Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

Air Guitar Nation

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:20:03 -0800

My brother gave us the Air Guitar Nation DVD for Christmas, which chronicles the USA's first entry into the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland in 2003. The documentary centers on US rivals Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane and David "C-Diddy...

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My VOX FAQ

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:12:05 -0800

Why do I have to be a VOX member to leave a comment? Blogger supports anonymous comments. I don't know; SixApart, the parent company of VOX, made it that way. This setup is similar to several other closed communities, such as MOG, iMeem, and Mu...

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Catching up with Neko Case

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:21:59 -0800

As in, I'm catching up on my blog by posting about Neko Case, and her fabulous concert at Ithaca's historic State Theatre last Saturday. She was personable and funny, the glorious voice on her records is no mere studio construction, her band was ...

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Another score: 54.40

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:35:59 -0800

On a high from finding so much long-lost music, I scoured my brain for more to look for, and came up with 54.40. Everything about 54.40's first record, the six-song EP Selection, fascinated me from the moment I found it in the campus radio statio...

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Lyle Lovett makes country music tolerable, sort of

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:25:42 -0800

I don't much care for country music, or its fraternal twin, so-called "alt" country (if the singer does hard drugs it's "alt" country, if not it's just plain country). But with talk of Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt bringing their acoustic show to to...

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Mahjongg rewards my RSS addiction

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:11:26 -0800

I've been using Google Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds right and left, because if the information is out there I want to know it as soon as it gets there, dammit! And yesterday it paid off: reading my feeds at home, finally, after a gruelling tw...

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Love and death

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:24:23 -0800

My grandmother died yesterday at age 96; she was my last living grandparent. The blog will be silent for a few days while we travel to Indiana for the funeral. I think no song speaks of the power of love to transcend death better than Andy Pratt...

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Some real Killing Joke

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:53:58 -0800

Instead of more long-lost but now-found music, I'm going to follow up the past two posts of pretend Killing Joke with some real Killing Joke. After the gothic beauty and mainstream appeal of 1985's Night Time, Killing Joke went into decline. But...

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Serendipity: 1919

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:21:34 -0800

Yesterday I wrote about my continuing search for music by 1919; today I found it! The Killing Joke followers' 1983 mini-LP Machine (which I used to own, but sold on ebay in the 90s) was just posted last week on the Sickness Abounds blog, or as bl...

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Deferred listening: Headhunters

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:43:37 -0800

One of the great lost records of my 80s music experience is an album by the Headhunters. It was one of those records that we had at the campus radio station, and I played several cuts from it, but I never found a copy for myself. I have a 12" si...

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