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ETA: I love this.
Posts Tagged ‘Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell is the best, even in a commercial.
Continue reading ‘Jamie Lidell Nintendo DSi commercial’
ETA: It’s been brought to my attention that maybe they did have some electricity. Ok, well, it’s still fun.
Continue reading ‘Jamie Lidell and his band don’t need no stinking electricity.’
Because it’s good…
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I found this surfing around wordpress. (Thanks, Justin Lowe.)
I guess this is old news, but I just learned of it today.
Elton John. THE Elton John. Holy smokes.
Wow. Seven dates at the end of this year.
Wow.
The first question that pops to mind is: Will Jamie change his show for this? Will he drop the awesome 7 minute “The City” for the Elton crowd?
I do think anything off “JIM” would go over great…
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Wow. Elton John.
Jamie Lidell
Bimbo’s 365 Club
San Francisco, California
May 28, 2008
source: SP-CMC-20>SP-SPSB-9>Edirol R-09
location: floor,center, mics clipped to glasses
conversion: R09>CD Wave>FLAC Frontend
taper: T&Jam (tandjam@hotmail.com)
Hear samples in my recap post: Here.
Disc 1
1. Another Day
2. Figured Me Out
3. Out of my system>The City
4. ?? Unknown…freestyle spacey techno jam thing…?
5. A Little Bit More
6. Little Bit of Feel Good
Disc 2
1. Banter>Green Light
2. Where’d You Go?
3. Wait For Me
4. –audience calling for the encore—
5. Game For Fools
6. Multiply
Download FLAC files Here.
Download MP3’s Here.
All audio recorded by TandJam at Bimbo’s 365, 05-28-08.
Time for the Jamie recap!
Jamie was dressed in a light colored suit, had the short hair and the glasses and was constantly reminding me of Buddy Holly. The big news was he had a band. Guitar, drums, keys and sax. (I’m still looking for their names.)
They opened with:
Another Day
He played it pretty straight. And we moved quickly on to:
Figured Me Out
This one made use of some electronic voice thingy, and I wasn’t feeling it at the start.
Sure it was fun, like back in the 80’s when you went roller skating and they always played that song: “Egyptian Lover”….damn. Remember that song? Good times. Anyway, at about 4 minutes into the song I was won over…mostly I think by nostalgia for “Egyptian Lover.”
Figured Me Out
Next, Jamie treated us to 10 straight minutes of music, starting with:
Out of My System…played pretty straight…
…then came a long bit of Jamie’s freestyle techno stuff, now mixed well with sax, drums, keys and guitar… and the whole big enchilada of sound slid into…
…The City. It was pretty cool how that worked out. The enchilada sliding, I mean.
….and thus ends 10 minutes of insane mixed-up sound that actually made sense, 100% pure Jamie, topped off at the end with a dollop of “Egyptian Lover” sour cream, if you will. (I know. You love the enchilada metaphor.)
Out of My System>The City (10 minutes of the not so radio friendly Jamie…ETA: ok the first 3 minutes are very radio friendly. But after that we are in old school Jamie territory. It’s all great.)
Now it feels like he is warmed up and really in his groove and so Jamie takes off into this long freestyle, spacey, techno thing. It’s 7 minutes long. Jamie doing what Jamie does and it’s so cool. I love listening to it.
Does anyone have the name for this?
Freestyle, spacey, techno jam thing…
This piece ends by turning into:
A Little Bit More. 7 minutes of Jamie. MMmmmMMmmm. 5 stars, baby!
At this point that there is, for the first time since the start of Out of My System about 29 minutes ago, a break in the almost continuous music. That break is about 3 seconds. Or it seemed like 3 seconds.
The room is dark and hot and sweaty. It feels good. And we dive right into:
Little Bit of Feel Good. It struck me that I would like to hear Jeff Lopez on the sax on this song…I also thought that at around the 5:30 mark that I could hear Ray Charles…
What a great version of this song. I loved it. 5 stars again! (Sorry about the audience yells at the end.)
….The audience is really loud at the end of this song, expressing their appreciation…
At this point Jamie engages in some banter about dreams, bloody noses and his nephew before signing:
Green Light
Next:
Where’d You Go?
Then, one of my favorites from the album:
Wait For Me
–audience calls for the encore—
Game For Fools
Multiply
And thus ends another great Jamie Lidell show. What a brilliant guy. What a great voice.
Downloads of the show will be up soon.
Is he actually trying to be serious here? Is this a joke? What’s going on?
Why does he look so hot?
This is all very confusing…
29
Apr
08
Happy Day!
Jim song of the day:
Rope of Sand
All I Wanna Do
Wait For Me
Where’d You Go?
Rope of Sand (yes, again)
Jamie interview of the day:
pitchfork interview
ETA: because this blog is really becoming just one be commercial for Jamie Lidell I might as well just go all the way…
Also, the video for “Another Day” was released today…but it is so…distracting… that I can hardly hear the song.
This video makes me wish I was the chick with no eyes so I wouldn’t have to watch it:
His influences include “the vacuum cleaner; preferably 150 watts…”
Talks about Duffy and Amy and other fun stuff.
17
Apr
08
Todd Rundgren
Hello, It’s Me.
Did he write the “Bang On The Drum All Day” song, too? (further research says ‘yes’.)
But Hooooold on a minute, there’s more!
…this had to be in the very early 80’s? Because by the late 80’s electronic music was everywhere. He was ahead of the curve… ETA: This has to be the 70’s…ETA again: EARLY 70’s.)
1994 International Feel
What’s this??
Somebody doing Jamie Lidell’s job years ago? Was Jamie even BORN in 1994?!
Well, shoot. This guy is really interesting. Now I kind of do want to go that Wolf Trap thing…
13
Apr
08
You guessed it… (2 of 3)
(2 of 3) was posted today to coincide with the release of the single ”Little Bit Of Feel Good.” MMmmMMM. More Jamie.
(And yes, I’m going to post (3 of 3) when it comes out, too. And when the album comes out I’ll post a few mp3 samples, too. Overkill? I think not!)
ETA: I really like the song ”All I Wanna Do” that starts a bit after the 3 minute mark.
10
Apr
08
While waiting for (2 of 3)
01
Apr
08
Figuring Out Jamie Lidell
The video for Little Bit of Feel Good is out!
Yeah! It sounds like he has another great album on the way. Lots of layers, lots of intstruments, lots of everything. Plus, this video says ’crazy’ in a way that only Jamie can.
Not only that, but Jamie Lidell is giving away a free mp3 when you join his mailing list. I love that kind of stuff. It makes me join mailing lists and post on my blog, and so forth…
Figured Me Out (LA Garage Mix)
According to his website, the new album, JIM, will be in out April 28/29, and in May his tour hits the U.S.
That’s a show I won’t be missing….I hope. Well, we’ll see if I can talk someone into going to see this brilliant spaz with me…
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