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krista4 said:
MoCS, I know you're an O Brother Where Art Thou fan.  Would love to hear your connection to all that music (specifically and generally).
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Well...let me tell ya...

I have seen O Brother prolly near 1000 times...for a long while it played non-stop on my VCR (DVD?) player whenever I was home. :bag:

I've played the soundtrack CD even more times!

Know both...inside and out. Luv em to death!

However, the one time I tried to get involved in the Bluegrass Music scene, was when a friend asked me to volunteer for their version of the Grammy's (can't remember the name) that was being held in Louisville. This was the early 2000's. Anyways, my job was to drive the artists from their respective locations to the Galt House, where the ceremony was being held. As there were only a few of this doing this, I chauffeured a sizable percentage of the talent.

Being a somewhat verbose dude to begin with, I chatted them all up to the best of my ability. There was one in particular that chatted me back like a pro himself. Once we reached the destination, I finally asked him, "So, what instrument do you play?"

Him: "Guitar...the names XYZ...have a good one."

Me: "You too...and good luck."

Well, I told my friend about that encounter...

Him:  :shock:    "YOU ASKED XYZ WHAT INSTRUMENT HE PLAYED?!!?"

Me:  :unsure:  "...yeah..."

Him: :doh: "He's the Jimi Hendrix of Bluegrass you idiot!"

Me: :doh:

So....while I luvs me O Brother...I ain't got much braggin rights in the Bluegrass scene. :bag:

Wish I could remember XYZ's real name though...it would make the story better. :(

#SORROW

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Well...let me tell ya...

I have seen O Brother prolly near 1000 times...for a long while it played non-stop on my VCR (DVD?) player whenever I was home. :bag:

I've played the soundtrack CD even more times!

Know both...inside and out. Luv em to death!

However, the one time I tried to get involved in the Bluegrass Music scene, was when a friend asked me to volunteer for their version of the Grammy's (can't remember the name) that was being held in Louisville. This was the early 2000's. Anyways, my job was to drive the artists from their respective locations to the Galt House, where the ceremony was being held. As there were only a few of this doing this, I chauffeured a sizable percentage of the talent.

Being a somewhat verbose dude to begin with, I chatted them all up to the best of my ability. There was one in particular that chatted me back like a pro himself. Once we reached the destination, I finally asked him, "So, what instrument do you play?"

Him: "Guitar...the names XYZ...have a good one."

Me: "You too...and good luck."

Well, I told my friend about that encounter...

Him:  :shock:    "YOU ASKED XYZ WHAT INSTRUMENT HE PLAYED?!!?"

Me:  :unsure:  "...yeah..."

Him: :doh: "He's the Jimi Hendrix of Bluegrass you idiot!"

Me: :doh:

So....while I luvs me O Brother...I ain't got much braggin rights in the Bluegrass scene. :bag:

Wish I could remember XYZ's real name though...it would make the story better. :(

#SORROW
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I love this story so hard.

I have three friends who decided in the late 90s-early 00s to form a bluegrass band in Chicago.  Two of the three were in moderately successful pop bands, one of whom has gone on to great individual success since then.  The third was...just a guy.  Though we were good friends, I didn't even know he sang until they started this band.  But the best song they did, which nearly brought me to tears each time with its beauty, was Man of Constant Sorrow with the "unknown" guy leading on baritone.  I loved that time.

 
MoCS, you like Will Oldham's various iterations?  Louisville boy, ya know.  Was just singing a song of his on the trail yesterday.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Been thinking over the last couple of days about all my favorite artists who have died of overdoses or killed themselves. :(

His voice wasn't as good as Chris Cornell's, but Scott Weiland had an awesome voice before the ravages of addiction ruined it.

Plush - Acoustic
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Adding this to the list too.  Mr krista is controlling the playlist now and I hesitate to interrupt.  We're on a Husker Du run right now.

i used to think I specialized in loving the music of people who died tragically, so I get it.  Actually still think I do.  Everyone I love seems to have been cut short. :(  

 
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The guy who rescued Gus from the highway and took him to the vet stopped by yesterday to meet us and see Gussy.

He was a really nice guy and just a dog lover and good Samaritan. 

