Drive Like Jehu reunion???

can't believe this didn't get posted back in October:

TWO HOUR podcast/audio doc on the entire history of drive like jehu right up to the present:

http://vishkhanna.com/2015/10/08/ep-217-do-you-compute-the-story-of-drive-like-jehu/

that got posted somewhere, maybe on another jehu thread.

biggest takeaway was how trombino still sounded hurt that reis and froburg did other stuff on their own right after jehu.

otm

2nd biggest takeaway: young john reis idolizing doc severinsen

Trombino comes off the best, verifying for me that he is the secret sauce of why the band has stood the test of time in ways that Hot Snakes/Pitchfork falls short of DLJ's legacy, esp. Yank Crime. Bear in mind that I was also a huge Honor Role/Breadwinner, Bastro/Gastr del Sol & Slint fan at the time.

Rick presented this interesting conflict in retrospect as of today he thinks Yank Crime was his best work but at the time he was bored of the proggier song structures and playing octave chords.

Reis is obviously a career musician and when RftC became his meal ticket, he dropped DLJ. It was interesting to hear him attempt to validate that.

I recently caught the reunion tour and they were fantastic.

IDK, Trombino may have been a crucial ingredient and I appreciate his earnestness, but guy comes off as a little neurotic and not easy to deal with in this thing. His fears that the death of Jehu was brought on by him sucking the fun out of the experience may be not TOTALLY unfounded.

Hearing the timeline of what was happening with both DLJ and Rocket, it's hard to blame Reis for his decisions. Think most people in the situation would've done the same. Doesn't need to "attempt to validate" anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCrp8VJDZvE

have listened to this more in the last two weeks than I think I've listened to any song in any two-week period ever

it is just perfect

very worthwhile reunion imo

Yeah, the show I caught was incredible... I was lucky to see them a bunch back in the day and they were just as tight now, which I admit I was kinda surprised by as the rhythm section guys were out of the game for so long.

saw 'em in DC last night. preeeettttty good. i've heard them say in interviews that they're tighter than they've ever been and i can believe it.

i was there last night too. it was everything i could have hoped for honestly.

me, too! playing better than ever, probably.

I was also there last night. Great show. This was my first time seeing John Reis live in any capacity, and man, that dude is magnetic. He and Froberg make such an oddly perfect duo.

reis is such a pro, i think you could put him out there with the mormon tabernacle choir and he'd rock out and make it work.

fell down a jehu rabbit-hole today and discovered that drummer trombino's donut shop has more twitter followers than the band.

to be fair, they do look like some pretty outstanding donuts.