Paul Krugman highlighted this performance in his email newsletter recently, and I thought y’all might enjoy it:
Thought we needed some more thread, so have at it, folks.
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Paul Krugman highlighted this performance in his email newsletter recently, and I thought y’all might enjoy it:
Thought we needed some more thread, so have at it, folks.
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trollhattan
Love those sisters–crazy talented and really seem to enjoy performing. ETA, Poe comes from Edgar Allen, a distant relative.
Amir Khalid
I’ve long suspected that Paul Krugman lurks here, and is a secret jackal.
Lapassionara
@Amir Khalid: Hmmmm. Maybe he comments? What nym would he choose?
p.a.
Did shitmidas push unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar as a covid cure? 2 local markets completely out.?
Baud
@Lapassionara: Realist.
ETA: Or Amir Khalid.
mrmoshpotato
@Lapassionara: NotPaulKrugman, naturally. ?
mrmoshpotato
@p.a.: LOL I’m thinking “Getting drunk on the cheap.”
Gin & Tonic
Love the lap steel. She’s easy on the eyes too.
Roger Moore
@Lapassionara:
Baud!
JCJ
@Baud:
Obviously his nym is “Baud
ETA: Curse you Roger Moore!
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Gin & Tonic:
Was that a steel or a guitar laid flat like Jeff Healey does sometimes?
I couldn’t tell.
Roger Moore
@JCJ:
It’s too obvious.
The real answer is DougJ.
Gin & Tonic
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): Not a guitarist, so I could be wrong, but I use that to mean not steel as in body (like a Dobro) but steel as in the way of playing the left hand.
jeffreyw
Gracie is going to fit right in.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Gin & Tonic:
I’m not a guitarist either, but local bands refer to that style as “slide guitar” and the players often use a spark plug socket as the slide.
realbtl
@Gin & Tonic: Dobro can be either steel or wood but both use a spun aluminum cone for the unique sound. My guess is wood dobro amplified.
jeffreyw
Black Betty
mali muso
Ventured out to the local Costco today. No line to get in, everyone was masked as per the new corporate policy, many of the products that were completely out last month are now restocked (albeit in smaller quantities and selections). I still felt jumpy being around people, but I hadn’t realized how much seeing everyone in masks would lessen the cognitive load a bit.
Benw
That was great! An acoustic with drop-E tuning is always fun. Thanks, Tom!
Krugman is running the long con and IS John Cole!
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: I thought he posted here a long time ago. I know Jake Tapper is still lurking about. Unless his last GBCW stuck.
germy
oatler.
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Duane Allman used the neck of a cough syrup bottle for his slide.
germy
Bad faith fact checking?
I mean, was the Biden video supposed to show the entire hour of trump’s comments?
EDIT: Whoops, sorry. I see this is a respite thread.
Carry on.
Fester Addams
In this interview at https://www.guitarworld.com/blogs/acoustic-nation-larkin-poe-s-megan-lovell-lap-steel-video-and-exclusive-interview (2014), Megan Lovell says she plays a 1940s bakelite Rickenbacker lap steel.
The two sound great!
Steeplejack
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Can’t tell from this video, but she typically plays a lap steel guitar. Example.
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
She looks like she has adapted.
LeftCoastYankee
One of the silver linings of the last few months has been time to discover more great music.
And as a getting older person, it’s so very cool that so many are women.
If you don’t tell half the population to sit down and go over there, you double the creativity in that population.
eemom
@Yutsano:
IIRC Cole yelled at us for being mean to Tapper.
Of course, the real hilarity ensued the times Greenwald showed up….
germy
@eemom:
What happened when GG showed up?
germy
In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: People disagreed with him.
Amir Khalid
@realbtl:
Dobro is a brand name owned by Gibson. It’s best known for resonator guitars: these have a metal cone with a lid in the guitar, and the bridge sits on the lid. The cone resonates with the vibration of the strings, and that is what projects the sound of the guitar, which is quite different from the sound of a regular acoustic guitar. Someday I hope to meet a resonator guitar in person.
Anything rigid that fits over a finger and is long enough to cross a guitar neck can be used as a slide, e.g. lipstick tube, bottle neck, three-inch length of metal, glass or plastic tube. I admit I have no idea what metal my own guitar slide is made of.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
And he left in a huff.
sdhays
@Amir Khalid: But he seems like the kind of guy who would take criticism so well. //
catclub
if he did, that is about 10 Billion percent better than pushing bleach.
sdhays
@catclub: Maybe he told people to combine them.
gene108
Jimmy Kimmel edited a video. It is brilliant. Click the link. You will be glad you did.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/1260095521189847040
Villago Delenda Est
Some Larkin Poe goodness in here, along with Robbie, Ringo, and others.
