by JamesFearnley Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:27 pm
I had spent a certain amount of time discouraging the Decemberists away from the idea of doing a Pogues song (oh, they are such fans!) until I read on the Pogues forum that it wasn't exactly without precedent, so, on the strength of that, (and listening to an .mp3 of it that someone had linked and heard how reasonable their version was - with lyric fuck-ups reminiscent of Shane as whoever it was pointed out) I consented to do Sickbed with them. Chris Funk the multi-instrumentalist (and whale-jaw operater) doesn't quite have the intro down, but then, neither does Terry Woods after years of playing the damn song, and Chris Funk's intro has a kind of charm, the way it mimics the vocal line.
As for the accordion duel on Chimbley Sweep - I think Jenni, or is it Jenny, let me win (I'm not sure if anyone won the first round on the Tuesday night - I played the two nights they were in town, in spite of the fact that I said I'd only do the one) - though I pasted her with Smoke on the Water, Swan Lake, and the haymaker in the breadbasket might have been from Bizet's Carmen.
As for The Mariner's Revenge Song, well, it's a towering song that swings on the same ropes and slashes with the same rusty cutlass that many a Pogues song does and there was no way they could prevent me from playing on it with them at the Henry Fonda Theatre.
And, my new stage suit, after ditching the last one in a hotel bin in Japan, now has fucking hole in the knee.
I had spent a certain amount of time discouraging the Decemberists away from the idea of doing a Pogues song (oh, they are such fans!) until I read on the Pogues forum that it wasn't exactly without precedent, so, on the strength of that, (and listening to an .mp3 of it that someone had linked and heard how reasonable their version was - with lyric fuck-ups reminiscent of Shane as whoever it was pointed out) I consented to do Sickbed with them. Chris Funk the multi-instrumentalist (and whale-jaw operater) doesn't quite have the intro down, but then, neither does Terry Woods after years of playing the damn song, and Chris Funk's intro has a kind of charm, the way it mimics the vocal line.
As for the accordion duel on Chimbley Sweep - I think Jenni, or is it Jenny, let me win (I'm not sure if anyone won the first round on the Tuesday night - I played the two nights they were in town, in spite of the fact that I said I'd only do the one) - though I pasted her with Smoke on the Water, Swan Lake, and the haymaker in the breadbasket might have been from Bizet's Carmen.
As for The Mariner's Revenge Song, well, it's a towering song that swings on the same ropes and slashes with the same rusty cutlass that many a Pogues song does and there was no way they could prevent me from playing on it with them at the Henry Fonda Theatre.
And, my new stage suit, after ditching the last one in a hotel bin in Japan, now has fucking hole in the knee.
