Glide Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMaybe east of here the sun is out.\u00c2\u00a0 But on this Friday in Santa Monica, the second day of Fall, it’s overcast.\u00c2\u00a0 The kind of way it is on the east coast.\u00c2\u00a0 When you’re prone to introspection.<\/p>\n
Friday was always my record buying day.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know whether it was about reward or the free time, but every Friday afternoon I went record shopping.\u00c2\u00a0 To Artec Distributors in Burlington, Vermont during my college days or Grammy ‘N Granny in Westwood during law school.<\/p>\n
And when I got home from the store, I’d shuffle through the five or six albums I’d acquired and decide what to play first.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually the record of someone I already knew, who I was eager to hear the latest opus of.\u00c2\u00a0 Oftentimes not the most famous of acts, I saved those records, but my personal favorites.<\/p>\n
The sun would set.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d be sitting on my couch.\u00c2\u00a0 With this experience of the new.\u00c2\u00a0 Reveling in the sound.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe, after the initial rush, reading some magazines.<\/p>\n
This is what I liked to do most in life.\u00c2\u00a0 Other boys may have had girlfriends to fill up the time, I had my music.\u00c2\u00a0 It was there in a way I hoped a girl sometime would be.<\/p>\n
I almost never go to the record store anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 But last Saturday night, before the penguin movie, I took Felice in hand and sauntered over to Amoeba.<\/p>\n
The clerks were like the old days at Tower.\u00c2\u00a0 Heroin chic.\u00c2\u00a0 The racks after racks of CDs did nothing for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I was headed to a special place in the back of the store.\u00c2\u00a0 The vinyl department.<\/p>\n
As I fingered the LPs I got that seventies rush.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially when I stumbled across albums by Be Bop Deluxe and other bands that were my special favorites, that I thought only I knew.\u00c2\u00a0 This was my life.<\/p>\n
Felice went with her mother to the Hollywood Bowl tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 I was updating my computers, doing some laundry, and then I sat down to catch up on some e-mail.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s when I came across Jeff Rogers’ missive.<\/p>\n
Old man sitting by the side of the road with the lorries rolling by
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load and the buildings scrape the sky<\/em><\/p>\nI was jolted back to freshman year.\u00c2\u00a0 But this live version of "Don’t Let It Bring You Down" breathed in a way that the original didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t studied.\u00c2\u00a0 It was like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls.<\/p>\n
And scroll I did, down to the bottom of the page, where I found a concert by Ryan Adams.\u00c2\u00a0 There it was, the very last track, "Winding Wheel".\u00c2\u00a0 This is what sold me, this is what keeps me listening to Ryan.<\/p>\n
I have better renditions on my computer.\u00c2\u00a0 Ones where Ryan is playing the guitar less sleepily.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, maybe if you listen you’ll get the magic.<\/p>\n
Now I was excited.\u00c2\u00a0 My heart was beating in that way it does when you spy a girl across the room, no, when you’re having a conversation and you realize you have traction.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d found a TREASURE TROVE!<\/p>\n
It appears that the artists and the labels have separated.\u00c2\u00a0 The labels are freaked that revenues are down, they’re suing everything that moves, they’re trying to jam product down people’s throats.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas the musicians, they’re doing what they’ve always done.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re playing.<\/p>\n
Today’s music is not a live medium.\u00c2\u00a0 The records are a studio concoction.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to buy the clothing, the jewelry, but you don’t want to see the artists in concert.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas back in the day, that was the ONLY thing you wanted.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to SEE them as much as HEAR THE MUSIC!<\/p>\n
Today’s acts release remix records.\u00c2\u00a0 Just the same song sounding a different way.\u00c2\u00a0 The acts of yore released live albums.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that every one did.\u00c2\u00a0 The labels said it wasn’t good for one’s career to have too much music in the marketplace, they stomped on all the bootleggers feeding consumer demand.\u00c2\u00a0 But now things have flipped.\u00c2\u00a0 The real artists make their money from the road, they want ALL their music in the hands of the consumer.\u00c2\u00a0 And, they’re making it available.<\/p>\n
Click to hear Mark Knopfler from 2001.\u00c2\u00a0 I started with "Romeo & Juliet".\u00c2\u00a0 It was good, yet I didn’t tingle.<\/p>\n
Then I clicked on "Telegraph Road".\u00c2\u00a0 And even though I’ve already sent you two missives today already, I had to send a third.\u00c2\u00a0 "Love Over Gold" wasn’t as good as what had come before.\u00c2\u00a0 "Telegraph Road" almost seemed TOO long.\u00c2\u00a0 There wasn’t enough MEAT on the album.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s how we felt in the eighties, when the record was released.\u00c2\u00a0 Fifteen years on, with the modern context, with hindsight, we can see that "Telegraph Road" possesses a soul that today’s music doesn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s that flourish that starts the track.\u00c2\u00a0 After the acoustic intro, when the piano chords go to your soul and Mark starts to WAIL on top of it all.\u00c2\u00a0 Not in guitar hero way, rather as if he and his instrument have merged, BONDED!\u00c2\u00a0 And when the ivories tinkle, bringing you into the first verse, you think that there’s someone else in your world.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone who feels, someone who cogitates, who knows it’s about soul, rather than flash.<\/p>\n
Listen.<\/p>\n
Go to: http:\/\/www.glidemagazine.com\/downloads45.html<\/a><\/p>\nAnd remember, on a Mac, to download to your computer as opposed to streaming in your browser, hold down the Control key as you click on the track and select "Download Linked File" from the pop-up menu.<\/p>\n
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