DAИCIИG DEMOS

[tombone98]

Me likee.

[Ron Moses]

Post by tombone98
Me likee.

Payday is tomorrow, and I will have it. Yes, I know it's only $7...as soon as that number on the bank website turns black again, that puppy is mine!

I can't wait to listen to it once, make a bunch of snap decisions about it, write about them at length, taking the overall awesomeness mostly as read while opining endlessly about a three-second passage that irked me slightly, decide I should give it a few more spins before I run my mouth because that's a lesson I've learned on this group only oh maybe every fucking album, delete everything I wrote, write a whole bunch of other half-baked bullshit, proofread it thirty-four times over the course of three days, realize nobody really gives a rat's ass what I have to say about anything, post it anyway, and then read it back the next day while smothering my regret in a full bag of cheddar cheese Quaker Popped Rice Snacks, which are fucking ama-a-a-a-zing.

So yeah, something to look forward to.

ron

[Chris Ingalls]

Post by tombone98
Me likee.

I'm diggin' it.

I really like the low-pressure nature of this release. The whole casual "Scott found this on a hard drive, so we thought you might want to download it for seven bucks" vibe of it. A nice surprise, nothing groundbreaking, but still a fun listen and a real bargain.

A lot of the tracks are reminiscent of the "Dancing With Myself" recordings (for obvious reasons). For me, the liner notes are a huge plus. It's interesting to read what Mike was conveying to the band members in terms of his "vision" for the album (and comparing that to what the album actually became).

It's also interesting to peek back into that particular era of Mike's music, especially after recently reading about Mike's feelings towards that era. Ever since I read his "updated liner notes" about the Dancing album, I feel a strange sense of uneasiness toward those songs (but I still love it!). I had no idea until then that Mike was going through a bit of a personality crisis at that time. If you want to call it that.

These sort of "micro releases" (if I can coin a phrase) are yet another reason why I feel that Mike treats his fans with a sort of respect and camaraderie that I rarely see in other artists. Keep this stuff coming! I love it!

Chris

[Ori]

Post by Chris Ingalls
It's also interesting to peek back into that particular era of Mike's music, especially after recently reading about Mike's feelings towards that era. Ever since I read his "updated liner notes" about the Dancing album, I feel a strange sense of uneasiness toward those songs (but I still love it!). I had no idea until then that Mike was going through a bit of a personality crisis at that time. If you want to call it that.

Updated liner notes? Where? How did I miss that? How is everyone doing?

[Antal Adriaanse]

Post by Ori
Updated liner notes? Where? How did I miss that? How is everyone doing?

http://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/

There will be a test later.

AA

[Ori]

Post by Antal Adriaanse

Post by Ori
Updated liner notes? Where? How did I miss that? How is everyone doing?

http://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/
There will be a test later.

Will the test count for the final grade? What about attendance? Attendancing?

[Antal Adriaanse]

:-)

When we were putting together new keneally.com Mike updated liner notes for several of the earlier key Keneally albums. Up to Wooden Smoke. Worth reading.

AA

[Ron Moses]

Post by Antal Adriaanse
When we were putting together new keneally.com Mike updated liner notes for several of the earlier key Keneally albums. Up to Wooden Smoke. Worth reading.

Very gratifying!

Dancing Demos is neat. Utterly non-essential in a good way. Easily worth $7 to the kind of person such a thing is worth $7 to. And that is me.

gripeless,
ron

[Mike Keneally]

Sheesh - I need to learn to read more carefully - when I went back just now and looked over what I'd written last year about Dancing, I also briefly glanced at what I'd originally written about it in 2000, and there in the entry for "Live In Japan" is explicit mention of the recordings that make up "Dancing Demos" - the ones I'd forgotten about having made, and which I would have remembered if I'd actually read that last year - or maybe I did read it and promptly forgot again? In any case, sheesh.

(Plus there's mention in that entry that the "I Was Not Ready For You" demo wasn't recorded at Scott's place, but at Signature Sound during the Nonkertompf piano sessions - which means the liner notes of the Dancing Demos release aren't completely accurate. Mmmph. Maybe we'll adjust the liner notes for accuracy's sake from this point forward [I guess that's the nice thing about virtual booklets, no re-printing costs]. I'm only writing this sentence so that last closed bracket won't be next to the upcoming closed parenthesis, 'cause I think that's grotesque-looking when that happens.)

[Sheryl]

Post by Chris Ingalls
It's also interesting to peek back into that particular era of Mike's music, especially after recently reading about Mike's feelings towards that era. Ever since I read his "updated liner notes" about the Dancing album, I feel a strange sense of uneasiness toward those songs (but I still love it!). I had no idea until then that Mike was going through a bit of a personality crisis at that time. If you want to call it that.

I'm guessing there are many (all?) who have a period of their lives that makes us shudder... Artists have the blessing (?) of those phases being documented. Mine is, too, in a private diary that I pray never makes the light of day.

We ebb and flow, we learn (one hopes) and go forward. Sometimes we show our ass-hattery, most times we apologize and nearly always the forhead community forgives and moves on.

Good golly I love you people. {{hug}}