There are few things a jam band can't effortlessly ruin imo.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
Anybody here have some salient facts about əkoostik hookah? All I know is that we used to get a kick out of very enthusiastically bellowing their profoundly stupid name in the midst of an ultimate sesh in the quad every time they rolled through my college town.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Man, I miss ultimate in the quad. And devil sticks in front of the Rathskeller just before going to see the local Sublime cover band.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
I have to literally walk away from my desk rn because the phrase 'ultimate in the quad' is making me lose the last of my composure.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
I guess I was vaguely aware that this band existed. I must have seen posters or CDs or t-shirts or something. But I am very happy that I had not knowingly heard even a single djembe-slap-worth of their alleged "music" until now.
There were probably people on the periphery of my social circle who were into this sort of thing (baja shirt, hacky sack, Birkenstocks/huaraches, pennywhistle). But my truest droogs and I were mainly getting high and listening to Residents, Beethoven, Modern Jazz Quartet, and old-tymey 78s during those years. We were aware there was such a thing as radio, but as far as we were concerned it may as well have been broadcasting solely to the moon.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFudgLQpTsE
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
This thread is currently the third most read on the site, just behind the US and UK politics threads.
I could cry.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
a lot of interesting ideas and feelings in this song. and wow, a drum circle as the rhythmic backing, cool!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
i started to write out the lyrics but my fingers started to hurt
would like to reach out my handon myself, i want to tell you to runmobadasay, mobadayoungwell pick me up with golden handon myself, i wanna tell you to runmabadaysay, mobadayoung,
well i would like to hold lighted handmaybe i’ll cryi would like to hold my handhow we will cross, how will crosssend me on my way
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Fun fact: there are as many emotions in this song as their are instruments.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
Also thoughts. This song is more packed with thoughts than any other song I heard.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Critical reception has been mixed. In January 2014, in a review for Cruel Sun, Kurt Keefner said that "the African vocal riff from "Send Me on My Way" is bad Ladysmith Black Mambazo",[7]
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Disappointed this poll doesn't include an option for the phrase that he repeats in the verse, which I believe to be ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, July 19, 2018 8:33 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
I named my high school band Desert Ice and as bad as I feel about that I'm glad I somehow did not think of Rusted Root.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
They're still touring, and judging by recent YouTube videos, they sound just as good now as they did then.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
They burst on the scene in Pennsylvania when I was in college - 1994/5, Saw them 5 or 6 times in 1994. Each show was magical...they had it back then.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I have "When I Woke" and "Welcome To My Party". I love the WIW opening track "Drum Trip". It's so anti-commercial! Vocals are a bit David Byrne-ish.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
I happen to be listening to that track right now (when you search Rusted Root on Spotify, playlists that come up include "Have a Great Day!", "Totally Stress Free", and "A Perfect Day" -- sounds like my vibe)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Ultimately they may have damaged or certainly limited their careers by allowing themselves to be exclusively lumped into the Deadhead / jam band circuit.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Only one of the members in the photo posted above is still in the band. How DARE the current incarnation call themselves "Rusted Root."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Is that true? Looks like the same folx -- https://www.rustedroot.com/
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
Rusted Root has one original member, the others are all collected bits of twigs and rope shaped into person-shaped figures.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
i recently went on an ill-advised revue of woodstock 99 videos and pretty much every part of this is exactly what you'd expect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on_JmSwh5NU
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
a drum circle is like a river
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
always moving, always...so refreshing
and you need it to live
More like a dirty puddle
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
but it doesn't belong to you, at the same time
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Got my sandle wet and muddy
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Sandal
I have a halo of drums tattooed around my heart so that the beat of life will always sustain me. Well, around my right nipple, actually. I was too baked to remember which side was my heart side but I'd like to think my heart forgives me.
I have 'RUSTED ROOT' tattooed on my thing.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 July 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
Exactly how much hemp must one smoke in order to rust a root?
