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Thank you for putting those up! Great stuff! Nice reading the review!

Wow, thanks for sharing all that! Love it! Love it a lot! Some of the most and best stuff Ive seen by/with them so far. Really makes me bummed that I don't live in CA no more.. Can't get my head around the equation though, them being big enough (feeling big enough, thinking it a decent idea, or whatever) to do the rather daft golden ticket thing, at the same time, somehow not being (feeling) big enough to put out records.. although they clearly are and should be about the music. Man, I'd like to be able to buy some of that great music on vinyl or file. So, to me there's seems to be some mighty backwards priorities, but who knows what's up with that.. Really wish they will cut an LP or why not a live record some day, that's for sure.

I like to think so. Although they (Mudcrutch) may not be aware of this, since the American version(s) itself dates back to the 1700s too, as far as I know.. And many of "the usual suspects" - McGuinn, Cale, Bill Monroe, Big Joe Williams, Everly Brothers and so on - also done their takes of it.

"Sandy Denny - voice of an angel". Right! Exactly that. Fairport at it's best is madly groovy uk folk:ish rock. Think Shady Grove, but british.. and with female vocals.. and you are about half way there. Also think Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore and the voice is right there next to Plant's. Fairport's Liege and Lief.. or Unhalfbricking.. some of the best ever records.. but the BBC stuff is killer too. Check out the Heyday album for some of the best Cohen cover you will ever hear. Magic stuff pretty much.

Right you are, absolutely wonderful, if traditional in every way. Love it! Also, one of the forgotten ones seems to be Make It Better. Quite elaborate, if somewhat goofy. All around fun, in the general style of the Alice themed DCAHNM. They look pretty cool and pehaps a bit.. well.., in a 1985 kind of way.. Stan playing standing up is something else. Of all the songs from that album, they had to pick that one for a video?? Daft, I say. But fun all the same.

Yeah.. soon half the catalogue has got mentioned Just goes to show. I really agree with those! Probably should've mentioned them as well. As I probably should have mentioned what is implied w/r/t the storytelling qualities of TP vocals. -- How about I also add Good Enough to my list.. perhaps Somewhere Under heaven too.. speaking of storytelling.. And in fact, every so often, what strikes me as most captivating with TP vocals, is the phrasing! TP really is the king of phrasing, isn't he! Often times this aspect is especially highlighted in a genius bridge (middle eight) and TP's also always been a bit of a rock royalty in composing those over the years. Some of my all time fav moments in his catalogue - and in music in general - are TP bridges (the compositon, often the lyrics too.. and always that phrasing) - those vocals are just shilling. "I don't understand the world today.. I don't understand what she needed.." or, by all means.. an all time favorite, comes to mind.. "Sometimes I wonder if this is worth the trouble.. Sometimes I wonder if this is worth the fight.." Skipping along.. sliding.. such perfection. "Let it all ride." Some marvelous sh*t all the way!

That is really cool, thanks for sharing! I love those shapes and the sounds they make.

Man, too bad that Alley clip is so short. That stuff sounds fantastic to me!! Real music if I ever heard such.

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Oh, that's a good one. So many.. As far as live performances go.. it's next to impossible to tell.. betweed memories, various tapes, official releases and all.. Guess most stuff with TP and Howie singing harmonies strikes a special chord with me.. Those voices blended so beautifully and sometimes they just knocked me. Perhaps It Won't Be Wrong from Fillmore? Or so many moments from the 92, 95 or 97 tours? I can't pick. And although I still miss Howie's additional dimension ever so often, Scott backs it up beautifully too and TP's own voice, I think, has aged with a certain special charm, the coolness intact, maturity added. I really love his voice during the 2003 Vic dates and over the recent tours in general. Stuff like Stepping Stone really rings like a bell, just to name drop one out of dozens. Speaking of the records, I really love the spookyness of Luna and the softness of Fullgrown Boy (more or less all of Hypnotic Eye is fantastic singing!). The swinging coolness of Letting You Go or Down South, the flow of You And I Will Meet Again and also the irresistable attitude of the likes of American Girl and Wrong Thing To Do. Again Howie comes to mind and their singing on Into The Great Wide Open (the song, but also the album in general), Something In The Air (soarly underrated!!) or Mary Jane - truly fantastic stuff of Gods, IMHO. (In fact the only thing I don't love particularly, is the very rare occasion of the key (?) not being quite optimal, or the delivery over charged and the voice kinda cracks (for lack of better word) in a certain "crampy" way and the airy, cocky or punchy feel gets a bit flat. ) Oh - you wanted a short answer? Too Good To Be True?

Yes, please.. ?

Yeah! Wow! And right here in my city too.. Not that I was there (not that much of a fan, normally). But seriously.. Can't begin to describe the level of showmanship and heart Dave Grohl displays here. Quite an achievment. And what I take to be some 50.000 stoked fans.. Rock'n'roll all the way. Kudos to him. Here is reportedly what took place last night..

^ that's alright! not sure if the first time around had much insights to offer anyway, other than pointing out the fact. basically I'm just glad the bell finally rung over there..

Perhaps this was sloppy research, or a sloppy way with words, but I actually just revisited a write up from last summer (Uncut) that actually states that the "forthcoming expanded 20th-anniversary edition of his solo Wildflowers LP" will be "re-issued as a double album". First and possibly only time I've seen it stated straight up like that. Almost a year later, when it's no longer a 20th-anniversary edition per se, it might no longer be a double album either, from what it seems. Speculations continue until.. well.. furhter notice. The above piece is also where TP talks of how it being the "wrong" version of Climb That Hill ending up on She's The One, and how all four of the Wildflowers left-overs that ended up on STO, actually will show up in their original and "different" versions on what is by now called "All The Rest". Again, we'll see.. I hope that still stands.

