Last night, the Wooden Stars:
1. Made me want to go home and play guitar. It had been a very long time since I?d seen a show as inspiring. It was also a guitar lesson.
2. Confirmed how entirely original the band was; complex (guitars running circles around eachother, wildly free and severely precise) and beautiful (voices pained and clear), with rare instrumental and songwriting virtuosity. The fact that they are criminally underappreciated might have been avoided had they not - as Wooden Stars lore goes - refused a Sub Pop contract in order to pursue their education.
3. Wore dorky white suits and looked middle-aged. Still sexy, though.
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Sean will be writing StG for this week. I?m excited to see what he has planned for us. In three weeks, the new line-up (The Righteous Triumvirate (Dan, Sean and I)) will start and then never stop.
Posted by Jordan at February 28, 2005 3:41 AMactually I thought that they turned down Sub Pop cause they weren't going to get enough creative control. i may or may not have read this in a mid nineties edition of the Ottawa Citizen. i wonder what the true story is.
Posted by: peax at February 28, 2005 3:25 PMgreat post
Posted by: at March 3, 2005 5:46 AM