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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 05 January 2000 06:38 AM EST
not to be critical, but there hasn't been anything worth reading on the board in the last few days. i've just finished reading what seemed like 5000 posts all either devoted to:
A) a discussion of whether you all may or may not want a dread that i may or may not have washed now that i may or may not have cut them all off OR
B) a discussion of jam bands starring phish and also featuring the grateful dead
snore
lets talk about...fuck. now i can't think of anything else to talk about either. i've been totally sucked in. the correct answers are:
A) you couldn't have had my dreads if you wanted them, but i did wash them most days and they are now all gone OR
B) i don't really have much of an opinion on phish as i don't really know the music but i did go to high school with the lead singer trey and he was always a pretty nice guy(hopefully he would say the same about me) the dead , on the other hand, i saw many times growing up inberkeley because the first time i saw them they were awesome which led me to mistakenly assume that they were just that way and go to many more concerts, almost none of
which were any good at all except to make me want to kill A)myself, B)the band, and C)all the people around me(seriously violating the whole twenty years too late peace and love bullshit vibe all those weekday yuppies shit out every weekend). it also helped to determine me never ever ever ever ever to be in a band with more than one drummer or to play with a bass player with more than four strings or to do anything that could ever be described or misconstrued as "jammin'". i really did love jerry garcia's playing and singing. he always did and still does blow my mind when i listen to some of his songs(the best dead album, if you want my opinion, is garcia's solo album ace. is tghat the right title. it has "deal" and "loser" on it. genius. too much of their sets were filled with bad drumming and that space excrement.
anyway, i'm still buying the box set and i just got a couple great garcia solo acoustic bootlegs and i just added one more dreadlock/phish post to the already unwieldy pile so ignore my bitterness
goodnight
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Subject: me
Date: Wed, 05 January 2000 06:45 AM EST
ps. me and immy have just started producing an internet radio show on mediatrip.com, a multimedia site that some friends started. it's going to be called
"the devil and the bunny show"
and were just going to play music and talk about whatever the hell comes into our heads. we just taped the first show last night and i'm not sure how soon it will be up on line, but hopefully soon. our first nights guests were dave gibbs from gigolo aunts and tyson meade from the chainsaw kittens(shouts out to norman , oklahoma)
we get to cuss and everything so look for us
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Subject: me
Date: Thu, 06 January 2000 06:50 AM EST
i just want to say that i have nothing against bad vibes. personally, i love bad vibes. i am the king of bad vibes and i am all for spreading them around. it's my job. it's what i do. i just don't think you should be insulting and argue with each other.
and i never said i was god.
i said i was the messiah.
it's different
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Subject: me
Date: Tue, Jan 11,2000 3:47 AM
dreads are still here
"the devil and the bunny show" supposedly goes online wednesday at mediatrip.com.
just waiting for our "the devil and the bunny show" show photo so we can use it as the link icon
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Subject: me
Date: Fri, Jan 14,2000 2:25 AM
1st of all, george jones recorded "good year for the roses" years and years before elvis covered it. not sure who wrote it/.
sorry this day didn/\'t turn out as fun as we thought. to be honest, we never exdpected that kind of insanity and neither did the people at the store . they just got overrun. that said, remember the point of these is not to sell millions of these. we can't do that. we get away with doing this because it's small amounts. the record company would not be so cooperative otherwise. it's supposed to be a boot and it's supposed to be rare. it's also supposed to be cheap and it is. that said if you wish to burn copies, well who's going to stop you. we'll try to do more next time, but lay off a little bit. it's not like we're making a fortune here. we're going to try to do these at least once a month and the quality should be better than the average boot so there should be lots more music for you this year. the intention is not to be slime. we're still learning how to do this too. the idea is to provide you guys with a lot of cool tuff cheaply. these are my ideas. i hope you all understand we' were just trying to something cool for you.
if you don't, eat shit
as for our fanclub people, they are being fired. they did a terrible job and THAT we are really sorry about.
