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Post by elvisfontenot on Mar 5, 2009 12:50:52 GMT -8
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Post by elvisfontenot on Mar 5, 2009 12:51:32 GMT -8
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Post by F0|50M PR|50N 88 on Mar 5, 2009 13:11:14 GMT -8
Weird tangent involving Mr. Tremulis...
A long time ago, shit... more than a score now that I think about it. Closer to a quarter century, actually... anyways...I used to go to this sleazy Greek restaurant in Greektown--Barstool knows the place. You'd wait in the vestibuley type mini photo gallery space to be seated and tacked up next to the framed newspaper articles and whatnot were photos of hot women. With phone numbers on the back. These broads were asking for it.
My Greek pediatrician has a wall like that with photos of babies and toddlers and him holding babies and Christmas cards and etc. etc. No phone numbers on his, though. I checked a few.
I'm sure I told this story, but it's in the ether now, so here's a repeat.
My friend David could not be restrained. He wrote down a few of the numbers and crank called (or is it prank called) the women. He used to say in a thick Greek accent that he was Petros and that the boat was all ready and that the woman should come down with her bathing suit. We would also say, in case that wasn't enough of an incentive, that Nicholas Tremulis would be on the boat making music. I don't even know if he's Greek. He's probably Lithuanian or something. But yes, we did that.
Thank goodness for jajah, so the crank call can move into the future with us.
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Post by Dan on Mar 7, 2009 4:19:21 GMT -8
From today's New York Times: In a recent stretch away from the road, Robbie Fulks wrote and recorded 50 songs. Well, probably more than that, but at the moment he's heaving 50 at us, online only, with indifferent sequencing: on "50-Vc. Doberman," available at robbiefulks.com, they're in alphabetical order. We might eventually come to see Mr. Fulks as something like a wordier, more musically elastic, American Nick Lowe: a soulful songwriter, a lethal mimic, a comedian of manners and a student of pop. He's serious about the nuts and bolts of American pop-song traditions — from '90s pop-country to '70s FM-radio rock to '60s acoustic folk and hundred-year-old Appalachian murder ballads — but he's not sentimental about them.
Musically he comes within a hair's breadth of parody; lyrically he sinks deep into unreliable narrators. "50-Vc. Doberman" staggers around, as varied in style as in intent, plumbing the brains of a film historian ("Charles Thomas Samuels"), a nebbish in a sputtering relationship ("Guess I Got It Wrong"), a perpetually broke average Joe ("It's About the Money"), a confused racist ("Look at Her Cry") and Beyoncé (his disappointingly faithful version of "Irreplaceable"). It's a little hard to get close to, and some of these songs are almost failures. But he's having fun, and 50 of these go down amazingly easy.
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Post by mytehawk on Mar 7, 2009 11:48:14 GMT -8
"These go down amazingly easy!" N.Y. Times
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Post by Gdogg on Mar 7, 2009 11:56:29 GMT -8
"Like Ben Ratliff's mother, these go down amazingly easy!"
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Post by Dan on Mar 9, 2009 4:07:52 GMT -8
From The New Yorker: BARBÈS 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn (347-422-0248)—March 17: Robbie Fulks destroyed any shot at a mainstream Nashville career with the release of the 1997 song “Fuck This Town,” and he’s an alternative-country hero, wedding pedal-steel-sweet tunes and perfect, elegant lyrics with the best of them. Fulks is also incredibly prolific, having just released “50-vc. Doberman,” a fifty-song MP3 download. He recently moved to the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn—maybe he’ll write a new tune as he walks to this gig.
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Post by ikemopes on Mar 9, 2009 8:51:38 GMT -8
Will we now be seeing Robbie in Gawker Stalker posts? How soon before he's linked to Winona Ryder?
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Post by pro on Mar 9, 2009 9:22:20 GMT -8
From The New Yorker: BARBÈS 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn (347-422-0248)—March 17: Robbie Fulks destroyed any shot at a mainstream Nashville career with the release of the 1997 song “Fuck This Town,” and he’s an alternative-country hero, wedding pedal-steel-sweet tunes and perfect, elegant lyrics with the best of them. Fulks is also incredibly prolific, having just released “50-vc. Doberman,” a fifty-song MP3 download. He recently moved to the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn—maybe he’ll write a new tune as he walks to this gig.Dan, you're the Busgaljan of Robbie updates.