Major Major Major Major
This is killing me
germy
@Amir Khalid:
It probably took him about a minute and a huff to walk out.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Great song for a respite. I liked this song back in the days of MTV when ZZ Top did it.
germy
@Major Major Major Major:
Those cats are more obedient than many Americans.
(Including Americans I’ve found myself in the grocery store with)
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
As I recall he used to show up BECAUSE some FPer had disagreed with him.
The hilarity was how consistent his demeanor in the comments was with everything else about him. I.e., utterly insufferable.
piratedan
@eemom: well…. him and his sock puppets….
germy
Zachary Quinto played Greenwald in the movie.
Who would play John Cole in a movie about this place?
Pooh
Hot fucking fire
Doc Sardonic
Thanks for this Tom….. More to add to the cold beer and YouTube rabbit chasing. Personally, I use a Florida Cracker plumbers slide, Old Coracidine bottles are getting hard to find and bit pricey. Pissed me off to no end when I dropped and broke my last one.
catclub
@germy: still funny, even if it is just cats being cats. Put a circle on the floor in your living room and cat will sit in circle.
The Lodger
@Major Major Major Major: Those are circles, not rectangles. Is some sort of cat Philippine-US cultural difference being illustrated here?
catclub
@germy: John Goodman – what a name.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: You’re no NotMax.
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh, that is wonderful.
Gin & Tonic
@eemom: Good thing we so seldom have insufferable commenters.
germy
@Doc Sardonic: Have you tried a “D” battery?
germy
@Gin & Tonic: I am not NotMax. Therefore, I am Max.
Logic.
Major Major Major Major
Stop talking about Greenwald in a respite thread!!1
Doc Sardonic
@germy: Yes I have. Duracell’s work okay because they have that slick coating on them, but I prefer a slide that fits over my ring finger. That way I still have my other 3 fingers to use.
japa21
@germy: Tom Cruise. John would insist on it.
Bex
@Lapassionara: Nobleprize.
germy
@japa21: Not Brad Pitt?
Benw
@germy: Shaquille O’Neal
Mary G
zhena gogolia
I hope this fits “respite” since it’s SNL, but it’s very sweet and sad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fEQeo4cUd8
Sure Lurkalot
@jeffreyw: She’s lovely…and sleepy aka a cat. A lucky cat!
Sure Lurkalot
@catclub: Don’t scare me. I only have 3/4 of a bottle left and I drink it daily. I’m gonna put it on every list now for next week’s purveying.
raven
Awright lets get on this “unmasking” gig.
Kathleen
Connie Schultz shared this music video teaser from John Legend on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ConnieSchultz/status/1260433610110308354
Dorothy A. Winsor
@zhena gogolia:
I liked it. A friend of mine was commenting on how odd it is to know that when they’re shown in their beds, those probably are their real beds in their real bedrooms.
We’re getting glimpses of people’s homes. My friend follows some twitter poster who rates the backgrounds.
Kathleen
And this new one from the Dixie Chicks is stunning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxPeJto3U4&feature=youtu.be
rp
Greenwald is now tweeting about the unfair prosecution of Michael Flynn and how liberals used to be against defendants being coerced into guilty pleas.
call_me_ishmael
@oatler.: So many slide players want Allman’s pre-1971 Coricidin bottle that they are an expensive collectors item these days.
Frankensteinbeck
@rp:
Greenwald assured me that I dislike Ron Paul because I don’t want to admit that I like killing babies, so I feel like I have only improved as a person here.
trollhattan
Bestest pedal steel guitarist I’ve seen is Robert Randolph (concert video link as a teaser). Rather than his usual band we saw him with the Slide Brothers and it was something indescribable, seeing four guys playing pedal steel at once. Because it was at the university a history lecturer discussed the pedal steel’s role in African American churches, standing in for an organ they could not afford.
And this is my fav Larkin Poe tune, just because.
Chyron HR
@rp:
Coercion meaning “If you plead guilty to this we won’t charge you with any of the much worse things you did”?
eemom
@Gin & Tonic:
ooh, snappity snap snap
Baud
@Mary G:
That’s just the annual Running of the Goats.
Delk
The late, great Danny Gatton Beer bottle slide followed with a good toweling down.
PsiFighter37
Looks like we lost Katie Hill’s seat. Not a great sign.
japa21
@PsiFighter37: Why is it not a great sign? That has been a strong GOP seat until 2018. The Republican was expected to win.
ETA: Not a great sign, but it isn’t a bad sign is what I mean.
Elizabelle
@PsiFighter37: Meh. The GOP was favored to win that seat back, in an offyear election.
It’s Simi Valley, home of the Reagan Presidential Library. Rodney King jury land. Although, weirdly, Democrats have a plus 6 registration advantage.
