:07
pfft (bleep@operamail.com):

Was "Glum" ever released on vinyl? This is the only 'regular' G.S. release I don't have on this format...

Date: Tue Oct 28 23:45
Blaine (@home w/ new roof overhead):

Howe - re CHI gig - will you be solo or with the Danes?

Date: Tue Oct 28 15:39
tom (re-releases):

Any chance of the early GS/Blacky CDs (Storm, Love Songs, Heartland) getting re-released (maybe as Official Bootlegs a la Unsungglum)? They're next-to-impossible to come by these days...also, I seem to remember mentions of a possible rerelease of Stromausfall?

Date: Tue Oct 28 15:35
tom (re-releases):

Any chance of the early GS/Blacky CDs (Storm, Love Songs, Heartland) getting re-released (maybe as Official Bootlegs a la Unsungglum)? They're next-to-impossible to come by these days...also, I seem to remember mentions of a possible rerelease of Stromausfall?

Date: Tue Oct 28 14:28
matt (ueaing):

hello glue, just spoke to mill, thought id better say hi! still enjoying the sandy sonic pleasures, been lurking not posting really. busy back at uni - not under the thumb! (honest!) have to check out some of yer photomegraphs when im back in shrews for chrimbo! see you around!

Date: Tue Oct 28 13:10
panda (helium):

red cheeks now. .tak lars

Date: Tue Oct 28 00:02
tom (always be until i meet him):

glue fan dan

Date: Mon Oct 27 17:40
Lars (by the way):

French-American instrumental duo Berg Sans Nipple are currently touring Europe. There's a tour schedule at www.bergsansnipple.com - they'll be dropping by Köln and Dresden in Germany soon (and many other places). Great, great band. I've seen them twice and been equally amazed by their abilities live and on record. They've been touring with Canadians Do Make Say Think....I don't know if it's with them the whole tour. They were great too here in Denmark recently. * This has been a service announcement from a way-to-much-web-typing Dane * / Lars

Date: Mon Oct 27 17:14
Lars (fandingoatemybaby....eh....):

Thanks Howe! The bits of "vocals" were something I caught on "tape" while testing my minidisc during soundcheck at one of your Café Mozart gigs. :-) I like that one a bit better than my actual "cover" in a way (less embarrasing maybe - no Lars singing on it, ha-ha). :-) One more fandango-track I've heard is Panda's tiny take on "Yer Ropes" which I think is priceless! Very inventive indeed. I hope it's on the disc. Greets y'all! / Lars

Date: Mon Oct 27 15:48
J or woodpile (DO NOT go to Lustleigh village.):

That's from the directions I found (in part) on my cursory glance at Casa Brewer related search result. We'll be there at some point, honeymooned in Derbyshire for walks of serenity and stuff... Online Howe? Another cover of Blue marble girl? Blacky on the headphones. bye.

Date: Mon Oct 27 15:38
howe (horn rimmed):

yeah lars. apparently you made the cut. and its a cracker. and thanks mighty mr. glueness w/a fist o guiness.....i'm sticking to you. -no matter howe.

Date: Mon Oct 27 15:35
J (Someone tell us):

What the fandango will consist of? Willing to help with burning or coverage. Give us a track list to play with. All power to the peoples' disc. This has been a big hello to assorted bones jones dibsy folk. Not that that makes any sense.

Date: Mon Oct 27 09:37
Lars (danfango):

I must admit that I too am a little curious about the tracklist of the fandango. Any chance it might show up here before the actual "release"? I'm wondering whether my weird "Howecheck" made the cut, ha-ha. / Lars

Date: Sun Oct 26 20:53
hehhehheh (join in the dance):

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Date: Sun Oct 26 19:42
glue sniffer (on the spot (light0-$$$2231!Ł5678 go):

aurthors note: - i have always kept my nose out of the whole giant sand co-axil argument out of respect and a complete lack of interest. i saw calexial once at all tomorows parties and was particularly untaken. lake shmordfgasbord 2003. CHAPTER 1 Well sir in my hummble but some what over fed opion the whole thing didnt make any sense. you were, atleast to my hummble ear singing songs with a band even doing that check noise as last seen at the begining of other live recording that is you. prehaps now it is easy to discretid this sectioon opf the aural jury, but then i thought no its him even the jokes about photographs had to be you didnt it? imagie my shock at discovering that it was'nt you pissing around with ole country classic but instaed some other bloke. JUst seemed wrong. There seemed to be no point i mean from that song on theend of op8 single sand that the bloke sang i though hahaha funney love it. what? but enough grummblings i am very aware of groming and all too aware of the pitfalls of unprotected bias so to conclude. to me i'd say guys come on youve had your fun and sold a few more records but it over now your not big your not funney and your not me. Although sadley i can not prove this. BIBLIOGRAPHY - Haynes motor guide FORD FIESTA 1000cc-2100cc maroon 3-5 doors NOT DIESEL MODELS. all parts under warentrtyu ecexpt the word wareentry and spoke

Date: Sun Oct 26 17:31
Lars (HapB):

Happy birthday, Howe! Best wishes to ya'! Bit late here also... Just back from Copenhagen....three hour train ride through a total yellow-brown-leaf Denmark....with sunsets on every water under every bridge on the way. Crystal clear sky and a purple haze in the distance. Just lovely. And with plenty of fresh Acuarela discs in the ears there on the railway tracks. ##### Thanks for liking the Sonisk, James. :-) I tried my best to select 2 x 74 minutes. Tough decisions there.

Date: Sun Oct 26 16:19
SeanT (Happy days):

Happy birthday Mr G , a bit late but I was in the desert , the one next to yours , NV . Was going to drop by but saw the lights of The Strip and went looking for Elvis . He was not there but did find the Sigfried and Roy plaza and Venice re-created on the first floor of a hotel , canals and all , Kiss and Aerosmith on the same bill and no street beggers , do the hotels clean them away before the people arrive on The Strip ? SeanT

Date: Sat Oct 25 00:23
sean harrigan (shammy@imt.net):

many thanks, blacky sounds still lookin good, always in rotation at KGLT, i'm in your debt

Date: Fri Oct 24 15:16
howe (come):

hey mr. glueth snifter....how do sir......?....but what meant you " the club crawl cd sounding the same and similiar to another farmer using your etc etc etc"....i'd love to know your slant on such.....and thanks -howe the hoople (not mott)

Date: Fri Oct 24 13:29
glue sniffer (tierd):

hello folks been a strasnge few days granted. to ease the pain and troubles of every ones minds i have exteneded the offer on my fdantasic record and am for a limmited rum giving people the chance to send me plates. take car dont have night mares da. oh yes gpoing to the pub in town to play a song the opub that if we cast our sand minds back i was threated with beer mats and heckeld so once more into the DUN COW. real pub name must dash. bye bye

Date: Fri Oct 24 11:56
Pro (Crastinator):

Go here: http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ and convert: http://www.giantsand.com/comments/index.shtml to the dialect of yer choice.

Date: Fri Oct 24 08:42
james s (orange):

The sandman 7, Sonisk Postkort, came to my mailbox (thanks, roger). Great job, Lars. Wow. There's a friendly review of Blacky in the new No Depression mag...

Date: Fri Oct 24 08:03
panda (s[],uare):

i agree.(ohrwurm!)

Date: Fri Oct 24 07:55
smucker (rjperr@essex.ac.uk):

The prospect of Giant Sand returning next year and being 'loud' is perhaps the only thing that can soothe the great human and musical loss that was suffered when Elliot Smith died. Either/or was my introduction to artists such as Howe, Lambchop, Songs:ohia etc. Artists which have changed my life and inspired me more than any thig else ever has. Elliot smith tome will always remain one of my greatest inspirations and i shall never forget the effect he has had on my life and my friends. I have been lucky enough to see some great shows in my time, such as The Barbican extravaganza, Sparkelhorse in Portsmouth, Damien Jurado on the day that Elliot died, Songs:ohia in chicago, and many more, but sadly i never got to see Elliot himself in concert. I love Giant Sand. And i love the new Blacky album. I think Square is one of the most beautiful pieces of music i've ever heard. Yer Ropes smucker

Date: Fri Oct 24 06:50
finn (howdysandfans):

new blacky and handsomes in rotation on the spinner...cool!

Date: Thu Oct 23 20:26
Alan (Howe):

Can't wait for Ann Arbor.

Date: Thu Oct 23 20:25
Alan (James S/Blaine/Dan Stuart/Steve Wynn):

I already know the title of the project!!!! The Found Weekend!!! (The secret, as always with Wynn, tho, would be that it'd have to be done on the fly w/o overproduction... me, I've always found the most excitement in his stuff done as a weekend one-off, often w/ another band as support... might GS, often in NYC in the past, provide accompaniment?!?!?!) And, there, _I_ was the one who noted the odd number of proposals we were making for Howe/GS to execute...

Date: Thu Oct 23 19:46
james s (Blaine):

Man, wouldn't that be great? Perhaps, as a start, they (steve wynn & dan stuart) will do something together. Keep us posted.

Date: Thu Oct 23 18:17
dave (Happy Belated Birthday Howe...wishing you many more):

Gibson or Fender?

Date: Thu Oct 23 16:52
Blaine (@work):

FYI -- this comes from the Steve Wynn site Q&A: "And here's the hot news: Dan Stuart just moved to New York City so maybe I can get him out of retirement "

Date: Thu Oct 23 16:42
james s (ctropichaiku):

Haiku songs must be awefully short. "...hogy a haiku 17 szótag, soronként 5-7-5 szótagszámmal..." I want it.

Date: Thu Oct 23 16:23
Stephen M.H. Braitman (News item 10/22 from ChartAttack RE: Howe Gelb haiku):

Cat Power And Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier Do Haiku Indie Style Wednesday October 22, 2003 @ 03:30 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Most of us are familiar with those Japanese poems that contain a structure of 17 syllables and are often used to express elements of nature like colour, the seasons, contrasts and surprises. If we were to write something like "White leaves/Floating with the road/The night is over," you would know what we’re talking about, right? Well, if you missed that day in tenth grade English class, the contemplative poetry form known as Haiku has been given a cool new twist by some big names in the indie music circuit. Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall), Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Steve Wynn and Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb (plus many more) have all loaned their dreamy vocals to an album called 16 Haiku & Other Stories, which comes out January 20 via Thirsty Ear Records. The album features 21 tracks of seasonal goodies written by the winner of the 1963 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, George Seferis. The musical backdrop of the album is provided by Sigmatropic’s Akis Boyatzis. If Sigmatropic sounds all Greek to you, it’s probably because the band actually is Greek and hails from that land known for mythological creatures and of course, souvlaki. Ummm… souvlaki. They’ve already recorded and released this same album in their native tongue of Greek, but later translated the poems into English so that these indie darlings could sing them. After listening to Cat Power’s "Haiku Ten," on Sigmatropic’s website, the result isn’t as corny as it sounds. Although it does sound like she’s singing in a different language at times, it’s pretty much what you’d expect from Chan Marshall. A limited-edition 12-inch vinyl EP of the project will also be released later this year and will feature alternate takes not found on the original disc. —Aaron Foster

Date: Thu Oct 23 12:10
howe (ridiculously aged):

thanks for all the birthday yips. i had a great time in the back room of a guitar shop here just playing a lot of old electric guitars. funny the anti aging powers of that. made me look forward to getting loud next year with the next giant sand flink. and as the day turned into a somber scenario of attempted temperary drug related rescue of someone close, the news of elliot's passing sealed the evening's murk. the old festival day we saw elliot play was beautific. toe curling. a harvest of melodics and their intimate fileings. he is missed already. this world is a sticky thicket and hard to stick with it. -howe hoping you're fine

Date: Wed Oct 22 21:28
Graham (grhsmith@hotmail):

3 copies of Club Crawl to the first stateside Sanfans who send me an address and a promise to re-circulate (thanks, Jaime). A toast to Howe's birthday tonight. One in remeberance for Elliott as well.

Date: Wed Oct 22 14:01
glue sniffer (bbirthday poem):

happy birthday to you squased tomatoes and stew bread and butter in the gutter happy birthday to you. (present is in the post) to whom i dont know

Date: Wed Oct 22 13:43
"the sun came up, it was another day and the sun went down, you were blown away why'd you let go of your guitar? why'd you ever let it go that far, (drunken angel"):

R.I.P. Elliot Smith

Date: Wed Oct 22 12:46
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPY (BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY, HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWE):

love em

Date: Wed Oct 22 12:40
james s (howe many candles?):

Happy birthday, Howe.

Date: Wed Oct 22 12:07
J (Happy birthday):

Howe

Date: Wed Oct 22 12:05
archivist (...........):

Everyone, give big Happy B-Day wishes to Mr. Gelb..

Date: Wed Oct 22 11:44
chowyunmat (dart.com):

just underlining the dartmouth suggestion, 'tis beautiful. sadly i grew up there for 20 years and had to leave to notice this beauty. true of everywhere i suppose....

Date: Wed Oct 22 11:28
jy (r.i.p. Elliott Smith):

1969-2003

Date: Wed Oct 22 10:47
tom (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

Happy Birthday Bukka!

Date: Wed Oct 22 09:17
james s (www.jamesscarbrough.com):

What kind of help do you need with the Fandango, Mike? I can burn CDs, send 'em, stuff like that. I don't know anything about mastering and techie stuff like that... Could anyone who has the info post the track/"artist" list? I can't wait to see who all contributed, and what songs made it on. Panda, any link to the artwork you've contributed? or any of your artwork? Some of my scribblings can be found at the url above. I'll link to you,if you have a site.

Date: Wed Oct 22 05:23
tom (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

Hello Mike, and welcome to Devon .If you get the chance one day follow the river Dart down from Dartmoor down to Totnes then take the River Dart ferry down to Dartmouth and back.Truly one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.iescaped the June heat of Tucson and came home to Totnes this last summer ,swam in the stretch above Dartington,now thats a welcome.Heard a track from the new Blacky record on kxci this morning, with Neko duetting with Howe,frikkin great stuff , ug,must buy ,like sound.ALSO heard a track from the cuban gitarist Barbarossa Torres [?] playing a song off his new cd and him and the piano player go off!,bye Tom

Date: Wed Oct 22 02:58
stefan ((münchen)):

Hi Mike, I could also help distributing the fandango.

Date: Wed Oct 22 02:36
Jason E*/woodpile (and just think...):

'twas only this eftirnoon (Copyright I.Welsh?) That little j did say to me, on a beautiful riverside walk during nursery schooltime... 'Looks like only you and james.s are interested still in the fandango.' Touched, and Mike I can probably help on something. Doing the trade thing with sandman 7, still owe Paul K and Ian G

Date: Tue Oct 21 19:00
PaulK (p.kerr@ntlworld.com):

Howe, you slippery tongued devil, that's the way Tarantula should have read. Whetting my appetite for the Fandango, haven't a musical bone in my body, I'm all ears however for those Sandfans who have taken up the challenge. Mike, good luck with the new house, do you do a full English breakfast?

Date: Tue Oct 21 18:56
james s (aaahhh.):

Good.

Date: Tue Oct 21 18:14
howe (driving like you play guitar):

i was making my truck ready. i was doing things to it i never do for myself. a john parish clan was in town and in need the use of. the final chore was figuring out how to light up the darkened dash lights. i love the junk yards here, and so set off in 99 degrees of tickle heat to really enjoy the dense surreality of that stretch of road lined with miles of crumpled car carcases that refuse to rust ......and if you drive a bit too far then the cars literally turn into airplanes and jets from another time or two. and it is there in search of said illumination of stated dash that i plopped in the cd that came in the mail that morn from master webber brewer. fan-dango it claims to be. escapeing sonics filled the truck to capacity and bulged. the windows bubbled. the mind reeled. the grip on the wheel tightened to remain fixed on the wobble road curving through isles of ghosty car mountains and heaps a glitter in the staining sun. man o man what have you done ? i have not the words to explain the sensation. some way better then the originals. like forgotten love letters sent off life times ago, they come back to remember you. a fantastic crumpled effect. good too, cause i often wonder where did all the time go. shortly after cd stunningness, i manage to collect the possible culprit of darkened dash: a pull-your-part light switch from a vehicle of diabolical crunched proportions that can only make you sputter a prayer for the possibility of once upon a time passengers. anyway....does the light switch work ? no one will ever know in the bask of this 99 degree sunlight. not untill the rest of the cd grants passage home and finally pulling up into the shadow of sunset does the dash truly illuminate. fireworks. inside the head too thanks to you - howe with moistened eye

Date: Tue Oct 21 14:32
mike ([sa-wa-ro......at new home in devon]):

well.... have half moved down to devonshire dartmoor... rest of move this weekend. we now runs us a guest house!! moorwood cottage, lustleigh - all are welcome (not all at once though) - special discount for giant sand fans. unfortunately, nowhere yet to set up pc and copiers, so the last of sandman 7 and the new fandango will have to go on hold..... unless someone can help me out here? haven't got access to the internet yet either (except through my work laptop)... so mail will be delayed as well....... right - on with the decorating.

Date: Tue Oct 21 12:12
james s (aka Siddhartha Vishnu Al Roseburg):

SIGMATROPIC getting any distribution in the States? 16 Haiku and other stories. I like the title. The artist list is impressive too. Hmmmm. I must go a'searchin'. Amaz UK, if nothing else........... and don't forget, like Nick said, the place to be is on a pink moon with a radio, which will blow a horn to scare away the parasite stalking things behind the sun, you know, and you can ride the harvest breed from the morning.

Date: Tue Oct 21 11:46
Paprika (weljiu@dellnet.co.uk):

Lars, I bought the SIGMATROPIC album from AMAZON.CO.UK (not COM), they ship abroad if you want to use a credit card. But I don't think AMAZON have the bonus disc edition. Otherwise try the legendary ROUGH TRADE shop in London - they do mail order & they will have the bonus disc. www.roughtrade.com Otherwise ask Tongue Master records if they can receive your order in concealed cash - UK POUNDS. That will save you the hasstle of getting an International Money Order. Hope this helps you.

Date: Tue Oct 21 10:13
Lars (sigma):

Oh, they take checks. I wonder how much the bank will charge me for making on of those (it has to be in pounds apparently, not Euro - which doesn't make much difference, because we still use Kroner in Denmark). Off to the bank...soon. :-) / Lars

Date: Tue Oct 21 09:29
Lars (scrolling for Paprika):

Uh, I don't really know how to get hold of that Sigma-thing (WITH the bonus disc). As I remember, the label only takes International Money Order or something and that's way too expensive for me. / Lars

Date: Tue Oct 21 07:54
Paprika (weljiu@dellnet.co.uk):

Hey Lars, I got the ACUARELA disc as well. It has some great artists on it. I hope it doesn't take you so long to get that Sigmatropic album! I am really getting into that disc.

Date: Tue Oct 21 04:40
Lars (watercolourmusicfrommadrid :-)):

Just got hold of that Acuarela compilation from 2001 with a Howe song on it. Niiice stuff on that one! So Howe, which hotel (bathroom) in Aarhus did you record the song in? Ha-ha. I noticed the sleeve notes. :-D Oh well, Acuarela's got many other great thing, which I guess some of you already know (www.acuareladiscos.com). Have a nice day! (it's just begun around here) / Lars

Date: Tue Oct 21 02:57
JC BROCHARD (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vivonzeureux):

Thanks to all the Sand Fans (all from the UK !) who offered me to trade for Sonisk. I should get it sometime soon... Livappy! JC

Date: Mon Oct 20 23:19
walter westinghouse (went to town; he found a friend today):

his friend was peeling ceiling wax as he heard Walter say: ... ?

Date: Mon Oct 20 20:43
tom (proposition):

if any of you sandies happen to be or live in London, we should meet halfway novembertime

Date: Mon Oct 20 18:01
glue sniffer (FREE GIVEAWAY):

2 things. 1stly i was very kindly sent that club crwal thing buy my young german freind and i must thank him will send you somthing of equal worth. 2ndly ths crub claw is not right. last night im in bed and my lady cant sleep and i cant sleep but im pondering this problem why does the whloe cd sound the same what is going on? its like watching another farmer have his way with your stanley knife or some such severed toe fantasy. can i be the first to say . this is wrong. secondamentthrigd-ly i have unearthed my own little treasurred gem a short collection of songs i once called "rehursing the mistakes of the past" so here is the offer of a life time i will try my hardest to send a copy of this to anyone who feels fisicaly phit enough to endure me in their homes(comitments wil not be honered)(actual size may differ from that on package) all i can say is it would be good to get some fold back that dint turn into a crane. so email danthephotographer@hotmail.com using the and i will send you me stuff. cheers best get watching that in box ............(one would be nice) and nowhere to far or with too many vowels,

Date: Mon Oct 20 02:49
JC BROCHARD (Sonisk postkort) (jc.brochard@wanadoo.fr):

Hello to you all, I didn't apply for a copy of Club Crawl from those of you who offered recently; but instead I'd like to ask one of you a favour. Would someone be nice enough to send me a copy of 'Sonisk postkort'. I never got my copy from my branch, and I'd be really happy to hear this record, especially after listening to the extracts Lars posted. Of course, I will send in return either blank CD-Rs or some GS-related stuff from my vaults... (Please email me before sending anything, otherwise I might be overwhelmed with copies !). Livappy! JC

Date: Sun Oct 19 19:02
J (fandangonogohowemike?_-_========_--_):

james s . Busy but get that 5th string...

Date: Sun Oct 19 10:13
Lars (FFP - 66):

Ha-ha, that FFP Gelb-quote surprised me. Not that it doesn't make sense now. I just hadn't seen any Gelb-FFP connections. Oh, and yeah, Route 66 is cool (they got a new and bigger shop earler this year). But you really gotta check out Scavenger Records here (maybe it should be renamed Gelbville, ha-ha). Got all the dusty sounds you need. :-D Have a nice Sunday, sandies! / Lars

Date: Sun Oct 19 09:09
what´s up with me again? (glum numb):

by the way Lars...Ĺrhus is one of my favorite city. That recordshop.....route 66? Was really really good. and speaking of first floor power here...I think their new album came to mind because I just read an interview with them and they answered the question: "Who would you like to produce your next album, living or dead, legend or unknown..? They said "1. howe gelb. 2. ourselves. 3. no one." Tonight I´m going to see von triers "Dogville". That man is special.

Date: Sun Oct 19 08:59
what´s up with you, headache? (glum rum):

yep. name of the band: mu It´s one of those records makes you wanna break things and dance like it´s 1999. Shit, I haven´t found the blacky ranchette record yet in the shops here...really curious.

Date: Sun Oct 19 05:41
Lars (scrolling for Swedes):

Haven't heard the new First Floor Power yet, but the previous album was brilliant. Saw them live last year or so (which was the the first time I ever heard them). First it struck me that "what, they are really not that good on their instruments (except the drummer) and their sing kinda false", but after a few songs I got my head wrapped around their unique style and before the show was over I really liked their stuff. ### Was the name of the other band "Mu"? / Lars

Date: Sun Oct 19 04:45
what´s up with you, stomach? (holmstone@hotmail.com):

Yes! I finally got "the listener" in my possession and I must say that is one beautiful piece of music. Long may it run. In my ears anyway. Been listening to giant sand since I first heard "long stem rant" on my broken vinyl-recorder. The sound was insane. And insane is sometimes good. Would be tremendous if mr gelb and co would come to stockholm and play...I´m not sure if this city´s ever been hosted by you... Three other beautiful albums I must write home about: m ward - "transfiguration of vincent" (guess most of you know this already..but to those of you who dont: it´s one of the most inspiring and personal record of this year. Beautiful melodies and the production is superb....people who like "the listener" sure like this too!) first floor power -"nerves" . (A new album with one of the most original and odd band in Sweden...sometimes it reminds me a little of smog, sometimes of fleetwood mac, sometimes of grandaddy and talking heads...but most of all it´s unique and beautiful...guess it´s only available here for the moment but I heard they´re about to fix distribution...I bought it from www.cdon.com) mu - "afrofinger and gel" (when insane is this good It´s Insanely good! Some weird dj brings his shouting japanese girlfriend to the studio and the result is stunning! Sounds like nothing else. Groovy like liquid liquid or funkadelic...mad as the boredoms and clicksy like mouse on mars...)

Date: Sun Oct 19 03:27
Mikus (m.malcorps@spawater.com):

Got the CD from CLUB CROWL. Still 4 copies for you. Send me a message at email adress... Thanxxx Paul

Date: Sat Oct 18 22:22
Tom (Lewis&Clarke):

Check out Lewis&Clarke from Delaware, Pennsylvania. Talked to singer,member,founder Lou Rogai yesterday. Their debut full cd is out (only in Belgium, but they also released a 'Bright Light EP) and Lou claims he's drinking beers with Howes cousins out there northeast of Arizona. Is this true Uncle Howe ??

Date: Sat Oct 18 10:36
james s (blacky):

Yup, indeed, the new Blacky is a lovely thing. The backing vocal harmonies on "working on the railroad" are beautispendidful.

Date: Fri Oct 17 18:30
gazelle (sorry for the delay):

sorry to all those who have yet to receive club crawl from me. i have been busy doing too little and plan to mail those off today. the new band of blacky is far too good for its own good. favorites are 'getting it made,' 'working on the railroad,' 'my hoo ha,' and 'square.' the lastest is the bestest. so purrrr-ty!!!! how(e) did you think of those words? 'time spent with you is way too few' -- how(e) sweet! and the cello playing of joseph burns makes me want to weep. thanks for such a rare treat -- it be rockin the kcss charts for weeks to come!

Date: Fri Oct 17 17:57
glue sniffer (just been to birmingham):

and its still there and ace. i recomend birmingham to all people. thankyou for this time.

Date: Fri Oct 17 15:39
Blaine (@work):

Howe as Altman, why didn't someone come up with that line of thought earlier? Very good review here -- poitras (another blacky review): http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1058

Date: Fri Oct 17 15:27
em (a thought):

Wouldn't it be really cool if the dancers on Soul Train were dancing to 'Pontiac Slipstream'???

Date: Fri Oct 17 11:04
Lars (Commercial break...):

Congratulations California... http://www.collegehumor.com/?p=news/arnold --- "Jeez, I wish I hadn't said that". ;-D / L

Date: Fri Oct 17 10:21
Lars (scrolling for René):

Don't know about the yahoo-troubles, but I've send you a mail now, René. Let's hope it works this time around.I've mailed a bit with the Danish organizers of the Hamburg gig and they would love a copy (now that they didn't get around to doing it themselves). And I know the band will love a copy too. They got all the recordings I've made so far and seem very happy about it (they also allow soundboard-recordings). Unfortunately they sometimes are a bit slow in answering their e-mails (nevertheless = incredibly nice people). Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Oct 17 09:34
dave (Old Town):

Blaine, I haven't seen anything official on whether he will have a band at the Old Town show, just the post on this board earlier this week.

Date: Fri Oct 17 09:09
james s (Blaine):

I'll most likely not make it to Chicago this time. It would mean taking a jet, and even Southwestern doesn't get as cheap as I would need it to be. Alas, the wife and I are living from paycheck to lousy paycheck, and that barely. Sounds like it's going to be a special night though; I hate to miss out.

Date: Fri Oct 17 09:03
rene (webmaster@buxfix.de):

he lars. tried to send you an e-mail but got an error-mail back something's wrong with your yahoo-account. think the under byen-concert is ready, wait for response from he band, if they give the okay we can trade ;-) greetings from hamburg mr. buxfix

Date: Thu Oct 16 23:48
flup (---):

bobbing in general is a good thing...it's a sign of life. ;-/

Date: Thu Oct 16 23:25
Blaine (@home):

Dave - just watch out for tricksters dressed like Alou. All that over a goat. (just saw a Red Sox guy with the name "Cubbage" writ across his back). I'm shooting or the Old Town gig == will the Danes be playing w/Howe? James, any chance you might make it back to the northland?

Date: Thu Oct 16 17:24
J (Lars):

Yes, in the UK the trick or treat thing 'gets on our tits' Apple bobbing is ok though

Date: Thu Oct 16 15:28
Lars (HELLoween):

Funny how these last two or three year "They" have managed to squeeze in pumpkinheads and halloween-merchandise in Denmark, when a) no Danes are trick-or-treating at this Halloween-thing and b) We've got our own kind of Halloween called "Fastelavn"...around February, I think - where the kids actually ARE trick-or-treating (well, they sing in front of the door and get money). Hoo ha capitalism! We've even got bloody Valentine's Day now (since maybe 3-4 years now). And it's even CALLED "Valentine's Day"...not even something in Danish. Poor weak sods we stupid Europeans.... He-he, that's my Halloween rant for ya'! ;-D Have a nice evening! I'll be going out for some live music now (again) / Lars

Date: Thu Oct 16 15:15
dave (and another thing):

At Old Town, everybody gets a seat...you won't have to stand in the back the whole show looking at somebody's head....no smoking allowed in the hall for you sensitive folks...the show will be over at decent time, instead of rolling out of a club at the wee hours...adios

Date: Thu Oct 16 15:11
dave (Howe at Old Town School in Chicago):

Hey Sandies. Get your tickets to the show in November at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music..It's a great venue to see someone you like...very small..great sound...they sell beer...I saw Calexico there two years ago and it was excellent (although the Mrs. Dave wasn't impressed..I thought chicks would dig Calexico)...Old Town is easy to get to off I-90 and there is a great old German deli and some cool cafe's in the area...parking ain't easy.. but we are talking about the north side of Chicago..

Date: Thu Oct 16 15:06
dave (Sgt Sniffers Lonely Hearts Club Band):

Well, Sniffa, maybe your neighbors have heard your guitar playing and they are A) running out to find a bass player and a drummer for you - power trios are coming back in next year B) running out to buy you tablature books on Neil Diamond and the Carpenters C) running out to the offices of UNCUT magazine to tell them most of their articles are nothing but plagiarism (sp?) of old Rolling Stone articles D) none of the above E) a and c F) definetly c but a and f also....Be sure and practice scales before your power trio arrives....As far as Halloween goes, I may dress as the Cub fan with the headphones....

Date: Thu Oct 16 09:27
alan (trey & bearsuits):

Trey: Flint Hills, sounds like KState... there's a really nice young sociologist there (PhD from here in the wasteland of mid-Michigan), name o' Gerad M, who's got some decent cultural/musical taste: 'd be happy to make introductions. In re: bearsuits, our 15 month old is Halloweening as Captain Kangaroo's Dancing Bear (I get to be the Captain and Diane'll be Bunny Rabbit... fun!) What're you all gonna be?

Date: Wed Oct 15 22:57
Tom (by the wya):

Bearsuit are great, listen to them sandies, that is if you can get hold of a copy.

Date: Wed Oct 15 22:55
Tom (Sir Glue):

I will be spending some odd four days in London from thursday november 13th to sunday 16th. feel free to contact me for i am a great fan of photography and drinking alot and other stuff. the mailbox reads vervoorttom@hotmail.com Jörg : thanks for the cds, it's wonderful. Simon : thanks.

