Rusted Root Neologisms

Rusted Root go on Chapo

Is that true? Looks like the same folx -- https://www.rustedroot.com🕸/

Members
Michael Glabicki
Bobby Schneck Jr.
Zil Fessler
Dirk Miller
Daisie Ghost Flower

Past members
Jim DiSpirito
Liz Berlin
Jim Donovan
Jenn Wertz
John Buynak
Ethan Winograd
Preach Freedom
Colter Harper
Jason Miller
Wendy Beile
Nery Arevalo
Cory Caruso
Patrick Norman

Preach Freedom

I'd never seen this video before and it's way less dated than I would have expected, like hippie shit is removed from all usual pop culture time signifiers.

A friend of mine ended up hanging out with these guys in a desert somewhere in like 1993 and I assume did a lot of shrooms. And this record was a staple at my wife's college house in Ann Arbor circa 1995 thanks to our shameful sort-of jam band past, but mostly from her hippie roommates who sometimes had random people and tanks of nitrous in the basement. I won't lie, I didn't hate it, though drugs were usually involved. I also had sex at least once while this record was playing.

Anybody here have some salient facts about əkoostik hookah?

This band, who I've never actually heard, was the breaking point for my wife's jam band era. I think she might have ended seeing them with the hippie roommates and fucking hated it so much that it made her suddenly and jarringly realize how dumb so much of that shit was and how obnoxious and idiotic and mindless and snobby all the hippies who frequented her house were.

She used to sing the line "take the train to HOOKAVILLE" to me as shorthand for "my hippie roomates did something stupid or irresponsible again" or to make me mad but it would fill her with shame to do so and she'd get angry at herself about it.

PS. I still love the Dead and refuse to strongly denounce Phish.

I also had sex at least once while this record was playing

Thread took a rather dark turn. I'm so sorry. The therapy bills alone must be astronomical, but really you never fully recover.

Even now you still hear that loathsome voice whisper in your ear.

"joygoat...

ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon"

She used to sing the line "take the train to HOOKAVILLE" to me as shorthand for "my hippie roomates did something stupid or irresponsible again"

I've never heard ekoostik hookah, but that's great.

Ahem, it's 'əkoostik' thankyouverymuch.

I'd like to think they're huge primadonnas about the exact spelling of their band's name in marquees and college newspaper ads and what have you. 'Excuse me, does that look like a schwa to you? Do you know who we are? We're əkoostik fucking hookah, you piece of trash. Don't make me crush you like a bug. (bows) Namaste.'

Ohhhh, yeah, the other band that used to come through town all the time was Umphrey's McGee. Like, I understand that you're probably high when you name your jam band. That's just as god intended. But there isn't some point along the line where you manage to avoid being high for 5-10 minutes and realize what a horrifying assemblage of phonemes you've saddled your band with? Just typing the words 'Umphrey's McGee' kinda makes me want to punch something.

I am finally this moment listening to Rusted Root's hit single 'Send Me On My Way' for the first time since starting this thread (for the first time in years, probably) after realizing that it is, for some reason, on my iPod. I have no recollection of putting it there, but I guess I have to accede that the Root moves in mysterious ways and I cannot predict how or when they will manifest in my world.

I can tell that this singer has never used the top button of a shirt in his life. I might even go as far as the top two or three buttons. You gotta let the good people see the pukka beads, man.

I want to change into a knit hemp poncho so badly right now, I can't even tell you. I'm going to have to content myself for now with the tie-dyed tapestry I just draped over my work station.

Four minutes and change? That's it? I feel utterly shortchanged rn. Need. More. Rooooot.

I would like to hold my little hand.

I would like to sing about a thing that I would like to do which would take less effort to actually just do than to sing about. I would like that.

I would like to type some words on my keyboard.

Oh Maceo, oh Matteo

I thought forever that this is what he sang but all of the lyrics sites seem to disagree. I still think it. I still think it, lyrics sites.

Yep, cross-referenced the names in the photo with the following from Wikipedia:

Must be hella challenging for the dude to
find age-progressed facsimiles of his former bandmates.

Pretty sure he makes them all undergo extensive cosmetic surgery toward that end.

Also, pro musicians are generally happy to
stick with a band that can reliably book gigs, no? Why is Rusted Root membership such a revolving door? Maybe the guy’s a germophobe, and doesn’t pass his pipe around.

He probably sits around harshing his bandmates' mellow by bragging about his stock portfolio all day or something.

he doesn't fire anybody, he just... sends them on their way

Dude's always like "buylowbesellhighoway" and everyone just kind of nods despondently.

'Oh, so you...you really talk like that, huh? All the time? Huh. Hmm. (sigh)'

Can’t say I’ve heard this song. This thread is definitely a warning not to :P

If you've seen a commercial for like a travel agency or maybe a cruiseline and the song you heard wasn't the B-52's song 'Roam' you've probably heard this song without realizing it. It's the 'Solsbury Hill' of Generation X.

vile slander of 'solsbury hill' u heathen

(opening guitar line plays as a perky couple puts their luggage in the trunk/boot of their car)

VO: 'You work hard, so when it comes to your vacation, leave the work to us.'

