#jon auer

[wamnak]

#chris bell #i am the cosmos #big star #jon auer #Spotify

[rolloroberson]

Big Star concert celebration on November 5, 2022 of the fiftieth anniversary of Big Star’s #1 Record, one of the greatest records ever made.

#big star #big star 50 #number 1 record #jody stephens #alex chilton #chris bell #andy hummel #the lemon twigs #susanna hoffs #mike mills #chris stamey #jon auer #Instagram

[popentertainmentconcertreviews]

Big Star – Ardmore Music Hall – Ardmore, PA – December 6, 2022

Perhaps you’ve heard the legend. An unknown rock band puts out a debut album on an imprint on of a record label more well-known for rhythm-based artists. The album gets good critical buzz, but only sells a handful of copies. The group releases a follow-up, which also barely makes a ripple. Members of the band split off, and the third release turns out to be essentially a solo album by the original lead singer.

The albums start showing up in record store cutout bins. They still don’t do all that well, but it seems that just about everyone who buys their records ends up starting their own band. And years after the band had broken up, they became a cult favorite band, beloved by a passionate base.

No, we’re not telling the story of the Velvet Underground. Well, okay it is the VU’s story, but it is also the tale of Big Star. The Memphis foursome, made up of former Box Tops lead singer Alex Chilton, guitarist Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens, put together a sweet and spicy sound, mixing rock and swooning ballads and becoming one of the first power pop bands.

It has now been 50 years since the release of the debut album #1 Record, which has become considered a bit of a lesser-known classic, as did the second album Radio City. Guitarist Bell left the band to go solo after the release of Radio City, although his solo album I Am the Cosmos was not released until after his 1978 death in a car crash. Hummel also left the band after Radio City to finish college, eventually working for Lockheed Martin for decades before his death of cancer in 2010.

Chilton and Stephens reunited in 1993 and toured on and off for many years until Chilton had a fatal heart attack, also in 2010. Stephens returned to his day job – running Ardent Records, the formerly Stax-distributed label that Big Star had recorded for all those years earlier. It seemed like Stephens would never play the music again, until he announced this limited 50th anniversary tour celebrating the band.

However, this isn’t just the case of a classic band touring with one surviving member and a bunch of kids young enough the be the sons (or grandsons) of the original artists. For the Big Star 50 tour, members of some of the most respected alt-rock bands of the 90s – and all Big Star fans – came together to make up the rest of the band. These included Mike Mills (of REM), Pat Sansone (of Wilco), Chris Stamey (of the dBs) and Jon Auer (of the Posies).

In fact, Auer (and his former Posies cohort Ken Stringfellow) had toured with Chilton and Stevens in the revamped Big Star on and off from 1993 to 2010, when Chilton died. They even did a 2005 album together called In Space. (Stringfellow is no longer involved with Auer or Big Star due to fall out from a series of 2021 sexual abuse allegations.) Therefore, Auer has been playing this music well longer than half of the original Big Star members ever did.

And the other new “band” members here obviously had the chops and the love for the music to make this show rock. There was also a guest appearance for this show on two songs by Adam Weiner, lead singer of the band Low Cut Connie.

The concert was split into two acts. First, they played the entirety of the #1 Record album – in order. Then after a brief intermission they came back and played a bunch of fan favorites – a great deal of which came from Radio City, but they also did some cool unexpected rarities – including a simply gorgeous version of Bell’s solo single “I Am the Cosmos.”

All five musicians (six if you count special guest Weiner, who played on two songs and sang one) traded off on lead vocals and instruments. Band favorites like “Don’t Lie to Me,” “Ballad of El Goodo” and “Jesus Christ” sounded fantastic, peaking with a stellar version of “September Gurls” featuring Mills on vocals.

Still, to this day, it’s a complete mystery that this band never became huge. At least we got the opportunity to bask in their stellar songbook for one more night.

Copyright ©2022 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: December 10, 2022.

Photos by Jay S. Jacobs © 2022. All rights reserved.

#Big Star #2022 #Concert Reviews #Ardmore Music Hall #Ardmore #Jay S. Jacobs

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[rockmusicassoc]

In The Rock 4/27/1993: The Posies release their defining album, ‘Frosting On The Beater’. It’s a perfect blend of power pop and more muscular grunge. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow nailed it. #ThePosies #rockhonorroll

[barefootjim]

Some shots from last night’s Big Star’s #1 RECORD show, featuring folks like Mike Mills, Jon Auer, Susanna Hoffs, Jody Stephens and the mastermind behind all of these Big Star shows, Chris Stamey. (at Glendale, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckn2h8eLaCQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#1

[maniacs-in-drayven]

The Posies - Dream All Day (Elite 90′s Exclusive)!

