Furious Seasons nothing to feel bad about man-I've a certain Scottish dialect called Doric that others in Scotland and the UK hardly understand but I speak how I speak-I tend to tell people that say I'm a "yokel from the 'shire" and they don't understand me that I talk closer to Burns than you and that tends to shut them up. Fuck accents-we are who we are bud
Yeah there’s just something empty feeling about the whole thing. Like they don’t even remember much and they’re just like yeah. It’s just so strange like a weird little record trapped in time that they almost don’t even recall.
I grew up listening to these guys and their music still inspires me. GM Capitan is still one of my top 5 songs of all time. The intricacies of the music is just plain beautiful. I am sure you guys will never see this, but thank you for being a small part of my life :)
If you like Slint, listen to Rodan’s record Rusty. They’re fellow Louisvillians from Slint’s primary group of peers. There’s also June of 44, the Sonora Pine, Gastr Del Sol, Seam, Bitch Magnet, Bastro, Rachels, Evergreen, the For Carnation, Palace Music. There’s actually a Slint family tree of bands in the 33 1/3 spiderland book.
I saw these guys play at Club Dreamerz on Milwaukee Blvd the first time they ever played in Chicago. My recollection is they played that show in February or March of '89. They played songs from Tweez. The first song was their rendition of Rise Above by Black Flag. I saw them the second time they played at Dreamerz later that same year when they played songs that would be on Spiderland. I'm glad things are a memory blur for them too; it ain't just me.
This interview makes me curious as to why Will Oldham wasn't in the full documentary, especially as he seems so integral to their upbringing there's definitely clips from this exact same interview in the documentary too - I wonder why they cut him out?
@@yroe12 Will Oldham took the cover photo of Spiderland. He was actually on the Tweeze cover sat in the Saab wearing a helmet. You can just about make him out. The Tweez cover photo was taken by Joe Oldham
Britt has a very unusual temperment. Did he take lots of drugs as a youngster? Or is he just eccentric? I mean that in a good way, I like eccentricity sometimes.
Dunno, he's like if a kid with Aspergers was raised by hippies who encouraged him to be as odd as possible. He seems not to acknowledge social obstacles while having very limited ambitions. I understand after Slint broke up he slept on a couch and baked penis-shaped cakes.
@@allisonwalford6072 We all hope he's keeping well! He appears so detached (and slightly depressed) throughout the documentary, has he always been like that?
Are they, though? Everyone who knows about them pretty much acknowledges the band as legendary and Spiderland a classic. In the years after they split up, Spiderland continued to spread around the world, and so many big bands (Radiohead, for example) acknowledge them as a huge influence. I feel like if they were underrated you'd hear a lot of "Slint weren't very good and Spiderland is a shitty album".
It’s a closed community that is kind of afraid of outsiders. My grandparents live there. I wouldn’t suggest trying to get in there because they call the cops if they don’t recognize you.
well, the people in this interview only make up half the band. the guy with the glasses and the khakis is britt walford (the drummer). the guy with the blue jacket is todd brashear (the bassist), and the other guy i believe is will oldham, a close friend of the band. david pajo and brian mcmahan are the two members not in this interview, both of whom played guitar.
Jack is correct. Why would it be anywhere but in/near Louisville, where they all lived as children. They weren't stealing cars, they were making some of the best music I never heard until a few years ago from a time when I absolutely should have heard it. Just saying.
