Re: [bomp] Fleshtones - Lightning Strikes Twice in TX

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cyn is about 100% right. The point is live music with the albums mere commercials for that.
Oddly enough, frontal lobe Peter Zaremba doesn't much like the IRS stuff. Just the recent stuff. I think there are gems in all of 'em.

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Cynthia HSSweethearts <cynnkitty@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Cynthia HSSweethearts <cynnkitty@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [bomp] Fleshtones - Lightning Strikes Twice in TX
To: bomp@xnet2.com
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:15 PM

You can't imagine what it's like playing with those guys -- the Ugly
>
Beats
> have never played better sets -- the Fleshtones just bring out the
best in
> the bands they play with.  So yeah, I've known for a long time how
amazing
> they are live.  But after watching them on Saturday, I told a friend
I'd
> rather see the Flesthones in 2008 than see the Beatles or Stones in the
> mid-60s.
>
> They used every square inch of Beerland Saturday.>>
Absolutely
super fun and great to play with ! Seein' as I never saw the beatles or the
stones in the 6o's, I'm gonna stop short on agreeing with you there,
though ;)
Mayvbe that's the afterglow talkin'  : )' 
I think the current and last
records might be their best from what I've listened to .  Even just sound
wise- they finally hit all their marks and it finally sounds to me like it
always should have sounded- if that makes any sense.  When you're a band
like
the Fleshtones, putting out a record's gotta be a mixed blessing of sorts.
You
wanna live up to your own high standard -but I imagine that ain't always
easy.
It's a different animal. Personally I'm glad their enthusiasm
wasn't siphoned
off and digested by the recording process over the years. Fans have been
better served by seeing them live at what's more or less a perpetual peak
than
they would have been by having a few slightly better 'tones records. And I
think they'd agree that yeah, they have some good records, some not as
good..
but when push comes to shove it's not really about the record .The record
is a
reason to tour .

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