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5 years since you've been gone & portland radio special

every year it's always hard to face this day. it's especially hard this year for me since half of the site's years have been with elliott being no longer with us. it goes without saying that i wish we were blessed with more time with elliott in our lives but i think we are all appreciative of the time elliott has been a part our lives before his passing and after. the beautiful thoughts and actions by elliott and everyone who loves elliott and his music outshines the bad of this day every year and will forever. the tributes, the messages fans have been leaving, the personal feelings and thoughts show how elliott still will be here in many ways. thank you all for remembering elliott today and everyday. i know it goes long way for elliott's memory but for ourselves too because this shared experience means a lot to so many of us. we miss elliott dearly and send love...

thank you to emily for sending us info about a program that she is doing on oregon public broadcasting. emily is the host of "think out loud" and they are doing a a program looking at elliott's legacy called "elliott smith, five years later". she will have amazing guests on and they already have a super rare song ('coraliza') from elliott's pre-heatmiser band with garrick duckler, 'a murder of crows', on the site through the link below. here is emily with more information:

just wanted to alert you to a program looking at elliott smith's legacy that's tomorrow (october 21, 2008) on think out loud, oregon public broadcasting's daily talk show. we welcome calls and comments on our blog. the link is here:

www.opb.org/thinkoutloud - just click on the "elliot smith, five years later" link.

guests on the show include long-time friend and early collaborator garrick duckler, music journalist corey dubrowa, heatmiser co-founder neil gust and autumn de wilde, author of elliott smith. you can also hear a rare early song, coraliza, by elliott smith and garrick duckler, on the site.

the show is live streamed and broadcast at 9 am pacific time, and will be archived on the site permanently. (10.21.08)

more elliott smith tributes, radio tribute & video tribute!

yay! more tributes. thank you to everyone again for making these amazing efforts to remember elliott at this time in such a positive light in the hardest time of year for us. you guys are amazing. thanks so much and i hope everyone has a great time at these shows and the other tributes listed here: tribute shows page.

newtown, sydney: there is going to be a tribute show at the vanguard in newtown, sydney on october 21st. details are can be found at http://www.thevanguard.com.au/. (thanks to matt)

montreal, canada: i just wanted to let you know that i am organizing a tribute show for elliott in montreal. proceeds will go to the es memorial fund. the tribute show is at l'esco (4467 st. denis street (at mont royal)). october 21st - live music all night! starts at 9:00. (thanks kieren)

prince edward island, canada: just thought you should know that there is an elliott smith tribute show in a little city named charlottetown, in prince edward island canada. the show is being held at baba's lounge on oct 21, 2008. (thanks to dennis)

hamburg, germany: i am organising an elliott smith memorial (for the third time in a row now...) in hamburg, germany. i am currently working on the poster and the flyers, which i will be posting soon (i would be happy if you could send them via bulletin or else, when they..re done). the memorial is gonna take place on friday, 24.10.2008, 10 pm @ karo ecke, marktstrasse 92, 20359 hamburg (karoviertel). we'll have some guitars and stuff around, anyone who feels like it, is free to play some tunes. i will be showing lucky thirteen, strange parallel, as well as some live shows, interviews, clippings and music videos... after all the visuals i will be dj-ing, putting on a lot of elliott tunes as well as country/folk, singer-songwriter and indie stuff, related with or familiar to elliott's music. it's gonna be a nice, cuddly evening and i hope a lot of people from the area will join me!! (thanks to saskia)

uk radio tribute: on tuesday the 21st of october, leeds student radio will be broadcasting a tribute to elliott smith, including interviews and songs. the tribute will be part of a programme called 'big elephants' and we'l be encouraging people to email and text in requests and messages. the show will start at 8pm uktime, but can be heard not only in the uk but around the world from the stations webiste; www.lsrfm.com (special thanks to rich)

video tribute: thank you to cedric for sending us info about a video tribute that started on the 17 and will end on 31st. here is cedric with more information: i am working to produce a tribute to elliott smith here in belgium...ten or more acoustic sessions with bellgian and international bands, recorded and released on video on website www.lesoir.be, first frenchspeaking website in belgium, the website of newspaper le soir. we'll begin the hommage to elliott smith, called "ballads for elliott smith", october 17 th...you can also find us on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=90437805130

acoustic guitar magazine, a murder of crows, rare video interview, a tape op blog and prolific!

thank you to missingyou on sweet addy for posting information that the latest issue of acoustic guitar magazine (november 2008, issue 191) features an article and tablature for elliott's song 'between the bars.' it is under the 'contemporary classic' section of the magazine and it also includes lyrics and chords. the magazine should be showing up on newstands now and if you would like more information about what the issue is covering, please go here: acoustic guitar magazine.