Date: Wed Oct 15 20:37
glue sniffer (greeting from my room of indivisible shame richie):

Hello folks and how are we alll on this grey october night? i am trying to work out money and my head is begining to get stupid but i am listening to for stars who are beauitful you should all listen to for stars and bearsuit who i am going to watch. i am going to a gig in london this time have made better plans and hopfykly wont be sleeping with the countryies finest in the bins at oxford station. on a lighter note and excuse me if im repetaing nmy self but i m not sure and the red/black numbers and lines have serriously impared my vison. i am moving into a studio (empty room with beams) to work as photographer or atleast to try and work why i need a studio i dont know due to large numbers of hedge pictures. i have an incling that it will become a guitar haven for my accoustic baladering / meatal / johny cash tribute. so any of you peole out there want to sit in big empty room and sing for chrisna, at the tp of a old crooked building drop us a bell and i'll leave the key unde the mat. other news my next door neigbour seems to be collecting olde good guitars he has an sg and a competion start orignal paibnt ect i have only spoke to him twice the frist ocurarce to find out he works in an abatuir (killing things) and the other time collecting ex=pesincve guitars. trying to talk to mmyt neighbours is allmost impossible i hangarounds out side the front waiting for them to appear and when they do they run past me and dive into their transporters. Sorry getting off the tracks... strange giant sand fact... stevie wonders dog doesnt own any G.S records unlike his owner stevei who says" um um um yeah i just called to say giant sand are my number one band and i love you" prehaps if the record companioes picked these things up you might sell more albums. next time on gs news see what steven segal had to say when he first listened to shive"..after a long day meditiaing and wife beating theres nowt i like more than to get home kick off me heels and go du dumdu dudm deed dee 1973 this song means the most to me as i fell off a concker in this year and kept my first pony tail" cheers steve!!!

Date: Wed Oct 15 10:24
trey (howe...the kids are all right!):

Had Chore on during a lab in my Advanced Biology course this a.m. Several students inquired about the vibrations; said they really liked it...pretty cool, considering the radio-wave turds foisted upon them here in the cultural abyss of the universe (Flint Hills of Kansas). [last year's classes really liked Cover Magazine and Center of the Universe (it rocks out, man)]

Date: Wed Oct 15 09:34
vladivis (to gazelle):

Looks like you made my neighbours (un)happy, will try to jump on the next train. Thanks for reaction, bye.

Date: Wed Oct 15 08:07
tom (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

Greetings from the graveyard shift.It is stupid o clock in the morning,front desk at the hotel congress here in Tucson,it has been many hours now since there was any sign of life.Some Japanese tourists booked in but didnt leave any plums so I couldnt pretend to be Screamin Jay in mystery train,shucks.It is howevever a beautiful night,winter is upon us.It would be nice if the cactus could change colour in the winter,maybe a nice tartan.I found a horny toad yesterday,crazy little critters,squirt blood out of their eyes when threatened and look like props in a ray harryhausen flick.Mmmmmmm coffee and delirium.

Date: Wed Oct 15 06:36
Lars (larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk):

Uuhhh, Rene!!! You're my saviour! The guys who travelled with the band told me they didn't record (even though they said they would - I guess they were busy). So it's an audience recording then? Well, never mind, I'm VERY interested in getting a copy once you get it done. Apparently they played some new stuff (and that cover song in German, that I don't know much about). I've got plenty of Under Byen live (radio, audience and soundboard) in case you're interested. Let me know, okay? Cheers. / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 15 05:31
rene (still fixin bugs):

hello everybody! the concert of under byen in the malersaal hamburg was great one hour perfect music so everybody yelled for more but... i recorded the concert but i'm very busy so the mastering will take a little time - hope it sounds fine the evening was it!

Date: Tue Oct 14 23:15
poitras (another blacky review):

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1058

Date: Tue Oct 14 19:28
jy (elephant liberation):

a couple years ago my friend the sponge and I freed this 3ft 50yr old wooden elephant from a political center window display through some bolt cutting action. after keeping it in a basement for 2 years, and accidentally breaking its leg, the elephant got fixed up & decorated by meself and the beautiful ms. cutie pants. the decorations were, hmm, different than what was intended by the original painters. Said window display was then broken back into, where said elephant was redisplayed. we replaced the lock, but kept the keys. alas, no mention of it in any paper. It was even up for 3.5 days. Ah well.

Date: Tue Oct 14 16:51
a gazelle (to vladivis ):

sorry dude, but i am running out of $$$ to send this thing off. hop on the next bandwagon. best wishes!

Date: Tue Oct 14 14:46
Simon (xgiantrust@yahoo.co.uk):

Thanx to Paul, any who don't have the Club Crawl disc yet, get in touch.

Date: Tue Oct 14 13:29
e(m) (oh wait):

Oh wait, never mind the flyers didn't get blown away...I'm not depressed anymore.

Date: Tue Oct 14 13:28
e(m) (sad story):

that's a really sad story, Howe. There's nothing more depressing than seeing your flyers blown away in the wind. Well maybe there's some other things but that's pretty depressing.

Date: Tue Oct 14 13:01
howe (honed):

dear mister glue master flasher. your entry reminds me of a time during college when i was inspired by a visiting sculpturist. she was paid way too much money to come and display her piece, which turned out to be a lot of barbed wire laid out on the art department's lawn in 4 or 5 rows. one night i found myself dressed in black, head to toe... ski cap too. there in my hand i felt the shaft of a large wire cutter. springing from tree shadow to tree shadow like a cartoon, dodgeing the sparkling glare of the security cart's prowl. and then squiggling along the lawn steve mcqueen style making my way up to the barbed perimeter. sproing went the first row. sproing goes the next. sproing sproing sproing releaseing the art building from its sad capture. and then a wriggley crawl back to the happy warmth of living room aftermath. sadly, no one ever mentioned the action. i thought the sculpture would have been proud she inspired such afirmative action. but no. nothing was ever mentionned. i was about to put up flyers but then got scattered and forgot. sigh. -shadowy pup howe

Date: Tue Oct 14 12:17
Alan (Fall-ing Glue, or Positively Glueful):

Eat Yourself Sniffer??? (scary thought)... or "And sometimes they say 'Hey Mark you're spoiling all the gluework' / And sometimes they say 'Your snifferprints are on the gluework'"... it starts to get scary after that... Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen The Fall, Falling James and Glue in the smae room at the same time (much less on an architectural tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water)? Hmmmmmm.

Date: Tue Oct 14 05:32
iang (gillanian@aol.com):

Just got my copy of 'Club Crawl' from Pauk K. Cheers Paul thank you very much. In keeping with the deal I now offer 5 copies to anyone who wants them. Get in touch via the above email address.

Date: Tue Oct 14 04:38
SeanT (Gluefall):

And they Wrote Elastic Man

Date: Tue Oct 14 01:30
J (Let's not call it):

anything called *tribute*

Date: Tue Oct 14 01:29
J (Sean that's because):

They are hatstand

Date: Tue Oct 14 01:28
J (Ivars in australia):

Do I owe you 1 cd? 4 for 3. howe's the fandango Howe? Mike? Anyone who knows?

Date: Mon Oct 13 11:30
SeanT (Glue v Mark E Smith):

I see a similarity with The Glue and The Fall's front man's ramblings...

Date: Sun Oct 12 17:58
J (james how about):

sychophanticidic fandagoid? Or maybe not. Hoping to recieve my australian trades soon Ivars...

Date: Sun Oct 12 16:58
james s (later):

I told Marcia that I posted the first verse of the poem," Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" by Cummings, but changing "how" to "howe", and she said, "sycophant." I said, "I love you; I truly do. What a great response!" She then said, "You all should call your CD 'Sycophandango'." It made me laugh.

Date: Sun Oct 12 14:40
james s (E. E. Cummings):

anyone lived in a pretty howe town, (with up so floating many bells down), spring summer autumn winter, he sang his didn't he danced his did.

Date: Sun Oct 12 10:15
vladivis (to gazelle):

Hello Gazelle, If you are still looking for someone to send the club crawl thing to, I'would like to be that one. As I don't have equipment to spread it further I promise I will play it loud enough so at least 5 neighbours can hear and enjoy it (If I only get positive reactions I could do this for 5 consecutive days). I hope this counts me in. Bye

Date: Sun Oct 12 09:10
Lars (nozyy):

So Frank, how(e) was the Danes in Hamburg? Kinda curious. ;-D / Lars

Date: Sat Oct 11 15:09
Scott (drillkill88@hotmail.com):

Howe,any chance of returning to New Orleans,either on your own or with GS? you guys were amazing at Tipitina's in....egads 1989? I have a cassette of the show buried somewhere,hopefully it still plays. Love everything you do!

Date: Sat Oct 11 08:22
Lars (this and this and that):

A little reminder to whom it may concern: Under Byen is playing tonight in HAMBURG! I wish I could go, but unfortunately. Eh, by the way, the band is pro-taping - soundboard and all (violinist/saw player Nils seems quite happy when people will record). #### I hope the panda will find her way to the board soon, so she can satisfy J's couriosity. :-) #### Went to a show with Do Make Say Think and Berg Sans Nipple last night. Great, great evening. Beautiful - and exciting. / Lars

Date: Sat Oct 11 01:45
Conch (good to read ya again glue sniffa):

I think we guys just got the liner notes for Fandango:

Date: Fri Oct 10 23:27
glue sniffer (hello folks and mr quincy FREE TOY INSIDE):

so whats the deal got time to steal setting sail like a human yogart. just got myself a little artists den for all mamnor of incidents indciencies and ect. spent all day talking photography in a college that not some years but less years ago i was once a student. no word of a lie ( by now there should be question of the authentisity of my tales) just before we left college. i snuck in one night and painted all the doors bright pink with a colloege at the time (he has moved up in world now works for london undergrund as a telephonist) so yes felt strange guilt as met head teacher bloke and shared a glass of wine. No fellow sanders i did not forfill that lagging potentioal that dwells deep within us all and spout rehtoric at the man instead i feld. i have never claimed to my now 4 am sober knowlagew to have ever been a fighter i am quite easily ejected but again adu. so any way im back at the place i sepnt years 16-18 or some of the time atleast or more acuralty a small propotion of my time at most. it was here at the college that i first listed to the Giant Sand tm through vic chesnutts song giant sand. i found the tuppaware refferace just to bizzar and so left at once to persue this enigma alas no records no listings no fans no band. so with my legendery hardworking nature i let it lie untill by complete and strange chance, my legendary social life left me looking at magazines in wh smiths, uncut isue 2 had a free cd within witch was wonder and delight. Being poor studenty and spending all money on afore mentioned green paint and aslo rebelling and trying to impress my now sleeping lady i peeled off the cd stuck it deep within my many layers and left. getting home it was my sisiers 5/6/7/4/3/ borthday and the house was full of honernrny children using the only cd player at the time to listen to Nellie the elepg=hant a song that has not travelled as well as the name might sugest. any way, after convingchildren to skiddle i unloaded my cd in to the player and pressed play............. Today i am not ashamed to say, this cd (apart from breif affari with old house mate ( who was of course as all sanders know was going to hate it)) has rarley left my side and do you know what like god would have i went back and brought the magazine i had pinched cd from(hidsight being in my case an aethieist suggests i should have brought a copy with new cd that way doubbling my collection. any way to cut a long story into 5 pieces and 2 piceies these joke dont look to work but thereas a chance. Giant sand - Reborn through a cervix of barb wire. Are you sure this fits the tone of your project if not i could always say. GIANT SAND:- BETTER THAN 6 not quite a 9. or GIANT SAND THE TOP TRUMP IN OBSCURE RECORD REVIEWS. one more GIANT SAND - HOW BIG IS THIS.

Date: Fri Oct 10 14:39
J (Mike?):

I repeat, whois Panda, and also will be a south east branch?

Date: Fri Oct 10 14:38
em (Thankyou, Big Julie!):

Horah!

Date: Fri Oct 10 13:32
BIG JULIE (bisbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee):

rumor has it that the danes from the listener album will play wih howe at 2 shows only....new york and chicago. a logistical situational one supposes.

Date: Fri Oct 10 09:10
SeanT (Blacky):

That new Blacky album is a gem , lovin' it . More please....

Date: Thu Oct 9 17:17
dave (Howe tour):

Is Howe going to have the aforementioned band for the Chicago show at Old Town?

Date: Thu Oct 9 15:25
J (fandango):

Who is panda please?

Date: Thu Oct 9 12:07
archivist (........):

Thanks everyone.. Callie and mom are doing great! If you didn't already hear, on Saturday November 29, 2003 Howe with his band from Denmark and John Parish on drums will play @ Solar Culture Gallery 9pm all ages with Marie Frank - from Denmark opening..

Date: Thu Oct 9 09:10
james s (mope along):

that new blacky is perty good. kind of surprised at howe much of the material i'd heard before, in one form or other... still, a good feel throughout.

Date: Thu Oct 9 08:22
Lars (blackydango):

Too bad you didn't get around Danesland, Mike! That could have been a laugh. Good to hear that the fandango is on the move, though. It will be fun to see the Panda-artwork - she's does some cool stuff. Now, all we are missing is da Glueman! ;-) #### Eh, he-he, that Undertoner-review....is by me. ;-D But I guess not many of you understand a word of it. Except the "stars" at the bottom. Me likes it! / Lars

Date: Thu Oct 9 05:37
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

sarah and i will add our congrats to jim and celia..... is there a name yet? also howe's november tour dates, with kristen hersch and andrew bird, have been posted. the fandango is on it's way to tucson, after our aborted journey to the land of danes..... cover art courtesy of panda (must get glue for the sleeve notes) - and our big move south west begins next week.................

Date: Thu Oct 9 05:06
Conch (oh blacky oh blacky):

Not sure if these been posted yet...but here's some current rumminations on the latest Blacky opus: http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/bandofblackyranchette-still.shtml http://www.altcountrytab.com/actforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14671&FORUM_ID=21&CAT_ID=7 http://www.americana-uk.com/html/september_03.html http://www.undertoner.dk/article/review/anmeldelser/pladeanmeldelser/the+band+of+blacky+ranchette:+still+lookin%92+good+to+me

Date: Thu Oct 9 03:09
Lars (On da Scout):

Yeah, Scout Niblett's cool. I was somewhat surprised when Howe started playing her EP live when I had just bought it some weeks before. That EP ("I Conjure Series") is severely weird, ha-ha. Nice. Her first album "Sweet Hears Fever" is absolutely brilliant. Maybe something for Cat Power and PJ Harvey-fans, I dunno...? I can't wait to hear the new one. She's got a website now: www.scoutniblett.com --- oh, an there are two nice mp3s from her first album at Epitonic: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/scoutniblett.html ----- Yeah, Howe's right. Be sure to check her out. Great stuff. She's also got a gooood song on that superb compilation called "The Pet Series (Vol. 1)". A nice disc with lots of great artists. Also a grrrreat track by someone called L.B. Jeffries. Look and listen here: www.thepetseries.com ----- Heydeehoo! (or "hoo ha") / Lars

Date: Thu Oct 9 01:12
howe (home fried):

hello. first of all...happy birthday to young cali blackwood. nice goin ma and pa. secondly thanks for all the yip yap on the greek record. i recorded just my part on the floor in my scatter room...and then grumbled some guitar on it for good luck too....and apparently parently piano. and then sent in back thru the mail like a postcard wishing they were here.... presto plunkaloo....it comes back all well assembled and shrink wrapped. a fine system. thirdly, you people have got to go out and make scout niblett a star. you won't be sorry. she is so fine....and headed east now. she is not from these parts....no way....but she is on the road and in texas tomorrow i betcha. find her. seek her out. assemble unlawfully if you have to, but absorb that which is she. just guitar and drums, but only one at a time with this woman. great great great. - bubbling howe

Date: Wed Oct 8 16:58
james s (pied piper):

my wife, marcia, is teaching a bunch of college freshmen the joyce carol oates story, "where are you going, where have you been," was written i think in mid-sixties, and plays with dylan (all over now baby blue) and is loosely based on an ugly little bit of tucson history involving a crazy fellow called the "pied piper of tucson" http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial2/schmid/ who knew? no relation to giant sand.

Date: Wed Oct 8 16:35
Lars (whoops! + oy ye Geeermans! :-D):

Whoopsidaisy...there's a better link here: http://www.cmj.com/marathon/band_display.php?marathon_band_id=6630 ###### And remember all ye craaazy Germans ;-) ....Under Byen is playing in Hamburg this Saturday at the Schauspielhaus. Doesn't look like I'll make it down there, so I totally reserve the right to envy you 'till I go green in the face. That Schauspielhaus is some place big, I'm told...? Greets sandies and fandango-wait-for'ers! / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 8 14:06
Lars (Wow! From out of nowhere...!):

Well, it's official! Under Byen is playing in the USA!!! According to this page: http://www.cmj.com/marathon/schedule.php?view=venue&venue_id=78 ------- it's two showcases. Both in New York. I wonder if it's just for "da biznezz". Well, anyway, if any of you are in the area, be sure to check them out if you can! Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 8 12:14
dave (Cubs in a car going away):

I'd like to put Carlos Zambrano and Mark Guthrie in a car to Paducah for the rest of the playoffs...I realize this has nothing to do with Giant Sand, so I'll shut up for awhile again.

Date: Tue Oct 7 23:12
Blaine (@home watching the Cubs at home in October??):

Trivia - some years back I saw Ben Vaughn open for LX Chilton. During Chilton's set we were talking while he covered Porter Waggoner's "The Rubber Room" - a really cool song, whose title pretty much explains the lyrics. Ben told me he had a buddy who worked a Nashville tv show w/Porter. When the guy asked Porter about the tune, he claimed to know nothing about it. How is the Fandango project coming along?

Date: Tue Oct 7 22:17
Alan (Blaine Vaughn):

Hey Blaine and Sandies, if Howe's a gonna make a record in a moving car (and, while it is an interesting proposition, it is interesting how[e] "we" keep coming up with ideas for him to execute -- generally w/o consultation or commentary from HG), I can only hope that it is better by comparison to the rest of his opus than Rambler 65 is relative to so much of Ben Vaughn's other material... the recordn just didn't do much for me (which made me sad). Alan

Date: Tue Oct 7 18:37
dave (The Car Over the Lake album - Ozark Mountain Daredevils):

...which wasn't recorded in a car, to the best of my knowledge. That's interesting Blaine, about the '65 Rambler...It's been done before..there certainly have been a lot of tour bus recordings...Jackson Browne might have been the first with "Nothing But Time" on Running On Empty, in which a cardboard box was supposedly used as a kick drum...Maybe Howe needs to record an album in a vehicle WHILE ITS MOVING, or when its going thru a car wash, or during an oil change...I think I've heard what sounds like an impact wrench on his records anyway...I'd volunteer to record a Neko Case album in a car, maybe even a station wagon with wood grain panel on the sides.

Date: Tue Oct 7 16:12
Blaine (not sitting in the back of a car):

This is from AMG re: Ben Vaughn's "Rambler '65" --- Ben Vaughn has always been an excellent roots-rocker and Rambler '65 is anothe worthy addition to his catalog. Vaughn recorded the entire album in his old 1965 Rambler, cramming himself and an eight-track tape-recorder into the car, which functioned as a makeshift studio. While the car studio is nothing more than a gimmick, designed to snag a few magazine articles, the music is hardly trivial, demonstrating his ability to recreate the sound of '50s and '60s rock & roll and country with ease, as well as his talent for clever, memorable hooks that keep tradition alive without being enslavened to the past. — Thom Owens

Date: Tue Oct 7 12:58
dave (Blacky):

Got Blacky last night...Nice job Howe!...particularly enjoy the duet with Jason and the Kurt Wagner moment...I think you guys may be on to something...You could do a whole record of recordings inside various automobiles..The Avis Album..or maybe the The Hertz Tapes..I'm thinking an Econoline Cargo van might give you a little natural reverb..maybe a Dodge Neon if you are looking for an intimate feel...Windows down or up? Hard to do windmill strumming in my VW though....Thanks again for another record...Hope the Sandman series gets rolling soon.

Date: Tue Oct 7 12:53
e (m):

Hi you all. Where's Glue at?? Anyways hi.

Date: Tue Oct 7 12:27
DELIA (snot_younger@aol.com):

Yeah. Have not bought the SIGMATROPIC album yet but I saw the UNCUT ad. Looks very interesting.

Date: Tue Oct 7 12:24
Paprika (weljiu@dellnet.co.uk):

Woooooooooooooooooow! Heard HOWE on the SIGMATROPIC album. What an amazing album. Check it out! TARKUS was right. I also love ALEX GORDON & LAETITA SADIER.

Date: Tue Oct 7 10:03
tom walbank (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

just wanted to add congratulations on the results of miss C.s contractulations.Lots of love to the three of you on this lovely rainy Tucson morning.

Date: Tue Oct 7 09:02
james s (yes):

Sure, J, I'd love to pick a little five string (and not with cheese or a banana) on your track (well, four string, as I busted my high string), sing a little yodel. We'll dedicate it to the health of all !st borns, esp yourn.

Date: Tue Oct 7 05:02
J (Yay):

Babyhood. My !st born is well again as i HEAD OFF TO BED

Date: Tue Oct 7 05:00
stefan (((munich))):

Contratulations, mom and dad Celia and Jim Blackwood!!! All the best wishes to the whole family.

Date: Tue Oct 7 04:44
J (.???.):

pi8s off brrrd

Date: Tue Oct 7 03:49
Cakebaker (quincy come on guys be fair!!!):

Hi guys i joined this group because i thought we were going to discuss episodes of quincy medical examiner and yet all you talk about is music? come on guys theres more to life than this listen to make it easier i'll start, I just watched this episode where quincys all like why i outa and the boss is like we cant afford this quincy and then quincy bangs the table and says people are going to die my god cant we do anything then sam fujiama comes in and is all like quincy somthing strange is happening at the lab and so there all like running then he's on a boat with his crimanily young girlfriend and their all like i love you but then the phone rings and its sam because as we all know sam is jeaolouse of quincys intamacy with women and sams all like hey come here the boss guy wants to see you so quincy jumps in his car with the phone gets to work and theres the senator or company director who to begin with due to quincys door stepping aproach we had all thought evil but now there all like ok lets do it. and then it was the old man smithers who ran the amusment park so in conclusion quincy is just the same as scooby do just without dogs. say hello to my olde friend glue.

Date: Tue Oct 7 03:33
J (james.s):

Bought 'Desire' for Ł4.99, hence what with sicky child and shift job can't find time to 4 trk, but when I do it will be with a song named 'Ugly One' ( old time key of g) to which I would like you to add harmonising vocality and banjo. Anyone else? Howe's the Fandango, or am I the only folk interested these days? Off to bed now. Night little j and Dibsy (Dibsy don't be a strange lurker,be an embarassing gob like me?)

Date: Mon Oct 6 22:52
gazelle (club crawl up for grabs):

that's three people who want the club crawl, so i'm looking for two more. i guess the deal with this thing is to keep spreading the seed. i'll mail them off to you asap, but be sure to offer it up to others once you've received it. it sure is a gem!

Date: Mon Oct 6 19:26
bd (()):

a comment from howe's bro bulky low max haven't seen that name in ages. You folks see the simularities. tasty comment bulky. good to read something different versus all the other quibles.

Date: Mon Oct 6 14:05
j.y. (I think i saw one of these guys downtown today):

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

Date: Mon Oct 6 10:47
Lars (picking):

I saw a guy playing guitar, picking with a banana, the other day. No kidding. (and it was on stage). / Lars

Date: Mon Oct 6 09:18
james s ("our friends, all within reach; and the sun highlights the lack in each.."):

Listening to "Arise Therefore" this morning, I was reminding of what my friend Terry once said about my friend Bob: "It sounds like he's picking his guitar with a piece of cheese."

Date: Mon Oct 6 08:37
Lars (sigma):

Thanks Robin....it still says "Number of Discs: 1", though. Hmmm... :-( / Lars

Date: Mon Oct 6 05:07
robin (archangel@yahoo.co.uk):

hey LARS, the Sigmatropic album - if you only have a credit card - can be bought by www.amazon.co.uk The bonus disc also has Robert Wyatt, Edith Frost & Carla Torgerson + Howe amongst others

Date: Mon Oct 6 02:25
Bulky (lowmax@earthlink.net):

Hey Bro I am stuck in a coalmine, Bromine. Could really use a rope about now. Fast slow in time I know, everyone has an agenda of there own. Weird old visited love of the town today. Parked by some lakes they drained, remembering when they were searching for evidence of my circles past. And just down the road, you recall playing cards with that wild rose. And a few doors down waved my old friends ghost, who just keeps walking down those steps at 7am every morning. And farther through the woods made a left and there she was that Italian love I could have had and still regret. All this just from the short ride home from chicks diner. Which still has the same griller cook and waitresses from twenty some years before. Though old ant Bee is underground but the poker machine stands strong. And the juke box's are still on each booths window, but the page are too rusty to turn. CALL....ME......

Date: Sun Oct 5 18:58
PaulK (old friends):

Blacky rode into town todat and was well welcomed. A great disc, familiar tunes at times but with that country angle. Great titles for John and Joey in the thanks column. Thanks Howe for another goodie.

Date: Sun Oct 5 17:22
Lars (paypal and visa ne pas):

That sigmathing sounds interesting, but the label says "sorry no credit cards". Hrrrmmmmm.... :-( Anyone here know of an online shop which sells it? What else is one that bonus disc? Hm, I wonder if other shops sell it when the label writes "All SIGMATROPIC cd's available through mail order WILL contain the limited edition bonus disc"...? Hm... evening all! / Lars

Date: Sun Oct 5 16:34
robin (archangel@yahoo.co.uk):

Got the SIGMATROPIC album! Yeah you are right, HOWE sounds amazing! My copy even has a bonus disc & it has an alternate version of what HOWE has done. I also love CAT POWER, LAETITIA SADIER & STEVE WYNN. Need to listen more. Definitely the most bizarre thing HOWE has done. Love SIGMATROPIC's music. Has anyone else heard

Date: Sun Oct 5 07:01
Martin (Club Crawl - Gazelle):

Hey Gazelle, if you are offering copies of the club crawl set please count me in. Let me know at crimsonflames@mpmcgowan.freeserve.co.uk. Many Thanks.

Date: Sat Oct 4 15:17
james s (weird):

i before e, except after c, and when it makes a long A sound, and, alas, when spelling "weird" (and Weimar, but that's german)...

Date: Sat Oct 4 13:23
james s (http://www.jamesscarbrough.com/sounds):

There's a new dose of mp3 wierd on my sounds page, url above, for those interested. Hey Mitch, you read the new(ish) Tom Franklin book yet? Thank heavens, I found a little record store (the Vinyl Solution) in this "Sahara of the Bozart" that has the new Blacky on order. The "chain" stores around here really suck.

Date: Sat Oct 4 09:32
graham (grhsmith@hotmai):

Are you offering the CLub Crawl set, Gazelle? Let me know...

Date: Fri Oct 3 20:30
gazelle (thanks stefan):

hey, i got the bootleg of calexico/ giant sand at the club crawl. i haven't had any takers on it yet. where is everyone sleeping these days????

Date: Fri Oct 3 18:25
PORTLY (havingablast@hotmail.com):

Aparently Sigmatropic is a Greek band that does some sensual textured electronica! The album is like a soundtrack & every guest vocalist sings a Haiku poem. HOWE is lucky to have a large poem to sing on one of the most dynamic tracks of the albu

Date: Fri Oct 3 18:21
TARKUS (fredy@comsat.de):

SIGMATROPIC album is out in mainland Europe since last Monday. Should be out in the UK on 13/10. Don't know about USA. Reviewed + AD in this new UNCUT issue. I got my copy from a friend. Maybe AMAZON.CO.UK could sell it soon

Date: Fri Oct 3 16:15
stefan (((aka))):

hi TARKUS, where did you get the Sigmatropic album?

Date: Fri Oct 3 15:17
TARKUS (fredy@comsat.de):

Howe on the SIGMATROPIC album is outstanding. I also think MARK EITZEL and SCLAVUNOS are also impressive. This album is very interesting & it is a very good thing for HOWE to have done because it has a range of very diverse but very different artists on it. Got to be one of my albums of the year for sure. I cannot stop listening to it. It sounds like a soundtrack. Have not heard about a bonus disc th

Date: Fri Oct 3 14:46
Simon (xgiantrust@yahoo.co.uk):

Many thanks to J, anyone not yet in possession of the Archives set get in touch.

Date: Fri Oct 3 13:59
J (A few nice Howe pics):

@ http://www.serialcereal.com/album/bandlinks.html

Date: Fri Oct 3 10:36
PORTLY (havingablast@hotmail.com):

Wow! Has anyone heard the awesome SIGMATROPIC album? Howe's on the album with a superb cast - Robert Wyatt, Cat Power, Laetitia Sadier, Lee Ranaldo & another 13 cool artists. Even though Howe sings on one track, it seems there will be another version of his on a limited bonus disc.

Date: Thu Oct 2 22:45
matt poitras (tape op article?):

Does anyone out there have tape op #12 where they have an article on howe? I aint got it, but i sure would like to see that in the sa-wa-ro article/interview section.

Date: Thu Oct 2 15:45
james s (I'll put on some grits...):

Damn it, Howe, come see us down here, man!

Date: Thu Oct 2 11:54
howe (home on the gas burning range):

ahhhhh.....it was so fine to actually witness the autmunal splendor of jacket weather in the land-o-scando. and now upon return, with october finally here in the desert, it is good to feel the chill of the days dipping down to 96 degrees. we always look forward to halloween here ....which usually means you can finally wear a long sleeve shirt at night. we live for such variation of sleeve lengths this time of year. so.....se you all soon out there with kristen in november. hey.....how come there's no southern route again ? what gives down there ? grumble - howe

Date: Thu Oct 2 01:28
J (clubcrawl):

Still 2 names short of the five... Ian G mail me if you miss out.

Date: Wed Oct 1 22:33
William Rodgers (wrodgers@suscom.net):

I can "Club Crawl" y'all....Anybody got some recent Calexico or Howe shows for trade?

Date: Wed Oct 1 19:24
PaulK (p.kerr@ntlworld.com):

Ian, you just got in under the net, I think I have your address but mail me to confirm. I've got 5 names to send to. Lars, this is a great disc, all five I send to should offer it back so you should get a copy. I'm listening to the 3 disc archives set just now and it is really great. If we want to start trading/weding discs then this forum might not be the best place to do it. Maybe set up a Yahoo group? Any comments on that, anyone. Anyway, 5 days until Blacky descends, all a shiver.

Date: Wed Oct 1 06:22
IanG ((8)):

Hi Paul K, If you aint done 5 copies of 'Clubcrawl' yet please send me on. I will happily circulate another 5. Cheers, Ian

Date: Wed Oct 1 05:57
stefan ((club crawl)):

hi lars, the sound quality is pretty fine for an audience recording, and it was greatly improved by jim b. over the versions that had been around previously. apart from that, the giant sand set is really unique - have you ever heard blue marble girl without the blue marble girl?

Date: Wed Oct 1 05:49
SeanT (Stewart Lee):

Mr Lee , hope you enjoyed the moshing last night @ GBV , hope I didn't interupt too much , but had to say hello . Sean.