He breeds Great Pyrenees and he said one of his dogs was probably going to have to be put down yesterday or today. But he stopped by to check in on ours. 

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
The guy who rescued Gus from the highway and took him to the vet stopped by yesterday to meet us and see Gussy.

He was a really nice guy and just a dog lover and good Samaritan. 

He breeds Great Pyrenees and he said one of his dogs was probably going to have to be put down yesterday or today. But he stopped by to check in on ours. 
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:cry:  Need some happy stories of good people right now.  How lovely.

 
krista4 said:
Adding this to the list too.  Me krista is controlling the playlist now and I hesitate to interrupt.  We're on a Husker Du run right now.

i used to think I specialized in loving the music of people who died tragically, so I get it.  Actually still think I do.  Everyone I love seems to have been cut short. :(  
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His voice sounds like what I would wish my singing voice was. 

I'd also accept Waylon Jennings' voice, but I don't know if it would work without the accent. 

 
krista4 said:
I love this story so hard.

I have three friends who decided in the late 90s-early 00s to form a bluegrass band in Chicago.  Two of the three were in moderately successful pop bands, one of whom has gone on to great individual success since then.  The third was...just a guy.  Though we were good friends, I didn't even know he sang until they started this band.  But the best song they did, which nearly brought me to tears each time with its beauty, was Man of Constant Sorrow with the "unknown" guy leading on baritone.  I loved that time.
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This version was hand recorded and sent to me by @BowieMercs.

His camera control is awesome btw.

Also, that unknown guy would not have been Dan Tyminski by any chance? (He's the one singin in the linked vid btw)

 
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krista4 said:
He mostly recorded for a while under the name Bonnie Prince Billy ( though my favorite record, I See a Darkness, is under his real name).  I should have thought of that.  Do you know his work?  
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Sadly, I am not familiar with his work...but...I just googled him and am definitely going to check out his sound. So embarrassing to not know a fellow local. :blush:

Also, in the general range of above, Bowie sent me some other good ones:

Crossing The Bridge - Eileen Ivers

"Appalachia Waltz" - AUDIO Mark O'Connor/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer

...both are on my frequently played list.  :thumbup:

I'm a sucker for violin/fiddle...and...to be a little rougher on the violin front:

Jack White - Lazaretto

Jack White - Temporary Ground @ Glastonbury 2014

 
Adding adding adding to my list.

You will love Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy.  I have no way to describe his music.  You have to listen to a lot of it to get an idea of the breadth.  Just knowing what little I do about your taste I think you'll be into it.  Start with I See a Darkness.  I just looked it up and realized I was wrong - it was recorded under the name Bonnie Prince Billy, too.

Speaking of locals, were you a Slint and/or Freakwater fan?

 
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One last Louisville music thang, but if you're a vinyl guy, Mr krista's good buddy Brett Eugene Ralph has a joint called "Surface Noise" on Baxter Avenue that's the ####.

 
krista4 said:
Adding adding adding to my list.

You will love Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy.  I have no way to describe his music.  You have to listen to a lot of it to get an idea of the breadth.  Just knowing what little I do about your taste I think you'll be into it.

Speaking of locals, were you a Slint fan?
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Slint...yes!  Finally I don't feel like such a music ignorant dweeb!  :D

I can't claim to know all of their stuff, but very much like what I have heard.  :thumbup:

Also, I will report back too you after I have digested some Oldham work. :)

One last Louisville music thang, but if you're a vinyl guy, Mr krista's good buddy Brett Eugene Ralph has a joint called "Surface Noise" on Baxter Avenue that's the ####.
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Is it new? I have not been there yet...will check it out this week or the next, as I have an upcoming job in the Highlands.  :thumbup:

 
i grew up in a bluegrass/folk household.  my dad was in country joe and the fish.  i have memories of awesome jam sessions at our house.  much later in life, i discovered that a great deal of participants were heavy heavy hitters in the music scene.  i wish i had known what was going on but i was 7 and under.  my parents used to take my older sister to the fillmore and just leave her sleeping in the pile of coats on the side of stage.  quite often, when they would come to get her, she had woken up and had wondered off.  she was usually backstage with whoever was the headline act that night.  by the time i came around, they had mellowed out and only really played at home.  there was some studio work, but that was beyond boring to a little kid.

