10.1.07

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Listening to a lot of Neil Young and Robyn Hitchcock at the moment.

Saw Hitchcock at the Rescue Rooms last Saturday night, a terrific gig, he has Peter Buck out of REM in the band at the moment, so there was a lot of Rickenbacker 12 string Byrds-ish chiming guitars, it was brilliant. It helps that Hitchcock's new LP is so good, easily his best for a long time. We didn't see them, but Michael Stipe and Mike Mills out of REM were in the audience. They must have been hiding, because the place wasn't full, and the Rescue Rooms is hardly the Albert hall.

As for Neil Young, I've picked up the Live At The Fillmore 1970 cd, which has all those fantastic rambling guitar solos which last for 12 minutes and then start all over again. This got me into Tonight's The Night, long held to be a bleak and strung out heartbreaker of an album. I don't know about that; but the songs are great, and the guitars sound incredible.

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