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The final album from Big Star's original incarnation, 3rd (later released as Third and Sister Lovers) is a masterpiece that rose from near-disastrous circumstances. It was recorded as the band was falling apart, leader Alex Chilton was diving headfirst into drug and alcohol abuse, and he was deliberately sabotaging his own creative process, though often with fascinating results. In 2010, to honor Chilton after his passing, dB's founder and Chilton superfan Chris Stamey organized a concert in which a number of musicians who were influenced by Big Star re-created the difficult third album at a special concert in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After staging several similar concerts in the United States, Europe, and the U.K., Thank You, Friends: Big Star's Third Live... And More documents one of the tribute events for posterity. For this show, recorded in Glendale, California in April 2016, the participants included Stamey, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Mitch Easter of Let's Active, Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone of Wilco, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies (and the reunion lineup of Big Star), Robyn Hitchcock, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Skylar Gudasz, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, and Jody Stephens, the final surviving member of the original Big Star lineup, among others. The first half of the show is devoted to songs from Big Star's first two albums, 1972's #1 Record and 1974's Radio City, while the second half dives deep into the Third album. Disc one generally fares better, if only because the material is more straightforward, and while the performances follow the original arrangements closely, the tunes better lend themselves to a lively performance in front of a pumped-up crowd. Disc two is devoted to 15 songs from the Third sessions, and the arrangements cleverly mimic the sound and feel of the 1975 sessions, with the Kronos Quartet handling Carl Marsh's string charts). Taking music that was fashioned during a dark night of the soul and giving it life on-stage, this album is clearly the work of people who deeply love Alex Chilton's music and want to do it justice, and there are plenty of moving individual performances in this set. There's a great deal of lovely and heartfelt music on Thank You, Friends: Big Star's Third Live... And More, and this is a warm endorsement of the band's enduring body of work.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Pat Sansone, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Brett Harris, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Mike Mills, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Mike Mills, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Brett Harris, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Andy Hummel, ComposerLyricist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Ken Stringfellow, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Jon Auer, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Skylar Gudasz, FeaturedArtist - Django Haskins, MainArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Dan Wilson, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Jeff Tweedy, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Pat Sansone, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Ken Stringfellow, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Dan Wilson, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Christopher Bell, ComposerLyricist - Pat Sansone, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
DISC 2
Jeff Tweedy, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Django Haskins, MainArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Jon Auer, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Luther Russell, FeaturedArtist - Jody Stephens, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Jeff Tweedy, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Mike Mills, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Ira Kaplan, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Jessica Pratt, FeaturedArtist - Jon Auer, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Jody Stephens, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Ken Stringfellow, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Robyn Hitchcock, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist - Lesa Aldridge, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Ken Stringfellow, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Skylar Gudasz, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Django Haskins, MainArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Mike Mills, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Skylar Gudasz, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Brett Harris, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Dan Wilson, FeaturedArtist - Kronos Quartet, FeaturedArtist - Jeff Tweedy, FeaturedArtist - Alex Chilton, ComposerLyricist - Ken Stringfellow, FeaturedArtist - Robyn Hitchcock, FeaturedArtist - Pat Sansone, FeaturedArtist - Chris Stamey, Producer, Recording Producer - Jon Auer, FeaturedArtist - Big Star’s Third Live, MainArtist
℗ 2017 So Probable LLC
Albumbeschreibung
The final album from Big Star's original incarnation, 3rd (later released as Third and Sister Lovers) is a masterpiece that rose from near-disastrous circumstances. It was recorded as the band was falling apart, leader Alex Chilton was diving headfirst into drug and alcohol abuse, and he was deliberately sabotaging his own creative process, though often with fascinating results. In 2010, to honor Chilton after his passing, dB's founder and Chilton superfan Chris Stamey organized a concert in which a number of musicians who were influenced by Big Star re-created the difficult third album at a special concert in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After staging several similar concerts in the United States, Europe, and the U.K., Thank You, Friends: Big Star's Third Live... And More documents one of the tribute events for posterity. For this show, recorded in Glendale, California in April 2016, the participants included Stamey, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Mitch Easter of Let's Active, Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone of Wilco, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies (and the reunion lineup of Big Star), Robyn Hitchcock, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Skylar Gudasz, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, and Jody Stephens, the final surviving member of the original Big Star lineup, among others. The first half of the show is devoted to songs from Big Star's first two albums, 1972's #1 Record and 1974's Radio City, while the second half dives deep into the Third album. Disc one generally fares better, if only because the material is more straightforward, and while the performances follow the original arrangements closely, the tunes better lend themselves to a lively performance in front of a pumped-up crowd. Disc two is devoted to 15 songs from the Third sessions, and the arrangements cleverly mimic the sound and feel of the 1975 sessions, with the Kronos Quartet handling Carl Marsh's string charts). Taking music that was fashioned during a dark night of the soul and giving it life on-stage, this album is clearly the work of people who deeply love Alex Chilton's music and want to do it justice, and there are plenty of moving individual performances in this set. There's a great deal of lovely and heartfelt music on Thank You, Friends: Big Star's Third Live... And More, and this is a warm endorsement of the band's enduring body of work.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:30:51
- Main artists: Big Star’s Third Live
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Concord Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
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