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Fico

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The Twilight Singers...
« on: October 27, 2003, 03:07:00 pm »
Have this band been talked about here??? they have put out 2 of the best records I've heard in a long time and are playing the Black Cat soon...anyone anyone??
 
 so what was the broohaha involving Rhett and Celeste about?

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2003, 03:11:00 pm »
I prefer the new ep over the new album, not sure if I will make it or not

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2003, 03:12:00 pm »
It's Greg Dulli's (of Afghan Whigs) new band.

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2003, 03:14:00 pm »
yeah the ep is good - I have the new CD but haven't listened to it too much yet - I am bummed I will miss their gig on the 14th coz I have to fly to San Fran - The Afghan Whigs were one of the best live bands I have ever seen - I used to love brining people to their gigs who didn't know them that well and watching them being blown away by what ensued

Fico

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2003, 03:22:00 pm »
The new album is great....the drummer from my band turned me unto them and I've been hooked ever since... haven't found the EP in stores, I reckon I fetch it at the merchandise table...
 
 ggw, yer one of the fearless few here, what was the last Rhett topic about, why did he leave?

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2003, 03:26:00 pm »
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haven't found the EP in stores, I reckon I fetch it at the merchandise table...
 
or you can get it  here

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2003, 03:34:00 pm »
The EP will be available in stores in early November as well.
 
 I'll be up front and center at the Black Cat show (and the Khyber one, too). The Whigs are/were my favorite band. Actually, the last time I saw them, it was at the 9:30 Club back in '99.
 
 The Twilight Singers played the 9:30 in October 2000. While it was a Friday night show, it was an early show, starting at 6:30pm...talk about sparse crowd.

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2003, 03:35:00 pm »
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 ggw, yer one of the fearless few here, what was the last Rhett topic about, why did he leave?
The last Rhett topic was about the Pietasters show.
 
 PM Rhett himself if you want more info.

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2003, 09:37:00 am »
The Twilight Singers are great. I just bought the new disc on Sunday and have been listening to it ever since.  The Whigs were one of my favourites and I think TS are even better.

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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2003, 11:28:00 am »
Good to see some TS appreciation.
 
 The Whigs were unquestionably my favorite band -the only one I've seen a dozen + times.
 
 I'll be seeing the TS in Cleveland & prob @ the Black Cat. [One of my first times seeing the Whigs was at the old Black Cat location, with openers Howlin' Maggie.]
 
 Totally agree with the comment about initiating the unknowing...Twas a sad day when the Whigs called it quits, but the Twilight Singers fill in nicely.  
 
 I do like both of the new releases...the EP sounds more like the old Whigs, but I think the new record will be great live. It's got a bit of an electronic vibe to it that should translate to a rockin' good show.
 
 I love this review of the new record from allmusic.com:
 
 Greg Dulli returns to his Twilight Singers project with the atmospheric Blackberry Belle. This time around, the dirtily soulful self-hater/lover is joined at one point or another by multi-instrumentalist Mathias Schneeberger, guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, the incomparable Petra Haden, and Mark Lanegan, who takes main vocal duties for the shadowy devil of closer "Number Nine." Apollonia even makes an appearance as a backing vocalist for a few tracks. Somehow, even with its grainy appropriations of trip-hop (especially "Teenage Wristband," which sounds like a holdover from the first half of the Singers' 2000 debut), everything on Blackberry Belle begins to eventually sound like Leonard Cohen. The moody black-and-white palm tree cover art is no joke â?? this is an album that views sunlight through the cracked blinds of a claustrophobic hotel lounge. "There's a riot goin' on/Inside of me/Won't you come inside/See what I see?," "I think we're lost, don't worry/I've been here before," "If you're in trouble then I'll follow" â?? it's melancholy and death wishes in the first person here, and love only exists as a means to a bitter end. These are themes that Dulli has made a habit of discussing; nevertheless, they're made newly potent over Blackberry's dusky, shifting rhythms. Things are too scary to be danceable, although the album definitely has a groove. "Decatur St." mixes Massive Attack with Afghan Whigs, while "Follow You Down" is shimmering and stripped-down, with only frail guitar and piano to guide its death wish lyrics. Drummer Moore injects some funk into "Feathers," and "Esta Noche" finds the inherent beat in a European dial tone. Quietly building opener "Martin Eden" might make the defining statement of the record with its initial lines: "Black out the windows/It's party time." Cohen's melancholy is coursing through Dulli's tortured veins; it's good to see that he's still getting top-notch talent to aid in the nightly bloodletting.
 
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 Citizen - I think I was at that Whigs show in 2000. Was it the one right around Labor Day? It was late in that tour & it was notable cause they dropped the whole "pimpin'" shtick (feather boa, felt hat, sunglasses, backup singers...) and just rocked the packed house.
 
 Anybody catch their Saturday nite show in November 1998 at the TLA in Philly? Possibly my favorite show ever. Dulli introducing a metaphor. Says that "the band is like a big American car that needs a lot of gas". Points to the crowd - "gas". Points to the band - "car". repeatedly. "Give us the gas & we'll run all night long"
 
 The show was nearly 3 hours long - 3 encores - running out of songs - covering prince, the stones, ozzy.

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2003, 11:50:00 am »
Yep, the show took place on Labor Day I believe. I was there with a couple of folks who drove in from Cincy and were following the band up the East Coast. We managed to get backstage that night thanks to Greg himself and hung out with the band. That still puts a huge cheese-grin on my face.   :D  
 
 
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 Citizen - I think I was at that Whigs show in 2000. Was it the one right around Labor Day? It was late in that tour & it was notable cause they dropped the whole "pimpin'" shtick (feather boa, felt hat, sunglasses, backup singers...) and just rocked the packed house.
 

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2003, 12:00:00 pm »
Petra Haden  is from that dog.  'Nuff said for me.  that dog is one of my all time faves, I hope to god she's touring with them.  But it's enough to know she's on the album to check 'em out!

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Re: The Twilight Singers...
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2003, 12:11:00 pm »
The last Whigs show at 9:30 was pretty good, but the one before that was one of the best shows I've ever seen anywhere.  I think it was the first leg of the 1965 tour.
 
 At on point Greg was climbing up the p.a. stacks with the mic and he sang "He hit me with surpriiiise left!" in reference to the Pearl Jam video where E. Vedder was climbing some such thing.  A truly hilarious moment I'll never forget.
 
 I've never seen a Whigs show that even approached being bad, but I have seen shows where Greg seems to have had a little too much drink.  It seems to be a fine line with him....just enough drink and he's a great great showman/entertainer.  A little to much drink and it's, well, too much.  But only by a little.