on the oh brother theme, if you ever have the chance to hear allison krause sing live, do it.   UNREAL

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Slint...yes!  Finally I don't feel like such a music ignorant dweeb!  :D

I can't claim to know all of their stuff, but very much like what I have heard.  :thumbup:

Also, I will report back too you after I have digested some Oldham work. :)

Is it new? I have not been there yet...will check it out this week or the next, as I have an upcoming job in the Highlands.  :thumbup:
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I think new-ish, like in the last year or so.  Before that he was selling at the flea-offs.  He's a professor somewhere and a musician and a poet, mostly.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
i grew up in a bluegrass/folk household.  my dad was in country joe and the fish.  i have memories of awesome jam sessions at our house.  much later in life, i discovered that a great deal of participants were heavy heavy hitters in the music scene.  i wish i had known what was going on but i was 7 and under.  my parents used to take my older sister to the fillmore and just leave her sleeping in the pile of coats on the side of stage.  quite often, when they would come to get her, she had woken up and had wondered off.  she was usually backstage with whoever was the headline act that night.  by the time i came around, they had mellowed out and only really played at home.  there was some studio work, but that was beyond boring to a little kid.

on the oh brother theme, if you ever have the chance to hear allison krause sing live, do it.   UNREAL
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Awesome story!

And yes, Alison is awesome!  :wub:

 
DA RAIDERS said:
i grew up in a bluegrass/folk household.  my dad was in country joe and the fish.  i have memories of awesome jam sessions at our house.  much later in life, i discovered that a great deal of participants were heavy heavy hitters in the music scene.  i wish i had known what was going on but i was 7 and under.  my parents used to take my older sister to the fillmore and just leave her sleeping in the pile of coats on the side of stage.  quite often, when they would come to get her, she had woken up and had wondered off.  she was usually backstage with whoever was the headline act that night.  by the time i came around, they had mellowed out and only really played at home.  there was some studio work, but that was beyond boring to a little kid.

on the oh brother theme, if you ever have the chance to hear allison krause sing live, do it.   UNREAL
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I have heard Allison Krauss sing it live! :wub:

Country Joe and the Fish!  Love the stories.  Great stuff.

On the bluegrass front, here's another that my friends would do, but as much as I loved them they can't compare to something with Emmylou Harris:  Emmylou is a goddess.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
i grew up in a bluegrass/folk household.  my dad was in country joe and the fish.  i have memories of awesome jam sessions at our house.  much later in life, i discovered that a great deal of participants were heavy heavy hitters in the music scene.  i wish i had known what was going on but i was 7 and under.  my parents used to take my older sister to the fillmore and just leave her sleeping in the pile of coats on the side of stage.  quite often, when they would come to get her, she had woken up and had wondered off.  she was usually backstage with whoever was the headline act that night.  by the time i came around, they had mellowed out and only really played at home.  there was some studio work, but that was beyond boring to a little kid.

on the oh brother theme, if you ever have the chance to hear allison krause sing live, do it.   UNREAL
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God my life's been boring.

 
Abraham said:
I thought it was Country Joe McDonald and the Fish?  Not just Country Joe.
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wow.  still alive i see.  you were being cursed in the fbg swap thread the other day.

either are correct.  i knew him as joe, country joe.  if there was ever a walking billboard to not do drugs.  he's it.  the last time i talked to him was 15 years or so ago.  he was a guest on KLOS, the classic rock station here in socal,  i left my info with the phone screener and joe called me back and we chatted for while about my dad, who had been dead for around 10 years at the time.  his brain and his speech were seriously at odds.  it was cool to chat with him and hear some old stories about my dad.  i wish my dad was still around :cry:   he was a seriously cool cat

 
DA RAIDERS said:
wow.  still alive i see.  you were being cursed in the fbg swap thread the other day.

either are correct.  i knew him as joe, country joe.  if there was ever a walking billboard to not do drugs.  he's it.  the last time i talked to him was 15 years or so ago.  he was a guest on KLOS, the classic rock station here in socal,  i left my info with the phone screener and joe called me back and we chatted for while about my dad, who had been dead for around 10 years at the time.  his brain and his speech were seriously at odds.  it was cool to chat with him and hear some old stories about my dad.  i wish my dad was still around :cry:   he was a seriously cool cat
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Heard some interviews with him on NPR in celebration of the "Summer of Love" a month or two ago.  They were fabulous.