last week, we were lucky to get an email from collin oldham. collin played cello on a track on one of elliott's early bands, a murder of crows. a murder of crows was comprised of steve smith (elliott smith) and garrick duckler who was previously in stranger than ficition with elliott as well. the band fell between elliott's high school band, stranger than fiction, and what would become heatmiser. collin recently found his copy of the record and was kind enough to share this rare cover for a murder of crows' from their first and only cassette, the greenhouse and share his experience recording his cello part with a murder of crows. thank you to collin for sharing this rare and insightful information with us! here is collin with some awesome memories (p.s. click on the image on the left for a larger version of it):

"well, that was a long time ago, but i can tell you what i remember. my friend (now sister-in-law) sara harris, was a violinist and friend of garrick at lincoln hs. she had played on some earlier stranger than fiction thing, and she got us together. no, wait there's another connection! garrick and i were camp counselors together the previous summer (1987) so he may have just called me himself. anyway, the session itself took place in a basement of a house up in portland heights, near ainsworth school. a basement on a hill, as it were. it was probably jason hornick's parent's house. i remember meeting steve (not quite elliott to the real world yet) and he was kind of quiet and intense with a dry and opaque sense of humor. he was serious about the music, though, even though he didn't really have all the tools yet. and as you can hear from the tape, neither did i! ;) i only played on one track "chinatown." i listened to the mix they had, which was pretty much everything but the cello, a couple times and then went into the recording room, which was a little closet under the stairs. there were no charts, and i just had to figure out it was in c minor. i just improvised over the song 2 or 3 times, and they used what they wanted. i guess they didn't have very good editing tools, because they didn't do much to save me from embarrassing myself with wrong notes and aimless noodling, but iI guess there are one or two good ideas in there. and that was that. one footnote: after graduating from college in 1991, i moved back to portland for a year, and got a job selling bread and coffee at le panier in old town. elliott was making sandwiches in back. i remembered him as steve, and he told me he was elliott now, and he really did seem to be much more comfortable with himself. we'd sometimes hang out on break, and he'd make humorous references that would blow right by me. it's a real shame he's gone now. good for him for getting some good music together before he went."

thanks to elwin for emailing us at the the official elliott smith myspace page about a rare interview that they recently added to youtube. it features an interview with elliott that is circa 1998 and one of the earliest live performances of 'happiness.' i never even realized he played that song as early as 1998 other than seeing it in the dreamworks promo film, 'strange parallel. also there is a cool mention about elliott's first time ever playing at talent show (he covered the beatles' blackbird). anyway here is the video:

thanks to packyourownchute for posting on sweet addy that larry crane recently added a blog entry to his tape log blog about how is in the middle archiving and cataloging elliott's music still. this quick entry talks about how larry cataloging 1.5 tb of music files, how he is going about organizing it and mr.toad helped with the transfers of the music and file system. it's really cool to know larry is still spending a lot of time working on elliott's music :)

finally, thank you to mitchell for letting us know elliott tops prolific magazine's '8 best get-over-a-break-up albums' list. elliott's 'from a basement on the hill' is their #1 pick. if you are interested in checking out the other artists on the list including why 'from a basement on the hill' is #1, please go here: prolific magazine (10.7.08)

athens, greece, new brunswick, nj, fort wayne, in, lansing, il, & japan tribute updates!

thank you to everyone for all the amazing updates with additional tribute shows. thank you again to everyone involved. we have an amazing list of shows in our tribute shows page if you want to check out the latest updates. i have other tribute shows to add this week too plus other news. please come back at least a couple more times this week to see new updates. thanks again to everyone who are putting these shows on and to fans who were kind enough to send an email in to share the news :)

athens, greece: thanks to for glorybox posting a message via the official elliott smith myspace page that there is going to be a tribute in athens, greece on october 21st. the tribute is going to be at bios (peiraios 84, athens) and tickets will be sold for 3 euros and proceeds will be going to charity! 11 bands will be playing and if you are interested in more information, please go here.

lake charles, la: the lake charles elliott smith tribute will be held october 21st, 2008 at luna bar & grill in the garden. this will mark 5 years since the loss of singer/songwriter elliott smith. all proceeds from the event will go to the elliott smith memorial fund, which donates 100% to free arts for abused children. (http://www.freearts.org/) any songwriters or musicians who would like to play a few songs at the benefit, contact me here. october 21st, 2008 luna bar & grill lake charles, la time and price to be determined. more info soon http://www.myspace.com/elliottsmithlc.

