BAIN wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvzvUbp-tI
East Bay, first show in 21 years.
scannest wrote:Blake read Keats' poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn" before they started because OF COURSE HE DID.
Dude cracks me up.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:Dude's an English professor at Hunter or was (not sure if he still is given the interview I read about why the reunion is happening), so it's kinda appropriate, I think.
scannest wrote:Blake read Keats' poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn" before they started because OF COURSE HE DID.
Dude cracks me up.
captain2man wrote:I feel like I'm living vicariously through the guy in the front with the beard.
Chris Shary wrote:The guy in the front with the beard had a really great time.
FlexMyHead wrote:Speaking of Monsula, I heard that when Lance Hahn (RIP) joined them on 2nd guitar they recorded an entire second album that they totally scrapped.
scannest wrote:JGJR wrote:Dude's an English professor at Hunter or was (not sure if he still is given the interview I read about why the reunion is happening), so it's kinda appropriate, I think.
And the drummer for my band (IN CROWD) has a PhD in Media Ecology. Doesn't mean it would be appropriate for him to recite Marshall McLuhan before we played "Geeks at the Mall."
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
scannest wrote:There was no hostility behind my "dude cracks me up" comment. I meant it pretty sincerely - reading a Keats poem before you play is kinda funny, right? Maybe 'ballsy" is a better word. Either way, I would have giggled a little.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
laura wrote: with the replacements, i had to suffer through fucking AFI to get anywhere near the stage.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
laura wrote:if you read this (which is the article i assume JGJR referenced upthread but didn't link to), it sounds like Blake isn't opposed to the idea of more shows after RiotFest. which just means i'll get to see them more than once.
My life was just stopped completely. I don't think I am coming to it from hunger. It was just this huge thing that was sitting right in front of me the whole time. I kind of hit a moment where I was like, I can either apply for 100 jobs and not get them. I mean - dog walking - I couldn't get hired. Which is just a reflection of our economy, I think? Nothing against me or anybody else. I couldn't believe what I couldn't get.
It’s see how it goes. I think we all wanna do a few more to travel for one thing so people don’t have to go to this one festival if they want to see it. For ourselves and for our fans. I’d like to go to South America. I’m not going to get there any other way. [laughing]. We went to Europe a couple times. We’ve never been to Japan. Any place we could go. Everyone is very involved in their own life too. We want to do it in a way that's comfortable. We all agreed that we’d see all this went. If it’s not painful or disastrous then we can hopefully do a couple more. Find something that’s sensible.
The singing in Jawbreaker is really physically demanding for me. I'm just not a singer that way always. Any kind of punk rock band. Your body does things that are based on emotion, rage, and sadness that are not technical. That was my learning how to sing was just through desperately trying to express myself.
FlexMyHead wrote:Well, after watching clips of some of Blake's past solo shows, I was just glad to see him in good spirits and playing out. In those videos he seemed a little off and would (haphazardly) play songs from his back catalog and then random stuff, like him covering that Third Eye Blind song for example. Also, he is totally morphing into Walter Matthau...which is so odd since they used a photo of him on their earlier 7".
BAIN wrote:be on the L(.)(.)KOUT for a Brooklyn show in the next couple of days
"Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker will screen at Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinema on August 31 and September 6 at 7:30 PM. Both will have a Q&A with Blake.
I am patiently waiting for confirmation from my inside crew.
Only rumor at the moment.
BAIN wrote:Bell House is the word on the streets. Private party friday, no shows sat/sunday.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
BAIN wrote:
This was pretty amazing to experience.
BAIN wrote:Jawbreaker 9/17/17
Boxcar
Sluttering (May 4th)
Want
The Boat Dreams From the Hill
West Bay Invitational
Save Your Generation
Jet Black
In Sadding Around
Accident Prone
Million
Parabola
Condition Oakland
Chemistry
Kiss the Bottle
Bivouac
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:Save for the lack of "Chesterfield King," "Tour Song" and "Do You Still Hate Me?" (though to be honest there are always songs they'll miss) that set list is pretty much perfect. I hope that if they tour, the sets would be a bit longer. And the video I saw sounds great.
the mean wrote:... I was stoked to pay them $250 or so when they played in Sacto...
the mean wrote:
This was pretty amazing to experience.
jaybird wrote:Never, ever understood all the hype about this band... didn't get it during their original run, don't get it now.
jaybird wrote:Never, ever understood all the hype about this band... didn't get it during their original run, don't get it now.
FlexMyHead wrote:jaybird wrote:Never, ever understood all the hype about this band... didn't get it during their original run, don't get it now.
Almost sounds like you love to hate them. Maybe you should call a truce and instead of sitting in a river of sadness, step out into the daylight and recognize when love puts on a sad face that some people dig Jawbreaker, but for now, there might be a band you like a ton that others, including a wicked politician, just think they and in betweens. Fuck this joke is stale. Young man in transit. Bandito callin.
SamDBL wrote:jaybird wrote:Never, ever understood all the hype about this band... didn't get it during their original run, don't get it now.
See also: Screeching Weasel. I think these bands are 'good/ok'. Jawbreaker never got their hooks in me. But I think they sound relatively unique (mostly the dude's voice). And I think the lyrics are pretty clever, usually. But I don't understand the tearful reverence for them. Like, tens of thousands of people waiting on baited breath for them to come back. People crying the audience, etc. WTF?
Anyway, I totally called this. Dudes need money. Dudes have a million dollar cash cow just sittin' there. Duh. Any bets on who is next?
FlexMyHead wrote:jaybird wrote:Never, ever understood all the hype about this band... didn't get it during their original run, don't get it now.
Almost sounds like you love to hate them. Maybe you should call a truce and instead of sitting in a river of sadness, step out into the daylight and recognize when love puts on a sad face that some people dig Jawbreaker, but for now, there might be a band you like a ton that others, including a wicked politician, just think they and in betweens. Fuck this joke is stale. Young man in transit. Bandito callin.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
SamDBL wrote:But I think they sound relatively unique (mostly the dude's voice)?
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:...I wouldn't call Blake's vocals unique for that reason. He's always sounded like Richard Butler to me.
scannest wrote:JGJR wrote:...I wouldn't call Blake's vocals unique for that reason. He's always sounded like Richard Butler to me.
Let me say this as politely as I can - get the fuck outta here. Blake's voice was polarizing when those first records came out. The difference between those who loved them and those who didn't frequently came down to your tolerance for his voice. It was their defining feature circa WHACK AND BLITE and UNFUN.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
FlexMyHead wrote:Before Dear You came out, the label had sent a promo 7" to radio stations and I was in college in Virginia and we had heard that WUVT (Virginia Techs) had got a copy and the "punk radio guy" was going to play it, so we gathered around a dorm room and waited for the song and it was Fireman and it started and.......we all went "What the fuck happened to his voice?!?" we thought the vocal sounded so weird and different and couldn't get over what the major label record producers had done to his voice. Ah the innocence of youth having the time and/or energy to get upset about how somebodies voices sounds on a record. Salad days!
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
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