The set list from Guided by Voices’ terrific show in Denver last night. Forty-eight songs. No filler.
The run from from “He Rises! Our Union Bellboy” to “Cut-Out Witch” was particularly good.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows
Something wicked this way comes
Final shot from Monte Hellman’s The Shooting (1966), starring Warren Oates, Millie Perkins, and Jack Nicholson.
New acquisitions: wax department
Sharp-eyed readers will note that that’s the original Moby Grape cover, withdrawn because of a certain gesture. And that’s the UK cover for The Strokes record, which was deemed too spicy for the US market.
Cover art
Some fine record covers forthcoming from Robert Pollard:
The top one’s for a 45, the other two for LPs. My Mind Has Seen the White Trick is a particularly good album title.
Vicious implements
For Father’s Day, my daughter sent me an official set of Sid Vicious pencils. They were created for the current Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For the record, I saw Sid perform, backed up by ex-New York Dolls Jerry Nolan and Killer Kane, at Max’s Kansas City in September of 1978. A couple of weeks later he went to jail after stabbing and killing (allegedly) his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon. A few months after that, while out on parole, he died of misadventure. I’m not sure he ever made it to the Met.