A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN ROCK HERO WHO WAS THE GUY NEXT DOOR WHO CAN CALL YOU TO SHARE A BOTTLE OF VODKA WITH HIM AND SING YOU HIS SONGS HE WAS NOT BEAUTIFUL , NOT ATTRACTIVE FOR THE MEDIA AND THE TV. THE BLACK ANGEL WITH THE BLACK WINGS LIVING NEXT TO US. SO BORING LIKE US , SO EVERYDAY LIKE US....WITH THE FRAGILE HEART OF A GIANT. NOONE OF US EVER ASKED HIM WHY HIS WORLD WAS SO PALE!!! WE THOUGHT WE WERE HIS FRIENDS...BUT THE BOTTLE WAS A MORE FAITHFULL FRIEND THAN US!!!! IT WAS ALWAYS THERE WHEN WE WERE SO IN A HURRY EVEN TO SAY A HELLO!!!!

@jgwire

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Great comment. At 63, I'm only recently discovered Molina and I'm obsessed. What a genius. He can make me laugh, weep, sing along -- and then I remember how it all came crashing down. I read the Bio by a journalist who was apparently a friend of his or knew him. Frankly, I didn't get much out of it because it was so dense. It was obviously written for people who knew Jason, by someone who knew Jason. So there were a lot of gaps, and way too many names and bands that called the midwest home back then. I'm a recovering alcoholic and has attended AA for years. Molina was not doomed -- he just didn't want or couldn't STAY sober. You sound like you knew him personally, so I don't want to make assumptions. But the book said he spent the last few years in and out of many rehabs. There are some there are some alcoholics who just can't be saved. One sip and they are off to the races. Plus, it's so hard for musicians to stay sober on the road and recording, with all the alcohol and drugs - the drugs may still be done in the bathroom, but the open bottle of Jack still litter many a recording studio. And you're supposed to sit there and watch your bandmates get a buzz on while you are "stark-raving sober....." I didn't know Jason. I don't know you. But I know alcoholism. Jason didn't love the bottle more than his friends, IMO -- He was literally powerless over it once he took a sip. I don't know this, but I think he tried mightily to get sober -- and he did. He just couldn't STAY sober. IMO, it would never have worked because he was always exposed to it -- and encouraged to drink by fans. It's so sad. He died two months after I got sober in 2013. Any other information you know of that would help me understand his friends' efforts to help him and why you think it failed in the end. Alcoholism is a disease -- and his was terminal. JMHO THANKS!

First things first . I only discovered Jason a year ago . I live out in the woods you see , just some flowers and my guitar and me . Not to plagerize HWJR. I look at all kinds of music , but Jason really spoke to me . Then I found out he was passed . I drink too . I'm just really grateful that he made 15 albums and many singles and there are so many videos of his performances . The guy just hits me . I know he's gone but from all his adoring fans , me included , he's never gone . He said he would be gone , but not forever . He's just hanging out up there somewhere . He'll be back . Like we all will . Love to all . I forgot to mention....he can play any style....but I like it best when he just does himself and tells his feelings . It's like talking to a friend . Love to all .

