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Iron and Wine has climed its way to the top 5 of my list of favourate bands ever. My favourite music(at this point in my life)is acoustic folk that captures emotions and scenes\visuals very well. Iron and Wine, elliott smith, nick drake, simon and garfunkle, bruce springsteen, and cat stevens are a few of the best in this genre. Has anybody else gotten as into Iron
and Wine as me, or have any other comments?

I'll check it out, I for one lurrve Simon and Garfunkel. Lurrve Joni Mitchell (man).

Love that acoustic Johnny's Camaro stuff.

Iron and Wine really is great. I saw him live recently, and it was probably the most bizarre show I've ever been to. I mean, the guy looks exactly like the drawing on the cover of Our Endless Numbered Days, and he was a great performer, but the audience here was very weird. There were people who wanted everyone to sit down on the floor, and people who wanted to stand up, and representatives from each side were yelling at the other. There were even political slogans being yelled "Better sitters than quitters!" etc. I think the guy was just really confused watching all of this from the stage. Then these two guys and a girl squealed when a certain song came on, and the three of them all started making out. It was a very surreal show.

Still, it was awesome, and he kept saying he was about to play a cover, and everyone would be thinking Such Great Heights and get excited, and then he'd just play like Foghat or some goddam thing, which made me laugh. He did play Such Great Heights for the encore, though.

Okay, that was a helluva long show review, but it just stuck out as being weird.

That was an amazing review. Yeah, I may see them at banoroo fest or if not then I will catch them somewear this summer.
Last year I went to a Sleater-Kinney show and some little punk ass hardcore kid showed up and kept pushing people around on the floor and yelling at the band to show there tits. After about 20 minutes some 6ft3 hipster picked the kid up by the neck and threw him to the ground and then a bouncer picked the kid up in a bear hug and threw him out the back door, the band stoped playing to make shure that no one was hurt and everyone in the crowd cheered. It was great, oh and there set was pretty good to.
If you want to see a realy wierd show than you need to see the evaporators. It is the band of narduar, the goofy say anything vancouver b.c. radio personality\human serveyet. There shows involve a lot of fun audience participation and crowd surfing. They play a lot in seattle. I sugest that you make your way north and see them sometime.

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Originally posted by SimonM:
There were people who wanted everyone to sit down on the floor, and people who wanted to stand up, and representatives from each side were yelling at the other. There were even political slogans being yelled "Better sitters than quitters!" etc.

Sounds like you went to a show with a bunch of teenie boppers.

Taylor,

That's just Eugene, which is kind of like living with a bunch of teenie boppers.

Iron and Wine. Got two thumbs. Both up. Glad to have the tip. Went out immediately and bought an album(there's an anachronistic word!)

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Good to know that there are other people out there who get it. And it is also good to know that you went out and bought an album instead of downloading one(because when you burn a cd you are basicly entering the artist home and stealing food off of there childrens plate).
If you like them, you should check out "Nebraska" and "Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen, wich are both folk albums and a completly different sound than most of his other stuff, beautifuly good raw acoustic american folk music.

Hey piecar,
I know another person in Vancouver ,B.C. who is lighting tech(checkin out your profile). I think he was around 40, idolized Dwight Yoakam, and allways sang about his friends up in Kellowna.
I just thought that it was an odd coincidence