Just Part of the Family

Supposedly Built to Spill has been living in LA for the past couple of months recording their new album due out October 6th. Why they have not been playing a residency at Spaceland every Monday night is beyond me because lord knows I (and probably you) would have been there every week. But that is all in the past now, Built to Spill is scheduled to be playing a show at the newly reopened Galaxy Theater in Costa Mesa. I was shocked when I saw this but it is in fact true; Doug Martsch and team will be playing in the OC just following their Sunset Junction Street Fair performance.

Over the past three years, Built to Spill (both recorded and live) has come to mean more and more to me as time passes. I remember the first time I heard Perfect From Now On, I thought to myself good but not great. Well first impressions are often quite wrong because it is close to perfection in my estimation now. Another example, the first time I saw Built to Spill live was at the Anaheim House of Blues (shit venue fyi) when George Pants was desperately attempting to make me a believer in their sound. I just stood there during the show relatively unimpressed by this mild mannered Idahoan who chirped a sheepish “Thanks” after every song. Fast forward 4 years, I am tap-foot dancing, transfixed to their every move at a Henry Fonda show. Life is weird, sometimes you just are not ready to hear something until you are ready. My hope is that you will not be as stubborn as I once was and experience the magic yourself.
Here is a gift from the very night I realized the greatness of BTS live. Enjoy the appetizer prior to the main course.

Built to Spill – Live at Henry Fonda, LA 7.27.2007

I have 6 tickets to the show @ $28 a piece.

1. Capt AKAK
2. JP
3. Katie
4. Bruce
5. Kia
6. Chuckles

1. Pants
2. ??

Doug Martsch

I’ve stumbled across this relatively recent interview w/ Built to Spill’s frontman Doug “Thanks Guys” Martsch.

He predicts the coming end of the mainstream record industry.

Made me feel good.

http://tier3.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/band-interview-doug-martsch-of-built-to-spill/

This is the final output of much internal deliberation. There are many things that went into picking my top ten albums that were outside the scope of actual music such as how groundbreaking the album was for its time or what it did when as far as changing my taste of music. I am sure that many readers would disaggree with all my picks, but it is hard to debate the facts of my ears.

1. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Redux Edition
2. Brian Eno – Another Green World
3. Akron Family – Akron Family and Angels of Light s/t
4. Elliott Smith – Roman Candles
5. Tortoise – Standards
6. Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West
7. Built to Spill – Perfect from Now on
8. Man Man – The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face
9. Can – Tago Mago
10. Seth Olinsky – Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout

~ Capt. AKAK

PS If you really do disagree with my picks, let me give you some suggestions: Buy some headphones, shut your pie hole, go out into nature and listen again.