Grandaddy

They also encouraged me to grow a beard. Rock on.

oh, well, they split up

a real shame.

Suxxor that they likely won't tour for their swan song. Although there's no tellin' if Fambly Cat will be Sumday II or a return to Sophtware and/or ...Freeway form. If the former perhaps we should just immerse ourselves in the latter and thank Lytle & Co. for sharing the two with us.

All in all, Grandaddy'll be missed.

this question is somwhat ridiculous as there are zillions of people that know what Sophtware Slump is as opposed to 50 who know what P&J stands for

SEARCH: A friend of mine turned me on to "MGM Grand," which is a great direction for their sound, more uptempo, lyrics less cloaked in dumb metaphors and just concerned with telling this kind of freaky, dream-like story of some kids throwing a sick lion off the roof of a building. The one track by them that I'll be putting on mixtapes twenty years from now, and for which I'll really mourn their breakup, is "Protected From The Rain," a very simple, affecting (somewhat emo-y) ballad.

DESTROY: All album titles. Maybe those were why it was hard to get really excited about a Grandaddy album coming out. I mean... "Just Like The Fambly Cat"?

their beards were what were so great about them! they didn't even remotely look like the kinds of guys that would be making soaring ELO inspired synth epics! they looked like a bunch of skaters!

http://www.stewdio.org/jed/

-- kyle (akmonda...), Today 1:05 PM. (akmonday)

Jason Lytle was a pro-skater prior to blowing his knee to bits and taking up music.

To you folks unfamiliar with Grandaddy's hometown/base, they were from MODESTO, CA. I don't know how many of you have ever been there, but guys, this is not Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego... it's the backward suburban central valley that Steve Malkmus paid tribute to with "Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends/We'll watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame"... and unlike Pavement (SM in Portland/Spiral in Seattle), Grandaddy were lifers.

I hadn't seen them since their record release party for Sophtware Slump at the Cafe Du Nord in June 2000 (it was a great show). I actually only heard one song of their's since then ("Now It's On" which I think is a great song!) but I often see members around (friends of friends) and they're always been really cool, mellow dudes, dudes.

Steve

the rugged and splintered entertainment center is a top post-sumday tune too.

I was at the same show! And I was also next to the girl who was sick! Wow.

Didn't Elbow support if I remember rightly? I bought the Any Day Now EP that night I believe.

Heh...that one bugs the hell out of me.

it is from the POV of a lost cat, therefore = most ILX friendly song ever

only heard the new one once, but it sounded kinda blah to me? will give it another go, my wife loves this dude, so i'll probably be hearing it a lot.

I started with that one song (track 10) because it was recommended. It's not an even album but the standouts are as good as Grandaddy.

Summer festival tour dates in August 2016 are being made public - there's been a new album in the works for a while now, probably ready?

New song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50LoackQM0

lovely stuff ty

Blimey. Not thought of this band in years but quite like that.

Looking at Discogs, is it right that this will be their first recorded output in 10 years?

Yes, first in ten years and very promising it is.

There was a live set on one of the torrent sites yesterday. I thought I hadn't heard of the band being active in years.

The album's been delayed to next year, btw. Recent live set:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/grandaddy-au-cabaret-vert

Cabaret Vert festival, 26 Aug 2016, Charleville-Mézières, France

Hewlett's Daughter
El Caminos in the West
Laughing Stock
The Crystal Lake
My Small Love
Chartsengrafs
Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake
Disconnecty
Now It's On
Way We Won't
Summer Here Kids
A.M. 180
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot

Now It's On is a jam.

Nice!

Not wowed by the new track. Sounds to me like a slightly sluggish amalgam of the go in the go for it and OK with my decay. I wasn't so keen on post-sumday material but this seems like a weary retreat.

Tragic news:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373

Damn. RIP Kevin.

GoFundMe page set up to help his family pay for medical/funeral expenses, etc.

whoa, RIP. I hung out for an afternoon on Grandaddy's tour bus a million years ago and they were all super friendly guys.

Wow, just found out about this. He recorded one of my band's first studio session probably a good million years before tylerw was on their bus.

New interview (and, separately, new song video) with Jason L.

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/06/20/533045354/with-new-video-grandaddy-finds-humor-in-grief

new Grandaddy song, released last Month

https://www.facebook.com/jasonlytle/videos/vb.64053877826/450247192595652
https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/

I like the new song.

Sounds nice enough, haven't quite decided whether I'd throw Lytle $10 though ...

https://jasonlytle.bandcamp.com/album/the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano

(That sounds really snarky of me, it's not really meant to).

awwww

Whoa.. This is good! He'll get my $10 no problem.

Oh, it's happening as a physical item now.

http://eustore.dangerbirdrecords.com/products/677628-grandaddy-the-sophtware-slump-on-a-wooden-piano-cd-bundle

don't give in 2000 man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxvjMPZeZE

they kill me every time <3

should never have left the crystal lake

hope there's some sad robots on the album. but I'll buy it either way, it's what they deserve.

Blu Wav is out there and it's very nice.

such a lovely album yeah

bought it, listening now, suddenly feeling really depressed. coincidence?

it's more melancholy than depressing to me but I can see it could be, yeah