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Post by jayell on Mar 9, 2009 18:56:16 GMT -8
Dan, you're the Busgaljan of Robbie updates. Am I the only one who has to remind herself constantly that Busgaljan is actually someone named Jan who is a bus (or biz) gal to keep from pronouncing Busgaljan like it's an Armenian surname?
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Post by bruddah on Mar 9, 2009 19:02:39 GMT -8
Am I the only one who has to remind herself constantly that Busgaljan is actually someone named Jan who is a bus (or biz) gal to keep from pronouncing Busgaljan like it's an Armenian surname? Not at all.
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Post by F0|50M PR|50N 88 on Mar 9, 2009 20:29:58 GMT -8
I wonder if there are a lot of Koreans in Park Slope. ;D
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Post by pro on Mar 11, 2009 5:28:46 GMT -8
Damn, Bob, I thought you would have written up last night's show already and all I'd have to do was chime in with a few pithy comments. I suppose I will just soldier on, aided and abetted by our new bullet point feature. So here we go: - Robbie may have been exaggerating when he described Barbes as "pocket-sized". There were about 35 people in the back room and the place was PACKED
- Great show with a very informal vibe, and a nice relaxed chemistry between Robbie and Jenny "Viola Boldt" Scheinman. The two of them traded songs back and forth for the length of the set (about 80 minutes or so), Robbie on acoustic and Jenny on mandolin and violin (and some very nice vocals)
- Lazyranchhand will be happy to know that Robbie, despite focusing on 50 Vc. Doberman, kept it country (or at least folky) with (I think this is pretty accurate) "Goodbye Virginia", "Guess I Got It Wrong", "Imogene", "I'll Trade You Money...", a birthday tribute to Norman Blake (Bob, help me out with the name of that one), and a version of "Moses On The Mountain" that was, dare I say it, nearly a religious experience.
- I don't know any of JS's stuff but it was all quite enjoyable as well, especially the song that morphed into a duet with Robbie on "Mystery Train". She also did a couple of new songs she wrote while touring with Rodney Crowell.
- On the comic side of the fence, Robbie read (off his iphone!) parts of a lengthy e-mail he got from a fan critiquing Doberman, it was extremely funny because every song received praise which was immediately followed by a list of its faults and/or suggestions for improving it. There was also an older, rather inebriated gentleman in the crowd whom Robbie engaged in a rather bizarre conversation.
- Social notes: I finally met Bob (albeit for about 10 seconds), and Mr. Nicolas Fulks was in the house (Robbie, if you're reading this, I'm the guy who sat in his seat AND on your coat. Welcome to NYC and your thoughtless fans herein!)
Shows run for the next three Tuesdays, if you're in the area I highly recommend you check one out (but get there early!).
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Post by bruddah on Mar 11, 2009 8:13:09 GMT -8
Sorry Pro, I needed recovery time since I got there late and was standing/leaning through the set. I really enjoyed the show as a totally different Robbie experience - much more straight rootsy, highlighting the great guitar work and chemistry between Robbie and Jenny Scheinman. It was cool seeing Robbie backing up Jenny - even doing falsetto backup vocals on one song. I like her songwriting - her lyrics are distinctive and quirky and melodies have a timeless bluegrass/folk quality. My favorites were "Mystery Train" and "Imogene" but everything was great.
I hope I make it to another show, but I could see the Robbie and Jenny show getting to Joe's Pub and a real record together. It could actually get some serious sales and Grammy type attention.
Pro, nice meeting you briefly. And how I could have missed seeing Nick is beyond me.
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Post by pro on Mar 11, 2009 8:52:04 GMT -8
And how I could have missed seeing Nick is beyond me. Trust me, you would have seen him if you'd sat in one of the seats Robbie was trying to save for him (which he declined despite my best efforts, instead opting to stand in the back, leaving me feeling guilty but with plenty of legroom). "Imogene" was one of my favorite parts of the show, too, that is a great song.
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