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Originally Posted by Bufo Alvarius
Jim's guitar is both atmospheric and majestic. Unlike Hendrix (the king of organic guitar), you can feel he is “thinking” like a man when playing his instrument (not “screaming” like a beast). His songs are sort of stately poems. He belongs to the Tom Verlaine-Neil Young side of guitar playing (I mean, the non-animal, the almost metaphysical side).
This is one of his crowning achievements: "And the flowers they'll bloom" (1995).
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^ I first heard them played on a local college radio station in 1995 and was so impressed by what I heard that I bought that album the next day. I've been a fan of the band since then.
Have almost everything they've ever released on CD or vinyl as well as a couple dozen live shows on audio and video.
Just added this one to my collection a couple of days ago...
The Mermen - Do You Hear What I Hear - A Very Mermen Christmas (2012)
It just became my favorite Christmas album!
Here they are at Slim's in San Francisco on December 23, 2012, performing "Do You Hear What I Hear"