Comments on: And http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/ mp3 blog fanzine from brighton uk Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dann http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 dann Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/#comment-1680 I'm guessing DJ Rick means Dream Baby Dream? [/Springsteen pedant] Super informative post though. A+ would read more for sure. I’m guessing DJ Rick means Dream Baby Dream? [/Springsteen pedant]

Super informative post though. A+ would read more for sure.

]]> By: Georgie http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 Georgie Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:47:17 +0000 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/#comment-1679 Oh, why thank you, gents! You've caught me with my pants down, so-to-speak.... I've been in-between internet services recently and have been lacking in the posts on LMT. I'm jacked-in again, though, so back to 'work' soon. Brilliant post as uzj. My heart longs for the day when Mr. El Guincho returns here again with his terrifying voodoo.... missed half the set last time. :{o Oh, why thank you, gents! You’ve caught me with my pants down, so-to-speak…. I’ve been in-between internet services recently and have been lacking in the posts on LMT. I’m jacked-in again, though, so back to ‘work’ soon.

Brilliant post as uzj. My heart longs for the day when Mr. El Guincho returns here again with his terrifying voodoo…. missed half the set last time. :{o

]]> By: 20jazzfunkgreats http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 20jazzfunkgreats Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:56:42 +0000 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/#comment-1667 This is great... Now when are you going to write something for us, Rick? Thank you! J This is great…

Now when are you going to write something for us, Rick?

Thank you!
J

]]> By: DJ Rick http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 DJ Rick Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:54:00 +0000 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/#comment-1666 True story...Last time I was at Meghan Remy's place (she is THEE (only) U.S. Girl), I saw a ticket stub for a Springsteen concert at Portland's Rose Quarter arena. I'd always known she was something of a Boss fan. When she drummed for PDX neo-no-wave party-stokers Hustler White, she had a picture of Bruce on her kick drum. But I didn't know she was really *that* much of a fan to pay 75 American dollars to see him in a giant arena. I'd always heard comparisons between Springsteen's "Nebraska" LP and Suicide, and you can hear it a little, too, on a song like "I'm on Fire", but when Meghan excitedly told the story of how Bruce ruled it onstage with an encore performance of "Dream a Little Dream"--solo and largely loopbuilt and sounding every bit as relevant as the zeitgeist of Boss-delay-effect-twiddlers in every issue of The Wire--I came to understand that Meghan was nobody's *ironic* Springsteen fan. It would be about a year before she would record that U.S. Girls demo that eventually became this record here on Siltbreeze. She also does a great Kinks cover on this LP, and on some future release, I hope you get to hear her take on "I Can Hear Music" by the Beach Boys, which is really outstanding for the soul she injects into it with her singing. I've written it too many times on too many message boards before, but I really admire Meghan going out on a limb as a solo artist and finding her voice because I feel like she's come a long way from the time I first saw her playing in a free-flailing spazz/skronk/splat band called Hux. From there, she picked up drums with zero experience and became totally imperious as a clobberer for Hustler White. Often, when the rest of the band offered zero bite, she was the one person that kept them threatening. Always holding the sticks wrong (for dear life!) and getting blisters by the end of the first song...what a trooper! Then she found herself in a band called Me Con that started out as a sparse cavey psych experiment, but later recruited a really rockin' drummer, and then they became something really heavy. And again, Meghan provided the heaviness with some of the most imposing and impetuous basslines while the guitarist swirled around in the ethers somewhere. I had no clue where she'd be coming from or where she'd be going with her solo project, but I've been stunned by the haunting and chilling that her music gives me, the hell it can raise at times, and the softness it even coos at others. This project definitely stands out from the growing pack of delay-wielding wicca-priestesses working the folky/fringey psych angles. She also has a band called Stone Pillow, but I need to hear a lot more of them to know what to tell you. True story…Last time I was at Meghan Remy’s place (she is THEE (only) U.S. Girl), I saw a ticket stub for a Springsteen concert at Portland’s Rose Quarter arena. I’d always known she was something of a Boss fan. When she drummed for PDX neo-no-wave party-stokers Hustler White, she had a picture of Bruce on her kick drum. But I didn’t know she was really *that* much of a fan to pay 75 American dollars to see him in a giant arena. I’d always heard comparisons between Springsteen’s “Nebraska” LP and Suicide, and you can hear it a little, too, on a song like “I’m on Fire”, but when Meghan excitedly told the story of how Bruce ruled it onstage with an encore performance of “Dream a Little Dream”–solo and largely loopbuilt and sounding every bit as relevant as the zeitgeist of Boss-delay-effect-twiddlers in every issue of The Wire–I came to understand that Meghan was nobody’s *ironic* Springsteen fan.

It would be about a year before she would record that U.S. Girls demo that eventually became this record here on Siltbreeze. She also does a great Kinks cover on this LP, and on some future release, I hope you get to hear her take on “I Can Hear Music” by the Beach Boys, which is really outstanding for the soul she injects into it with her singing.

I’ve written it too many times on too many message boards before, but I really admire Meghan going out on a limb as a solo artist and finding her voice because I feel like she’s come a long way from the time I first saw her playing in a free-flailing spazz/skronk/splat band called Hux. From there, she picked up drums with zero experience and became totally imperious as a clobberer for Hustler White. Often, when the rest of the band offered zero bite, she was the one person that kept them threatening. Always holding the sticks wrong (for dear life!) and getting blisters by the end of the first song…what a trooper!

Then she found herself in a band called Me Con that started out as a sparse cavey psych experiment, but later recruited a really rockin’ drummer, and then they became something really heavy. And again, Meghan provided the heaviness with some of the most imposing and impetuous basslines while the guitarist swirled around in the ethers somewhere.

I had no clue where she’d be coming from or where she’d be going with her solo project, but I’ve been stunned by the haunting and chilling that her music gives me, the hell it can raise at times, and the softness it even coos at others. This project definitely stands out from the growing pack of delay-wielding wicca-priestesses working the folky/fringey psych angles.

She also has a band called Stone Pillow, but I need to hear a lot more of them to know what to tell you.

]]> By: Jude http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/comment-page-1/#comment-1665 Jude Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:57:47 +0000 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/22/and/#comment-1665 you think Springsteen ever envisioned his song as hollowed and murky as U.S. Girls have rendered it? Probably no, eh? Lurv. you think Springsteen ever envisioned his song as hollowed and murky as U.S. Girls have rendered it? Probably no, eh? Lurv.

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