Btw.. speaking of setlists (are we??) – I just stumbled on this TP interview from 2014’s September issue of Uncut Magazine, where TP is quoted, talking (among other things) about the then upcoming Hypnotic Eye tour of last year. It’s actually weird how I didn’t notice the choice of words more carefully, back when I read it the first time: Well, what to say. Brilliant. Some potential remarks comes to mind.. on how TP perhaps make the NY and LA residencies sound a bit more like extreme excavations than they really were, how it doesn’t feel quite like TP the famed perfectionist talking, or how the 2014 tour indeed didn’t make much of those great hopes of his. Other than that, well.. I rest my case.

Btw.. August. That is at least one year since TP told Uncut last summer that he was planning on continueing Mudcrutch "this year". Better late than never for sure, but maybe that explains the anticipation, excitement and restless waiting on my behalf, and others. But no mistake about it - this year will be good too. Or next year..

Fairport Convention BBC live

^ Sure thing. If you know your TP lyrics, those lines should've been like a ringing bell in your mind upon first listen.. It also has been posted before.. As for the origin of U Get Me High, one can only speculate really, but the title itself is listed among the Wildflowers outtakes, and has been mentioned in those discussions lately: If that means it's exactly the same song as was then re-recorded for Hypnotic Eye (the shared lyrics then being part of the reason it was unconsidered for the final Wildflowers cut), or if it actually predates Don't Fade On Me, but was shelved when TP come up with the latter instead.. or what's up, who knows? I think it's fair to say there is a connection. Maybe we will know how it used to sound soon enough..? One can speculate: perhaps it was deciding on giving U Get Me High a belated chance on HE, that had them realize what they had, thus initiating the very idea of a Wildflowers anniversary release (the anniversary part now scratched, but still). Or it was early stages of planning such release, going through the vaults, that had them finding the song and deciding to lift it from oblivion unto the then soon to be done HE? I suppose, even if it was to be just a little nod to his own past, it would be a cool move on TP's behalf though.

Oh, I too forgot about this thread. Forgot to comment on it too. Thus. Yes. That would be better, as I see it. I always encourage just about any set that are continually (gradually or substantially) changing, and a good night, by all means, could happen to look just like the one you propose. It sure is a great fun list and it seems to work well from an "arch" point of view too. However - if I should indulge myself in personal preference (rather than such structural ideas or theories regarding their approach, that I normally dwell in when it comes to the set list issue at large) - well, then I think there really are more interesting, more prioritized titles than INTK, YDKHIF, DCAHNM to be thrown in there. And given what we know of the past 20 years and counting, I don't think it's necessary for the "arch", or even the best idea for a great swinging show, to serve up both RDAD and YWM in the same set. With or without such minor considerations being heeded, I would enjoy such proposed show tremendously. In general - anything that deviates, really.

^ Exactly that. I kinda figured I had most of that important "if" factor covered between the lines in my prev posts. Nevertheless, I see now what a well constructed piece of dialogue can do! Kudos. And agreed on all accounts, I say. I guess it could be TP the optimist at play - spilling the beans to create excitement well before anything is actually roasting. Even more likely, I suppose it's TP the perfectionist at play.. I don't understand that dimension much myself. Not that I don't appreciate the ambition and the effort, but the perfection to me lies elsewhere. (As history has it, I'd say a TP trusting his instincts, going for the spontaneous, somewhat more gritty or straight up, is every way as interesting and genius as the polishing and re-polishing incarnation. (Sure, the Neil way of doing business can sometimes allow for more oops type moments, with occasional less genius glimpses also slipping through, but most of all it allows for all the buried and forgotten genius to shine as well as priceless insights into the creative process.) All according to the all work and no play thesis.. Either way, this WILL be an interesting one, I'm sure!

Great! Thank you!!

Yeah, about 1,000 plays of which should be me.. Been having a single-minded week.. Is that a mandolin in the foreground or - like it almost seems the more you listen - something more synthetic? Personally, I enjoy this sonic twilight zone between throwaway Lynne and throwaway Rubin - the blend of Built To Last and You Wreck Me as it were - a lot. It's almost a surprise match made in heaven. A surprise even if in someways it's what I've known all along. That is, this is quite close to what I've sometimes envisioned would have become of ITGWO, had Jeff only allowed a few pinches more of "organic life" on there. This song sure has the "airy claustrobia" of Lynne at his best, and at the same time a rather earthy quality. Sure, the drumming could have been a bit more.. interesting perhaps. But as for the rest of it - as much as I'm having a hard time believing that Rubin would've produced this - I find it very very good. It hits many levels at once as far as I am concerned, not only sonically: While the song in itself feels vintage Petty - it would be right at home on albums like Southern Accents, Let Me Up, ITGWO, Echo, Last DJ or Mojo - the lyrics, as has been mentioned, is very vivid and also somewhat TP typical - would've fit right in, perhaps on SA, Mudcrutch or Mojo especially. Somewhere Uner Heaven seems to be many things, but to me it's not exactly Wildflowers, which is interesting in terms of the upcoming album.

Oh, I just meant that from earlier rumors I had been hoping for an album by fall or at least this year and now that seem a bit uncertain perhaps. Until recordings are done nothing is certain, but this year or later, it sure is exciting and most welcome news!

Yes, as I've been saying over in the other thread about this, I think so to! I share a lot of those sentiments.

Was gonna post it, but you beat me to it.. Nice piece. Part of me thrilled about the news, the other part thought they were well under way allready. August would mean a 2015 album is not a done deal, if still a possible scope. Here's hoping. Again. "it's got a different swing to it" Yeah, I'd say! Can't wait. "for me it's a piece of cake" That's the spirit!!