JANDEK: OVERPOWERED BY FUNK

hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

whoa

Wau

i saw it, but i don't quite believe it.

Nice divided crowd reaction

looool???

yeah, dude, dancing to Jandek! making out to jandek! we are through the looking glass, people.

holy shit.

it actually sounds ... pretty good?

I like the end of the first clip, where there is loud screaming and applause and Jandek is smiling to himself.

i kind of wanted him to throw off his guitar and join the dancers.

Nice divided crowd reaction

― I am using your worlds

yeah, there's definitely a few folded-arms + butt-hurt faces.

note says the jam went on for 78 minutes

is this real?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakfastontour/sets/72157616310778615/

Photos for any doubters..

:O

clip 2 is pretty awesome

parts have sort of contortions/arto type vibe...sorta

that's pushing it really

omg

i hope this forms the basis for his next album

bit of a fred schneider vibe to the vocals in the second one

this may be the best show i have ever attended. just. fucking. amazing. and only 4 bucks. i'll write more about it later, i just got back from houston.

seriously guys this shit slayed. 75 minutes or so followed by a 10 minute ish encore. (jandek encore!!!) (the sound in the youtubes is not great, the guitar and bass were more evenly matched, volume wise, i am looking forward to the CD release which i am going to give to everyone i know for christmas).

Haha I was already wondering about the cover art for the inevitable live disc.

He should go with "Overpowered by Funk" as the title.

He keeps taking things to new levels of amazement with these live show concepts. I am really loving nu-Jandek.

the man is a master of blowing minds

what the fuck is happening here

jandek--i don't listen to his music, but the fact that he's making it, i respect that

i'm wondering like

the half of the audience that's going off? did they just embrace the surprise of jamdek? or did they wander in off the street enticed by the dope grooves? or???

hahaha "Jamdek"

read a lot about him but never heard a note of jandek's music tbh but DOPE

read a lot about him but never heard a note of jandek's music tbh but DOPE

yeah that bassline is pretty sick

On Sunday, April 5, 2009, Jandek performed in Houston, Texas at his first-ever public performance in his hometown. His only other appearance in Houston was a walk-on with improvisational duo Loren Connors and Alan Licht in 2006 [8]. The performance was a matinee show held at Rudyard's Pub and was coordinated by Andy Bradley, chief engineer of Sugar Hill Recordings. Andy paired Jandek with two session musicians for the live event which consisted of a bass and drum funk improvisation accompanying Jandek's guitar and vocals. Jandek used a black pearl Godin Freeway SA electric guitar directly into a Line 6 Spider 2x10" combo amplifier.

i didn't think it would be possible to sound any worse than normal jandek music but here it is

the goons are here! what up goons!!

there were like 200 people there by my rough estimate. i would say that most were really into what he was doing.

the way it started--just that bass lick, the drumming starts and then jandek shredding, doing this fuzzed out sonny sharrock thing--was all it took. uninterrupted 75 minutes of heavy avant noisy funk punctuated with those born under punches style proclamations. "so happy... so SAD... WORK... water."

Jandek: Can I Just...

OMFG

right???

my friend and i put together a Jandek library for my college radio station back in the day. i just e-mailed him this thread, and i hope he poops his pants.

this is awesome

Yeah Crutis told me about the You Tube thing here, and that is FUNKAY. I told him Rick James would be proud, and I meant it.

love dis guy

bet he wishes he left the house 15 years earlier

that first video is an instant classic. is it just me or does it seem like everyone got laid that night?

Holy shit. Help.

Is this on Dime or something?

this is pretty wack you guys, but i guess i don't "get" jandek

Nah, I don't get him either, dude. But this is funkay.

I await the reaction of David Keenan.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 22:26 (54 minutes ago)

http://thehiddenreverse.blogspot.com/

HI DERE

I love that side-stepping dance move he pulls, that's just like how my dad dances.

do you think ... Jandek might be your dad?

jokes, but wouldn't that be the BEST.

this is kinda satisfying on another level too

because i guess jandek being who he is i like the fact that he doesn't even seem the conscious of indie rock type jive, like he always plays really pro gear and shit like the rich old dude probably is...this sort of seems perverse in that same way

If that were my dad, he would have followed through with pointy hand gestures.

Is Jandek rich? Surely not through his music?

wikipedia implies he is a stockbroker or something

this sounds like primus

Pls to someone photshop Jandek into promo photos of 24/7 Spyz, Dan Reed Network, Fishbone, Level 42 etc:

Jandek Blood Ulmer

jandek masterminded the world financial meltdown as an art project

I'm glad that he looks happy, but it's not the best jam.

i was thinking Primus too, actually

yeah this was the best show i ever saw. dude is like 4 years behind on releasing the live shows tho. killin me.

