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6 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

I think the real headline here is that he got the shit beat out of him.

Apparently there is no assault investigation going on.  Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  But it is interesting.

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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Apparently there is no assault investigation going on.  Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  But it is interesting.

Yeah, it's all a little suspect.

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18 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

There is body cam footage of his arrest on YouTube.  It's very sad.  He is in a very bad place.  I hope that he is able to get the help he needs.  Whatever that might be.

It was painful watching people in the Shithouse Wire Facebook group screeching about how drugs played no part in this.  I don’t know why people want to believe that.

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I think he has passed. At least the Shithouse Choir thinks so. I'm fucking crushed. Like losing a brother. I'm gonna literally cry myself to sleep in my favorite tshirt that I happened to wear to Stop Making Sense at the Paramount tonight with my only child who grew up singing todd songs with me on road trips. 

 

I hope it's a dream. Fuck

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I think he has passed. At least the Shithouse Choir thinks so. I'm fucking crushed. Like losing a brother. I'm gonna literally cry myself to sleep in my favorite tshirt that I happened to wear to Stop Making Sense at the Paramount tonight with my only child who grew up singing todd songs with me on road trips. 
I hope it's a dream. Fuck

Came here to post this.

Play a mother fucking train song, y’all.
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Man. Terrible. It sounds like a hyperbolic cliche, but he was one of the great American song writers- he definitely wasn’t as famous and he probably wasn’t as accessible, but imo he was every bit the equal of John Prine, Tom T Hall and Kris Kristofferson.
It seems like his demons took him and that’s a shame. He went way too soon. 

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25 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Man. Terrible. It sounds like a hyperbolic cliche, but he was one of the great American song writers- he definitely wasn’t as famous and he probably wasn’t as accessible, but imo he was every bit the equal of John Prine, Tom T Hall and Kris Kristofferson.
It seems like his demons took him and that’s a shame. He went way too soon. 

Agreed.  At his best he was an absolute genius.

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This might be my most treasured musical moment ever. Recorded at the Moody where I dragged my group of friends down to see some dude that I had been going on and on about as if he were Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen Band. 

I've made close lifelong friends by going to Todd's shows and they are all crushed this morning.

To me these lines are some of the best poetry ever written and seem fitting today:

Good lord if you're up there you sure got some nerve

Seems that even the wicked get worse than they deserve

We're afraid to die

Every goddamned one of us

I swear to god it's like you're making fun of us

Not worth keepin', or too good to keep


You got a better kinda secret, better wait 'til I'm asleep


And if you're so God almighty well then what's with all this mystery?


Yes, I wanna trust you, buddy, but you're clearly keeping secrets from me

Too soon to tell.

Sail on Todd. 

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43 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Gruene 2019. He was also my first real show after covid at half capacity Paramount. I think my favorite TS show was Hard Working Americans at the parish. 
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Saw him in Gruene Hall in 2021.  Only time I saw him live and wanted to see him again.  

RIP

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Anyone else at the Gruene Halloween show where his costume was Jerry Jeff Walker and he (JJW) told his life story and played JJW songs songs all night. No one knew he was going to that and some people were pissed and called out for TS songs. He would just say "HEY! I'M JERRY JEFF WALKER!"

He did play one Todd sojg because it was one that JJW recorded. Maybe Alright Guy?

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32 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

Anyone else at the Gruene Halloween show where his costume was Jerry Jeff Walker and he (JJW) told his life story and played JJW songs songs all night. No one knew he was going to that and some people were pissed and called out for TS songs. He would just say "HEY! I'M JERRY JEFF WALKER!"

He did play one Todd sojg because it was one that JJW recorded. Maybe Alright Guy?

That is the most Todd Snider thing I’ve heard in a long time.  Maybe ever.

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17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

That is the most Todd Snider thing I’ve heard in a long time.  Maybe ever.

What was even cooler was Brian his manager came over to us right before the show and asks us for weed because "We brought an ounce yesterday and he's smoked it all and he is melting down." I only had one joint on me so I tore it in two, gave him half and Todd got his head right so, you know, I pretty much saved the show.

The news was good.

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30 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

What was even cooler was Brian his manager came over to us right before the show and asks us for weed because "We brought an ounce yesterday and he's smoked it all and he is melting down." I only had one joint on me so I tore it in two, gave him half and Todd got his head right so, you know, I pretty much saved the show.

The news was good.

They probably did that with the whole crowd, and collected a lot of free weed. 

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What was even cooler was Brian his manager came over to us right before the show and asks us for weed because "We brought an ounce yesterday and he's smoked it all and he is melting down." I only had one joint on me so I tore it in two, gave him half and Todd got his head right so, you know, I pretty much saved the show.
The news was good.


I was walking past George Clinton’s PFunk Allstars’ tour buss out in front of Stubbs and Sir Nose A lot popped out of the buss and asked if I had some weed. Crazy.
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1 hour ago, Ten Bears said:

Last of the 20 or so times i saw him.  If you're in the men's bathroom at dbt and see Todd Snider Rulz written on the wall, you're welcome.

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God damn it, Spike

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3 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

Last of the 20 or so times i saw him.  If you're in the men's bathroom at dbt and see Todd Snider Rulz written on the wall, you're welcome.

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I was at that show too. Great. 

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He died from pneumonia if that hadn’t been shared yet.
 

god dammit I wanted to see him once more, one of my sons loves him. Fuck. 

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RIP to a spirit animal.  He was the GOAT of stoner songwriters.  I hope there will be some wild celebration of life in East Nashville where his fans can come dressed as a character from one of his songs....  

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2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Man, this sucks.  I saw him open for John Price at the Paramount a long while back.  Man that was a great show.

 

Imagine how much better that show would have been if he'd have opened for John Prine. 

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7 minutes ago, Deej said:

Imagine how much better that show would have been if he'd have opened for John Prine. 

Derp.  No matter how thin my fingers get, they seem to still type fatty style. 

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2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I remember seeing Isbell open for Todd a few months before Southeastern dropped.

Seems wild to say that now, but it made total sense at the time.

Funny, I just read about this yesterday: 

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The following year, I saw him play in Milwaukee with Jason Isbell. At the time, Todd was, by default, the one who was ascendant. His 2009 record, The Excitement Plan, was made with Don Was, the producer of Voodoo Lounge, a bit of trivia only Stones freaks like me and Todd Snider care about. It was the closest he came to maybe kinda sorta becoming a mainstream proposition. Isbell, meanwhile, had been flushed out of Drive-By Truckers and for years played sloppy shows as a notorious drunk. Though at this gig, it was apparent he had cleaned up his act and was now playing with clarity, precision, and professionalism. It was about six weeks before Southeastern came out. He had figured it out. He was on his way.

https://stevenhyden.substack.com/p/todd-snider-runaway-locomotive-rip

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