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 19 July 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
the phrase "rusted root" refers to what happens when somebody with red hair frosts their tips
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
this thread has made me reconsider my stance on the legalisation of marijuana tbh, these fucks need a haircut and a job asap
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Old Lunch, you are so damned funny
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
I thank you, but as you can see, the quickest way to demolish a thread's momentum is to encourage my dipshittery.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
(I'll get the unamused people in my life to give you some pointers for future use.)
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Rusted Root go on Chapo
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 July 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
Is that true? Looks like the same folx -- https://www.rustedroot.com🕸/
MembersMichael GlabickiBobby Schneck Jr.Zil FesslerDirk MillerDaisie Ghost FlowerPast membersJim DiSpiritoLiz BerlinJim DonovanJenn WertzJohn BuynakEthan WinogradPreach FreedomColter HarperJason MillerWendy BeileNery ArevaloCory CarusoPatrick Norman
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 July 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
Preach Freedom
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 July 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
I'd never seen this video before and it's way less dated than I would have expected, like hippie shit is removed from all usual pop culture time signifiers.
A friend of mine ended up hanging out with these guys in a desert somewhere in like 1993 and I assume did a lot of shrooms. And this record was a staple at my wife's college house in Ann Arbor circa 1995 thanks to our shameful sort-of jam band past, but mostly from her hippie roommates who sometimes had random people and tanks of nitrous in the basement. I won't lie, I didn't hate it, though drugs were usually involved. I also had sex at least once while this record was playing.
Anybody here have some salient facts about əkoostik hookah?
This band, who I've never actually heard, was the breaking point for my wife's jam band era. I think she might have ended seeing them with the hippie roommates and fucking hated it so much that it made her suddenly and jarringly realize how dumb so much of that shit was and how obnoxious and idiotic and mindless and snobby all the hippies who frequented her house were.
She used to sing the line "take the train to HOOKAVILLE" to me as shorthand for "my hippie roomates did something stupid or irresponsible again" or to make me mad but it would fill her with shame to do so and she'd get angry at herself about it.
PS. I still love the Dead and refuse to strongly denounce Phish.
― joygoat, Friday, 20 July 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
I also had sex at least once while this record was playing
Thread took a rather dark turn. I'm so sorry. The therapy bills alone must be astronomical, but really you never fully recover.
Even now you still hear that loathsome voice whisper in your ear.
"joygoat...
ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon"
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 July 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link
She used to sing the line "take the train to HOOKAVILLE" to me as shorthand for "my hippie roomates did something stupid or irresponsible again"
I've never heard ekoostik hookah, but that's great.
― how's life, Friday, 20 July 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
Ahem, it's 'əkoostik' thankyouverymuch.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
I'd like to think they're huge primadonnas about the exact spelling of their band's name in marquees and college newspaper ads and what have you. 'Excuse me, does that look like a schwa to you? Do you know who we are? We're əkoostik fucking hookah, you piece of trash. Don't make me crush you like a bug. (bows) Namaste.'
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
Ohhhh, yeah, the other band that used to come through town all the time was Umphrey's McGee. Like, I understand that you're probably high when you name your jam band. That's just as god intended. But there isn't some point along the line where you manage to avoid being high for 5-10 minutes and realize what a horrifying assemblage of phonemes you've saddled your band with? Just typing the words 'Umphrey's McGee' kinda makes me want to punch something.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
I am finally this moment listening to Rusted Root's hit single 'Send Me On My Way' for the first time since starting this thread (for the first time in years, probably) after realizing that it is, for some reason, on my iPod. I have no recollection of putting it there, but I guess I have to accede that the Root moves in mysterious ways and I cannot predict how or when they will manifest in my world.
I can tell that this singer has never used the top button of a shirt in his life. I might even go as far as the top two or three buttons. You gotta let the good people see the pukka beads, man.
I want to change into a knit hemp poncho so badly right now, I can't even tell you. I'm going to have to content myself for now with the tie-dyed tapestry I just draped over my work station.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
Four minutes and change? That's it? I feel utterly shortchanged rn. Need. More. Rooooot.
― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
I would like to hold my little hand.
― how's life, Friday, 20 July 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
I would like to sing about a thing that I would like to do which would take less effort to actually just do than to sing about. I would like that.
― My favorite planet is the planet of Earth (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 July 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link