Wasn't there a thing where he forcefully threw a guitar at an audience at one of the ATP festivals?
― Metro Video Centers, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I worry about that dude.
― Simon H., Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Scroll up. (xpost)
― StanM, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, yes, I see.
― Metro Video Centers, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I realise how incredibly lame this sounds spoken out loud, but... can anyone do something about this, FFS?
― Lostandfound, Friday, 19 June 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you mean something like a fan intervention? We're all concerned for his wellbeing, and I think us fans could voice that, but any more than that, I don't know, wouldn't that become way too personal very quickly?
― StanM, Friday, 19 June 2009 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
he's a guy with mental health issues; i don't know that circumnavigating awkward onstage conversation would be a real triumph of intervention. it is what it is.
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
he has a wife who loves him and many people who love him, he's not some loner out there on the streets with no-one overseeing how he acts and behaves
― akm, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys are right, that was my inside voice coming out... as well as a lot of personal life stuff involving loved ones with mental illness. I almost get anxiety attacks of my own thinking about Alan Sparhawk! I don't mean this in a stan-like way (hopefully), but we do get invested in the people whose music makes our own lives better. Not sure what we can do in this scenario, though.
― Lostandfound, Friday, 19 June 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's call A&E and get him on Intervention. Hey, it was good enough for Travis Meeks from Days of the New.
― Jesus Christ, Chiropractor at Law (res), Friday, 19 June 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if they'd play the opening music extra slow for that episode
― more tang than an astronaut (bug), Friday, 19 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I just cried listening to the Transmission EP, so it would have to be classic.
― krakow, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys make me well up all the time.
― ... (Pillbox), Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw them last week at this free music+movies thing in mpls, introducing Jaws (which they picked). Alan claimed that the first day he met Mimi, in 4th grade, she gave him a betamax copy of Jaws, and told him to study it if he wanted to make it big.
― clotpoll, Sunday, 20 September 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
'Long Division' playing now. I'm so maudlin at the moment.
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Has there ever been a Low poll? I can't find one. If not, then we should have one. I'm getting deep in again at the moment. 'Songs For A Dead Pilot' now, after 'Curtain Hits The Cast' this afternoon at work.
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, there is an album poll around somewhere.
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll have a more dedicated look. Searching for Low brings up a lot of things.
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Found it, but it was screwed up for some image related reason, so that a load of the results don't show up at all: What is the best Low album/release?
I demand a re-poll!
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Was the solo guitar album any good?
― Sundar, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: it was repolled after that, but I don't recall what it was titled.
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
No, imho. xpost
― StanM, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
You know what was kinda good? The Retribution Gospel Choir album. The version of "Holes in our heads" in that is godly.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 20 September 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Found the re-poll: What is the best Low album/release? (Encore version)
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe 'Things We Lost In The Fire' didn't run away with it, it's blatantly the best album!
― krakow, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
it really isn't
― million dollar pig junior (electricsound), Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Only recently discovered The Great Destroyer which I love. Too bad they're Mormons, though.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 September 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Silver Rider, from The Great Destroyer, is a near-perfect slowcore song. Low is another band that should get mentioned in many Best-Of-The-Decade lists, but I think they'll be criminally overlooked.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 21 September 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex, is that the only Low album you know? A lot of people like that album, but it's my least favorite.
― Turangalila, Monday, 21 September 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Among Low's hard-core fans, I imagine The Great Destroyer is the least favorite album.
It's among my favorites of theirs, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 21 September 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Too bad they're Mormons, though.
too bad? why?
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 21 September 2009 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I prefer the version of Silver Rider on the Murderer ep to be honest.
― I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Monday, 21 September 2009 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to it all again. "Over The Ocean" just spurred me to revive. Wonderful.
I was remembering how it was Mogwai that got me into Low, as they used to talk about them in interviews and how amazing they were, so I went and hunted it out. Mogwai were also responsible for getting me into Bardo Pond in exactly the same way.
― krakow, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Venus" is their best song, imo.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.jmichaelward.com/stnnng/images/sparhawk.jpg
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know what they're up to? It's been a few years since D&G, tho Sparhawk has been into the various side projects & things.
― you just freaked out more than our director of lols (Pillbox), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure but the retribution gospel choir is pretty hot...like low meets crazy horse
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The RGC disc comes out in January 2010, I think.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Dunno, I thought the self-titled album was a drag and I'll represent for most anything else Sparhawk has released.
xpost
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm i guess i'm reacting to seeing them live, i don't have the albums...live it's amazing if you have a chance
― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the RGC album is pretty good but doesn't nearly do justice to their live show. maybe the next one will.
― LaMonte, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Been listening to Lifetime Of Temporary Relief boxset all week and falling in love all over again again. So much wonderful stuff on there.
― krakow, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
On a walk in surprisingly-chilly South Florida, I just listened to a Low playlist: Whore; July; In Metal; Silver Rider; Death Of A Salesman; and Breaker.
The most intense -- and one of the most fascinating -- act of the decade.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 27 November 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Picked up the two live albums today - "Paris '99" & "One More Reason To Forget". Life does come up OK sometimes.
― krakow, Friday, 27 November 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Thread makes me (almost) happy.
― Lostandfound, Saturday, 28 November 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
saw a partially (intentionally?) obscured road sign yesterday that said
LOWOWN
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
and i had to agree
this was the first time i saw them live:
http://www.archive.org/details/low2004-02-27.aud.flac
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
pissing was so good around then
― rap band (schlump), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
First time I saw them was when they were a last minute replacement for a band at a KUCI benefit show in late 1993, I think -- I Could Live in Hope hadn't even come out yet. I was completely entranced from the get-go.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link