Date: Wed Oct 1 05:25
IanG ((8)):

Hi Paul K, If you aint done 5 copies of 'Clubcrawl' yet please send me on. I will happily circulate another 5. Cheers, Ian

Date: Wed Oct 1 05:03
Lars (hrrrmmm...):

"not terribly god"? Now that's a typo! And I was missing a ?-mark too. Nice start to this day. :-) / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 1 05:01
Lars (neat!):

Thanks Stefan. That's a nice tracklist, I must say. Any word on the sound quality. Bad audience recordings I don't need. Even if it's Howe. :-) There are so many good ones out there. By the way, I got a copy of the recent Flensburg show. Super session there, but the sound is somewhat "boomy" and not terribly god. The discman beeps loud, which suggests to be that it's a soundboard, but everything else says something else (audience, sound etc.). How many recordings were made of that show. That long Wayfaring Strange-groove is sooo cool! :-D / Lars

Date: Wed Oct 1 04:32
stefan (((aka))):

Hi Lars, see here for details on the pubcrawl show/cd (great site): http://www.geocities.com/ogmb/1998.htm#980418

Date: Wed Oct 1 03:35
Mikus (m.malcorps@spawater.com):

Hey PaulK, nice suggestion you made there....Really interesting about the CD "Tucson crowl" from 98. I'v got a CD burner (???) and engage me to send it trough. I let you know by "normal" mail... Thanxs Just got the Blacky stuff, here in belgium : Waaaaawwwww wil be the word !!!! It makes me feel standing in a univers I still know (and love), between OP8 and "the rock opera year 2" My fav' is surely "Muss of paradise", so spontaneous and smels so good the "capture of a life moment"... Mikus

Date: Wed Oct 1 02:22
Lars (larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk):

Hey J, what's on that "club crawl"? Eh, and maybe more important: what sound quality is it? And what's your e-mail? Greeties! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 30 17:35
J (any newly found):

download suggestions?

Date: Tue Sep 30 17:23
J (howe/james/lars/paul):

In order: any Fandango response? james, my branch blew out too, I can copy as a lastish resort. lars mail me for the club crawl. paul, do you have the archive set?

Date: Tue Sep 30 17:19
Lars (fandango + vichowe):

He-he, James, flattering Howe, embarrassing myself...? :-D By the way, I stumbled upon a book in an antiquarian book shop the other day. It had a really 50's tacky cover (romantic) and the title was "Fandango Rock". The writer's name was Masters and it was a Danish version. A bit expensive for a book I would never read, so I didn't buy it. But I really thought about buying it and then making a scan. Ha-ha! ##### By the way, anyone interested in the Vic&Howe track-/setlist from Ĺrhus can scroll all the way down on this page: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/howe-soniskpostkort.htm ---- where I have made a little cd-cover. That Felonious has really taken on a stealin' life of its own by now (now it's no only Reed, but also Cohen and Young). :-D

Date: Tue Sep 30 16:44
james s (Sonisk Postkort ):

I haven't gotten it yet, Lars. Neither has my branch. I hope we can get the Fandango thing out soonish. Hope Howe digs it, or is at least a bit flattered by it.

Date: Tue Sep 30 16:26
Lars (www.larsdideriksen.com):

Just had to write a review of the new Blacky for www.undertoner.dk (it'll take some days before it's uploaded - AND it's in Danish) so I have been listening very closely to that disc, of course. And it's really a record that opens up to ya' when being spinned a lot of times. That "Getting It Made" is really brilliant - even though Howe's not singing on it (heh?). Ooh, and the new "Mope-A-Long". Neat, nice and nutricious! ;-D ##### So what's happening around the board here? Howe's back in cactusland, Aarhus is getting pretty cold by now (because of lack of Tucsonian radiance?) and yes, the concert season is starting (Damien Jurado, Grandaddy etc.). ##### Has the Sonisk Postkort still not made the rounds? Any more info on that "pubcrawl" cd just mentioned here? Greets! / Lars

Date: Mon Sep 29 19:35
PaulK (p.kerr@ntlworld.com):

Thanks to Stefan I've got the Calexico/Giant Sand Tucson Club Crawl CDfrom 98. Sounds great and as promised i can send copies to 5 people who will promise to send it on again. If you don't have a CD burner let me know, I'll count you in.

Date: Mon Sep 29 08:45
TRACEY (halifax in a hurricane):

I had a dream about howe a few nights ago. can't remember details but it felt good when i tried to remember. i think that i happened upon a surprise performance and i was the only one who knew who he was. may have been inspired by a story of a show in toronto recently. damn being stuck dreaming on the east coast. today i watch the news from my temporary home in newfoundland to see that a severe hurricane has battered my home town. made me think of the song. way worse than the hurricane howe remembers. a paramedic was killed in his ambulance in front of the hospital by a falling tree. most of the trees have fallen.

Date: Mon Sep 29 08:43
TRACEY (halifax in a hurricane):

I had a dream about howe a few nights ago. can't remember details but it felt good when i tried to remember. i think that i happened upon a surprise performance and i was the only one who knew who he was. may have been inspired by a story of a show in toronto recently. damn being stuck dreaming on the east coast. today i watch the news from my temporary home in newfoundland to see that a severe hurricane has battered my home town. made me think of the song. way worse than the hurricane howe remembers. a paramedic was killed in his ambulance in front of the hospital by a falling tree. most of the trees have fallen.

Date: Sun Sep 28 17:33
Lars (palmer + cowboy-boot-s-legs):

Is this the season of "rock stars" to go to the "choir invisible" (or whatever the English phrase is)? Robert Palmer too now? And he was only in his mid-50s. ##### Something else: Mr. Blackwood, I will send the recording of Vic & Howe to both Vic and you (once I have some blank discs). :-) Then I guess, you can pass it around stateside to those here on the board who are interested or what? (Howe etc.) I can make a few copies around these parts of the world (like, for those craaaazy Germans, ha-ha). I'm listening to it right now, and it's pure magic (and I got a nice dude to do a digital transfer directly from MD til HD). Nice! Hm, by the way, in case anyone stateside wants it from me I can say, that I'm on the look-out for live-boots with M. Ward solo. His solo acoustic thing supporting Yo La Tengo in Ĺrhus was fantastic! And his records are somewhat different. Plus: his superb "Wolfy"-cover would be nice to hear again. :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Sun Sep 28 16:42
claydingo (finvarra@chariot.net.au):

Referring to some chatter a week ago on that "from the archives" 3 cd set this sandfan from the great southern land interested in trade for that set. my string and tin cans not handling the ftp stuff these days well never did on most days. any volunteers can email me offline - I have a pretty good list of tradeables

Date: Sun Sep 28 16:12
J (James s):

Still didn't unpack the 4 track, sorry. Almost bought a vintage Windsor banjo today, hope it's still there next week... (It weighed 5 times like it looked it would, walnut and steel I reckon)

Date: Sat Sep 27 13:29
Graham (James S):

If you are on a Hesse kick, you must read Demian next. It's my favorite of his. I,too, remember Howe's southern tour promise sometime last year. I'm gonna hold him to it. You enjoying Alabama? See that Califone's in Bham next week?

Date: Sat Sep 27 12:42
james s (graham):

Yup, that quote was pulled from Hesse. I read Siddhartha, then Narccisus & Goldmund, and now Steppenwolf (from which the quote was pulled). Loved them all. As to Howe missing the South (east) again, I was going to post a complaint about it myself, but... if you go back far enough on this board, you'll find a post from Howe saying that it was indeed time for swinging through the South, and that he'd try to get through here in the Spring (of 2003). Oh well. I had to fly to Chicago to see him the one time I've seen him. I may have to work up the funds somehow to do that again on this tour. It's going to be too good to miss, I would imagine.

Date: Sat Sep 27 00:59
roach (in the desert):

Do any of you Sand fans have scorpions in your house? the kind that live in the bark...how about this Corb Lund fellow...any information?

Date: Fri Sep 26 20:49
Graham ("Those who praised me the most understood me the least"):

James are you quoting Hesse? Demian? Just curious. And what the hell keeps our hero out of the south--why will not ya cross the Mason Dixon, Howe? I'll make the drive, wherever.

Date: Fri Sep 26 19:40
SeanT (The Cramps):

Just got in from seeing The Cramps - stunning .

Date: Fri Sep 26 15:19
Erik (portland sandfan):

About the tour, here is what I got.... An Evening with Kristin Hersh, Howe Gelb and Andrew Bird: Kristin will be touring the US with Howe Gelb and Andrew Bird through the month of November 2003 in support of The Grotto. All dates have been confirmed except where noted. We hope to see you there! November 6 - The Middle East, Cambridge, MA November 7 - Knitting Factory, NY November 8 - Arlington, VA (to be confirmed) November 9 - Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA November 11 - Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH November 12 - Southgate House, Cincinnati, OH November 13 - The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI November 14 - Vertigo, Bloomington, IN November 15 - Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL November 16 - Luther's Blues, Madison, WI November 19 - Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA November 20 - Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR November 22 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA November 23 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA

Date: Fri Sep 26 10:56
Blaine (@work - FYI --):

This is in the current mailorder Village Records: THE BAND OF BLACKY RANCHETTE STILL LOOKING GOOD TO ME This band is a side project of Giant Sand's Howe Gelb. It features him and various guests doing some alt-country not unlike the X side project The Knitters. The coolest track on this one is a duet with Neko Case and Richard Buckner that will have fans of both artists smiling for days. For those of us who enjoy side projects like the Knitters and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts a disc like this is heaven. Think of it as country music for rock and rollers. It was recorded here and there whenever a mic could be hooked up or where there was electricity. Thrill Jockey $15.99

Date: Fri Sep 26 09:10
james s ("I stood for a moment on the scent, smelling this shrill and blood-raw music, sniffing the atmosphere of the hall angrily, and hankering after it a little too." - HH):

Blaine, in all humility, I must confess that filler is about all I'm capable of. It's a question of the degree of filleratiusness. Every song mostly filler, so in that sense, the record as a whole is made up of %100 filler, but each song, in itself, contains only about %69 filleratiusness (except for the three I'm doubting and wanting to replace, which are running at about %87). Or, if you'd rather, you can look at it as an ironic title. Is it the weekend? Wow. Sorry to take up so much room with this nonsense. Have a good weekend, Sandoramas.

Date: Thu Sep 25 18:47
dave (Hersch (sp)):

...

Date: Thu Sep 25 18:46
dave (Bird Howe Hersh):

I saw that trio is scheduled for 11/15 at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Sorry if that's already been discussed. Don't know about Milwaukee.

Date: Thu Sep 25 16:31
J (simon I don't know why that is...):

point your mail at woodpile99/don't hack me or be bad AT-yahoo.com. Nobody else had a problem it seems...

Date: Thu Sep 25 15:42
Blaine (@work):

....wait ...let me sort this out James. 100% filler is being edited to contain 0% filler? Is that truth in advertising? FYI -- Howe & Kristen Hersch & Andrew Bird are rumored to be playing Madison WI 11/16. Any confirmation?

Date: Thu Sep 25 14:54
Simon Parker (xgiantrust@yahoo.co.uk):

J/ my mail keeps comming back from your woodpile. address, have you another .

Date: Thu Sep 25 11:10
peter ((still lookin' good to me, blacky 4)):

fantastic blacky, howe. when it ends it's so sudden cause you're wanting to hear more, nice build-up beginning with "bored lil' devil" right up to that last treasure "square". ("out of the past and right in time. you're one of the last few one of a kind. way to beautiful to fill any magazine. finer than the finery splayed well on the silver screen. you're way to real for wide appeal.")

Date: Thu Sep 25 09:12
james s ("shady politician in my bed, tying bolts of lightning to his head..." - MB):

Em,i did get your new address. i haven't mailed the cd yet, because i've decided to do a little more work on it. two of three of the tracks really suck, and i'd like to replace them with something a little more interesting. so... i'll let you know via email before i send the revised "%100 Filler" your way. same, obviously goes for you, mitch, blaine, j, whoever else said they wanted one.

Date: Thu Sep 25 02:34
Mikus (for jan Roems) (m.malcorps@spawater.com):

Hey Guy... So sorry coudn't burn for this time the double CD from the Sandman serie "Howe at Mozart Cafe"... I had a lot of things to do and expatriation at this time... But now I will send the stuff in Antwerpen... Really sorry Mikus

Date: Wed Sep 24 17:57
SeanT (sean.tracey@btinternet.com):

J - mail me and we'll sort it out . Thanks Sean.

Date: Wed Sep 24 17:02
J (Sean):

Trade if you want. Howe, heard the fandango?

Date: Wed Sep 24 03:50
TurtleWolf (Hero):

Maybe Miramax should've cut an additional 90 minutes from it. The trailer pretty much paints the whole picture. Not meaning to be too harsh, but Hero just doesn't do justice to Zhang Yimou's best work, and I'm still perplexed why he felt inclined to jump into "Crouching Tiger" mode. Especially since he had stated in the past that he wishes to make films in China and has no desire to cater to western audiences. Otherwise, I'd be happy to see Vic. C in just about any context. He would have made Hero a more artful film, without question. :)

Date: Wed Sep 24 02:57
Lars (this and that):

Apparently Miramax cut between 20 and 40 minutes from "Hero". I wonder how the original is then. ##### I saw and animated French flick in the cinema the other day called "The Triplets from Belleville" and I was pretty amazed. A unique visual style and a beauty to behold. Really original. And a weird story too. :-) Check it out if you can (search for "Belleville" at IMDB.com for a little info). #### Vic was great here in Copenhagen last night. But somewhat different than the Aarhus gig. In Aarhus he said he was gonna smoke pot after the gig. And considering last night's gig was in Christiania I wondered if he had smoke before the gig. :-) He seemed a little different than last time. Still a nice show here in the capital (that had a major blackout yesterday too). Greeets! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 23 21:23
em (Hey James):

whens my see dee a comin??? I eagerly await it. and did I ever give you my new address???? hi everybody

Date: Tue Sep 23 19:13
TurtleWolf (movies):

Lost in Trans was very good. It reminded me of French New Wave cinema, but in a modern context. I thought Bill Murray was wonderful. I recently saw Yimou's Hero and was very disappointed. It lacked the narrative strength of his earlier films and seemed to pander to the Crouching Tiger hysteria. The films Yimou made with Gong Li are fantastic, but something has been lacking since they went their own ways. It's not unlike what happened to Kurosawa's movies after he and Mifune stopped working together.

Date: Tue Sep 23 18:11
Conch (lost in translation):

First off, I've never met a Will Rodgers I didn't like. Secondly, Neil Young & Elvis Costello...yep yep yep. And lastly, anyone else seen the Lost in Translation flick? I rather liked it...rather. Bubblin' with anticipation for Blacky's big ride...guess that's "fourthly" in both senses.

Date: Tue Sep 23 15:33
William Rodgers (wrodgers@suscom.net):

Hey Jorg. Anyway to persuade you to send a copy of the 3 cd set? Thanks.

Date: Tue Sep 23 13:55
Blaine (@work):

FYI - Mute/Rough Trade is releasing a comp titled Country whcih includes cuts by Giant Sand, Rainer and Calexico -- out 10/27/03 -- As Howe Gelb says in his introduction "this is country, without a country"

Date: Tue Sep 23 13:44
glue sniffer (i you think that last tribe was bad...):

.... i once smoked a cigar i found in a urinal. godss honest valintines daY the ladyt was not amusded

Date: Tue Sep 23 12:00
fan (fan@fan):

old gs features on net 1990 http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/writing/writing_gs1990.html 1996 http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/writing/writing_gi1996.html 2000 http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/writing/writing_gs2000.html

Date: Tue Sep 23 11:29
james s (woodpile J):

ready when you are, 4 tracker... can't wait for new blacky...

Date: Tue Sep 23 09:09
SeanT (J ( ARCHIVE SETj@spam-me and die-(ignore)woodpile.co.uk):):

J and Jorg , what should I do then ? U.K or Germany ? Jorg I'll still send you that little present whatever country I use .... Sean

Date: Tue Sep 23 04:54
stefan (((aka))):

nice little story. about a year ago i gave a copy of „infiltration“ to a friend not familiar with giant sand before. he’d become interested after hearing „corridor“. i saw him again last weekend, and played some old giant sand. he said he recognized them right away because „this guitar is unique“ (which has a nice appreciative ring to it in german that may be lost in the translation: „diese gitarre gibt es nur einmal“, approx. „no-one else plays guitar like this“). i liked that a lot.

Date: Mon Sep 22 18:21
glue sniffer (my name is sue how do you do your gonna die):

singing isnt giong as weel as excpected for once i guess its all doen to me and the others tho put this in acvtion. that was awful sorry. yes hello i know that there are you wuith whom baited v=breath awaith my preachjing. been in a pub quiz do these exzizt outside of my sumful shrewsbury i dont know. it would be good im sure to travel to vistit you all and eat an egg at everone sander fan and those planers fands homes and laird. i got a well good camerea got to be carfull cause my fine lady is on the prowle im sure she me thinks is gone to the dogs or at least the horses i am writing poetry how does this get availble and i bought a good camera and drank for a while so excuse the dilema the question is in . my poetry avilbel;e for one night lodgings ion your felt. going sking up the paoper mountians tommowrow i bought a camera can i take your picture good is love in the god world of me and a finger. on a lighter note jhabving had a minuet to breath i was windering if the answers to aaat uscons question was 23 because i like yhthbe odds. i can not read anny of what imwritebn prehaps hahahah lars shpould taske over. ps can i have the free things cheers love dan off the wagon off the road and broken the bones againe. with a big kissing to all my frineds and a special mention to my nes=w caream that idsnt here yet but im sure will be and frogs

Date: Mon Sep 22 17:52
Simon (xgiantrust@yahoo.co.uk):

J, please count me in for a copy of the Archives, can trade or send blanks if you prefer, summer is truly over here in the UK, the soccer "stars" have started fighting.

Date: Mon Sep 22 15:00
J ( ARCHIVE SETj@spam-me and die-(ignore)woodpile.co.uk):

Archives 3 disc thingy- Maybe I should have been more specific, less drunk etc. If a few UK based folk (preferably,for postal costs) (Hello Sean) Get in touch then I'll happily trade 2 for 1 on blanks or work out a mutually beneficial deal. Ian Gillan, if your reading, I guess I owe you a freebie. And you Paul K. James S, the 4 track jam thing will probably start soon this end now Britains' endless summer has proved (Semi) illusory.

Date: Mon Sep 22 14:46
Lars (zounds for ze Germanz...):

Eh, to any German sandfans in the vicinity of Hamburg: Under Byen is playing a gig in town on the 11th of October. Hm, at the Schauspielhaus if I'm not mistaking. The Hamburg show is the only one in Germany this time around....until they hopefully come back some time in the future. Be sure to check them out. I can't recommend them strongly enough. Info and sounds at www.underbyen.com (and some at www.supertanker.tk as well of course). :-) / Lars

Date: Mon Sep 22 11:13
Jörg (From The Archives):

All 4 of you got mail :-) Jörg

Date: Mon Sep 22 10:28
Javier (javieribanez@yahoo.com):

please, count me in as well!

Date: Mon Sep 22 09:14
Paul L (paul-linton@beeb.net):

Am also interested in the From the Archives CD!

Date: Mon Sep 22 07:56
tom (tom.vervoort@chello.be):

count me in too Jörg

Date: Mon Sep 22 06:26
SeanT (sean.tracey@btinternet.com):

Jorg , I'm defo intrested in the from the archives , what's next ? Sean.

Date: Mon Sep 22 05:30
Jörg (From The Archives - more re-weeding):

Thanks to Stefan (& Jim Blackwood, of course) I'm also able to pass the great 3CD-set "FROM THE ARCHIVES" on. The setlist is here: http://www.kxci.org/rainer/sand/11-3-01cs.html (set comes with a bonus Calexico KXCI-session). Will send it out for blanks. I will contact the next 4 people who post a note of interest right here on this board (don't forget to include your e-mail adress). Cheers, J.

Date: Sun Sep 21 03:32
Lars (niiice!):

Listening to music half-drunk at night ain't at all bad. Neither is the new Blacky. Nice combo there, Torben. :-) The cd sounds better and better with each listen (and that's coming from a person who's each ain't at all tuned into country music - but I guess there's Howe enough in it). :-) Have a great Sunday, folks. Now I'm off to Copenhagen for a few days. And I might even catch Vic Chesnutt again at Loppen on Christiania this Tuesday. He-he. / Lars

Date: Sat Sep 20 19:18
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

wow .. what a saturday evening .. had good old friends over for food .. we had a beer, a few bottles of wine, coffee & whiskey .. the kids had icecream and played all evening ... we had some great music talk, movie talk, kids talk, just talk.... our guests have gone home to put their kids to bed .. my kids & the "old lady" went to bed about 45 minuttes ago and I'm sitting here a little drunk empty'ing the last bottle of wine listening to GUESS WHAT ... Band Of Blacky Ranchette .. yes lucky me my good ol' buddy Finn (wee little nutcase, hairdresser, meatpacker, t.shirt seller, Russ' 199? tour "Finn Inn" manager, writer, cardboardbox maker, gaffaman, ad salesman ect. ect. ect.) brought me a brand new copy (made me realize the meaning of love/hate relationship & why I don't hate him all the time).. Great stuff .. awesome 3 folded digipack with lyrics & everything ... GREAT ... and what superior sounds ..."The Trainsinger Song" could there be a better starter ?, awesome guitar twangs on "Working on the Railroad", did you say lo-fi? "The Muss Of Paradise" Howe & Kurt Wagner outside the Nashville int. airport & "My Hoo Ha" great & "Searing Wine" (hand held field recording), "Getting it made" feat. Richard Buckner & Neko Case singing, "Mope-a-long Rides Again" & "Left Again" the return of old friends, "Square" live in Nashville, "Bored Lil'Devil", "Airstream" Cool old live rec. from Germany. 14 super cuts..... I think it's been 13 years since the last Blacky album.. this one was worth the wait ..... all in all a good way to spend and end this sat'day...TDH

Date: Sat Sep 20 19:02
black sand in swim trunks (gbates435@hotmail.com):

I take it Mr. Gelb has expatriated?

Date: Sat Sep 20 19:01
black sand in swim trunks (gbates435@hotmail.com):

I take it Mr. Gelb has expatriated?

Date: Sat Sep 20 17:44
AAtucson (odetoglue.com):

Tis a band in ttown that mey be of interest to you Glue by the nom de Winelord. Thjngs tha\t make them sweet are thet ther sexy ladies an d they dress in matching sexioutfits. Last time I saw them they were make pertend huffers and a cross their sample chests pithy sayings such as the words “I’m with huffer” and “I’m a huffer wouldn’t you like to be a huffer too?” were emblazened. And practicularily insteresting wer the vowels in these seyings beecause they seamed to live in all the rite spots if you know what i meen and I think you do. So glue your claim to dfame has flamed cross the atzlantic and cross the prayeries mountains and desserts of this country oh boyardee and lighted a fire in the hearths of thes special sezxi ladies in Tucson so you should come for a visit and see them for youself. And if a band of band ladies that whorship you aint’ une oeuf we can by hooch here without ever leaving our cars but the downsides of that is we can’t imbribe ourselves in the car but must be outside in the desert or inside in our casas and to make it even worse they don’tm let us byu after 1:00 an , which is inhumane and unenlightened to say the lest and it can be terrible heat here but the combinacion of the rsetrictions and the heat and the ladies and the mescalitos make it bearably wonderful and intensify the drunk.

Date: Sat Sep 20 08:57
stefan (((sandwich))):

rediscovered giant sandwich yesterday - incredible. i had almost forgotten how great "artists" was.

Date: Sat Sep 20 07:36
chris (chris.brooks1@btinternet.com):

HELP, can anybody point me in the right direction for the chords/tabs for 'Blue Marble Girl'..in anticipation Thanx guys..

Date: Fri Sep 19 13:33
Lars (film + sound):

He-he, dude, maybe I should pursuade my local art cinema to put it up, ha-ha. :-) ##### Another note: I just got hold of a new soundtrack featuring an original score by Under Byen. One of the songs has a certain "Listener"-flavour to it, ha-ha - and furthermore it's in English (it's the first time the band has released anything not in Danish). Very good instrumental pieces on there as well, by the way. I wrote a bit on this new cd at www.supertanker.tk ##### Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Sep 19 11:37
geoff (back acha lars):

i don't know if howe has plans to do something with it in the future, but as of now i don't have it streamed. it did show in austin last night at cinematexas...and was well received...it is making a couple more festival rounds for the time being...there was even a the dog breader behind me who couldn't watch the visuals without getting car sick, but did like the song...you can request it from the austin music network, which you can watch online if you have high speed internet connection. go to the videos page and i think there should be a link to get you to AMN.

Date: Fri Sep 19 11:07
to Sarah & GhostofBob ((marianne de tuxon)):

for info, that French song Howe's been taking on is called "Les Forcats Innocents", and "The Innocent Lifers" for its english version. Lyrics at http://www.dakotacom.net/~marianne/marianne/mariannesongs.htm

Date: Fri Sep 19 11:05
SeanT (glue (PROOF I EXCIST):):

Nice oven...

Date: Fri Sep 19 03:36
Lars (Thanks, Geoff):

I googled Howe and the Roswell thing and got to know about the "Pontiac Slipstream" thing. Is it online for streaming anywhere? Would be fun to see. / Lars

Date: Thu Sep 18 23:37
geoff (to lars):

about howe and the spaceship...he is the voice of Dr. Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Fortunato in my animated film "Trip To Roswell". There is a spaceship...and a monkey (richard buckner) and a scientist (victoria williams) and a robot (jon dee graham)...as well as a load of other things. only a short part of the film/tv show has actually been finished (still working on financing the rest--so if there is a wealthy patron reading this, email me)...in the film howe is not actually extraterestial, but he does fly a spaceship, so i don't know how that effects the discussion. if you were in austin earlier this year or will be around sante fe in december or baltimore in october you can see some short episodes of the animation...i'll end my shameless plug now with my website www.swervepictures.com if you are really interested in finding out more about it. ps--even with our poor mic set up and rushed schedule, howe did a fine mad genius/leprechaun job.

Date: Thu Sep 18 20:18
glue (PROOF I EXCIST):

http://public.fotki.com/Johnny-5/party_at_richs/2003_0905_231713aa.html

Date: Thu Sep 18 19:09
J (I would happily tweak the results but):

Get Rene of buxfix.de to asimmilate(SP?) the Fan diddleythango

Date: Thu Sep 18 18:46
J (Stefan count me in):

Ok r-weeding KXCI archive hardcore Sand/Rainer 3 for 6 or trades. Bring on the Fandagothang. Any news on the cover? Innis for a pic, james s for a linocut and Glue for a rant?

Date: Thu Sep 18 18:27
stefan (((munich))):

hi j, thanks for "re-weeding" the set here (it's really taken off on the casadecalexico list; maybe this board here is not so suited for this sort of thing, i don't know). but in fact i have received another show i'd like to share: calexico & giant sand on 18 april 1998 at the club crawl in tucson, an astonishing set, to my ears, blue marble girl still being red cap boy, for instance. it's an audience recording with greatly improved sound over the earlier version that's around (thanks to jim b.). i'll send it out for free to the first 5 people who mail me offlist under stefanmuc2001@yahoo.com and, IMPORTANT, promise to offer it again (for free or for blanks or for trade, as you like).

Date: Thu Sep 18 17:49
Lars (to Em and Alan - on David Thomas):

Yeah, you were right. He was so very great! :-) Loved the avantgardish rock stuff. He played with a Danish backing band called (quite ironically) The Foreigners. :-) Apparently they have made an album together called "Bay City"....which I will check out soon, I hope. I had a bunch of cds at the show, but discovered they were the "wrong ones". And he just gave them away: "Here. They're free. Here. It's not us. It's my favourite band. Here you go. It's not us. It's not us. It's my favourite band". :-) So I got a free cd there: "Jimmy Bell's Still In Town" (something from 1975-76). Listening right now. Quite cool semi-funky-bluesy stuff. ### Funnily David's music live there reminded me a little bit of two Aarhus bands called Singvogel and Picnic (www.singvogel.dk + www.picnic-int.dk). And it was actually the lead singer from Singvogel who recommended that I go to that show. He-he. "Garbage can rock" with piercingly weird lyrics (if there is such a thing). Alli-hoppa, dudes & dudesses! / Lars

Date: Thu Sep 18 17:47
J (lots of things):

''There's nothing so debauched as a man in the throes of an ether binge'' speling isna evratin Novels, I sh****t 'em. Anyone wanna read my unfinished 40000 word masterpiece, or just trade blanks for the KXCI Archive 3 cd set. I promised Stefan I would "Re-weed" It, so here I am, re weeding and gardening at night. Hope james' job is bearable...

Date: Thu Sep 18 17:33
james s (glue):

if I recall correctly, glue started out sniffing photography chemicals.

Date: Thu Sep 18 16:29
Greg Haldane (gmhaldane@odetoglue.com):

Glue, glue, oh glue, what type of glue do I have to sniff to be just like you? Will mere Elmer’s do? Or must I pursue a more volatile brew?

Date: Thu Sep 18 13:37
glue (one mure thong):

i forgot though how im not sure to mention that i did a gig dressed as a minstral and sang songs about trains got drunk and played key boards with space head a hawkwind sliver machine tribute act. and their rodies withch was strange. all so sang with the moon and jazz with fireworks your all invited next year it was great Please note the oppions here are not those of any members of the audience. ecxept the bar man he showed me his whole range of harmonicas and we drank a whisky toast to each. i am going to be a singer

Date: Thu Sep 18 13:32
glue sniffer (deep breath):

hello my bulbus chums how are you doing? good i am trying my hardest to fill in an aplication form for a job being a science technition at a school wroking in the lab late one night. only problem is i cant as we know spell and aslo i cant as you couldnt possibly know except lars who knows all and roots round my bins i have the handwriting of a fish. a fish covered with ink has smeared its nasty ways accross me page and all i know is that the pen is still warm from my touch. enjoying the section entiled Further details. cant quite get my self to put @i am looking forward to working with as much ether as man can inhale and using labority equipment distill my own brews. wichyu obviously im not. well i thought id type a note any way as my lady has nipped out and i cant face another hoppies and qualifications page. Does anybody here have any jobs can do most things as long as they dont involve legs or bycycles as i have a phobia. out mexican eating at least shrewsbury mexican which is a bit like russian mcdonadls or french fries and probably our sandwiches hahahaha and all that car alarms. well another interesting trip into my skull glad to see i made a bad day good. my presence on the vic chersnutt group isnt met with such tangable entusaium i made one man leave after ryming his name with elgro or somthing like that well anyway sleep well

Date: Thu Sep 18 10:32
em (quickly):

Lars..Dave Thomas's so very great:) :) Hi all

Date: Thu Sep 18 10:02
Alan (Lars, David Thomas, Pere Ubu):

Dear Lars: David Thomas isn't like most folks, like Howe he's doing something different with music -- though what he does is hardly at all like Howe's differences. I saw Pere Ubu in San Francisco around 1990 and (after a major technoglitch on the first walk-in... and OHHHHH was David MAD!!!) it was GREAT. His is a twisted observational madality flush with oddly synchopated and moderately atonal sounds overlaid with a quizzical and nasal set of vocals usually focused on travel, cars and backwoods/backroads/back-ness... I've loved some of the recent Ubu stuff and his work with the Pale Boys but also found that some of the other newre material has had to be kept at arm's length. Hope this helps. Alan

Date: Thu Sep 18 08:43
Lars (Aarhuzona live tip for Howe):

Tonight someone named DAVID THOMAS & THE FOREIGNERS are playing at Musikcaféen in Aarhus. Hm, the venue's site says "the founder of Pere Ubu". The description sounds interesting. Anyone here know him? I hought it sounded like something that might interest ya', Howe. But of course, who knows? ##### Hm, Spaceman Howe, y'say, James? Didn't Howe do some voice(over) for a cartoon or something once? Wasn't there some UFO stuff there? Or am I way off here? Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Sep 17 18:21
james s (patti and UFOs):

Hi back at you, Patti. I'm sorry you're sad. Really though, you must stop with this nonsense about Howe being a mere mortal. It can't be. Tell me it isn't so! Surely, he's at least an extraterrestial. Come to think of it, I know he is. I've talked to people who have seen his space ship (the old distortion box).

