Hey there Howe, how the hey are ya? Still trampin the globe I’m glad to see, be glad to see ya in Whelans, free Whelan.
Stay magic.

FYI – I took the picture above at Wavelab studios (Tucson, AZ) in January of 2001 during the recording of Cover Magazine.

Yesterday’s concert in Barcelona was one of the BEST I have ever been to. I think we all would have like to spend all night long listening to you. Thank you! Please do come back – we already miss you!

DEMAND: Any possibility to buy the “red cd” somewhere??

Best regards.

NOTE: Here you are my right e-mail in case we can get any good news about the red album…..
Ta!

Hey Howe, I saw you guys play at Club
congress the other week. Awesome show! Anyway you don’t know me. I’m from Edmonton and I’m just here for a couple months. I’m old friends of friends of yours up there. I used to work with Patti Hack at the Black Dog 14 years ago and I still see her quite a bit. I’m also old friends with Mark Davis, Shyler, Saera and that whole gang. Anyway, Mark told me before I came down here that you might be hosting an open mic down here and I’d just like to know where and when so I can come down and play a little. Anyway take it easy.
Gig

Howe we had such a great time at the Congress. I had been drinking when I told you our cat’s name is Howe, it’s actually Pandakins. We would have driven from Portland Oregon (or Portland Maine) but Austin was enough. Beautiful.

Wonderful.

hey mr gelb

i’m addicted to your music, man.
that’s about all i have to say about it, except that youe NEED to come to san diego and play for us soon (preferably at the casbah)

thanks for the sounds

matt

Howe

Been thinking of you

So I consulted the internet to catch up. Good to see everything still rolling along. I also have some more albums to buy. Saw Giant Sand play at Nita’s Hideaway must have been in 98 or 99 or something like that- met you in the parking lot briefly, little did you know how impressed I was. Probably one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen- it was otherworldy.

I’m elsewhere now- Florida. Would love to see a show here in the swamp.

Anyway, thanks for the music.
As you were.

Here’s is what i’ve just posted on my blog, it says it best perhaps. would be longer, but it’s 3 am, and work rares it’s ugly head in a few short hours.
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for probably a sum total of 2-3 years, off and on but usually on, this song, and this band, was my wakeup music. i was working at a camelot music at the time, my second job. many a time i picked up a seemingly random cd or artist, just to see what they sounded like. sometimes i was attracted by the cover, the bandmembers, the producer, sometimes just the Label. i think it was the cover art that caught my eye on this one. and the fact that the cd cover was recycled cardboard. and maybe it was that i felt as if i was in chains and, most of the time, quite glum. i noticed Tucson Arizona on the back of the cd, and instantly purchased it. i moved here from Tucson, and anything from there catches my eye and, at least at that time, reminded me of a far better place and a far happier time.

when it’s time to fly come morning
the spider smiles and says – nope
he’s grown to love the way your wings feel

i instantly liked the music on the cd, different definately. smart, thoughtful. never heard anything like it and i doubt i will again.
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thanks man.
if i’m ever out there again, and i hope to be, you’ve got a drink coming to you.

Valis
http://valiskeogh.livejournal.com

Well, there simply isn´t such a thing as a “bad” Howe/Giant Sand-Album. His/their albums are the quintessential “growers”, always had to forge an new set of ears for every new disc, first thinking “now, but THIS one´s a letdown, it´s too weird”, just to put it days later on in my TOTAL FAVORITES list. Lotsa Lotsa ears lying around at my home in Landsberg, germany now.
Howe´s music ain´t unbelievable, over the top, phantastic etc., as albums described in this way tend to be forgotten soon after their high praise.
Howe is my musical and harmony companion, he supplies my life with its custom-made soundtrack for years and years to come, sure. Wrote this after once more listening to the guitar blast-assault of GLUM in succession to the infinite sadness and melancholy of HISSER. Now for the majesty of CHORE.
Mr. Yellow (that´s what “gelb” means in german, think howe knows that already), I owe you very very much, no day passes without me listening to your music or at least thinking of it.
Hope to see you on a stage in the future…
Bye, Thomas

That 125 is nice…so is the Kluson headed DeArmond thing in the blonde case. Nice meeting you! Hope you are well.

Really enjoyed the Barbican show, loved the hat. So hungover the next day I can’t rememebr what the encore was…..Immigrant Song???? Any one out there know?

Hi, Howe.
What a gig yesterday night in Valencia!!Magnificent!! Simply precious.
Thanks for your music.
Come back soon!!

when will you be in the uniterd states? and new york city? i would really love to hear you live. i only have chore of enchantment – shiver is timeless, what other records should i check out?
yours,
U.S.

Thank you for the concert in Sevilla.
It was full of sensibility and emotion

Hi,

I saw a show with you and Giant Sand is Edmonton Alberta. this was years and years ago (10 ish). You had come over to my friend and I so we could admire your new (at the time) mesa boogie from the crowd. The band was playing an instrumental of either blue moon or moon river. I think u had admired your opening act The Naked and the Dead.

anyway… just wanted to let u know i love our music.

how did howe manage to man age to show in my dream before he called and left a soundbite worthy of archive, a dream in which you were making music on a PC laptop in a wooden cabin where your wife milled about doing chores and children purposefully wandered. your brother–you do have a brother right?–drove up in an International with wooden siding to make the bed deeper, and told me that my friend hank, current touring buddy, slide player, was reminiscent of your dad. then, rudy and I were outside making beats on my macbook, and you asked, without turning around, to hook up my macbook to your pc and kept recording once it was all hooked up. then you left a messge. perhaps quantum physics can explain. see you next summer?

