Possible Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Jim James Fall Tour

[Easy Morning Rebel]

Yeah, Andrew Bird would be cool...

[ratsprayer]

i think twilight kid already mentioned this line up, but itd be fabulous.  throw out conor, replace him with mark kozelek, of course you have jim and m ward, and andrew bird would make it the best night of solo music ever.

[wellfleet]

ratsprayer... sign me up for that concert!

gotta say though, if the jacket and tom jones play together, that would be one shwinging shagfest! there's this tom jones album cover where he is the colour of terra cotta but shiny, like he's been greased up, and his shirt is unbuttoned and there's all this chest hair and a 'fro... he looks like the time kramer slathered himself in butter and ended up deep-fried and newman wanted to eat him cuz he looked like a turkey... anyway, pretty gross visuals here!

[sonatine]

i like bright eyes, but i didn't particularly enjoy connor's presence on the last jim james, m ward, oberst tour. the stuff the three of them played together was amazing, but on his solo sets connor focussed too much on his uber-emotive confessional stuff, which didn't really fit the mood of the show. ihs solo set in the middle seemed like a complete bile-fest, especially juxtaposed with the beautiful melodic nature of m ward and jim james' music.

also connor got literally fall down drunk and seemed generally to be in this really black mood. i realize that none of these things (emotiveness, drunkenness etc) are uncharacterstic of bright eyes, it just didn't fit with the show at all, i felt.

maybe on the next tour they can replace connor with neko case.

[October]

answer:

lose oberst, add sam beam (iron and wine)

i saw iron and wine's latest tour with calexico and while i didn't really like it that much, sam's solo songs were incredible.  he should lose the crappy musicians and the fifteen people on stage setup and tour solo.  his voice is beautiful, it needs nothing else.  trapeze swinger was outstanding.

[BIGVICLBI]

first time i saw jim play was solo with conor. my two friends were going to see conor  in jersey city(awesome old theatre) and when i found out jim was gonna play i hitched a ride and scapled a ticket. jim was freakin awesome of course and my friends dug him greatly. they were dissapointed by bright eyes(who would want to follow jim?) and now they are mmj fans.

[MickeyReds]

F brighteyes. Lets get Jim James w/ Neil Young!

[fitzcarraldo]

i think twilight kid already mentioned this line up, but itd be fabulous.  throw out conor, replace him with mark kozelek, of course you have jim and m ward, and andrew bird would make it the best night of solo music ever.

Word.

[EC]

I just noticed that this got stickied.  That makes me a little excited, although, you know, maybe it's just a hot topic.

I DEFINITELY think this should happen, and I really like Conor, and they better damn come to Canada.

I think they should bring a girl, too.  Maybe that lovely Joanna Newsom...

:)

[tomEisenbraun]

what about brandi carlile?

[EC]

what about brandi carlile?

Who did she tour with recently?  Somebody good...

Yes that's right.  Ray LaMontagne.

hm.

[ratsprayer]

i like the idea of neko case, in more ways than one.   ;)

i think kristin hersh (throwing muses, 50ft wave) is an awesome solo artist.  lisa germano kicks major ass, too.  

basically, i like the idea of adding a female to the lineup.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Conor put the tour together, whats he gonna kick himself off? I went to the first one, it was all good I thought.

[freeone1]

I would love to see all of them perform together.  I have the DVD of the last tour they did, (Austin City Limits style)  it's a great dvd, but conor was a bit gloomy.  (he does mention though that he was grieving the loss of a close friend recently).

I would love to see sum sam beam in the mix as well.  (someone mentioned him earlier).  he is an amazing talent up there with jim.  

i did see conor play a secret show with m. last year.  m. was great and jammed it up royal, conor was a nice additon for one song! :)