Rusted Root Neologisms

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I appreciate their absolute nothing of a Wikipedia entry. These are the only two paragraphs, the rest is basically stats stuff -- discography, membership, etc.

Rusted Root is an American worldbeat rock band formed in 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by singer-guitarist Michael Glabicki, bassist Patrick Norman and percussionist Liz Berlin. The band got its start as the house band playing a weekly gig in Jack's Back Room on Pittsburgh's South Side. The band achieved fame in 1994 with its platinum-selling album When I Woke, which included the hit single "Send Me on My Way". The song has been featured prominently in many films and commercials. Rusted Root has sold more than three million albums.

The band is known for its fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, and Native American influences. Michael Glabicki has acknowledged the popular success of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So as an influence on his decision to incorporate worldbeat into his own music. The band's lyrical content varies but often talks about Christianity and Judaism.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link

The band's lyrical content varies but often talks about Christianity and Judaism ombaseeyou and umbabadesaybubadeyon.

Fixed it.

moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2018/08/27/Uprooted-Michael-Glabicki-is-moving-on-from-Rusted-Root-Allegheny-County-Music-Festival-Hartwood-Acres/stories/201808270095


So, are you saying you feel a little bit of distance from the Rusted Root material, a lot of which was written when you were in your early 20s?

Yeah, there’s been moments on stage when I’m like, “What am I doing?” Like, “I don’t know what this is.” But, then, luckily, I’m fortunate enough that the music was so open-ended and wasn’t written about a certain time in my life. It was sort of like this collection of images and it was more tonal than it was lyrical. “Send Me on My Way” had “moobahdesee, moobahdeyah,” which aren’t even words, so now I can just sort of like adapt the tone to where I’m at now. It’s more ritualistic at this point for the audience and for myself, and improvising in it and opening it up, there’s a lot more in it to find.

☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link

big if true

I'm very embarrassed to learn I've been misspelling it this whole time.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link

moobahdesee, moobahdeyah

What the HELL, man, I mean Windchimes?

We have spent years on this and are just barely able to comprehend the subtleties of "oombayseeyou." Now you throw us two new mystikal inkantations to process?

moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link

Better open up them chakras, bruh, let the Rusted light come shining in.

My brother was just telling me about Rusted playing the restaurant where he works, I was so jelly, my dudes, as I'm sure you can imajh.

A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link

can't believe this guy is ceo of twitter now

Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link

I assume you mean twibbattasayehbubaderon.com

moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link

Ommaway

Dot org

moist owlette (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link

(hippie pan flute begins to play) Looking to share your thoughts with the wider world? (ommaway) To touch hearts and minds across the globe? (ommaway) To optimize your brand strategy on the fly via the social media platform that Forbes Magazine calls 'synergistic...and sleek'? (ommaway) At Twitter, we recognize your longing to connect, and we send you on your way. (ommaway) (moobahdesee, moobahdeyah)

A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link

(b-roll of millennials cavorting merrily in various social settings)

A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

simmyommaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cBJcbxP_4

(ommaway)

Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link

lmao yes

big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link

How many collegiate a cappella groups do you figure had Rusted Root in their repertoire, I'm gonna say 'lots'

Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link

This video is embarrassing and cringey in all sorts of ways, perhaps even surpassing the original. Shame he doesn't dig into those neologisms with quite the same panache.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link

I had never watched the video for this atrocity until now, and jesus h. christ, you think a song embodies settler colonialism and then you watch the video and hoooooooooooollllyyy shit the video IS settler colonialism

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link

i remember when this and "Return to Innocence" were on the radio at the same time, what a cursed pairing.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link

i remember having to play both of these songs on the radio -- speaking of cursed!!

sarahell, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link

god, i'm so glad most of my playlists are lost to the sans of time.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link

i vaguely recall seeing a dude doing a 'send me on my way' puppet show in the embarcadero the last time i was in san francisco

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link

Wow, things really have gotten bad there, haven't they?

