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Thank you
@Tim_Burgess
! Love you and all the work you’ve done on these listening parties to bring people together!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Does anyone else wish there was still a headphone jack on the iPhone, or am I the only asshole?
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All these years later, Deserter’s Songs is talked about as a high water mark, yet All Is Dream was very successful, both for what we accomplished in those songs and with the way it was received. Many fans now say, ‘those two albums were a big part of my life.
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Goddess on a Howay was one Jonathan wrote back during Yerself is Steam. I begged him to record it for Deserters, even as a b-side. But we all loved how it came out, so it made it onto Deserter’s Songs!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Cheers to Stuart Berman for a great review. 33 years later is better than not at all! 🤣
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We made it to all of these in Dublin in 24 hours, 3 Guinnesses at each stop:
McDaid’s
The Palace Bar
The Brazen Head
The Stag’s Head
Kehoes
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So I sez to myself, I sez:
“Self”?
Self: “Yes?”
“What do you got to say for yerself?”
Self: “Yerself Is Steam!”
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My buddy Ray just called me. “I thought he’d bury us all…”
💔
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Holes. Recorded about halfway through the sessions (10 months of recording off and on)
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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RIP My Mom. Joann Mackowiak June 3, 1939-October 21, 2019.
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.” -Thomas Wolfe
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“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.”
-Lenny Bruce
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Jonathan and I went to Ric Ocasek’s townhouse to record a single with Alan Vega. Paulina came to the door and we waited for Ric. There was a giant red pool table in the room & several Andy Warhol paintings all around the room, one being a portrait of Ric Ocasek. He was fabulous.
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If you want some guitar inspiration, check out these 4.
Verlaine, Quine/Ribot, Ry Cooder, Sharrock. Yer Painted Desert Island Discs…
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Delta Sun! Jimy brought in this song and we rearranged it. Jonathan rewrote some of the lyrics. Check out the Chemical Bro’s. Remix of this one!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Opus 40, Hudson Line and Funny Bird were the first 3 songs we wrote for Deserters Songs, and they sort of set the mood for the whole shebang. This was recorded in the Catskills at The Bands studio.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Funny Bird was originally the first song on the album. Abbo (Steven Abbott) at V2 said, let’s swap those 2songs, it adds more drama to the album. He was correct.....
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Thanks
@Tim_Burgess
Once again! Love you!
See you next week with the Bobbie Gentry vinyl listening party!!!!!!
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❤️❤️❤️
@Tim_Burgess
You’ve done a great thing during an impossible time. Your Karma coins are endless....
Biiiiig thanks to the amazing
@mercuryrevvd
, who will be back to join us on Friday for our Bobbie Gentry
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
. We love you Grasshopper x x
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The smallest Guinness in the world at Cryan’s, Carrick-On-Shannon….
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Mercury Rev Announce New Album Born Horses, Share Video for New Song “Patterns”: Watch | Pitchfork
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Opus 40 is a real place here in the Catskills. A great sculpture. Look it up! Google it!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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1993! King Tut’s!
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MERCURY REV – Debut Album ‘YERSELF IS STEAM’ (Was Almost Not) Released 30 Years Ago Today – TURN UP THE VOLUME!
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Thanks once again to
@Tim_Burgess
&
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
& to David Baker, the genius
@varietylights
Everybody please be safe, the virus lurks but will soon be passing. Then we’ll see your beautiful faces again, in person!
Thanks to
@Tim_Burgess
for bringing light!
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When I saw The Specials on SNL at 15 years old, it blew my mind! Songs like Much Too Young, Too Much Pressure & Ghost Town may have been about Coventry, but were poignant for any Reagan Rust Belt USA town (Buffalo, etc). To our youth! Cheers hero: Terry Hall…
Oh man, RIP Terry Hall. One of my favorite SNL performances of all time: The Specials with Terry on lead vocals while Neville Staple brandishes a fucking Tommy gun.
#BernieRhodesKnowsDontArgue
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Pick up if you’re There! The 3rd instrumental on Deserters and another late night recording (those are always the best). At the end, that’s Garth Hudson’s voice mumbling something cryptic messages.....
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Early Mercury Rev photo in Dunkirk/Fredonia during recording of Yerself Is Steam.
@varietylights
David Baker, Jonathan, Moi, Suzanne Thorpe
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I saw Mazzy Star at Woody’s in 1990 and all of Galaxie 500 were in the audience as well as many other bands. It was a spellbinding show that I continue to draw inspiration from 30 years later...
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Hudson line was one I brought in to be reworked! We got Garth Hudson to play sax on it! He would play a few notes at a time on different tracks and we were like “what is he doing?” But when you put it all together, it was genius!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Listen to Mercury Rev's "Ancient Love" from first new album in 9 years
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We are in Portland! We drove for 3 days. We are having a beer at the Annex. Yes siree!
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In Endlessly, it was my idea to quote “Silent Night” in the bridges. Definitely a Jack Nietzsche feel to this. Cuckoo’s Nest!
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I met Mickey Rooney in a Howard Johnson Restaurant in Cincinnati Ohio around 1972. He called me “Grasshopper”
And so here I am.