@jgwire

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I agree with you on Molina. I'm 63, pretty much seen all the "big acts" I want to see -- and I only recently heard Farewell Transmissiont. I was hooked the second I heard that creepy slide.The whole record just blasted from the speakers and blew me away. It stayed on repeat for weeks. At first, I thought I'd discovered a "new" band, because there are great new bands, IMO -- you just have to look harder for them and not follow what charts and Spotify says. Many of his records come close, but I think Magnolia Electric Company was his best work -- though I am enjoying hearing and watching all these videos and soundboard recordings done when he was constantly touring. Songs: Ohia is some wild stuff too, though it's not as fully realized and lacks the clarity and context of his later work. I read a bio about him written by a journalist friends of his. I got through most of it, but as he descended into almost "DEAD" drunk when he's not passed out -- I didn't want to read it. He mystifies me with how he can use vocals so soft and sensitive or loud and ugly -- all in one song, usually at least 8 minutes long. haha. The guitar ain't too bad either. But I can't get any of my friends to "get it" -- "OK Song," they predictably said. "But it's too long and needs a chorus., THATS the WHOLE POINT! It's 10 minutes long and morphs, and meanders but it kept my attention -- plus I can hum and dance to it! It's no secret he died from alcoholism, though I never saw a YT show that sounded DRUNK - tho there apparently were some. As a recovering alcoholic myself, I relate to much to his subject matter, a lot of well-concealed or open for interpretation. About 2002 or so, he must have realized he was going downhill with the booze because his lyrics reference his addiction, in hidden way, if you know what to look for. He sang of "getting better step by step" -- which to me if a reference to the 12 steps of AA. But in a darker mood, he wrote: "Sometimes It's just easier to say I got better." There's "I'm getting weaker, I'm getting thin , I hate how obvious I've been......(WOW . what honesty and humility. that was really got me) He wrote about whatever he was going through with great honesty and humility, IMO. He sings about "being sick" without a shred of self-pity or victimhood but he sprinkles a hefty dose of fatalism and dread. Consider the lines: "No one makes it out. I won't make it out." Or, "I been riding with the ghost, I've been doing whatever he told me," -- I think his ghost is his either alcoholism or his recovery from it, a word he never utters. Of course, this is a speculation, thought the bio offered some insight and context. Until the last few years, he wasn't known for drinking much at all. Then he apparently became a secret binge drinker, the the kind that can go weeks, fool everyone into thinking they'd stopped, and then out of nowhere down a fifth of cheap Vodka just before a show because "it sounded like a good idea at the time." Perhaps his brother put it best: "Jason has the kind of alcoholism that kills people." You know, I've lost count of all the glamorizing and pearl clutching and drama that pours out when a well-known musicians overdose on drugs and dies -- or worse, be like like Keith Richards, who's had countless bios written about him almost promoting his mammoth heroine addiction. Yet few folks sing about the glamour of dying drunk, in a bed wit no sheets. Such a shame. Sorry so long. Got so much to say about this guy -- Nobody wants to hear about it.....ya know? JMHO. THANKS!

@colinlarson9656

Ай бұрын

@@jgwire Thank you.

0:00:00 VU Anxiety 0:02:54 Nervous Bride 0:06:00 7th Street Wonderland 0:09:08 Vanquisher - aka Cabwaylingo 0:11:42 The Dark Wrong Turn 0:17:50 An Ace Unable To Change 0:24:26 Coxcomb Red 0:28:42 Tigress 0:32:11 I Promise Not To Quit 0:38:48 Nobody Tries That Hard Anymore 0:44:07 East Last Heart 0:48:05 Being In Love 0:51:54 Freedom Pt. 2 0:55:49 The Black Crow 1:03:35 Lioness

This will have 100x more views in 20 years, I guarantee it

I love this! I prefer to listen to this version over recorded album.

Fantastic rendition of Coxcomb Red. Love the sped up tempo and I'd love to hear more recordings of this song live. He never played a song the same exact way twice.

i cried on the day that this man died ....

@The123ewq456

7 жыл бұрын

I cry every time I think about it. If I'm listening to his music at the same time.

Fantastic audio quality. Great concert from one of my favorite artist. Solo, Magnolia Electric Co, Songs:Ohia, are all excellent

one of my very favourite live shows by Songs Ohia on KZread! thanks for the upload!!

Thank you for all these precious uploads!!! Jason 💖

fuck this is good

Uiiichhhhhhh q gran sonidoo parece gravado hace 5 años buenisimoooo material

@williamperalta800

2 жыл бұрын

How died James?please

Fucking genius drink you under the table ❤

wow what a gold mine of soundboard shows. how do I download these?

@matthewsiegfried3847

2 жыл бұрын

Archive.org has tons of live Molina projects for download....archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22jason+molina%22

Unbearably bearable