Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2019.04.20)

By: JK47

JK47 — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 03:08:38 +0000

Here’s Before Today-era APHG playing “Round And Round” on Fallon.

Yours truly playing the orange Strat. No backing tracks, everything is 100% live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8zUSCrWv0

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:34:31 +0000

It deserves to be played loud. The production is outstanding. It’s a big, natural sounding album with a beautiful soundstage.

By: KnickerBloggerPowerRankings

KnickerBloggerPowerRankings — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:36:51 +0000

@THCJ thanks for the weyes blood tip. she’s actually coming to Williamsburg in May so i’ll have to check it out.

By: JK47

JK47 — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:05:19 +0000

The lead on “White Freckles” was played by Alexander Brettin of the band Mild High Club on a 12-string. He’s an amazing guitarist. It’s a bitch to play for sure, the arpeggiated part in the middle is all cross-picked. I never played that part live, but I did play the synth part that goes underneath it, which is also super gnarly.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:24:26 +0000

My wife grew up in lily-white Utah and isn’t fully used to counterculture/off-beat music stuff, so I often try to convince her to push past the discomfort of the weird as it’s in service of real pop genius. (She now, correctly, prefers Laughing Stock to It’s My Life, for one. The latter is a good album but it’s still bog-standard new wave.) I told her that for acts like Ariel Pink (or Brian Wilson, Bob Pollard, Kate Bush, Death Grips, Kevin Shields, Mark Kozalek, Alex Chilton, Paul Westerberg, Yo La Tengo, Elisabeth Fraser, and on and on) you have to accept that the creative spark that produces such big and wild ideas will also produce some that fall a bit flat, at least on first listen. The more milquetoast productions tend not to hit the same highs. Pom Pom is one of those albums that slaps you in the face with zany ideas and dares you to stick around long enough to be part of the technicolor world it creates so well. It is a damn fine album. (Also, you must get a finger workout when you play “White Freckles.” That riff/melody could only come from an alien.)

By: JK47

JK47 — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 07:19:22 +0000

Mexican Summer is re-issuing all of his four-track records and they’ve cleaned them up a lot and they sound incredible. They’re doing a 10-album reissue. We played tons of that stuff, some of it was incredibly challenging. I could never play Grey Sunset without a cheat sheet. Some of that stuff is Zappa-level complicated. Trepanated Earth, that was another one that was insane to learn and play. For Kate I Wait, insanely complicated.

I was in the band for eight years and I must have learned 150 of his songs. He’s a genius, the real deal, a completely unique and brilliant musician and songwriter. Blew my mind on a regular basis. I’m really proud of Pom Pom, that record was super fun to make and it’s just stuffed with ideas. I’m featured prominently on that one, the first thing you hear on it is me playing that harpsichord riff.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 06:11:16 +0000

Donovan Mitchell with a Carmelo-like box score. 9-27 from the field, 12-17 from FT. He’s inching toward the worst playoff series by a starter in my lifetime.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 06:04:42 +0000

gets me every time

every time I pick up a pen I get
!!!!!
in-te-r-est-ing re-sults
every time I sit down and I try I get
!!!!!
extra-terrestial re-sults

I’m gonna stop stan spamming soon but I concur with Mr. KBPR above. Came to it pretty late but I’ve been yelling it from the mountaintops since.

Your bassist is really good at playing the bass.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:56:20 +0000

In reply to KnickerBloggerPowerRankings.

Weird ending in Utah, with Austin Rivers berating Clint Capela for letting Donovan Mitchell get wide open for the possible game-tying three. Mitchell blew the shot, but there was no reason he should have been wide open. Capela just completely died on a screen.

By: KnickerBloggerPowerRankings

KnickerBloggerPowerRankings — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:15:24 +0000

i remember he said something on stage that offended a lot of the sensitive SF folk. the crowd got weird indeed. im just glad maus pulled out cop killer. fulfilled a dream of mine.