Hollywood great Mickey Rooney would’ve been 100 today... what a talent he was and what a life he had.
I just love this pic of him with Sammy (Davis Jr.)...
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Mercury Rev played Lollapalooza 93 in Portland & I was at catering. Yelled to our drummer “Hey Jimy, I’m over here.!” An older grey haired man turned around and came over and sat with me. I immediately recognized it was Timothy Leary. He thought I said, “Hey Timmy!” Good lunch!
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Tonite It Shows, recorded at
@tarboxd
. Dave did most of the orchestrations on this one!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Funny Bird was re-recorded
@tarboxrd
. We did an earlier version recorded in the Catskills, but decided we recorded it too slow. Glad we did because it came out much better!
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David Roback was such a hero. My friend Robert Buras (who also left us way too soon) introduced me to him in Oslo in 2003 and we all had a great time together til the sun never went down...
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Getting ready! Thanks to
@antonnewcombe
for inviting Rev on the journey thru the heart of madness in Canada and USA!
i'm so fucking pleased to announce our spring 2022 tour with mercury rev!!!
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Hercules! You can hear the demo on the deluxe reissue. It was a song cycle. We turned it into something else. Also one of my all time favorite Rev songs (with Tides of the Moon and Holes and Opus 40).
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Deserter's Songs is now available again on vinyl in a new edition! Get yours today!
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The trumpet was played by Matt Jordan of Poughkeepsie. He used to play live with Roland Kirk. We said “play Miles meets Chet!”
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RIP Terry Hall *** Mercury Rev live at Leicester, Demontford Hall (March 23, 1992) - GhostTown
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Chasing a Bee and Syringe Mouth were the last 2 songs we recorded for Yerself Is Steam. But ended up starting the album...
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I'm eighteen and i like it
Yes I like it
Oh I like it
Love it
Like it
Love it
Eighteen!
Eighteen!
Eighteen!
Eighteen and I like it
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Come join us for some deep listening!
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Mercury Rev Announce New Album 'Born Horses' | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
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Endlessly was recorded in full at
@tarboxrd
. Once again, Dave Fridmann’s leading the orchestrations with Jonathan and I pitching in.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Sounds like the Mercury Rev tour in ‘93.
If you were drugged, crammed into a truck for a 12-hour drive, and released 400 miles away you might bite an elephant, too.
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Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan to Cover Galaxie 500 for Video Series. And Mercury Rev!
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Amy Helm whistling at the end. She got a few whisting gigs from this!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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I think now I understand why my grandfather and some of my great uncles who all lived thru the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression all had fully stocked bars in their basements, with stools and a sink etc, etc...
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Yes! And
@Tim_Burgess
also signed up
@mercuryrevvd
for Deserter’s Songs! And many more! Let’s hear them all...
have you been following
@Tim_Burgess
and his listening parties? well he's been in touch and signed us up for The Boy With The Arab Strap. That will be fun, plenty to talk about with that one. Thanks to Tim for doing these..
We can do this people, kick this strife in the nuts!
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We started writing songs for All Is Dream while on tour for Deserter’s Songs, & then we continued writing in the Catskills. So that was about half the songs written. Then we wrote a bunch of stuff at Tarbox, when we went up there to record.
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Nite & Fog!
Probably took as long to record this song as the whole rest of the album! We kept changing things.....
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Those guitar explosions were in part inspired by Dinosaur Jr, but we wanted to make them 20 times more extreme, so the needle would jump out of the groove! Ha!
#TimsListeningParty
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I remember on Frittering I did my guitars first take, then I said, “Okay now I’m going to do it for real.” And Dave Fridmann
@tarboxrd
said, “Nope, that’s it. You got it”
But I did work the wah-wah during Jonathan’s solo.....
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Thanks to everyone who came to see
#mercuryrev
in
#Gijon
#Genk
#Bangor
#Ireland
#Scotland
#Copenhagen
#Stockholm
&
#Oslo
Happy Trails....
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Tides of The Moon is one of my favorite songs we ever did. I love to play it live!
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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I recorded the guitars thru one of these! The mic Dave Fridmann used was bigger than the amp!
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Frittering was Jonathan,
@tarboxrd
and me messing around during a Flaming Lips session when the Lips took a break.
Nathan Roberts played drums.
Wayne Coyne and Mike Ivans are on there too, doing organ and guitars!
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We dragged our rascal 8 track 1/2 inch up to Portland Maine to record the saw. Mr. Joel Eckhaus
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One of the huge outcomes of Covid-19 that no one is speaking about is how 90% of people no longer seem to use any directional turn signals while driving. It’s a mad mad mad mad mad mad world….
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"Obsolete 1930s Instruments"?
We used all those instruments on Deserter's Songs in 1998...
New Order’s "Blue Monday" Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments
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Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” captured cruel detachment in the face of tragedy
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I collect coins was a late late night Dream we all recorded. We wanted it to sound like music from an old silent movie accompaniement
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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I was just sitting in my car in uptown Kingston listening to the Clash, Police On My Back, and a Kingston Cop told me to turn it down. God bless!
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