This is sad for other reasons. Covering a hip hop ish song by a British woman of Sri Lankan heritage, produced by a white guy built around a Clash sample is a bit different?
And frequently the self deprecation is just a cop out. If I shit on myself before you call me out I can get away with it. Not my sure why he thought the bit in the newest special would be sufficient for fans wanting his thoughts on the subject.
Baltimore was such an amazing place at this time. BeachHouse, Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Celebration, Double Dagger, Video Hippos, Wye Oak. I remember going to a two night fest at Sonar, round robin. Bands lining the venue each playing a song then the next band would play. Saw Dan Deacon at a multi purpose room at Georgetown and Ed Schraeder opened doing stand up. So many bonker happy memories from that time. Love this band.
Nah I’d bet maybe the other folks in Moutain Man, maybe Jenn Wasner, maybe people from the Bon Iver touring band? A big full jam band take on Sylvan Esso sounds very cool. They seem to work with and be in the orbit of a bunch of super talented artists as well.
In the early aughts my buddy went to JMU in Harrisonburg VA and they had a knock off Chuck E Cheese that used to host metal/hardcore shows. Have a distinct memory watching Between the Buried and Me and Kylesa while sitting in a ball pit drinking whiskey watching all the dust from the filthy carpet rise from the pit.
They sorta of do that. People tape shows, the band does too, the sets may be similar but songs sound different night to night, they indulge the psychedelic experience. I just don’t see a cultish culture popping up. I don’t see them doing 100 shows a year two sets a night with few repeats. Or for that matter them having the chops to make it interesting night after night. Outside of the Dead and Phish jambands are pretty fucking terrible.
Jamband culture is too rockist to embrace a band like animal collective. There aren’t any guitar solos and the band is too into their own thing to cater and pander the way jambands do to their fans, hence the past decade where they have done whatever the fuck they wanted to, much to the chagrin of their more casual fans. Also jambands for all their improvising tend to be super derivative, play lots of notes but they’ve all end up sounding the same. AC sound like noise to people that just wanna hear peaking guitar shred.
I saw Shaed/Walking sticks at a hippie campout in a weird lil spot of rural northern Virginia a few years back. I was on acid. The singer is very attractive. Their music is derivative.
Bummer I was hoping to learn some insights. Like I had an Italian girlfriend who would tell me all these great anecdotes like how southern Italians were dirty because they have darker skin and have tails and are all criminals and how Polish people eat their own children. She was... uh... I mean... well she had a very nice sounding accent.
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