FeaturesBest of 2003: From The Artists PerspectiveBy The Glide StaffDecember 15, 2003 |
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If you want to find the pulse of a culture, discover where the
innovators are finding inspiration. So with that in mind, we decided
to go right to the source and ask some of our favorite artists
what they enjoyed most over the past year. Since Glide
covers a diverse helping of artforms, we sought out a truly eclectic
mix and asked them all sorts of questions, ranging from great
music to great moments. With praises you'd expect, and many others
you would not (see Keller's affinity for naked kayaking), it's
a candid sneak peak to life off stage. Though, coming as no surprise,
it seems every tourbus rolled the highways this year with Hail
To The Thief on repeat.
Ken Jordan &Scott Kirkland, The Crystal Method
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Best Albums of 2003
Elite Force - No Turning Back
Hybrid - Morning Sci-fi
Plump DJs - Eargasm
White Stripes - Elephant
Freeland - Now &Them
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy "No Quarter" sounds
so awesome.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors "I have it in 5.1 now."
Portishead - Dummy "Not that old, but played it a
lot this year"
E.L.O. - Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
Favorite Live Performances of 2003
Radiohead - the Hollywood Bowl
Coldplay - the Hollywood Bowl
Foo Fighters - the Universal Amphitheatre
Elite Force &DJ Hyper (DJ Set) - Spundae in LA
Artists Most Excited About In 2004
Sydney Crosby, 16 year old hockey player "the next Gretzky"
Fannypack
Freeland
Favorite New Gadgets
Apple's iSight "so I can see my Mac buddies when I talk
to them."
iTunes
Mac G5
Roland V Synth
New Hobby Discovered in 2003
Boxing "I train once a week with Terry Claybon in Hollywood
- he trains all the big stars."
Sleep
Best Books Read In 2003
Eric Alterman - What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias
and the News
Al Franken - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Best Movies Seen In 2003
Donnie Darko - "I don't know how I missed this in
the theatres, but it was still wonderful on pay per view."
Matrix Reloaded
Lost in Translation
Person Of The Year
Kate Beckinsale "she's so hot!"
Steve Jobs
Favorite Moment of 2003
"Playing hockey with Wayne Gretzky at this fantasy hockey
camp in February. There's actually a shot of me on his new
DVD Ultimate Gretzky"
Finishing our new album Legion of Boom
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DJ Logic
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Best Album of 2003
The Detroit Experiment (on ropeadope) "An amazing
album, featuring a bunch of Detroit jazz cats and production
by Carl Craig, Karriem Riggins, and Aaron Levinson"
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold
Us Back "Don't sleep on the Bomb Squad. Every time I
listen to this I hear something new"
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Bonnaroo "The biggest, best festival in the world"
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
"I'm most excited about the new DJ Logic record coming out
in 2004. In the studio right now working on it"
Best Book Read In 2003
David Katz - Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae
Best Movie Seen In 2003
City of God "The culture of Brazil, and based on
a true story. It's interesting to see how they portray how
people are living there. Especially after getting back from
Brazil playing with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in November"
Favorite Moment of 2003
"I just feel blessed to have done each and every show that
I did. Something that stands out though were the gigs with
my band Project Logic when we opened up for Dave Matthews."
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Galactic
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Best Albums of 2003
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Louque - So Long
Greyhounds - Liberty
Eric Lindell - Piety Street Sessions
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Favorite Live Performances of 2003
Radiohead, UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans
Primus, Orpheum Theatre, Boston
Favorite New Gadgets
The airport car "wireless internet on the road!!!!" Camera
cell phones
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
"Got into a poker group with some of my good friends at
home"
Best Books Read In 2003
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Steve Martin - The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Catch Me If You Can
Favorite Moment of 2003
"right now, being home from the road"
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Jeff Austin, Yonder Mountain String Band
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Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
Son Volt - Trace
John Hartford - Iron Mountain Depot
Best Book Read In 2003
Cynthia True - American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Person Of The Year
Dusty Baker, Manger of the Chicago Cubs
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Mike Rivard, Club d'Elf
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Best Albums of 2003
Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
"If you let it do it's thing to you...then say goodbye to
old you."
Teledubgnosis - Magnetic Learning Center "This one
will put your head right."
MMW - Uninvisible "this is a BASS - SERIOUS album.
Chris Wood is one bad bass-playing mofo."
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (25th Anniversery Edition)
"Curtis is THE man. the string writing alone on this album
qualifies it worthy of intense study."
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Hassan
Hakmoun w/ Brahim
Fribgane, Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA 7/3/03. "the
spirit was moving"
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
"I got my money on Darren Aranofsky and Richard Kelly, the
guy who directed Donnie Darko."
