Uploaded by BobSeger1981 on Feb 2, 2010
An audio story about the '70s band BIG STAR (Memphis, TN).
Recorded on Feb.2, 2010
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No-one gives a shit about you until you're fucking dead.
1 year ago 5
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you fucking hipster music know its alls are bemoaning the fact the npr and ward ain't getting the obscure little rock references right that you and your self important use to fill the voids in your charmed and stale lives. they're giving big star serious props here, isn't that what matters?
2 months ago 2
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@alexandermorison seems to hold true to many great artists
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@SonofThor73 and who gives a fuck what a member of rem thinks anyway?
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i tear up every time i hear "i am the cosmos", and coming right after "september girls" it's even more devastating. RIP chris and alex.
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gorgeous guitar tone
1 year ago 2
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life changing
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@Green28142814 and now Andy Hummel :/
- 64 videosAlex Chilton / Big Star
- 9:30
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- 4:29
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- 2:25
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- 6:32
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- 1:53
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- 5:28
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- 3:47
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- 3:43
Alex Chilton - My Rivalby egglestontrust23,042 views
- 2:50
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- 5:15
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- 2:54
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- 1:02
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- 2:48
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- 2:32
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- 4:00
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- 1:33
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- 3:23
Paul Westerberg-Alex Chiltonby Blasty88,114 views
- 2:58
Big Star - Thirteen live in London August 2008by gigcam19,094 views
- 2:02
Big Star - Blue Moonby jdewbre147,469 views
My dad had a copy of Velvet Underground & Nico, and he never started a band. NPR is too lame to be allowed to mention Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Big Star or the Velvet Underground.
SonofThor73 11 months ago
@SonofThor73
I don't hate on any media source who writes about good music. Better than nothing at all.
BobSeger1981 11 months ago 5
Yeah, the quote is from Brian Eno. The number he gave was 5000. This is an example of a Rock Critic pickin' up a paycheck and spreading the usual kind of misinformation--what, Ed Ward couldn't check the provenance of that quote??--that characterizes rock history. If there's any insight in this NPR report I don't hear it. The timeline is off--Chilton dropped out of sight in late 1981, when he went to New Orleans. This kind of thing is useless. Real writers check their facts beforehand.
eddhurtinski 1 year ago 3
@eddhurtinski
At least he chose Big Star to write about -rather than some pop music fucking idiot.
BobSeger1981 1 year ago 2
Vic Chesnutt, Mark Linkous, Jim Dickinson and now Alex. This year sucks.
Green28142814 1 year ago 5
Another Memphis musician, Jay Reatard also passed - at 29.
BobSeger1981 1 year ago