- It's quiet out there. - Yes... too quiet. It's not quiet when Bob Zimmerman launches into 'Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You' on the new ROLLING THUNDER 1975 LP which has cleverly been released, not even rereleased. I think that the ROLLING THUNDER 1975 bit shows good taste on the part of the editors. Dylan rejigs all his tracks, making some of them into jigs. Certain others are reels, or rather, two reelers. They're also seven-handers, and three-card brags. When the game finally ended up, they had to get Christopher Ricks to analyze the grammar. You could say it was 70s DYLAN and you wouldn't be far wrong. He also plays 'It Ain't Me Babe' as reggae, 'Hard Rain' as 'Highway 61', and 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' forgetfully. 'Hurricane' sounds exactly like the LP version, which is disconcerting in the context of dis concert. I receieved my 70s DYLAN package in a shady environment strewn with beer cans and drunken sinister kids who would later *outrageously* get *kicked out* of the joint, from a benefactor who will remain analogous. He also tells me that when BLOOD ON THE TRACKS came out, the girls of Durham cried in public at the lyrics. That's something to visualize. On an earlier occasion, he gave me THE RISE AND FALL OF EDNA WELTHORPE AND THE ZIGGURATS FROM M.A.R.R.S. It starts with the line 'Pushing thru [sic] the market square'. For a while I thought it might be a Stevenage concept album. But I got even more excited when I heard the first chord of Neko Case's BLACKLISTED. This LP has no right to be good - it ought to be acoustic rants harshly sung. But actually it's astonishingly high quality, a bolt from the blue. The first chord (G) sounds like the Pines, cos G is easy. Then it turns into a Gm, which is harder to do things with, and sounds like, say, a back-up guitarist from a recent Dylan tour laying down lead for 'John Brown'. The quality of the acoustics, close-up and raw, sound like very recent Lloyd Cole. This is the first 5-10 seconds! You can see why it excited me. Then she sings some words in a rather keening way, and gets away with things that ought to be clich�s. She even makes the phrase 'American dreams' sound meaningful and moving. I'm not kidding. In foreign news, my editor has gone to audition Ralph Bellamy in Tucson. It's for a non-speaking part. They are feasting with panthers, and possibly milking orang-utans. If they don't post some more exciting updates somewhere, I'll have to make some up and post them myself. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+