Best Book Read In 2003
Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
"No one does shifting layers of 'reality' like pkd"
Best Movies Seen In 2003
Requiem For a Dream "whoa. think you got problems?"
Capturing The Friedmans "Real dark...and real funny,
and maybe i laughed for the 'wrong' reasons"
Winged Migration "Could have done without the bad
new age music and the french narrator, but what can you
say about a movie that makes you feel like you're flying
along with some really cool birds?"
Favorite Moment of 2003
"when after practicing for days I could at last play this
one particular riff on the sintir that i was trying to cop
from a recording of Ahmed Saassaa. When i could play it,
and could do so for a long time without fucking it up, it
was like time stopped and i entered some parallel universe
where i didn't exist anymore and the tang of eternity was
all around. Nice moment. Worst moment...when I forgot it
and couldn't find my way back."
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Moonraker
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Best Albums of 2003
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
The Cure - The Head On The Door
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Broken Social Scene - "10+ people on stage, rotating in and
out while switching instruments between songs, yet playing
the most beautiful music with amazing intensity. They blew
me away."
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Well, two members of the band just got ipods; and they're
addicted to them I just got a theremin...can't play it that
well yet though.
Best Book Read In 2003
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Darren Robinson, Phantom Planet
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Best Albums of 2003
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Outkast - Superboxxx / The Love Below
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow "Thanks to
Alex for getting me way into these guys."
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Portishead - Dummy
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo "Not so classic really.
But rediscovered nonetheless."
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
I love all our shows, but opening for Incubus at Madison
Square Garden takes the cake. It's Madison Square Garden,
that's why.
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Ben Lee is great. I love the new album!
Favorite New Gadget
My iSight for my laptop. Allows video conferencing, like
the Jetsons.
New Hobby Discovered in 2003
Making out with hot girls. Maybe it's not new, but it sure
is enjoyable.
Best Book Read In 2003
Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code "It's near impossible
to put it down once you get going."
Best Movies Seen In 2003
I don't go to many movies these days. I just watched Stand
By Me and the The Goonies recently on DVD. I
also love Waking Life.
Person Of The Year
What a tough selection... Arnold!
Favorite Moment of 2003
Finally getting my own king sized pillow top bed, after
having talked about it forever and driving Sam (our bassist)
nuts.
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Dave Schools, Widespread Panic
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Best Albums of 2003
Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Joe Henry - Tiny Voices
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Mono - One Step More And You Die
Best Non-Indie
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Best Box Set
Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
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Greg Kessler, Photographer
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Best Album of 2003
The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Flaming Lips
Artists Most Excited About In 2004
Nickel Creek
Bad Plus
Favorite New Gadgets
High speed wireless Internet
iPod now adaptable to act as a hard drive, so I can download
high-res digital photos directly
Finally, a portable battery for my studio lights (dynalite
xp1100) so I can shoot on location with studio lights but
without a noisy generator.
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Bar hopping?
Frisbee golf
Hiking a mountain solo
Best Books Read In 2003
Samantha Powers - A Problem from Hell : America and the
Age of Genocide
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
Jonathon Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Office Space
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The Incredible Moses Leroy
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Best Albums of 2003
Band of Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
Journey "every record"
Old Motown
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Cody Chesnutt
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Any artist that sounds better than they look
Favorite New Gadget
PS3
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Viewtiful Joe "damn addicting"
Best Books Read In 2003
The Bible
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Singing in the Rain
Person Of The Year
Any artist that sounds better than they look
Favorite Moment of 2003
Seeing Britney kiss a black man
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RailRoad Earth
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Best Albums of 2003
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
Police - Reggatta de Blanc
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Richard Thompson, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale,
New York
Artist Discovered In 2003
John Muir
Favorite New Gadget
My Tractor
New Hobby Discovered in 2003
Flying a kite
Best Books Read In 2003
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
Elizabeth Gilbert - The Last American Man
Best Movies Seen In 2003
Bowling for Columbine
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
Kill Bill
Person Of The Year
Homer J Simpson
Dalai Lama
Favorite Moment of 2003
The moment
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Brian O'Connell, Gordon Stone, Uncle Sammy
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Best Albums of 2003
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Scott Chaslan - Solitude Speaks
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Radiohead, Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA 8.13.03
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Radiohead
Favorite New Gadget
Hard drive recording
Person Of The Year
Michael Moore
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Eric Lanese, ekoostik hookah
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Best Album of 2003
Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
AC/DC - High Voltage and Powerage
Favorite Live Performances of 2003
Steve Kimock Band
Cirque du Soleil Dralion
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
ekoostik hookah
Favorite New Gadget
"I just got my first computer, psyched about that"
New Hobby Discovered in 2003
Dirt bike trail riding, and convalescing from dirt bike
trail riding injuries.
