Rusted Root Neologisms

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great, difficult poll

Both are of immense personal importance to me and have become staples of my vernacular (as they have within the Roothead circles in which I travel). The feelings they each evoke are similar in intensity but vastly different in vibe. Each feeling is indescribable but, once felt, inseparable from my essential state of being.

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Have you ever seen a sunset?

"Oh no, he doesn't do that stuff, he is high on life."

Jesus Christ, this is a real thing. What have I done? I just sat through 4 full minutes of morbid fixation. Now I am desperately performing self-trepanation.

Welcome to the Rust side, my friend.

Rusted was a collective of prophets. Even though this song was recorded many years ago, it's clearly about the glory of vaping synthetic weed.

Have you ever stroked the luxurious fur of my malamute, Cloudburst?

The simple act of eating an orange can transport your senses to fantastic realms which your shackled physical form could never access otherwise.

Seemoobadeeyah.

i have never heard this but based simply upon the quoted text and the youtube summary image i feel confident that i do not now, nor likely ever will, have the mental and physical fortitude to listen to it

(voted oombayseeyou obv)

I beg you to listen to it, my friend. You will be transmogrified by the Root, elevated to states of being you had never before dreamed of. What may have once sounded to you like the marble-mouthed scatting of a hippie burnout will morph into (tooooooooke) the ululations of a sage.

look i'm a new dad i have a family now i can't be fucking around with powerful shit like this

I had a friend who was a Rusted Root fan in high school. We were driving around getting high and I was like "can we listen to something else? I really don't like the lyrics." And she was offended, like, "what's so bad about seemoobadeeyah?"

it was a struggle but i went with "seemoobadeeyah"

lot to think about...in fact even the name itself is such a contradiction...Rusted Root...I mean roots are parts of plants, not made of metal, so how could a root rust?
I don't know, just a lot to think about....

listened to this song a couple times again just now, and i can't figure out which lyrics he's referring to cause all the lyrics kinda sound like "seemoobadeeyah" or "oombayseeyou"

pretty sure there's not a single enunciated consonant in the whole song

See ya wouldn’t wanna be ya for me

i disagree with how he spells those fake words phonetically but then who am i to question genius

Sounds good, check. Feels right, check. What more do you need? Phonetic spelling is just, like, a construct man. A wisp. A phantom. A contradiction. Not unlike...a rusted root.

Do u see?

it's true, all is artifice. send me on my way

Disappointed this poll doesn't include an option for the phrase that he repeats in the verse, which I believe to be ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

shout out to all the dudes who downloaded this song from limewire and think it's by paul simon

these fucking bastards

I find it vaguely fascinating to consider the confluence of events that resulted in this band making it any further than the freshman dorm of the drummer's cousin who popped by one of their underattended shows with a tape recorder and later blew the minds of his suitemates after they heavily partook from a carton of whippets. Like, this was actually on the radio, nationwide.

i mainly associate this song with movie trailers in the '90s (*camera pans across mountainside as "send me on my way" plays and jonathan taylor thomas gets into some shenanigans*) and matilda

(a photo from the nitrous-saturated evening in question)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg/220px-GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg

idk if that first impression is accurate, it's just the way the song lives in my memory xp

i mostly hear this song now in ads for enterprise rent-a-car

i had a friend in college who exclusively listened to street rap...and this song

Sounds about right.

'I'm really into '50s ska and the song 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile. Wanna go to the quad for some ultimate?'

My wife and her sister worked in the same food coop as some of them, back in the 90s. I have been that close to genius.

It's been decades since I've heard this. It now sounds like U2's "Bad" played by the Talking Heads.

Imagine the hijinks at that coop.

'Hey, what's wrong with these carrots? The radishes are weird, too. They're all covered in something. And this cassava. If I didn't know any better...'

Whenever I hear the song 'Love Shack' in public, say at a Walgreens or the Starbucks, I like to say 'tiiiiiin Root...Rusted' real loud over the music because I love the band Rusted Root. People really dig it, I think.

It promotes awareness of Rusted Root.

I recall "Rusted Foot" being slug around by musicians envious of their fame.

Good one.

I mean 'Busted Root' is the one I just came up with in .00000000005 seconds that's a much better one, but still...good one, bands.

Whenever I hear the song 'Love Shack' in public, say at a Walgreens or the Starbucks, I like to say 'tiiiiiin Root...Rusted' real loud over the music because I love the band Rusted Root. People really dig it, I think.

― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 19, 2018 9:14 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

my mom had this CD back in the 90s for some reason. the other music she liked then was linda ronstadt

this video is completely hilarious btw

"crusted boot" was mine.

Crusted Boot would have been a good name for a band from the other contingent in that co-op.

