wa·ter - /ˈwôdər,ˈwädər/ (noun)1. a colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that is commonly pinned down and abused for being strange: "Our love is like water."
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I am overcooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
The singer's bouncing so-mo rattail in the "I Alone" video has haunted my dreams for nigh-on 20 years.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
popular haircut with spanish crust punks
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
That performance with tricky on conan is worth a view
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPkktfthLmo
― nomar, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
i love how his "intense" wide-eyed stare resembles no one so much as andy kaufman
― da croupier, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
Can't get enough of this truck you guys.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/6f/81/b36f8172dc1af184ccf2fd6719d11cd8.jpg
All flyin' through the air, blastin' Heaven Wore a Shirt.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CH3XooFWoAQNHsn.jpg:large
The headlights and grill appear to be painted on these things.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxuUogulD2M
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
i bought a couple of this bands albums last year from the cheap bins : 'birds of prey' and 'secret samadhi'.one even came with a live dvd !not sure i have ever made it through either of them.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
live gets some props for using the word "placenta" in a pop song. some
― all my friends are vampires (art), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
ok, as per the premise of the thread : the opening 3 mins of 'the dam at otter creek' is rather good .. the rest of the song is standard college rock, but those gated drums and atmospherics in the build up are kinda cool.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
I have watched "The Dolphin's Cry" maybe 4 or 5 times this week bcz it is so totally bombastic and OTT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBHmcORu4og
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
I genuinely love "Lakini's Juice"
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 28 August 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
same
great karaoke song
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
MORE SKIN
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 August 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/
― mark e, Saturday, 18 February 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
I wuz bored, so read the whole thing… hard to imagine too many others caring for such a lengthy and meticulous accounting of this band’s dirty laundry.
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
i read it for 10 mins, after which i gave up.then i realised that i have 3 albums on cd by LIVE.2 of which i dont think i have ever actually listened to all the way to the end.
― mark e, Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
(to be clear, I’m not shading you for posting it… just surprised RS would go so deep on this subject)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
when tricky played on Conan a couple of years ago, Ed Kowalcyxisbf, Live's singer, sang with tricky. he was dressed like a hippy and had a bandana on to hide his balding scalp (he actually had long hair at the time). although the entire performance was horrendous, Ed kept trying to really get into the song, and he was doing this extremely awkward dance and just generally looked like a weenus. i was lucky enough to have caught it on tape (i was expecting tricky to be much better) and every time i watch this tape a can't help but laugh my ass off. i guess that's a defense.
Had to look this one up. Thank you, YouTubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-eNS8lMltk
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
...he pleaded no contest to felony criminal trespass, felony theft by deception, two counts of felony forgery, misdemeanor stalking, and misdemeanor simple assault, Hynes has been held under house arrest at Live’s former corporate headquarters in York, Pennsylvania
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
“That ended my creativity in the band,” says Taylor, still pained by the memory. “I felt like a married couple where someone says, ‘I’m no longer going to have sex with you. But we’ll stay married.’ It was one of the saddest moments of my life.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
These guys sound more dysfunctional than Fleetwood Mac.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 18 February 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
...he was also willing to fund Taylor’s new band, the Gracious Few — an alt-rock supergroup of sorts featuring Dahlheimer, Candlebox singer Kevin Martin, and Candlebox guitarist Sean Hennesy.
Why couldn't they just call it Candlebox II?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
Soon, though, the band members had to figure out other ways to supplement their income. Taylor tried producing movies, like the 2010 Ernest Borgnine-Cybill Shepherd film Another Harvest Moon
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
“At first I was like, ‘fiber optics?’ ” says Taylor. “ ‘We barely know anything about real estate, let alone fiber.’ ” But Hynes had an idea to lay down a fiber-optic cable that ran directly from New York to Ashburn, Virginia, bypassing the big cities along the I-95 corridor where Verizon and others ran their cables. “I know this sounds weird, but I was like, ‘OK, that sounds like a great idea,’ ” Taylor says. “Somebody said we went from throwing copper to laying cable.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Taylor isn’t broke to the point where he can’t afford his own bison burger, but he’s grateful for the love.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
They probably couldn't use the name (which also comes up in the Live intra-band disputes).