Ommaway

(car cruising down the highway as the guitar line continues)

Ommaway

(medium shot of our couple who, while driving, turn to one another and break into spontaneous laughter)

VO: 'At Bleeple-Blorp Travel, we go that extra mile to send you on your way.'

Ommaway

(random shots of the couple frolicking around a bonfire on a beach and sampling local cuisine at an outdoor bistro)

Ommaway

('Send Me On My Way' briefly morphs into 'Solsbury Hill', no one in the audience notices)

Ommaway

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It's worth noting that in Lunch's lovingly rendered travel-agency commercial, the listener is only treated to the beginner-level mantra of ommaway.

It's probably best this way. The casual TV watcher is likely not ready for the mystic Toltec wisdom enshrined in oombayseeyou. Let alone the expert-level incantation ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

It simply won't do for mere initiates in Rootism to summon the spirit of seemoobadeeyah before they have properly undergone The Five Trials.

"son," he said, "grab your bong, I've come to take you home"

I have cancelled all of this weekend's plans so that I can devote myself entirely to creating the 'Send Me On My Way'/'Solsbury Hill' mashup that bizarro is far too modest to explicitly ask for. I'll just say: message received, my friend.

YMP, the agency in question had an extended cut of their commercial which they tested on some focus groups but, as expected, the invocation of 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' was causing investment bankers and regional managers to abruptly quit their jobs to focus on aligning their chi and finally building that hydroponic greenhouse they'd been idly dreaming about for years. It was too powerful a weapon to be unleashed on the general public.

Legit lolz @ upper miss and lunch. Dying here.

BTW does anyone have ready access to historical archives of their touring schedules, and (if possible) any information about their preferred mode of travel between concert venues in the American South?

Specifically I want to know if they were ever booked to play in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, giving rise to the famous song that begins

Rusted Root in Baton Rouge

Waitin' for a train

addiction to bookmarks nearly caused me to miss this important poll. alas, I can't vote because "Well, cool breeze Baby raam, raam, raam Baby raam, raam" is not an option

looking forward to the next poll: At which line in Dispatch's "The General" do you begin sobbing?

Starting to realize that these guys basically picked up the Cocteau Twins baton and ran with it. Who needs words when you have feelings?

This is the best thread.

I am not going to listen to the song again but I can't for the life of me remember where "seemoobadeeyah" shows up if it is indeed different from "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

you guys woke to their song “Ecstasy”? That was the first one I remember hearing, before SMOMW.

Taken' away your companies
Takin' away your societies and go.
Get me off this backwards ride,
Takin' away your fictitious books of fact.
Yeah, do mum-ba-si-be-ah

I am not planning on listening to it any time soon either, but "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is closer to what I remember.

Wait...they have another song?!

You're gonna have to give me a minute to collect myself here.

love the AllMusic review for their 20th Century Masters compilation, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen the existence of such a collection questioned while bemoaning that Poi Dog Pondering has yet to get a similar treatment.

I can't for the life of me remember where "seemoobadeeyah" shows up if it is indeed different from "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

If you look at the original quote he seems to be saying that "oombayseeyou" is the one (one!) word he made up, and that "seemoobadeeyah" is his onomatopoeic evocation of how the melody goes?

Which brings us to the mystery of "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon." Numerous Rootologists have posited that "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is an elongated form of "oombayseeyou."

Compare it to the way that the English word "goodbye" derived from "god be with you." Extra syllables wore off over centuries of use in a process of concatenation, to the point that the original phrase is barely recognizable. god be with you > godb'w'you > goodbye.

If you interpolate the syllables you can kind of see it: ehBAbadeeSAYbubadeeYOn. It's essentially "oombaseeyou" with an extra badee and an extra bubadee.

I'm sorry, I have to disagree here. "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is it's own distinct phrae.

I liken it to a common reply. For example:

"How are you doing today?"

"ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon"

"oombaseeyou", OTOH, would be a more acceptable response to "What are you doing today?"

It's a subtle difference, I know.

I'm still in the process of trying to understand the employment of 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' in speech. Is it 'aloha'-esque, an utterance with multiple meanings which depend upon the context of a given situation? When Windchimes (I assume the lead singer's name is Windchimes) walks into his corner bodega for a pack of American Spirits unfiltered, does he simply walk up to the counter and say 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' confident that the clerk will pick up on the inflection and not mistakenly pass Windchimes the clove cigarettes he buys on occasion (usually when housesitting for his half-sister, Nugs, who's allergic to cigarette smoke, bleached flour, and nylon)?

It's not a greeting, it's kind of like a colloquial reply along the lines of "same shit, different day."

Same-ityshitdiffarintday

Ommaway

Did Windchimes from Rusted Root and the Scatman ever work together? They were contemporaries and I think the indifference with which they both viewed the English language would've blended really magically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8