new brunswick, nj: on wednesday october 22, my band meet me in montauk (www.myspace.com/mmim) will be hosting an elliott smith tribute at the harvest moon in new brunswick, nj. performing the music of elliott smith will be ritchie monteiro, david asher, cameron boyd, billy perez, andrew goulburn and matt prol. we will be playing a lot of really great material, spanning elliott's career, capped off with a full band performance of some elliott songs by meet me in montauk. this will mark our 3rd elliott smith tribute show, the others have all gone off very well and we are expecting this one to be the best yet! the harvest moon is located at 392 george st. in new brunswick, nj 08901. the show will be 21+ and should be starting at 10 pm. please come out and join us in a celebration of elliott's life. if there are any questions please contact me via the meet me in montauk myspace page linked above. hope to see you there! (special thanks to andrew)

fort wayne, in: hey, i just wanted to let you know,iI am hosting an elliott smith tribute show in fort wayne, indiana on friday, october 24th! it's going to be at the brass rail (1121 broadway, fort wayne, in 46802). show will probably start at 10pm. 21 and older only. Iight long. it will feature local musicians/bands doing elliott smith covers all night long. the main band playing is lee miles & the illegitimate sons. there also will be others. anyone interested in playing at it should send me a message at kelljm02@gmail.com. thanks! (special thanks to jon!)

lansing, il: i'm writing to let you know about another tribute show. for the the third year in a row, we are having our elliott sith tribute show in lansing,ilL (just south of chicago). the date is october 25th, and begins at 6 pm. the shop is located at 3429 ridge rd. in lansing. we haven't decided on exactly what the cover will be but it will go to charity. the only confirmed acts we have so far are matt heckler, todd stephanuik, and matthew novak. we are looking for more local musicians who adore mr. smith to play, so please have them e-mail me at theysangthesolo@gmail.com --- thanks a bundle. special thanks to matt!)

japan update: i thought that i would let you know when and where the concert is for those people that may be in japan but cannot read japanese. the concert was actually moved to november 1st and will be in hiroshima at the yokugawa cinema. advance tickets are 3300yen (about $33) and tickets at the door are 3800yen (about $38). the doors open at 6pm and the concert starts at 7pm. the title of the concert is future butterfly - tribute to elliott smith.

title: future butterfly - tribute to elliott smith tribute
by shugo tokumaru + kicell
location is in hiroshima - yokogawa cinema roughly
40~60 minutes from hiroshima airport.
tickets pre-sale are roughly:
$31.00 presale ?3,300(D?)
$36.00 at the door ?3,800(D?) (special thanks to karl and malixi) (10.06.08)

kansas city, mo, london, omaha, nebraska, and japan tributes/memorials

how awesome :) we got some more tributes/memorial shows to post. thanks again to anyone who does these kind of shows and get togethers. it is really awesome of you guys. don't forget to check out our tribute shows page to get a complete listing of the tribute shows coming up.

kansas city, mo: this will be the third installment of the elliott smith memorial show! our feelers are out on some repeat musicians, and we''d also like to extend an invitation to anyone in our area who would be willing to take the time to learn the songs of elliott smith and perform them for an appreciative crowd. it is a benefit show that, in the past, has raised over $1600 for underprivileged children to learn to play an instrument, which has proven to be an excellent booster of intellect and ability to learn standard academics.

* where: the brick, 1727 mcgee, kansas city, mo * sunday, oct. 19 @ 10p.m. *cost: $5 - $7 * age limit: 21+ (thanks to jeremy for sending this in!)

london: just thought i'd let you know that to mark the 5th anniversary of the passing of the greatest songwriter of our generation, the following event will be taking place in london to raise money for esmf:

21st october 2008
'a fond farewell - a tribute to elliott smith 1969-2003', the fox & firkin, lewisham high street, lewisham, london SE13

dexy (http://www.myspace.com/dexyspace), ross drummond (http://www.myspace.com/rossdaviddrummond), the new happiness (http://www.myspace.com/thenewhappiness)

all playing sets of elliott/heatmiser songs. it is free entry as most shows at this bar are, but we will be encouraging people to give as generously as possible to esmf. the bar manager has already said that they will be making a contribution and all of us playing will be donating the money we would make from the show to esmf. please do come along london people and help us celebrate elliott's life and music. (thanks to dexy for sending this in!)

