There have been more than a few postings on this blog about One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a collaboration between Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard.  Definitely it is one of 2009’s best releases.  The above is a poster obtained at the 9:30 Club show they did in Washington DC in honor of its release.  This poster is now hanging proudly in our living room.  It’s a lovely print of the cliffs near Big Sur along the Pacific Ocean. Previous posts on this topic (including one with an MP3 of a song not on the soundtrack of the documentary) are here. The NPR webcast of the 9:30 Club show is here.

There have been more than a few postings on this blog about One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a collaboration between Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard.  Definitely it is one of 2009’s best releases.  The above is a poster obtained at the 9:30 Club show they did in Washington DC in honor of its release.  This poster is now hanging proudly in our living room.  It’s a lovely print of the cliffs near Big Sur along the Pacific Ocean.

Previous posts on this topic (including one with an MP3 of a song not on the soundtrack of the documentary) are here.

The NPR webcast of the 9:30 Club show is here.

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DEVO covering “Head Like A Hole” by NINE INCH NAILS.

Even weirder than this combo?  The movie soundtrack it was intended for.  Check out the story at Chromewaves, one of my favorite music blogs.

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On Wednesday, November 25, The History Channel is running a new special entitled The Beatles On Record. It sounds like it’ll be a great addition to the canon of documentaries and books about the group in the studio.  Click the above image to learn more about the program, or click here to go to the History Channel’s site. Also recommended on this specific topic:“The Beatles Recording Sessions” by Mark Lewisohn (which appears to be out of print currently, but may be available at your local library)“Here There & Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles” by Geoff Emerick

On Wednesday, November 25, The History Channel is running a new special entitled The Beatles On Record. It sounds like it’ll be a great addition to the canon of documentaries and books about the group in the studio.  Click the above image to learn more about the program, or click here to go to the History Channel’s site.

Also recommended on this specific topic:
“The Beatles Recording Sessions” by Mark Lewisohn (which appears to be out of print currently, but may be available at your local library)
“Here There & Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles” by Geoff Emerick

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Cannot say I disagree with any of this… (via ilovecharts)

Cannot say I disagree with any of this…

(via ilovecharts)

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the song above is “Couches in Alleys” performed by Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard live at the 9:30 Club, Washington DC, October 2009

I’ve posted previously on what has quickly become one of my favorite discs of the year, One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur by Jay Farrar (of Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo) and Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service).  The music they made together is the soundtrack for a documentary about Jack Kerouac’s somewhat harrowing memoir Big Sur, in which he tries to dry out in a remote cabin belonging to the proprietor of ‘City Lights’ bookstore Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The DVD of the documentary has yet to be viewed, but this CD has easily leaped into my list of favorites for the year.  The gents involved did a short six-city tour that came to Washington DC’s legendary 9:30 Club, and NPR did a webcast that for some reason has yet to show up in their podcast section of iTunes.  I was at the show and it was a terrific night of music amidst a gray wet and cold October night.

Today’s MP3 is a song from that show that actually isn’t on the album.  It’s a song Ben sings entitled Couches In Alleys that he originally did with a group called Styrofoam.  The original, somewhat electronic version is available at iTunes.   A small interesting fact about this number is that it’s another Kerouac-related tune that’s not actually on the One Fast Move album.  The other Kerouac song by Gibbard is on Death Cab For Cutie’s recent album “Narrow Stairs,” entitled Bixby Canyon Bridge. Said bridge is the logo for the film/album.

This song has obsessed me for some reason; I easily listened to it repeatedly at least 6 times in a row one recent soggy morning here in DC.  Am not sure what’s so compelling about it because it’s awkward - Ben sings directly to Jack in it, which is a bit… odd/pretentious.  Something about it works. Especially Farrar’s plaintive “when I got home” background vocal.  Their voices work really well together.

I’ve been to Big Sur, had one of the best meals of my life there at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn (highly recommended for dining or lodging).  The Pacific Coast Highway is so curvy and remote through parts that you can go hours without seeing so much as a sign for gas or fast food.  It was eerie and beautiful all at the same time.

