[hipster_bebop_junkie]

New video for "Plastic Cup":
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...ow-plastic-cup

[_tunic_]

copy of post by Anna on the mailing list:

So apparently Low played a one-song-set at Rock The Garden festival. A 27 minute long version of 'Do you know how to waltz?'Read a review here: http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/06/r...013-live-blog/


Seems like many people were pissed, but I would have loved to see that.


Someone wrote a hate tweet and it was retweeted by Alan. That's kind of funny.

someone got really really pissed off

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

copy of post by Anna on the mailing list:



someone got really really pissed off

It was retweeted by LOW.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

It was retweeted by LOW.

Hilarious! And what a bunch of MOOKS! A 27-minute live take on "Do You Know How To Waltz?" sounds like absolute heaven to me.

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Hilarious! And what a bunch of MOOKS! A 27-minute live take on "Do You Know How To Waltz?" sounds like absolute heaven to me.

Same here. I was just reading similar reactions on facemook, and thought it was hilarious. Some posts do imply this was a magnificent set which many people did enjoy, though (or would have loved to hear). Hopefully a recording will turn up.

The "Drone, not Drones" remark at the end of the set, surely has to do with this campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/drone.not.drones?fref=ts

 

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Anyway, here's another recent acoustic session by Low on Soundcloud, consisting of "Try to Sleep", "Holy Ghost", "Clarence White", "Venus", and "Walk Into The Sea" (June 13th):
https://soundcloud.com/wdizzo

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

Anyway, here's another recent acoustic session by Low on Souncloud, consisting of [...] "Holy Ghost" [...]

By the way, a cover of "Holy Ghost" opens the new Mavis Staples album, out on June 25. True story!

http://www.anti.com/artists/mavis-staples/
http://www.anti.com/releases/one-true-vine/

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Has she performed it live, yet? Haven't downloaded any torrents lately. Curious to hear it, of course. I bet it's gonna be powerful. I love Mavis, and I will be all over that album like a rash.

[_tunic_]

The Mavis Staples album can be streamed on NPR

Low's Waltz can be streamed on the Current site, and here's a quick interview with Alan after the show.

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

The Mavis Staples album can be streamed on NPR

Low's Waltz can be streamed on the Current site, and here's a quick interview with Alan after the show.

Thanks for each of these!

I just love Alan comments in the article. Alan and Mimi looked disengaged......what a joke!

SO - are they touring with any sort of piano / keyboard when playing "normal" shows?

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Drone, Not Drones also uploaded a recording of Low performing "Do You Know How To Waltz" at Rock The Garden, to Soundcloud (it might be the same as the one hosted at The Current, I'm just listening to the Soundcloud thing now so I haven't compared):

https://soundcloud.com/drone-not-drones


Drone, Not Drones' official website (currently a work in progress):
http://dronenotdrones.com/

Low tweeted:
Thank you friends. Thank you @TheCurrent , for unfairly taking so much flack on our behalf and supporting local music.

[_tunic_]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

SO - are they touring with any sort of piano / keyboard when playing "normal" shows?

yes they do, Steve the bass player actually plays keyboard (or piano on a keyboard to be exact) on a whole bunch of songs on this tour. And on the previous tour they were a foursome with Steve on bass aan Eric Pollard (drummer of RGC) on keys.
If there's any recording you need to hear, it's emmanuel's from Amsterdam. It hasn't made it to Archive.org yet though. It turned out so good. Mine is up there already of the same night, but it doesn't sound half as good.

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Another great interview with Alan:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/mus...visible-way/#_


Also, Low performed "Do You Know How to Waltz?" as an encore the night previous to Rock The Garden at a screening of "How To Quit Smoking" in Duluth. Strange how audience reactions differ so much from one show to the next. There's some footage of that encore at Cinema Purgatorio's facemook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151735333524343

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Low 2013-05-08 Festival Les Nuits Botaniques @ Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Uploaded by _tunic_

[_tunic_]

you're welcome ;-)
not the best quality (a bit hissy, because the level were too ...erm... low). But it's better than nothing. Here's the LMA link for the non-Dimers: Low Live at Festival Les Nuits Botaniques @ Cirque Royal on 2013-05-08

[_tunic_]

here's a link to downlod the drone:
http://download.publicradio.org/podc...0617_128 .mp3

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

here's a link to downlod the drone:
http://download.publicradio.org/podc...0617_128 .mp3

Big thanks Tunic!

I just realized something:

NPR - Mountain Radio Show performance has a length of 28:04......fourteen seconds shorter than the DRONE Not Drones - Do You Know How To Waltz? performance that stirred so much controversy.

[_tunic_]

it was The Current not NPR, or is that the same thing?

here's a fresh RGC show from Archive.org:
Retribution Gospel Choir Live at The Pourhouse on 2013-06-09

[_tunic_]

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/06/low-...and-full-sets/

two sets of Low were taped by the nyctaper posse!

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/06/low-...and-full-sets/

two sets of Low were taped by the nyctaper posse!

I knew acidjack had taped the show in Williamsburg, but I wasn't sure the Solid Sound performance had been recorded as well. This is great.

By the way, it seems Alan Sparhawk joined Yo La Tengo on stage at Solid Sound Festival. Hopefully a recording of that set will surface soon, too.