actually, i've been meaning to pick up some Faces, and Truth sounds like a worthy companion. thanks fer da tip!

so, i just grabbed a buncha discs a few days ago -

* Heads - Stop Making Sense (new edition, with the complete show). blissfully quirky good.

* XTC - the Wasp Star demos! all of em, including multiple versions of I'm The Man Who Murdered Love, We're All Light and In Another Life. for serious XTC geeks (he wrote proudly), but worth it just for Andy Partridge's extensive and brilliant liner notes on each and every song.

* Patty Griffin - A Kiss In Time. 12 songs, live, from the Ryman Auditorium in Austin on 1/30/03, with Emmylou and Buddy&Julie Miller pitching in - and a bonus DVD, too. ahhh, Patty...bad case of angel, that one. if you've never heard her incredible debut Living With Ghosts, well, i can't help you.

* James Brown's Funky People Pt II. haven't listened to it yet, but i have a feeling it'll be kinda...well, you know.

and!

* Lou - Rock and Roll Animal, on disc; oh yeah. i know someone will second this, and probably mightily; i seem to have run out of adjectives here, all i have left in the tank is whoo!

in other http://news:  quite a treat last Friday, going down to Santa Cruz to see the legendary fishbone! only Angelo and Norwood remain from the original Magnificent Six, but they've added Rocky George (Suicidal Tendencies) on guitar, and he smokes. they usually have the guitarist from The Time as well, but he was off doing a show with Morris Day on this night. there was even, for the first time ever, a Caucasian in the band, oh my! a female trombone-playing vocalist, and she was wid it. they did an excellent selection of material, including The Suffering, a tune co-written by some Baerwald guy. it was really good, and i always think i can recognize the part that db wrote, over which the vocals go: "the engagement ring, the wedding ring, the church bells ring and the suffering..."  [is this correct?] either way, I'm still tickled pink and green and polka-dotted that Angelo thanked me in the liner notes of that album (Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx); too bad i couldn't get down there to do some percussion on it like we'd planned, arg! then i could say that i'm on an album that David Baerwald played on. double arg! any recollections from those sessions, db? anyway, after the show, Ange and i got to hang for a good long while, knocking back Jagers and talking about everything at our usual breakneck pace. he's a shooting spark from the master panel, that one, and he changed my life. all i wanna do is support him, love him, throw $5 bills at him while he's onstage, and counsel him about his latest heartbreak while intermittantly giggling our damn fool heads off...so i did, and it was good. :) forgot to mention my/db's involvement with this site, so i can't pass on any warm regards at this moment, but i'd be surprised if they weren't there in spades. a wonderful evening of rocking out, bouncing around the ol' pit, and tittering like buzzed schoolgirls, it was...