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Thanks to Neckgear for the reminder… HEY KIDS!  PEARL JAM IS ON AUSTIN CITY LIMITS THIS WEEKEND! Hot damn! Go to PBS.org - on the right side you can check your TV schedules (if the right station isn’t coming up, click “Find Another PBS Station”) to find out when it’s on in your neck of the woods.  If there are multiple PBS stations where you are, check ‘em all just in case. neckgear: Pearl Jam tie.

Thanks to Neckgear for the reminder…

HEY KIDS!  PEARL JAM IS ON AUSTIN CITY LIMITS THIS WEEKEND! Hot damn!

Go to PBS.org - on the right side you can check your TV schedules (if the right station isn’t coming up, click “Find Another PBS Station”) to find out when it’s on in your neck of the woods.  If there are multiple PBS stations where you are, check ‘em all just in case.

neckgear:

Pearl Jam tie.

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That’sgreatitstartswithanearthquake - birdsandsnakesandaeroplanes andLennyBruceisnotafraid… eyeofahurricane… ummm… that’s all I can remember without hearing it. If you need ‘em now, here ya go. reblogged from ilovecharts: They forgot “LEONARD BERNSTEIN!”

That’sgreatitstartswithanearthquake - birdsandsnakesandaeroplanes andLennyBruceisnotafraid… eyeofahurricane… ummm…

that’s all I can remember without hearing it.

If you need ‘em now, here ya go.

reblogged from ilovecharts:

They forgot “LEONARD BERNSTEIN!”

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Playmixt is branching out

Playmixt is a music blog, and is pretty much random and haphazard as things strike me.   One of my other hobbies is photography, and the “mixt” empire is expanding with the creation of new a Tumblr blog for that purpose, entitled Photomixt:

http://photomixt.tumblr.com/

Playmixt & Photomixt both have links to each other on there, and I’ll continue to limit my posts to one per day.  Both are email-subscription enabled, just look for the links in the side columns to do so.  Photomixt will be just as random as Playmixt, and maybe more so.

In the meantime, here’s a photo from a recent show by DC The Public Good at Asylum in Adams Morgan.  They have a gig Friday, December 11 at Nanny O’Brien’s in Cleveland Park that promises to be an outstanding stocking stuffer!  This show is part of an annual holiday party that’s been opened up to the band’s fans & friends, and expectations are that an awesome time will be had by those in attendance.

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It’s not about Great Britain, it’s about Great Butter.

Words escape me.  In short: John Lydon (Rotten) for butter.  Why?  No idea.

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Could not resist - this is the full set of 4 Tom Tomorrow posters for Pearl Jam’s October 2009 stand at the Philadelphia Spectrum.  Had not realized they’d combine to form an ongoing panorama. Early next year Tom says he’ll likely be making a few complete sets available.  Click on the image for a larger version, or for additional info about getting on the waiting list.

Could not resist - this is the full set of 4 Tom Tomorrow posters for Pearl Jam’s October 2009 stand at the Philadelphia Spectrum.  Had not realized they’d combine to form an ongoing panorama.

Early next year Tom says he’ll likely be making a few complete sets available.  Click on the image for a larger version, or for additional info about getting on the waiting list.

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Our first Drive-by Truckers poster, bought at a show in Austin during their first appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival.  They played a small 500-capacity club later that night, and this show poster from an Athens, GA concert was available for $10 - less than we’d paid for tickets! They are loud live - 3 guitars, bass, drums… it’s a lot of racket.  This would’ve been circa the Decoration Day album when Jason Isbel was still in the band.  He did a really nice rendition of “Outfit” that afternoon in Zilker Park.

Our first Drive-by Truckers poster, bought at a show in Austin during their first appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival.  They played a small 500-capacity club later that night, and this show poster from an Athens, GA concert was available for $10 - less than we’d paid for tickets!

