Rampant Sur le Cuir Bleu (Je souhaite)
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11:02 PM 9/18/06 · I have the hardest time associating memories with years but I'm great with places & faces. I know I got to know
Pixie, just a little bit admittedly, in the early days at the Cat Club but I'm pretty sure that I never saw her at that place with the roof access. Oddly though, I don't remember ever seeing Kalib until BAGG came back home to the former Trocadero, now the Glass Kat. 1st thing when I started chatting with Pixie, who I'd not seen in a long time at that point, she's going on about this band she's a part of now and performances and music and making albums.
At least there was time for a "how do you do?". Each time I saw them, though I've never had more than a few words with him, it was all band and albums and...she was like kids the 1st time they figured out what the whole deal with XMAS was; not the "no Santa" thing that comes later.
As a rule, when my friends are all into a project...regardless of the degree of friendship...I am very supportive. I don't care how crappy the graphics are, how ugly the pattern, how truly puke inducing the taste, or how horrid the sound...I'm there for them; with honest criticism of course. Fortunately, they were good. Really good. I'd say great. Maybe even superb. It's kinda late now and I don't have a thesaurus handy but if you'd like to mentally continue along those lines...I'll support you.
I've only seen Cuir·Bleu perform once, last year's Folsom·Street·Fair. Before thatPixie had mailed me one of their sampler CDs with some variations of their stuff. At Folsom I bought their 1st album, played it the following weekend and loved it. I've got both of them, together on my desk...
...which is a disaster. I know they're on here somewhere but I really wouldn't know where to begin to look.
Recently brought a bunch of mp3s home that had been on Mom's computer for ages, off one of Cuir·Bleu's newsletters there had been a link to a part of their site you could download from. There's a vast difference between listening through headphones than live through massive speakers or even from a CD in your stereo. It's a quality of clarity that I cannot express but I trust that at least a few of you reading this know of what I speak.
Of their songs I've got on my computer now are Blue Leather, Falling Thru Mirrors, Slip Away, & Sex Toy. That 2nd to last one is a remix and I'm pretty sure I preferred the original but it's hard to know for sure without causing an avalanche. Vaguely recall it being the balance between music and vocals, think the original was more of an even mix of the two while the remix seems to have given the voice more strength...or pulled back on the music. Just doesn't ring true to my ears.
With 1 or 2 exceptions, I've liked all of their stuff I've heard. Again, can't say for sure for my desk was actually quite clean when I played the album; just giving you a sense of the depth of my difficulty.
Really looking forward to seeing them at BAGG Wednesday night. As much to see them as hear them but I'm also wondering if they might play something new. New to me anyway. If I still had a car I'd very likely have gone to every single performance they've had but such is not the case...
...which is part of the reason I'm also looking forward to the Folsom·Street·Fair this weekend.
Being a fan, I'm a smidge worried about the band's future. Not that I sense doom & gloom on the horizon or anything but most bands go through phases. If I may use a pop idol for example, let us look at Christina Aguilera; I'm weird...just go with it. She started out rather innocent, and in the tradition went through the rapid adult shift, then became decidedly sexual, and now she's all retro. Cuir·Bleu seems to have started at a more sensual level and while I think it unlikely they'll morph to a pop teen idol thing or start running around like something Bugsy Siegel would've recognized...time does continuously bring unexpected change.
Okay, enough of my ranting.
11:02 PM 9/18/06 · I have the hardest time associating memories with years but I'm great with places & faces. I know I got to know
At least there was time for a "how do you do?". Each time I saw them, though I've never had more than a few words with him, it was all band and albums and...she was like kids the 1st time they figured out what the whole deal with XMAS was; not the "no Santa" thing that comes later.
As a rule, when my friends are all into a project...regardless of the degree of friendship...I am very supportive. I don't care how crappy the graphics are, how ugly the pattern, how truly puke inducing the taste, or how horrid the sound...I'm there for them; with honest criticism of course. Fortunately, they were good. Really good. I'd say great. Maybe even superb. It's kinda late now and I don't have a thesaurus handy but if you'd like to mentally continue along those lines...I'll support you.
I've only seen Cuir·Bleu perform once, last year's Folsom·Street·Fair. Before that
...which is a disaster. I know they're on here somewhere but I really wouldn't know where to begin to look.
Recently brought a bunch of mp3s home that had been on Mom's computer for ages, off one of Cuir·Bleu's newsletters there had been a link to a part of their site you could download from. There's a vast difference between listening through headphones than live through massive speakers or even from a CD in your stereo. It's a quality of clarity that I cannot express but I trust that at least a few of you reading this know of what I speak.
Of their songs I've got on my computer now are Blue Leather, Falling Thru Mirrors, Slip Away, & Sex Toy. That 2nd to last one is a remix and I'm pretty sure I preferred the original but it's hard to know for sure without causing an avalanche. Vaguely recall it being the balance between music and vocals, think the original was more of an even mix of the two while the remix seems to have given the voice more strength...or pulled back on the music. Just doesn't ring true to my ears.
With 1 or 2 exceptions, I've liked all of their stuff I've heard. Again, can't say for sure for my desk was actually quite clean when I played the album; just giving you a sense of the depth of my difficulty.
Really looking forward to seeing them at BAGG Wednesday night. As much to see them as hear them but I'm also wondering if they might play something new. New to me anyway. If I still had a car I'd very likely have gone to every single performance they've had but such is not the case...
...which is part of the reason I'm also looking forward to the Folsom·Street·Fair this weekend.
Being a fan, I'm a smidge worried about the band's future. Not that I sense doom & gloom on the horizon or anything but most bands go through phases. If I may use a pop idol for example, let us look at Christina Aguilera; I'm weird...just go with it. She started out rather innocent, and in the tradition went through the rapid adult shift, then became decidedly sexual, and now she's all retro. Cuir·Bleu seems to have started at a more sensual level and while I think it unlikely they'll morph to a pop teen idol thing or start running around like something Bugsy Siegel would've recognized...time does continuously bring unexpected change.
Okay, enough of my ranting.