Sound-checked, plugged in, and ready to rock (bands you saw)

[auto-da-fey]

Wait, what painfully mawkish Evan-I-love-you song? Is this a new song or something that I've been listening to for 20 years and never figured out was about Evan?

suffer as I have suffered

(short answer: the former. and okay, it's not that terrible, but I didn't get aimless scenery projected behind them, and they were also standing, which somehow made it more awkward)

[Andrew_TSKS]

Aw man... where must Juliana Hatfield be, mentally/emotionally, to write such a song, and to sing/play it as a duet with the person it's about?

Awkward, maybe--what that really is to me is incredibly, incredibly sad.

[fishjim]

Got to see an old-timey string band, Dodge's Sundodgers, at the Serendipity Books open house in Berkeley on Wed. The founder, Al Dodge, played mandolin for years with R. Crumb in the Cheap Suit Serenaders, a comparable project, except without the female charisma of Sundodger singer/picker Kathy Sparling.

If you like this kind of stuff, you know who you are. And you owe it to yourself to check out this one-of-a-kind "acoustic bass banjo" played & handmade by Glen Jordan:

"Dodge's Sundodgers Go Wild with Banjos"
http://www.dodgessundodgers.com/music/all_banjos.html

Jordan & his giant banjo are on the left. The lead picker next to him is Al Dodge. The audio is pretty bad, but not necessary. All you need is an eyeful of Jordan's compendious instrument and you're free to go.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Mark Sultan tonight.  I was pretty damn excited to see him. I've been ranting about King Khan and BBQ for a loooong time. Trainwreck. One of the worst shows I've ever seen. Maybe I'll  post more detail in the morn when I'm I'm not so drunk. Soooo bad.

Got to hangout and have a beer with LPTJ member Daniel though which was cool.

But: One of the worst shows I've seen in a long long time.
 

[Daniel]

Shame the show we finally caught each other at sucked so bad.  Good to meet you too though!

Mark Sultan had laryngitis last night, and his voice didn't sound so great in the song he started with.  After the first song, instead of pushing on playing, he talked to the crowd at length and asked people to get up and sing.  A couple of punters obliged and sang well, after which was an awkward half hour consisting of two full songs but mostly a couple of seconds of a song's intro followed by him stopping and requesting again for punters to sing. Like KDSB said, total trainwreck.  He looked and performed like shit.  Dude simply shouldn't have gone on stage.

[fishjim]

Back from the first Bill Frisell show I've disliked. He played at Yoshi's in Oakland with Brazilian guitarist Vinicius Cantuaria. The whole project sounded off -- Cantuaria's gut-string plucking didn't mix with Frisell's electric harmonies. Too bad, because they're both one-of-a-kind musicians.

EDITED for sobriety.