Great review, it captures the music of FODM well (something far from easy) and this album is also one of my favorites, truly, as you say, a groundbreaking, paradigmatic, and meaningful album.
Beautiful venue and great tex-mex atmosphere!! I met Bill Elm on a tour a couple of years ago... too chill, a nice and sunny person... a couple of chats, a few drinks, and the next evening he got me in for free with a bunch of friends for the next show (in Ferrara, if I’m not mistaken...). Amazing live emotions... if all Texans were like him, one in particular, it would be a better world :)
Dear de-reviewer Mister Lemuro, in all sincerity, I wanted to gift you more than just a listen extracted from their (not too) copious discography, but the asphyxiating (and deaf) ear canals did not gain much benefit in the way you supported in your (regardless: great Prince De Curtis) pleasant de-reviewing action. To tell the truth (while remembering having it between my fingertips) I would have no acoustic memory of the de-presented discourse. [Galloping arteriosclerosis?] Salutations et cotillons. Your s.c. of (dis)trust.
Congratulations lemuro... my personal taste makes me prefer Under the Waves, but FODM are simply exhilarating... I have a burned copy of theirs titled Wichita Lineman, but it doesn't appear in the discography (allmusic guide)... does anyone know...?
For Lewis Tollani: "Wichita Lineman" is mentioned in the discography on the official website (http://www.friendsofdeanmartinez.com/index.php/music.main.htm) and there's a discussion about it here: "Wichita Lineman (Glitterhouse, 2001) is an Elm show, and not particularly original. Elm is obsessed with its own baroque sound (Alternate Theme, Main Theme)." Source: The History of Rock Music. Friends Of Dean Martinez: biography, discography, reviews, links a beautiful page dedicated to the band, although very biased towards the author's tastes. Here, however, Wichita Lineman is discussed enthusiastically, as an excellent EP: Page Not Found In many places, it is referred to as an album only released in Europe.
I'm listening to it, and I think it's an excellent work (4.5). I'm going to try to get the others, which some consider even better. I read that it was created as the soundtrack for the magnificent "Il Gabinetto Del Dottor Caligari": desert landscapes for German expressionism. It would be great to rewatch the films with this music...
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