Mojo Nixon: C/D

Also, some googling turned up an extensive series of articles about Country Dick from 2015 and in a 'where are they now' section at the end there's an extended bit about what Mojo was up to then that ended with this quote from him. Glad he went out in better fashion:

“My bass player is working on a Mojo documentary. If he ever finishes this thing and it doesn’t suck, we’ll have to go on a little tour and that will end my career. It’s called ‘The Mojo Manifesto.’ Hopefully, it will gets picked up by Netflix, 10 people see it and we’re gonna go do 10 or 20 shows and Show 3 is when I’m gonna die in a motel room in Chapel Hill, or B.C. or Seattle. I’ll be in a motel and say, ‘Honey, I don’t feel so well,’ and drop dead. That will help sales for the movie.”

lol @ answering machine message

somebody please post that tour rider

I am way more bummed about this one than I expected

https://goodingmusic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1-mojo-nixons-rider.jpeg

Variety article has a shot from that last show on the Cruise he did. Looks like a good time had indeed:

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/mojo-nixon-elvis-is-everywhere-dead-1235901773/

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/thumbnail_11_WB_DSC05123.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1&resize=1000%2C563

awww went out having a blast, as befits him

i saw a post from a fan who met Mojo on the 2019 Outlaw Cruise & asked him if it was ok to get a photo & Mojo replied in the affirmative saying “Mojo is here to whore! Give me a dick and I’ll suck it!”

Hell of a great post from Dave Alvin just now:

I first met Mojo Nixon when he was an unknown trouble maker in the early 1980s. He threw me a homemade cassette tape of him singing his wonderfully twisted songs while I onstage at a Blasters gig and I was instantly a fan of his bizarre, messy, satirical, rock and roll outlook. Through the following decades, he never failed to make me laugh or amaze me at his committed courage on stage and occasionally he even made me see the world through his blurry, hillbilly anarchist vision. Here''s Mojo with his best friend and beloved partner in crime, Country Dick Montana, performing a song on the legendary and dangerous first Pleasure Barons tour (this song was the section of the set that I refused to be part of for obvious reasons so I'd slip off to have a smoke and a drink with some other band members while Mojo and Dick acted out whatever psychiatrists would call this sort of behavior).Sadly, my two dear, wild old friends are now riding together on on the Death Train that they're singing about in this song. The world is now a whole lot less funny and interesting. Rock In however you define Peace, brother Mojo. See you down the line. Oh and please give Country Dick my love.
WARNING!!!
This video is NOT suitable for work or school or anywhere near children or anywhere near people with delicate sensibilities or really anywhere near anyone at anytime!

Said video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfY0ir5LvIM

I think this one captures the manic energy of his 80s performances pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6pZoCWg0bE

xp incredible, just reposted that, thx

RIP dudes

"while Mojo and Dick acted out whatever psychiatrists would call this sort of behavior" is just absolutely killing me right now, IRL LOLs

It's so perfect. And I do love the pro wrestler referee bits.

I need to know if he was cast in the Super Mario Bros movie as toad because of the name of his backing band or if he named his backing band after his role in the Super Mario Bros movie

either way, what a legend, godspeed Mojo

This is a truly bizarre combination of aesthetics:

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

Then there's this madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCmTA8r2NZg

woah I'm pretty sure that the woman at the beginning of that High School is a Prison video is Mary Woronov, the VU/Warhol scenestess who was prominently featured in Haynes' VU documentary

makes sense, as she was in Rock & Roll High School!

lol Rock'n'Roll High School Forever is so bad, it's delightful. RIP Mojo Nixon

Yeah, it’s her

This was the image put on the television screens around the ship, which was how I found out pic.twitter.com/p9Aq1bu6gR

— Lorie Liebig (@lorieliebig) February 8, 2024

! An incredible “Elvis Is Everywhere” filled with 1989 San Diego references (Roberto’s, Horton Plaza)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLNOuAC4Ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD67S2--Q54
http://www.acidlogic.com/mojonixon.htm

well now i am aware of way too much, but rip mojo

I saw him at Bumbershoot in 1999 and he was incredible. The whole show appears to be uploaded and streamable here:

https://archive.org/details/MN1999-09-04.Bumbershoot/02.MN1999-09-04.flac