Sleater-Kinney breaks up

It'll work out when we get that sweet new Quasi.

I think it worked out for everyone.

Aside from the car accident.

well, yeah

Saw them in LA last week (won tickets lol)
Don't know any of their songs but it was v v good
That's all

Such a drag

Disappointed in Carrie + Corin

I can kind of seeing them continuing on without her ala The Who or Stones

Ouch

Exactly

Reminds me of Husker Du & The Smiths

Nothing against either Carrie or Corin, but this whole thing is a bummer and it's kept me from giving the album a fair shake. (yes I realize this is my fault)

Btw, I theorized about a possible replacement upthread, and I hear they asked her but she wasn't interested.

Boylan used to play in a S-K cover band too.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:15 AM (forty-two minutes ago)

omg no way
lol

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:20 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago)

that's not a derisive lol, it's a knowing lol
what a great experience!!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:21 AM (thirty-six minutes ago)

Looks like this was a one-off for a few songs only, in 2001? It's definitely fun when bands recruit replacements from fans and tributers and whatnot: Suede replacing Bernard Butler with a teenager who'd written him fan letters, You Am I recruiting as second guitarist a guy who ran a YAI guitar tab site, Judas Priest hiring the singer from a tribute band, Journey hiring the singer from a Filipino tribute band that they found by looking up Journey tribute bands on youtube...

Nothing against either Carrie or Corin, but this whole thing is a bummer and it's kept me from giving the album a fair shake. (yes I realize this is my fault)

same

it's a much better album than the Woods, I'll give it that.

Didn't Wire hire a tribute band that played their Punk stuff as an opening act?

Idk about The Woods but it’s definitely better than No Cities to Love, which mostly felt like an alternative universe compilation of the eighth or ninth best songs on their previous albums.

I kinda feel like this is the last gasp of S-K not the new beginning

Didn't Wire hire a tribute band that played their Punk stuff as an opening act?

With Jim DeRo on drums!

haha wow

new record is one of their best imo

I’ll never understand the reverence this band is treated with

I was wondering if/how Corin changed the words to “Step Aside.” Just watched a recent clip, and “Janet! Carrie! Can you feel it?” is now “Tell me, one time, can you feel it?”

"Angie" would scan.

Yeah but she’s “just the drummer” so she prob won’t be included

Xp - Judas Priest guy was from my hometown ! Used to perform in his JP cover band at a venue near my childhood home!

I thought it was cool in the reunion shows when they did "...Joey Ramone" and switched Kim for Thurston, even though they sang it as 'Kim Gore-Don'.

”Angie" would scan.

True, but if Angie doesn’t stick around, then it might seem awkward in the future that there’s recordings where a onetime touring drummer is addressed. Also, the other two session musicians might feel put out at not being mentioned. Corin should just elongate that line and name everyone, including Janet.

Yeah but she’s “just the drummer” so she prob won’t be included

Or maybe also if they did certain Stan's would blowing up social media with "HOW DARE THEY...!"

They didn't play "Step Aside" at my show.

Also, the other two session musicians might feel put out at not being mentioned. Corin should just elongate that line and name everyone, including Janet

And Lora McFarlane!

Nothing against either Carrie or Corin, but this whole thing is a bummer and it's kept me from giving the album a fair shake. (yes I realize this is my fault)

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also agree w/this, janet's drumming was such a huge part of s-k's appeal when i first got into them.

Explicitly demoting a member is such a corporate rock move, a la Pink Floyd reducing Rick Wright to work-for-hire session guy because he didn't chip in enough cash to start-up nu-Floyd, or Bon Jovi firing Richie Sambora or Sabbath kicking out Bill Ward on their farewell tour or Mac dumping Buckingham. Purely mercenary.

I think I heard the new album once because someone played it when we were camping, but I didn't like the last one very much and frankly, when the band broke up I was more than satisfied and didn't need new music from S-K in any form.

You and me both calstars
Xos

bon jovi fired richie sambora??!??!?!?

nothing is sacred

Sambora may have quit, it's a bit unclear. All I know is that minus Sambora, count me out when it comes to listening to all their new music.

lol i googled this as well. hard times.

Didn't Wire hire a tribute band that played their Punk stuff as an opening act?

also changed their name to wir when their drummer departed

(always thought rem should have gone with re when berry left)

a la Pink Floyd reducing Rick Wright to work-for-hire session guy because he didn't chip in enough cash to start-up nu-Floyd

He was actually fired/demoted to session player status during The Wall. Waters thought he wasn’t contributing, and Gilmour concurred. Wright wasn’t even on A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, and was only added to the record’s “band” photo after the first pressing or two. Gilmour didn’t fully reinstate Wright until 1994/The Division Bell.

And Ron Wood was on salary from 1975 until the early ‘90s, when the Stones finally made him a full member.

The thought that people in this day and age are anticipating new Bon Jovi music PERIOD with or without Sambora is something else.

Wright had the last laugh because he's the only one who made money on The Wall tour.

didn’t Wright stay an employee for alimony reasons, as well? ( <- vague memory, can’t google)

And Ron Wood was on salary from 1975 until the early ‘90s, when the Stones finally made him a full member.

“the Stones” wanted him to be a member m/l all along, they just couldn’t convince Jagger until Bill Wyman quit, bcz then his own share wouldn’t be reduced

the shittier thing is that Wyman’s replacement Darryl Jones has now been in the band for 30 years on freelance fees, compared to Wood’s 14 or so on salary

A friend of mine knows Jones and it sounds like he's doing OK. Gets like a ridiculous multi-thousand dollar per diem or something in addition to what I imagine is a very generous salary. I mean, Bobby Keys was never a full member, despite being off and on with the band since 1970.

It's actually funny that I brought Floyd up at all, because I literally just read this today: "A Momentary Lapse of Reason will be reissued again as part of the Pink Floyd: The Later Years box set, due in November 2019. The album has been "updated and remixed" by Gilmour and Andy Jackson, and will feature restored contributions from Wright and newly recorded drum tracks from Mason, to "restore the creative balance between the three Pink Floyd members." I guess Mason also barely played on the album at all. I knew a lot was drum machines and Jim Keltner (who complained after the fact that it was mostly just doubling what the drum machines were doing).

Momentary Lapse is a Gilmour solo album with a Pink Floyd marketing budget.

I love how we're all bringing up male precedents

Is there a female precedent? Closest I could think of is maybe Cherie Currie leaving the Runaways or the different lineup adjustments of The Go-Gos--and those aren't that close.

Or better still, Palmolive leaving both the Slits and the Raincoats.

Pixies?

If post-Janet S-K is as bad as post-Kim Pixies that's gonna be rough.

XP That's a good one! And kind of close to the S-K scenario of the band shrugging off the loss and continuing on.

yah, Pixies is great example. “just carrying on” without Kim doesn’t seem any big deal at all given how many versions on the Breeders there have been, too

friend of mine knows Jones and it sounds like he's doing OK

very glad (& not surprised) to hear it!

I mean, Bobby Keys was never a full member, despite being off and

sure, after the original sin of firing-but-keeping-and-hiding-in-the-wings Ian Stewart, The Stones can hardly sink lower. but afaik Jones has been as full-time a player as any band member since he first joined, not off and on

pixies without kim is a huge deal though

NO KIM NO DEAL

I mean, I personally have exactly no interest in anything after the two with-Kim reunion tracks, but it’s good that Joey and Lovering have satisfying day jobs, ihibidtae