on the bright side, check out " the devil and the bunny show". i listened to a lot of it today and it rocks. and " i'm in the clique" is an awesome song. open your minds and enjoy. we're going to try to do them every week
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Subject: ME
Date: Wed, Jan 19,2000 8:00 AM
"WE GOTTTA GET YOU A WOMAN" is on Runt by todd rundgren. this is a different album than Runt:The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, although the latter is probably a better album. they are both great though. also worthwhile are Hermit of Mink Hollow and Something/Anything
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Subject: Re: Who's Elizabeth & Seattle
Date: Fri, Feb 18,2000 6:36 PM
the elizabeth in kansas is a completely different person from the one in the song
Subject: me
Date: Wed, Feb 23,2000 7:00 PM
LONDON CALLING
life in london is pretty good today. just had what may have been the single best record buying day of my life. disappointed after discovering that a book store that was supposed to be a front for a bootleg shop turned out to simply a book store after all, we walked into another store across the street and, after a moments disappointment that it was so blah, wandered dowstairs and around a corner and gasped. in the first twenty seconds i found two records i've been looking for totally unsuccesfully for the last year and one i never knew existed at all. no exageration, i actually audibly gasped each time. if ihad to pick two records i would have liked to have found above all others these would have been the two.
one is a compilation of the left banke. i used to have this but it's disappeared and i've been dying to open the devil and the bunny show with this band. they're not a very popular band and i was surprised anyone released a compilation anyway so i was sad i'd lost it because i figured it was out of print by now adn unsurprisingly , i haven't been able to find it anywhere. the other is the one album recorded by jackson c. frank. he was an american living in london in the early sixties. his roommates were the then unknown paul simon and art garfunkel. the album was recorded and produced in 1965 by paul simon with his own money. i heard about it because simon and garfunkel apparently recorded one of his songs( "blues run the game") for their 1st album but then removed just before the release. the song showed up on the s and g box set that was released a couple of years ago and the liner notes talked about jackson frank and how he'd been everyone in the london scene's fave songwriter back in 65. he only made the one album and it was never released in america. i heard it had been reissued in britain a few years ago but i couldn't find it. suddenly here were both of them about 12 inches from each other. i freaked. the third was a live bootleg of the nazz from the town hall in philly in june of 1967. the nazz was todd rundgren's band before he went solo. as you will all hear in the next installment of the devil and the bunny show, i'm having a todd rundgren fixation right now so this was pretty cool too.
next we headed from camden town ovver to portabello road to another supposed boot shop that turned out to be a strictly jazz shop. i found a few cool thelonious monk pieces and was paying when i noticed the incredible singer doing "someone to watch over me" over the shop stereo. i asked and found it was a new cd by a guy named andy bey. while showing me the new album, "ballads, blues, and bey", the owner put on a 1974 album by the same guy. this album, "experience and judgement", was straight up wicked mid 70's funk. just wicked. and i never heard of andy bey in my life before today. record-buying treasure moment. not the first or the last of the day either.
further walking down the street we found a side street that was supposed to have a shop owned by acquaintances of friends of ours in berkeley. open officially only on weekends, we peeked in the mail slot and saw someone in the back of the store so we knocked until he came to the door and then introduced ourselves using the name of our berkeley friends as a calling card. he regarded us skeptically and said they were closed. we said we'd heard they were going to be our favorite store in london. he asked what we were looking for. we said rare records, live records, bootlegs and we named some artists. he still looked unpromisingly skeptical and asked what else. we named some more artists. he said he was leaving in a half hour and was only in at all today to do some inventory. no one said anything for a minute and then he fially said we could come in and look around for a few minutes until he left. we introduced ourselves and so did he and we left four hours later. we talked about music and found tons of rare records, records unavailable in america, bootlegs i never dreamed of finding, records by bands we'd never heard of. his name is bill and it was the most exhausting and wonderful record store experiences i've ever had. what can i say? the kinks live at the bbc, the yardbirds live at the bbc, two robyn hitchcock and the egyptians bbc cd's, love athe fillmore west1970, 2 nazz records, 3 sneetches, a modern lovers bootleg, a new indie posies record, fairport convention at the bbc, the idlewilds, cotton mather, and more. i can't list it all. treasure. and the time was so cool. what great guy.
ok i'm beat. tired of typing. by the way we did another installment of the devil and the bunny show last week in glasgow, scotland. sent it to america. should be on the web this week some time. i'll check tomorrow and tell you exactly when. you can get there now from www.countingcrows.com as well as from mediatrip.com so stop by and check us out. this episode features "ROCK BLOCKS". hope you dig it . we'll be a little more regular from now on.
goodnight from london,
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Subject: me
Date: Wed, Feb 23,2000 7:19 PM
LONDON CALLING
one more thing. just found out the band touring with us in may in the usa will be..............