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I was just trying to type out the exclamation "eh", and was excited to see that my phone wanted to autocorrect it to "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

Android's got my back!

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link

əkoostik hookah released an album called 'dubbabuddah' in 1994, strengthing my increasing suspicion that jam band culture is underpinned by a pontypool-style virus which erodes the language centres of the brains of those affected

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:15 (three weeks ago)

lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link

'dubbahbuddah' features an tune called - wait for it - "Harmonic Convergence", which is definitely in the upper echelon of mid-'90s Widespread Panic-adjacent ephemera. Imagine if your college classmate - the one equally adept with making hemp necklaces as they are with the way-too-nice guitar courtesy of their Big-Pharma executive dad - took the chord progression of the intro of Bowie's "Panic in Detroit" and made that into an entire song, with (of course) lots of harmonics.

I used to think it would be even better if they pushed the tempo a few BPM, ditched the adult-contempo piano for some thrashing solos on the acoustic - oh, sorry, əkoostik - guitar, added more percussion tracks, then tied it together with better backup vocals. However, there's no need for Hookah to do this, because I'm basically describing the Rusted Root song "Ecstasy".

Rusted Root - solving our least-salient problems since 1994.

Some people eventually sober up and realize that the ideas they had while under the influence of mind-altering substances weren't nearly as profound as they seemed at the time. Others keep the party going indefinitely and utilize their major label record contracts as a means of foisting those ill-informed thoughts and expressions upon the public-at-large. Rusted Root et al are basically the margins of a high school stoner's geometry notebook made flesh.

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 August 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link

əkoostik hookah released an album called 'dubbabuddah' in 1994, strengthing my increasing suspicion that jam band culture is underpinned by a pontypool-style virus which erodes the language centres of the brains of those affected

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:15 (three weeks ago)
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink


Looking back, I have no idea how I stuck with Phish through so much "Llama Taboot" and yet somehow "Gotta Jibboo" was enough to bring the whole thing screeching to a halt for me.

― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 2:06 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 25 August 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link

valuable new evidence, thank u for ur service

lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 25 August 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link

whoops. I had mentioned those upthread already.

☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 25 August 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link

When Pitchfork first informed us about Vampire Weekend in 2008, I remember someone on these here internets (Stylus? ILX? I don't remember) responding to "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" with the retort of "I liked these guys back when they called themselves 'Rusted Root'"

əkoostik hookah's repetoire contains 15 songs with 'train' in the title alone.

☮ (peace, man), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link

I thought at first that you meant they had fifteen different songs simply entitled 'Train' and I also thought 'yes, that seems about right.'

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link

You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me

triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link

Now I've been irie lately
Thinking about the kind bud to come
And I believe it could be
Something crunchy has begun
Oh, I've been vaping lately
Dreaming about the world inside my bong
And I believe it could be
Time to write a bong-centric song

'Cause I'm on the edge of a bong rip
There ride the 'koost train
Oh, 'koost train take this country
Make it əkoostik again

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

ommaway

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link

simmyommaway

ommaway

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link

This shit popping up on shuffle just now has been the uncontested highpoint of my day. That's where we are now, I guess.

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link

cursed thread

a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link

I got to my lady bone
She don't my lady bone
My lady bone

Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link

https://www.allacronyms.com/251255rbot.png

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link

ommaway

― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, May 20, 2020 12:47 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link

otm-maway

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link

who are the other American worldbeat rock bands?

Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link

i vaguely recall seeing a dude doing a 'send me on my way' puppet show in the embarcadero the last time i was in san francisco

― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 6:54 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

found video evidence of this on my phone and uploaded it here for y'all to "enjoy": https://imgur.com/a/q4UeFRa

sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link

is that really a puppet show? Did the gator and man work out their differences before breaking into song?

Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link

Aaaaaaand that's my bucket list, completed.

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link

trying not to think about what it must've smelled like in that tent

sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link

Was this written by AI?

peace, man, Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link


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