God is phlegm. Also I was linking to a review of the show that was posted on JamBase. Whomever wrote that is a genius and should probably be put on payroll somewhere immediately.

Jason Bugg - 17 December 2008 06:59 PM

God is phlegm. Also I was linking to a review of the show that was posted on JamBase. Whomever wrote that is a genius and should probably be put on payroll somewhere immediately.

Well done, Jason. I missed it, too, as the hyperlinks are still kind of hard to see.

well how ‘bout that. you can click on jasons phlegm. 

Thanks for pointing it out, i just figured it was some typical jb humor i didnt comprehend. As usual.

good article , bugg.

Here’s this year’s lineup:

http://www.fuzztonezine.com/?p=645

I’m hearing a bit of negative reaction for Ani in Black Mountain. I don’t quite understand the hate.

She’s just kind of blah and is typically only liked by women who like women and dudes who are trying to appear sensitive to women.

But the girl I love will tell you she’s the most excited about somebody with the initials A. D. not named Ani who is featured this year….

and that would be

Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows!

as for me, I’m psyched to see the two headed guitar monsters known as
moe.
in the Christmas Jam environment.

The poor man’s Dave Matthews. Never trust a white guy with dreads.

Bugg - 04 November 2009 09:36 PM

She’s just kind of blah and is typically only liked by women who like women and dudes who are trying to appear sensitive to women.

I did get laid using this method once. But I genuinely like her older stuff. The new stuff not so much, especially her Obama song. Good Lord.

Those dreads are extensions.  Also, they are more like a fifth generation rip off of Van Morrison.

Well, Jason, I definitely feel the influence of Van Morrison in the Counting Crows, but I’d have to say that I think Adam Duritz is more significant than a simple rip-off one-trick pony.

How familiar are you with all their work?
I basically tuned them out after ‘Recovering the Satellites’ but I think the debut ‘August and Everything After’ is one of the best 90’s rock albums.  Adam Duritz is a great poet for a rock singer, I’d say….

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A poor man’s Dave Matthews?  Umm, I don’t really see the correlation between them.  Dave Matthews is a man who understands his demographic and whose band takes very, very few chances in the live setting.  He has left me feeling cheated every single time I ever saw a show (probably 5 or so all together….)  I have never seen Counting Crows live, and that alone (along with my girlfriend’s JOY for seeing Duritz and co.) is why I will be there this year…..

JRM

He sucks and is no poet. His band is just whiny guy BS about girls. A million bands have done it and a million have done it better.

Jason Ross Martin - 19 November 2009 08:14 PM

He has left me feeling cheated every single time I ever saw a show (probably 5 or so all together….)
JRM

You would think you’d figure that out after the second time.

The correlation is that they both are whiny little douches.

That’s part of the myth of being a rock and roll poet, though.  Just knowing that a million have done it better, and are doing it better, and probably always will—but you still have to do it anyway.

The old Counting Crows tunes I remember are ‘Perfect Blue Beginnings’ and ‘Anna Begins’...

I hope they do one of those that night.

You know, you can just say “my lady likes them, and while it might be worthwhile, I’ll grin and endure it for her” instead of “That whiney jewish guy with the hair extensions whose entire rock and roll ‘thing’ is bullshit is a genius!”