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If you want to find the pulse of a culture, discover where the
innovators are finding inspiration. So with that in mind, we decided
to go right to the source and ask some of our favorite artists
what they enjoyed most over the past year. Since Glide
covers a diverse helping of artforms, we sought out a truly eclectic
mix and asked them all sorts of questions, ranging from great
music to great moments. With praises you’d expect, and many others
you would not (see Keller’s affinity for naked kayaking), it’s
a candid sneak peak to life off stage. Though, coming as no surprise,
it seems every tourbus rolled the highways this year with Hail
To The Thief on repeat.
Ken Jordan & Scott Kirkland, The Crystal Method |
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Best Albums of 2003 Elite Force – No Turning Back Hybrid – Morning Sci-fi Plump DJs – Eargasm White Stripes – Elephant Freeland – Now & Them Rufus Wainwright – Want One Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year Led Zepplin – Houses of the Holy “No Quarter” sounds so awesome. Fleetwood Mac – Rumors “I have it in 5.1 now.” Portishead – Dummy “Not that old, but played it a lot this year” E.L.O. – Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black
Favorite Live Performances of 2003 Radiohead – the Hollywood Bowl Coldplay – the Hollywood Bowl Foo Fighters – the Universal Amphitheatre Elite Force & DJ Hyper (DJ Set) – Spundae in LA Artists Most Excited About In 2004 Sydney Crosby, 16 year old hockey player “the next Gretzky” Fannypack Freeland Favorite New Gadgets Apple’s iSight “so I can see my Mac buddies when I talk to them.” iTunes Mac G5 Roland V Synth New Hobby Discovered in 2003 Boxing “I train once a week with Terry Claybon in Hollywood – he trains all the big stars.” Sleep Best Books Read In 2003 Eric Alterman – What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News Al Franken – Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Best Movies Seen In 2003 Donnie Darko – “I don’t know how I missed this in the theatres, but it was still wonderful on pay per view.” Matrix Reloaded Lost in Translation Person Of The Year Kate Beckinsale “she’s so hot!” Steve Jobs Favorite Moment of 2003 “Playing hockey with Wayne Gretzky at this fantasy hockey camp in February. There’s actually a shot of me on his new DVD Ultimate Gretzky” Finishing our new album Legion of Boom |
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DJ Logic |
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Best Album of 2003 The Detroit Experiment (on ropeadope) “An amazing album, featuring a bunch of Detroit jazz cats and production by Carl Craig, Karriem Riggins, and Aaron Levinson” Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back “Don’t sleep on the Bomb Squad. Every time I listen to this I hear something new” Favorite Live Performance of 2003 Bonnaroo “The biggest, best festival in the world” Artist Most Excited About In 2004 “I’m most excited about the new DJ Logic record coming out in 2004. In the studio right now working on it” Best Book Read In 2003 David Katz – Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae
Best Movie Seen In 2003 City of God “The culture of Brazil, and based on a true story. It’s interesting to see how they portray how people are living there. Especially after getting back from Brazil playing with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in November” Favorite Moment of 2003 “I just feel blessed to have done each and every show that I did. Something that stands out though were the gigs with my band Project Logic when we opened up for Dave Matthews.” |
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Best Albums of 2003 Outkast – Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head Jay-Z – The Black Album Louque – So Long Greyhounds – Liberty Eric Lindell – Piety Street Sessions Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited Favorite Live Performances of 2003 Radiohead, UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans Primus, Orpheum Theatre, Boston Favorite New Gadgets The airport car “wireless internet on the road!!!!” Camera cell phones New Hobby Discovered In 2003 “Got into a poker group with some of my good friends at home” Best Books Read In 2003 David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day Steve Martin – The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel John Berendt – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Best Movie Seen In 2003 Catch Me If You Can Favorite Moment of 2003 “right now, being home from the road” |
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Jeff Austin, Yonder Mountain String Band |
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Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year Son Volt – Trace John Hartford – Iron Mountain Depot Best Book Read In 2003 Cynthia True – American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story
Best Movie Seen In 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre Person Of The Year Dusty Baker, Manger of the Chicago Cubs |
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Mike Rivard, Club d’Elf |
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Best Albums of 2003 Miles Davis – The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions “If you let it do it’s thing to you…then say goodbye to old you.” Teledubgnosis – Magnetic Learning Center “This one will put your head right.” MMW – Uninvisible “this is a BASS – SERIOUS album. Chris Wood is one bad bass-playing mofo.” Curtis Mayfield – Superfly (25th Anniversery Edition) “Curtis is THE man. the string writing alone on this album qualifies it worthy of intense study.” Favorite Live Performance of 2003 Hakmoun w/ Brahim Fribgane, Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA 7/3/03. “the spirit was moving” Artist Most Excited About In 2004 “I got my money on Darren Aranofsky and Richard Kelly, the guy who directed Donnie Darko.” Best Book Read In 2003 Philip K. Dick – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch “No one does shifting layers of ‘reality’ like pkd” Best Movies Seen In 2003 Requiem For a Dream “whoa. think you got problems?” Capturing The Friedmans “Real dark…and real funny, and maybe i laughed for the ‘wrong’ reasons” Winged Migration “Could have done without the bad new age music and the french narrator, but what can you say about a movie that makes you feel like you’re flying along with some really cool birds?” Favorite Moment of 2003 “when after practicing for days I could at last play this one particular riff on the sintir that i was trying to cop from a recording of Ahmed Saassaa. When i could play it, and could do so for a long time without fucking it up, it was like time stopped and i entered some parallel universe where i didn’t exist anymore and the tang of eternity was all around. Nice moment. Worst moment…when I forgot it and couldn’t find my way back.” |
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Moonraker |
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Best Albums of 2003 Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People Radiohead – Hail To The Thief Classic Album You Rediscovered This Year The Cure – The Head On The Door Favorite Live Performance of 2003 Broken Social Scene – “10+ people on stage, rotating in and out while switching instruments between songs, yet playing the most beautiful music with amazing intensity. They blew me away.” Artist Most Excited About In 2004 Well, two members of the band just got ipods; and they’re addicted to them I just got a theremin…can’t play it that well yet though. Best Book Read In 2003 Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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Darren Robinson, Phantom Planet |
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Best Albums of 2003 Radiohead – Hail to the Thief Outkast – Superboxxx / The Love Below Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow “Thanks to Alex for getting me way into these guys.” Classic Albums You Rediscovered This Year Jeff Buckley – Grace Portishead – Dummy The Cardigans – Gran Turismo “Not so classic really. But rediscovered nonetheless.” Favorite Live Performance of 2003 I love all our shows, but opening for Incubus at Madison Square Garden takes the cake. It’s Madison Square Garden, that’s why. Artist Most Excited About In 2004 Ben Lee is great. I love the new album! Favorite New Gadget My iSight for my laptop. Allows video conferencing, like the Jetsons. New Hobby Discovered in 2003 Making out with hot girls. Maybe it’s not new, but it sure is enjoyable. Best Book Read In 2003 Dan Brown – The DaVinci Code “It’s near impossible to put it down once you get going.” Best Movies Seen In 2003 I don’t go to many movies these days. I just watched Stand By Me and the The Goonies recently on DVD. I also love Waking Life. Person Of The Year What a tough selection… Arnold! Favorite Moment of 2003 Finally getting my own king sized pillow top bed, after having talked about it forever and driving Sam (our bassist) nuts. |
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