omaha, nebraska: i'd appriciate it very much if you wouldn't mind posting a blog or bulletins about an event being held in omaha on the 21st of october. i've contacted saddle creek records and a few local organizations asking them to also help spread the word. If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email. margaretmcmakin@gmail.com thank you so much. xox

elliott smith candlelight memorial and tribute, gene leahy mall, 6-11pm october 21st, 2008, omaha, nebraska

if you are free on october 21st and are a fan of elliott smith who lives in the omaha area, i'd love to invite you to be a part of the celebration of elliott's life. plan to meet by the slides @ gene leahy mall, 6pm. local musicians, poets, artists and fans feel free to gather by candlelight and pay tribute to such an influential artist. please feel free to come with your guitars. performance will be encouraged--plan for a big sing-along. :) we will have acess to electricity, so plugging in speakers/amp for microphone is possible. if interested in helping with planning, please feel free to call margaret at 402.968.9021. a donation basket will be passed around throughout the evening, with all donations going straight to the memorial fund. we can never have enough candles, so feel free to bring some of your own if you like. there will also be candles provided (until the supply runs out) (thanks to margaret for sending this in!)

japan: thank you to katie for posting on sweet addy that there is an upcoming tribute in japan in november with shugo tokumaru and kicell. the show is november 1st but i am not sure where, what time and how much it will be but if you are able to read a japanese site, please check out shugo's official site here for more information! http://blog.shugotokumaru.com/

portland, maine & antwerp, belgium tributes, unreleased song update + more

yay! it's always great see some tribute shows being planned for this time of year. so far we got 2 great elliott smith tribute shows coming up and wanted to thank everyone involved for keeping elliott's memory alive. the first tribute show is going to be in portland, maine on october 21st. thanks to don for sending us info about and here he is with more information:

"i wanted to make sweet adeline aware of a tribute show being held for elliott in portland maine. it will be on october 21st, 2008 at slainte lounge, 20 preble street, portland maine 04101 from 8pm to midnight. local artists will be featured playing covers of elliott's music and any donations will be forwarded to the memorial fund.""

thank you to bart and alexandra for sending us info about another tribute happening on october 23rd in antwerp, belgium. here is bart with more information:

theres gonna be a tribute in antwerp, belgium on the 23rd of october. it will be held in a venue called trix, doors will open at 20.00 and tickets will be 12 euros.

the tribute is organised due to the 5th year anniversary of elliott's death. the tribute is organised by tim vanhamel. who is most famous of his work in the excellent belgian band "millionaire", but who also plays in "eagles of death metal" with "queen of the stone age's" josh homme. he and a bunch of friends (all notable artists of the belgian pop scene!) will be playing a bunch of elliott songs this evening. first of all tim's own band will be there. then there will be bert ostyn (absynthe minded), pascal deweze (sukilove) and several members of the pornbloopers. jan wygers (creature with the atom brain) will be dj-ing. more artists might be confirmed later! heres a link to the site to buy tickets or more info: http://www.trixonline.be/site/content/programma.asp?id=284."

kevin moyer was kind enough to visit sweet addy and give us a couple of updates about the unreleased elliott smith song that is slated to appear on the upcoming 'live from nowhere near you vol. 2.' the benefit record. kevin touches on where the record is all together and info about larry crane finding the multitracks for the unreleased song and is in the process of remixing the song. here is more from kevin:

'rest assured EVERYTHING IS ON TRACK everything is good, everything is moving faster now, so please no conspiracy theories, it'll likely be closer to the end of the quarter/end of 2008 as mentioned before, if not just a bit after. its really going to depend on what label ends up getting this thing and what their schedule is / needs, but everything on my end is going splendidly. still waiting on ryan adams to turn in his track but he is crazy prolific so i'm not worried, i'm getting a great picture of elliott from james mercer, we're working on the artwork, and i'm final mixing the last batch of songs and doing a drum dub session this weekend. i still have to sequence mix and final master, but thats gotta wait until the last songs are in and done anyhow, so i still intend to have this physical thing (music and packaging) completed by november or so and then it will depend on how long the label needs to print and release them after that. its funny you (jokingly) mention punch and judy, i think larry had suggested an alt version of that song as one of the many we considered, it was a little faster perhaps different drums? and not really what i was looking for in terms of the albums vibe/story anyhow...so anyways we're still on and getting more done than ever before but still i fear i've said too much with too many specifics so please don't get too worked up, i just don't feel its fair to keep saying "soon" although it really and truly should be, so i will make sure to come here and personally tell you what confirmed release date we have settled upon, along with the song name and a full album contributor list, once that is all figured out. anyways, thank you all for your interest and love and support and greed and patience and patience again.

larry crane found the multitrack for the to-be-released-on-lfnny song and is working on a better mix of it this week. he sure is awesome."

thank you to jessica and mitchell for sending the following elliott mentions

jessica: this article is about the theater fire but mentions elliott, their cover of say yes and the future butterflies documentary. http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-09-18/music/another-matter-entirely/

mitchell: npr recently did a feature of jazz rock covers and one of the covers featured is madeleine peyroux cover of 'between the bars.' here is the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94643492 (9.26.08)