They are loud live - 3 guitars, bass, drums… it’s a lot of racket.  This would’ve been circa the Decoration Day album when Jason Isbel was still in the band.  He did a really nice rendition of “Outfit” that afternoon in Zilker Park.

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One of my all-time favorite shows and one of my all-time favorite posters.  This one for the Rock And Roll Means Well tour is by Hatch Show Print, an outfit that’s been doing old-fashioned letterpress posters for well over 100 years.  If you get to Nashville, the massive wall of their works at the Country Music Hall of Fame is worth seeing. The name of the tour comes from the Drive-by Truckers song “Marry Me”: Rock and roll means well, but it can’t help tellin’ young boys lies We had the fine fortune of seeing this tour featuring The Hold Steady and Drive-by Truckers on Halloween night 2008 at the Ryman Auditorium. If that name sounds familiar, it’s the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, and it’s where Jonathan Demme shot Neil Young’s Heart of Gold concert film. If you like poster art, there’s a great book about Hatch as well.  The slipcover flips over to reveal itself as a poster!

One of my all-time favorite shows and one of my all-time favorite posters.  This one for the Rock And Roll Means Well tour is by Hatch Show Print, an outfit that’s been doing old-fashioned letterpress posters for well over 100 years.  If you get to Nashville, the massive wall of their works at the Country Music Hall of Fame is worth seeing.

The name of the tour comes from the Drive-by Truckers song “Marry Me”:

Rock and roll means well, but it can’t help tellin’ young boys lies

We had the fine fortune of seeing this tour featuring The Hold Steady and Drive-by Truckers on Halloween night 2008 at the Ryman Auditorium. If that name sounds familiar, it’s the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, and it’s where Jonathan Demme shot Neil Young’s Heart of Gold concert film.

If you like poster art, there’s a great book about Hatch as well.  The slipcover flips over to reveal itself as a poster!

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The Gaslight Anthem’s album “The ‘59 Sound” has been one of my most-loved discs that I picked up in 2009.   I was led to them by a post at the I am fuel you are friends blog which included some nice acoustic renditions that are very different from the high energy New Jersey rock of the LP.  For a band with only two albums under their belt it’s amazing how many of their songs are already sing-alongs for the audience. This is yet another poster I need to get framed! The fine folks at El Jefe Design did a poster for TGA’s fall 2009 tour, and they also did this killer poster specifically for their 9:30 Club show.  Tony over at the DC Live Tracks blog has posted the TGA 9:30 Club show if you’d care to hear it.  Click on the photo if you’re interested in El Jefe’s poster or perusing their online store.  There is also a variation of the 9:30 poster in a purple color, and the poster for the overall tour is there too.

The Gaslight Anthem’s album “The ‘59 Sound” has been one of my most-loved discs that I picked up in 2009.   I was led to them by a post at the I am fuel you are friends blog which included some nice acoustic renditions that are very different from the high energy New Jersey rock of the LP.  For a band with only two albums under their belt it’s amazing how many of their songs are already sing-alongs for the audience.

This is yet another poster I need to get framed!

The fine folks at El Jefe Design did a poster for TGA’s fall 2009 tour, and they also did this killer poster specifically for their 9:30 Club show.  Tony over at the DC Live Tracks blog has posted the TGA 9:30 Club show if you’d care to hear it.  Click on the photo if you’re interested in El Jefe’s poster or perusing their online store.  There is also a variation of the 9:30 poster in a purple color, and the poster for the overall tour is there too.

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This Neko Case poster is one Neckgear and I have, as yet unframed; oddly enough this poster was used for a 9:30 Club show in Washington DC that Rufus wasn’t part of.

This Neko Case poster is one Neckgear and I have, as yet unframed; oddly enough this poster was used for a 9:30 Club show in Washington DC that Rufus wasn’t part of.

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As seen on The IT Crowd, this great shirt from the Diesel Sweeties online comic says quite a bit for music fans.

As seen on The IT Crowd, this great shirt from the Diesel Sweeties online comic says quite a bit for music fans.

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