One of the most paramount masterpieces of the 90′s “Elite” Grunge Years. 

“The Posies”! And their sparkling hit, “Dream All day”!

Beautiful!

#the posies #jon auer #dream all day #90's paradise #90's haven #90's alternative #beautiful music #perfection #elite 90's hits

[helmslevon]

Some of my favorite shots of The Posies throughout the years (1987-present).

#really cannot get over goth! Jon and Ken in the first pic #like WOW #the posies #ken stringfellow #jon auer #seattle #music #power pop

[speakers77]

#jon auer #games of magic #cover song thursday #song of the day

[rolloroberson]

Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 is a reunion live album by the American power pop group Big Star, recorded and released in 1993 by the original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies' members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow. It was recorded at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. If it sounds under rehearsed, that would be a bit of overstatement as Alex did not decide to actually join in this “reunion” until he walked on stage that day.

“At the time it was a big deal, and people flew in from all over the world to see the show in Missouri. And it got a review in Melody Maker: “Alex saunters on and spends some time twiddling with his guitar, blah blah blah, and they start to play and the most remarkable thing happens: they sound like Big Star.” That was the quote. And I thought, that’s exactly how it should be.”- Ken Stringfellow

This version of Big Star would play together until Alex Chilton’s death in March of 2010.

#big star #alex chilton #jody stephens #big star reunion #september gurls #thirteen #jon auer #ken stringfellow #the posies #live at the university of missouri 4/25/93 #til the end of the day #the gospel of big star

[wamnak]

The Posies at The Neptune in Seattle July 7, 2018

#the posies #jon auer #mike musburger #dave fox #dear 23 #frosting on the beater #muzz #omnivore records #arthur roberts

[davecarusomusic]

An exciting new episode of Songwriter Stories is waiting for you wherever you podcast, and at SongwriterStories.com. Share the love!

In this episode, I talk with Jon Auer about the birth of The Posies, writing songs, making guitar parts interesting, his solo music, his 17 years as a member of the reformed band, Big Star, and much more.

And don't forget to visit Jon's episode page at SongwriterStories.com, which includes a specially built Artist Sampler.

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--Dave Caruso / Host

#Jon Auer #The Posies #SongwriterStories.com #Dave Caruso #Music Interview #Songwriting Interview #Songwriters #Frosting On the Beater

[twinkandwink]

The Posies - Festival FNAC Inrockuptibles, Paris 4th/5th November 1993

#the posies #the posies band #settimes #jon auer #ken stringfellow #mike musburger #dave fox #powerpop #indie #indie music #gigs #bands #band photography #gig photography #paris #fnac #fnac inrockuptibles #festivals #britpop #the auteurs #the booradleys #pooka #pulp #pulp band #teenage fanclub

[mattrumtumtugger]

Don't waste your heart

#don't waste your heart #dixie chicks #fly #country #cover #Matt Legard #the colourflies #blackhouse records #Ken Stringfellow #Jon auer

[clemsfilmdiary]

Lady in the Dark (1944, Mitchell Leisen)

10/25/18

#40s #Lady in the Dark #Ginger Rogers #Kurt Weill #musical #Ray Milland #Warner Baxter #Jon Hall #Barry Sullivan #Mischa Auer #drama #romance #psychoanalysis #career women #magazine #fashion #dreams #fantasies #trauma #editors #color #gay #technicolor #Classical Hollywood #circus #Easter #femininity #movie stars #stage adaptation #psychiatrists

[whatsthesound]

Bella Hay w/ Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Jody Stephens & JB Meijers, “You Get What You Deserve“ (Live, 2012)

Among the songs from the first two Big Star records, I’d say this one pops into my head more than most. Given how often Big Star is covered, surprised to find that apparently the only recorded covers of this song come from the Alex Chilton and Big Star tribute albums (and of those two, the Idle Wilds’ readily beats Big Citizen’s).

But I like the vocal take of Bella Hay (of a band called Tears & Marble) here, backed by the remainder of latter day Big Star, alongside a fellow Dutch musician, at a Big Star tribute show in Amsterdam.

#bella hay #you get what you deserve #big star #the posies #tears & marble