From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V6 #53 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, February 23 2003 Volume 06 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] mesmer [PaulRabjohn@aol.com] [idealcopy] Mission Of Burma/Re: idealcopy-digest V6 #51 ["dan bailey" Subject: [idealcopy] Mission Of Burma/Re: idealcopy-digest V6 #51 odd ... either the following post of mine yesterday didn't go through, or i'm losing my mind (not that the 2 scenarios are necessarily mutually exclusive). what the heck -- this does give me a chance to add that the 4 or so new songs (one "so new that we're scared of it," to quote conley, i think) worked quite well, though not as, ah, forecfully as a certain other group's read & burn offerings, & that the riff on dumbbells was particularly riveting ... must go through my collection to see if there's a better-recorded version than the one on the s/t ep, which doesn't do said guitarplay justice at all. anyway ... jason, jason, jason ... given the fact that dan rose couldn't make it, we were supposed to pretend that the northern snowstorm forced the band to cancel, with endless playings of the datsuns' cd foisted upon us instead. *sigh* anyway, yep -- great show, right at 2 hours, with 3 encores. oldster that i am, i was particularly happy to hear the dils' class war done during the 2nd encore (though of course as a diehard fan of burma's boston contemporaries, the proletariat [unbendingly political gang of 4 weaned on first-album wire rather than funk, pretty much], i'd have been even happier to hear something by them, since they had more than one song that would've lent itself to the "no new mccarthyism era" banner hanging in front of peter prescott's drums). the other 2 2nd-encore covers (one by eno, in a 3rd-uncle-ish mode) i couldn't quite identify, i'm ashamed to say, owing i suspect to the fact that by then i was standing inches from the right stage speaker (my own near-decade-long case of tinnitus couldn't have anything to do with such practices, surely). missed running into jason, but have already told him off-list that i was struck by how much their handling of the end of max ernst reminded me of wire's treatment of pink flag during the 2000 years. missed the first band -- jason's telling me that they sounded somewhat bansheesesque makes me really chagrined about that -- & caught maybe half the 2nd band's set. jesus, i got there (after succumbing to hunger -- not that i couldn't stand to lose a few dozen pounds -- by eating my first meal of the day up the street) less than an hour after the doors opened, i thought, but i guess this venue doesn't mess around, unlike what i've gotten used to over the years. (of course, that's how how i missed the units *sigh* opening for omd in tempe in the spring of '82 &, about 5 years ago in lr, saw only the set-ending ich bin ein auslander by pwei, who i really wanted to see more than i did headliners nin -- what a treat *ahem* catching the entire set by the jim rose circus was, though). despite missing jason (& lamenting the unavoidable absense of mr rose), i did manage to get some missionary work in between sets. heard a couple of guys talking to each other about wire's performance in the same venue about 5 months ago, & after the older & more jaded (never mind that he was about 6 years younger than me) of the 2 told me he'd been bored, i had to step into the conversation & speak highly of the performance, an evaluation with which the younger guy (mid-20s, i guess) agreed. he wound up asking which of the '80s albums i'd recommend, & i went with a bell is a cup ... somehow, the drill might've been a bit over the top, i suspect. all very appropriate, of course. i doubt that it's headline news here, but the local music mag's cover piece on burma quotes roger miller as saying he'd hauled himself up to play with prescott's outfit, peer group (for whom conley was subbing at bass), because the latter was opening for wire in boston back in 2000, "& whether we like to admit it or not, it kinda paved the way for us getting back together. i wanted to see the wire concert & figured the way to get in for free was to join the peer group for a night, so i played some cornet & organ. so we were all on stage together at the bradford in boston, the same place we did burma's farewell show. it was too many psychic modifications to not have some impact on us." massive attack? have played the new one once but not been bowled over, but then so little does anymore till i've given it repeated listens. dan >I saw Mission Of Burma last night and had a great time. MOB still rocks >hard and played most of my favorites: "Dead Pool", "Heart Of Darkness", >"This Is Not A Photograph", "Trem Two", etc. Bob Weston did a nice job in >place of Swope with the tape loops and Miller, Conley, and Prescott...well, >they were as loud and fast as expected. I can't recommend the MOB shows >enough if any of you get a chance to see them. > > > >By the way, I agree about the new Massive Attack album. It's a little >darker and takes a bit more patience than their past efforts, but I'm really >enjoying it. > > >Jason > > > > >>Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:42:25 -0000 >>From: "Ian B" >>Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Keith on the Attack >> >>- ----- Original Message ----- >>From: Keith Astbury >> > Talking of reviews, the new Massive Attack LP is - after a couple of >>plays - >> > much better than some of the papers would have us believe. There's a >>couple >> > of tracks I really like already. By far their least commercial LP so far >> > IMO - Very bass-heavy, and pretty dark...I like it. >> > >> > Keith >> >>Just been playing this one in myself, though not exactly with repeated >>plays. I'd have to agree that it's better than reviews might suggest. I >>wonder if the lack of critical favour is borne of simply comparing it to >>the >>reputation that Mezzanine acquired or perhaps resentment at the audacity of >>Del Naja releasing it as Massive Attack despite the absence of DG and >>Mushroom. >>Wonder if they'll have to be referred to as just Massive again in the not >>too distant future. >>Get on parade... >>Ian B > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V6 #53 ******************************