Yo La Tengo live

haha, is that right? i don't think i knew that. neil would probably enjoy jamming with ylt. i wonder when the last time was that he played a place the size of maxwell's.

anyone read Jarnow's book?

The centre of the New Jersey trio Yo La Tengo's 1993 album, Painful, features a blurred polaroid of a plate of French fries. Neil Young's French fries. Yo La Tengo's guitarist Ira Kaplan, a moon-faced thirtysomething once described as "the Jewish Jimi Hendrix", had lunched with the grandfather of grunge in a New York restaurant and asked the waitress to wrap his leftover sandwich. Young's uneaten fries were accidentally wrapped with it, and were soon back in the apartment Kaplan shares with his wife Georgia Hubley, Yo La Tengo's drummer, co-vocalist and the daughter of John Hubley, the creator of the cartoon character Mr Magoo. At first they attempted to preserve the historic fries, dating as they did from the week of Young's acclaimed MTV unplugged performance. "Initially, we refrigerated them but, hey, cooked potatoes have a half-life," Kaplan explains. "We thought about varnishing, but eventually we decided on photodocumentation." Lucky. The inherent weirdness of the daughter of the creator of Mr Magoo varnishing Neil Young's French fries for future generations doesn't bear contemplation.

Found this somewhere just now, though I don't remember how I knew about the fries. What's weird about this is how much it misses to mention the importance of Georgia's mom, or her dad's awesome feud with Walt Disney.

xp yeah, i did. i liked it a lot -- it loses a little bit once the band falls into the standard album-tour-album-tour rhythm at the end, but the early stuff is really well done. the peripheral info about maxwell's / wfmu / etc is interesting as well.

i don't think i've read kaplan's interview with neil -- is it online?

Kaplan, Ira. "Interview." Spin. Vol. 8, No. 12. March 1993.

Awesome, I found it in here!

http://books.google.com/books?id=6ADSCfip83cC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=ira+kaplan+spin+neil+young&source=bl&ots=WRr2nwQTOR&sig=wN6MIS6xbscu7nRtK89f5mUAZTY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XYjHUI3bKuiligKYkoDIBQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ira%20kaplan%20spin%20neil%20young&f=false

Page 57.

nice! thx

Real Estate tonight. By far my very favorite newer band. Would have liked to be there and see those guys all jam together. The lead singer told me Yo La Tengo is his biggest influence so this must be really special for them.

sweet f'n jesus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jE-muV7iE

sick! love that bill million is so ocd that even on sister ray he keeps his rhythm part totally together.

totally. An anchor amongst the chaos.

I, uh, ... that didn't seem that chaotic. I guess I'm just burned out on the band.

A poor choice of wording on my part. It's more unpracticed than chaotic. But Bill is dead certain to make every change at the appropriate time while the rest do their best to just keep chugging at whatever speed they can. He keeps it from being too sloppy.

False Alarm (with DW & SD)

want to hear this so bad

jarnow book only recommended if not having read the only yo la tengo book out there is gonna nag at you. some annoying errors, not a lot of insight, but you definitely get a sense of context for the early years

yeahhh, was hoping an nyc taper recording would be forthcoming of the feelie la tengo jamz. those dudes are slacking!

The book is best for examining the early NJ/NYC indie rock scene; YLT is really the frame around most of that discussion.

yeah i almost wish it was more of an our band could be your life book with chapters on the bongos, and the dbs and shit. ylt were such passive participants, and there was so little insight into the personalities or their music (it's referenced how little ira knew about guitar at first, but we never get a real sense of when/how became mr wall of pedals) that would have been better to just be like "and then they lived matadorly ever after"

contrary to earlier rumors, it was El-P and John Oliver tonight.

didnt recognize many of the covers (of which there weren't a lot) aside from "I Can Hear Music"

https://soundcloud.com/nyctaper/19-sister-ray-vu

last time i saw yo la tengo it was "no smoking by request of the artist," fuck them. had bought tickets in advance too.

