Another Moleskine retired
I saw Steve Winwood open for Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers a couple nights ago. I brought my Moleskine with me and wrote down their setlists. It's a habit of mine. I started writing things down during the second concert I went to and have been doing it ever since. My current book features most of the concerts I've seen since May of 2005. I used my very last blank page with the Tom Petty set, so it's time to retire the book and get a new one. Before I say goodbye, though, I'd like to give a shout-out to all the musicians who made appearances in the Moleskine.
Here they are (some of them feature links to my Vox reviews):
The Long Winters, Destroyer, the New Pornographers, Alejandro Escovedo, the Hiders, Chin Up Chin Up, the Pernice Brothers, Catfish Haven, Chris Mills, Huey Lewis & the News, Chicago, the Redwalls, Oasis, Ray Davies, the Pretenders, the Who, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Kim Taylor, the Essex Green, Amos Lee, Raul Malo, James Taylor, Wussy, Bob Pollard, Pearl Jam, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, Rhett Miller, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen, Wilco, Al Green, Betty LaVette, Junior Brown, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Douglas, Del McCoury Band, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Tim O'Brien, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett, Chris Isaak, Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren, Jon Dee Graham, Alejandro Escovedo, Robbie Fulks, Johnny Dowd, Neko Case, the Rogue Wave, Richard Buckner, Willie Nelson, John Fogerty, Todd Snider, the Czars, Sparklehorse, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck Prophet, Alejandro Escovedo, !!! (chk chk chk), Beth Orton, Steve Winwood, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Hall & Oates, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Sean Nelson, Robyn Hitchcock, Drive-By Truckers, John Vanderslice, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Björk, Camera Obscura, James Taylor, Jens Lekman, Band of Horses, Gordon Lightfoot, and Ellery
I have no idea who Tim O'Brien is, but I guess I saw him.
Comments
I saw Bjork at Red Rocks last year. My cousin lives in Golden, so I got to visit with him while I was out there. I went to DAM in Denver and visited Boulder, too.
Oh, were you at that Jackson-Rundgren show at the Taft? I don't get out much, but I was at that one.
Del McCoury? Ralph Stanley? Good stuff.
How the HELL do you pronounce "Moleskine," anyhow? It's one of those frighteningly foreign-looking words I'm afraid has some secret everybody knows but me. It's probably "moe-LOO-zee-KEE-nyay" or something.
I expect however you mean Tim O'Brien the bluegrass guy. I think I heard him on Prairie Home Companion a while back. He works out of Boulder. Does that sound familiar?
I see Scott has already noted that we were at the same Joe Jackson/Todd Rundgren show. Joe is my hero.
Scott's brother used to work at Adobe in... what... the 90s? He told us Todd Rundgren visited Adobe to demo his Macintosh OS--as in, the one he programmed himself. Wow.
Del McCoury, Ralph Stanley, and a few of the others listed were at Tall Stacks a couple years back. I love that festival and look forward to the next one. Have you ever been?
Regarding pronunciation, that's a good question and one I've actually asked before. Unfortunately, I don't remember the expert's answer. It's one of those words I try to avoid saying outloud. When I am forced to say it, I pronounce it "MOLE (as in the animal)-SKEEN".
I'm sure you've found other ways to enrich your life and spend your Saturday nights. At least I hope you have.
Crap! I know that Tall Stacks show was on my radar, but...I don't know if I forgot all about it or decided not to go. I'd like to have seen those guys.
Saw Joe Jackson in the late 80s in Boston. I was semi-unconsciously singing at the top of my lungs, and I realized quite late in the show that I was pissing off the people in front of me.
Then I saw him again, the same tour except in Poughkeepsie. Somehow we got these amazing 4th-row seats. The show was about to start, but Scott was still in the lobby, so I turned around to look for him, and damned if David Byrne wasn't sitting right behind me. He was scheduled to play the same venue the following night. (To those who know me and have heard that story five times already, I apologize.)
I'm not super-familiar with Rundgren's albums, but one song I I love is "Emperor of the Highway."
In my defense, the music was so loud, I really couldn't hear myself.
I may be an occasional belter, but I'm not one of those people who stands up even when everyone else is sitting, clutching at my friends' shoulders and swaying back and forth.