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Bob bloody bleeding flipping Dylan
Posted by FreakGene on 6 May 2009 - 1:50pm.
Can everyone shut up about him? PLEASE!
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Please, please!
Seconded.
Please, please!
Seconded.
But why?
It's the internet. Limitless inventory. You don't have to read anything you don't want to.
Yes,
It's true, I don't have to read everything but when it takes up a good percentage of the converstaion it can get a tad boring. I could start various threads on Diesel Park West but a) No one gives a toss and i'd be very lonely and sad, b) i'd get told to shut up probably.
I have a Diesel Park West album...!!
"Shakespeare Alabama"
Got it after seeing them support Big Country at Glasgow Barrowlands..
Didn't realise they were still a going concern.
A House Divided
a). I do
b). Probably
Keep talking
The Diesels were the band that should have been Oasis if that makes sense. They were about 3 years ahead of their time - coinciding with Madchester did them no good.
Much better than them Gallaghers as well.
Saw them more like a heavier Crowded House
I saw them in 1988 and definitely played their album a lot I remember.....
When Pearl Jam and Nirvana arrived I totally forgot about them ,Del Amitri and all the rest.
I've always preferred American Indie though...REM, Dinosaur Jr, Huker Du etc.
Apart from the odd track Madchester made little impression on me...it all sounded like versions of "Peace Frog" by The Doors.
Now we is talking!
It's a lonely obsession (i know only one other obsessive) but The Diesel's are still rockin and reeling. 7 albums in and many gigs to one man without his dog.
Quality music to my ears but slaughtered on the altar of 'Baggy'. and because they were a bit 'unhippily' hippy.
I'm no obsesive
but Shakespeare Alabama gets a play every now & then plus I seem to run into them locally as Butler & Wilson are still very active. I think DPW have an album out this year, but don't quoet me on that.
I remember them..
being contemporary with Kevin McDermot Orchestra ... his "Mother Natures Kitchen " also saw heavy rotation which I got signed 2 years ago when I supported him at a local gig of his.
Strange experience playing before one of your early influences... nice guy.
Shakespeare and Flipped
The debut album's a good 'un as is the follow up collection of b-sides and outtakes, Flipped
Saw them as
1965ish Beatles, nice and jangly, Byrds 12 string influence, great songwriters too, good live show, but resolutely unbaggy at the time.
And much better than them Gallaghers - that's my catchphrase...
Moby Grape
was DPW's obsession and that turned me onto the Grape. Bloomin' grateful I am too. Hey Grandma and all that. There's a great story Word should do about how Moby Grape were well and truely f****ed by their manager from day one to this.
The Diesel's also potter around the country as a CSNY and Byrds tribute band called the Marrakesh Express. You may have a better night there than trying to second guess Bob's Name That Tune night. Then again....
Kevin McDermott
Now you're talking! They were really great. That was a wonderful debut which I still play constantly. Also love Till The Bough Breaks and She Comes From The Sun (second album, I think).
Saw them at the Borderline in 89(ish) and they were excellent live too.
Diesel
Diesel Park West, great band.
Not yet...
...still a few entrails to be pored over; more reports to come; more comparisons of set lists; more...oh, I see what you mean!
And
If anyone deserves - and repays - endless discussion, it's Dylan. Like the man said. Don't read it if you don't want to.
Chill...
... it's the last night of the tour in Dublin to-night. So, by Friday, we'll be quiet :-)
Just in time for me to start raving about
the The Dead gigs I'm seeing over the weekend :-)
I'll spoil it for you, my friend
Just say Dylan and the Dead. Then let the aural memories flood back in.
See?
Pah!
I spurn your attempts to burst my bubble - 'Dylan and The Dead' was a Dylan album - the Dead were merely sidemen on it :-)
(Puts Europe 72 on to remove all thoughts of Dylan from his head)
Enjoy the trip
We'll expect a full report on return.
Surely...
by posting this you're just creating more discussion about his Bobness?
Yeah
Bob will eat himself!
The recently updated box is all Dylan, all the time
So if I choose not to read it, what's left for me?
You're not a praline man then?
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I'd like to see more Dylan, please
I'm writing a thesis entitled "Obsessives in the 21st Century". These Dylan fans are providing me with absolute goldust.
Is Bob Dylan...
...the new The Wire?
I'm happy, both will do me!
Not the friggin Diesel Park West AGAIN...
Good songs performed well without breaking into the arena circuit - or even the big venue circuit beyond support band status. The British way of keeping them from becoming rich and crap. Their former manager is a bigwig in top record company now.
DPW
Diesel Park West , like the South , will rise again brothers and sisters