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gpn on performance place at 11:30 est

March 10, 2010

Listen Live to WAMC here. I wonder if they know that Cat used to be in “The Isle of Klezbos” featured tomorrow on the show?
WAMC is the public radio station that services the area where MASSMoCA is located.
My evil plan worked – “Mr. Columbus” gets played first . . .
“Mastermind”, “Big White Gate”, “Here’s To [...]

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one that didn’t make it

February 24, 2010

In light of the recent track listing for the new record I wanted to talk about a song that didn’t make the cut. “Can’t See Through To The Other Side” is a beautiful, haunting ballad. The version below is from the Allen Room performance of February 2008
Stylistically, this song is quite similar to “Things I [...]

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tweet request

February 22, 2010

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to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn’t be good enough
for me, no
Jose didn’t write the song though – it was “The Knife”
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white rabbit : grace potter and the nocturnals : almost alice soundtrack

February 12, 2010

Is very good, crunchy guitars for sure. Swirling figure to start into the trademark beat. Vocal out of the park – nice “whooos” as backing vocals. Thank for you on turning down the delay at the end.
Ends on a big piano chord and laugh then almost forty seconds of noodling – nice touch.

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son of the beach

February 4, 2010

No, not the gnarly sitcom, the music from Jamaica, all three nights. Right you are madafakaaaa.
January 16th via archive.org
January 17th via archive.org
January 18th via archive.org
Thanks to JT and Bish for all the hard work.
Gratuitous Californication Video

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more from jamacia

January 31, 2010

“Many Rivers To Cross”
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“Somebody To Love”
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- I’m to lazy to editorialize but there you go – another in the Grace Slick canon
“Southern Man”
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one more goodbye kiss

December 11, 2009

Scott on the harmonica – 9:30 club in Washington, D.C. – 11/17/09
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Available for download here. Don’t miss the ending.
As a sidelight, listen to the 9:30 club go drop dead quiet during the NBTW opening. When the band is owning the stage this is what happens . . .
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rams head live : 11/16/09 : live set on archive.org

November 18, 2009

Here you go

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things i never needed and oasis – live performances

November 9, 2009

“Things I Never Needed” – classic GPN songwriting and tune structure. Fits in easily.
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“Oasis” – New interesting sound, loving the swirly guitar here.
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via the Jefferson Center show on archive.org and taper jgraham.
Enjoy!

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the scream and the moan

November 5, 2009

Another atmospheric, spooky Scott Tournet gem “The Scream and the Moan” is streaming over at Scott’s personal Myspace site. In some respects this is an interesting counterpoint to the GPN tune 2:22 – see what you think.

Scott put this one down on tape in hopes of recording it with Blues and Lasers but the opportunity [...]

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phoenix fences remixed with apologies piano line

October 21, 2009

Apparently remixes of “Fences” by Phoenix are all that. Also, apparently, I don’t get out enough.
Here’s one with “Apologies”
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Credit: Sheesh

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