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“But I mean I’ve written 320 songs and I’m kinda like in this place where I feel like things that I wrote in the past, like, are still relevant, and I still want to say ‘em, but why should I fuckin’ have to like find a new way to write it because I already put that song out, and nobody heard it. Like, I wanna like, be like a rapper where I just fuckin’ like bring that shit back and like put it, y’know, like replace it into the, like, the present.”
— Jennifer Herrema
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Posted December 27, 2012 at 9:20am in OPP jennifer herrema rock royal trux screencaps quotes
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“This song is just something else, I mean, it’s a power ballad, kind of, with a ’80s vibe, ’90s production, and Jennifer’s just … like singing this primeval rock’n’roll thing, it just sounds like she’s on magick mushrooms just vomiting the whole time, like without it being this disgusting, you know, thing, it’s like this beautiful rock’n’roll vomit … The words are illegible and it’s hilarious and beautiful and just strikes awe to hear this. That’s one of the greats of the ages, I mean you hear this and you just think you’re in love, but with someone that is too dangerous to fool around with.”
— Ethan Miller of Howlin’ Rain (& Comets on Fire)
“That’s the way it is living in the suburbs, there’s lots of time to listen and play. No one I knew had ever listened to Marquee Moon before, so for me that was brand new. I could rip off a Tom Verlaine lick and all my friends would be really impressed ‘cause they thought it was mine. For a while, I had all these kids in high school convinced I had written a song called ‘Femme Fatale’. I’m sure it’s the same way with a lot of those British bands. It probably happened that way for the Bangles.”
— Neil Hagerty, interview in Conflict, fall 1989
Posted May 30, 2012 at 12:08am in Jaime Hernandez Michael Lavine OPP Royal Trux comix jennifer herrema love and rockets neil hagerty quotes rock plagiarism
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![I know this sounds strange, but it’s not like I’m enough of a real guitar player to say something like “I made a few mistakes” or “I messed up”. I mean, that’s me up there, that’s the way I play. I once thought about taking lessons, trying to learn how to be a really good guitar player, but what’s the point. Even if I learned how to play other people’s songs perfectly, it’s not like I’d be putting any part of me into them … You call my playing alone brave, but it’s only brave in the context of the other people in the room who are watching me, and thinking [what] they’re going to say to each other afterwards. That’s the sort of thing I have to totally separate myself from, because that has nothing to do with my performance, I’ll just lose out if I worry or think about that stuff. I don’t have that many friends, but it’s better that way, ‘cause I don’t have that strong a filter in my head. If people say things to me, they sort of stick with me, and I don’t need that.
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I know this sounds strange, but it’s not like I’m enough of a real guitar player to say something like “I made a few mistakes” or “I messed up”. I mean, that’s me up there, that’s the way I play. I once thought about taking lessons, trying to learn how to be a really good guitar player, but what’s the point. Even if I learned how to play other people’s songs perfectly, it’s not like I’d be putting any part of me into them … You call my playing alone brave, but it’s only brave in the context of the other people in the room who are watching me, and thinking [what] they’re going to say to each other afterwards. That’s the sort of thing I have to totally separate myself from, because that has nothing to do with my performance, I’ll just lose out if I worry or think about that stuff. I don’t have that many friends, but it’s better that way, ‘cause I don’t have that strong a filter in my head. If people say things to me, they sort of stick with me, and I don’t need that.
— Jennifer Herrema, interview, 1989
So where before all the songs were my songs — and I use that term lightly, “my songs,” because I’ve always felt like the whole ownership of music is kind of a convenient fiction we have to embrace to make a living in our society, but to me music has always existed, and I view myself more as a channel for it, and it takes a certain shape ’cause it’s coming through me, but if someone else is doing music, it will take a different shape. I’ve never been totally comfortable with the idea of ownership of music, but unfortunately it’s what we have to do, I guess.
Posted February 25, 2011 at 11:22am in Dylan Carlson Earth quotes rock intellectual property
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Deftones/Quark pulling a Journey/Arnel — sorry, Chino
hey guys,sad bit of news: Us-2 Evil-0 is changing lineup. Mas “mabigat” ang bago kong ka-duet.
You can’t mess with Quark Henares
Quark: “…and for our next song… from my former band, US-2 Evil-0”
Hahaha! Lagot!
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Posted February 13, 2011 at 7:22am in Deft Ones Quark Henares Deftones rock OPP philippines
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He said something once that I thought was really profound: He said that no one would bother making a record and sending it to him if he thought it was shitty. Obviously, to the people making those records, they are important. If he doesn’t get it as a listener, if he didn’t like it in some way, that’s his fault, not the fault of the people who did something important to them. That’s a pretty amazing, humble insight for someone like him to have.
— Steve Albini talking about John Peel
Sometimes I find it funny that people find us photogenic at all because, unlike a band like the Beatles who had a different look every six months, I look at our book and I’m like, ‘Hey look, we’re wearing the same t-shirt for 16 years!’ And no one has a moustache but y’know, that’s the way it goes.
I discovered Pavement in March 94 through Myrene’s radio show “Not Radio”. Their song “Cut Your Hair” followed the Charlatans’ “Can’t Get Out of Bed”, and I know this because I used to tape her episodes.
since then pretty much every band I’ve played with has covered Pavement. I’d sing “Westie Can Drum”, “Debris Slide” and “Stereo” for Ciudad (while Mikey did “Grave Architecture”), Blast Ople did “Blue Hawaiian” and “Flux=Rad” and I did backup for th MZA for “In The Mouth A Desert” with The Aga Muhlach Experience, Diego and Myrene’s band.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg. We did Pavement tribute episodes on “Not Radio”; both Diego and I had a collection of Pavement shirts; one time at Rockeoke Diego, Mikey and I accosted the instruments and did “Cut Your Hair”; I went on to see three of the side bands of Pavement members; if you listen to the Ciudad songs ‘Bombsite’ and ‘Corina Turina’ you might hear a bit of Pavement; Us-2 Evil-0’s ‘Nice Apocalypse! Where’d You Get It?’ is Pavement-inspired; hell—even the name of this blog is based on a Pavement song.
That’s why, with Diego and Myrene fast asleep around me, at Len and Gutsy’s lovely apartment, I find myself not being able to sleep. I’m giddy. I can’t help myself. I saw Pavement with the people who taught me everything about this music in the first place.
And we met them, too. But that’s another story.
At one point we told Spiral Stairs that Myrene is the first ever person who played Pavement on Philippine radio. He said something like “wow it must be nice being here to see us then”
She smiles and says, “you wouldn’t believe.”
i’m not anywhere near to ready for 1990s nostalgia, but these pictures of my flippy mates hanging out w/ the Pavements in Australia give me big feelings
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escutcheon of Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE
Blazon: “Or between two Flaunches fracted fesswise two Roundels Sable over all six Guitar Strings palewise throughout counterchanged.”
Motto: Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)
