– Round-trip school-bus ride to the coast with The Dandy Warhols, with tour guide Tres Shannon (Voodoo Doughnut, X-Ray Cafe).
– Stop-off in Tillamook for an exclusive Dandys mini-performance.
– Ticket to show at San Dune Pub (21+)
– Discounted rate on a room at the Sunset Surf Motel in Manzanita. (Upon purchase, ticket holder will receive a secret discount code that they will use when booking their room.)
80 Show-Only tickets ($25.00)
Show-only ticket includes:
-Ticket to show at San Dune Pub (21+)
Premium and Show tickets are available NOW at cascadetickets.com while supplies last.
One thing that popular movies get wrong about bands recording an album is that the whole band sits in a recording studio in a circle and just plays “the songs” live. Nah, man. That may have been the case in Little Richard’s time, but for well over 40 years, songs – and albums – have been assembled like a puzzle, with the only real guide the original intent of the songwriter (via his/her demo recording) and the intuition of the producers and recording engineers. The only real limitation is time. While this process can result in legendary recordings (like our own Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia), when it comes to playing the songs live, you kinda have to reverse engineer your parts.
Part of Zia’s process in learning her parts for live performance is what you see here. Zia makes these notes for herself during the initial rehearsal sessions whenever the Dandys venture forth on performing new material. She doesn’t need keep the notes on hand very long at all, just a few days. Quite frankly, I don’t know how we still have this sitting around the Odditorium, since these notes were obviously transcribed two studios ago. I think we have not thrown anything away, ever.
Now Courtney usually eschews discussing what songs “mean,” but in this interview conducted in 2000 with Ink 19, the subject of Nietzsche comes up, and…
Courtney, you’ve had this fascination for Nietzsche, and now you’ve written a song named for him. How was that song inspired?
Courtney: That came straight off the bathroom-stall wall of a private college in Portland. Pete and I roadied for a swing band that was playing there. I couldn’t believe it when I saw that. I was like “Okay, I’ve gotta use that. That’s amazing.” It said “I want a god who stays dead, not just plays dead. Even I can play dead.” And that’s the lyrics to the song.
Read the entire interview, which includes some anecdotes on the recording of Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, as well as what Saturday morning cartoon Zia thinks the Dandys are most comparable to, by pointing your interweb browser HERE.
Zia’s buddy Dave from Dave’s Killer Bread has joined this Sunday’s Clean Water Portland Earth Day benefit concert bill with his blues band Dave’s Killer Grandaddies. This is the third of seven in the concert series Zia has organized on behalf of Clean Water Portland to raise money and awareness for the Portland anti-fluoridation campaign. More info on this show HERE.
From the Facebook event page:
Earth Day weekend, what a perfect time for an evening full of spectacular musicians to join together against adding fluoridation chemicals to our precious water supply. We also have an extra special guest to announce. Portland’s very own legendary drug free bread maker, Killer Dave of Dave’s Killer Bread is showing his support this Sunday by rocking the blues.
Come to the Good Foot for the third of seven benefit concerts, to hear great music and protect our water. Together, we can do this!
Early Matinee Sunday show. Doors at 7pm, bands start at 8pm.
Sliding scale $5-20 w/all proceeds going to Clean Water Portland’s effort to keep fluoridation chemicals out of our water supply. The more you give the more cool Clean Water swag you get! Buttons, yard signs, T’s etc!
Here’s one we hadn’t seen in thirteen years. The Dandy Warhols perform ‘Get Off’ on French music show Nulle Part Ailleurs, 11 September 2000. According to our Gigography, the Dandys would play the next night at Le Trabendo in Paris, and then fly home, which is a weird little trip, if you ask me.
The Jean-Francois Rivard-directed video for the This Machine track “Rest Your Head” made it’s debut today on Spinner.com. Go over there and watch and ‘Like’ and Tweet that mother out there, if you wouldn’t mind, bubeleh.
We’ve ransacked our closets to find some rare, never-before heard gems from the Thirteen Tales recording sessions. Combining these outtakes, alternate mixes, and early four-track demos with newly remastered Thirteen Tales album tracks, we are proud to announce the release of the expanded Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 13th Anniversary Edition June 11th on Capitol Records.
The formats include 2CD and digital audio packages via Capitol, with newly remixed Pop-Art packaging by original album designer Steven Birch, plus a big bad limited edition deluxe vinyl box set – with all new-t-shirt packages – available exclusively from dandywarhols.com. (A remastered original Thirteen Tales will also be released by Capitol on 180-gram vinyl with replicated original artwork.)
CD 1: ORIGINAL ALBUM, REMASTERED
1. Godless
2. Mohammed
3. Nietzsche
4. Country Leaver
5. Solid
6. Horse Pills
7. Get Off
8. Sleep
9. Cool Scene
10. Bohemian Like You
11. Shakin’
12. Big Indian
13. The Gospel
CD 2: 13TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION BONUS TRACKS
1. Later The Show
2. Ras Tafar and I
3. Godless (Alt Vox Melody)
4. Cool Scene (Early Mix)
5. Country Leaver (Early Mix)
6. Bohemian Like You (Courtney Home Demo)
7. Mohammed (Courtney Home Demo)
8. Big Indian (Courtney Cassette 4-Track)
9. Big Indian (Courtney Home Demo)
10. Unknown
11. Godless (Courtney Home Demo)
12. Cool Scene (Courtney Home Demo)
13. Dub Song (Courtney Home Demo)
The limited edition deluxe vinyl box set will be available ONLY from dandywarhols.com. More information is sure to follow in the coming weeks. For now, take a gander at these shirts we’ve made up as add-ons to the box set:
On this date thirteen years ago The Dandy Warhols filmed the video for “Godless.” It was my first official day working for these jokers, and it set precedent of “sitting around all day, glaring” equals working. The most difficult part came when I had to stand for the six hour bathroom scene. So tough, acting.
Joining The Dandy Warhols in the video was Travis Grassman, as the bartender, Spike Keating and Michele Loew, as the couple, and Cameron the hula hoop boy as himself. The girl with the big eyes I don’t know and never saw again.
The video, directed by Chris Anthony, was filmed in the then newly-christened Dante’s at the ever bustling corner of 3rd and West Burnside in downtown Portland. So striking Dante’s was to me on that first day of filming, with its warm, dark womb-like ambience, hand to god I cannot remember what had occupied its spot previously.