CRACKER!!!!!
cool, huh?
like lemonade baby.
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Subject: me
Date: Wed, Feb 23,2000 10:55 PM
hey crazy people. mrs potter's on now and again is cc. what else would it be?
Subject: me
Date: Wed, Mar 1,2000 12:55 AM
can someone who has maximum crows look on the cd and then e-mail me who put it out? is it a bootleg(in which case i don't care)or is it put out by one of our european affiliates(in which case i am really pissed off at them)
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Subject: Re: no toledo reviews?
Date: Sun, May 28,2000 12:37 AM
i have never had a billfod pocket cain thing in my life. i don't even own either a wallet or a chain
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Subject: my name is adam and i emote for a living
Date: Wed, Jun 7,2000 3:23 AM
i actually feel stupid posting this but has anyone from our office even posted here that "face the promised land" goes on sale tomorrow? i just realized it myself but i'm in ireland and way out of touch. this feels so stupid but it's a cool concert and there are only a few copies and everyone yells at me when they don't get one. we made more this time than last time but it's still not a ton so now i've warned you and i feel like a dick and don't blame me.
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ps. next up may be a himalayans compilation or possibly the shim-sham show.
Subject: me (fans community board)
Date: Mon, Jul 31, 2000 1:42 AM
1st of all to address a few issues
1)the show is called the rankin files. the writer/producer/host etc.. is rebecca rankin and is one of my best friends. there is no mention of cc in the backstage smut sections of the show because we have nothing to do with that.
2)the woman in the swimsuit in the hanginaround video is juli ashton and i think you would have to classify her as a pretty huge porn star. she was a close friend of our director and he put her in the video. that said, she is also one of the truly nicest people i have ever met and is welcome in any video of mine. outside of any jugement anyone might make about her particular line of work, it is her choice and she seems to really like it. i talk to her frequently and consider her a friend now. that is simply because i think she's a great person. i like her and so would you. she wanted to be in the video because cc is her favorite band. there, that's probably just one of the things you all have in common.
3)as far as the so-called "chickie-baby" sightings backstage, just what exactly constitutes a "chickie-baby" as it is used to refer to our friends, as opposed to the terms "girl" or "woman", which is how i assume you refer to yourself and your friends?
4)touring with live and galactic is so much fun. you're going to love it. i do.
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Subject: me
Date: Sat, Aug 5, 2000 4:54 AM
i READ the article by the guy from uc davis and while a lot of it is true, a lot of it is a load of crap. there was definitely a talent show, but that whole story about the autographs is completely bull. i was pretty shy about my songwriting then. i'd only been writing for about a year and i could barely play piano. i didn't really think anyone would ever want my autograph. at best, i was hoping a certain girl would finally notice me. her name was cat(short for catherine) and she was in my women's studies classes. she did, but never quite the way i hoped she would. in any case, in what afterschool special would some asshole ever sign autographs at a fraternity/sorority talent show? i was many things, but i was never that asshole.
as far as the "record" thing, well, i did make a record. immy played on it and it was my 1st. it was vinyl and it was black and it was round and it was 7 inches wide. it was a record. it sold in record stores around the bay area and at our band's gigs. just like all the other records made by all the other bands in all the other cities all over the world. what were we supposed to call it? there was a huge indie scene all over america then and you sure as hell didn't have to be on a major label to make a record. bands made their own and, for lack of a better word, called them records.
i'm not sure why this guy pisses me off so much. maybe it's because part of his story is true and i have such fond memories of that time(even though we came in 2nd to some frat that got 50 hicks to go up on stage and dance to a record of some song from "the best little whorehouse in texas"). but part of it is so false and he just makes it up to make his story a little funnier. namedropping DICK.
