Oh look, there's video for the music! and it's on the Youtube!

[fishjim]

Man, I cannot stand that! How can you bear such contrived countryism?

Spoken like a true East Coaster.

EDIT: Get thee to a campfire, coldforge.

[coldforge]

I look basically indistinguishable from the beardy nerds of that band. Will I start talking like Toby Keith when I sit down at this campfire of yours?

[YojimboMonkey]

I didn't think it was too bad. I think most country is pretty contrived these days. And I don't think you have to own a Ford F150 to sing a country song. And I come from a place where people drive Ford F150s and wear cowboy hats and cowboy boots to go out on a weekend night and yet there isn't a cattle ranch anyplace anywhere close.

I guess if you want some real country music you could go listen to Toby Keith's Red Solo Cup song but I don't recommend it

Here's a pretty good fan-made Lucero video though if you want http://vimeo.com/8693719

[peacocks]

Red Solo Cup is an amazing song and video.

"They" also now make a vodka in a plastic bottle called Red Cup and there is a picture of a red solo cup on it.

[fishjim]

I look basically indistinguishable from the beardy nerds of that band. Will I start talking like Toby Keith when I sit down at this campfire of yours?

Nope, but there's a high chance you'll be posting flannel to the Gilt Plane to Style thread.

[YojimboMonkey]

I prefer blue solo cups and I am so angry with Toby Keith for dissing them

[peacocks]

personally I don't like disposable cups? because they are bad for the environment?

[YojimboMonkey]

well jesus if you want to be fuckin serious about it, I drink out of glass because I drink good beer and glass lets you see what you're drinking, the color & whether it's clear or murky or opaque, and different shapes of glassware are better for presenting different styles of beer optimally. According to Mr. Keith, this means I have no testicles.

[peacocks]

hahaha I'm not serious at all.

I usually drink out of whatever cups are left in my friend's cupboard- sometimes it is a measuring cup, sometimes it is a plastic cup with the hamburgler on it. Sometimes it is a solo cup.

[YojimboMonkey]

well anyway that song is an earworm from hell and I think now I will listen to about 20 minutes of grindcore to cleanse myself from having thought about it.

[fishjim]

Aw, I'm sorry Yojimbo. You know where the flannel shirt is when you're ready for more.

[YojimboMonkey]

I am wearing a flannel shirt. over my black darts league t-shirt. And I am wearing Red Wing shoes. I am midwestern as fuck.

[fishjim]

C'mon, East Coasters. How can you not love these tree-huggers?

Blitzen Trapper
"Love the Way You Walk Away"

hmm, is this a keith urban cover?

Babar, I open my heart to you and you poop in it.

Actually, it's a Tom Petty cover.

similar hairstyles

If Keith Urban is a Tom Petty cover, what is Kurt Cobain?

[Babar]

C'mon, East Coasters. How can you not love these tree-huggers?

Blitzen Trapper
"Love the Way You Walk Away"

hmm, is this a keith urban cover?

Babar, I open my heart to you and you poop in it.

Actually, it's a Tom Petty cover.

similar hairstyles

If Keith Urban is a Tom Petty cover, what is Kurt Cobain?

Messiah

[fishjim]

Babar wins. Again.

[Thermofusion]

Can I again express my amazement that the hip youth flannel comeback is apparently still going on this fall? All you people buying the overpriced flannel duds (mainly looking at you epd)...y'all realize you'll be ashamed to wear that shit in public in a couple years, right?

[peacocks]

flannel never goes out of style.

[Thermofusion]

Real flannel won't, but the fake-vintage flannel look that's all the rage is quite unstylish in my opinion.

[Babar]

do a comparison with pics

[fishjim]

flannel never goes out of style.

Exactly, peacocks. Flannel fashion is forever.

All this flannel & Messiah talk has given me an earworm of my own. It's the first lines of a poem I worked on for a year, maybe two, around the height of Nirvana mania, and never finished. Probably never will. Not sure anything can save my dorky image of MTV as a funeral pyre.

~

The prophet, he was small of muscle,
   Long of hair, and slothful,

Reciting with a yawn his vision,
At pauses of the television,

To young musicians, each in flannel,
Eyes fixed upon a burning channel,

Hypnotic pyre, whose prophet spoke in
    Rhyme, and rhythms broken.

~

Yojimbo, I think we're even.

[kyle]

do a comparison with pics

Yes what is real and what is fake? I need to know so that I won't be misconstrued as a poseur and can wear my shirts after a few years from now.

[fishjim]

OK, yeah, I'm trolling now. But there's some swag flannel patterns in this video, and Xmas is coming up. Coldforge, if you want to send any gifts my way, I'm a medium.  

You Might Find It Cheap - Blitzen Trapper




EDIT: Holy shit, I'm pretty sure most of the concert footage is from that Fillmore show I went to, in a double-bill with Dawes (an awfully unremarkable band, too bad). Can anyone confirm this is what the Fillmore looks like from stage?

EDIT: Double holy shit, BZ songwriter Eric Earley's got a sort of artist statement/bio on the BZ site that I'm finding really inspiring right now. But maybe I'm just a fan? Turns out he was homeless for awhile in Portland, just like my beloved John Fahey.

[Antero]

Gang of Four's "Not Great Men" covered on gamelan.

[Bernard]

Not exactly a video, per se:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvS_hE4rmnk&feature=player_embedded

thai funk vol 2

[coldforge]

http://pitchfork.com/tv/special-presentation/1881-trent-reznor-karen-o/3056-immigrant-song/
The mid-nineties were the best time.