So we played a few shows over the weekend. We hadn’t played shows for a long time and it felt GREAT! We really wanna thank everyone that came out. Here is a clip of House of Jealous Lovers at the Prada Store from last Thursday.
On our way down to Jersey and Baltimore we had a lot of great music to listen to. One of the albums was The Idiot by Iggy Pop. I hadn’t listened to this album for quite a while and I forgot how amazing it is. It was his first solo album and was produced by David Bowie, along with his second solo album, Lust for Life. It got us all talking in the van about what a cool motherfucker Iggy Pop is and what an amazing career he’s had (actually that part was mainly me ranting in the van and everyone else kinda listening) We were talking about some of the amazing bands that he played with and videos of different performances over the years. Harris who is playing bass with us mentioned a video I’d never seen that was Iggy playing on the Dinah Shore Show in 1977 (which was the roughly the equivalent of todays Martha Stewart Show). It features David Bowie and one of my all time favorite rhythm sections, the Sales Brothers. Below is the video, enjoy!
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That is one awesome looking Strat!
Aww thanks for posting the vid! It was a fun show. x
Great video, unfamiliar haircuts. Harris Klahr does a great job, but maybe Gabriel should offer him dancing lessons – remember: most musicians, even the professionals, are unsure about how they should move to cowbell sounds.
Oh, and as if your video wasn’t enough entertainment for one evening it also made me stumble upon Q And Not U (yes, I did NOT know them before). Thank you!
The Idiot and Lust For Life are two of my favorite records ever and while the next one, New Values, doesn’t sound quite as cool as those two, the songs are just as good! An amazing run. I always say that the song “Mass Production” single-handedly defined the Martin Hannett/Joy Division sound. The synth washes and effects, the slow tempo, the mournfull singing…sounds like something off Unknown Pleasures. Iggy Pop played the Apollo in Manchester in late 1977 and I imagine everyone from Factory Records and the Buzzcocks/Magazine and everyone else there and that’s when post-punk was born!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hPnZUMBwA
I agree completely. Yeah I was going to post that video! It’s my all time favorite. Love New Values too. 5 foot 1 is my favorite track on that album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHC6QRaq6d0
I wish life could be swedish magazines.
Hey guys yeah I wanted to show you this video of my friends band who did a cover of House of Jealous Lovers! They are called Zeroes and Ones and they love you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll79zBKWhec
There is another video somewhere of them doing the song but using a frying pan as the cowbell! (Forgot the cowbell for the gig and had to run and find one before its started!)