C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Archers of Loaf
By MaxMarginal Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 7:00pmNostalgia ain't what it used to be, but hell, neither is rock and roll. Remember in the mid-nineties when people who weren't your typical rock band types found genuinely new things to do with guitars (not effects, guitars) and had their little corner of MTV on 120 Minutes on Sunday nights? When I pop in my hearing aid and watch this video of Chapel Hill, NC's Archers of Loaf on the internets with my one good eye, it all comes rushing back.
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MTV get off the air!
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/racerelations/videos...
I’m not sure if this vid will work outside of Australia (there have been issues in the past), but if it does – cringe and enjoy.
Web In Front gets stuck in my mental jukebox with some regularity.
does anybody give singing lessons these days, or better yet does anybody take them?
No they use Auto-Tune :s
...the lessons a young Robert Zimmerman evidently ignored when he was a kid?
these vocals are horrible
Expressway To Yr Skull
Max, Max, Max....Sonic youth were doing interesting things with guitars when you were in diapers, kid. ;D
Marquee Moon(part 1) & (part 2)
...and Television was doing great things with guitars before you were a twinklle in Pa Marginal's eye, whippersnapper!
actually , you dont deconstruct electric guitars ... you just fu&&ing play them ... like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR7gXt9GeVM&fe...
BOYCOTT NEWSCORP c'mon do it!
http://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=newscorp
Halloween
Scenic Pastures is their best song
...and brings back memories. Did Archers of Loaf used to have a trumpet player who used to play lying on his back behind the rest of the band? It might've been another Chapel Hill group, but I thought it was them.
I spent a way fun weekend in Carrboro, NC, about 1991 or so, at a rock festival in August. Most of it's a blur now, but I do remember that band (and the trumpet guy's band if they weren't A of L) and a girl group called the Chainsaw Kittens who did a rockin' number called "I Love You 'Cause You Smell Like Food." Fun times.
of this band back in the day. Thanks. Now I'll be jamming to them all day on the ipod.
Did any other guitar geeks catch the axe the south paw is playing? Either a Burns (Split Sound?) from the 60's or a Japanese (Matsumoku) copy of a Burns model, maybe a Conrad or Telestar. You can't get vintage tone like that from the current offerings of Mexican/Korean/Indonesian junk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sAm5UCJ9vA
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ns8t9iQck
;>)
Love me some Archers of Loaf, and not just because I live in Chapel Hill. In the 'what are they doing now' file- singer Eric Bachmann now records under the name Crooked Fingers, and Matt, the bass player, is a touring member of Band of Horses. Long live the Loaf.
Got to open for them once at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago- they opened up one of the lanes for us before the show and both bands got to bowl together after the soundcheck. Definitely a musical highlight for me...
I love crooks and liars but I have to object.
Nostalgia is exactly what it used to be. Nostalgia is about losing touch as we get older and in consequence getting all teary eyed about how great things used to be. I'm in my late 40's and have been an avid music listener for as long as I can remember and for as long as I can remember it's always the same whining about how things just ain't what they were and everything new just doesn't cut it. 60's were better than 70's, 70's better than 80's and yadda yadda yadda. There is as much good music now as there ever was. There are a lot of kids out there doing genuinely new and astounding things if you take the time to look or make an effort to listen. A hearing aid and one good eye is plenty, so no excuses.
The late 90's? get serious dude....
As far as everything else goes, keep doing a great job.
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