| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| floop |
Posted - 08/05/2009 : 17:02:03
man, i don't know if i'm going to be able to make this, but it sure would be fun. Big Sur + Henry Miller Library + Frank Black
3 of my favorite things in one party
|
| 18 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Mac E. Doobage |
Posted - 07/09/2012 : 15:14:58
He also fingabangshishairyrec. |
| darwin |
Posted - 07/09/2012 : 13:15:16
Frank calls him Stinky Joe. |
| MissMaceo |
Posted - 07/09/2012 : 09:19:53
thanks, ziggy :) |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 07/09/2012 : 08:26:56
Todd Demma. He's tour managed a few FB/BF tours. |
| MissMaceo |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 19:14:31
no |
| darwin |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 15:58:47
Stinky Joe |
| MissMaceo |
Posted - 07/08/2012 : 13:28:32
Can someone please confirm for me the name of the drummer who played this show with him?
 |
| bobo plenty |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 19:38:07
Interesting name "balls" how do I find you on facebook? |
| floop |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 11:08:13
quote:
Originally posted by BLT
How could floop have missed this show?
Hey balls, that's interesting about him screwing up California Bound. The same thing happened at The Mint last Wednesday.
but he did end up playing it again and not aborting. at first i thought he was playing the same song again, but realized he must have remembered that he aborted |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 10:52:28
You can't be California bound if you're already in California. You can't mess with that stuff.
_______________
Ed is the hoo hoo |
| blanket |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 10:09:47
He aborted California Bound at the San Luis Obispo show, too. Repeated the lyrics to one verse, stopped, and said he got caught in a loop. |
| BLT |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 05:40:52
How could floop have missed this show?
Hey balls, that's interesting about him screwing up California Bound. The same thing happened at The Mint last Wednesday. |
| balls |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:29:13
Oh yeah, he also definitely played Holiday, Nimrod, Wave of Mutilation, When they Come to Murder Me, and Burnt Out Rock 'n' Roll
He was also drinking a split of New House of the Pope. He commented that somebody remembered it was his favorite (maybe from the venue, or one of the promoters). |
| balls |
Posted - 08/16/2009 : 17:02:01
Pretty neat show this one. He managed to break through the anecdote block that was plaguing him at the Hotel Utah show I saw. Mere Mortals were cool, venue was one of a kind. Before FB took the stage some guy went up there (manager of the library?) to thank the artists, promoters, audience, and to read a passage from Tropic of Capricorn on music. Then he said this was shaping up to be one of those nights that is remembered as "I was there."
So then Frank Black played Los Angeles, Cactus, I Burn Today, then started telling a story about the drive there. "It doesn't take 3 hours to get here from where I stayed last night. It actually takes a lot longer." He related how his driver/roadie kept trying to pass an 18-wheeler on a narrow winding road while a particular song was playing on the radio, when Frank realized they were inviting disaster by trying to do that. He then played the song which was Wheels by The Flying Burrito Brothers. I wasn't aware of him performing this song before, but he seemed to know it pretty well and did a great job. He continued to refer back to this incident throughout the show.
The rest were mostly outstanding versions of standard fare for the tour: Sing For Joy, Calistan, Mr. Grieves, Masif Centrale, Bullet (this song is about my dad), Monkey Gone to Heaven, Where Is My Mind, 666 (country version), Manitoba (love the way he's been playing this), Horrible Day, Shrimp Song (which has finally taken it's proper role as song he plays while the guitar he actually wants to use is being tuned), She Took all the Money, Angels Come to Comfort You -- before this song he related that he believed Herman Brood chose that building to jump from in order to claim it back from John and Yoko for the Dutch.
After Velouria he commented that someone gave a shoutout when he sang California and that that person would love the next song which was California bound. He actually screwed up the second verse, at which point he said he would normally abort the song but this time would finish it.
He introduced I heard Ramona Sing as a song about the Ramones. Afterwards he commented that around here menudo is a soup, but it used to be a boy band that graduated members at age 16. The departing member would jump into a trapdoor in the stage and a platform would elevate the next 14 year old. He said Menudo is another band he really likes which is why he worked them into his song about the Ramones.
I think he played I'll Be Blue last, then thanked us all for coming and did an a capella version of Been All Around This World.
Pretty awesome show all around. Not as many songs crammed in as at the Friday SF show, but lots of great wit and I wouldn't want to drive home from Big Sur at 1am anyway! |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/14/2009 : 07:19:38
MontereyHerald.com - Rock icon and Pixies frontman Black Francis will perform solo among the redwoods in Big Sur. |
| floop |
Posted - 08/13/2009 : 07:52:01
i wish i could. it would be fun, and a great excuse to go to Big Sur . don't think work can do without me tomorrow
if anything i'd be really curious to see what the crowd will be like there |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/12/2009 : 13:53:25
Not for the Mexican food, that's for sure.
Two more nights. You gonna make the drive up, floop?
I remember sitting in a basement listening to Fields of Marigold until I passed out.
|
| floop |
Posted - 08/12/2009 : 08:30:15
or, more importantly, why did you move to Canada |