Date: Wed Sep 17 17:00
Lars (Patti + da punka rockers):

Hmm, I don't think I'm obsessed (I didn't even go to Germany for any of the gigs, ha-ha). Unfortunately I have just got too much time on my hands these days. It's no fun coming out of school in Denmark at the moment. There are no jobs. So I hang around here in Aarhus, going to gigs (not just Howe - a lot of stuff - often more than once a week), surf the web, pay the internet bill and the rent, go to more gigs, buy a few cds, make some websites and start a book (well, I am actually. I can't believe I'm doing it). Hm, speaking of websites: I just totally revamped the site for the Aarhus band Kurve. I think I've mentioned them before, but here's some more advertising: "Hi there! If you like your punk rock with a bit of Balkan-, gypsy- and circus flavours then check out www.kurvekanal.dk " (I just put up a live recording and a little page in English). Good stuff! :-) Relaxed greetings! / Lars

Date: Wed Sep 17 16:04
J (Storm for Len):

Hi Len, wish I could get a copy too... If I get time I'm going to haul deck and amp out of storage and knock up a copy from vinyl just for fun (Heartland too!) And yes I would buy the cd if available. Hi Dibsy ane Bone, + all the sand familia

Date: Wed Sep 17 14:38
SeanT (Patti):

Hello Patti , hope everything is good with you and yours . Sean .

Date: Wed Sep 17 13:38
Patti (Instant):

cyber remorse....sorry Lars I dont even know you enough to take my mood out on you. Like Im not without obsessions. Peace

Date: Wed Sep 17 13:09
Patti (when im):

feeling sad I peek my head in here just to see if Glue has spoken. He always makes me smile. Please dont be sad for Johnny....he's reunited with his beloved June. The angel in black is where he belongs. I bet he found Rainer too. Lars....your a sweet kid but Im a little worried about this obsession with Howe. Remember were all mere mortals. Hi Mitch, Mike, Sarah, Sean, Em James Jim has your baby come yet? Patti

Date: Wed Sep 17 07:24
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

unfortunately howe hasn't heard the fan-dango yet........ we missed the plane to aarhus yesterday.... though just by a couple of minutes, but would ryan-air do anything to help? would they *&@*.... and they could of..... so we ended up going to burnham-on-crouch, and found a nice pub by the river to drown our sorrows in. i'll put the fan-dango in the post later......... was the odense show good?

Date: Tue Sep 16 20:15
tom (...):

I cried too glue. that even rhymes. sighs.

Date: Tue Sep 16 19:08
Len (Lmariner@ telusplanet.net):

Looking for the STORM CD...any leads? Remove spaces in email add.

Date: Tue Sep 16 18:41
Len (Lmariner@ telusplanet.net):

Looking for the STORM CD...any leads? Remove spaces in email add.

Date: Tue Sep 16 18:02
PaulK (Howe guest spot):

anyone know about this album? http://www.tonguemaster.co.uk/newreleases.htm

Date: Tue Sep 16 17:47
J (Howe do you like the):

Twang of the Fandango thang family Gelb?

Date: Tue Sep 16 15:31
glue sniffer (hello it me again):

sorry caught a realy bad case of only posting things when the tiger was out of cage. knocked this on head for today my recent exploits to drinky land have cost me greatly. last night i one a pub quiz with my colleges in the liver school of thought. all nice leg news my one legs ok but my other is a mean mother frugle and wont let me be. leaving me mostly anxsoius and anoying. hello my dear friends and my dearer enimes it doesnt pay to be hated by the poor. must dash to re kindle love flames. i love j cash and i cried

Date: Tue Sep 16 13:49
Lars (Vic+Howe mp3):

He-he, no Patrick there, Guni. If I'm not mistaken it was yet another Dane named Anders. :-) Well, anyway....I put an mp3 up at the sonisk-page on my website: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/howe-soniskpostkort.htm ---- It's Vic with the Howe Home band doing an 11 minute long song (sorry, don't know the title). EH, AND HOWE.... a guy I know in Copenhagen can make a much better transfer from minidisc to harddisk/cd than I can - so I'll let him do it. I can send the recordings to you (and Vic of course) later - so I won't leave it at Scavenger for you to pick up. Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 16 10:09
Guni (oh, oh, Lars):

"I could kiss that sound engineer" – Poor Patrick (I guess it must have been him)!!!!!

Date: Tue Sep 16 06:52
Lars (a bit more):

Hm, maybe just a few words on the gig last night. Howe started out with 35 minutes of Howe Home and Marie Frank (and a grand piano).....with songs like Wayfaring Stranger, Blue Marble Girl, Lying There, Getting It Made and the new Classico (anyone noticed the lyrics on that? A verse or two about band break-up?....which is so "classico" of course). Then Vic rolled in and did an hour, I think - just him and the guitar. I didn't know a single song he played, but that didn't matter. Then Howe Home entered again and acted as backing band for about half an hour. Four songs, I think. This was equally amazing. And it hit me that this was the first time I had seen Howe with one of those cool electric guitars (live, that is). Looked good on ya, dude! :-) As an encore Vic did two requests from the audience. One of them called "Sponge" (or?). And furthermore.....I got the most eeeeviiiil recording of it. Superb soundboard. I could kiss that sound engineer (if it wasn't for the fact that I'm straight). :-) Damn good work on his part too. A nice slo-mo evening. Greets all ye' faithful sandies! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 16 03:48
Lars (that kinda bliss y'know):

Vic.....Vic.....Vic.....(+ Howe...Howe...Howe).......yum-yum-yum (+ recorded). ;-) What an evening! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 16 03:29
SeanT (GLUE):

Mr Glue , how's the leg ?

Date: Mon Sep 15 18:51
glue sniffer (all):

time is too big an event for us all. so some leave and arive and we leave as some perform. but always like glass clear as slate. are those that remind us of our own dear fate

Date: Mon Sep 15 18:16
james s (hello):

just dropping in to say hello. can't wait to hear the fandango. thanks mike and everyone who contributed. cool. holding still to the obits, did i once read that harry crews, sonic youth, and charles bronson went touring around the u.s. in a bus? some book came out of it? Hmmmm. i don't think i dreamed that up, but i may have it all wrong. blaine, i'm still wearing out that patti smith stuff. to those of you that i promised a copy of my third cd... well, there is a delay, as i have realized that even for a james scarbrough cd, it kind of sucks. still working at it. later.

Date: Mon Sep 15 16:39
J (boy named Sue):

Was always big in my house when I wasn't. 'Rolling around in the mud and the blood and the beer' Spelling apologies for my earlier post...

Date: Mon Sep 15 14:53
j (site is @):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jason.jane/ And the Grosse Freiheit is actually at Docks. Also, Bill Carter is not and has apparenyly never been known as Bill Black. Other thasn that I've done my best...

Date: Mon Sep 15 14:50
j (hello):

Hi all, Yes anyone who wants to trade blanks for Sandman 7 or the 3cd KXCI archive set get in touch through my soon to be mistake free cd coversite. Glad to hear the fandango thing is gathering pace, be sure to post your views Howe. I'm sure us contributors would like some feedback. Cheers Mike...

Date: Mon Sep 15 09:10
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

hey, thanks paul...... so far we've had about 250 replies to the email we sent out last month, which leaves about 600 to go.... we'll take it that most of those are reasonably happy about where they are. there's a few branches and organisers that seem to have disappeared so we'll be replacing those with someone more reliable and see how it goes from there. hopefully, we should have this sorted out this month before we move. the sand covers stuff seems to be all in now...... and mighty fine they sound too. i'll be taking a copy to howe tomorrow

Date: Mon Sep 15 03:56
Lars (release):

Blacky's still riding into town on the 6th of October as far as I remember. / Lars

Date: Sun Sep 14 19:20
Paul K (Sandmen in the desert):

They are trying to fix the Sandman tree and discard old leafs and branches that are deadwood. I suggest that we wait until that's sorted out. In the meantime I'm sure that a few of us have the latest so why not send a copy to those who don't. I'll send a copy to geoff, contact me at p.kerr@ntlworld.com . Hopefully others will link up. When's that Blacky surfacing?

Date: Sun Sep 14 16:28
e (m):

thankyou much, Lars :)

Date: Sun Sep 14 12:25
geoff (thanks lars):

...first, thanks lars. i'll download a couple (i have dial'em up modem so it's a slow process)...hopefully i'll be able to get a hard copy soonish ...second...thoughts on the passings...johnny cash, warren zevon, john ritter and charles bronson all passed away in the last couple weeks. for those who knew them personally it can't help but be a very sad time...for those of us who didn't, but enjoyed their work, it is a good time to do just that...rent a movie or put on a record and enjoy what they left behind.

Date: Sun Sep 14 05:34
Lars (on a lighter note...):

Happy birthday, Em! Best wishes. :-) / Lars

Date: Sun Sep 14 04:07
SeanT (CASH):

Comments on JC ? He was a great songwriter and probably one of the most important figures in modern popular culture.Even if you don't like or don't own any of his music , you have music by artists heavily influenced by him...

Date: Sat Sep 13 23:20
tom (...):

respect

Date: Sat Sep 13 21:00
[p (p):

the last comment was not added by Wayne from the flaming lips. I just took one o f his lyrics. Respect also to Charles Bronson who was so great in once upon a time in the west

Date: Sat Sep 13 20:58
p (p):

"What is love and what is hate and why does it matter? Is to love just a waste?"- Wayne- the flaming lips Goodbye Johnny.

Date: Sat Sep 13 18:10
tom (wassever):

any comments on the departure of mr Cash, Glue ? please ??

Date: Sat Sep 13 15:25
Lars (hep-diddley!):

What a bummer with that Sandman-trouble. Still a few tracks from it here in any case: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/howe-soniskpostkort.htm ##### Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Sep 13 15:10
geoff (sandman lost leaf):

any word on ways for us overlooked leaves to get the newest sandman yet?

Date: Sat Sep 13 02:58
who`s better than (RAINER WAITING AT THE GATE TO LET JOHNNY IN):

Heaven is going to be a great place !

Date: Sat Sep 13 02:52
GOOD news (PENCIL tonic):

HOWE GELB at (The Tin Angel) Nov. 9. Phila. Pa.

Date: Fri Sep 12 13:21
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

A sad day. Johnny Cash rest in peace forever. Johnny's health wasn't the best. Hadn't been for a long time. Still the loss is hard to comprehend / accept. I feel somewhat like I felt when Townes passed away. Like I lost a close relative. I only experienced both Townes & Johnny live once. Never ever had a talk to any of them. But feel I know them better than lots of people I talk to daily. Johnny you will live forever in my heart. In deep respect and love Torben

Date: Fri Sep 12 12:50
panda (meetinagain):

well, they must be rumba in the heavenly country hall of fame now.deep glorious angels up there

Date: Fri Sep 12 12:03
e (m):

agreed :(

Date: Fri Sep 12 11:59
john (johnnybarcelona@aol.com):

we'll miss you johnny, coolest of the cool...

Date: Fri Sep 12 07:16
Lars (---):

Ouch. :-( But I guess the signs were there for some time.... R.I.P. / Lars

Date: Fri Sep 12 06:33
Conch (---):

:(

Date: Fri Sep 12 06:19
Johnny has left us (...):

Johnny Cash is dead. We knew it would happen. Especially after June had left him. Now, they'll hopefully meet again. Still, it's too soon...

Date: Thu Sep 11 13:53
Lars (Ahoy, Danes!!! - Torben & Co):

On www.voxhall.dk it now says that Howe will be playing with Vic Chessnut this coming monday the 15th. Looks like it could be a very pleasant evening indeed. (and yeah, of course, I'll be recording if the soundguy will let me). :-) And Howe also does Odense with Vic the day after apparently. I still haven't decided whether to go to that one. The train ticket price is a bummer. Hm, well, now you know, Voxhall's the place this monday! Greets... / Lars

Date: Thu Sep 11 08:35
Jörg (Blacky review):

Lars- thanks for the Blacky-allmusic-link, sounds like a killer album! Waters the mouth...

Date: Thu Sep 11 04:07
JC BROCHARD (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vivonzeureux):

Re : new Blacky album, "Still lookin' good to me" : at http://www.thrilljockey.com, on Howe's bandpage, there's a complete mp3 of Blacky's version of "Mope-a-long" from the album : still soundin' good to me, although it took me over an hour to download tje song due to my failing internet connection ! JC

Date: Thu Sep 11 02:33
Lars (blacky):

Just got a copy (for review at www.undertoner.dk) of the new Blacky. Lovely stuff there. You all got a good thing coming. :-) "Mope-A-Long Rides Again" and "Getting It Made" being especially lovely. And "My Hoo Ha". :-) There's a review (and tracklist) at Allmusic: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80308101041&sql=Azzez975dkrjt ----- Greets, sandies! / Lars

Date: Wed Sep 10 19:19
em (inquiry):

Anybody know the chords to Green on Red's 'Easy Way Out'??? Happy Wednesday, by the way.

Date: Wed Sep 10 02:01
pedro (pedro(at)whack.org):

holy cow, was that Howe sayin' "BLACKY rides again october 6" !!?!?!?!!! I never thought I'd live to see the day. To what saloon will the horses be tied up? Hard to imagine that magic without...well... but the glutton that I am wants some anyway.

Date: Tue Sep 9 17:29
em (weird makes things better.):

Weird makes things better, especially when it comes to marriage. Congrats, J.

Date: Tue Sep 9 17:01
J (cheers, but):

I'm having a weird one.

Date: Tue Sep 9 10:21
james s (yes, J, best wishes indeed...):

it's my last week of uninterupted leisure. i've once again joined the ranks of the employed. whew. i don't know what it's called, because the only thing written on any part of the cd packaging is "sigur ros", but it's the white-ish one with no alien-looking fetus on it, the newest one me thinks.... what a pretty record... dark, narcotic, soaring, euphoric, dream tickles ear candy sublime. bie.

Date: Tue Sep 9 05:01
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

jason........... best wishes - have a great marrying day.

Date: Mon Sep 8 16:07
J (actually, make that):

http://www.buxfix.de/div

Date: Mon Sep 8 16:04
J (Paul K):

Cheers Paul, couple of probs with the covers... I'm told the kxci locals only says Bill Black not Carter (oops, sorry Bill), Also The grosse freiheit is actually 'Docks' Rene has a cover site that blows mine away at (something like) http://www.buxfix.de

Date: Mon Sep 8 14:07
Lars (DOH!):

Look closer, Lars, you stoop! (sorry for the interruption)

Date: Mon Sep 8 14:06
Lars (I.....wonder...):

The discography says 14 tracks on the Down Home 2002 with a track called "Unsung Sage". My disc is without. He? Greets!!! :-) / Lars

Date: Mon Sep 8 11:21
poppinfresh (...):

"It’s a beautiful day, no it’s a horrible day. Maybe I will grin but I won’t bare. It’s a beautiful day, no it’s a horrible day. For the first time in my life I just don’t care." -f.black. His new one comes out tommorow. it's gonna be grand.

Date: Mon Sep 8 06:29
e (m):

R.I.P Warren Zevon. It's another sad day.

Date: Sun Sep 7 18:43
PaulK (Covers):

J, Really good work with the covers. Is there any way we can upload others or would it just be a matter of emailing them to you for you to put on the site. Hope I'm not being presumptious by assuming that others might have artwork to add. I've got a few home made ones but they don't match yours. And I'll need to find out how to do that insect trick, some formication is to hand. Paul - check out the covers at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jason.jane/

Date: Sun Sep 7 16:19
rene (i am not guilty):

heeeyy! I didn't used the refresh button! there are the bugs

Date: Sun Sep 7 16:17
rene (let's fix the bugs):

hello mike - hello howe! sittin on the flensburg gig - cuttin' the second part from cos recording - it's wonderful. yesterday i was in a second-hand record shop and found a cd from a german band called watercolors "horse race one dollar" - does anybody knows that one? howe? a sticker said that your on it - didn't hear your right now, but the guitar, hmmmm - it could be yours - 1993 - chris cacavas is on board, too! so it could be the truth & worth the money ;-)

Date: Sun Sep 7 16:16
rene (let's fix the bugs):

hello mike - hello howe! sittin on the flensburg gig - cuttin' the second part from cos recording - it's wonderful. yesterday i was in a second-hand record shop and found a cd from a german band called watercolors "horse race one dollar" - does anybody knows that one? howe? a sticker said that your on it - didn't hear your right now, but the guitar, hmmmm - it could be yours - 1993 - chris cacavas is on board, too! so it could be the truth & worth the money ;-)

Date: Sun Sep 7 11:34
jah wobble ("We can talk in here nick, it's soundproof." "What?"):

The wobble came into this world with the help of microsoft word's "insert character" command. Once the wobble was there, it took a trip down to the old cut-n-paste for the endless repetition. It was inspired by something somewhere else which i forget. So mike, spying on the ip numbers, eh? Excellent work, indeed. -johnny

Date: Sun Sep 7 05:04
rick (rick@whatisee.com):

mike - can you email me regarding the latest, or the most recent Sandman Series release. Thanks.

Date: Sat Sep 6 19:31
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

johnny yen......... that's a cool wobble..... explain how?

Date: Sat Sep 6 17:53
J (please have a look at...):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jason.jane/ ... Cdr cover/trade site, just begun, can't even write discs 'til tuesday. Howe, did you hear the fandango yet?

Date: Sat Sep 6 06:14
howe (humming):

just humming is all. but i like that wobble comment below. how'd you make it go ? maybe we will open up for mister victorious here in arhus after all. just because he is the greatest. so this is what a danish indian summer is ? i like it....kinda like tucson's winter. sweet and refreshing. its a feel good day. time to head up to the country, mostly cause it's just time to go. i am going to miss this great land. great people. great beer; which i have given up....just to ween myself off gradually so as not to get withdrawl symtoms upon looming leavingness. i think they figured here to keep the country small enough so they can properly take care of it. brilliant !!

Date: Fri Sep 5 23:25
one too many (brewskies):

for a single moment I was sure I had reached giant sand after death.

Date: Fri Sep 5 21:32
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Date: Fri Sep 5 17:38
fernandoro (mates of state):

just had to chime in out of my evesdropping orbit on this one. i saw mates of state once in california. they were very energetic and extremely cute...i believe they are a love couple, or at least they seemed it. glances back and forth during poignant vocals, goo-goo eyes, nice harmonies...good fun.

Date: Fri Sep 5 02:22
J (adam):

thanks for the drive by truckers... Grew up on road apples by the tragically hip, get the same vibe there.

Date: Thu Sep 4 23:02
adam (not commenting just recommending):

Ain't chimed in awhile, you all need to go out and buy the new records from Neil Young and the Drive-By Truckers...real rock music...real good...

Date: Thu Sep 4 21:33
james s (Lars, you lucky pup!):

Bob Dylan's "New Morning" album is a great one to play when you feel like you've got something to celebrate.

Date: Thu Sep 4 19:24
Lars (a gig out of the blue...):

Howe did a really brilliant gig at the very, very small L'Estragon restaurant tonight (I was standing halfway in the bar - not the worst place to be, though). ;-) Uh, good sound there.....and some "bossa nova" with pedal steel....it's not every day that one gets to hear that, ha-ha. I think there was a new song there (plus many of the other new ones from the recent tour). The first one. What was that one, Howe? I couldn't recognize it. It sounded superb. And that different version of "Cowboy Boots" was excellent. Thanks a lot! Uh, and a greeaat ending with "Leather". Yummy! Greetinnngs, dudes and dudesses! / Lars

Date: Thu Sep 4 17:59
GhostOfBobCumming (notagain.com):

Thanks v. much Sarah, for the L'Identique tip

Date: Wed Sep 3 19:21
J (Mike):

Not happy with my branch, but probably only cos hotmail seems to have done the call centre on hold thing.

Date: Wed Sep 3 19:18
J (satanpuppy):

Offer it up for trade, (Noocastle) cd writer by midweek and stereo temp dismantled quiet guitar house here... Blaine's track in? Rob? maybe cdr cover site up on this board b4 bedtime if I can get it thegither (hello scottish sandmates)

Date: Wed Sep 3 17:32
sarah (sa-wa-ro):

l'identique is the title, hope that helps, any more you need to know ?

Date: Wed Sep 3 17:10
GhostofBobCumming (satanpuppy@btopenworld.com):

Haven't previously visited the Comments section, but wondering if someone out there can give me a hand. Have transferred an MD recording of Howe @ Newcastle's Live Theatre back in May onto CD, and am stuck for a track title (actually two). Howe played a song with lyrics in French (co-written with his neighbour Marianne), then played the English version (lyrics included "let's stay identical"). Anyone know the title/s? Thanks.

Date: Wed Sep 3 16:34
mike ([test]):

just checking..........

Date: Tue Sep 2 13:01
Lars (Vic + M.O.S.):

Just got a mail from Vic saying that he would love for me to record the shows. What a nice guy! :-) Thanks again, Eddie. ##### Anyone here familiar with the American band called Mates Of State? I downloaded three mp3s from www.polyvinylrecords.com and just had to order some of their cds. It's a long time since I've heard such a lovely and genuine feel-good vibe in the music I come across. It's a duo with just drums and organ - and energetic vocal harmonies. Their own website is at www.matesofstate.com - but I think the mp3s are only at the label. Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 2 06:40
Lars (Vic):

Thanks a lot, Eddie! I knew about the page, but had forgotten the name and address. It didn't help that they spelled it 'Chestnut', though. :-) I've mailed him now after reading the thing at that site. Just to be sure. / Lars

Date: Tue Sep 2 00:31
Eddie (Lars - Vic Chesnut Tape Policy):

http://btat.wagnerone.com/search.php?oneClick=1

Date: Mon Sep 1 19:18
james s (workers of the world unite):

happy labor day ye on this western side of the atlantic. the rest of you as well...

Date: Mon Sep 1 18:13
PaulK (Spelling!!!!!!!!!!):

.....they even THROW in cover art...............

Date: Mon Sep 1 18:12
PaulK (Steve Wynn):

Hi all, haven't got a musical bone in my body so no contribution for Fandango unless anyones up for some spoken word lyrics in a Glaswegian accent. Certainly wanting to hear what others have done. Anyway, the nice folks at Blue Rose records have set up a compilation of Steve Wynn's Miracles album using various live tracks to produce a live version of the album. It is available to download as MP3 files and they even through in cover art. Go to the Blue Rose site and look for the MP3 page and enjoy.

Date: Mon Sep 1 03:43
Lars (Vic & Pic):

Does anyone here know Vic Chesnutt's "taping policy"? I figured I would like to record both him and Howe, when they play here in Denmark. ##### Nice pics, Tom. Thanks for the link. ##### Speaking of which: still some at www.larsdideriksen.com (hopefully some new ones very soon). :-) / Lars

Date: Mon Sep 1 03:36
innis (re:fandango):

I'd be happy to contribute a photo or two. I'll get onto Mike about it. Thanks J!

Date: Sun Aug 31 19:10
glue sniffer (nutriants and digestion):

'how long have i been her, waiting for this gust? i feel as if my bones ache with a fame the soul could never fill.' She looks like shes waiting for a bus wanting to be fine, sweeping her hands backwards trying to rest on the requested neutral ground. she realises for the first time in a hot wave of gentle exhaustion the power of her own captivity. the relentless danger of her beating heart asking too few questions about too many things. all in her bag is her life, keys to another place a comb some cards and change and the small picture of the other she could never quite release. now as the audatorium of her self slowly filled, within the mumbles of the crowd and the tunning of her orchestra she walked.

Date: Sun Aug 31 16:50
J (amazed):

Very nice pictures on that site Tom, thanks.

Date: Sun Aug 31 08:39
Tom (to be more precise):

http://www.erwinverstappen.be/html/there/full/full_giant.html

Date: Sun Aug 31 08:37
Tom (ATTENTION):

Fellow Sanders, a nice friend of mine who happens to live downstairs, is a photographer, and a very good one. He probably would kill me if he knew this, but he left for southern Spain this morning so i have plenty of time to flee before he gets back, check this out : www.erwinverstappen.be There are some Howe portraits there too. Howe, if you read this, I was with Erwin at a festival yesterday, Erwin eager to make a portrait of Polly Jean Harvey, but the gatekeepers told us we didn't have the right key. Could you put in a good word for a good portraitmaker next time maybe ?

Date: Sat Aug 30 17:17
gazelle (for glue):

glue, will you be my boyfriend? together we could write books in which you ramble on and i try to figure out what the hell you are saying and unravel it for the public eye. i could study you like a science project, and together we could replenish the earth with circus freaks. if i ever write a book about giant sand, there will be a whole chapter focused on you ;OP

Date: Sat Aug 30 16:53
J (The cdr cover site):

Is in the cyber realm, but as yet inaccessible. (Mike, the Sandman thing isn't working but initiative and Ian Gillan brought it home today. Hope the fandango is distributed far and wide. Any takers on the artwork thing? Glue is the obvious favourite for the liner notes. Innis for a pic and james s for a print? Let's get this show on the road. Blaine, Rob S?

Date: Sat Aug 30 12:36
PhilZ (pz123ataoldotcom):

Hey all. I haven't participated in this Board for a long while for whatever reasons having nothing to do w/the music. Feeling a bit revitalized w/the acquisition of Infiltration & Spare Parts & a sunny day ... Infiltration is definitely necessary & really captures the magic of Sand. Haven't explored Spare Parts yet. ...How I first stumbled onto GS.... It was sometime in the early 90's after reading the review of a GS show in Chicago, where the reviewer was favorably comparing Howe to Neil Young, particularly in terms of electric guitar sound/songwriting. The review also commented on GS' albums being very different on an album to album basis, comparing Purge to Center of the U. So anyway, I got Glum upon its release & was blown away. From there I went back quickly to Swerve/Ramp, onto Backyard BBQ, & forward from there. My personal favorites are probably Goods & Services, OP8 & Chore. I'm not sure how the rest of what I listen to fits in w/GS. I'm 50, so alot of what I listen to is based in the 60s/70s. My collection is heavily weighted by what was influential to me in formative years. All the Byrds albums, w/my faves being Notorious Byrd Brothers thru Untitled, Leonard Cohen, personal fav being Songs of Love & Hate & Recent Songs, Dylan, faves being Blonde & Time Out of Mind, Kinks, faves being Village Green thru Muswell Hillbillies, the Dead (anything live from '72 thru '77), Hot Tuna, Spirit (anything/everyting), Traffic & Neil Young. Also big on Michael Hurley, Michael Bloomfield & Gram Parsons. Re: more recent stuff, anything by the Silos always works for me. Also like Chuck Prophet, Lucinda, some Steve Wynn, Cracker. Years ago, in analog tape days, I put together a GS compilation that I think flows pretty well. The track list is A. Warm Storm (studio), Romance of Falling, Always Horses Coming, Trickle Down System (studio), Angels at Night, Every Grain of Sand, Back to the Black & Grey, Surfin' Lean. B. Opus/Solomon's Ride/Opus, Elevator Music, Mason Card, Warm Storm (live), Cracklin Water (op8), Never See it Coming (op8), The Ride (pt 2)(Calexico).

Date: Fri Aug 29 20:08
Lars (gluepoo?):

Yeah, glue...keep....eh...glueing, dude! But hmmm "Germans sure like to look at their poo alot"....that sounds funny in my ears....especially when it comes from England. :-D I lived there for six months and didn't see any good chicks at all (just utterly pale, stinkin' drunk and mildly psychotic ones). Okay, I DID see nice birds.....but they where all Scandinavian! ("the women here really look that way...") ;-) / Lars

Date: Fri Aug 29 17:37
Tom (interviewing a Mars Volta Afro tmrow):

I can't stop reiterating that Mr.Glue is great

Date: Fri Aug 29 17:18
Conch (for em):

You see Northfork yet, em? Or Dirty Pretty Things?

Date: Fri Aug 29 15:25
em (Germans and Poo):

Glue, can I put your quote about Germans in my book of favorite quotes??? You can have half the royalties. Does anybody know of any good movies playing??? I can't find anything. Whatever happened to Masked and Anonymous?????? Have you all a good Friday.

Date: Fri Aug 29 15:01
dave (a sudden gush of pomposity?):

Glue is on a roll...Reading that was like listening to Capt Beefheart's "Doc at the Radar Station"...Lars, I'll check out your site this weekend, now that my computer is worm-blast recovered...I haven't seen the new Sandman, so an MP3 would be a nice tune-up.

Date: Fri Aug 29 12:41
barrio-a-go-go (vickic@u.arizona.edu):

glue sniffer, your peckings cast a renewed shade on my own road, jes what i needed to see today. happy trails to you...

Date: Fri Aug 29 07:09
Lars (Sandman):

So has the "Sonisk Postkort" sandman made the rounds yet? Y'like it? Well anyway, earlier I asked on this page whether it would be problematic if I was to put up a few of the tracks as mp3s on my website - so those who hadn't gotten it yet could a have little taste. I didn't get any response. Anyway, here is the page: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/diverse/howe-soniskpostkort.htm ---- there is no link to the page other than from this post. No way to it from the pages on my site. And since they are "free tracks" within this "community" I thought it would be no problem. Please tell me if it is. Then I will remove them immediately. Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Aug 29 00:42
Glue Sniff (welcom back (Avdvertising Me) ):

so i tried to sleep but couldnt. I can't sleep because my heart, excercised and new, wont be still. High in the air the winds did shut and tuck our craftt. and windows gave no hope 'cept clouds of white like seas of snow. So passesnegered to this, with life taken from my real to that of gods and digits, I thought. Not easy when also trying to calculate how much more wind the wings can take. looking down at tierless hill green and brown fitted together like blindmens wardobes. I thought ' 23 years of pasturing and no milk, from me, has passed my lips. or uders for that matter.long ago i put all things of challange skill and slight of hand, far from my demented child like grip. As we know once spoke of danger thrill and ever rush. alas 'twas i belived not to be . and all distinction and acts prolouges and nouns were forever swept into a corner of me. And so my fellow imagine my surprise when amungst the throws of prayers grips and wonders to come. rattled like a boy with bee in jar. my corner pile fell undone. What joy i felt as a sudden gush of pomposoity still traced within these font. I have an idea. I spoke with a zeneth! sorting through my synaptic rubbles finding corridors I'd sealed at scene i began to open the book to chapter 1 and start the reading again. No this tale might be long and probably it does but only in museames. I was not touched by the hand off godnor did alha speak into my ear instead my my blood ran a new warm washing back those reptile years for i had spent too long lying in the sunlight of others. i wanted to taste the body and blood of my own making. So like dressmaker proud with skill i throw the sissors though my story here. I am to embark on some deep but ultimatley shallow vision of change. N.B chances are it wont be writing long meaniningless jive there are others with better shoes for that road.

