Slog - Comments on Osama bin Laden was Right http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right ...Americans are immersed in nonsense bourgeois distractions. I mean, check this out: A Can cover night? Can, if you don't know, and it's likely you don't, was an early 70s experimental rock band from West Germany. Once upon a time, they had an album called Tago Mago that was supposedly influential. A Can cover night?!? How do you even cover a Can song; much less have the time to learn a Can song? These songs, freak out improvs, typically clocked in between 8 and 20 minutes. Fellow weirdoes! We are going down the rabbit hole if we are covering... Copyright 2008 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:05:41 -0800 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:21:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by infrequent there was a faust cover night a few weeks back...

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697344 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697344 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:09:21 -0800 Comment by Sean Mother Sky is a pretty killer song, especially as covered by Th' Faith Healers.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697349 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:15:34 -0800 Comment by josh The only reason that I know about Can is that Spoon is named after one of their songs.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697373 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697373 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:43:21 -0800 Comment by biggie j guitar player for amplified rock outfit SSS I just read about a CAN night in Manchester and London England. Malcom Mooney and Damo Suzuki ( both ex vocalists of CAN) joined local musicians from the area and did an entire night of their music. At first I thought this was the same tour but no it's a Seattle only thing independent from the original vocalists.

]]> biggie j guitar player for amplified rock outfit SSS http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697376 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697376 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:45:09 -0800 Comment by darling463 CAN was playing on the stereo yesterday at The Globe cafe. I'm sure all you hipster scenesters go there for lunch. I've gotten to be good friends with the cook, the guy with the mohawk. He always tells me about the bands he's seen the night before. Now everytime I go in, I ask:

How was it?

]]> darling463 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697389 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:55:42 -0800 Comment by Paulus Hipster scenesters don't go to the Globe.

Thank god.

]]> Paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697580 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:35:19 -0800 Comment by pretentious someone must cover 'haleluwah' in its brilliant entirety. this is worth ditching work early for.
'all gates open' would be cool too.

]]> pretentious http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697633 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:25:15 -0800 Comment by chris I'm going just to see how bad it is. I never cared for Th'faith Healers cover of Mother Sky but I did like the Komeda cover of Mushroom. I'm hoping someone covers Father Cannot Tell.

]]> chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697954 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c697954 Arts Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:59:42 -0800 Comment by opalescent arcs I'm hoping someone covers Father Cannot Tell.

That's "Father Cannot Yell."

]]> opalescent arcs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698137 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698137 Arts Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:16:02 -0800 Comment by Kathy Fennessy Kendra Smith (ex-Opal) does an excellent cover of "She Brings the Rain," and That Petrol Emotion does a surprisingly credible version of "Mother Sky" (it is, after all, an epic). Can covers are nothing new. There's a lot of them out there; those are just two of my favorites.

]]> Kathy Fennessy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698389 Arts Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:21:51 -0800 Comment by opalescent arcs And Can's "Vitamin C" is a breakdancing staple; Busdriver sampled "Turtles Have Short Legs" on "Avant Core." Etc.

]]> opalescent arcs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698516 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698516 Arts Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:38:26 -0800 Comment by chris oops! Typo, I guess I should be hitting preview

]]> chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698531 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c698531 Arts Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:12:10 -0800 Comment by Hidden Number Hidden Number did play Paperhouse that night, and then Osama called us long distance to tell us how happy he was with our arrangement. It was such high praise that we're going to keep that song on our set list for a while.

]]> Hidden Number http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c705297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/osama_bin_laden_was_right#c705297 Arts Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:21:46 -0800