What I do enjoy about the quote; he marvels at the neologisms as though they sprung from the deep unconscious, when you know they just sounded like words he heard in South African music. Indestructible Beat of the East End of Pittsburgh.

in a moment of weakness, i listened to 1 minute and 35 seconds of this

as a result of this unfortunate lapse in judgement, i have now hired a deep web hitman to assassinate old lunch

https://images.wolfgangsvault.com/rusted-root/promo-print/memorabilia/ZZZ009697-PP.jpg

I'm pretty sure many of these vowels can't be properly transcribed in the absence of the "e with three dots" character, so I propose we suspend this poll until the Unicode Consortium stops ignoring the rightful demands of a certain lobby.

Mods, my life has been threatened by bizarro for no greater crime than exposing his ears to the transformative sounds of love and of brotherhood. I demand that you impose the strictest possible sanctions upon him, with extreme prejudice if necessary. Namaste.

I never would have imagined, of all the threads about terrible music which I start/revive, that a Root poll would've been the one to take off, but I must say I'm pleased.

Simmyommaway.

(Ommaway.)

mods, i believe i acted in the best interests of ilxor dot com and furthermore i think it’s obvious that no court would convict me for my actions

Count me as a write-in vote for "sussudio."

are these guys like phish or something

If Phish were paragons of their craft, they would be Rusted Root, yes.

Can't wait to see the Root at the state fair this summer. They're co-headlining with Sponge, Tracy Bonham, and Morcheeba. It's gonna be a slice.

Disappointed this poll doesn't include an option for the phrase that he repeats in the verse, which I believe to be ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

^^massive oversight imo

You are correct, of course, as that is the most epic of their neologisms. A contribution to our language which will significantly impact generations to come.

'What are you doing, my son?'
'Well, father, simply put: ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.'
'Ah, I see. Please, carry on, my special boy. Namaste.'
'And a Namaste to you, o father.'

Trick question, because "oombayseeyou" is short for "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon."

Fake news!

Luv this thread! Rusted Root has an extremely abbreviated Wikipedia page for a band that's been around 25+ years, and has released four major-label albums, four independent albums (one of them double-live), a "20th Century Masters" best-of, and five EPs...

not abbreviated enough imo

Hearing this song makes me feel ashamed that we beat up on "What I Am" for so many years.

The video, and every move the guy busts in it, are wonderful and hilarious.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was prompted to start this thread this morning when I heard a Spin Doctors song and my immediate thought was that the Spin Doctors were probably the favorite band of at least one member of Rusted Root.

feel like Rusted Root would predate Spin Doctors?

they feel modern rock not alternative

nah LMCBW was like '92 right?

shit I was thinking of Geggy Tah

who are even later! shit dudes my pop jam band radar is fucked

I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day. Wouldn't it have more impact if they were prancing on a plateau beneath a sunny, blue sky?

Spin Doctors and Rusted Root were contemporaries -- mid/late-'93 "alternative" radio was all "Two Princes," "On My Way," and the 4 Non Blondes song.

They were pretty good-looking, for a bunch of crusties.

I often find myself locked in a moment of zen-like contemplation when I realize that most bands are somebody's favorite band. Like Crazytown. Someone out there somewhere still proudly declares that Crazytown is their favorite band of all time. It's a very complex world, the one we live in.

Rusted Root's influence on globglogabgalab is undeniable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtER80sOjX4

I don't think the contemporariness of the Root and the Doctors precludes the fact that the Rusted Root fife player was a charter member of the Spin Doctors fan club.

damn i didn't realize RR's big record came out in '94. it seemed later than that.

guess it just swirled the bowl for an oddly long time before getting flushed

In addition, NASA engineers chose "Send Me on My Way" as "wake up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.[19]

nasa engineers are assholes apparently

Laughing @ this thread has been a threat to my continued employment all day. My most recent half-stifled fit of titters was triggered by realizing this stupid thing has already exploded to 70+ replies.

I thank you all.

are these guys like phish or something

― brimstead, Thursday, July 19, 2018 2:27 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Phish neologisms include: trune, taboot, blastoplast, jibboo... that's just off the top of my head. there are probably more that I'm forgetting.

There are few things a jam band can't effortlessly ruin imo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wonder why the shot the video on such an overcast day?

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

This thread is currently the third most read on the site, just behind the US and UK politics threads.

I could cry.

a lot of interesting ideas and feelings in this song. and wow, a drum circle as the rhythmic backing, cool!

i started to write out the lyrics but my fingers started to hurt

would like to reach out my hand
on myself, i want to tell you to run
mobadasay, mobadayoung
well pick me up with golden hand
on myself, i wanna tell you to run
mabadaysay, mobadayoung,

well i would like to hold lighted hand
maybe i’ll cry
i would like to hold my hand
how we will cross, how will cross
send me on my way

Fun fact: there are as many emotions in this song as their are instruments.

