ourkid said about 1 year ago or at 10:50PM on Tuesday, October 2 2007.
There are a few threads trying to flog tickets, but no thread for a great man/band The Eels.
E has written his autobiography and the BBC have made a doco about him and his relationship with his Physicist father. Both look pretty interesting.
There is also gunna be a best of and a double rarities cd in Jan (both come with dvd's).
Just listening to Daisies of the Galaxy. Desert island disc for me.
Thoughts people?
good thoughts
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I've had 'In The Yard, Behind The Church' in my head for the past three days.
Topical!
'souljacker' is a slept-on gem.
he's cheeky and playful with his writing and i like it.
souljacker is a magnificent thing.
i've seen them be brilliant, and be awful noise live, though.
interviewed him, was told not to mention the father. then he bought him up, and happily chatted about him for 20 minutes. the next 20 minutes then centred on a conversation about his dog. which has its own myspace. i loves him.
hmm...i've been to every tour his done in australia (though not every show) each tour has been refreshingly markedly different, but i don't think ones been bad at all.
ah, nony...last time - in the three piece mode with karate kicking security guy, they just got a bit loud to no real point at times.
then again, there were moments they flew.
BIG AL!
Possibly im remembering through rose tinted glasses a little.
Constant reinvention and reinterpretation can go both ways i guess.
more of it.
oh no, you misunderstand, i love to go see them, for the reason you're never quite sure what you're gonna get.
interviewing him has the same element of tightrope walking between the harbour bridge pylons.
He wrote a song about me. OK, about someone with my name.
Anyway, big tick from me.
yup yup, not disagreeing, but granting the point and moving back to the appreciation.
still think the first tour was probably the best, with the string section and lisa germano and motley crue beat poetry.
I thought the strings tour in '05 was awesome. I loved the short movie they showed at the start with all the bad interviews E has had:
Andrew G: Man, you must be constantly writing songs to bring out so many albums! E: I am writing one right now Andrew G: Really? What's it called? E: Inane interview.
Gold.
Shit, sorry about formatting.
That 2000 tour was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I got Butch's drumstick!
I saw the 2003 tour off the back of Shootenanny (my least favourite Eels record). I haven't seen them since.
I love E. He's such a dude.
One of my favourite bands / musicians.
Electro-Shock Blues is one of my desert island discs.
Anyone get those official live bootlegs, Oh What A Wonderful Morning and Electro-Shock Blues Show a few years ago?
They were great.
I did, andyr. Morning still doesn't capture the brilliance of that tour, tho.
Sure doesn't.
Did you go to the Enmore show? That was awesome.
Yeah. So amazing. For years it stood at #1 on my top gigs list.
Everybody knows I'm not a violent man. Just somebody who knows he's in love.
Love them but sometimes they're too melencholic to listen to
JB has beautiful freak for $7.99
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for the benefit of nony and myself who hung around waiting and waiting and waiting for the usual after-the-lights-come-on encore, and for redlips who didnt understand just why we were hanging around, did they do the orthodox thing in melbourne too? ie, leave when they meant to?
I DID UNDERSTAND!!!
I'm not a dim-wit (and I'd been worded up)...
apologies. i was unaware of your worded-upness.
yeah - I was simply convinced that they wouldn't come out again... due to the striking of all vocal mics.
we lived in hope. maybe the purely acoustic interlude?
Dear Eels,
thank you for keeping me sane with your Meet the Eels and Useless Trinkets over the last two days... it's no mean feat.
lips x
His Autobiography is amazing. No pretentious writing, just mainly straight to the point story but such an amazing life. He even mentions how he got his underbite from being so shy at school.
Highly recommended read. Even made dust off my blinking lights CD as I never really gave it much of a listen.
Do you know what it's like to fall on the floor/ And cry your guts out 'til you got no more/ Hey man now you're really living
Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl/ Made you feel like it's not such a bad world/ Hey man now you're really living
Well i just saw the sun rise over the hill/ Never used to give me much of a thrill/ But hey man now you're really living/
Do you know what it's like to care too much/ 'bout someone that you're never gonna get to touch/ Hey man now you're really living
the book, incidentally, is a most wonderful thing.
dammit monty - now I really wanna hear that song right now - I think it'll cheer me up
i'll drive around, its been the soundtrack in the car for most of this week.
mark oliver everett, things the grandchildren should know (little brown, 2008)
dear whinging non-entity musicians. this is called real life...
hey whats his autobiography called? i'd love to read it
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as above.
ohhhhhhhhhhhh!
anyone got a spare $200 us or £120 uk?
I thought Dog-Faced Boy was autobiographical -until I read the book. His underbite still makes him look like a dog-faced man to me...
Souljacker is one of my all-time favs, I still haven't made it all the way through blinking lights yet...