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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on February 19, 2004, 11:14:00 pm

Title: Big Star Album
Post by: ratioci nation on February 19, 2004, 11:14:00 pm

BIG STAR are set to begin work on their fourth album - 25 years after the release of their third.
 
 According to Billboard, original members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens will be joined in the studio by Posies frontmen Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, who have been part of the Big Star touring band since 1993, when they reformed for live shows.
 
 Big Star's last release was the notoriously downbeat 'Third/SisterLovers' in 1978, recorded when the band was falling apart.
 
 Frontman Chilton and drummer Stephens revived the moniker after the likes of REM and Teenage Fanclub cited them as a massive influence.
 
 http://nme.com/news/107587.htm (http://nme.com/news/107587.htm)

Title: Re: Big Star Album
Post by: Bags on February 19, 2004, 11:22:00 pm

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Originally posted by pollard:
  Frontman Chilton and drummer Stephens revived the moniker after the likes of REM and Teenage Fanclub cited them as a massive influence.
 

HellOOOOO!?  How 'bout the fuckin' Mats!!!
 
 Fantastic news, hope they tour (which I'm much more interested in than another album....).
 
 thanks for the post, poll, you huggable lug!  
   ;)

Title: Re: Big Star Album
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 20, 2004, 08:05:00 am

ditto on the tour... it's fustrating to hear about the one off shows they do in remote cities.   maybe they'll bring them to dc so that ken can snog the chick from velocity girl

Title: Re: Big Star Album
Post by: Bags on February 20, 2004, 11:46:00 am

Oh Ken, he's such a doll baby (not cute, but sensitive and creative!! )  Love that guy.