ok, a FOAF has supposedly gotten in touch with his brother, who says he's alive. i have no other information right now
― Poliopolice, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:00 (nine years ago) link
that is some srsly fucking harrowing reading, man
whatever's up, hoping he comes through it
― alpine static, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:02 (nine years ago) link
jesus that's tough reading.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:12 (nine years ago) link
He is in police custody, per twitter.
Posting that letter may have been the smartest move of his life.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link
:-O
― the late great, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:40 (nine years ago) link
get well soon
― the late great, Friday, 13 February 2015 08:42 (nine years ago) link
That is one of the most heartbreaking, fucked-up things I've ever read. I really hope he pulls through and finds a better headspace.
― Simon H., Friday, 13 February 2015 09:06 (nine years ago) link
why would anybody repost that?
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 13 February 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
or at least, can someone remove it now we know people are with him?
yeah that's a good idea
― Simon H., Friday, 13 February 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link
utterly harrowing read & experience. hoping hard that he gets all the help and support he needs.
― Clay, Friday, 13 February 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
How awful.
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Friday, 13 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
i posted to make sure that if it had details that could help someone get to him that it would be there. there was location information in there.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Posted just now on Instagram
http://instagram.com/p/zDD-AIE_lr/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
oof, hope he gets through this
― tylerw, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Me too. The pic is encouraging. So intense to see his face after reading that though.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 13 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Poor guy. Those bandages are scary.
― jmm, Friday, 13 February 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
nothing really constructive you can say about this whole thing but jesus fucking christ dave :(
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 13 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
how sad
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Never saw this before:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb46UMdmGqY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
https://www.loumag.com/articledisplay.aspx?id=59820590
history of Louisville punk
After Skull of Glee, Steve Rigot played in In the Vines, Common Law Cabin and Women Who Love Candy, among other bands. He is an artist (painter) and lives in Southern Indiana.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/04/26/it-was-a-suicide-mission-from-the-very-start-a-chat-with-the-endtables/
http://louisvillemusic.org/blog/2015/03/20/steve-chili-rigot-dies/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
hahahttp://i.imgur.com/Bl5i66N.png
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
http://imgur.com/gallery/X83MF
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 27 April 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
http://imgur.com/gallery/4Tvfr
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 27 April 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
I bet that last band photo is their first band, Languid and Flaccid. Not Todd Brashear on bass there - I think it's Ned Oldham but not positive.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
yeah, last photo is Ned on the right. but the fifth does not depict Ned; the fourth does, as well as Craig Brown and Chris Hawpe, Ned's tightest buds at the time.
apart from the last photo, its all from a J. Graham Brown School yearbook, probably '81-'84.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 27 April 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
Slint have finally sold out. pic.twitter.com/VRvIGmm76U— Loud And Quiet (@LoudAndQuietMag) May 3, 2017
― Neil S, Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
o m g
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7ZWA34Y.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 14 December 2017 05:52 (six years ago) link
Ahead of their time in so many ways
― circa1916, Thursday, 14 December 2017 05:56 (six years ago) link
https://wwpilates.com/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
thank you, that really hits the middle of a venn diagram of stuff my wife likes.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
aw that's cool good for him
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
would exercise with todd
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
that's pretty cool
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
Love that he kept “wild and woolly”
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 06:04 (five years ago) link
2 lengthy interviews with/by Britt from a few months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNs1GUWZefw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKAN03mnhg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 July 2020 06:28 (three years ago) link
I listened to that in march… and… I was present for the birth of Slint, attending their second, third and fourth shows, and then one in lville a year before the release of Spiderland… I cannot properly express my pride that guys that were only a few years older than me could possibly create music that unique, and he in particular is unlike any drummer to have ever walked the earth… I was in lville for most of the past week, and the awe with which they are regarded there is palpable… and…
I gotta say that interview is exceptional for showing how unusually inarticulate he is about what he has done (and probably everything else, as each of the times I have interacted with him he has been like that) relative to the hundreds of musicians i have interviewed. He is all show, and can't figure out how to tell or is incapable of telling.
― veronica moser, Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
I like Spiderland but have literally not listened to it in years. And then today in the car my 16-year-old son plugs in his phone and puts on "Good Morning, Captain." He likes to play me stuff he's found, and to see if I know it. He is now apparently a big Slint fan. I think he got into it via his Microphones-inspired excavation of '90s indie. Anyway, 16-year-olds still getting excited over it nearly 30 years on says something for it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
That is so cool!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
tipsy: did you recommend the documentary "Breadcrumb Trail" for your son?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 September 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
No, and I haven't seen it either. Maybe we can watch it together.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 September 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
I feel like seeing how young they were (and already most members were in their 3rd(+?) band) might be very motivating to someone of a similar age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVdU_bLD2-M
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 September 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Or you could read the book :)
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
There is an IG story on the Slint account that shows a screenshot of David, Todd, Britt, Brian on a Zoom call with Corey Rusk.
*thinking.emoji*
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
^^^They were reminiscing while eating Taco Bell mexican pizzas which are being removed from the TB menu, haha.
Spiderland turns 30 on Saturday 3/27/21. Long interview-piece that doesn't shed a tremendous amount of new light for people with this thread bookmarked at Rolling Stone if you're so inclined/bored:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/slint-spiderland-interview-1144942/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
man, to me, a louisvillian who was witness to birth of this band but was way too intimidated by those guys to dare to speak to them at the time, this article is off the charts informative relative to, say, the grantland piece seven years ago. I'm super jealous of Shteamer, not just re: the amount of access and consisdration those guys granted him, but the fact that he seems to be able to do these wonky-ass deep dives for rolling goddamn Stone, an outlet not known to indulge in massive retrospectives on artists unknown or irrelevant to Jann Wenner or Joe Levy, for that matter. God bless Jason Fine!
― veronica moser, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/ca/f6/4ecaf654d7f7f4adfd6c3e4acc4468c2.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 07:05 (three years ago) link
I watched Breadcrumb Trail last night. It's on YouTube.
I think this must be the only instance on the parents having a decisive effect on the music, in allowing those guys to rehearse what would become Spiderland in their basement.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 10:48 (one year ago) link
Also not only are they bored of rock but they seem bored of that kind of post-hardcore scene by the time they made Spiderland. I realise how the vocals, which is the thing that immediately elevates this record, are as underehearsed as the music is so overehearsed -- akin to the making of Trout Mask Replica, that stuff sounds so together.
Remarkable how there's just no setup, no manager, no nothing. It's just these kids, Brian's parents, the odd person from Touch & Go, Steve Albini, and Will Oldham (the one person missing from the doc). But everybody is hands off.
And they are so young. You need to repeat that over and over again. Simultaneously the reason they sorta hadn't left home -- which allowed for acres of rehearsal and development of the music -- and the quality of the lyrics/singing goes into that. Explains the break-up too. Too young to make that kind of music. Brian felt the pressure with no setup to take it off.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link