From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V12 #29 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, March 3 2010 Volume 12 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Gorillaz [Ari ] RE: [idealcopy] Jawbox live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 8-Nov-09 ["Paul] [Paul Ye Subject: [idealcopy] Gorillaz http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124114812&sc=nl&cc=asc-20100302 http://tinyurl.com/ycefs3k hope you guyz in yourup can hear this........... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:29:52 -0700 From: Paul Ye Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Jawbox live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 8-Nov-09 ["Paul] That is very interesting. Clearly I need to look into some of the later releases. I appreciate what you have had to say on this Paul. - -Paul (man this gets redundant when there are so many with the same name) > From: weasel_bot@hotmail.com > To: paulye154@hotmail.com; idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: RE:[idealcopy] Jawbox live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 8-Nov-09 ["Paul] > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:21:38 -0800 > > >I realize this post was months ago but sometimes that's how long it takes > >me > > to catch up. I have seen Jawbox probably 3 different times around 1990 or > > so, > > always a good gig. I just never expected to hear their name ever again. > > Nor I. > > > So > > thanks for bringing that up! I never bought anything after Grippe and > > Novelty > > so I haven't a clue how good they are these days. > > Interesting. Those two albums are considered "embryonic" by most Jawbox > fans. (Well - me anyway) > > They really hit their stride with their first major label album for > Atlantic - "For Your Own Special Sweetheart". The main problem with it was > a slightly tinny sound - but the songs and performances were top notch. > Unfortunately, their next album - simply titled "Jawbox" - was their > swan-song, and they broke up in 1997. One more release - an odds & sods > collection called "My Scrapbook Of Fatal Accidents" was released after that. > (Highly recommended, BTW). > > Luckily, the band has control over their back catalog, and, with the help of > Dischord records, got Bob Weston (Shellac) to re-mix & re-master it For Your > Own Special Sweetheart, and then re-released it with the accompanying > b-sides last year. That's why they played the one Fallon show - to > commemorate the re-release. This is pretty essential, IMHO. > > Unfortunately, NBC has already pulled the clips from the show, but I do have > a TiVo copy of it. When I get time, I'll extract the performance out of it. > > As far as reforming the band - that probably won't happen. J. Robbins > formed a band post-Jawbox - unfortunately titled "Burning Airlines" - that > released two very good albums (Mission: Control & Identikit), then they > called it a day, too. Soon afterwards, his son Callum was born with an > incurable disease - spinal muscular atrophy - and he's dedicated his life to > spending as much time with Callum as possible. The prognosis isn't good - > but Callum is hanging in there. > > You can read more about this here: > http://callumrobbins.blogspot.com/2007/01/122006.html > > BTW - that's why he was wearing that t-shirt in the Fallon clip. > > > One of the better versions of > > "Something Must Break" came from Jawbox. Come to think of it, can't think > > of > > another artist doing that one at all. > > > > They did a pretty wicked version of Tori Amos' Cornflake Girl as well. > Plus - a fairly accurate rendition of The Cure's Meathook. ^_^ > > Cheers, > Paul > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsofts powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V12 #29 *******************************