Comments for It's worth a listen. http://earthliing.wordpress.com Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:49:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Album Review: Lotus’ “Hammerstrike” a Bore by lotusfan http://earthliing.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/album-review-hammerstrike-by-lotus/#comment-100 lotusfan Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:49:35 +0000 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-100 I agree with CGMT. I love lotus, they are without a doubt one of my favorite bands of all time, and when I saw them in concert in late 2008, it was jaw dropping. Lotus's live performances are certainly as strong as ever, but I simply cannot listen to their studio recordings. I've tried, and I always find myself going to listen to live show recordings when I wanna hear some lotus. To drizL: nothing has happened to Lotus. They just aren't meant to be in a studio, they're meant to be on stage. They need to stop trying to record in the studio and just release their live performances as albums. I agree with CGMT. I love lotus, they are without a doubt one of my favorite bands of all time, and when I saw them in concert in late 2008, it was jaw dropping. Lotus’s live performances are certainly as strong as ever, but I simply cannot listen to their studio recordings. I’ve tried, and I always find myself going to listen to live show recordings when I wanna hear some lotus.

To drizL: nothing has happened to Lotus. They just aren’t meant to be in a studio, they’re meant to be on stage. They need to stop trying to record in the studio and just release their live performances as albums.

]]> Comment on Festival news: Bonnaroo lineup announced, three hours early by kill shop kill http://earthliing.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/festival-news-bonnaroo-lineup-announced-three-hours-early/#comment-99 kill shop kill Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:13:10 +0000 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/?p=477#comment-99 2 strung out to make it 2 strung out to make it

]]> Comment on Album Review: Lotus’ “Hammerstrike” a Bore by CGMT http://earthliing.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/album-review-hammerstrike-by-lotus/#comment-98 CGMT Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:38:36 +0000 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-98 it doesnt surprise me at all that a studio album by a jam band would get such negative reactions. the studio album is the wrong mode of presentation for a genre so heavily dependent on the live performance. actually, compare the studio albums with the live albums of any of the great jam bands (at your discretion i suppose, but probably including phish, the dead, umphreys, biscuits, etc). workingman's dead is a piece of shit compared to the 1969 filmore west recordings, as is round room to slip, stitch, and pass. ultimately i think the only appropriate way to listen to jam band music is in concert, or... if you have to... with a recording of a concert. it doesnt surprise me at all that a studio album by a jam band would get such negative reactions. the studio album is the wrong mode of presentation for a genre so heavily dependent on the live performance. actually, compare the studio albums with the live albums of any of the great jam bands (at your discretion i suppose, but probably including phish, the dead, umphreys, biscuits, etc). workingman’s dead is a piece of shit compared to the 1969 filmore west recordings, as is round room to slip, stitch, and pass. ultimately i think the only appropriate way to listen to jam band music is in concert, or… if you have to… with a recording of a concert.

]]> Comment on Newest Phish date sparks ‘Roomors by dab83 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/newest-phish-date-sparks-roomors/#comment-97 dab83 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:21:06 +0000 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/?p=469#comment-97 Red Light Management and Coran Capshaw can eat it! Red Light Management and Coran Capshaw can eat it!

]]> Comment on Newest Phish date sparks ‘Roomors by dab83 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/newest-phish-date-sparks-roomors/#comment-96 dab83 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:11:46 +0000 http://earthliing.wordpress.com/?p=469#comment-96 Phish does not need to play that trashdog overrated MTV fest. They have been doing their own thing for years in remote locations with brilliant success (Coventry aside...). Why stoop to Bonnaroo? The separateness of Phish from the "mainstream" music scene is part of what made them great. Phish does not need to play that trashdog overrated MTV fest. They have been doing their own thing for years in remote locations with brilliant success (Coventry aside…). Why stoop to Bonnaroo? The separateness of Phish from the “mainstream” music scene is part of what made them great.

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