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Post by Quint on Jun 21, 2019 22:23:34 GMT -6
I just watched Son Volt a couple of days ago at the Scoot Inn here in Austin. Excellent show.
I've seen them four times now. Each show has been great. The show on Wednesday night was fantastic.
I've always loved Jay Farrar's song writing. I also love the guitar tones on Son Volt records.
Has anyone here ever been involved in the recording of any Son Volt record?
I'd be interested to hear about how the guitars were recorded on any of their albums. Great guitar tones.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 21, 2019 22:35:43 GMT -6
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Post by Quint on Jun 22, 2019 0:03:17 GMT -6
Hell yeah. I'm going to listen to this. Thanks. |
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jun 23, 2019 13:34:10 GMT -6
Thanks for the link Spindrift.... good stuff
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Post by Coil Audio on Jun 24, 2019 8:07:15 GMT -6
I just watched Son Volt a couple of days ago at the Scoot Inn here in Austin. Excellent show. I've seen them four times now. Each show has been great. The show on Wednesday night was fantastic. I've always loved Jay Farrar's song writing. I also love the guitar tones on Son Volt records. Has anyone here ever been involved in the recording of any Son Volt record? I'd be interested to hear about how the guitars were recorded on any of their albums. Great guitar tones. If memory serves - Brian Paulson did those records - at least the first one. Killer engineer. Did some early Wilco and Uncle Tupelo stuff as well as Slint etc. (Louisville scene bands) |
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Post by sirthought on Jun 26, 2019 1:33:14 GMT -6
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Post by Quint on Jun 26, 2019 15:21:35 GMT -6
I just watched Son Volt a couple of days ago at the Scoot Inn here in Austin. Excellent show. I've seen them four times now. Each show has been great. The show on Wednesday night was fantastic. I've always loved Jay Farrar's song writing. I also love the guitar tones on Son Volt records. Has anyone here ever been involved in the recording of any Son Volt record? I'd be interested to hear about how the guitars were recorded on any of their albums. Great guitar tones. If memory serves - Brian Paulson did those records - at least the first one. Killer engineer. Did some early Wilco and Uncle Tupelo stuff as well as Slint etc. (Louisville scene bands) I believe Anodyne was done here in Austin at Cedar Creek Recording, though I didn't know Brian was involved in that record. |
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jun 27, 2019 23:54:49 GMT -6
Anodyne was one of the seminal Alt-Country records....
I wore that one out back in the day.
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Post by Quint on Jun 28, 2019 0:44:37 GMT -6
Anodyne was one of the seminal Alt-Country records.... I wore that one out back in the day. As one should wear that album out.... |
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jun 28, 2019 0:58:01 GMT -6
I saw them around 1995 in Bozeman, Montana when I was living in West Yellowstone.
Great show in a small club.... can't remember the name of the place though.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 30, 2019 20:53:48 GMT -6
So you’re getting into my elderly territory. I saw them in Oxford, Ms (Ole Miss) in I think 1992 ish. It was kind of a hub for that genre at the time. There was a band called Blue Mountain that I have just incredible memories of...Laurie Stirratt was the bass player and she was the twin sister of John stirratt the bass player for Wilco. Anyway, love that stuff. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountain_(band)I grew up with Pat Sansone who has been the multi-instrumentalist guy in Wilco for years and years. Super nice guy and so talented. He had a band called Birdie that I loved a bunch. Now has a band outside of Wilco too called The Autumn Defense. |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 30, 2019 21:00:52 GMT -6
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Post by channelcat on Jul 1, 2019 5:00:25 GMT -6
Trace is still one of my favorite albums. That’s one you want to listen to top-to-bottom.
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Post by nomatic on Jul 1, 2019 5:45:20 GMT -6
So you’re getting into my elderly territory. I saw them in Oxford, Ms (Ole Miss) in I think 1992 ish. It was kind of a hub for that genre at the time. There was a band called Blue Mountain that I have just incredible memories of...Laurie Stirratt was the bass player and she was the twin sister of John stirratt the bass player for Wilco. Anyway, love that stuff. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountain_(band)I grew up with Pat Sansone who has been the multi-instrumentalist guy in Wilco for years and years. Super nice guy and so talented. He had a band called Birdie that I loved a bunch. Now has a band outside of Wilco too called The Autumn Defense. Pat is the man! Great producer also.... I mastered a record he did a couple of years ago and it was sublime..(Max Hatt and Edda Glass) I remember Austin and Cedar Creek from this time period and played on some records there if memory serves. It was a great time to make music in Austin! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 14:37:23 GMT -6
Trace is still one of my favorite albums. That’s one you want to listen to top-to-bottom. The way the captured the acoustic guitar on "10 Second News" is by far my favorite recording of that instrument. I used to do sound at a little dive bar/club and there was a pretty questionable jukebox, but it had that record. I played it a lot to accompany my post-shift drinking. Mostly just the acoustic tracks though. The more raucous stuff didn't grab me as much. I love those select few. Still a go to. |
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Post by NoTomorrow on Jul 1, 2019 14:39:23 GMT -6
Trace is still one of my favorite albums. That’s one you want to listen to top-to-bottom. The way the captured the acoustic guitar on "10 Second News" is by far my favorite recording of that instrument. I used to do sound at a little dive bar/club and there was a pretty questionable jukebox, but it had that record. I used to play it a lot to accompany my post-shift drinking. Mostly just the acoustic tracks though. The more raucous stuff didn't grab me as much. I love those select few though. Still a go to. 10 Second News is a great tune Tune both E strings down to a D and the B string up to a C - boom, there it is |
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Post by spindrift on Jul 1, 2019 14:49:56 GMT -6
Saw Sunvolt at The Mystic in Petaluma around 2007 for “The Search” tour....got absolutely wasted on Lagunitas...cops stopping to ask us if we were OK as my brother was pushing me around in a shopping cart.....that kinda wasted. But I DO remember it was a hell of a show!!!