Date: Thu Aug 28 20:40
Glue Sniffer (Germans sure like to look at their poo alot):

That place is so quite. i chipped my tooth back in bed with m'lady going to slleeep full report and toxicology scans in tommrorow. I can see you asscending the stairs ole gleeb

Date: Thu Aug 28 19:18
gazelle (gazelleiam@lycos.com):

hey guys. i almost sent off a tape of "blue lit rope" but thought no, this is too shoddy. do you guys really think a tape-recorded version of me and my tambourine would work? i mean, can they record tape onto cd or whatever? anyhow, i'll be interviewing calexico in sf, so if anyone has any questions for them, post them here, or send them to me via email. thanks dudes! late, jaime

Date: Thu Aug 28 15:25
Itasca (pollytic@mail2greece(woodtick)):

Doh, doe, is it Ramiro?

Date: Thu Aug 28 13:18
dave (crimp-ed doesn't pay):

THanks CONCH. That's not bad..Don't forget Chicago this fall Howe

Date: Thu Aug 28 10:17
stefan (((munich))):

... just wondering if any Japanese documentarians frequent this board?

Date: Thu Aug 28 10:00
Alan ((Howe, linguistics)):

For some reason, maybe it's the mid- in mid-Michigan, it's scrimbled with a "b" at our house (which sounds a little like Aarhus, no?) - does this make it more of a variant of scrambled than crimped than crimped and scrambled -- I guess it's just a matter of priorities (and should there be a second p in crimped to keep it from being pronounced "crime-ped"?)

Date: Thu Aug 28 07:37
howe (scrimpled):

...that kristern hersh tour is a solo one...not a blacky one. but then again what do i know ?

Date: Thu Aug 28 07:36
howe (almost gone):

welp...looks like we got a last minute gig in oodense on september 16...its a tuesday night...and we are only doing it because vic chesnutt is so great and he plays earlier in the evening there and then i think we become the house band for a set later....it is at a jazz club there....and will be the last time we (howe home band) all play here in denmark, which moistens the eye and gums up the keyboard. BLACKY rides again october 6. tour across the states in november with kristen hersh....and andrew bird too. 4 sets. one each and one together. ogle some piano record out december/january. does that make the 8 record prediction for 2003 ?...not sure...lost count really. matt ward and i will be touring japan second week of december looks like. ok...glue, i am coming back to the table now....very very slowly....and crinkled. -hřwe

Date: Thu Aug 28 03:33
jesus (to itasca):

hi itasca, i'm not romero... i'm sorry

Date: Wed Aug 27 20:18
Conch (compilation quandries...building your own night...):

Can't say I've got the perfect Howe/Giant Sand compilation...but I've done plenty for myself. My current one for the truck CD player focues in on 1994-2002 and meshes quite well (at least for me). So here's what I got (fits comfortably on a 74m CD-R): 01. Blue Marble Girl (Spare Parts "very last" version, which is my favorite one); 02. Shiver (Chore version); 03. Blood Orange (Listener version); 04. Yer Ropes (Glum version); 05. Torque (Listener version); 06. Cold (Confluence version); 07. Lying There (Listener version); 08. Corridor (Selections version); 09. Pontiac Slipstream (Confluence version); 10. Dusted (Chore version); 11. The Inner Flame (Inner Flame/Selections version); 12. Four Door Maverick (Hisser version); 13. Astonished (Confluence version); 14. Belly Of Fire; 15. Square (live version).

Date: Wed Aug 27 19:11
Eddie (Spare Parts):

Bought 2002 through Om Om and paid using CC Now. They shot back an Email giving $10 credit off next purchase from OM OM. Guess what next buy was.

Date: Wed Aug 27 18:25
J (dave):

nope, but I have to burn a fully listenable, non dischordant, country tinged best of to really hook her in...

Date: Wed Aug 27 18:16
dave (re Spare Parts and Down Home 2002):

No offense intended, but I don't think Spare Parts is a "must own". Rain mixed w/Parade is definetly sublime and Hatch is interesting, but the Confluence versions are much better. Spare Parts certainly adds to the variety of the collection, but I think you can wait until finance improves...Now Down Home 2002, on the other hand, grew on me nicely. Petey's Lid is certainly twisted...lotsa nice piano and Gretsch guitar on that record...My mind has been working on the perfect Giant Sand/Howe cd burner compilation. I can't start work on it..there is something incongruent about a compilation of this stuff...too planned out..the sequencing on his records is underrated if you start trying to throw a compilation together that meshes...Besides you would simply want to hear evolving versions and songs in different orders anyway...am I right?...Maybe putting his entire catalog on an MP3 and hitting "random play" when you listen to it is the only answer?!...Anybody have the perfect compilation?

Date: Wed Aug 27 18:14
J (see it price?):

what was I thinking

Date: Wed Aug 27 18:13
J (james s, and particularly the poor):

I can't afford any of the new releases although being employed. Not really. I'll make an exception and pay full first time I see it price for Blacky though. The cd cover site should be up soon, with a pledge to trade as soon as my cash and new pc arrive. I have to say that I am opposed to a paid for sandman series, and would rather just get the publicly available stuff in that case...

Date: Wed Aug 27 17:13
Lars (Aarhuzona livestuff):

For anyone around Aarhus on the 6th of September (wink-wink)...ha-ha! Nine local bands are playing at Vesterbro Beboerhus (about one stone throw away from Café Mozart, I've been told). Among them are the three cool bands Singvogel, Strumm and Kurve. Some very interesting musicians indeed. Kurve do new wave punk with influences from the Balkan (Beograd/Sarajevo). Energetic stuff. www.kurvekanal.dk . Strumm do noise-pop with some Sonic Youth here and there. And with a female singer/drummer, which is not seen that often. www.strumm.dk . And Singvogel are....hmmm....well.....garbage can rock with electrified acoustic guitar, bass-clarinet, vintage synth, trumpet and percussion/drums. Very much "out there", but also cool. www.singvogel.dk . So Howe, if you're bored in Aarhus (the official "festival week" program is not that interesting) then there's a bit new stuff in this place. Also some female singer performing solo with guitar and some outfit that does electronic music in that subgenre known as "noise" (I suspect I should bring my earplugs for that one). There's a website here: www.forstaerket.frac.dk ##### THANKS FOR THE LINKS, TORBEN! Nice pics they did there. #### Sorry for the disturbance with the "Aarhus insider stuff", dear sandies. Have a nice day! / Lars

Date: Tue Aug 26 20:02
james s (jeez, did i write that?):

i need an editor, or at least a proof reader. Maybe glue could help.

Date: Tue Aug 26 20:00
james s ("Still Lookin' Good to Me"):

Last I heard, some time in October on the new Blacky.... I have upsidedown home 2002, but not the spare parts disk. Anybody wanna which they prefer & why? Of course,having both is a must, but being jobless, I'm wondering just howe long I can put off the Spare Parts purchace... oiuspdoiu.

Date: Tue Aug 26 18:43
dave (blacky ranchette):

Saw an ad in No Depression for the new Blacky record..Anybody know when that comes out? Sorry if its already been discussed.

Date: Tue Aug 26 14:02
Itasca (to jesus from Barcelona):

Romero is that you?

Date: Tue Aug 26 13:54
bluetooth (mail2norway):

Does Bush take VIAGRA? He walks like he does. Hey, what about a new game reality show called "Boink the Twins" first one get get both gets to be president next round...sorta big brother like, you know, 24/7. Oh, by the way what's with the five fighter jets following the jet into Hector Internation about a hour ago?

Date: Tue Aug 26 02:22
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

There is also a review of the show (in German) at http://flensburgerfolkverein.here.de/ I won't translate the whole thing, but it's all thumb up. The reviewer Claus-Peter Gerdsen is very impressed and compares Howe to Zappa. He ends his review with "We expected a extraordinary show, it was an extraordinary show. An extraordinary good show" ... Maybe one of you Germans here will translate the whole thing ? ... ... TDH

Date: Tue Aug 26 02:13
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

Go to http://flensburgerfolkverein.here.de/ to view photos of the Flensburg show .. TDH

Date: Tue Aug 26 02:12
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

(taken from the news letter of the Flensburger Folkverein)"Hallo, ist Howe Gelb noch zu toppen? Kaum. Dann lieber Genrewechsel. Wir hatten seit Ewigkeiten nichts Irisches mehr......" ... fast translation to English "Can you get higher than Howe Gelb ? Probably not. Then rather do a genre change. It's been a long time since we had Irish music ......." TDH

Date: Mon Aug 25 10:36
Peter (freakwater@gmx.ch):

Great new record Howe, another visit in Zurich/Switzerland would be great.... Peter

Date: Mon Aug 25 03:57
SeanT (WHOOPS):

I HATE WHERE MY CAPS LOCK LIGht is.... I'm on the Guided By Voices list and there are regular meet ups with the UK side of it , other gigs etc . Maybe if UK Sanders are going to gigs etc we should say and meet up ? My up coming list is Willard Grant Conspiracy - Union Chapel , The Cramps - The Astoria , Spiritualized - Electric Ballroom , Guided By Voices - ULU , Jay Farrar - Dingwalls , The Coral - Brixton . Of course you all may want to remain anonomusSS .......

Date: Mon Aug 25 03:50
SeanT (GLUE):

ARE ME AND hOWE THE ONLY ONES HERE WHO HAVE MET gLUE ?

Date: Mon Aug 25 02:24
GREG (DOWNUNDA):

AUSTRALIA IS AGIANT SANDY CONTINENT..COMPLETELY BEREFT OFGIANT SAND VISITATION. PLEASE RECTIFY......

Date: Mon Aug 25 00:41
Blaine (Home(where the Harleys roam)):

Tom, no need to apologize. "Teenage Kicks" is the best song Johnny Thunders never recorded.

Date: Sun Aug 24 21:37
tom (no plane crashed in berlin):

while glue is probably scaring the sht out of german people. tonight i sat and listened to bar stories by bar bees, the man behind the counter poured me some mean cokes and then he played the first Virgin Prunes album, 'Mr Pharmarcist' by The Fall and 'Teenage kicks' by The Undertones. I know it's not very fandango, I know, but it was nice. trying to keep my altcountrymind open, etcetera. And if you can get a hold of a copy of a book by M. Houellebecq, please do..peace.

Date: Sun Aug 24 16:18
J (Manny):

It's a sandcoveringfandangothing. If you are a musician tape and send it to webman Mike. (record your fave Howe song) Mike, please also wait for the unspeakable turk Rob s. He is recording as we speak?

Date: Sun Aug 24 15:08
Manny (ejcacc@verizon.net):

What is this Fandango I'm stumbling upon here? I've not checked in for a while for the first time in years and feel lost. Manny

Date: Sun Aug 24 11:17
james s (lars):

Hakamakakuraminimuni? I think that's gotta be my next band name.

Date: Sat Aug 23 18:08
em (gee):

Gee, Glue. I hope you don't die too. All my best and loving wishes go out to ya. I can't wait to see what this Fandango turns into.

Date: Sat Aug 23 17:52
glue (goodbye is harder then my dad):

off on a plane, leaving all this weary rain. hope that i dont die. if you never hear from me again my real fruit was spode

Date: Sat Aug 23 14:55
Lars (uh! :-) ):

He-he, thanks a million, Em. Twelve days late, but still gives a warmin'. Nice to spread the feel-goodin' over a larger piece of bread than just one day. ;-) ### Hakamakakuraminimuni's Wind-Up Birdie is out in Danish now, by the way. Still to expensive for me. Methinks I'll wait for the paperback. :-) Just finished "Fight Club". A brilliant read, but still had some cinemascope that clung to the inner eye causin' some trouble. Now I'm on to finish "Neither Here Nor There" by Bill Bryson (I've been halfway through for ages). Has anyone here read his travel books? Very easy reads, but really, really funny. ### Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 23 12:28
em (everybody):

HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TO LARS!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TO LARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)Yeah...

Date: Sat Aug 23 05:38
Lars (Under Byen in Hamburg):

For anyone it might interest: a little on Under Byen's show in Hamburg on October 11th. http://www.karsten-jahnke.de/artist.php3?artist=underbyen# ----- http://www.schauspielhaus.de/monatsplan/monatsplan_rechts.php ----- Although they have misspelled the Danish album title so instead of "It's Me Keeping The Trees Together" it now reads "It's Me Keeping The Toes Together", ha-ha. :-D Have a nice and sandy day, folks! / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 23 05:31
SeanT (Berlin):

Mr Glue , check this out http://www.berlin-tourist-information.de/index.html.en I was there when the wall was still up , so I can't imagine what it's like now .

Date: Fri Aug 22 18:42
PaulK (Covers):

J's covers are good, check them out when they go online. The Blasters on TOP2!!!! Damn, missed it. Saw them a few weeks ago and they were great. Con't think that lineup will play again for some time. Is there a repeat?

Date: Fri Aug 22 14:13
J (mike james s etc):

We have to have the blades 'wearing the robes of bible black' so let's wait. Innis' pictures are great, maybe he could contribute a shot or two? james get lino cutting. Gloo berlin diary rantings might be fun. Incidentally, and in no way am I putting myself forward for the fandango artwork, soonish there will be a site at http://even.wronger.com comprising full size versions of my homespun covers for the various giant sand cdr's I have aquired through this place. Paul K said I should mention them ages ago, so within a week or so 6 or 7 will be online, and any offers of discs will be repayed with an adobe effort to clothe it. (also bands who'd like me to have a shot, post away) (or rather wait til the site is up)

Date: Fri Aug 22 12:42
james s (hola):

My CD player died last night. This morning I went to Circuit City and bought a Sony that had been already purchaced and returned, for cheap, and when I got it home, I discovered that someone had left a CD-R of Live Radiohead from Berlin in 2000 in it. Woo Hoooo! As for the Fandango art work, I'm happy too contribute an idea or two, but it might be cooler if someone here who didn't contribute music did it, make it more of a broader family thing. Mitch does some good design (didn't he do the Listener, or some part of it?). Sniffer maybe (or did he do music?)

Date: Fri Aug 22 06:04
mike ([sa-wa-ro-ing]):

fandango coming along fine...... still awaiting blaine's input though. once in i'll get to compile and send howe a copy. anyone out there fancy having a go at the artwork???? mail me with ideas etc.=-=-=-=-=-=-hey!! the blasters were on totp2 on wednesday!!!!

Date: Fri Aug 22 02:53
glue sniffer (hello peeps):

going to berlin on sunday what do you do sausages and war asaide

Date: Fri Aug 22 01:22
J (james):

Still have the impetus james, but time is short. arm now fit to play again, but impending husbandhood is eating a lot of time... I'll get started as soon as I can. How's the fandango coming along Mike?

Date: Thu Aug 21 18:28
dave (two cents worth):

Ok, Ok I'll add my story to this exchange. Among these heartfelt testimonials, my story is a little lame. I got way into Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt in the early 90's having always loved my rock and roll with a little steel guitar on the side...Let it Bleed, Nashville Skyline, After the Goldrush, Dixie Chicken, Labour of Lust, Grievous Angel, Slow Turning, etc...Having witnessed one of the many births of Alt-country (I was in attendance at the very first Farm Aid in '85 and was enthralled by BB King, George Jones, Joni Mitchell but especially intrigued by the Blasters and Lone Justice), I was starving for twang by the time Tupelo came around. Later subscribing to No Depression, I saw Giant Sand's name referenced a lot, but hadn't heard them, and how many records can you buy anyway? In a pitiful display, I bought Chore of Enchanment after PJ Harvey listed it as one her top 5 favorite records of 2000 in a Rolling Stone survey. Yes, Rolling Stone. The horror. The horror. I had never heard ANYTHING quite like Chore and it fit into some things in my life at the time. The rest of the story involves compulsive collecting. I still haven't heard anything prior to Ramp. I especially like everything from Hisser onward.

Date: Thu Aug 21 17:20
james s (new mp3 of mine up at http://www.jamesscarbrough.com/sounds if any are interested....):

I was in the midst of a Yo La Tengo love affair when I first stumbled onto the Sand. I hit the "similiar artists" list on Amazon, looking for something, anything, that might be similar in mood/sound to the "Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out" record. Giant Sand was on their list. I found a used copy of Backyard BBQ and grabbed it. I got home and put it on and was first disappointed that it sounded nothing like Yo La Tengo. Then, as I listened, I began to smile, but more in amusement than in pleasure. Several months later, I picked up Chore of Enchantment. I had become very jaded about music, thinking most everything was rehash of this or that, that there was precious little that was truly "alternative", creative, original in any way... but Chore hit me as something very special and renewed my faith in music as art and not merely as pop consumer crap, everybody trying to sound like everybody else, yada yada yada. I listened to BBQ again, and it too became one of my favorite records, highly original and just plain weird, thank God. I've since become near-obsessed with the croonings and pluckings of Sir Gelb, new and old. I still smile in amusement at much of Gelb's work, but also in wonder and awe and gratitude for it's very being. The Yo La Tengo buzz wore off some time ago (I still like 'em, but the affair is over), but I still reside in that mysterious little town called Giant Sand. Hey, J, let's four-track man!

Date: Thu Aug 21 06:21
Conch (anyone seen...):

Northfork yet? Odd odd odd...good & not good at the same time...and overall satisfying in a Malik-meets-Lynch kind of way. Can't stand Nick Nolte, but once again he's undeniably fine in this flick. Eh-gads, anyone have thoughts on this one? Tom????????

Date: Thu Aug 21 03:11
JC BROCHARD (Re : Acres for cents) (jc.brochard@ wanadoo.fr):

I too bought Acres for cents (it was so cheap, and apparently well distributed), though I was not listening to much Americana music then. I thought at the time that the liner notes about Howe were rather presumptuous, and it took me years (until Ramp and Center of the universe), and a copy of Storm that I bought cheap and resold, before I really started to get into Giant Sand's music... JC

Date: Wed Aug 20 23:21
tom (can tears get lost in blue jeans ?):

i guess there was something i wanted to say, but i forgot, as always. oh goody i remembered again : woke up this morning and all my shrimp was dead and gone, woke up this morning someone had been fishing in my pond (Robert J.) re : Lars : listen to the whole of the album of The Mars Volta. peace to you, to glue, and to all of your loved ones dear sand people.

Date: Wed Aug 20 18:23
PaulK (Radio Scotland):

Radio scotland played Felonius this afternoon, weird driving around with Howe on the radio, not used to that at all. Kudos to deejay Tom Morton. Anyway, regards Acres of Cents, this is what the liner notes said...................................................... GIANT SAND Thin Line Man (TAKEN FROM THE LP 'BALLAD OF A THIN LINE MAN'ZONG 013) Giant Sand are led by Howe Gelb who, we humbly submit, is on a par with Sam Shepard as a writer and journalist of authentic Americana. They hail from Tucson, Arizona out there in desert where it's hot and dry, and their music is weather-beaten and parched and sometimes uncomfortable. They have also been hailed as the best band to emerge from the south-western United States in many a year. 'Ballad Of A Thin Line Man' is their second LP, their first, 'Valley Of Rain' also being available on Zippo (ZONG 008). AND THE BAND OF BLACKY RANCHETTE Heartland (TAKEN FROM THE LP HEARTLAND ZONG 014) It's that man Howe gelb again, this time writing country songs of a calibre that deserve to make him a STAR. Maybe his shirt tails aren't long enough, or he uses the wrong hairdresser, or maybe the tears in his jeans are in the wrong places. Who knows? The fact remains that his songs are undeniably brilliant and yet he languishes out there in the desert writing stuff that most of his contemporaries couldn't manage in a lifetime, and he still hasn't got a record deal in the States! what the hell's happening out there? Open the windows, put Heartland on, and turn it up loud.

Date: Wed Aug 20 17:10
J (gloo):

and i said, don' be worryin that troubled head no more. long gone woman leave yo' head lonesome an' sore. (and you a poor invalid an' all...)

Date: Wed Aug 20 13:32
glue sniffeer (life eat shite blues):

woke up this moprning but my bad girld done and gone yes weel i woke you this morning and my bad girld done and gone she said she could'nt love nobody whos half head is gone

Date: Wed Aug 20 11:03
Lars (some live pics):

I just uploaded a few live pictures from the Roskilde Festival this year. A lot of different stuff - among others Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Yo La Tengo, which I thought might interest a few of you. There are still more pix to come (of Daniel Johnston and others). But that will have to wait a few days. But for now there's some stuff at www.larsdideriksen.com (where there a still a bunch of Howe-pics, by the way). Have a niiice day, all ye merry men - and women! / Lars

Date: Tue Aug 19 19:11
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Date: Tue Aug 19 16:27
J (Tower of song):

Wasn't that a great Nick Cave version too? Still no space to 4 track james s... Mitch, check the ppppppppfffffunk address. Stefan, thanks for the discs...

Date: Tue Aug 19 12:44
stefan (((leonard cohen song))):

Howe did "Tower of Song" this year in Dresden.

Date: Tue Aug 19 10:37
Marviol (marviol@aol.com):

My first exposure to GS was somewhat less romantic. Just saw a mention of "Storm" in some SPIN article about the best albums (or best "unknown" albums) of the eighties--If anyone still has it lying around it might be fun to post what they said about it. Anyway, I was floored and proceeded to scour the world for what came before and after--never did find the very earliest stuff. So what Leonard Cohen song is in your repertoire Howe? Please get it down on tape for the rest of us. After hearing the great Tom Waits cover on "Spare Parts" I was actually thinking how great it would be to hear you cover some Cohen tune. Just had a great run of concertgoing; Broken Social Scene, Chuck Prophet, Tindersticks , and Grandaddy in one week, in Michigan no less. As for the Mars Volta two listens have yielded two totally different assessments. Hated'em first time around (Rush on meth), then listened to some old school prog rock (who are The Flower Kings?!) and damn if they were'nt the greatest. Funny how frame of reference can make a huge difference with certain kinds of music.....

Date: Tue Aug 19 03:52
jesus (from barcelona):

I bought a vynil compilation called "acres for cents" (like mr paulk) and i was impressed with two covers: "heatland" and "thin line man". Since then i've had an illness called giantsanditis...

Date: Mon Aug 18 18:23
Route (Here):

The first GS title for me was the Big Bear Barn Shadow single, picked up at Music Millenium in Portland in the early 90's. I don't know if I read something about them, or if the single just looked interesting. Howe looked so menacing and weird on the back cover. Of course the songs on the single were a total wash to my ears, but somehow I still managed to go see them at Satyricon around this time. Been hooked ever since, though I don't think I ever listened to that single again.

Date: Mon Aug 18 16:05
e+m (how I found this place):

hmm I was 15 and I guess it was shiver in the uncut compilation. I had never heard anything like it and nothing since has compared for me. Except other Giant Sand and Howe stuff, that is. I feel lucky I found it. Hi guys.

Date: Mon Aug 18 15:58
J (1st time):

Went to a record fair, a friend bought 'thin line man' I bought 'gravity talks' swapped tapes , the rest is history.

Date: Mon Aug 18 15:29
geoff (back at mitch):

actually in austin these days...but last month or so candyman was still alive and kickin, they do seem to be selling more classical music and stereo equipment than Giant Sand lp's these nowadays though...

Date: Mon Aug 18 14:53
Mitch (geoff):

Hey, Geoff...you still in Santa Fe? If so, is The Candyman still there? I bought my first ever LPs from Candyman back when it was off the plaza downtown (apparently the guy who started it first sold LPs from a box on the plaza before he had a shop--back when most anyone could afford things sold on the plaza, and frito pies were available at Walgreens and the old pharmacy wasn't yet Hageen Daz or whatever). Then the original Candyman caught fire and it was relocated to St. Michael's. I'm pondering too far back. Anyway, yeah, seems the Rare Bear did you and I a service.

Date: Mon Aug 18 14:10
geoff (rare bear):

hey mitch, i bought my first giant sand cd at rare bear too...small world...mine was swerve, but i think i already typed that story some months or years back on this board...

Date: Mon Aug 18 04:39
SeanT (First time):

My first time was drunk,stumbling into The Borderline in London . Saw one of The Bangles on-stage , Vikki Peterson , looked around for Sussana Hoffs but found this tall bloke , cowboy hat ,singing instead . I was confused at first but once the fog cleared and I realised it wasn't The Bangles , I was hooked and have been ever since .

Date: Sun Aug 17 18:36
PaulK (The first time):

I can't remember exactly when, around '87 or '88, I was looking at records in HMV and came across a sampler called Acres for Cents, from Demon records. I'm a sucker for sampler discs, they often give you an indication of some good music to buy and, importantly, they are often cheap. My very first album purchases back in 1971 were The Age of Atlantic ( 19/6d, Led Zep, Dr. John, Buffalo Springfield etc) and Bumpers (double album, Island records, around Ł1). So anyway, I see this album, it's about Ł1.99 and the notes on the back indicate some good music. I was familiar with a couple of the bands on it, The Long Ryders and Danny and Dusty (Dan Stuart and Steve Wynn). Back home I'm stunned by Heartland and impressed with Thin Line Man. So I go on the trail, looking for more albums, first purchase was Giant Sandwich and then the other Demon releases. These were difficult to find but one record shop in Glasgow stocked this stuff and I would go there and often order albums such as Long stem Rant as they were difficult to find. As CD came in I bought all the stuff again but couldn't find much info on the band as they seemed to be ignored by much of the media, Bucketful of Brains and a magazine called Happenstance seemed to be the only magazines that knew who these guys were. Then the internet came rolling by and I managed to find some kindred souls, eventually Howe came to Glasgow, and seperately, John and Joey. I've managed to turn a few people on to Howe and all bit they are still a well kept secret. More cover in the media these days but still a matter of lifting stones to see what's underneath. I must mention Shaun H who gave me a lot of Sand Castles after I sent out a plea for information shortly after getting connected to the net. I hope I'm as generous to others as he was to me.

Date: Sun Aug 17 11:15
Lars (scrolling to Tom):

Yep, Tom! The song "Drunkship of Lanterns" at www.themarsvolta.com is truly amazing. Very energetic. But there is also another band that is just called 'Mars Volta', right? / Lars

Date: Sun Aug 17 11:07
tom (living two floor above a photographer):

First of all, I would like to thank Glue, for he is great. I became aware of GS five or so years ago when the photographer (who has made very nice pics of Mr. Gelb) I now live above told me about Howe and John and Joey. My first taste was Chore of Enchantment and from there on I was hooked. I have seen GS and Howe solo play live two times a year for the last couple of years and have always been impressed by Howes momentum-ad lib-jazz way of doing things. Howe is great. So is Glue. And please listen to The Mars Volta. Voilŕ.

Date: Sat Aug 16 18:19
Lars (hey Howe...have you got a minute? - please read):

Please correct me if I'm wrong, Howe. I seem to remember standing in Scavenger Records a little while back overhearing you saying that you would love to play the "supporting role" when Vic Chesnutt plays at Voxhall in Aarhus on the 15th of September. There's a Howe-fan coming to Aarhus from far-away in the first half of September who would (of course) like to time it just right. So even though I would normally just be content with waiting and seeing what happens when we get around that date, now I would really like to get some kind of indication of whether it's a "go-ahead" that gig.....so I can say when to come or not. So if it's possible, I hope you have a spare moment to respond to this little request. Thank you. Greets y'all! / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 16 08:34
Mitch (okay okay):

I might as well join the party. My Giant Sand seduction happened back in the late 1980s of the 20th century, and it occurred in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the now defunct Rare Bear records on Cerrillos. Back then I was working for a magazine distribution company off of Agua Fria, and basically my job was to pack and ship various zines and pornography around the world. An interesting job, and paid at least enough for me to indulge in the weekly ritual of buying records (not CDs yet, just vinyl things). There was no internet, and, in Santa Fe (even working at Desert Moon Periodicals) there wasn't any sound info on underground/indie/alternate music, so I relied on a method of vibe buying (about 80% of the time it worked): I'd spend hours looking at record covers, contemplating them, and if, somehow, what I saw aligned to whatever sense of asthetics I had at the time (or at least conjured some notion of what seemed important to me then), I'd buy it up. So it was a Friday afternoon, I'd just been paid, and I left Rare Bear with three LPs: something by Rank & File, the first LP by the True Believers, and...yep...Giant Sand's Valley Of Rain (I often goof up in real time by calling it "Valley of fear," oh well). Now, I must confess that it was the LPs cover that drew me in...simple, stark, and surely offering something worth interest. Of the three LPs I bought that day, it was the True Believers one that rose to the top of the pile (in large part due to A. Escovedo's contributions to it). Still, I did spin "Valley of Rain" on that Friday night, letting it play in the background as I busied with other things in my Arroyo Hondo apartment. And then "Artists" came on, and I went back and played it again. And again. Now...I can't name a single song off either the True Believers or Rank & File LPs...but, yep, "Artists" was a song that I've carried with me since. In other words, it was the gateway drug in the musical sense to what brought me to buy anything Sand afterwards. Ten or so years later--and through an odd series of personal events--I ended up moving to Tucson. By then "Glum" had come and gone, but I arrived in the Old Pueblo half expecting to wander down 4th Ave. and pass groups of people wearing Giant Sand t-shirts. This wasn't exactly the case. In fact, it took a few months before I actually found the joints where Howe & the guys played in town. But once I did, I was there like a zealot. I saw the birth of Calexico--Joey and John playing in places that were way less than filled. And I caught Giant Sand and Howe in various shades of glory and alchemy. But for the longest time I didn't have the nerve or desire to approach any of them. I suppose this had something to do with my own reserve, but also with this notion that it is the music that matters most and not the people who create it. Plus, I guess I was somewhat worried that a true meeting with the man who had so impacted my life might prove a disappointment, and then it might be hard for me to relate to the music as I had. Even so, it's a strange world and seems to get stranger--and I've since become fortunate enough to call Howe a friend, and having sat well into the wee hours at his table, I can still amble about in my life with a grand sense of wonderment for the music he has made and continues to offer forth. So that's my story.

