Extra thanks for mentioning Muse's Haarp (live CD/DVD set from last year's tour). I cannot believe i spaced this one (no pun intended) -- I was so psyched when my fave Glasgow DJ mentioned this was coming out, then got busy w/work & forgot all about it. I love them - love, love, love. I still hold out a tiny hope that one day Muse will do a concert at Benaroya Hall, so Matt Bellamy can play the 4490-pipe Watjen Concert Organ. (If someone writes a 33 1/3 on "Origin of Symmetry", there will be a seriously cool story in there about locating an organ for the tracks on that album.)
Lol - since SupernaturalSuperserious hit the airwaves, I haven't once reflected on the Jacknife Lee influence. Now that it's out & it just sounds like classic REM (i.e., not a dancier version of REM), I forgot all about that. With the delay in the album coming out (at least what seemed to me like a delay -- I heard a London interview back in Aug/Sept where Garret ("Jacknife") Lee said he'd finished work on the REM album; and then there were all those balloons REM kept floating ahead about Accelerate; and that they were touring w/Modest Mouse & The National and STILL no preview of the music; I really thought something had gone wrong & it was going to be a trainwreck).
And for those less familiar w/the name, Erik's referring to the Irish producer who's worked with Editors, SnowPatrol, Kasabian, The Hives, U2, in addition to REM & Bloc Party's latest efforts. I've got the (eponymous) solo album he put out last year, which was fabulous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacknife_Lee
And btw, I'm totally with you on that last REM album, just the other night was trying to wrack my brain to remember whether they'd done anything since Monster.
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JessicaSeattle said on April 11, 2008:
Nice newsy bits & videos - thanks, Erik!
Extra thanks for mentioning Muse's Haarp (live CD/DVD set from last year's tour). I cannot believe i spaced this one (no pun intended) -- I was so psyched when my fave Glasgow DJ mentioned this was coming out, then got busy w/work & forgot all about it. I love them - love, love, love. I still hold out a tiny hope that one day Muse will do a concert at Benaroya Hall, so Matt Bellamy can play the 4490-pipe Watjen Concert Organ. (If someone writes a 33 1/3 on "Origin of Symmetry", there will be a seriously cool story in there about locating an organ for the tracks on that album.)
Lol - since SupernaturalSuperserious hit the airwaves, I haven't once reflected on the Jacknife Lee influence. Now that it's out & it just sounds like classic REM (i.e., not a dancier version of REM), I forgot all about that. With the delay in the album coming out (at least what seemed to me like a delay -- I heard a London interview back in Aug/Sept where Garret ("Jacknife") Lee said he'd finished work on the REM album; and then there were all those balloons REM kept floating ahead about Accelerate; and that they were touring w/Modest Mouse & The National and STILL no preview of the music; I really thought something had gone wrong & it was going to be a trainwreck).
And for those less familiar w/the name, Erik's referring to the Irish producer who's worked with Editors, SnowPatrol, Kasabian, The Hives, U2, in addition to REM & Bloc Party's latest efforts. I've got the (eponymous) solo album he put out last year, which was fabulous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacknife_Lee
And btw, I'm totally with you on that last REM album, just the other night was trying to wrack my brain to remember whether they'd done anything since Monster.