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Post by Quint on Jul 1, 2019 15:51:39 GMT -6
Saw Sunvolt at The Mystic in Petaluma around 2007 for “The Search” tour....got absolutely wasted on Lagunitas...cops stopping to ask us if we were OK as my brother was pushing me around in a shopping cart.....that kinda wasted. But I DO remember it was a hell of a show!!! I saw Son Volt at the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, CA (not that far from Petaluma) in 2006. I also have a similarly funny story about that show.... My Morning Jacket was the headliner for one of those nights of the festival on the main stage, but they also played a small, exclusive late night show (I think it was later that same night) for a much smaller crowd at like 1 AM in a barn located there on the fairgrounds. Well, if you've ever seen a MMJ show, their live show is fantastic in its own right, but they also make great use of lighting to enhance things. So there's a visual component to all of this as well. So in anticipation of that late night show, we all took a shit ton of mushrooms about an hour or so before MMJ was supposed to go on. So a matter of minutes before the show is about to start, the mushrooms kick in big time and I am in full on trip mode. And then, low and behold, who do I see standing a few feet away in the crowd that is beginning to gather? All of the members of Son Volt. Needless to say, I went over to try to strike up a conversation, but then complete and utter nonsense started coming out of my mouth. Mushrooms will do that.... I knew what I was trying to say, but it was not coming out correctly at all. To their credit, I think they tried to be accommodating of my apparent state of mind. To make it all worse, right about that time, MMJ comes on stage and I do an about face, mid-conversation, to go towards the stage, leaving the band completely hanging. It was definitely a "moth to a flame" sort of situation at that point. I'm not even sure what all I said, but I'm quite certain I left them basically saying, "WTF". That late night MMJ show still ranks as one of the best shows I've ever seen, period. |
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Post by notneeson on Jul 1, 2019 16:05:10 GMT -6
Saw Sunvolt at The Mystic in Petaluma around 2007 for “The Search” tour....got absolutely wasted on Lagunitas...cops stopping to ask us if we were OK as my brother was pushing me around in a shopping cart.....that kinda wasted. But I DO remember it was a hell of a show!!! Hey, that’s where I live. Keep it clean, dood! 😃 |
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Post by spindrift on Jul 1, 2019 17:34:32 GMT -6
Saw Sunvolt at The Mystic in Petaluma around 2007 for “The Search” tour....got absolutely wasted on Lagunitas...cops stopping to ask us if we were OK as my brother was pushing me around in a shopping cart.....that kinda wasted. But I DO remember it was a hell of a show!!! Hey, that’s where I live. Keep it clean, dood! 😃 I remember walking into Andresen’s Tavern downtown and having that experience of a record scratching to a stop and all the patron’s turning around to leer at us new kids.  Petaluma is a fun town! |
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Post by notneeson on Jul 1, 2019 17:36:38 GMT -6
Hey, that’s where I live. Keep it clean, dood! 😃 I remember walking into Andresen’s Tavern downtown and having that experience of a record scratching to a stop and all the patron’s turning around to leer at us new kids. Petaluma is a fun town! She's only nice to me because she recognizes my friend who has been going there since he was a teen, and I basically only go with him. |
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Post by sean on Jul 1, 2019 20:19:26 GMT -6
Saw them this week in Nashville. It was good...my wife wanted to go and someone was selling a pair of tickets for $20 so why not?
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 1, 2019 20:59:09 GMT -6
Saw them this week in Nashville. It was good...my wife wanted to go and someone was selling a pair of tickets for $20 so why not? Where were they? |
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Post by sean on Jul 1, 2019 21:33:28 GMT -6
They played the Basement East on Thursday. Their music gets a little samey sounding for me, Trace was a great debut album and immediately likable but they never really seemed to evolve much beyond that. But, for some people, that’s a good thing. You can always count on Son Volt giving you a Son Volt record. But, most people seemed disinterested until they played “Drown” and “Windfall”.
Nashville is probably the strangest place to see music...everyone in the audience is a musician or in the business and it’s like they are more interested in the kind of guitars they are playing than actually listening to the music. I really noticed that when I saw Guided By Voice. I’m originally from Cincinnati and seeing them there it’s just debauchery and jumping up and down and singing along...but in Nashville it’s just a bunch of dudes with their arms crossed. Same with when I saw Sleater Kinney.
I really like Jay’s solo record Sebastopol.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 2, 2019 8:30:07 GMT -6
They played the Basement East on Thursday. Their music gets a little samey sounding for me, Trace was a great debut album and immediately likable but they never really seemed to evolve much beyond that. But, for some people, that’s a good thing. You can always count on Son Volt giving you a Son Volt record. But, most people seemed disinterested until they played “Drown” and “Windfall”. Nashville is probably the strangest place to see music...everyone in the audience is a musician or in the business and it’s like they are more interested in the kind of guitars they are playing than actually listening to the music. I really noticed that when I saw Guided By Voice. I’m originally from Cincinnati and seeing them there it’s just debauchery and jumping up and down and singing along...but in Nashville it’s just a bunch of dudes with their arms crossed. Same with when I saw Sleater Kinney. I really like Jay’s solo record Sebastopol. Everybody is effing jaded lol |
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Petaluma is a fun town!