via Pirate Prude.

The dvd made me realize how truly genuine and earnest Liz really is… to this day.  I really enjoyed watching Brad Wood comment about the record as they both listened back to it.  They made such a great musical team.  I think what really drew me to Guyville from the beginning was not only the sharp lyrical flow and quirky, amazing chord progressions… but Liz, herself.  I think the record is much more autobiographical than she was initially willing to let on.  The dvd really clarified how unhappy and yearnfully sad she was during the making of it.  That sadness I truly could identify with.  Still do, in fact.  Despite the deep sense of sad,  there was a strong sense of rebellious self-empowerment and raw rock n’ roll throughout the entire work.  I’m happy to find that many other people admit to it and could hear it as well.

I could see the disappointment in Liz’s face when she recounts meeting Mick at a studio in L.A.  He basically forgave her for having made Guyville…. as if it was a mistake and she was using it as a vehicle for the press.   It’s a shame that he could not see what a huge compliment Guyville truly was.  The double l.p. that the Stones released back in ’72 struck such a deep chord in Liz and really got her creative juices flowing with her own work.  For me, Guyville did the exact same thing.  It’s the very reason I even felt the desire to start playing guitar and writing songs.  Maybe one day Liz will hear Circuitville.  Maybe I will run into her at a studio and she will forgive me for having made it.  I have a feeling that might not be the case.  Art always influences art. I don’t think there is a stronger nor higher compliment than that in this life.

My only hope is that others find a similar kind of inspiration in Circuitville.  I did initially think I had to do a song by song response to Guyville, but I realized over time that it’s not necessary to reinvent the wheel so hard.  Aside from making subtle references to the Stones and Guyville, I had my own sense of alienation within my community to contend with and write about.  Liz took a sharp angle with gender and really got into the idea of having her songs have a conversation with Mick’s lyrics.   All three records paint vivid pictures in audio form of a human trying to deal with his or her environments and the people that closely surround and affect them.  The vulnerability and brazen character that Liz exuded was inspired by Mick.  During the making of Circuitville, they both inspired me.

Pirate Prude with The Haas, Cory Garcia, and additional guests tba.  You can hear the other acts on myspace.  www.myspace.com/thehaas and www.myspace.com/corygarcia

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

@ The Orpheum

1902 Republica De Cuba, Tampa, FL 33605

Doors at 6:30 PM and tickets are being presold for $8.  This is an ALL AGES event.  Contact me directly for tickets in advance.  My e-mail is mark.freifeld@gmail.com

If you have not seen the site, go now!  www.pirateprude.com

On the site, you will notice that the “store” page links you to a virtual snocap store where you can purchase “Exile In Circuitville.”  

Thank you Lisa for all the time and effort you put into it!                           

In celebration of the site launch, I have posted the third Pirate Prude podcast.  It was supposed to be uploaded back on Friday, but I have been quite the busy bee.  Listen to it at http://pirateprude.podbean.com/feed

I’d like to know peoples’ thoughts about the reissue of Exile in Guyville at the end of this month on the 24th.  Is everyone excited?  I’m looking forward to the dvd documentary of the making of the record. I’m thinking I already have the bonus tracks and I do believe there should have been more bonus tracks added. As far as the Girlysound collection goes, two of my very favorites are  ”Pay you back” and “One Less Thing.” Wish they would have been included in the package.  

I find it ironic that I pick to release Circuitville the same year that Guyville is reissued.  I truly didn’t catch wind of it until late April.  Nonetheless, I’m stoked.  Also hope the reissue is a true return to form for her. 

I am planning on going to see Aimee Mann live next month in Portland, OR.  Anyone else going to this one?It’s on Sat, the 19th.  

Also, look for the third episode of the Pirate Prude Podcast on 6/13.  

This has been up since Friday, May 10th.  Soon it will be available to subscribe to in itunes.  You can subscribe directly at http://pirateprude.podbean.com/feed

Also, if you have not checked out Exile In Circuitville, it is now available for download in the itunes store.  Go check it out!  

