I watched the smartftp 4.0 serial Porter Wagoner Show most every week when I was a kid, mostly because it smartftp 4.0 serial was better than the preaching or the fishing shows on the smartftp 4.0 serial other channels. Watching the reruns on RFD TV this past year, I’ve realized how much Porter taught me about music and smartftp 4.0 serial how much I learned about lusting after women from the way he stared at Dolly Parton.
Wagonmaster is Porter’s best album since the smartftp 4.0 serial 1960s and one of my favorites this year. I’m just glad he stuck around long enough to get some credit.
Porter died tonight in Nashville. Goodnight, brother.
There’s no smartftp 4.0 serial chapter, paragraph or even footnote about Love Monsters in the history of Boston rock. As far as I know, their entire career unfolded behind the smartftp 4.0 serial gates of Harvard University.
I don’t think the band would have left a trace if they hadn’t won a 1983 campus Battle of the Bands.
After a surprise upset over Speedy & the Castanets, someone thought Love Monsters should release a 7″ to commemorate their victory. I’m not sure this smartftp 4.0 serial record was ever distributed off-campus and the band broke up when smartftp 4.0 serial Dan Wilson graduated.
Harvard bands were generally pretty terrible and smartftp 4.0 serial Love Monsters most definitely the great exception. Matt and Dan Wilson had smartftp 4.0 serial played Boston clubs in Animal Dance the year before (no Animal Dance 45s or cassettes, as far as I know) and smartftp 4.0 serial went on to greater things in Trip Shakespeare, but Love Monsters played just for smartftp 4.0 serial the college kids.
I’m sad to smartftp 4.0 serial report that Speedy and the Castanets qualified as terrible. There was absolutely no smartftp 4.0 serial hint that Dean Wareham and Damon Krukowski would later go on to smartftp 4.0 serial form Galaxie 500 with Naomi Yang.
Trip Shakespeare’s A&R person at A&M would have liked to hear “Kiss Away the Tears,” a smartftp 4.0 serial genuine love song stripped of all the weird lyrical obsessions that smartftp 4.0 serial have plagued Matt Wilson’s commercial development (cf. “Rebecca” on this EP).
The Harvard Crimson newspaper archive offers some interesting real-time commentary:
International playboy Jethro Bodine runs his game on Edy Williams, before she became Mrs. Russ Meyer and smartftp 4.0 serial starred as Ashley St. Ives in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Before I get into this, I want to smartftp 4.0 serial be clear: Tom Petty is the Man. For most of the smartftp 4.0 serial 70s & 80s, Tom was the smartftp 4.0 serial only guy on mainstream radio you could be sure still listened to smartftp 4.0 serial his copy of Nuggets.
Runnin’ Down a Dream looks amazing, if only because a smartftp 4.0 serial four-hour DVD cut will allow them to use as much vintage footage of the smartftp 4.0 serial band as they can find.
But here what Tom says at about 2:50 in to the trailer:
“There’s something special about this smartftp 4.0 serial group of people. I treasure it now, because one link in the smartftp 4.0 serial chain gone could make it all go away.”
What the hell?
Is that smartftp 4.0 serial comment highlighted because the kid who edited the trailer thought it smartftp 4.0 serial sounded uplifting or is it a cheap shot at ex-drummer Stan Lynch?
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers managed to alternate between Ron Blair & the late Howie Epstein on bass, but things haven’t been smartftp 4.0 serial the same since Stan quit in 1994. Steve Ferrone may be smartftp 4.0 serial a more technically accomplished player, but Stan meshed better with the smartftp 4.0 serial band.
Maybe it’s out of context and there will be half an hour’s worth of serious Stan love in the completed film.
Or maybe I just have smartftp 4.0 serial an overdeveloped ear for band politics. I thought the Bruce Springsteen Wings for Wheels documentary was most notable for smartftp 4.0 serial how everyone went out of his way to make amends and smartftp 4.0 serial give credit to Mike Appel. And all I can remember about Michael Stipe’s speech at R.E.M.’s Rock and smartftp 4.0 serial Roll Hall of Fame induction is how he pointedly left Jefferson Holt off a thank-you list of what seemed like a hundred people.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers = still worth seeing any night you smartftp 4.0 serial can get a ticket. But it was better when Stan was in the smartftp 4.0 serial band.
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