Yeah - The Rep From Corwood needs to expedite those live releases. One of the upcoming releases will have Flower/Corsano backin' him up! I salivate.

Jandek = Weak sauce

Does he release every single live show as an album these days?

obviously not

Um, sorta... The way it looks he's plowing through the shows [which date back to 2004] in chronological order, but he's not making it snappy enough to suit me. The Representative From Corwood is no spring chicken. He should get on the stick. ;-)

man there are a lot of jandek threads. anyway i saw dude is playing in minneapolis tonight and look if anyone is going to put on a spooky good-times halloween bash it's j dog so http://i.imgur.com/mj2DSuc.jpg you're welcome

also the wire described his new 9xCD box set of solo piano improvisations as "pitiless" so i'm pretty psyched for that

Not sure I would describe Song of Morgan as improvised, his stuff sounds pretty worked over to me.

I am going tonight, got my costume all picked out, I will be going as Jandek on the cover Khartoum Variations

I am only kind of kidding

All y'all critics are totally sleeping on Song of Morgan. It fucking rules.

That many hours of solo piano by Jandek would change me in ways I'm maybe not ready for

think it was loosely compared to Gonzalez's Solo Piano 1 somewhere on here.

but longer, duh.

!!!!

????

Jandek seemed to enjoy his Los Angeles debut.

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the female vocalist (the one in the risque pose above) was at the st. louis show too. the rest of the band was some untrained female musicians who were kind of trying to figure it all out as they plucked and thrashed along, like an early slits. i loved it.

it was an interesting f.u. to the image of jandek as a Very Serious Musician in spite of his lack of conventional technical skill, and an f.u. to the expectation of all these Very Serious (and overwhelmingly male) avant luminaries he's had backing him up. the last words of the show, spoken by the woman vocalist, were "you've been had."

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

Los ANG-HELL-ICE!

The COWS CAME HOME!!! The COWS CAME HOME!!!

pretty great honestly - the music sounds like early Jandek but the Jandek sounds like Shadow of Leaves madman stuff

Really cool, though get bent I don't really see how this is more subverting Jandek's image than the original post in this thread? This all feels way more Jandek than a pro funk band

i think it's VERY jandek, but i also think a lot of people may not see it that way. they're both subversive though.

Some friends of mine backed him in mpls. They aren't famous. I think someone shot documentary footage of the rehearsal process, I hope it is released

Semi regular ilxor Chris b. talked to him about hats and tx bbq after the show

For me, the biggest subversion came from the presence of the "main" woman (I think her name is Sheila Smith - no relation, I assume/hope.)

I don't think anyone's going to disagree that a huge part of the Jandek canon is thematically obsessed with isolation, disconnection, alienation, etc. So to see a woman who wasn't even born when Blue Corpse was released grinning with delight while Jandek put his guitar neck between her legs (for real) was pretty eye-opening. After 10 years of live shows and 60-odd releases over 36 years, we've seen a hell of a lot from Corwood, but overt on-stage sexual tension was a new one on me.

Beyond flirting/throwing herself at the rep, Sheila commanded the gig on many occasions. She spent WAY more time on the mic than Sterling did overall, and in contrast to the rep's usual demeanor, she actively engaged the audience: making eye contact, having exchanges with specific members of the crowd, getting off stage and wandering around the front row.

One fellow next to me had brought a copy of very early Jandek vinyl, and at one point Sheila noticed it and started berating him to hold it up. He resisted for a long time - he tried hiding it in his arms, with a deer-in-the-headlights stare, but she wouldn't leave him alone until he relented. At another point she got off stage and walked up to a young man who was doing his best to pretend he didn't notice her, keeping his eyes locked on the rep, until she was right next to him, demanding that he pay attention.

So, yeah - a sexually commanding, audience-engaging 20-something woman as the frontperson for "Jandek" was pretty mind-blowing to behold.

And here it comes:

Here it is, new release JANDEK (unofficial anniversary release):

0839 Rudyard's DVD

Jandek's first ever Houston (funk) show. pic.twitter.com/EGKuUoH8vN

— Sheila Beila (@veganloca) August 3, 2020

even his pose is a little funky!

Yesssss finally. I think about this show kind of a lot

Dreams do come true :)

dvd was shot very corwoodly. not in a good way tbh.

listening to it again there's definitely some james blood ulmer, some frat dude funk rock, and lots of prince's the undertaker.

getting back into jandek in a big way. not really that interested in the funk tbh

the corwood website takes paypal now, time to stock up on his mid-00s solo voice-and-fretless-bass period

was thinking of buying some of the back catalogue but I don't have anything in my apartment that plays CDs