Stop by the official Pirate Prude website at http://www.comagirl.com/pirateprude

http://www.comagirl.com/pirateprude

Also, if you live in the Tampa bay area, tune in to the show, Saturday Asylum on WMNF 88.5 on May 3rd (around 3PM Eastern Standard time) and you can listen online at www.wmnf.org as Pirate Prude will be a guest to talk about the record release show that same evening, as well as the record itself.

If you read this entry and can relate to any of it or second anything I recommend or talk about, please don’t hesitate to speak out. I want to hear from you.

To start, I’m trying to stay ‘gung-ho’ on the promotion and marketing of “Exile In Circuitville.” Yeah, maybe I was trying to come at my listening audience with a serious hook (the ‘exile’ concept and how it interrelates across the “Exile” classics by Liz and the Stones. But it’s not a subject that has been further explored and it still intrigues me to the very present moment I’m sitting here typing this.)

I really did go balls out with this record, despite not matching the other two Exiles 18 song-by-song long players. I took into account the length and intensity of most of my songs and realized that 18 songs from start to finish could be slightly daunting. So I have 14 songs instead of 18. But I still have my “Sodomite Angels” reaching out to the Stones’ “Sweet Black Angel.” I have my “alpha” stepping up to Liz’s “Soap Star Joe.” I’m very proud of this record in much the same way Liz felt with Guyville. I guess in a way I have always wanted to create my own “guyville.” I think I did.

Ok, those are my thoughts on the record for now. Maybe as time progresses, I will wish I did ‘this’ or ‘that’ differently on the recordings. But at the present time, using the resources and devices I had fully at my disposal…. I’m content with them.

Many other things to share. In the effort to expand the Prude presence over the web, I created a Pirate Prude profile on Reverb Nation! Check it out. www.reverbnation.com/pirateprude

Within the next few months I will work on making a video for the song “420.” If you are a fan of the song and have any video recording skills, please feel free to make a video for it and send it to me. I will plaster it on youtube and the web. I just really don’t have a concept that is grabbing me for the video. I don’t want to be boring and have a bunch of lame footage of me playing my guitar and lip syncing.

Ok. On to music sharing.

Albums you should be listening to :

Laura Veirs – Saltbreakers – Her most recent record that sounds audibly magical. Get it.

Katell Keineg – High July – It came out back in 2004 but that’s irrelevant to how amazing a songwriter/storyteller this woman truly is.

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – sooo good…. just don’t listen if you are suicidal.

Veda Hille – Riot Life- you can hear her single “lucklucky” on www.mog.com It’s seriously killer. She’s always been kind of like the female Sufjan. Her myspace is pretty swanky looking (as far as myspace profiles go…. www.myspace.com/vedahille)

Also on www.mog.com when you search for aimee mann, there is a post with one of the upcoming tracks on her album that is coming out in June. The song is called “Thirty-one today.” Typical Aimee…. which is just always amazing. I’ve listened to it obsessively.

Oh, and if you live in the Tampa Bay area in Florida…. come out to this!

2. And Dream of Sheep – Kate Bush

3. Hold on – Tom Waits

4. Picture in a Frame – Tom Waits

5. Dear Darkness – Pj Harvey

6. To Talk To You – Pj Harvey

7. Star Witness – Neko Case

8. That Teenage Feeling – Neko Case

9. My Impure Hair- Blonde Redhead

10. Where Is My Love – Cat Power

11. Don’t Fall In love if you want to die in peace – Comet Gain

12. At The Hop – Devendra Banhart

13. Saturday – Electrelane

14. Crowd Surf off a Cliff – Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

15. How My Heart Behaves – Feist

16. Softer, Softest – Hole

17. Burning Bridge – Kate Bush (yes, she’s my current comfort food….and what??)

18. Under the Ivy – Kate Bush

19. There You Go – Katell Keineg

20. Candyland – Kristin Hersh (should be everyone’s comfort food)

21. You Do – Aimee Mann