Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 30 2008 (10:00 PM – 12:30 AM) via Skype
“Our bad luck streak with tech continues as the guys try their first Skype call to discuss Listener Ed’s review of the Alpine Valley concert.”
Greg and I were the first ones online for this call, and I recorded almost an hour of background noise as he made a late dinner and put his kids to bed. I thought I would improve my sound by talking into a USB microphone but in fact it picked up lots of room noise as well as fan noise from my desktop computer. Luckily I was recording myself on a separate track and could mix myself out when not talking. I guess it went okay, for our first time; and it felt kind of fun to be using Skype like the real podcasts do.
00:28 – a Blues Brothers reference, of course
01:04 – one was Mike, obviously; and the other was Schmoe
01:40 – one of those photos…
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02:49 – the Roger Clyne simulcast, live from Florida
04:06 – actually, the opposite: as host of the conference call, picking up on Schmoe meant I put Mike and Greg on hold
05:52 – here’s your chance to read along with Schmoe… (More notes after.)
| Gents,
Listed below is a review of the concert from last night. An incredible show to say the least. Buffet Concert Review The tour of the parking lot prior to the show was unbelievable. It had been raining all morning. The sun came out & it got hot & humid. Everyone had been drinking a lot. Let’s just say that for July 19th 2008, the Alpine Valley parking lot became the intersection of Sodom & Gomorra! The Show: Set List 2 Home Made Music 3 Tiki Bar Is Open. 4 Fruit Cakes 5 Pencil Thin Mustache 6 Miss You So Badly 7 5’Oclock Somewhere 8 Changes in Latitudes 9 Cowboy in the Jungle 10 Brown Eyed Girl 11 Cheeseburger in Paradise 12 Come Monday 13 One Particular Harbor 14 License To Chill Intermission Note: 15 Bo Diddley Tribute Hey Bo Diddley 16 Juke Joint Duo 17 Ass & the Hole 18 Stars On the Water 19 Son of a Son of a Sailor 20 Volcano 21 Making Music for Money 22 School Boy Heart 23 In The City 24 Pirate Looks at 40 25 Band Intros 26 Far Side Of The World 27 Southern Cross 28 Margaretville 29 Fins 30 Rainy Day Women 31 Distantly In Love BEST PERFORMANCES BEST SONGS I can say that of all the live Buffet concerts I have been to and seen on DVD, this concert was the best. Watching Fingers performing on stage was an unforgettable experience. When I did my review of ‘Live by the Bay’ I mentioned that Jimmy’s old band interacted well with each other and that the PM Band just sort of stayed in their little spot during the concert. Jimmy was real loose that night and was taking jabs at members of the band and they were starting to loosen up a little. After Fingers took the stage, everything changed. It was like he flipped a switch & the rest of the band came alive. I have never seen the (PM) band interact as well as they did on this night. Fingers was such a motivating factor in the rest of the band’s performance that night. Everyone was smiling. Gunthie was smiling & he never smiles. Doyle Grisham was smiling and he rarely smiles. Jim Mayer who moves around a little during the show was just all over the place this night. You just had to be there! Listener Ed p.s. Tina looked great! |
06:22 – a week prior, Jimmy, interviewed by none other than Mike Utley (at the July 22 show in Pittsburgh), talked about such an incongruous song appearing in his warm-up playlist.
07:14 – the concert clips were recorded directly off my Sirius radio, as opposed to off the Sirius web stream like I usually do. To get a good signal the radio was outside while we stayed inside to record Episode 77. It rained that night, and the radio was protected only by the umbrella of a patio table on Schmoe’s deck.
08:39 – I am dead wrong on this one. I completely forgot he did indeed do “Fruitcakes” at Pine Knob, with me standing right there to hear it. Although I remained convinced I had not heard it for days after. (Shades of that one long ago concert where Mike did not hearing “Changes in Latitudes”.)
17:33 – Bo Diddley, in Wikipedia
18:48 – Juke Joint Duo, on MySpace
19:23 – “Listen to what I say, not what you hear.” Quote of the Episode!
19:51 – “Skinny Woman“, from YouTube
21:31 – Scott is reading from the bio on the Juke Joint Duo MySpace page
21:47 – Calvin Johnson (musician) vs Calvin Johnson (American football), in Wikipedia
27:53 – as mentioned in Episode 13
29:11 – the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, previously mentioned in Episode 76
31:18 – there’s a time-cut here. Schmoe would not usually pee that quickly
35:59 – nope. It’s not his ceiling fan. Those internal mics always crackle when using Skype — but when used with any other application, they sound extremely good.
34:22 – “this long” as in three hours!
34:31 – yeah, Greg wishes!
35:02 – obviously this comes from earlier in the recording.
A few things were edited out of this session, not the least of which was an injury at Greg’s house where a heavy frozen food fell out of his freezer, injuring the bare foot of a house guest. One giant chunk of conversation involved Scott discovering Woot.com had a deal on bacon salt — a product we had never heard of before but took an instant liking to just on the name alone. As Schmoe is always saying “Everything tastes better with bacon.” I regret having excised this, especially as Scott has been quick to bring up the subject of bacon salt in subsequent recordings. (Plus the fact Mike, now that we’re using Skype to contact him in Houston, has permanently labeled the crackle coming from Schmoe’s laptop as “bacon noise”.)
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