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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Dead musical pilots
In the late '90s Jon Brion was packing them in at L.A. club Largo. Every Friday night he did (and occasionally still does) setlist free sets with other musicians that include songs in progress as well as reworking of other people's songs (remember when Nina Gordon's version of "Straight Outta Compton" was popular on the Internet? That was from these shows). VH1 thought it would make a good TV program and filmed a pilot.
The show featured Brion playing with Grant Lee Phillips, Elliot Smith, E from The Eels, Rickie Lee Jones (that's two people with "Lee" as their middle name for those keeping count), Robyn Hitchcock and Cheapo Trick. Greg Behrendt, Paul F. Tompkins and Mary Lynn Rajskub provide the laughs. Sounds good? Well, Brion didn't like it but you can judge for yourself. You've got a Quicktime video file there to see what has been unseen.
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The mention of Elliott Smith was enough for me to download this.
Thanks, I. Brill!
# posted by Graeme McMillan : 7:42 PM
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