Date: Sat Aug 16 07:21
Lars (a bit of a longish little diddy... - my apologies):

Wow! The dear Gluesniffer is a hard act to follow. Hence: I will not even try to do something the least cool. :-) But here goes.... A year ago and a bit Hans at Scavenger Records did for God knows which time try to push some of his desert rock stuff on me. It had worked before, so of course he'd try again. But like you all probably know listening to a cd in a store is not the ideal place to get into new stuff. Hans played "Confluence". No way, I said - it doesn't work for me. Then "Hisser"...."no-no, and it's all hiss!". Then he played "Chore"....mouthing the words to "Raw" along to the cd. "no, still doesn't work for me". Hmmm....then while surfing the net I dropped by this site. Downloaded the mp3s here. Some "rare" tracks and so. "No", I thought again, "this Howe dude is just not the kinda music for me." But Hans, being a very patient man apparently, pursuaded me to check Howe out at the first show at Café Mozart in Aarhus in June 2002. And Howe played....and I thought: "what the hell is that guy doing?!" Changing between guitar and piano. Missing the beat. Putting cds on. But after 30 minutes I think I had adjusted to what was before me. And whatmore....his persona and performance just got through to me. Seeing Howe live made all the difference in the world. Bought "Down Home 2000" that night. Got it signed + a "Yo Lars" + the last zero crossed out and replaced with a 2..... = So my cd was "Down Home 2002" already back then. :-) I think I went down to Hans and bought "Chore" the next day. Went home and really listened. And I digested every bite of it with a complete new set of ears. I kept coming to every Howe gig at Café Mozart and other places in Aarhus that years. Six shows in all, I think. Recorded them too. Back at Scavenger Records Hans now tried playing older Giant Sand to me. Didn't stick at all. "It's just straight-ahead rock", I said. But as I have been getting more into Howe's music I must have gotten closer to the core of the whole thing, because now I actually enjoy some of the old stuff. And "Unsungglum" has now become one of my favourites. Still, I felt it a bit odd hearing the songs on "Confluence", because they were much quieter than at Howe's live shows. But now I gotten used to the fact that a Howe song never sounds as it did the last time you heard it. Needless to say....every live show I have attended for the last year has been measured by the standard Howe set there at Café Mozart. The whole "let's see what happens"-approach was such a refreshing experience for me and changed my view on live performances completely. Of course I have been to pretty "messed-up" gigs before, ha-ha, but this was "extreme" in a way, but Howe just pulled it through without falling flat every time - even if he just saves his little happy mishaps with a self-ironic grin. ##### I've got so many cds by Howe now. But that has also to do with those crazy Germans bootlegging so much. :-) ....hmmmm.....well.....that was MY story. No goats or meth in it, I'm sorry. Just an Arizonian cowboy eating chili at an Aarhus café. :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 16 06:19
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

As always Howe served and delievered yesterday. The show in Flensburg was great. Howe took us back to the 80's & 90's, covered Cohen & more. Spanned nice easy tunes to scramble & ramble (blue marble girl, get to leave, leather, jason's list, cowboy boots, space ect. ect.) Along with Howe was Peter from Ĺrhus who did some great persussion. The Evan.Luth. Gemeindezentrum (Church)was a quiet good setting for a Howe gettogether. The sound was good. They served Flensburger Dunkel . great beer... The Gemeindezentrum took a little time finding as it was placed in a suburb to Flensburg in the middle of a residential area, but ok having been there once it'll be easy to get there "next time" .. The audience (I guess near 100 people)was seated (I enjoyed that). Some quiet elderly people in the audience (I'm 37 and quiet a few could have been my parents.)Everyone there seemed to enjoy Howe's music. Howe also seemed to be enjoyimg himself. He did 2 sets. Played for around 1 hour & a little and took a break and said he would come back and play another ˝ hour. Howe came back and played for another hour & a little. It was a nice early starting show and we were back in Denmark before midnight. All in all it was a good way to end the day - Friday the 15. aug. 2003. TDH

Date: Sat Aug 16 05:44
glue sniffer (my fist time):

after an ardent carer in driftwood sales and lego manufacturing my father/the boss said to me son what you gonna do with your life tommy when you gonna leave the steel mills. he said this because my dad is the boss and has to put everything in the context of american manual labours. so like the big boss man sang i hoped into an old 55 and sped off into the night nurseing my football injury. why you may ask is this importent. Well post leaving the boss i was a traveling sales man, but lacking product i would often end up for days sleeping on benches trying to get warm. One fatefull day 1996 after a heavy day lifting and wishing me and marira were still lovers i came back to my bench and found a copy of the Daily Post. Intakeofbreath. In there under my nose was a picture of the winning drawing from a 'Meet The Cast Of Cats ' colouring competion. now i looked at this and thought. mm I could do better than this and set off with a new heart filled with hope and meths. to cut a long story into more pieces to make it easier to share. sharpintakeofbreath. I then stummbled across an art supply shop made in its entirety of lemons. How strange me things. So on entering the 'lemon art shop' i notice a sign saying "NO GIANT SAND" well this makes no sense to me so i walk up to the counter counter (that is a counter oposite what you would expect especialy in a lemon shop selling artist materials) I said to the kid behind the counter whats this no giant sand thing. the kid said " well" and then i fell over and wreched having never seen a talking goat before. i recovered enough to be able to stone the creature to death feeling as we all would that it was an act of satan. as i walked over its body I heard muffled cries and i sawe a door. Inside the door were giant sand. who I discovered after un tieing them and letting them regain their strenght on lemons and meths, had been incarserated for non payment of their artistic dues towards the kids farther. now this is the real strange twist in the story see the kids farther was a traveling musican trying to make it big in the 70's, yes youve geused it the kids farther was my farther the boss. realising the error of my ways i sank to my knees and cried for hours. upon pulling my self together i realised that the sanders had gone. left before i discovered the truth. I spend my days as a bounty huntter trying to catch these music magicias and get them to repay the debt to my farther and buy me a new goat.

Date: Fri Aug 15 22:21
alan (in re: gazelle) (BBQ Suite):

my mom taught at Upsala College (before it expired) where WFMU was born and (negligently) nourished for many a year... I love those 22 minutes and 40 seconds...

Date: Fri Aug 15 18:42
gazelle (i love this stuff!):

this kinda thing came up recently on the grandaddy and stephen malkmus boards. my story is quite similar to the last: i got a radio show in my hometown back in 95 and stumbled upon "back yard bbq." i'm thinkin -- what is this trippy lookin cover and then went over to casa de burtch (aaron from grandaddy). there i saw the name again: giant sand. so i had to ask, are they any good? girlfriend burtch replied, they are more than good! after a few listens, i decided it was likeable and looked into older stuff. calexico came out around that time, and i was sold. and howe's unique singing style and funny way with words had me hooked in no time. i'm a huge fan of "center of the universe" and "glum" and "chore of enchantment" and really need to expand my collection. it turns out i probably never would have gotten into giant sand if it hadn't been for grandaddy's discovery of them, so i owe them my thanks.

Date: Fri Aug 15 15:42
Alan (for P) (origin stories tell alot about a person -- or at least the origin stories the person tells...):

You see, there I was, over-tense metro-NYer on the central California coast for grad school and really struggling to drive 25MPH on four lane streets... grad school was going well, ultimate frisbee was fun, the beer was great and I had just gotten my first radio show... just before a guy who strung tape loops around mic stands and into reel-to-reel pick-ups across three rooms and around four corners (odd sounds result from that btw)... well, what should arrive on our doorstep but this kinda funny lookin' LP from Homestead, "The Love Songs," by Giant Sand and it had the coolest looking Barracuda I'd ever seen on the packaging... So, to quote Black Francis, "I went out for the team" and gave the LP a spin. WHAT?! Wearing the Robes of the Bible Black? Huh? Cool... One Man's Woman, Mad Dog, and then Fingernail Moon. Alejandro refers to a certain hook in his lip at some point and, well, jeez, I was lip-hooked... Almost a Politician's Wife, and a TRULY odd Is That All There Is. I played the living daylights outta that thing, might even have been tiresome (but at least it wasn't The Dead, it's ALWAYS The Dead in Santa Cruz). You see, then the local record store had Giant Sandwich and back-to-back-to-back-to-back there was Hard Man to Get to Know, Black Venetian Blind, Thin Line Man and Artists... that lip-hook well it was embedded in territory where only The Fall, Television, and Danny and Dusty had resided before. The REAL KICKER, however, was Long Stem Rant -- in all its cacophonous glory... John's Barn-bas(s)ed-drums more explosive than Bonham... I had no way to make sense of that LP but was stoned in love... nothing's changed and, citing another famous Hollywood icon "That's all I have to say about that."

Date: Fri Aug 15 13:25
Blaine (@work):

FYI - Some PBS travel show last night had a spot about Tucson and the Hotel Congress, w/ some locals. No music though.

Date: Fri Aug 15 10:35
P (clarification):

The questions are aimed toward the comments board and no one in particular. Thanks again.

Date: Fri Aug 15 10:34
P (question for article):

When did you first become aware of Giant Sand/Howe Gelb? Can you describe the experience? Many thanks.

Date: Fri Aug 15 03:32
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

Peri & Turtle if you go up north tonight let's meet up for a beer .. will prob. wear white short sleeved shirt & denim shorts (cut off jeans). TDH

Date: Thu Aug 14 20:18
Greg H (.):

Howe, are you ever going to play in Tucson again? Or do I have to travel to Europe/Canada to see a show?

Date: Thu Aug 14 19:14
Todd (once was passion):

Been away from the computer and I just wanted to drop in and tell ya about Howe's shows in Edmonton and Calgary. First off I was all intense the first night in Edmonton and Howe played to a small but good Sunday evening crowd...recalling 'Get to Leave', 'Wearing the Robes of Bible Black' and 'Wayfaring Stranger'...plus some new(?) songs off the top. Edmonton set me up for his late Tuesday/Wednesday mornin' show in Calgary. It was cool cause I briefly talked to Howe and got a chance to tell him some stuff. The crowd has decent, busy night w/ free hotdogs anyways...Howe put me into a lovely zone off the top where I heard my first Rainer piece...so then the show brought me in further as a fellow friend named Marek Tyler played drums w/ Howe on a bunch. Recallin' 'Moons of Impulse' and 'Torque (Tango De La Tongue)' in Cowtown. 'Felonious' the Canadian version was performed in Alberta cities. Mark Davis and the Young Bucks played very well both nights. Beautiful.

Date: Wed Aug 13 23:37
gazelle (thanks lars!):

i will write down your website for the rainy days to come. there's a lot of good stuff on it. i sent you email about how to get ahold of some danish music. i've been branching out with my writing here and there and have an article posted here: http://www.fingertrap.net/hill/main.html

Date: Wed Aug 13 12:44
Lars (whoops! + sorry):

Hi Mike! Whoops......my mistake. And sorry for writing so much on this page. ##### About a job...well, Ĺrhus is the worst place to be an unemployed journalist at the moment...but I just like this damn town too much to leave it (or at least until I find something better - and that's not were the (very few) jobs are at the moment). I begun working on a book project now, though. An interview-book as a kind of "portrait" of the current Ĺrhus music scene - the go-getter spirit of the bands, indie labels event makers etc. Another reason to stick around Ĺrhus at the moment if you love music. Hm, for anyone curious: www.underbyen.com - www.strumm.dk - www.singvogel.dk - www.powersolo.dk - www.thedefectors.com - www.tigertunes.dk - www.kurvekanal.dk - www.morningsiderecords.dk - www.tinadickow.dk (for you singer/songwriter-types) ;-) www.voxhall.dk (good shows at that venue)......and www.giantsand.com (he-he) / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 13 12:27
mike ([still at work]):

ah...... it looks like they have changed servers and it resides on the east coast as that last comment was timed at 12:22 and it was sent at 17:22 bst.

Date: Wed Aug 13 12:22
mike ([at work]):

lars....... when are you going to get a job? you have too much spare time. the time at the top of the page relates to your computers time - the time referred to in the comment is the web server time in california (if that's where it is...although it never seems to match up)

Date: Wed Aug 13 09:15
Lars (Just a thought...):

The sands of time say "3:13:41 PM on Wednesday, 13th August", but when I post the time is around 9?!?! (and in Aarhus it's a quarter past three in the afternoon - or as we say here: 15:14). Just wondering.

Date: Wed Aug 13 09:12
Lars (Peri):

Try scrolling down and find Torben (search for TDH). There you will find some info. Well, let's just copy-paste it here: "Now know where to go & have just printed out a map to Brahmsstr. 13 in Flensburg. I also checked out the site of flensburgerfolkverein." Have a nice gig! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 13 07:37
Peri & Turtle (peri@pbrainmedia.com):

Hi! Is there any word on where Howe will play in Flensburg?? We're in Hamburg (planning to see Calexico tomorrow night!) and want to drive up to see Howe...and more fabulous foggy seaside. Howe's tour dates online just say TBA for Flensburg on August 15...anyone have any more detailed info?? Thanks!! Peri & Turtle

Date: Wed Aug 13 06:40
Lars (Lull):

Thanks, Corkscrew, but I've been told that Half.com only sells to US customers. I've seen a lot of nice Giant Sand there, though (= almost rhymes with doh!). But I just got an e-mail from Innis who told me I could get it a private seller at Amazon.co.uk, so I have just ordered it. Now I hope it's still there. :-) Thanks, dudes! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 13 05:55
corkscrew (LULL):

Lars, a new copy is being sold at www.half.com. Give it a shot.

Date: Wed Aug 13 04:14
Lars (by the way...):

I'm still looking for "Lull". Can't seem to find it anywhere. Any help would be much appreciated. Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 13 03:52
Lars (scrolling for gazelle):

Man, I must admit I envy your job there! Wow! :-) Well, my website is at www.larsdideriksen.com and my mail is larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk ##### I have recently added links for soundclips on my "music recommendations" page. And of course there are plenty of Howe-pics (and pics from festivals etc.). Oh, and there is this crazy list of every live show I have attended since 1990 (I think it's pretty much complete). ##### Where is KCSS? (you should have some nice Danish much to play, he-he. Like Under Byen for instance). :-D Good luck! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 13 01:41
J (Shaun h/ Ian):

Thanks a lot sandman 7 nearly in the bag...

Date: Tue Aug 12 21:08
gazelle (gazelleiam@lycos.com):

send me music, em! i could play it on my radio show. hey lars, could you post the link to your website again cuz i would like to check it out but don't have it written down anywhere. i am getting the hang of my new music director job at kcss and writing more stuff for my own website: www.urgentculture.com/jaime there should be new stuff added in the next month. still hope to make it to tucson someday and get dat dere creative writing degree. 2 years should be enuff time to take me there. hope to see you all in heaven someday ;OP

Date: Tue Aug 12 17:13
Robyn Covers (...!!):

Not more Robyn!! We have had plenty round here.

Date: Tue Aug 12 14:56
emmmm (thanks, Mitch!):

Thanks for the kind words, Mitch!!! Very glad you're enjoying it!!!! I wanna do more Robyn covers like, say 'another bubble' from Fegmania?? I love all his stuff. Hi to everybody from me(still in Baltimore so finding computers just when I get a chance)Hope alls well in Sandland and otherwise

Date: Tue Aug 12 05:55
Lars (www.larsdideriksen.com):

Uh, I've been told there's a Jellybaby-thing on the way for me too. Can't wait! I have only heard a bit of the songs - and of course the so-called "Danish Remix", ha-ha. #### Enjoying (Smog)'s "Accumulation: None" today (bought it on sale yesterday at Scavenger Records - as a kinda b-day-pressie for meself, ha-ha). But o-boy-o-boy "Spare Parts" just popped through my mailbox. Yay! The American Ow Om Store works fine for Denmark too, I can see. :-) A good day in Aarhus (still a bit of a warm storm here, though. Pheew!). Greets! / Lars

Date: Tue Aug 12 04:53
Mitch (still not drunk enough to dance):

Just wanted to enter the public forum for a moment to thank EM for sending me the latest Jellybabies opus (volume six: Drunk Enough To Dance). I'm really enjoying it, and with Lars in the mix it feels like a Sandland family affair. Tasteful covers too, Em. Robyn Hitchcock's catalog is a treasure box to be explored, and you might be the first to have done The Soft Boys' "Kingdom Of Love". Still, at the moment I'm hung up on "Feeling Bad" which feels pretty good to me.

Date: Mon Aug 11 17:25
Erik (BloodAx):

I didn't miss it, I just took the good part.

Date: Mon Aug 11 13:32
Clueless and Lark (Alexandria):

Hey, look at this RUNESTONE, gee, I guess Erik the Red was here, too bad he missed the used copy of GLUM at the Triple E Consignment store with the cover ripped off.

Date: Mon Aug 11 07:58
SeanT (Shaun H):

Ian Gillan ? I was wondering where he went after Deep Purple :-)

Date: Mon Aug 11 03:46
Lars (oh wait...):

....I found the link for the interviews......in the discography!?!? :-D Greets! / Lars

Date: Mon Aug 11 03:43
Lars (articles on the site):

Read that article/discography-thing that was linked to the other day (thanks!). And I wonder: is there no way TO the articles at giantsand.com from the site's front page? Or have I just not found it yet?

Date: Sun Aug 10 18:49
Shaun H. (J):

Hi J ~ don't know if you actually meant me, but yeah, i got my Sandman 7 a while ago. Ian Gillan's very good at making contact and getting 'em out straight away.

Date: Sun Aug 10 17:18
Lars (well, well):

Ahhhh, very scenic (http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/places/northdowns). "We're missing Emmerdale farm on the telly tonight. He'll have his arm up a cow's backside by know.....lucky bugger" - quote from "Bottom". ;-) I actually lived in Surrey for six months back in 1996-97, but I guess that's a big area? I hung out in the outskirts of Croydon down the road from Purley. What I was trying to say the other day was: don't always expect sunshine when visiting Denmark. We're haven't the permanent "same weather"-thing down the way the Scots have it. ;-) / Lars

Date: Sun Aug 10 17:09
J (Lars it's):

In Surrey but I grew and flew. Foot of the north downs. Since yer a webhead, google Ranmore, Leith Hill, Box Hill et al

Date: Sun Aug 10 14:39
bluetooth (sendin heat to AZ):

Anyone know what branch of government Joe Klien of Phoenix, AZ works in?

Date: Sun Aug 10 06:18
Lars (Tommy):

Oh well, must be maybe two weeks or so since we had some real rain here. Was just trying to say that the weather around here rarely stays the same for long at a time. / Lars

Date: Sun Aug 10 06:15
Lars (it would later be known as bluegrass.... :-D):

http://real21mt.audiovideoweb.com/ramgen/avwebbb1055/onesoldier.rm

Date: Sun Aug 10 00:37
Tommy Gailer (scrollng for rain):

When did you get rain, Lars? We`re praying for rain over here. Our high-noon-level doesn`t get below 100 F, so i say everything below 100 F is chilly ;-)

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:50
Lars (pheeew!):

Well, not all Danish summers are like this. Weather around here changes a lot all the time. One week rain and grey, then a bit of sun for some days, and blam!, hot hell (which is doing my head in - just popped two paracetamols). The beach around here is not big and sandy. Some sand, yes, but where I plunge into the 'fjord' is right where the beautiful green forest (right next to the center of town) is only separated by a small railway line. 10 meters from forest to water. Lovely. Hey, J, whereabouts is it you are hanging out in yer hills and valleys? ### Hm, it's midnight now. Going to bed in a minute, I think. And try to sleep. / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:21
J (Lars again):

I'm also a shore dweller, late of the river valleys and tallish hills south of here. Yep it's hot and we're not used to that in our own backyard. Might make it to aarhus(SP?) Next summer. Hope it's a good 'un. Howe put your plans up and make a dream come true.

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:17
J (Lars):

found him, have to own some...

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:16
Lars (J again):

Yeah, www.abandoned-places.com is cool. The day I discovered that place I sat there for at least an hour, I think. I found the link somewhere on the William Gibson forum as far as I remember. Great pix! / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:14
Lars (scrolling for J+):

My links made cash for Mr. Buckner? How the hell did that happen?!?! And how do I get some of the dough? I want in on it... What did I do??? :-) ##### Weather report: a warm storm is sweeping through Aarhus. 32 degrees Celsius (which would be 90 Fahrenheit or so, I think)....which is hot enough for me. A punishing sun which throws me into a semi-insomniac existence. My head is heavy like a bag of sand. Good thing the shore is nearby where one can plunge into the cooling waves. A real lifesaver. I can really sense that I probably wouldn't make a good Arizonian. :-) / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:10
J (Plus do visit (thanks Lars...)):

http://www.abandoned-places.com/ What a lovely site and a singular vision.

Date: Sat Aug 9 17:08
J (james it's in no way normal round here these days...):

The greatest summer in the Uk since'76 as I recall. James just do the proper song thing, it suits you very well indeed. I put a selection of james's disc on last night and little j thought I'd been buying cd's and liked it v much. Hey, I haven't really worked for the whole summer, stevedore shiftage French holidays and dislocated arms have seen to that. I have to work sunday 7 am til' 7 pm, with a clipboard til I'm fixed for sure. I can't seem to write happy songs very often...

Date: Sat Aug 9 16:17
james s (sweating):

it's about the same (hot) here, J. It's the usual temp for here in Alabama this time of year. I can't imagine 96 f being normal where you are??? I haven't dug a well, actually, but I've gotten dirt under my nails this morning digging a little shrine st. francis garden thing in the back yard. nice having a yard for a change. thanks em, i wuz worried the JBs were lost in the mails. Oh, J, I've "written" and recorded four "songs" in the last two days. Unemployed. Hopefully, not for long, but it's nice have a bit of extra time at home.... Oh, and Lars, thanks for the serving of UB again. I've been enjoying them (and the newish Radiohead) this morning. Have a good weekend.

Date: Sat Aug 9 16:13
J+ (I just heard):

Mr Buckner for the first time. Lars, your links have made him cash...

Date: Sat Aug 9 15:54
J (how?):

Anyone know the relative values of a 64 jaguar and a 34 National? Sounds like a good trade either way. When my local pub changed hands I picked up an arch cherry backed 3 quarter size gut string flattop made by itinerant luthier Martin Colletti at the factory of 'Lignalone' in Czechoslovakia. (It'd been hanging forlorn for years, I was told if I could play it it was mine. 2 of it's four remaining strings snapped when I tuned it low. I played it with a glass, and now it is mine) It cost me Ł25 and I don't really care if it's worth anything. I love it, and hopefully it can be heard on the fandangothing. James s, did you get your well dug? I didn't get around to the 4 trk doodling yet but I will. It was 96 degrees in my back garden today, how hot was Alabama/ insert locale here~~...~~

Date: Sat Aug 9 15:05
em (aaw, nevermind):

Aaw, nevermind. Before I left, it wasn't working but now altcountrytab is back in its full glory. Anybody who has Giant Sand songs tabbed out should post 'em there. It'd help me out, atleast:) later. Hi Howe.

Date: Sat Aug 9 15:03
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (m):

HI everybody!!! James, yup I got your mail but computers have been few and far between for me here in Baltimore. I'm shipping yours tomorrow hopefully so never fear you will get your ration of Jellybabies volume 6 fun. I think altcoutrytab went under? :( :( :( Anybody know anything about the whereabouts of the belovid altcountrytab??? anyone? anyone?? Anyways, Bye :)

Date: Sat Aug 9 13:17
james s (hey em):

maybe you didn't get my email, so i'll try this.... no jellybaby, was she shipped? just curious. wouldn't want to miss out because of moving/mail fiascos.

Date: Sat Aug 9 11:44
Tommy Gailer (shiver-scroller):

Howe once told me that shiver is a stripped down G and starts as an F. I start with G, then something like: 2x020x, then e-minor. Next c,X20010, a-minor. And so on... The chorus: G, C and then just move the open c two freds higher.

Date: Sat Aug 9 03:26
Lars (oh wait):

...I just remembered that I saved that "Shiver" page on my computer way back when I found it the first time. I just pasted that text on to a new page on my own website now. Here: http://www.larsdideriksen.com/personal/music/tablature/giantsand-shiver.htm ------- Can't remember if it's 100% correct, but it will probably help a bit. Good luck. / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 9 03:20
Lars (scrolling for tabs):

I have only found VERY few tabs for Giant Sand on the web. And only one from "Chore" - and that's "Shiver". Can't seem to find it just now. Just "Yer Ropes": http://www.altcountrytab.com/actforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8666 ---- But keep googling with some patience. / Lars

Date: Fri Aug 8 23:55
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for torben again):

Sorry Torben, but Flensburg is so pretty much the opposite part of germany were Guni, Stefan and i are living.### Thnaks for the offer though :-)

Date: Fri Aug 8 20:23
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

Hi Gunni, Great and thank's. I now know where to go & have just printed out a map to Brahmsstr. 13 in Flensburg. I also checked out the site of flensburgerfolkverein. Sounds very promising. Small & intimate place it seems (usually 60-140 peoples attending shows there/150 when the McCalmans played). They only do 2-4 shows a year and the "verein" was started by a local priest Klaus Guhl and a librarian Oke Simons somewhat by coincidence (Klaus Guhl was looking for a Kathryn Tickell CD that he couldn't find in Flensburg so he called her agent to find out where he could get the CD and before he knew of it he was a concert organiser. The agent offered Klaus Guhl a Kathryn Tickell concert and with a sponser he did it & things went on from there. They put together a "verein" & so on...).... Anyway I know what I'm going to be doing next friday at 8pm. Tommy & Stefan if it's not to far for you I'll buy you a beer ... You too Gunni...TDH

Date: Fri Aug 8 20:11
Stuart Davenport (stuart7677@hotmail.com):

Does anyone have any idea where I can gets some tabs for "chores of enchantment" ???

Date: Fri Aug 8 18:23
PaulK (Discography):

If you go to the interviews section on the homepage there's an article called "building a library" which gives a fairly good chronological view of the early releases, it's at http://www.sa-wa-ro.com/GiantSand-Pages/gs-interviews9.htm Can't wait for the new Blacky, he's been away too long.

Date: Fri Aug 8 17:23
fritopie (ah thanks):

Thank you for clearing that one up for me, Mr. Gelb. You're a king of a prince and a king among men. Looking forward to the next Blacky installment.

Date: Fri Aug 8 16:52
howe (hombre):

well sir....the band of ... blacky ranchette was actually alive and kicking with an album before giant sand existed as such....(which was still giant sandworms till 1983)...and blacky got recorded just before that ....but then, a giant sand record also got recorded later that year...or was it 1984, and as such followed the release of the first blacky record (which should have been titled "code of the road" but just self-titled instead by accident there in france.....which by the way is being re released after 20 years this year) any way...a few months later or 1985 came the giant sand release of "valley of rain"....then in 1986 both bands released a record each on the same day....and then after a slew of giant sand records, the 3rd blćcky came out in 1988 or 9. you can probably check the discography here at teh home page to find out more exact info.....mr brewer is way more together in that department then i can hope to be. the 4th blacky record will be out october 6 2003 on thrill jockey. now the reason blacky ever even happened was because i wanted hook up with rainer again in a band.....which is the same reason that giant sand ever started.....(before rainer blacky was called "the good, the bad and the ugly" but recorded no records. anyway...rainer was heavy on the mind today and alive in the particles surrounding the heart. last night at a sold out festival down the road from here, two rainer collabrators were playing: robert plant and billy gibbons. being a sold out event and having kids to put to bed i sent word to robert via anders pedersen (slide mandolin player) that we had to talk concerning the re release of the inner flame....which i now have at least 4 extra tracks by lucinda williams, grandaddy, john wesley harding and a live pj harvey/ john parish track to add to it. he was as beautiful as ever and yes i pointed the way to scanvenger records......just for good luck. and then i went off down the road and traded a 64 jaguar for a 34 national....cause them particals were a giggle still.

Date: Fri Aug 8 15:22
J (shaun h):

Did you get sandman 7 yet?

Date: Fri Aug 8 14:18
double fritopie (scratching head):

Hi, can someone please answer a question for me. I'm wondering what came first: Blacky Ranchette or Giant Sand? I know both the first Blacky LP and the first Giant Sand LP arrived the same year, but which came out first? Also, between what Giant Sand LPs/CDs did the subsequent Blacky LPs/CDs fall between. Many thanks.

Date: Fri Aug 8 13:41
Guni (for Torben for Howe for Flensburg):

Found this on the net, maybe it helps: Ort: Gemeindezentrum Brahmsstr. 13, Veranstalter: Flensburger Folkverein e.V., Mehr dazu: http://flensburgerfolkverein.here.de

Date: Fri Aug 8 13:05
Lars (scrolling for the T):

Well, I wasn't "once at Cafe Mozart"...I was there all five times, he-he. Niiice. ##### By the way, "bumped into" Robert Plant at Scavenger Records today. :-O He-he, friend of yours, Howe? ;-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Aug 8 10:32
TDH = Torben (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

Hi Tommy, When things go fast I use TDH...work habit. Like Lars says we don't really know each other a lot. He and I were at the Cafe Mozart once last year to see Howe. We were there at the same time but not knowing one another. I did manage to slip into one or two of his photo's from that evening though (sitting just a bit above Howe's piano). Anyway since then we have exchanged a couple of emails & a few CD-R's. So I guess I know some of you guys a little more than I know Lars. Concerning the Flensburg show I checked the homepage of the Volksbad which really didn't help a lot so I emailed them for a confirmation... Anyway all the best to Germany, Ĺrhus & elsewhere...TDH

Date: Fri Aug 8 04:31
tHom (on the beach (in spirit)):

sub - no problem on mis-spelling the name, it's a silly one anyway. Here's to a big wide sunny weekend for one and all.

Date: Fri Aug 8 03:40
subcomandante (off to new shores) (subcommandante@gmx.at):

tHom - sorry for mistyping your nick! and thanx for the good wishes. hope you well and blooming. all the best to all in sandland and beyond, sub

Date: Fri Aug 8 02:51
Lars (Scrolling for Tommy):

I don't know Torben better than you Germans that I have been mailing with. I think there is a couple of hours by train between our towns. Do YOU know where Howe is performing in Flensburg? Torben seems to REALLY want to know, he-he. :-) ##### So Howe, are you enjoying the so-called "heatwave" in Aarhus these days? Pheeew! It's damn hot by my standards, but I guess it's nothing compared to a "punishing Arizona"? / Lars

Date: Fri Aug 8 00:19
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for Torben):

Ciao, Torben, good to hear that you are still alive and kickin. Do you and Lars know each other? And what is the disatance between your hometowns?

Date: Thu Aug 7 18:32
J (personally I like):

The idea of something for (next to) nothing appeals a whole lot more in most walks of life. 'There ain't no free lunch, no free lunch today...' Really I just want sandman7 and a copy of fandangothang to hold. I'll shut up now.

Date: Thu Aug 7 18:15
dave (for mike):

I like the idea of Sandman releases that can be mail ordered. Would this be entire shows?

Date: Thu Aug 7 16:41
TDH (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

Sandman Series #7 .... geofmej@aau.dk, Thomas-7@ofir.dk & per_chri@post4.tele.dk ... my emails to you guys bounced so you may wanne update your email adress for the Sandman Series & get in touch for #7 ... TDH

Date: Thu Aug 7 16:33
Lars (scrolling for Flensburg):

I wish I had the money to go to Flensburg. That would be nice. But I'll stay in Aarhus and hope that Howe finds his way on to a stage nearby some time soon. Have a nice trip! ##### By the way: the Danish sandman-branch seems to be working nicely. Just got a mail. But I already got the discs of course. :-) ##### How many fandangos will there be on the next sand-thingy, by the way? / Lars

Date: Thu Aug 7 16:28
J (is not jpe67@hotmail.com, so will the sonic postcard reach me?):

Mike/Sarah, you'll probably know the woodpile address by now, maybe hook me up with a new branch? Who are the exciting fandangoers? Is it Steve Wynn? Rob Stanier of the unspeakable turks who used to frequent these parts is now finally involved, so the date should be put back 'til his contribution is in. (I think)

Date: Thu Aug 7 16:01
tdh (tdh@hansen.mail.dk):

WHAT!! In the tour section it says Howe will play in Flensburg Germany on august 15. 2003 .... Where is this show ? At the Volksbad ? Flensburg is only 50 km's away.....

