For People Who LOVE the 'Firefly' score (music)...

POSTED BY: adamsterling
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 13:50
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FIREFLYTHEMOVIE

Friday, March 26, 2004 3:48 AM

Wow. This kind of traumatized me, when I realized who this guy was. I saw him...1 or 2 summers ago. It was a terrible show. And yet I'm lovin' the downloads. I don't get it.

ADAMSTERLING

Friday, March 26, 2004 4:07 AM

Fireflythemovie,

Was it at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA? Because other than that and three shows at a place called Toad (in Porter Square, MA), Goody has never played a solo show.

I was actually at the Passim show, (co bill with Jeffrey Foucault, also great) and I loved it. The big difference between the shows and the album is that on the album Goody plays EVERYTHING, there's is nothing on that album that he doesn't play, where as at the show, he had another guitarist and a bassist with him.

I'm glad you love the downloads.

-Adam

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

FIREFLYTHEMOVIE

Friday, March 26, 2004 4:41 AM

Nope, it was in Madison. He was playing with Peter Mulvey (who I've seen play twice solo, and he rocks). The sound was terrible, and I'm starting to think that their musical styles just don't go together at all. Also, I've listened to all the downloads now, and I really, really don't love all of them. The more new-agey faux-Eastern sounding songs just don't do it for me. He tried to mix that sound with Peter Mulvey's folk music and it really didn't work.

ADAMSTERLING

Friday, March 26, 2004 5:01 AM

Fireflythemovie,

Cool, my sister is Peter's publicist, and he and I are actually good friends. I have to disagree with you though, that their sounds don't mesh well together. Goody has prduced and played on the bulk of Peter's CDs, and he also co-wrote most of Peter's songs. Whenever I see them play together, it's amazing to see how well they play together.

If you have Peter's last three records, you can hear Goody all over them, he produced 'Kitchen Radio' (and wrote all of 'Bloomington') and 'Trouble With Poets'. For example, on Kitchen Radio, on 'Sad, Sad...' there's this amazing solo about 2/3 of the way through the song that I love to death. I also love Goody's work on 'Running Up The Stairs' on 'Ten Thousand Mornings'. In fact, just about all of the solos on Peter's songs are Goody.

It's entirely possible that Goody was having an off-night, but everytime I've seen them play they're amazing together, plus Goody is one of the greatest guys you'll ever meet. :) I'm also curious as to what other artists you like? Also, what songs specifically did you not like from the site?

-Adam

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

FIREFLYTHEMOVIE

Friday, March 26, 2004 5:47 AM

Let me clarify: what he was playing that night did not mesh. Possibly because he entirely overpowered Peter, because the sound was so terrible. You could hardly hear anything that Peter was singing or playing. So we basically got to listen to background music all night. The people I was there with refused to buy any of Peter's newer CD's because Goody was on them, and they'd both seen Peter play solo before, and we all put at least a large chunk of the blame on Goody. I bought Trouble with Poets anyway, and was shocked that I actually liked the whole thing despite Goody playing on it. Of course, I don't know what Goody played and what Peter played, and who wrote what, so maybe I like it because he's on it. (And I convinced my friends to by Trouble with Poets later, too.)

Anyway, from what I've heard of Goody's music, his songs tend to fall into two fairly broad categories: ones with roots in folk, celtic, jazz, blues, and probably some other stuff (that reminds you of the FF theme, I only see a vague resemblance, but I really like it); and ones that have roots in more Eastern new-agey stuff. I don't think he does the latter category very well (and I'm not a huge fan of the genre of music, anyway), and it's what he was pulling from heavily the night I saw him. On Trouble with Poets, he seems to pull more from the former category. *shrug*

So, the songs I liked that were available for download: Aberdeen, Accidentals in the West, New/Old Joe. I deleted the others, so I don't remember their names.

ADAMSTERLING

Friday, March 26, 2004 3:03 PM

Cool, I'm really glad you convinced your friends to buy TWP.

I think we actually have the same thoughts on Goody. From what I understand, I think you downloaded songs from his first record, 'Failure of the Doping Summit', which is a record I don't have, because what I've heard of it, I havne't really enjoyed.
However, I LOVE his second album, 'Accidentals of the West', which all of the songs you liked, are on.

Enjoy the music, oh and here's alittle tidbit: 'Aberdeen' was actually an improvised song, that Goody did just by taking a scale, pressing record, and playing.

Enjoy!

-Adam

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

ADAMSTERLING

Friday, March 26, 2004 3:56 PM

Chronic,

just got your message. that's so awesome that you actually went out and ordered a credit card for it! you rock!

-adam

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

ADAMSTERLING

Friday, March 26, 2004 5:00 PM

while we were on the subject, i though i should also get in a plug for Peter Mulvey. Amazing. 'nuff said.

-Adam

PS: Okay, so this could be a self-bump. Sorry.

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

ADAMSTERLING

Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:40 AM

I'm REALLY sorry about this, because I hate it when people bump their own posts. But, I really want to make sure that as many people as possible hear this guy. If you have downloaded the MP3s, please let me know what you thought of them.

Bump.

-Adam

burn the land and boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me

JAKE

Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:55 AM

Just checked out David Goodrich's site and got the mp3s. (I remember seeing this post awhile back and never getting around to checking the site out. I was just sitting here doing nothing when that hit me out of nowhere ;) I really liked Flew, and now I'm listening to Accidentals. Overall, I'm pretty impressed. Good find. (=

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