Best Books Read In 2003
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
Tony Fletcher - Moon: The Life And Death of a Rock Legend
Best Movies Seen In 2003
Winged Migration
Run Ronnie Run!
Favorite Moment of 2003
Watching our percussionist play with the Wailers on the
big stage at Bonnaroo
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Keller Williams
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Best Albums of 2003
Garage a Trois - Emphasizer "they put the "oo" in
groovy"
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music "the
song 'What I Be' is bumpin"
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Grateful Dead - Reckoning "There's no Jerry like
acoustic Jerry"
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Blink 182 at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. on 11/8/03.
"It was cool watching the moshing, crowd surfing and boobie
flashing from the owners balcony.
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Xavier Rudd "Australian one man band"
Favorite New Gadget
Mallet Kat, its a midi vibraphone
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Naked Kayaking "nothing on but a walkman"
Best Books Read In 2003
Dennis McNally - A Long Strange Trip : The Inside History
of the Grateful Dead
Rand McNally - Road Atlas
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Kill Bill "Go Go and when Lucy Lu's raw brain was
exposed"
Person Of The Year
Jimmy Herring "he's real good"
Favorite Moment of 2003
Trading train horn solo's with a train at Browns Island
in Richmond, Virginia
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Otis Taylor
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Best Album of 2003
Phil Roy - Issues + Options
Classic Album Rediscovered This Year
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Steve Winwood, North Sea Jazz Festival
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Brazilian singer Virginia Rodrigues who played on the same
bill with me at Mountain Stage.
Favorite New Gadget
Boss Octava OC2
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Trying to make money
Best Book Read In 2003
Jessie Carney Smith - Black Firsts
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Kill Bill
Person of The Year
"Firefighters, soldiers and anyone who puts themselves on
the line for the sake of others."
Favorite Moment of 2003
"When drummer Willie Hayes joined the Otis Taylor Band onstage
at the Pocono Blues Festival. My daughter Cassie was playing
bass with us and I've never seen her so happy. She'd never
played with a drummer before."
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Topaz
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Best Albums of 2003
Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below "They just
keep pushing"
Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day "Thank God for
some honest rock n roll"
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around "Who else has
made albums of this par right until their death?"
Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year
The Black Orpheus Soundtrack
Willie Nelson- Crazy: The Demo Sessions
Anything by The Wailers
Favorite Live Performances of 2003
Willie Nelson at SXSW "He's the best songwriter ever and
he plays guitar like a MF"
Bjork in Cony Island "She made me cry"
Robert Randolph in Ashville "First time I really enjoyed
them since I first saw them in the East Village at Lakeside
Lounge"
Artists Most Excited About In 2004
Tony Allen
The Dub Trio
Kevn Kinney
Favorite New Gadget
iPod
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Biking, learning to sing and play guitar.
Best Books Read In 2003
Eckhart Tolle - The Power Of Now
John Burdett - Bangkok 8
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
Best Movies Seen In 2003
City of God
Talk to Her
Frida
Person Of The Year
"Everyone working for peace and trying to rid us of the
current administration."
Favorite Moment of 2003
Playing The Lagniappe Stage at Jazz Fest "what a vibe!"
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Frenchy, Performance Painter
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Best Album of 2003
Ryan Skully - Pineapples and Roses
Classic Albums Rediscovered This Year
"I came across 4 milk crates full of 1980's vinyl…man, there's
everything from Dokken to Van Halen….Ratt, you name it."
Favorite Live Performance of 2003
Rebirth Brass Band at Austin City Limits
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
"there are sooo many…especially the cats doing the performance
painting thing"
Favorite New Gadget
photo phone
New Hobby Discovered This Year
Frisbee ...oh yeah, and bar shuffle board
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Person Of The Year
My mom
Favorite Moment of 2003
surprising my mom at dinner for Mothers Day
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Jamie Masefield
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Best Album of 2003
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Favorite Live Performances of 2003
Radiohead, Montreal, QC.
Remember Shakti: An Evening of World Music, Flynn Theatre,
Burlington, VT
Artist Most Excited About In 2004
Chris Thile
Favorite New Gadget
Boss RC 20 Loop Station
New Hobby Discovered In 2003
Toenail clipping
Best Book Read In 2003
Tolstoy - Hadji Murad
Best Movie Seen In 2003
Winged Migration
Person Of The Year
Howard Dean
Favorite Moment of 2003
NY Rangers preseason training camp in Burlington, VT.
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