Date: Thu Aug 7 14:43
dave (green eggs and ham):

Those French have a sense of humor. My daughter ordered a hamburger in Paris and it arrived with no bun but had a fried egg on top of it...And I was talking to a Scottish guy in a bar in Chicago this week who said the last time he was in Edinburgh, he ordered a pizza and it came with two fried eggs on top. What is that? Some sort of poultry conspiracy at work?

Date: Thu Aug 7 12:59
mike ([phew................stewing]):

better answer a few questions.......... tom from loose sent me the wgc album some time ago and i thought it was one of the best i'd heard in years.... i urge all to listen to it.// sandman........ it looks like i missed a couple of organisers out in my rush to send out copies before heading out to germany. if you're an organiser and haven't received one - mail me. i know the australian guys didn't get one and it'll be on it's way this week. also, i know that there are some problems with distribution amongst the tree itself, and we're working on it at present. sarah is going through the spreadsheet trying to ease the problem of allocating leaves to branches. personally, i'd like to completely re-organise it...... but that'd take time. i am working on a sandman de-luxe series at present, which will negate the use of a tree and will be available to buy via the website. these will be properly mastered and packaged releases.... but until then.... bear (bare?) with me.// sand fan-dango - yes lars, package has arrived, and a couple of others.... plus i'm still waiting from what sound to be some pretty good others.... so completion date will be put back a bit.

Date: Thu Aug 7 12:08
tHom (regarding the end):

subcomandante - thanks for the recommendation on the "timesbold". I'm not familiar with that but I'm going to seek it out and let you know. Hope the bed gives good sleep and helps with the new life after divorce, which I know can be tough for a while.

Date: Thu Aug 7 06:33
fritopie (walgreens):

Hi, can someone please answer a question for me. I'm wondering what came first: Blacky Ranchette or Giant Sand? I know both the first Blacky LP and the first Giant Sand LP arrived the same year, but which came out first? Also, between what Giant Sand LPs/CDs did the subsequent Blacky LPs/CDs fall between. Many thanks.

Date: Thu Aug 7 03:33
Larss (ahem...):

I sold my French dictionaries long ago. Have forgotten much of what I learned way back when. But the Babelfish says "oeuf"....and I think I get the joke now. Maybe. ##### Hm, not trying to push anything (...that much). I was just worried about all the leaves that seem to be dropping from the tree....and it's not even autumn yet!!! :-O It's just that this sandman has got some brilliant tracks on it. Also songs that sound quite different from this years European Howe Home tour....which probably has a bit to do with the saw and violin present on the cds. Hep-diddley! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 6 20:37
glue sniffer (lycume in juice):

hello rat fans what a hot day here on plan to it dan i ve been reading books all day in the garden of edgeware not that im remotly near or controlled. I am writing seminal work on the nature of stupidity and its inherant links within curreent rising racisum and my realy shite spelling (shit irish is shite) any way if you can put all of this behind you and concentrate for one minutue minuet. WHY DO THE FRENCH ONLY HAVE ONE EGG FOR BREAKFAST ? A: Because to the french one egg is une uffe. sadley due to my lake of french writing skills this joke may not work. no refund availble. I'm sure lars knows how to spell egg in french. why you always hustling those records my moma always told me dont trust men with 4 letter name. oh shit............

Date: Wed Aug 6 20:23
geoff (sonisk):

how do us leaves who don't seem to have an active branch get back in on this thing? i've heard nothing from my branch about it...

Date: Wed Aug 6 15:28
Lars (regarding the "sonisk" sandman):

Would I violate a bunch of copyright laws by putting up a couple (3-4) mp3s from the (free) sandman on my website, so the poor souls missing the discs can have a little taste? I figured I should ask first. Could put up "Neon Filler", "Trace", "Train Singer's Song" and "Cowboy Boots" for instance. Or maybe "Torque"? Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 6 15:21
Graham (city, country, city):

Hello friends--I remain voluntarily unconnected to the world after my recent move to Tennessee (it was to even out James' relocation to Alabama). But I check in here from time to time and thought it worth mentioning that Richard Buckner announced last night in Nashville that he was recording his next album in Tucson this fall. Any Sand members involved in this? Any idea where the latest Sandman disc is?

Date: Wed Aug 6 11:52
subcomandante (subcommandante@gmx.at):

Re: tom fahrenheit - regard the end well, not much to add. I'm "through it" 6 times now and I'm far away from being thru it. Amazing. And it's really subtle. have you ever listened to "timesbold" - similar experience I had with this one - but it's more direct when it comes to the end's topic I guess. beautiful. By the way I'm relocating at the time i.e. I'm moving into a different apartment. I tried to get rid of all my old stuff (reminding me of my ex-wife, etc.) and was looking for a bed. And there was the one that I instantly fell in love with. It's "designated" ARIZONA which I didn't know when I decided for it. I only came to notice it when I saw the invoice. Reminds me of something: "I designated her Arizona ?for? the brand of ice tea she told (asked) me to buy" (tm Howe Gelb). Peace & Love to all in Sandland and beyond - sub

Date: Wed Aug 6 11:46
subcomandante (subcommandante@gmx.at):

Re: tom fahrenheit - regard the end well, not much to add. I'm "through it" 6 times now and I'm far away from being thru it. Amazing. And it's really subtle. have you ever listened to "timesbold" - similar experience I had with this one - but it's more direct when it comes to the end's topic I guess. beautiful. By the way I'm relocating at the time i.e. I'm moving into a different apartment. I tried to get rid of all my old stuff (reminding me of my ex-wife, etc.) and was looking for a bed. And there was the one that I instantly fell in love with. It's "designated" ARIZONA which I didn't know when I decided for it. I only came to notice it when I saw the invoice. Reminds me of something: "I designated her Arizona ?for? the brand of ice tea she told (asked) me to buy" (tm Howe Gelb). Peace & Love to all in Sandland and beyond - sub

Date: Wed Aug 6 07:36
tHom (farenheit 451 (or somewhere close)):

It's HOT today - at least for England. So that would be a typical summer day in Europe or the US. Anyway, thought I'd drop a line here as I was listening again last night to the Willard Grant Conspiracy, Regard The End and I didn't have anyone to talk about it with. Anyone here been playing that one? It has to be one of the most subtly beautiful, balanced, coherent and well crafted albums I've heard since ... well, Chore, I guess. It has gravitas and solemnity and there's a lot of death in there but it's all taken up with such great spirit and fine musicianship that listening to it just makes you feel like you've been through a valuable experience and come out stronger and more alive. Get a hold of a copy if you haven't already.

Date: Wed Aug 6 06:29
Lars (danfango):

Hep-didley, Mikerino! Did ya' get some Danish and Italian fandango in the mail? Have a lovely day everyone! / Lars

Date: Wed Aug 6 01:20
Blaine (@home-finally):

Re: Glue -- 1)Horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "why the long face?" 2)Three-legged dog walks into a bar and says, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." 3)A dyslexic walks into a bra.

Date: Wed Aug 6 00:43
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for lars):

funny, that i didn`t get into Travelall very much yet (although i like odd sounds and Jazz in common), but i will give it a few more spins. "Feast of wire" is my fave so far.

Date: Tue Aug 5 20:30
tom ((emm isn't em lars)):

i like glue's dyslectic convalescence, i wanna bet a leg that glue writes

Date: Tue Aug 5 19:03
dave (augustbringsbigspiderwebsanddroopingbranchesheavywithcrabapplesandoverchlorinatedswimmingpools):

I agree, Lars, I liked Travellal. Jazzy. I always like Airstream cover art. My favorite is still Hot Rail, which was the first one of theirs I obtained. I just like that record, muted horns, distortion here and there...Hope that new Sandman comes down the pike one of these days. Ringing ankles and talking cows from Glue. Nice. You should write some lyrics, man. Let somebody set some of those rants to music.

Date: Tue Aug 5 17:23
Lars (Em - Calexithings):

Hotmail erases accounts which have not been active for a certain amount of time. But I don't how long that is. By the way, I sent you a mail the other day. :-) ##### Just a thought: Is anyone here gonna hit me if I say that I think that "Travelall" is the best Calexico-album? Much, much better than everything else they have made. :-) Well, it was my first cd with them, but it still manages to be the best somehow. Well, I like instrumentals, but the cd also has less "mariachi-clichés" (in lack of a better expression). And that is nice in my ears. Oh well, night-night folks! / Lars

Date: Tue Aug 5 14:58
eem (hotmail issues):

I have hotmail issues. My account has been 'unavailable' for a couple days. Anybody else have this??? Sorry to people I need to get back to& send stuff to. Ek. Anyways, Hi to evryone.

Date: Tue Aug 5 14:48
Itasca (Fountain of TRUTH):

WOW, I can't tell you how great it is to scroll down and see entries by PATSY!

Date: Tue Aug 5 14:46
bluetooth (mail2norway):

Hey, how bout those fires, somebody isn't doing something right.

Date: Tue Aug 5 14:43
Robyn Hood and Little John (Sherbrooke Forest):

Big Foot is on the LURCH but afraid of the ten guage. The tax man cometh or go-eth on vacation. The Marymen are looking forward to a great time.

Date: Tue Aug 5 12:48
Mike (snakybus@yahoo.com):

thanks peter percent, that's the one all right

Date: Tue Aug 5 12:18
peter (%):

snakybus mike, sounds like you're talking about pedaless. see the sandman series link at this site.

Date: Tue Aug 5 12:08
Mike (snakybus@yahoo.com):

hi I've got a live CD (I think) of Howe playing stuff like Shiver, Under the Punishing Thunder, Creeper I'm not sure if these are the actual names of the songs, but you know what I mean There's also a recording of Hank Williams talking about a book he's written on how to write a song. And there's a bit where Howe stops a song to tell a couple of guys to keep it down. Has anyone any idea what this is called, this CD? Where and when was it recorded? thanks Mike

Date: Tue Aug 5 09:09
Richie ((grrrrrrrrrrr)):

passing from the room to the well. Love the book but need to re-read it quite soon and check out more of his work. Also loved Life of Pi by Martel, anyone who's read it explain the island with the merkats ???

Date: Mon Aug 4 22:34
Greg (.):

I think that I suggested it for Sr. Glue's recuperation reading list.

Date: Mon Aug 4 22:33
Greg H. ((james and richie)):

It's one of my favorite books too. I just stayed up really late last night to finish re-reading it. I still don't know if I get the whole book but it is amazingly engrossing. I'm in love with the May character - Mr. Wind-Up Bird!

Date: Mon Aug 4 21:52
james s (richie):

Well (as in dry, dark, and deep), that would be one of my favorite books, Richie. Are you writing from room 208?

Date: Mon Aug 4 17:41
Lars (attention, shoppers! ;-)):

Good to hear from ya, Em! That's one weird flu you got there!?! ##### To whoever asked for places to buy Under Byen-records earlier....today I made a kinda "shopping guide for Danish music" on my site www.supertanker.tk --- I hope it's helpful. Still, I would think that www.theothermusic.com would be the best place. The first Under Byen album seems to still be for sale at a low special offer price by the way. Greets! / Lars

Date: Mon Aug 4 17:35
PaulK (Stones of Summer):

Here's an interesting story about a "lost great novel" and a documentary on it. Anyone seen the movie or read the book? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1011165,00.html

Date: Mon Aug 4 16:12
em I think (uhh):

Hi guys. moving was problemental. The computer was not working but now is& I have a summer-flu-deal thing. Aint nothing scary about this place though. I hope the fandango's moving right along. Glue, I hope you're rapidly recovering. Yes that is all for now. It is Monday but it feels like Sunday. Yyyyeah.

Date: Mon Aug 4 07:54
Richie ((not from the bottom of a well)):

James, read Wind up bird chronicle by Marukami. Much time is spent contemplating from the bottom of a well. Sounds most interesting. Compare it with your experiences and let me know...might try it myself :) Book is pretty good at least!!

Date: Sun Aug 3 16:57
J (looks like):

everyone has been scared away

Date: Sat Aug 2 22:25
Lars (speaking of...):

...who scared Em away?

Date: Sat Aug 2 22:25
Lars (scrolling for earthenglue):

Well, I hope I didn't scare her away. What did I do wrong? I'm not THAT crazy. Pretty sane actually (which might just have bored her away then?) :-D / Lars

Date: Sat Aug 2 15:54
Grant Lee Phillips (I heaaaaarrrrr):

America snoring........

Date: Sat Aug 2 14:36
J (looks like):

Only me (busted shoulder)+ home with offspring and Glue (staple legged elephantasisstant) are here on this splendid sunny Saturday Eve. Got the 4trk taping 'Christina' james s, and I'm going to play with her right now...

Date: Sat Aug 2 14:27
glue (yes staples):

but atleast i can write elpehant and know its wrong. lars did you scare that earthernware lady off? you pulled get your coat and cot. p.s i am still waiting for a good explanation for the strange ringing i am hearing in my ankle who did it own up i'll get you even if it growns another testie. yes you heard the cows right

Date: Sat Aug 2 07:25
southernJ (Mitch):

Well Mitch, I got my mitts on 'Tideland' at last, but little j snaffled it so I won't get to read it just yet! Maybe you would consider swapping a signed copy for a copy of my homespun CD? You could consider it an honourable deed as I hereby announce that after over 9 years little j and myself will jump the broomstick/tie the knot on September 10. Any more news on the fandango or Sandman series front?

Date: Fri Aug 1 14:39
honourable james s (J & Howie Jelb):

No offence taken, good sir. You know, this cheer Upside Down Home 2002. is really very good. High art, really. Wuz you (Howester) referring to someone specific, someone real, in the camouflage cap track? (was that on 02, or some other little treasure I've acquired & spun... they're beginning to cross their borders in my head). But, anyway, I think now, if I ever just know I'd might as well totally give up, surrender, and I hope it never happens, a camouflage cap is the first thing I'll go and buy. It will speak all that needs to be spoken. Ok, back to work digging that well.

Date: Fri Aug 1 04:28
J (from the deep down ):

No offence intended gentlemen, hell, I'm a southerner myself.

Date: Fri Aug 1 00:49
Mitch (91776):

Funny article, J. Being from the south, I suppose I could take issue here and there, but my honor remains intact so I won't. The Mason-Dixon divide isn't any greater than,let's say, calling someone "abundent nose" while across the line they'll say "big nose." Or something like that. :) Hey, James S, never spent time in a well, but being trapped in one is a nightmare since childhood. If you get down in one and make it back up, do let me know how it was.

Date: Thu Jul 31 23:18
james s (full of southern testosterone and a passion for honor...):

thanks for the link, J. There is perhaps something to all that. I haven't spent much time out of the south. I call myself an asshole all the time, and, come to think of it, I beat myself up a lot too, so there might be some connection there..... I'm saving my next violent outburst for the first person I meet who calls me a paganini pageant pagan pack horse. Peace. From now on I must be called the honourable james s. Or the hoodoo hoodwink. Glue... staples in the leg? Sounds not good. I hope the doctors are making thee well. Speaking of wells, anybody here spent any time at the bottom of one?

Date: Thu Jul 31 16:31
J (and maybe):

James might like to read this... http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-07-26&id=3341

Date: Thu Jul 31 16:24
J (james s):

Now you know how we feel in the UK buddy. Shoulder fighting fit (almost) Some sort of 4 trk wrangle headed your way soon, probbbbly soon as I have your mailing address. How is the fandango going Mike? Got the Blades yet, can't wait to hear that politicians' wife. (Seriously good G chord for those who can take it) What is going to happen to all our hard work? Will I have it in my mitts b4 the Aarhus Sandman? Speak to me way out world. PS. Get unpackin' down Alabama way, 4trk leads and assorted shtuff.

Date: Thu Jul 31 15:41
james s (moved):

except everything is still in boxes. settle down, lars... or i'll beat you up, bully that I am. ha. i'm sore and tired. i'm glad to hear the redo of "spun" on upside down home. i suppose those lyrics never really seem wrong, but now, they seem so right. i'm getting lousy dial-up connection speeds in in alabamy. wunder wut up wid dat?

Date: Thu Jul 31 14:44
Lars (fan-mail-dango!):

I'll send a little buncha fandango off tomorrow. No PO box, though...?!?! How do you grab the tracks from the cds, Mike? With Exact Audio Copy or something? ##### Still think I sing awful (mostly hurried because of the beat, but also a bit off-key in a few places). It's the first time I try this thing they call singing (Em and James, you bullies!!!). ;-) / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 31 13:57
tom ((belguimsuit)):

I second Glue's opinion. Bearsuit are great, check them out, there's still real indie !

Date: Thu Jul 31 11:40
Lars (scrolling for Belgium):

Forgot a thing: Thanks, Tom! Must be shipped by "surface" then? Hm, maybe I should just go down the road somewhere and knock on Howe's Aarhus door, ha-ha. Just kiddin'. ##### You back in Aarhus, Howe? / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 31 10:35
J (sa wa ro Mike...):

Woodpile track posted to your Hook PO box today.

Date: Thu Jul 31 07:24
Lars (Scrolling again):

He-he, JC, yeah, your e-mail with the 'fr' kinda gave you away. ;-) But I thought many people will find it useful nevertheless. Sometimes the babelfish goes all jibberish, but I had a good read there. Good interview. / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 31 06:28
JC (Re : French) (jc.brochard@ wanadoo.fr):

Hey Lars, I have the advantage of BEING French !!! But still, I tried Babelfish for fun : it starts out really badly, but then it makes for fun reading and better than average understanding of the original published interview... Livappy! JC

Date: Thu Jul 31 03:21
Lars (scrolling for french):

Thanks JC. I don't know much French anymore. But try translating it with the Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com ----- it won't be perfect, but it will give us stoops the just of it. :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 31 03:16
JC (Howe interview) (jc.brochard@ wanadoo.fr):

There's a new interview, quite interesting, just published on the French website Pop News (http://www.popnews.com/popnews/howegelbitw). Time to polish up your French !! JC

Date: Wed Jul 30 21:02
Archivist (...):

Yah, that was a great set from Tom Walbank and friends! I am happy to have recorded it and happy that Tom put it out for everyone to enjoy.. Frankly, I'm just happy!

Date: Wed Jul 30 18:32
lindsey (lbar9109@aol.com):

everybody, Regarding Excalibooty CD by Mr. Walbank, it is VERY VERY good! Convertino's on it, Howe's on it and it was recorded on a very special night back in December of 2001 at solar culture in Tucson. It's amazing and can only be bought this way...Maquiladoraplastics.com If any of you want to order it, go there. Anyone can email me for more info on this very special record. Cheers!

Date: Wed Jul 30 18:15
Me G. Sniffer feeling better (Home brewed since 1911):

and too you too sir I hd 29 little metal staples taken out of my leg and the only thing that made this bearable was my new 'bearsuit' badge that arived today. Please visit this bands website and download the phonominal Hey charlie Hey chuck and all other mp3s its wickedy bong. lights down. smashty dog bowl. cheers for all those cards folks my heart melts. oh yea =www.bearsuit.co.uk

Date: Wed Jul 30 13:54
tom ((belgium)):

Lars, my experience is that it takes 3 to 4 week before you get the goodies, starting from the date you ordered. could also be that the Belgian postmen are slower than your average european mailman...

Date: Wed Jul 30 13:41
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

just cut down the comments page to a sensible size........ the first part of 2003 is available from the link above.

Date: Wed Jul 30 11:37
Lars (Ow Om):

Has anyone of you Europeans have any experiences with ordering from the Ow Om Store? I just ordered "Spareparts" and was wondering how long it usually takes to reach the drooling sand-fan? :-) I hope all that CCnow-online-thingy-stuff worked. Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Jul 30 11:27
stefan (PS):

I forgot to mention that this thing will also be weeded over the casadecalexico list ...

Date: Wed Jul 30 11:22
stefan (stefanmuc2001@yahoo.com):

Hi everybody, I've already had five responses for the "Archives set", and I can't handle more at the moment, maybe later. But I hope some of the respondents will offer it again in a short while. Cheers from Munich, Stefan

Date: Wed Jul 30 09:08
J (usual):

Stefan, mailed you just now, hope I'm in time...

Date: Wed Jul 30 05:51
Tom (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

Hello Innis,nice to hear from you,how is your wonderful photography going?Send my love to Dispanner, if you ever make it to Tucson you are most welcome to stay with us.I am working the graveyard shift front desk at the Congress, it is now 3 in the morning and is time for some more coffee.Hello everybody in comments land ,i hope you are all well,my beverage is raised,sleep well.

Date: Wed Jul 30 05:01
stefan (stefanmuc2001@yahoo.com):

Hi everyone, I’d like to start a little weed here. I have received archivist Jim B.‘s great „From the Archives“ broadcast as a 3 cd set and I’d like to share it with you - let’s say with the first five people who contact me offlist under stefanmuc2001@yahoo.com ............... Here’s the setlist: http://www.kxci.org/rainer/sand/11-3-01cs.html ................. This set also contains a special Calexico bonus from a KXCI-FM session on 10-15-02. Cheers from Munich, Stefan

Date: Tue Jul 29 20:03
gazelle (giant sand tree):

hey guys. i'm just trying to figure out the giant sand tree-thingy. i think i'd like to be a leaf, but what would that entail? i would have to send off blank cds to my branch for them to record live giant sand on them? i have a very minimal sand collection so wouldn't be able to contribute much. i know it's all explained there for me, but my eyes hurt. if someone could explain it for me on here, that'd be great! thanks, jaime

Date: Tue Jul 29 19:19
patsy (one more time) (xxxxxx@aol.com):

oops, very sorry i didnt pay attention to the warning and i clicked on refresh button, and trippled my message....

Date: Tue Jul 29 19:15
Patsy (xxxxxxx@aol.com):

hmmm, just thought id check out ur website pop, its kick'n if u see this, im just say'n hey and hope all is well in paradise..i mean denmark, please say hi to Tobias and Emilie for me and Demet if shes home from turkey. I miss you all and ill call soon, love you!

Date: Tue Jul 29 19:15
Patsy (xxxxxxx@aol.com):

hmmm, just thought id check out ur website pop, its kick'n if u see this, im just say'n hey and hope all is well in paradise..i mean denmark, please say hi to Tobias and Emilie for me and Demet if shes home from turkey. I miss you all and ill call soon, love you!

Date: Tue Jul 29 19:14
Patsy (xxxxxx@aol.com):

hmmm, just thought id check out ur website pop, its kick'n if u see this, im just say'n hey and hope all is well in paradise..i mean denmark, please say hi to Tobias and Emilie for me and Demet if shes home from turkey. I miss you all and ill call soon, love you!

Date: Tue Jul 29 18:59
PaulK (American music):

Just thought I'd tell everyone that I saw the original Blasters in Glasgow last night. Brillaint band with some scorching guitar stuff going on. Support was Chris Gaffney, introduced as "Tucson's finest"!

Date: Tue Jul 29 18:57
dropper (kyle@spark.ca):

well no one else commented i don't think so i'd may as well... canada, more specifically edmonton and calgary, well, i managed to catch both howe shows... dangerously returning to edmonton @ 5 in the morning with a hitchhiker, IQ of 7, nice fella. howe, canada is fond of you as well, don't be a stranger, but next time play calgary on a weekend. thanks

Date: Tue Jul 29 13:28
Lars (scrolling for ping-pong):

Thanks Johnny. That really made my day. Brilliant!!! Ha-haaaa-HAAAA!!!! / Lars

Date: Tue Jul 29 13:13
johnny_yen (matrix pingpong):

http://www.astercity.net/~tobik/pingpong.html

Date: Tue Jul 29 12:33
kevin (audubon):

polkahauntedass hit a deer and smashed up her truck, billy made her eat a hamburger in order to fix it, she got turned away at pembina but they copied her papers, she on her way to fort st. charles since she wanted to be in canada for her birthday, she might get to mass occur island and find some french heads, i mean hens

Date: Tue Jul 29 12:19
Klaus Guhl (klaus-guhl@foni.net):

Flensburg concert: more infos under http://flensburgerfolkverein.here.de Enjoy!

Date: Tue Jul 29 10:37
Blaine (@work):

RE: Fandango - FYI - Mike we recorded "Policitian's Wife" on Sat. I'll send it off to you as soon as we finish.

Date: Tue Jul 29 10:00
J (fandango):

Mike, Another track at your PO box in a few days, 'Love like a train'-Woodpile.

Date: Tue Jul 29 06:35
Re: airstream trailer motel (lurk):

It's most likely the Shady Dell Trailer Park in Bisbee, AZ.

Date: Tue Jul 29 05:27
innis (tom walbank):

Hey, there's a thing! Been enjoying your Excalibooty CD....it's good stuff, folks! Track down a copy.......Howe and JohnConvertino pop up on a coupla tracks too...maybe me & Diana (you probably remember her as Spanner..) will find our way to Arizona one day.. I like the sound of that motel where all the rooms are Airstream trailers...where was that?

Date: Tue Jul 29 05:20
SeanT (Canada):

I've never heard any visitor have a bad word to say about Canada , must go there soon .

Date: Mon Jul 28 23:19
howe (on and on and on and on):

and once this giant sand record gets itself finished, i think i have no choice but to attempt a gospel record up there in ottawa..............and maybe cover some really old giant sand songs ........and especially some of rainer's.

Date: Mon Jul 28 23:17
howe (again):

howdy major tom. dang, we miss you and yours. thanks for the udpate on rosa. we miss her sooooooooooo durn much. see you all sooner then later. and glue, listen, it was good to run into you at teh lyric way back when.....even though your hands were dripping. sad they closed up the joint so untimely, but then they were maintaining their theatre status ...........sigh.

Date: Mon Jul 28 23:13
howe (here):

i love canada.

Date: Mon Jul 28 17:51
J (usual):

nice favicon Mike, want some more?

Date: Mon Jul 28 11:42
LeipzigLiebchen ((Howdy Tom W.!)):

Howdy Tom, great to see your name coming up here. So, do you read this? How was your trip to the UK? Did Lea make it to Europe? Just got news from Marianne in Paris. And Al P. is riding the S.C. waves at 5.30 in the morning. How is Tucson these days? Still burning hot? Wish we would have spent more time last time in the Old Pueblo. Hopefully next time. If there is. Feel free to drop me a line: monztacactus@yahoo.de

Date: Mon Jul 28 11:04
Lars (scrolling for feline amphibia):

Man, Arizona must have the world's coolest turtles! / Lars

Date: Mon Jul 28 07:32
tom the limey (walbanktom@hotmail.com):

hey Howe,Sofie,Luca Bazooka and lil T, how is everything in Denmark?The monsoon came and put the fires out.Naim went to France for a few weeks and came back with a french accent.He bought a new blue caddy.Very nice.House looks fine, plants look watered,dog goes bark,turtles go meow[SOMETHING IN THE WATER}.Hope all is hunky dory,miss you all,Major Tom.

Date: Sun Jul 27 23:00
Glue sniffer (last stand agaist ignorance):

this is now my refuge form my sins on the internet. i am slowly realising that peoples hummor may not be as elastic as i once belived. If any body asks you aint seen me.

Date: Sun Jul 27 14:34
Lars (scrolling for ?):

Hm, I guess I'm too new around here to know who R & M is - or maybe I just forgot earlier posts? / Lars

Date: Sun Jul 27 13:56
R & M (heads up):

For all of those who are new and not aware, the person who posts under the various names of robyn, bluetooth, woodticks, unibrow, bird, vie, itasca, etc. is someone who has continually sought to harass Howe and his friends. In order to disrupt things in the past, she has also posted messages to this board using the names of other people here, doing so without their consent. Her name is Robyn and she is a deeply troubled woman. Over the last two or so years she has come and gone from this venue, so those of you who haven't had the displeasure of reading her posts might be unaware of her (lucky you). And while she might be unbearable at times, the best thing to do is ignore her completely and carry on with postings as if she wasn't here (it's easier than you might imagine, believe me). Responding in any way to what she writes tends to spur her on (as this posting of mine will no doubt do for a while), because she craves the attention. So instead send positive prayers her way, as she is truly a lost soul. Enough said, really.

Date: Sat Jul 26 18:50
- (-vie):

the ones they want and need and deserve to be again

Date: Sat Jul 26 18:48
--- (-vie):

All this sounds really nice. BUT ..........when will the boys be the one again??

Date: Sat Jul 26 16:27
J (fly away):

little bird

Date: Sat Jul 26 16:04
Lars (surfing for "bs"?):

So you mean that what you are thrown to digest happily is "The US is not occuppying Iraq", "Bush DID win the election" and the good ol' Orwellian "War is peace" etc.? / Lars

Date: Sat Jul 26 14:09
unibrow (curse):

I am so sick of all this hucking bullshit the media is throwing at us. Their stupid lies makes them look so naive....and to think that over half of amerika believes them is enough to throw up.

Date: Sat Jul 26 10:47
woodticks (minihaha):

Bush is one of US, just squish him between your fingers and watch the blood squirt out.

Date: Sat Jul 26 08:53
glue sniffer (leo lion):

my birthday is soon and in a moment of clarity probably one to haunt me thats strange. ASLO listen to songs: Ohia that is sweet meet Coxcomb red is melting my ice cream and leaveing a sticky white resadue all over my recovery. hello earthy are you leo. hello lars i am reading all and a book called hard boiled somthing and i cant remeber the guys jappanese well the pills have take there toll remember we are not what we need to be because if we were we would cease to be. beautifull much catch my feet

Date: Sat Jul 26 08:22
Lars (scrolling for "Tommy Tenth"):

Yep, all Leo here. And ha-ha, I turn 27 on the 11th of August! Can't say I'm anywhere near marriage and kids at 27. Hell, I'm even single now! It'll have to wait a bit. And still unemployed. Lucky me. :-) But thinking about writing a little book about the Aarhus music scene nowadays. A lot is happening. Gotta get some work done somehow. But it's still on researching-a-budget level now. :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Sat Jul 26 08:12
bluetooth (mail2norway.com):

If they touch PETRA all hell will break loose.

Date: Sat Jul 26 08:05
robyn (on the run):

Hey, I hope they spread Bush's body on a slab and photograph it, after all he's just the same, a cold bloody killer.

Date: Sat Jul 26 08:04
Itasca (HUNGER STRIKE):

The first two days were really rough, I had a vision of Osama and Hussien at PETRA (Jordan, it makes alot of sense) told people but I don't think it regestered. Oh, well, some people are really stupid, we all know that. Do you think PETRA is one big BOOBY trap of demons. I kinda hope so, blow that to bits and see what happens.

Date: Sat Jul 26 07:31
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for crazy):

the "normal" people sometimes scares me...Lars if you are nearly 27, i guess you are a Leo like me. I turn 39 (thirtynine) at August 10th! W/ 27 i got married and got my daughter Pia too! But i had my first John/Howe concert with 25, in 1989 in Munich...

Date: Fri Jul 25 18:20
Lars (is it that bad, huh?):

Welcome, Eartha! Me, crazy? Hm, don't think so. But I haven't asked around. Thanks for the heads up.... Whereabout on this globe do your feet touch the ground? :-) G'night all! (it's midnight and I just saw "Waking Life" on video.....my head hurts)...ha-ha.. / Lars

Date: Fri Jul 25 17:50
james s (last day at this job... woo hoo, I believe they say...):

Welcome, eartha Kellysburg. Do post. As for me, I'll be computerless for several days. Oh, whatever will I do without the sandboard?

