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So I was at Jesse Malin's show at Mercury Lounge tonight, because he's a nice guy and his new album's nice and haters should find someone less...nice...to pick on... but so anyway, I was there waiting for him to come on, and the music on the P.A. shifted to "It's Alive" and stayed there (Jesse Malin being a big Ramones fanboy and Queens homeboy and all that). About 10 minutes later, the two youngish girls behind me:

Girl #1: I love the Replacements!
Girl #2: Me too! But 10 minutes is enough.
Girl #1: Yeah. It's just kind of that guitar noise over and over.
Girl #2: Yeah!

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(and Malin's show was good, too. Rockism in motion. Well, he's better than Train or whoever.)

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How did you restrain yourself from slaying those girls?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesse Malin is indeed a nice guy (and I do like his bar[s]..Niagara & Black'n'White), and both Heart Attack and DGeneration were wildly entertaining, but Ryan Adams' influence over him has led him down dubiously astray down the dead end of earnest troubadourism. How's his new record?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Being associated with Bryan Adams IS the kiss of death these days, no?

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Saturday, 26 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the new record better than the last one -- he produced, and it sounds more like him (Ryan Adams is relegated to some harmonies). Not DGeneration or anything, but it's noisier in parts and has a little sonic haze about it. And there's a good handful of good tunes. For what he is -- a rock'n'roll True Believer, basically -- I think he's just fine. Even his earnest stuff annoys me way less then Adams.

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 26 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

IIntroducing: The Fine Art of Self Distancing

This Saturday, March 28, I will be doing my first weekly live stream couch concert direct from my living room in New York City at 4pm EDT HERE: https://t.co/QpPniQ18b6 pic.twitter.com/fLVELMe6LG
— Jesse Malin (@jesse_malin) March 25, 2020

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:34 (six years ago)

Is it archived?

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:31 (six years ago)

I saw him twice around the time of his second album, but totally lost interest by the third album. But he was (as people say above) very nice, very funny and told lots of good stories and generally a good live act.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:55 (six years ago)

"TKO" was a great song but I generally liked the second album best.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:56 (six years ago)

three years pass...

oof

https://www.sweetrelief.org/jessemalinfund.html

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:57 (three years ago)

Genuinely good guy.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 18:59 (three years ago)

tragic

― Indexed, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:09 (three years ago)

He is such a lovely fella and this is horrible news. I spoke to him on the phone just a couple of months ago for a couple of quotes for a Lucinda Williams feature I was writing and he was one of the most charming, effervescent and articulate musicians I've every spoken to. Get well soon Jesse.

― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:15 (three years ago)

I seen him live a few times and he was very funny, good storyteller

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 16 June 2023 21:04 (three years ago)

Sorry to hear it, he is in fact a nice guy.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 June 2023 21:19 (three years ago)

I saw this last night and it’s terrible. Coney Island high is prob the venue I have been to the most in NYC. When I was at college I was there prob near weekly. Just really fucking sad.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 16 June 2023 21:48 (three years ago)

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