Silkworm: C/D?

The Mint Mile Big Band PRFBBQ set: https://soundcloud.com/mintmile/liveprfbbq#t=0:00

Mint Mile EP is out.

good looking out!

A dude from Popmatters appears to be writing a detailed blog post about every track from "Lifestyle" http://www.popmatters.com/archive/tag/silkworm/

There doesn't seem to be a way to link to those specific blog posts but the Silkworm tag gets you there.

Tried to reach you
Every hour

Only joined this unit
To impress the girls
But the last thing on
His mind was chasing skirts
Going crazy from a radar ping
I bet the russians are thinking
The same thing

We're in a race for ice station zebra

It's mentioned upthread but I didn't know this:

While there’s no denying the looser, Crustier vibe on Lifestyle, the influence of Cohen’s other side gig – as a temporary replacement for injured Bush guitarist Nigel Pulsford – thankfully had no effect on the album’s recording. Though Silkworm themselves are still scratching their heads about the absurdity of it all, the circumstances surrounding Cohen’s brief tenure as an alterna-rock scab are not as bizarre as they first seemed – Bush’s 1996 release, Razorblade Suitcase, was produced by longtime 'Worm cohort Steve Albini, who turned on Gavin and Co. to Cohen’s raggedly glorious guitar mastery. And the fact that Cohen, like Pulsford, is, shall we say, follicularly challenged only sealed the deal.

“Andy actually looks like that guy,” Dahlquist agrees. “I don’t think any of their fans knew the difference, because all they do is just stare at Gavin. But I have seen no musical effect on Silkworm – the Bush thing, as I’m sure you’re aware, was considered very funny by all of us.

"But, oh man, was Andy corrupted – he was so into it, this remarkable lifestyle. I went and saw him in D.C. playing with Bush at RFK Stadium in front of 60,000 people, and I was corrupted myself. I couldn’t believe it. When Andy came back, he was like, 'Let’s sell out now!’”

i guess it's in the movie too. i should watch that movie.

It's hot, summer is finally here & I just want to open the windows, drink an ice cold beer and listen to Silkworm at ear frying volume

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5MjSBX-1c

Great song

the best

Love that album

Was just listening to their Comsat Angels/Fleetwood Mac cover single tracks the other night. Amazing work on both.

from the label copy for the new sunn 0))) record:

Tim Midyett, a close friend of Greg and Stephen since the Seattle days of the early 90s (and member of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit and Mint Mile), joined in a foundational role tying earth to sound with wicked performances on aluminium neck bass and baritone guitars: instruments he helped pioneer playing back in the 90s (alongside Steve and Shellac of course). Dark matter is reality.

Yeah, I caught that detail - really cool. I can't say I'd ever have pegged him for a Sunn O))) collaborator, but I'm excited to hear it.

SKWM & Engine Kid (Greg's old band) were deep Seattle bros, I get the sense in no small part to be outsiders to the dominant Seattle scene at the time, but they toured together as well.

Tim told an amazing story once about a crowd not treating SKWM very well and Engine Kid deciding to avenge them by playing through all of their gear AND SKWM's at maximum volume in some tiny club and the end result being a sort of proto-Sunn on the loudness scale.

https://store.touchandgorecords.com/collections/silkworm/products/silkworm-italian-platinum-red-vinyl

ayyyy

nice. great, underrated album.

"(i hope u) don't survive" is an all-time silkworm anthem to me

I hope whatever got to her
Don’t crawl its way over to me

no LR72 or cockfight of feelings??

that's gotta be a typo - no way can this album be this album without the saga of the arrow, the clock, and the beer

Yeah gotta be both of those tunes are classic.

Great album. Bourbon Beard is basically the best drinker's anthem ever..."I don't even like the taste"

i tweeted at tim, confirmed it was a typo. fixed now.

Do not like that re-imagined album cover :(

"Tobacco's a help because it clears the mind/But like all your friend's it is vilified."

Andy Cohen is frankly rock music greatest lyricist

the original cover was not very inspiring either tbh

"Did you ever have a friend/who did much better than you had planned?"

I always forget that Silkworm is the best then I listen to them and remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP9CYAEqbw

michael was just a perfect rock drummer...so understated but amazing groove and hit so hard

i miss this band so much

just found out tim and andy are playing solo sets this sunday at a bar in my general neighborhood that i don't remember ever having live music before

Andy is moving to Boston so I bet this would a must see if you could swing it

planning on it!

oh to stand on the Higgins bridge

I managed to find myself in Missoula today and I walked across the Higgins bridge and I looked northwest across the Clark Fork River and I saw this dude surfin it and I took a picture of it

Silkworm rules

https://i.imgur.com/amrKXwy.jpg

kind of a weird show, there were only about 12 people watching them play, with the loud bar talkers overpowering the beginning of andy's set. but it was nice, andy played some new songs and/or songs i didn't recognize but also played "severance pay" and "summerwind," as well as covers of "warm machine" by bush and "if you want blood (you got it)" by ac/dc. andy and tim played "ooh la la" together in between their sets, a highlight. i had to leave during tim's set but he seemed to playing mint mile and newer songs, and the baritone guitar sounded great.

it did remind me how good the bottomless pit albums are. listened to those this morning for the first time in a while.

That show sounds so much like the time I saw Bottomless Pit. If I recall correctly there were maybe 20 people. In a town of 595,141 people, 20 people coming out to see living rock and roll legends rock and roll just didn't make sense. What is wrong with people. I guess if they don't want to see the stage lights reflecting off Tim's shiny Travis Bean baritone, that can be their problem.

the bottomless pit/mint mile shows i've been to here in chicago were generally well-attended. this bar show just wasn't really promoted much i don't think, i saw it bounce around on twitter but it wasn't listed on the free weekly's website of music happenings for example

The attendance for just about every SKWM/Bottomless Pit show (other than a few notable exceptions) I saw was had..."exclusive" or maybe "elite" is better, turn out

this one was "intimate"

If I'd had known about this, I totally would have gone to this - I had lunch today with a buddy that bought Andy's old house in Chicago some years back and he said he was too Father's Day tired to go, and then I gave him grief for a few minutes for not letting me know! Long Room, I'm guessing was a bad venue, though.

Wow this is great. Debut album coming out

https://mintmile.bandcamp.com/track/likelihood?mc_cid=2fb893e4d0&mc_eid=7756ac9c75

all the Neil Young Homegrown anticipation energy made me put on the greatest classic rock album of all-time: Marquee Mark

had never noticed til now the lil stage banter part between "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" and "Heard it Through the Grapevine" where I believe it is Andy who says "no we're not playing any fucking Wallflowers songs, who told you that?"

and "Don't Look Back" is the greatest anti-classic rock song of all time.

Absolutely fantastic piece over at Magnet in honor of the 15th anniversary of Dahlquist's death:

http://magnetmagazine.com/2020/09/15/do-look-back-a-brief-history-of-silkworm-one-of-90s-indie-rocks-most-underrated-bands-essential-playlist-included/#more-245353

Thanks for posting that. Thought the track selections were excellent choices.

I thought it was a solid list but Treat the New Guy Right and I Hope U Don’t Survive need to be on any top Silkworm songs list imo

Comedy Minus One recently uploaded a Silkworm show from the Empty Bottle in 2000 that rips:

https://youtu.be/b5AgRFZoM9o

I was at that show and recorded it - need to get it up on dime.