Which may just tell you there are a lot of embarrassed lean-Republicans. You can be a “decline to state” (if memory serves) in California.
Dems have a good chance of taking the seat back this November.
Besides which, how good will Republican Garcia look with bollixing up all the aid possible out of the House?
That said, thanks a lot Katie Hill.
rp
@Chyron HR: As I pointed out in my reply to him (which I’m sure he’ll ignore), Flynn was represented by Covington, one of the best firms in the country and maybe the best firm in DC. Its partners generally charge $1,000/hour. He’s not an 18 year old AA kid represented by a public defender who had 10 minutes to review the file. The idea that he was treated unfairly by the justice system is beyond dishonest.
Gin & Tonic
Since people are talking slide/steel let me put in a plug for Debashish Bhattacharya.
Gin & Tonic
I thought this was a respite thread.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: 3 hours ago.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Bad link.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Sorry, too late to edit. Here you go.
James E Powell
@germy:
Jesse Plemmons.
NotMax
@germy
Jack Black.
James E Powell
@trollhattan:
I will definitely check out Randolph.
I’ve been a David Lindley fan since I saw him with Warren Zevon a million years ago.
Tom Levenson
The thread is, if not dead, then moribund. And I’m kind of weighing in as shouldn’t. But it just occurred to me that “Beardless Respite” would make a great bad band name.
cain
@Major Major Major Major:
If I fits, I sit :)
lapassionara
@James E Powell: I don’t know Jesse Plemmons. I would vote for Dan Ackroyd, looking like he did in Sunrise Kingdom.
And I was away when you guys came up with all the smart responses to my question, which I found funny and apt.
Speaking of respites, I am trying to collect things that make me laugh out loud. Any suggestions?
eemom
@lapassionara:
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-jimmy-kimmel-deep-fake-trump-baby-coronavirus-20200513-uvw3ybqdsnbshctta4hxbyradm-story.html
Mary G
@PsiFighter37: That’s a really red district for LA County, not super Republican, but nowhere in LA County is. It’s very churchy and about 1/3 Latinx. Katie Hill’s sexual behavior offended a lot of the voters there and the Republicans ran a Latino man. I’d say it was 80% misogynistic punishing the woman for having sex. Massively unfair and stupid, but many people are. Whoever got those photos knew what they were doing.
Lapassionara
@eemom: thanks!
oatler.
@James E Powell:
Did you catch him on his Twango Bango tour? I remember his James Stewart improv during “National Holiday”.
Sab
@Major Major Major Major: I was working at home this week with three tv trays together since I don’t have a desk. There was a cat on every table and two others on the cat tree beside us. They were all waiting to attack my laptop keyboard the second I was distracted.
Several pencils were stolen, but the laptop escaped harm.
Another Scott
@rp: Speaking of Flynn – Reuters:
Good, good.
Cheers,
Scott.
frosty
@oatler.: Duane used a Coricidin (antihistamine) bottle. The whole thing, not the neck.
frosty
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
realbtl
@Gin & Tonic:
Slide player here. It’s an electric lap steel, looks like 6 strings so not a pedal steel. Not a dobro either. It’s a steel guitar because it’s played with a steel – the slide in the left hand. Could be a socket but probably is a Stevens steel or equivalent.
frosty
@Doc Sardonic: I started with a Coricidin bottle* (I had allergies when I was learning slide on an electric) but have switched to a Craftsman 3/4” deep socket for the resonators. It makes the heavy strings sing much better.
* still have 3, one with the label still on.
mvr
It is a Rickenbacher bakalite lap steel in a holder that a friend made for her. I was able to ask her about it during the break when they were touring with and backing Elvis Costello a couple years back. They together did the best concert I’ve seen in my 30 years of Lincoln Concerts. (Seen some non-Lincoln shows that were as good, but not many.) I have one of these guitars myself. Rickenbacher made them in the 30s to 50s. They are made for sitting down and playing on your lap. Her friend made a holder that she can then use the strap to hand as if a table in front of her.
burnspbesq
@Amir Khalid:
i have two, brass and glass. I go back and forth depending on the instrument.
i have one of the guitars you see in the video, a Guild D-40, but mine has a natural top instead of sunburst.
burnspbesq
@germy:
john goodman.
burnspbesq
@trollhattan:
there is an amazing clip on YouTube of a sacred-steel band taking on Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.” You gotta check it out.
burnspbesq
@lapassionara:
Jesse Plemons is probably best known for playing Landry on “Friday Night Lights.” He also had a recurring role in Season 5 of “Breaking Bad.”
Yutsano
I don’t want to wait on a thread for this.Melissa Etheridge just lost her son to opioid addiction.
Procopius
@lapassionara: Funny? If you haven’t already seen it, look up David Lindley’s “Cat Food Sandwiches” on YouTube.