Date: Fri Jul 25 17:31
eartha Kellysburg (new to this all):

Hi guys, you all seem so settled her hope you dont mind one more shifting the silt in your sand glass. I've been listening for quite some time to the boys and realy feel conected to this whole vibe. Lars you sound crazy we'll have to meet. I may be around and pop in one day. Well thats enough for the first post. You all seem to know each other well. Later !!

Date: Fri Jul 25 15:33
gazelle (gazelleiam@lycos.com):

you guys are great. i am so going to do the cover. don't know how when where why but know that it will be fun. in a way deadlines are good cuz i will give myself a time limit, but to really collaborate with others i need time to be on my side. saw nina nastasia last nite at bottom of the hill. she is an amazing musician, and if you haven't heard her "run to ruin" yet you should. it's on touch and go. also blaine, grandaddy is worth it. and they'll be with the super furries -- a double treat!

Date: Fri Jul 25 15:07
J (Alan):

warmth and a happy baby... I'd like to get that Sandman too. Alan Gregory are you on here lately?

Date: Fri Jul 25 09:24
alan (branch to tree for leaves):

Is there news on the pace, breadth, scope of the distribution of the Aarhus Sandman? Periodic references here have left some of us wondering... about to be away for two weeks -- anyone been to the Unibroue pub in or (just outside of) Montreal? I love their (potent) beers and am about to be there for 4 days before heading to a lake in New Hampshire... wish me warmth and a happy baby, eh? Alan

Date: Fri Jul 25 08:00
Lars (starting out young (yo la tengo!) :-) ):

Tommy, I'm nearly 27! I wasn't listening to cool music at 6. :-) I guess I started breaking off from what was popular at the time when I was 16 or 17....but that didn't mean I started diggin' music that was cool. For some bizarre reason (that I'm still wondering about) I bought a double live LP with Jean-Michel Jarre ("The Concerts In China") around 1991, I think, and that changed my way of thinking about music (= as something you should go and find out yourself and not getting told what to hear by radio and tv). I still love that album. Funnily it didn't have any of the major hits on it as I expected, but then all the other tracks opened up to me instead. (but jeez has that Jarre-dude been making sh*t for years). :-) Didn't start getting into socalled "americana" og "alternative country" till maybe two years ago (or less). #### Yo La Tengo played "Nuclear War" both in Aarhus and at the Roskilde Festival. I got finale to a show. Would love to hear the Sun Ra original at some point. It's supposed to be better, I've heard. Greets from a-bit-sweaty-Ĺrhus. :-) / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 24 20:04
tom (mexicanshark@hotmail.com):

have just come down from yo la tengo and calexico in london.LIVE.so here i am back again.The most beautiful live performance we have ever seen.somerset house,summer.Stars in the sky;. Make love, enjoy music and make love to and in sand. we love and will stay awake for more more nights like .......stars ...ufos..talking about nuclear war.....see you in tuscun love madeleine and tom xxxxxxxxx

Date: Thu Jul 24 19:06
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for mike and lars):

Sure, Mike, John & Joey were dressed properly ;-)...Lars, i wished i would have your music background when i was in your age.#### Pia`s nearly talkin`every day about that concert...she was deeply impressed.### Little while ago we were listening to "The Listener" in the car and she listened up "who is this?" and i told her about Howe. She loves the rumba/rythm stuff and that should be the next step.###When Pia (11) was about 4 years old, i always had to play the first "Friends of Dean Martinez" for her; especially "all the pretty horses". From the age of 6 on, she was totally into Sixteen Horsepower`s first album.###I always tried to avoid the typical german kids music.

Date: Thu Jul 24 17:07
mike ([ooooooohhhhhh]):

hey tommy...... great pics... does john have any trousers on????

Date: Thu Jul 24 15:29
Lars (vid-vid):

Neat video for Calexico's "Quattro". Hadn't seen it before. http://www.paleo.ch/en/tools/multimedia/index.php?category_id=2

Date: Thu Jul 24 15:08
Lars (www.larsdideriksen.com):

Gee, I wish I had gotten music like that through my head at that early an age. :-) I wonder where I would have been today. "They trying to warp my fragile little mind" (- Cartman). He-he. ### By the way, where's Howe on the planet these days? ...Have a nice evenin' all! (or whatever time of day it is a your spot on the globe) / Lars

Date: Thu Jul 24 14:59
Blaine (@work):

...wait a minute... you owe us for wasting our time. It's just as valuable as yrs. Next item: any body seen Grandaddy recently? They are coming to town, but the ticket price is a bit steep to be less than cautious. If it were a small club I'd bite for sure. Any thoughts on them???

Date: Thu Jul 24 14:32
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for pia):

My little one`s first concert ever: http://www.mediagurrl.net/pkb/tommy/1.jpg http://www.mediagurrl.net/pkb/tommy/2.jpg http://www.mediagurrl.net/pkb/tommy/3.jpg ######## sorry it`s a Calexico show, but she couldn`t make it to Howe`s concert in Munich. But next time Howe`s in south germany i`ll take Pia to this one too.

Date: Thu Jul 24 13:11
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

....hopefully we have...

Date: Thu Jul 24 11:53
Re: (Itasca & Robyn):

Not her again... We've had enough of you and your sick posts. You poor lost soul, go find someone who loves you instead of spreading your poison on a place like that and probably many other places.

Date: Thu Jul 24 10:28
woodticks (Moorhead/Fargo):

Are you going to talk about us?

Date: Thu Jul 24 10:19
Robyn (robyn@mail2minnesota.com):

And all my "friends" because they didn't want to get involved.

Date: Thu Jul 24 10:17
Itasca (bluetooth@mail2norway.com):

I tell you why I'm not suppose to be encouraged. It's because Howe owes me money plus a HUGE appology for abusing my photograph of Sofie. Patti Keating owes me for the use of my photographs of Rainer and called me a vile evil witch. Gene Armstrong and the Arizona Daily Star owes me for the thousands of doolars I spent on the Tuscon Musician's project which was never published. The Tuscon Weekly owes me for all the photographs (12 plus) they printed during the scandal (also Tuscon Citezen and Arizona Republic.) Micheal Picaretta owes me because he is in cahoots with the POLICE. Gordon Stettinius, a sadistic pervert and Swanstock agency owe me for stealing Oscar Takes Larry to the Moon and kidnapping my children. Keith and Lisa Stoutenburg, catholic hypocrits, owe me for calling me a child pornographer and making my and my children's lives hell. The WHOLE STATE of ARIZONA owes me for breaking into my home four times. Peter Wilkinson of Rolling Stone owes me because he forgot who sub-let him his apartment...Dave Slutes doesn't owe me anything and I still think he's cute, Jim Boquist owes me because he is such a wimp...Richard Buckner owes me because he never gave me my portfolio back, Willie Nelson owes me, I WANT MY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WESTERN STEAM THRESHER'S REUNION BACK! The US Government OWES me for unlawful violation of my privacy and HARRASSMENT!

Date: Thu Jul 24 04:42
J (fandangoville):

Coming soon... 'Love like a train' Woodpile.

Date: Thu Jul 24 03:14
Lars (Hey, Howe! + Hey, Mike!):

Howe....In case you don't know yet (you probably do)...Grandaddy at playing in Aarhus at Voxhall on the 17th of November. But you'll be back in Arizona by then or what? (when Tuscon has cooled off a bit) :-) ##### And Mike, I have burned the fandango-thing on a disc for you....and I need the address to send it too (sorry, I can't find it anywhere). Furthermore: does the "UK Ow Om Store" have the new Spare Parts and Infiltration - and perhaps Lull??? Hope to hear from ya'! Greeeets all ye Faithful! / Lars

Date: Wed Jul 23 16:56
mike ([sa-nd-fa-nd-an-go]):

ok - we have at present....... valley of rain - frozen planets / here on the planet - bob xl-35 / scorcher - the dowsing rods / way to end the day - james scarbrough / dusted - the jellybabies / artists - jason eade / wolfy - me / thi ng like that - jellybabies /............ coming is..... dirty from the rain - paul linton / always horse coming - cyril dufour / town where no town belongs - the high score / aimless blades and lars......

Date: Wed Jul 23 15:09
glue sniffer (i can not enter into it wait and see):

due to real lack off ANYTHING THAT sounds interseting and the fact i am off earth on codine i wioll now love not only to wirte notes but give you all a song can only get out bed for few minutes befgore hawbing erge to trun more later

Date: Wed Jul 23 11:28
Itasca (not so mean):

Why not?

Date: Wed Jul 23 11:26
Greg H (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

I know that I shouldn't encourage Itasca but that last post is really quite funny.

Date: Wed Jul 23 11:03
Itasca (bluetooth@mail2norway.com):

.....sob,sob.......Dad,.....sob,sob,....Kevin called me "Polka Haunted Ass"....sob,sob,....beat'em up will ya? But don't touch the corn or wheat, they're perfect.

Date: Wed Jul 23 09:19
Lars (smiling a bit more than earlier):

(continued from last post)...I even made an acoustic instrumental version. It was even worse. Scrapped it all. Then found an old drum machine loop I had lying around. Made it ages ago. Fit a new guitar bit on it. Tried singing. This time it went much better. So all things considered it went okay. Even with my untrained vocals (= NEVER-trained!). Not everything fits totally nice together. But that's the charm of it, right? (I hope). One problem, though: Too many P's in the lyrics :-) ....makes too many burst-noises in the microphone. I even tried not to "spit" in the mic, but alas.....He-he, the agonies of real amateurs, huh? :-D I'll make a disc as soon as I get your address, Mike! / Lars

Date: Wed Jul 23 07:21
Lars (finally fandangoing....but what an atrocious outcome! :-( It's horrible!):

Hmmm....apparently can't get the forces together here in Aarhus. But then I sat down this afternoon after reading Mike's post and "taped" (digi) the acoustic version of "Rain Mixes With Parade" that I have been trying to play for weeks now. Now it's 'lying there' on my harddisk. With guitar, (virtual) theremin and vocals (done by...yes, me - so help us, G. - with extra distortion on top). Cheeeriiiiist! Mike, I'm gonna put my little funny "Howecheck" mix on the disc as well. In my ears it sounds better. Could you mail me your postal address again? (larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk). And Mike, did you get my e-mail I sent the other day? Greets! / Lars

Date: Wed Jul 23 06:30
JC (Fandango) (jc.brochard@ wanadoo.fr):

It IS a live crappy cassette-recorded French version of "Nowhere", recorded by myself and a family of friends, but this version should be with you at the end of the week-end, Mike, once I've transferred it onto MP3. JC

Date: Wed Jul 23 02:23
frumpy (fandango):

Mike, could you please give us a track list so far for Fandango, as well as who performs the eight songs? Thanks.

Date: Wed Jul 23 01:43
Blaine (@home):

"Let the Heat Be Yr Band" -- do we still need a title for this? or was that an old Roland Kirk tune? Nice one, James.

Date: Tue Jul 22 18:52
james s (only 8 tracks so far?):

I thought more folks would jump on this. Come on, gazelle, do it. Let the heat be your band. Blue Lit Rope won't be on this record unless you put it there. Wouldn't that be sad, if it wasn't there? Yes it would.

Date: Tue Jul 22 18:35
mike (sand fan dango):

i echo blaines comments....... this thing needs the diversity. there's no set deadline, ok - it'd be great to have everything in on time for the end of july..... but that ain't the real world....... i only have eight tracks so far.... so come on guys.... this is too good an opportunity to miss.

Date: Tue Jul 22 16:55
Blaine (@home):

Gazelle -- keep in mind we are all playing songs by a group based in Tuscson, Arizona, USA, a/k/a a pretty warm place as well. The heat will only enhance yr recording. Our group is going to record this weekend and I have not seen any deadlines yet. Mull it over, tune up yr tambourine, and push play and record at the same time. I look fwd to the diversity this project holds. It will be even more interesting to hear the thoghts of the folks who orig recorded the tunes once we re-birth them.

Date: Tue Jul 22 16:24
gazelle (sorry guys):

i'll have to decline on the giant sand cover thingymajigger. i'm sorta bummed. it's been really hot here. i know that's no excuse, but i think the heat is going to our heads, making us slow and deranged and confused -- making us think we have no time for fun things like covering some of our favorite songs. it's really that sad. none of my friends have any time to play music with me, let alone record one little song. so sorry. but i can't come up with anything before the end of the month unless you want to hear a really crappy tape-recorded version of 'blue lit rope,' with only vocals and tambourine. i'm so disappointed. have fun without me, and be sure to send me a copy of the finished product. i'll play it on the radio.

Date: Tue Jul 22 13:13
Itasca (DL):

Another funnel...eessshhh, he's getting mad.

Date: Tue Jul 22 11:29
james s (howe & glue & jim & mitch):

Howe, thanks for the beautiful clunky masterpiece that is Upside Down Home 2002. I love the backing vocals, all of the sounds, the instrumentation, the loose but perfect arrangements, etc... It's very good. Glue, I'm happy to see your new post, and that you survived. How did you end up spending your hospital time? Jim Archive Dude, I see you received or found my check. Cool. Mitch, how was that movie?

Date: Mon Jul 21 19:26
J (hello strange glue):

Are you going to do sleevenotage for the sandfandango now that you are cured yet sore? Have a good move james s. mitchits not here til 1 week hence.

Date: Mon Jul 21 15:36
glue (survived):

still hangging in very sore rock

Date: Mon Jul 21 14:55
Itasca (Fargo):

Hey, what do they do about the Ganji River and the way they stick their dead in it...doesn't that really scare people? My doctor told me I'm not HIV positive and even if I was and swam ontop of someone with a gunshot wound they most likely wouldn't get it. Whew. What about those baseball sized hail though, I think Hiawatha is alittle upset. I wish the people I mentioned earlier would go talk to him themselves. The Douglas Lodge is really nice.

Date: Mon Jul 21 13:25
johnny (malcom ):

letsseee, Malcom burn was kind of a lanois protege, and Kingsway (where glum was recorded) is/was owned by Lanois, so that's kind of Burn-territory productionwise.

Date: Mon Jul 21 11:57
Martin (Who is Malcolm Burn?):

I don't know if he has any other connections with Giant Sand, but Malcolm mixed Glum. He played tambourine, keyboards, bass and 'mercy keys' on Dylan's Oh Mercy album. Check out malcolmburn.com for additional details - though no mention of Giant Sand/Glum.

Date: Mon Jul 21 10:09
Lars (Who is Malcolm Burn?):

I just read that Danish band Amstrong (www.amstrong.dk) is currently recording with Malcolm Burn. I have never heard of the guy, but I read that he has worked with Daniel Lanois, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Emmylou Harris, Lisa Germano and yes, GIANT SAND as producer, musician and/or engineer. Sounds interesting....but also a bit weird, because Amstrong's music lies very far away from any of the above artists. (There is an mp3 at their site - anyone curious about the band can read my biography on them at www.supertanker.tk). How was he involved with Giant Sand? Just curious! / Lars

Date: Mon Jul 21 08:59
Lars (www.larsdideriksen.com):

Hi! Where do I get "Lull" now that it sold out a lot of places? I just ordered it at an online shop where it was in the catalogue, but it just stranded as a "back order" (isn't that what you call "out of stock"-items?). Way too hot summer greets from Aarhus! / Lars

Date: Sat Jul 19 19:47
On the Beach (dune buggy attack batallion):

The guy who petitioned to have this released has taken down his mp3s of the album and posted his views on the release. See at http://www.dergunerz.freeserve.co.uk/ Right now I'm listening to a cd of Neil at the Glasgow Apollo in 76, a gig I was at. Sublime.

Date: Sat Jul 19 11:32
Ver-itas (Ca-put):

My Dad told me what we wants to happen...he wants Collin Powell to take care of the Oil Crisis and the punishment of the Tycoons, he wants Hillary Clinton to be in control of Domestic Relations, he wants Jesse Ventura to be head of Homeland Security and he wants Winona La Duke to be head of Foreign Affairs. Remember, I'm just a messenger and doing as I am told. There is a huge storm outside and if nobody does what they are told I don't know what will happen. By the way, anybody check out Mary Eastman's Aboriginal Portfolio and anybody know if William Wegman is related to the Wegman's buried in ITASCA?

Date: Sat Jul 19 02:35
deadline for a track in (???????):

still puttin it togather ????? workin that dreamville.

Date: Fri Jul 18 17:07
J (Mitchits):

In Suffolk, UK, had it all along categorised with six fingered dexterity. Any sandcover news to relate Mike?

Date: Fri Jul 18 12:14
Mitch (Dartmoor? Beware the hounds of hell...):

Mike, isn't Dartmoor where Hound of the Baskervilles took place? Be careful! Anyway, thanks for the Neil update, and I'll drop you an extended email this weekend. Regards to the lovely Sarah. And all you other Sandlanders, have a great Sat and Sun. "The Sea Is Watching" opens today in Pasadena, based on a screenplay by Kurosawa--so I'm in for the first showing. Should be interesting, I hope.

Date: Fri Jul 18 12:13
Itty (home):

By the way, the night of the threatening storm there was a gold HUMMVEE (or whatever those military machines that are more expensive than a mansion are called) roaming around the park, I thought of blowing up but I didn't want to make a mess.

Date: Fri Jul 18 12:06
Itasca (Lac la Biche (MN)):

Well, as far as I can tell we're all still slaves to the keeper of souls. There was threat of a huge storm Wed Night. Thursday my father (Hiawatha) came to me and told me go go swimming. I dreampt of AIDS, which I don't have, as far as I know and I never would want to hurt anyone, especially those I do not know (if I did I would have killed all of you long ago, just remember I'm a photographer and have access to some mighty potent stuff.) But good ol Dad told me someone was trying to mess with my medical records and it was best to protect MYSELF. Looks like the Brits are catching on although Blaire claims no action would have been a shame...good god, what we did was gross...so much more good could have been done but NOOOOOOOO, BUSH HAD TO BLOW HIS WAD. GET RID OF HIM!

Date: Fri Jul 18 11:57
mike ([still on the beach.... with the tide(land) coming in]):

........the covers are exactly the same as the original albums... tho' with the inner sleeve printed on the back of the (folded) front cd cover. no extra tracks and 'no' mention of remix/remaster except for "digital mastering by tim mulligan". only listened to a few tracks so far..... can't really compare the sound with my scratchy old album. mitch.... got 'tideland' in basingstoke... though you probably know that from your publishers records!?!?.. initially striking cover, especially terry gilliams' quote. so mail me and tell me all about l.a..... and i'll let you into our move.... to dartmoor (not the prison)..if the finances come through...

Date: Fri Jul 18 11:20
james s (J):

tideland is a good one.

Date: Fri Jul 18 10:52
Blaine ( - - beach combing):

Mike -- any extra tracks or new liner notes?

Date: Fri Jul 18 10:06
Mitch (coffee table):

That's great, J! Where is your library exactly? And Mike Mike Mike, how's those re-issues sounding? I've been curious to get somebody's opinions on them.

Date: Fri Jul 18 09:08
J (Mitch):

Update: 'Tideland' is now on order for me at my local library...

Date: Fri Jul 18 08:56
mike ([on the beach.............................wish]):

oh.......and i've just received the neil young re-issues (via amazon)

Date: Fri Jul 18 08:40
mike ([sa-wa-ro]):

......the first words i heard billy bragg say (shout) was "i'm billy bragg - bragg as in boast, billy as in goat....."

Date: Fri Jul 18 05:33
Lars (Under Byen for you lucky Germans):

It seems Under Byen are doing yet another round of German live dates. There's that Haldern-Pop festival that I've mentioned earlier (it's got a small line-up....but what a line-up!...Ed Harcourt, Evan Dando, Bright Eyes, Patti Smith and more). The new dates are here: http://www.underbyen.com/live_en.htm AND HERE: August 9 2003, Haldern Festival. September 6 2003, Lübeck. October 9 2003 Dresden, StarClub. Oktober 10 2003, Berlin. Oktober 11 2003, Hamburg, Schauspielhaus. Neat, huh? Let's hope they get stateside at some point. :-) Greets! / Lars

Date: Fri Jul 18 02:25
Blaine (@home):

Politics happens on all levels. A recent NYTimes review of 'ol Springsteen noted he told the audience it's a good idea to hold yr gov't responsible for its actions -- this may be as close to macro-level "This Land is Your Land" as we get (and very cool when you generalize who part of Springsteen's audience is these days -- today they may be running the show and piloting SUV's, but they used to wail "Thunder Road" at the frat parties), and on the micro level I'd agree that Greg Brown is an unrecognized master. But c'mon ...how can you not dig into some of that old Ted Nugent magic?

Date: Thu Jul 17 22:07
Conch (alazabeerah):

Steve Earle can don Woody's cape every so often.

Date: Thu Jul 17 21:22
Mitch (last thing):

You know, there's also Billy Bragg. He told a story once about playing in some southern U.S. city, and throughout his set a burly-looking guy kept yelling at him, "Red fag! Red fag!" And it started to really spook him until, near the end of the show, he realized the expression on the fellow was impassioned and not hateful, and that, indeed, he was calling out for the song "Red Flag" instead of taking issue with Bragg's political leanings.

Date: Thu Jul 17 21:16
Mitch (diggin' up the bones of strummer & jones):

Chomski & Zinn has a certain ring to it, James. Like Strummer & Jones. Like Lennon & that other guy...you know, ol' what's his name.

Date: Thu Jul 17 21:14
Mitch (Riveras? Geraldo?):

You know, I'd be quicker to argue that we've got a few Orwells floating about, but perhaps not so explicit and pointed as George. Don DeLillo has his moments. And I'm sure there's other cautionary tales being written, somewhere.

Date: Thu Jul 17 21:11
Mitch (hmmmmmmm...):

Overly cynical and resigned, to a certain degree. Plus, we are "entertained" to a point that politics doesn't really seem to impact on the realms of internet, gameboys, cell phones, etc. I keep thinking of Soma in Brave New World. But, yes, The Clash. Woody Guthrie? I don't know who the analog would be these days...but still there's Greg Brown, and even Springsteen can still mesh the modern woes and injustices from time to time.

Date: Thu Jul 17 18:41
greg (.):

Perhaps the problem is that modern political art often seems hollow, saccharin and contrived. Where are the effective political artists of our time? Political art that wasn’t subjected to extensive market research? Where are our Riveras, Guthries and Orwells? Or for that matter where is our Clash? Or is it that we have become overly cynical?

Date: Thu Jul 17 18:25
james s (more on politics and such):

I think Noam Chomski should pick up a guitar, put Howard Zinn on the bass, Michael Moore on the drums, Nader on the banjo. Maybe Gore Vidal could do the vocals. Chomski and Zinn should be responsible for the bulk of the lyrics, and Moore could supply the obnoxious punk antics like spitting and such... but seriously, is anyone doing any good and intelligent "in your face" political tunage? I've got politics bouncing around in my head a lot these days, and I imagine the next year will pull many people into those concerns, even if they've been rather apolital previously, as I have been.

Date: Thu Jul 17 17:37
Mitch (re: greg):

Hey, Greg, well I really do think "Yes" to all your questions. I suppose it's hard at times to make distinctions between what an artist advocates politically and his or her art...but it can and really should be done. I mean, Ezra Pound was a fascist but that doesn't seem to kill the power of his poetry for me. Politics aside, I know Woody Allen lost a lot of fans due to the whole Mia/adopted child thing, and I've always thought that that was a shame because it was the films that mattered to me, not my own moral quandries about his personal choices. Dylan as an evangelical Christian, or Lennon in a bed for peace--or Dennis Miller championing Bush--or Chrissie Hinds smearing red paint on KFC--or ol' Goat Boy Hicks tearing apart Jesse Helms--these things are important, I suppose, but really secondary (at least for me) to what it is these people offer creatively in the long haul. Personally, I don't much enjoy the explicit minglings of art with politics, and subtle approaches tend to resonate somewhat more for me than in-your-face stuff. I'm sure others feel quite different.

Date: Thu Jul 17 17:23
G (.):

Today it rained.

Date: Thu Jul 17 17:22
Greg (.....):

This quote fits in quite nicely with um's previous post don't you think? "Are more people going to die? You bet!" - Donald Rumsfeld, July 13

Date: Thu Jul 17 17:21
Greg (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

I'm sorry but I cannot resist responding to political posts. What is it about art and politics? Is it possible to have one without the other? Is it possible to enjoy art made by people that you don't agree with politically? Is it possible to enjoy politics made by people that you don't agree with artistically? Based on some of the political posts to this board I guess the answer is yes but I don't think that I'll ever enjoy a Ted Nugent song. Don't take the above as a criticism of political posts - I love 'em.

Date: Thu Jul 17 16:23
um (mmm...):

...the image of Bush that we see projected on TV these days is really a faux bush. The original is long gone and undergoing special treatment at the Center for Technologically Unadvanced Species (C.T.U.P.). What the government doesn't want us to know is that Bush is just a simulated 3-D projection of a GMO sub-human. There really isn't anything to get rid of except for the dweebs holding the strings.

Date: Thu Jul 17 16:12
phillllllllllll (philllllllllllllll):

just got compilation of British label Loose called selections. Features HEARTLAND by THE BAND OF BLACKY RANCHETTE. I think it is one of Howe's best songs. Strangely enough, I think he sounds a little like Mick Jagger on the first verse! Anyone else know this song?????????

Date: Thu Jul 17 11:55
Itasca (Itasca):

Hey, it's beuatiful here...I went swimming and I have my period, think that'll help with the fires, tornados and hurricanes? Or maybe just bring the US together to get rid of BUSH.

Date: Wed Jul 16 09:03
Lars (Hey, Peter & Thoger!):

...you are reading this page now and then, right? Are you playing any gigs at the current Aarhus Jazz Festival? I would love to drop by and check out some of your "non-Howe output" as well. :-) Where can I go - if you're playing? Greets! / Lars (larsdideriksen@yahoo.dk)

Date: Tue Jul 15 15:53
e ahem (cabbage patch things and other things.):

Cabbage Patch Kids scare me, Greg, so the birthing place of Cabbage Patch Kids is probably equally if not more terrifying. But I do reckon it'd be weird enough:) James, you should add ukelele to the next thing. Or it'd be cool I think if you added a whole bunch of stuff as you do with your own songs to a Jellybaby song. Whenever you've got time to do some such thing, I'd for sure ship something out to ya. And, Lars, I like the stuff added to your website to by the by.

Date: Tue Jul 15 15:32
james s (yup, Lars):

I've heard the JellyLars song. I'm jealous. I should have added some ukelele or something before I sent the CD back to Em. Make it a sandie three-piece. Oh, and, uh, sweet home neil young.

Date: Tue Jul 15 03:24
Lars (thanks + mail):

Thanks James! So you've have heard the socalled "Danish Remix" of the new Jellybabies song? Yep!....a couple of sand-fans doing a bit of music together across the Atlantic. Oh wait, you're putting the new Jelly-stuff to cd for Em, aren't you? ##### About unavailable mails.....I think Hotmail has a thing when one hasn't logged in for a certain (long) amount of time they close down the account. But that would be unlikely at AOL?! Otherwise I don't think I can be helpful, Howe. Greets all around! / Lars

Date: Tue Jul 15 00:24
Blaine (@home):

Greg - Bucket's of Dylan's rain to you. One of my favorite landmarks is the enormous installation/pawn broker's tree(?) in the Bonneville salt flats b/t Salt Lake City and Elko, NV? I may be getting this wrong -- someone told me it was put there by a guy who made the trip on a reg basis to mark the 1/2 way pt. Isn't there a Cracker connection to Pioneerville -- Howe?? Maybe when you get a few spare moments maybe you can regale us with the story of Pappy??? A few years back I was headed on a Gram Parson Pilgrimage to Joshua Tree. All along I thought Pioneerville was in Tucson, but I saw the mirage of a sign near 29 Palms and stopped in and met Harriet and chatted with her in the bar, drank a cold beer and she gave me a Gram Parsons poster. An incredibly funky place, even in the daylight hours. So later that day I was getting lost in the desert looking for Cap Rock and went back to the hotel as the sun was getting ready to set. When I told the owner at the hotel I couldn't find said legendary landmark, the French student who was interning there for the Summer offered to take me. On the way back to the park I had Glum playing and he was looking at the cd case. When he saw the picture of Victoria Wms he said, "I helped her build a garage last week". And that's how the cd became his. Sorry for the story, but I couldn't resist, must be the full mooooon.

Date: Mon Jul 14 22:17
howe (hither):

hey has anyone else in AOL land had p[roblems gettin g their mail ....? mine is a spattered and withdrawn.....un available.....anyway, here still in canada....alberta.....and i love this land.....ok, better go.....

Date: Mon Jul 14 20:54
Greg (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

Mitch - have you been to Watts Towers yet? It's truly one of the great things about the LA area. Em, weird museums - try the Cabbage Patch Museum/Birthing Facility - it is truly one of the more surreal experiences even if you are not under the influence. Also, I was driving through Texas once and saw a sign for the Confederate Air Museum - has anyone been? "The Thing" (se arizona) is worth the stop. There is a whole museum dedicated to a certain portion of the male genitalia in Iceland - I haven't been but had to suffer with embarrasment and inadequacy through a whole roll of pictures that a female friend showed me.

Date: Mon Jul 14 20:44
Greg (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

Sandinistas, I'm requesting that you all join together and pray for rain in our little dry burg. We had our first monsoon on Saturday night and also had a hell of a thunderstorm/windstorm last night. The season of anticipation, excitement, fear and disappointment has begun. Alas, we need more rain, buckets full of it to quench the thirst of the fires and the dry, dry desert.

Date: Mon Jul 14 20:39
Greg H. (gmhaldane@hotmail.com):

Like so many bands Cracker spent a little time in dusty old Tucson and did some recording way back when. The even had a single titled "Tucson." Cracker and Camper are really great bands, as is Greyhound Soul for that matter

Date: Mon Jul 14 20:15
Tommy Gailer (scrolling for cracker):

People around the Bonn Area: Cracker and Greyhound Soul will play at September 13th 2003:http://www.rockpalast.de/schatz/crossroads03_09/.........sounds like a great mix to my ears, Cracker fan as i am.

Date: Mon Jul 14 18:04
james s (Lars):

Lars, you've got some nice sounds in the MP3 page of your personal site. Really nice.

Date: Mon Jul 14 16:22
Piet (Alejandro Escovedo):

Lars wrote: "1 Euro?! Of 20?!? Doesn't sound like a good deal for him." I'm pretty sure that means 1 Euro in addition to regular royalties. As some of you may have heard Alejandro is struggling with Hepatitis C and like most musicians he doesn't have health insurance. Visit http://alejandrofund.com/ for more details and to find how you can help.

Date: Mon Jul 14 12:32
e eh em (good mudnay morning :():

Hi. I like weird museums, Mitch. That sounds cool. I would like to see it. Hello to everybody today and all that entails. Yep yup yes.

Date: Sun Jul 13 17:59
GS (pearl jam):

im still alive he said

Date: Sat Jul 12 19:16
Lars (www.larsdideriksen.com - now with new ugly face on the front page! :-)):

1 Euro?! Of 20?!? Doesn't sound like a good deal for him...? And: thanks Frank! G'night! / Lars

Date: Sat Jul 12 18:21