Hmmm, I used to smoke, but this bothers me not at all any more. Can't you go outside and smoke, or take a break from smoking for an hour? Not that I don't smoke, I can totally understand why non-smokers cannot stand to play in a room full of smoke. Seems more like something the venue needs to be up front about, not the musicians.

Uh, that was supposed to say "Now that I don't smoke"

it's been so long since i've lived in a state where you can smoke in a club.

Yeah, me too. But also, at this point, if I like the musician, I am fully on board with making touring/playing shows as cool for them as possible, especially if they are not millionaires and are still out there fighting the good fight. The cards are mostly stacked against them.

I don't want to breathe someone's cigarette smoke and I don't want my clothes to smell of smoke either. I was so glad when my area jurisdictions banned smoking in nightclubs.

Yeah, I can't believe I used to smell like that all the time. And that I smoked inside, all the time (though not my own apartment/house). In restaurants, and venues, and bars. Seems really stupid in retrospect.

that's cool, if i cared about that kind of shit i would move somewhere like that. however the expectation here is that if one is paying out the ass to see a bunch of old dudes play sister ray for 90 minutes one gets to drink and smoke and talk to one's friends while one does it, not stand outside like an asshole.

Hah, sounds like exactly the wrong way to see Yo La Tengo do their thing to me. I mean, they play a ton of quiet songs, but more power to you. Everyone has their own idea of what makes a good show. I don't really have sympathy for the "I paid money damn it, so I get to do what the fuck I want" argument though. Again, I think your complaint is with the venue. Make them post when shows are non-smoking.

http://www.jambands.com/news/2012/12/13/yo-la-tengo-s-hanukkah-shows-continue-with-special-guests-surprise-covers

Norman Blake tonight. Sorry speculative folks hoping for Keith Richards (not in this thread)!

Has anyone seen the shows they're doing with Amber Tamblyn to promote her book? It's coming to town and I'm wondering if it's worth going to. (Only about 45 minutes of performance, but for $10 that may be OK)

Actress and author Amber Tamblyn and iconic alternative rock band Yo La Tengo will be presenting a very special musical and lyrical hybrid showcase for the book release party in support of Tamblyn’s third book of poetry, DARK SPARKLER, a haunting collection that explores the lives and deaths of more than 25 actresses who died tragically and before their time. The 45-minute show will be a journey intertwining verse and music to tell the emotionally charged stories of these deceased women, some of whom are buried inside The Hollywood Forever Cemetery, as well as Tamblyn’s own dark revelations in researching them over the course of six years.

While I liked the conversation overall, I was really, really unimpressed by the poetry she read on Marc Maron's podcast, so that part doesn't sound appealing to me at all. On the other hand, Yo La Tengo! I might go for 10 bucks.

Ah well, sold out now. Maybe I'll look for it on youtube.

suggest you nab this yo la lambchop set from big ears 2016 while you can! http://sweetblahg.tumblr.com/post/142334976673/yo-la-lambchop-2016-big-ears-festival

I thought the revive might be about their Jersey City performance this weekend, which I'll be working! I don't know what I'll be doing yet, though. My help is needed for something.

security muscle? ylt fans are known to be violent.

I could probably take ylt fans, but I definitely am not built to take any other kind of fan.

free in Central Park on July 17

http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/yo-la-tengo-ultimate-painting/

^I guess I am going

enjoy! my first season not working out there since 2010.

i like ultimate painting but imagine they'd be pretty boring live

Quite a large segment of young'uns like jabbering their heads off during quiet songs at outdoor shows, don't they?

did ylt drown 'em out, though?
seeing reports that they announced the Hanukkah gigs would be back this year (at the bowery ballroom).

interesting, at least 10x the capacity

Yeah those shows were jam-packed at Maxwells

bowery ballroom's capacity is not 10x maxwell's

575 vs 200