on a lighter note, this tour is even more fun than the european festival tour we just got through. being around ed and all our friends in live and galactic every day is great. every band has to bring their best every day or get blown off the stage by the others. yet all anyone seems to want to do is watch each other play. the sides of the stages are filled with band members every night and everyone is guesting on songs. it's a little wierd with the shorter sets, but there's a greater intensity and we're still switching the sets around a lot every night. it may mean you don't get to hear your favorite song on a given night, but it keeps it really fresh for us . and you know counting crows has never really been about regurgitating the same hits to you night after night. the truth is, we're as likely to get in trouble for not playing colorblind as we are for not playing mr. jones. i suppose we're one band that's actually lucky their fans have something to complain about every night because we never get to them all.
i've seen most of every live set and they are blowing me away. ed's such a beautiful singer. it's the wife and children toour too. lot's of kids around, which is nice as well. quite a relief from the usual dick farm of rock tours. we get fined $1 for cursing in front of the kids. $5 if they repeat it. personally, i think it's really funny when they repeat it but gretchen will kill us if dashiell comes out of this summer with a garbage mouth so we are all trying. or paying. in my case, both.
i really thought the detroit shows were two of the best we've played in years. we grow so much as a band every year. it becomes a much deeper thing to be in this music than it was when we started. it's probably different for all of you. we can't stay who we were though. remember that. you don't either. it was probably a hell of a feeling to be in some tiny club with us in 93 or 94 and be the only ones who knew or the first ones who heard. i know it was heady for us. but we still feel it each night albeit in different ways. memory covers everything in gold. but in a few years, these shows are going to be along way gone too. bands never last forever and we won't either. people are having familes already and soon those kids will be too old to ride on the busses. things will change.
but not today. and tomorrow we play chicago.
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2000 5:16 AM
two things
1-don't know about jerry, but i hear me and coolio have the same birthday
2-don't know about the barenaked ladies, but i looooooooooooooove busta
"put your hands where my eyes can see"
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Subject: me
Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2000 5:27 AM
regarding the ever-radiant cassandra wilson, remember her last album was a tribute to miles davis on which she covered a lot of miles songs(adding lyrics) and also covered songs miles had covered, as is the case with "time after time". though not originally a "jazz" song so to speak, miles version was one of the definitive tracks of the 80's and of his later years in general. many many non "jazz" songs have become standards over the years.
over the rainbow is an example. on the same album on which miles covered time after time i'm pretthy sure he also covered a michael jackson song from thriller. can't remember the name. "human nature"maybre.
anyways, i love the wilson album and she broke me at jazzfest when i saw her play that song. just and opinion
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Subject: me
Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2000 4:31 AM
i read these posts about a creepy guy who give s out backstage passes and upgrades tickets and this is such bullshit. tom or janette definitely upgrade tickets. we always keep the front row ourselves and then give the seats away so that scalpers and tkt brokers don't get those kinds of tkts. we like fans to have them. that always seemed like a good thing to me. why do you make it seem like a bad or a sleazy thing? as for the backstage passes, you are living in a fantasy world. backstage passes are for friends and family of the band. period. they are simply not given out indiscriminately. if anyone was doing that, they would be fired. it is our private place back there. if someone other than a friend is given a pass, it is because a band member specifically requested it. this does happen, but not very often. band members are allowed to be attracted to people too and we are allowed to meet them if we want to. it's only scummy if you consider us scummy, which is certainly the insinuation. either way, most of the guys are either attached or too uncomfortable in that sort of a situation to make it a very common occurence. mostly, oh forget it.
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Subject: me
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2000 3:54 AM
it's never been my concern whether people criticize us or not. it's just sometimes you give us the scummiest motives. that bothers me. it would bother you too
(Hostess note : This post is in response to :
Subject: Re: Camden, NJ -- A Review
Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2000 7:27 PM
>>>> i understand that they are adam's friends, and i am glad that he has friends with him, but it doesn't make them a band that i like. <<<<
..that sucks. Seriously. I mean, it's always a bonus to have a band that you really like open up/play with CC rather than one you can't stand.
But you are definitely right that LIVE being Adam's friends doesn't mean you are going to like them as a band.... I mean, if all of my friends' friends were in bands...i wouldn't go see HALF of them play live..even if they were on tour with CC. )
Subject: Re: Camden, NJ -- A Review
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2000 3:55 AM
your friends aren't as great as live goofball
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