In town for a concert on Monday, members of Bon Iver (French pronunciation bo-nee-VAIR, meaning “good winter”),who earlier this year won the Grammy for Best New Artist and for Best Alternative Album for the self-titled Bon Iver, were given a behind-the-scenes tour of the institution. Whether it was viewing a Babe Ruth scrapbook, a ball from the 1927 World Series or a bat Ted Williams once cracked in frustration, the musicians seemed genuinely enthralled.
“It was amazing to just see the operations and how it works,” said drummer Matt McCaughan. “And to be up close with direct contact to these old artifacts and to see them firsthand was just incredible.
“It’s certainly one of those things that – even though I don’t necessarily follow baseball – it was one of those opportunities I didn’t see how you could not come. I don’t know when I’d be in Cooperstown next.”
...Though he doesn’t have a big league team he follows regularly, McCaughan does attend games of the minor league Durham Bulls in the North Carolina city he now calls home.
“I don’t consider myself a historian but history is certainly an interest of mine,” he said. “And this was just one of those things where it didn’t even have to be baseball, as it is in this case, but you could have the Hall of Fame of anything and I’d want to come see it. In this case it just happened to be a very historic Hall of Fame.”
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1. Walt Davis Posted: September 21, 2012 at 09:00 PM (#4242679)Mac's little brother yes? Pretty sure I saw him in a little jazz combo once.
Still, French pronunciation bo-nee-VAIR, meaning “good winter" makes me not like the band already.
Winter is spelled "hiver" in French, not iver.
To me, it sounded like any of 1000 other groups that basically involve an emotionally fragile bearded man softly crying as he played his acoustic guitar.
Is that to say you didn't care for his more recent eponymous album?
Kind of. I listened to it a couple times when it came out but haven't played it since then. I thought it was a bit overproduced and lost the sort of DIY charm of the first 2. But a lot of people apparently liked it and I don't want to disparage it too much.
Come on now, what is this ####? What if somebody were to say to you, "the Mets are now firmly ensconced in the category of baseball I like to think of as for people who don't really like baseball?" Wouldn't that be kind of crappy? People can't enjoy various genres? What music should people who like music listen to, in your view?
Perhaps, but undeniably accurate.
wait til sam stumbles on to this thread.
Well, if you said the Mets are now firmly ensconced in the category of baseball I like to think of as for people who don't really like themselves, I would have to agree. I was trying to be provocative and it was a bit of a joke, so I'm sorry if I offended. I just find Bon Iver boring and somewhat vacant. I like a little more life to my music. As you note, just a matter of taste.
That sounds more like the Cubs.
I have friends who only know Cam'Ron from Kanye records, which is ####### shameful.
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