So mr. gelb,

and now a post in terms of saying “come on Franconia (northern Bavaria) isn’t that bad, that it deserves that severe lack of sand music”. Especially Bayreuth is the perfect location for an intimate gig when you’re back in Germany.

Looking forward seeing (hearing) you out here.

cheers guidO

p.s. If you might prefer, we can also offer a village actually named Sand for such a purpose.

Mr Howe- Giant Sandworms Rule! Isn’t the internet a great thing? What’s it been- 27 years since those seminal recordings on South Scott? Listened to Bob Bish play your tunes as I drove out of town to NY and it seems like yesterday! I haven’t gone any where since!
Gene

Thanks for deliverin’ the shiver.

Thanks Howe (and Mitzi, Nick, Ned, Kevin, Gabe, Rudy, etc ) for such a great show at Club Congress remembering Rainer……His energy definitely was in the room- wonderful show and evening-bittersweet and full of love. .It was absolutely incredible when you,Kevin, Mitzi and Nick were all on guitar..We were in the front row and immersed in a wall of amazing sound………..It was SO sweet seeing Sophie and your kids there..blew me away when they were singing..Sweet, sweet, sweet! .They are beautiful and it really made the show extra-special for me; I wish I’d had a chance to say hi to Sophie….send her my love and blessings……..brings back a lot of birth center memories for me…..
I’ve been listening to Rainer and to the Inner Flame all week, not knowing it was the anniversary of his passing until I read about the show at Club Congress in the Weekly. I’ve definitely been tuned into his energy being alive and around us this week…..
Bought the Westwood Sessions and glad to hear all the proceeds are going to Patti and the kids……Thanks for keeping the music going and the memories alive….. Hoorah for the thriving Tucson music scene and I’m grateful for you and for Rainer; early and on-going heart and soul of the music here…..Barb Cooper

Love your music…it’s changed me, thank you. I think we lived through the same flood. I was a baby in Seguin, TX. Mom lost her piano too…the Electrolux still works though.
Dad rebuilt the house after spending several nights sleeping alone in the garage with a shotgun.
…good times.
Best,
C

Howe,

I Love You!!

hi there, i’d been following you for a long time. really loved most of the stuff you performed and recorded. over all: the listener, still lookin good to me, AAaA, sand’s cover magazine+it’s all over the map and down home recordings. saw you performing several imes…sorry, i bought provisions the day it came to shops and sounds grey, with very few ideas and often boring…
well that’s how it sounded to me. wait for the next!!! ciao, take care. C.

Happy Birthday Howe

Howdy Howe, shame your Dublin slot had to be cancelled – our fault or otherwise. Best of luck on your onward trail, hope to see you back here soon – on the seventh wave.

You rule, Mr. Gelb. I love proVISIONS and the supplement, too. Not to mention OP8. And Blacky Ranchette. Did I mention OP8? And the stuff under your own name is really fucking cool. And so on.

I mean, shit, here I am writing a mash note–what’s up with that? I wrote one once to Charles Schultz when Linus lost his blanket–I was outraged and most concerned–and one to Neil Young around the time of Ragged Glory. Schultz wrote back; Neil did not.

I’m lucky to write 3 or 4 songs a year, so it blows me away to see all you do, seemingly all at the same time. My game plan is to make my next CD as much like proVISIONS as possible. I would be honored to be sued by you, though I am entertain no illusions that A) my next CD will sound anything like proVISIONS; B) I will find the time or money to actually make a next CD; C) you would ever hear said next CD if I were to find the time or money to make it; or D) you would in the least feel threatened, or flattered, or anything other than, you know, bored, if you were in fact to hear said next CD, which I’ll probably never find the time or money to make, but would want to sound like proVISIONS if I did.

I bid you fondue.

Nic

aloha !

did not own any of your records. do now. It’s not that i never buy music. i do. the show in ghent changed all that. it was pure. thanks guys. did not own any sarah blasko records either. do now. liked the zara jokes. ha !

Howe Gelb!!!
I loves you Mr. and your musical stylings. Big hugs from Edmonton.
xo
Liesel PJ

You forgot to mention working for Shel Vale in your history of Howe Gelb. Wasn’t that a seminal period for you? How’s Rick?

ho howe,

saw you in munich, this winter. saw you before – welll, i guess nearly 15/20 years before… – in cologne (couple of times).

seeing you in munich was so great.. it was the best moment for a long time. hit me really deep. makes me feel real proud..don not no why…..

new record is fantastic. nice to hear there are human beeings out there…

j.

I don’t suppose you’d ever come to Salt Lake? …. naaah, its kinda creepy here …. but I heard my first song of yours and I’ve understood everything you’ve played/sang since, like you were …. me … how I love your work …

just saw you and your band on a pbs show…..i love pbs…..took a look online for you and your stuff and i like it, i like it…….its cool how much you get to travel, too…..peace

Hey Howe!

Great gig at the Ritz in Manchester UK the other month.

You were a suprize, a dusty, wood-biting suprize. Mechanical yet organic, i liked it!

So well done for doing good in Manchester!

I remember Hurricane Agnes pretty well – I shun houses with basements. I’ve never seen or heard you cover a Warren Zevon song, but figure you’re cut from the same bolt of jute. I’d like to hear that sometime, and especially Carmelita.