Kind of off-topic, but I recently watched the Go-Gos documentary – I didn't realize how super dysfunctional and shitty to each other that band was in its heyday. Hard feelings over songwriting credits (and, accordingly, publishing $$ split) was a big part of it (which also comes up in the Live thing). It makes me appreciate how smart (and fairly unusual?) it was for R.E.M. to split all their songs evenly, from the beginning.
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
We park and walk into Redeux Vintage, an upscale vintage clothing store where a Billy Joel T-shirt from the Storm Front tour will set you back $75. In the early Nineties, this was Live’s rehearsal space. He points to a corner. “Ed wrote ‘Lightning Crashes’ right here,” he says. “And I wrote ‘Dam at Otter Creek’ right over there. It all happened right in this space.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
And the Go-Go's collaborated with each other on songs in all kinds of combinations. By the third (and best) album Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock contributed first-rate stuff.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
Kind of off-topic, but I recently watched the Go-Gos documentary – I didn't realize how super dysfunctional and shitty to each other that band was in its heyday. Hard feelings over songwriting credits (and, accordingly, publishing $$ split) was a big part of it (which also comes up in the Live thing).
And even then, the Go-Go's doc didn't get into most of the legal fighting - zero mention of the God Bless the Go-Go's reunion album (with some outside songwriters) and the insane legal fighting where at least every member of the band was trying to be fired by the other four.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
I saw a recent-ish TV interview with the Go-Gos where Carlisle said something to the effect that one month they'd all be suing each other, and then the next month four of them would be planning a surprise birthday party for the fifth one.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
It was startling to learn that Charlotte Caffey had a serious heroin addiction for years, and the other members (by their own admission) didn’t really give much of an f? Sounded like the new bassist had to interrupt a South American tour and physically haul her back to CA for rehab, to save her life.(I read afterward that Belinda was also an addict, for decades… I didn’t realize the band’s story was so dark.)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
couldn't help lolling at this - the rest is just sad
the Reading Outlet Center, which they bought for $1 million in 2011 with plans to renovate it as an apartment and retail complex. The building later collapsed.
― StanM, Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
When I first saw the New Radicals I assumed it was Live due to his baldness
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
incredible article, i really enjoyed that
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
same! what a clusterfuck
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 19 February 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link
lol I had to hear abt this from Ned on FB because I would not have opened this thread otherwqis
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 19 February 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
You could probably do a whole series of sadness on these 90s type bands from second hand stories I have heard that was in the orbits of Saliva, Days of the New and Kenny Wayne Shepard let alone the more public melt downs.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 19 February 2023 03:52 (one year ago) link
Behind the scenes, however, the band was falling apart. Taylor says Kowalczyk insisted on taking the lion’s share of the publishing money since he was writing most of the songs, causing tension between him and Taylor that never truly went away. On Live’s next album, in 1999, Taylor says, the singer went further, telling the band he would write the songs entirely by himself, using them as mere support musicians. “That ended my creativity in the band,” says Taylor, still pained by the memory. “I felt like a married couple where someone says, ‘I’m no longer going to have sex with you. But we’ll stay married.’ It was one of the saddest moments of my life.”
a The McLennon Thread: what were The Beatles really about? (evidence presented for consideration) moment
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
i am 99% sure i have never heard "Lightning Crashes" until right now, as it plays on youtube as i type this. "I Alone", that one i heard a lot.
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
there's a thread for you now that you've heard it, KM
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 February 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link
LIGHTNING CRASHES,
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 February 2023 04:58 (one year ago) link
loooooool, thank you neanderthal!
https://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2013-02-04at82712PM_zpsb3e4f4c1.png
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 February 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link