So I just made that thread about Sebadoh III. They recorded the album when they were living together in their early twenties, getting high and jamming out some tunes with the tapes rolling. The platonic ideal of musicians that rarely is achieved. Always loved the kind of communal aspiration in a band, living together and making music. Dylan and The Band did it and made Basement Tapes, Ween did it with The Pod and Pure Guava, who else?
bands that live together, rock together
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, Jun 03 2007 06:31 PM
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:37 PM
Yeah, I love this idea. It's pretty much my "platonic ideal" for being in a band. Just hanging out, fucking around with tape machines, jamming into the night.
The epitome of this? Faust. German hippies with awesome beards hanging out in an abandoned school house, making incredible sounds, jamming, recording all of it, and then doing who the fuck knows what with those tapes to make them sound like some of the most otherworldly music ever. Amazing.
Also, beards are essential for this. See: Akron/Family
The epitome of this? Faust. German hippies with awesome beards hanging out in an abandoned school house, making incredible sounds, jamming, recording all of it, and then doing who the fuck knows what with those tapes to make them sound like some of the most otherworldly music ever. Amazing.
Also, beards are essential for this. See: Akron/Family
Damo Suzuki: So, um, yeah. Getting older isn't as bad as it sounds. Better than being young & poor (DjDrake) or young & slutty (SG) or young, poor and slutty (Paves); am I right?
Alright, my friends. It's time for another solid little rock jam
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:40 PM
oh yeah, I forgot about the Germans! I think Can lived out on a farm somewhere, too. To bring it back to the USA, Seals and Crofts lived on a commune and were subscribers to the Baha'i faith. They wrote Summer Breeze, an awesome LiteRock staple.
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:43 PM
My mom met Seals & Crofts when they played at her college.
She also met Alice Cooper when he did the same.
Anyways, yeah, the Grateful Dead, lol. Anthem of the Sun pretty much sucks my shitty asshole, but it has that communal, kitchen-sink vibe, so I jus' gotta dig that shit!
She also met Alice Cooper when he did the same.
Anyways, yeah, the Grateful Dead, lol. Anthem of the Sun pretty much sucks my shitty asshole, but it has that communal, kitchen-sink vibe, so I jus' gotta dig that shit!
Damo Suzuki: So, um, yeah. Getting older isn't as bad as it sounds. Better than being young & poor (DjDrake) or young & slutty (SG) or young, poor and slutty (Paves); am I right?
Alright, my friends. It's time for another solid little rock jam
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:46 PM
LOL what kind of record do you think we would make if the whole SOMB lived together?
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:47 PM
A fave from my younger years
"Street walking cheetah with a heart full of nepalm"
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 06:57 PM
Ha, a couple years ago, this was an utmost fantasy of mine, the goal being to steal Broken Social Scene away from being North America's premier "indie rock collective" or whatever. Seriously, though, this would be awesome. Simakos, Sid Hartha, By Tor guitar solo, Nic/Mutant Disco, Zero As A Limit, St. Park, Freddie Freelance, some ladies doing something... hardcore.LOL what kind of record do you think we would make if the whole SOMB lived together?
Oh, man, that reminds me, this thread was awesome.
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Frankie: Bass (dunno if he plays, but he'd probably be good)
Primus - Tales From the Punchbowl (made me get good at bass, then the older kids wanted me to play with them and showed me how to use a bong... errrrgh)
Hotcha!
Damo Suzuki: So, um, yeah. Getting older isn't as bad as it sounds. Better than being young & poor (DjDrake) or young & slutty (SG) or young, poor and slutty (Paves); am I right?
Alright, my friends. It's time for another solid little rock jam
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 07:20 PM
Back in tha day:
Talking Heads
Talking Heads
"There are over a dozen ways to view pornography, why is there just one bloody concept for hauling away snow?"
Ryan Sohmer, Least I Could Do.com
Ryan Sohmer, Least I Could Do.com
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 09:41 PM
my friends, the white rabbits, are doin this right now in nyc...if you all havent heard of them yet you will...soon
for any parties interested theyre playing this tuesday at schubas...
for any parties interested theyre playing this tuesday at schubas...
"If you're young and not liberal, you have no heart. If you're old and not conservative, you have no mind."
-Winston Churchill
-Winston Churchill
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:00 PM
I believe Amon Duul II lived in a communal setting too.oh yeah, I forgot about the Germans! I think Can lived out on a farm somewhere, too. To bring it back to the USA, Seals and Crofts lived on a commune and were subscribers to the Baha'i faith. They wrote Summer Breeze, an awesome LiteRock staple.
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:17 PM
Whenever I put my Espers record in at work, RealPlayer informs me that the members of the band apparently live together in a dwelling known as "Esperhaus"...but that's just what my computer says.
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 10:52 PM
Whenever I put my Espers record in at work, RealPlayer informs me that the members of the band apparently live together in a dwelling known as "Esperhaus"...but that's just what my computer says.
haha that's probably their apartment in wicker park.
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Posted 03 June 2007 - 11:20 PM
Led Zeppelin lived together at Bron-Yr-Aur for a while. Well at least Plant and Page did when they wrote parts of LZIII.
But among the jackals, the panthers, the bitch hounds,
The apes, the scorpions, the vultures, the serpents,
The yelping, howling, growling, crawling monsters,
In the filthy menagerie of our vices,
There is one more ugly, more wicked, more filthy!
Although he makes neither great gestures nor great cries,
He would willingly make of the earth a shambles
And, in a yawn, swallow the world;
He is Ennui! — His eye watery as though with tears,
He dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe.
You know him reader, that refined monster,
— Hypocritish reader, — my fellow, — my brother!
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 02:18 AM
Incubus lived together to write & record Morning View.
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 02:29 AM
I would totally live with some SOMBies. We wouldn't even have to write any music. We could just suck and fuck all day! It'd be great.
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 02:30 AM
Yancy, Paves, and I all lived together when we wrote Dark Side Of The Moon
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 02:30 AM
good dr. bill however phoned in his guitar solos from his luxury penthouse in missouri.
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 07:27 AM
I think International Harvester was another one of those communal bands. Although it didn't last too long this is a brainbender of an album.
""what kind of moe cop doesn't give her the old suck on my balls warning?
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Posted 04 June 2007 - 10:29 AM
cap'n beefheart and the magic band?
apples in stereo?
