Big Star, yay or nay?

[crowes654]

They kicked ass.  And you know i love dem septumber gurls, yo....

[chaz]

Love all the old records but I'd avoid the current touring lineup.  Saw them a few years ago and maybe it was a bad night or something but it was one of those shows where you feel embarrassed for the band.....Especially bad when said band includes a musical legend like Alex Chilton.
 
 Love pretty much all their old recorded output though.
 
 Overall, a big YAY.

[snailhook]

absolute YAY. the first -- and only -- three albums are spotless. not into seeing chilton with the posies or whoever it is he's touring with now, but i caught him solo in 1998 and it was decent.

[crowes654]

Originally posted by who the fuck are you?:
  Love all the old records but I'd avoid the current touring lineup.  Saw them a few years ago and maybe it was a bad night or something but it was one of those shows where you feel embarrassed for the band.....Especially bad when said band includes a musical legend like Alex Chilton.
 
 Love pretty much all their old recorded output though.
 
 Overall, a big YAY.

what was the embarssing part, Chilton?  Did that version include Ken Stringfelow and Jon Auer and Joe Bass from the Posies?  If so, i would have thought that'd rock...

[chaz]

Originally posted by crowes654:
   

Originally posted by who the fuck are you?:
  Love all the old records but I'd avoid the current touring lineup.  Saw them a few years ago and maybe it was a bad night or something but it was one of those shows where you feel embarrassed for the band.....Especially bad when said band includes a musical legend like Alex Chilton.
 
 Love pretty much all their old recorded output though.
 
 Overall, a big YAY.

what was the embarssing part, Chilton?  Did that version include Ken Stringfelow and Jon Auer and Joe Bass from the Posies?  If so, i would have thought that'd rock... [/b]

Yeah it was with the Posies guys....I dunno....the power pop stuff had no guts, the sad lilting stuff had no lilt, the vocals sounded bad, band didn't sound too tight.  It was just super weak in just about every way imaginable.
 
 "Holocaust" is maybe the most devastating song ever written though.  And "Thanks You Friends" makes me wanna give the world a big sloppy kiss and I never ever feel that way.

[fanclubber]

I'd kill to see the new Big Star lineup.  If you listen to the Columbia live CD and compare it to the live set on "Big Star Live", the new lineup with Stringfellow and Auer is much stronger.  Of course, by the time the 70s "Big Star Live" was recorded, Chris Bell was out of the band and maybe Andy Hummel too.
 
 I keep hoping they'll play 9:30 in support of the new CD, but I think its a longshot  

[Relaxer]

The new Big Star album, from last year, blows badly.

[crowes654]

Originally posted by fanclubber:
  I'd kill to see the new Big Star lineup.  If you listen to the Columbia live CD and compare it to the live set on "Big Star Live", the new lineup with Stringfellow and Auer is much stronger.  Of course, by the time the 70s "Big Star Live" was recorded, Chris Bell was out of the band and maybe Andy Hummel too.
 
 I keep hoping they'll play 9:30 in support of the new CD, but I think its a longshot    

fanclubber.....as in teenage fanclub?  the band most often refernced when describing the psoies sound.  sounds like these guys have seen em with auer and stringfellow and still didn't like it...kind of shokcing to me.  i 'm kinda disappointed.

[HoyaSaxa03]

i love "radio city" and "#1 record", never really got into "third" ... "nobody can dance" is actually a fun cd, good live stuff
 
 "don't lie to me" has to be my favorite, although "september gurls", "el goodo", and "mod lang" are close behind

[HoyaSaxa03]

by the way, the replacements' "alex chilton" blows away everything big star ever did =)

[chaz]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
  by the way, the replacements' "alex chilton" blows away everything big star ever did =)

Not sure I'd really agree with that, but if I was on a desert island and could only take my 'Mats cd's or Big Star CD's, I'd definately take the Replacements.

[evilizac]

Big Star had some great stuff. Rocking but sometimes feels more like an amazing touchstone than a full blown super pop rock act. That being said I love 'em I also like the Live Columbia CD.
 I'd like more bands to know about Big Star and cover their songs more often (besides the obvious ones that pay rather obvious tribute).
 
 I also love the big yellow star logo. I can't say enough about them without sounding like a high school girl (even though I'm a full grown well adjusted man, last time I checked). The new CD was a little too Chilton soloesque weirdness/some people might say it sucked. I might still buy it before they lose distribution again because sometimes you just don't want to make a copy.
 Yay. and Yay!!!!!

[kosmo vinyl]

well lets hope we'd get lost of the island together because i'd definitely bring the big star cd...
 
 i haven't seen the new big star live yet, but would suspect that because they only do one off festival shows and don't tour with that line-up, they don't bother rehearsing together. Seeing as I haven't heard of any recent solo Alex Chilton shows lately, his last solo record was done in 200, those Big Star and the shows he does with Box Tops are just money gigs for him.