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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 05/16/2025 :  08:44:50  Show Profile  Visit Troubles A Foot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
For my TMBG podcast I want to highlight a guitar solo by Lyle in Frank Black's work, since Lyle plays guitar on TMBG's cover of "New York City". As usual I am trying to get our listeners into Frank Black!

Any favorites? What clip should I play? Do my work for me!

The Maharal
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Posted - 05/16/2025 :  11:30:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I didn't realise that was Lyle! That's been one of my favourite TMBG songs for years.

Guess you could choose almost anything off TOTY but solo in The Vanishing Spies is amazing.
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 05/16/2025 :  13:00:10  Show Profile  Visit Troubles A Foot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I was leaning towards Vanishing Spies!

It's like in my bottom least favorite ever TMBG songs so I'm...kind of trying to find other stuff to say about it!
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The Maharal
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Posted - 05/16/2025 :  13:46:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It's quite straightforward for TMBG but I still enjoy it. However, since delving (slightly) deeper into their back catalogue after the concert last November that song is way down the pecking order now. The likes of Don't Let's Start, Cabbagetown, Where Your Eyes Don't Go, The Cap'm, Nanobots and She's An Angel have been in and out of my head. Still have a few more albums to explore.

Have gone down a TMBG / Frank rabbit hole now - I had never seen this footage before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMY2Og1icc8&ab_channel=PJalt (Frank sort of filling in for John Linnell for some radio recording).

Found a comment on another video claiming Frank came out to add some extra guitar crunch to Ana Ng during the tour he was opening for TMBG. What times they were.
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 05/17/2025 :  11:05:25  Show Profile  Visit Troubles A Foot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Holy mama. I have never seen that video and I spent many days researching every time TMBG and Frank were in the same room because of a few podcasts we've recorded. Amazing! I wish the entire thing was up.

NYC is fine, it's kind of cute, I got sick of it kind of quickly, but really I'm just not too into them putting covers on their albums, because I'm in it for their songwriting. Obviously my podcast is going to dive deep into what the song means to Flans and to the fans and etc, but I have skipped that track on the album many, many times.

ANY MORE LYLE SOLOS WE SHOULD PLAY???
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Stevio10
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/17/2025 :  11:56:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Always liked Lyle on The Marsist

Outside of FB my friends swear by Jellyfish album Spilt Milk that he plays on but it's a bit too Queen like for my taste. Worth a listen though.
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 05/17/2025 :  13:25:35  Show Profile  Visit Troubles A Foot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Stevio10

Always liked Lyle on The Marsist

Outside of FB my friends swear by Jellyfish album Spilt Milk that he plays on but it's a bit too Queen like for my taste. Worth a listen though.



That may be worth getting into on our Frank Black podcast which we do for our Patreon (but one day will release publicly!)

Marsist, great idea!

Edited by - Troubles A Foot on 05/17/2025 13:25:45
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