I tried watching a recent "What's in My Bag?" with Oldham but turned it off cuz I thought he was mostly doing self-serving/promotional schtick. (it really seemed like he was gunning to get a songwriting gig for some modern country singer). But this Brett Eugene Ralph story from the early forum days is pretty incredible:
Before the Bjork tour, Will met with Bjork and all of her "people" to iron out the details of the tour. When the promoter (or whomever) asked Will how many people he'd have in his band, he said, "Just one--just me."
"So," the guy said, "you'll be accompanying yourself on the guitar then?"
"No," Will replied. "I'll be accompanying myself on the autoharp."
There was a period of total silence before the guy said, "I can't tell you how bad of an idea I think that is."
What's even funnier is that, when I told that anecdote to Darren Rappa, he said, "Yeah, I was over at Will's right before he flew out to join that tour. He was pacing back and forth, waiting for an autoharp to arrive by Federal Express. Then, after it had come and he was ready to leave for real, he darted back into the house and grabbed a 'How to Teach Yourself the Autoharp' book off of his coffee table and tossed it into his bag."
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:29 pm
by joe_lmr
Brian Baker of Minor Threat & Dag Nasty, and currently of Bad Religion, had TWO different stints in this band:
Speaking of Bad Religion, they took their second album in a, uh, different direction. Much like Ministry's synthpop album and Pantera's glam albums, they've tried to make people forget they ever did it
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:44 pm
by zorg
Dave N. wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:25 pm
Will Oldham was in an early incarnation of Slint, but they stopped asking him to come to practice once they noticed he didn’t know how to play guitar.
Source- recent WTF interview with Oldham
He’s credited as taking the Spiderland photo.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:04 am
by hbiden@onlyfans.com
joe_lmr wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:29 pmSpeaking of Bad Religion, they took their second album in a, uh, different direction. Much like Ministry's synthpop album and Pantera's glam albums, they've tried to make people forget they ever did it
THAT'S A BANGER! there's no reason it isn't on the karate kid soundtrack.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:49 pm
by Frankie99
joe_lmr wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:29 pm
Brian Baker of Minor Threat & Dag Nasty, and currently of Bad Religion, had TWO different stints in this band:
******Junkyard video********
Don't forget Chris Gates of Big Boys and Poison 13!
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:16 am
by Vibracobra
While recording Face of Collapse at Albini's place, a courier brought In utero's final mixes and according to the DK guys when Mr Albini heard'em he wasn't happy at all.
Original bassist from aggrogrungers Paw, Charles Bryan, started working for Red Bull and he has some free-fall-from-plane speed record.
Grabber bros from Arcwelder worked for the Nasa or something like that I read somewhere decades ago. Dunno bout the veracity of that.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:16 am
by rsmurphy
JAMC poster behind Alice Palmer in Lake Mungo. Two great tastes that taste great together.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:01 am
by Gramsci
Vibracobra wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:16 am
While recording Face of Collapse at Albini's place, a courier brought In utero's final mixes and according to the DK guys when Mr Albini heard'em he wasn't happy at all.
Original bassist from aggrogrungers Paw, Charles Bryan, started working for Red Bull and he has some free-fall-from-plane speed record.
Grabber bros from Arcwelder worked for the Nasa or something like that I read somewhere decades ago. Dunno bout the veracity of that.
Another fun fact from that session is Steve gave them some recording credit for putting together the 7” Shellac sleeves. So if you, like me, have those first edition ones the guys from DKM made them.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:54 am
by PEPPER!
Jonathan Richman played mini-golf with Gram Parsons a few days before Parsons died.
Re: Your Favourite bits of band trivia
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 11:34 am
by losthighway
The original drummer of Alkaline Trio was kicked out of the band after he mailed Blake Schwarzenbach a box of his shit because Blake stole his girlfriend.
