Olivia Tremor Control (Update July 2012 -- Bill Doss RIP)

saw the e6 holiday surprise tour a few months ago and it was fantastic! looking forward to the OTC show here that's at the same venue

Anyone seen OTC on the first few dates of this tour? Or any recent tour, really.

Considering going to the Portland show and wondering what the ratio of sweet Beatles-esque jams vs. ambient/collage/etc will be...

new single is underwhelming

seeing them at the columbus/wexner center show. i think they're playing about 2/3rds older stuff, from reading interviews. looking forward to it.

saw them. was worth the 3 hour drive each way...they only played 2 new songs, to my knowledge. one was the one posted online, which worked well live as a minimalist, almost kraut-y jam. the other definitely had more of a jangly, Black Foliage-sound.

encore was by request: opera house, grass cannons, and nyc - 25. great ending.

other than that, the set was great. can't think of anything i wanted to hear that they didn't play. and the sound was great---the people at the Wex always seem to be top-notch on that point. 6 vocal mics...vocals sounded so, so good.

they also have the 2xLP re-issues that aren't officially out for another couple months for $20 each, which come with digital download of the re-masters, and a discs worth of b-sides and live material. really nice screen-printed tour poster, too, though i didn't spring for that.

I'm going next Weds in New York. That description sounds encouraging. Should be a cool show.

listened to Black Foliage this morning in anticipation

really good show. Green Typewriter Suite frickin ruled. and Opera House killed as the show closer.

another great one was that song I can't remember the name of from Black Foliage that goes into a cappella harmonies "so long, sailor ... goodbye ..."

can't think of anything i wanted to hear that they didn't play

OTM

oh yeah and they recorded it for NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140533815/live-wednesday-the-olivia-tremor-control-in-concert

yeah, the Green Typewriter Suite did rule. and the "so long" is "Hideaway." gonna stream that set in a minute...

the Black Foliage re-issue sounds ggggggrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaatttttt. A reminder that this band should be way more renowned than they are.

Played Marking Time on my radio show last week. Still chokes me up. Really gorgeous harmony singing and just perfect accompaniment with the slightly out of tune piano.

Having a HUGE "what the fuck" moment here, following Trip Maker's post. I have *always*, since the album came out, thought the song was called "Mourning Time". Played it about a million times, thought the cover said "Mourning Time" too... jeez. My mind must have been playing tricks on me, because there isn't a "Mourning Time" from OTC. One of those moments where you feel like the whole world had you fooled and was in on the joke... o_O

Not good:

https://twitter.com/FlagpoleMusic/status/230338230636126208

Very sad news: Hearing that Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss has passed away. No other details available yet.

Oh fuck.

:( that's awful i listened to the hell out of these records and i think they opened up a part of my brain to the psychedelic music i would come to love later on.

Confirmed.

https://twitter.com/chunklet/status/230345273556205569

https://twitter.com/andregallant/status/230344703508369408

Holy shit.

saw them play just over two weeks ago

This is horrible.

:(

fuck fuck fuck.

what the hell

RIP

Terrible.

WTF

RIP

don't know what else to say, OTC meant so much to me

RIP

that first album and a bunch of the EPs are really good. stunned ... dude was so young!

Second album is also brilliant...lots of good songs on those Sunshine Fix records, too. Fuck.

this is very sad / RIP. they played live in portugal 2 months ago or something and i couldn't make it :/

^^ even though i don't listen to them nowadays, 'dusk at...' and 'black foliage' were on constant rotation when i was 18 or something...

aw what the fuck. that's awful. just saw them in New York last fall. one of my favorite bands when I was in college radio. RIP.

I saw them last Thursday ... they did a great set, no breaks between songs, somehow keeping everything going while swapping instruments all over the stage ... he looked and sounded fine that night.

^They played at KCOU my freshman year, I was standing with them in the listening room while they played. This really sucks.
xpost to DMR

RIP. Been listening to Black Foliage loads again recently, that record means so much to me.

RIP.

I loved this band for so long. Big time RIP. So sad.

oh my god. horrible. RIP.

ah fuck

way too young

damn, dude was standing in front of me during dirty projectors set. this is crazy.

was P4K the last show they played?

Brad C. just said he saw them last Thursday.
This had to have been an accident or something, right?
Fuck this.

:( rip. Loved OTC.

:(

This really is awful news. Black Foliage was a revelation and a really influential album for me back in my lolcollege days. RIP

I saw OTC a few times and love them, but I think one thing that'll really stick with me is the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise doing an epic wandering 'Enlightenment' to close their ATP set, starting on the stage, visiting the middle of the crowd for a while, then leading everyone Panned Piper style through the venue to finish off outside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOXttJuEtS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1bJ9ILVFY

x-post - Same. I saw them play at South Street Seaport in the late 90s and they were amazing. Very sad.

Poor guy. Spoke to him two years ago and he was so energised and upbeat about the future. RIP.

Loved this dude and the band for 10 years now RIP

this band changed music for me and my friends, and to feel so close to such people you dont know personally is incredible. some of my friends even had the pleasure of meeting bill and seeing him perform. gone way too young. rest peacefully.

a little more information:
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2012-07-31/olivia-tremor-controls-bill-doss-dead-43

People will be listening to those OTC records for decades to come. Timeless.
RIP

Henry Owings's eulogy

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=731

ugh what a bummer. RIP.

Jumping Fences, a great George Harrison song

yeah OTC actually did a final secret jam in reds on that last night of the Mangum ATP, and had members of Sun Ra on stage with them doing the same track again - so a lovely way to cap off the event.

very sad news indeed.