 
Abraham said:
I thought it was Country Joe McDonald and the Fish?  Not just Country Joe.
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That was the band name, country Joe and the fish. The band leader by himself was known as country Joe McDonald. I think they came out of the earliest psychedelic and avant garde rock, like the Fugs. Great times.

 
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Speaking of Country Joe and the Fish, I saw a new print of the Monterey Pop music fest movie about a month ago that was spectacular.   I couldn't recommend enough seeing this movie, especially in a theater.  When you have a show at which Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and is still the third best act that day, you've created something special.

ETA the crazy lineup:

The Mamas & the Papas
Canned Heat
Simon & Garfunkel
Hugh Masekela
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
The Animals
The Who
Country Joe and the Fish
Otis Redding
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ravi Shankar

 
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krista4 said:
Speaking of Country Joe and the Fish, I saw a new print of the Monterey Pop music fest movie about a month ago that was spectacular.   I couldn't recommend enough seeing this movie, especially in a theater.  When you have a show at which Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and is still the third best act, you've created something special.
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Saw this at the Drafthouse a couple months ago. But it was so short! Really missed the full Otis Redding and Hendrix sets, too. Great film but is should have been 2.5 hours like Woodstock

 
cosjobs said:
Saw this at the Drafthouse a couple months ago. But it was so short! Really missed the full Otis Redding and Hendrix sets, too. Great film but is should have been 2.5 hours like Woodstock
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:goodposting:   Couldn't agree more.  It did skip around too much, and I could have done with less Mamas and Papas and Simon & Garfunkel (whom I love but not in this setting), and the full-on Otis and Jimi.  But that's looking back with the benefit of time.  They did manage to capture the Ravi Shankar set beautifully, which I think was the star of the show (followed closely by Janis Joplin).

The most amazing thing to me was when they interviewed the director, who is 90something now and looked 60!

 
The rubber washer on one toilet bolt finally disintegrated tonight and the nut on the other bolt was rusted on. 

I just spent an hour sawing through a toilet bolt with a Ronco knife.  

Can confirm it will cut metal. 

 
krista4 said:
Speaking of Country Joe and the Fish, I saw a new print of the Monterey Pop music fest movie about a month ago that was spectacular.   I couldn't recommend enough seeing this movie, especially in a theater.  When you have a show at which Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and is still the third best act that day, you've created something special.

ETA the crazy lineup:

The Mamas & the Papas
Canned Heat
Simon & Garfunkel
Hugh Masekela
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
The Animals
The Who
Country Joe and the Fish
Otis Redding
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ravi Shankar
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i'll have to check this out, i haven't seen it.

 
cosjobs said:
They were any Austin band? Or did they just play here all the time?  Good I was a huge fan around 75-76
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Wikipedia tells me they were formed in Ann Arbor, MI, though the band's members were from all over (none from Texas though).

But looking through old YouTube videos it appears they did play in Austin a lot.

 
krista4 said:
Speaking of Country Joe and the Fish, I saw a new print of the Monterey Pop music fest movie about a month ago that was spectacular.   I couldn't recommend enough seeing this movie, especially in a theater.  When you have a show at which Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and is still the third best act, you've created something special.
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OHHHHH  YEAH!!!!!!!!!

In the thread here about, "What song do you want to be playing on your deathbed?"....I did not have to contemplate my choice for even a millisecond!

Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Child' (Slight Return)

Lyrics:

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand
'Cause I'm a voodoo child
Lord knows I'm a voodoo child

I didn't mean to take you up all your sweet time
I'll give it right back to you one of these days
I said, I didn't mean to take you up all your sweet time
I'll give it right back to you one of these days
And if I don't meet you no more in this world
Then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one
And don't be late, don't be late
'Cause I'm a voodoo child
Lord knows I'm a voodoo child
I'm a voodoo child
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