Also thoughts. This song is more packed with thoughts than any other song I heard.

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]

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

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.

They're still touring, and judging by recent YouTube videos, they sound just as good now as they did then.

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.

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.

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)

Ultimately they may have damaged or certainly limited their careers by allowing themselves to be exclusively lumped into the Deadhead / jam band circuit.

Only one of the members in the photo posted above is still in the band. How DARE the current incarnation call themselves "Rusted Root."

Is that true? Looks like the same folx -- https://www.rustedroot.com/

Rusted Root has one original member, the others are all collected bits of twigs and rope shaped into person-shaped figures.

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

a drum circle is like a river

always moving, always...so refreshing

and you need it to live

More like a dirty puddle

but it doesn't belong to you, at the same time

Got my sandle wet and muddy

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.

Exactly how much hemp must one smoke in order to rust a root?

the phrase "rusted root" refers to what happens when somebody with red hair frosts their tips

this thread has made me reconsider my stance on the legalisation of marijuana tbh, these fucks need a haircut and a job asap

Old Lunch, you are so damned funny

I thank you, but as you can see, the quickest way to demolish a thread's momentum is to encourage my dipshittery.

(I'll get the unamused people in my life to give you some pointers for future use.)

Rusted Root go on Chapo

Is that true? Looks like the same folx -- https://www.rustedroot.com🕸/

Members
Michael Glabicki
Bobby Schneck Jr.
Zil Fessler
Dirk Miller
Daisie Ghost Flower

Past members
Jim DiSpirito
Liz Berlin
Jim Donovan
Jenn Wertz
John Buynak
Ethan Winograd
Preach Freedom
Colter Harper
Jason Miller
Wendy Beile
Nery Arevalo
Cory Caruso
Patrick Norman

Preach Freedom

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.

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"

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.

Ahem, it's 'əkoostik' thankyouverymuch.

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.'

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.

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.

Four minutes and change? That's it? I feel utterly shortchanged rn. Need. More. Rooooot.

I would like to hold my little hand.

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.

I would like to type some words on my keyboard.

Oh Maceo, oh Matteo

I thought forever that this is what he sang but all of the lyrics sites seem to disagree. I still think it. I still think it, lyrics sites.

Yep, cross-referenced the names in the photo with the following from Wikipedia:

Must be hella challenging for the dude to
find age-progressed facsimiles of his former bandmates.

Pretty sure he makes them all undergo extensive cosmetic surgery toward that end.

Also, pro musicians are generally happy to
stick with a band that can reliably book gigs, no? Why is Rusted Root membership such a revolving door? Maybe the guy’s a germophobe, and doesn’t pass his pipe around.

He probably sits around harshing his bandmates' mellow by bragging about his stock portfolio all day or something.

he doesn't fire anybody, he just... sends them on their way

Dude's always like "buylowbesellhighoway" and everyone just kind of nods despondently.

'Oh, so you...you really talk like that, huh? All the time? Huh. Hmm. (sigh)'

Can’t say I’ve heard this song. This thread is definitely a warning not to :P

If you've seen a commercial for like a travel agency or maybe a cruiseline and the song you heard wasn't the B-52's song 'Roam' you've probably heard this song without realizing it. It's the 'Solsbury Hill' of Generation X.

vile slander of 'solsbury hill' u heathen

(opening guitar line plays as a perky couple puts their luggage in the trunk/boot of their car)

VO: 'You work hard, so when it comes to your vacation, leave the work to us.'

Ommaway

(car cruising down the highway as the guitar line continues)

Ommaway

(medium shot of our couple who, while driving, turn to one another and break into spontaneous laughter)

VO: 'At Bleeple-Blorp Travel, we go that extra mile to send you on your way.'

Ommaway

(random shots of the couple frolicking around a bonfire on a beach and sampling local cuisine at an outdoor bistro)

Ommaway

('Send Me On My Way' briefly morphs into 'Solsbury Hill', no one in the audience notices)

Ommaway

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgVUS0ZWMPURb3u0C9k8psEsqKpLKjxrOZD019OnSy-oFyJ7Ez9g

It's worth noting that in Lunch's lovingly rendered travel-agency commercial, the listener is only treated to the beginner-level mantra of ommaway.

It's probably best this way. The casual TV watcher is likely not ready for the mystic Toltec wisdom enshrined in oombayseeyou. Let alone the expert-level incantation ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon.

It simply won't do for mere initiates in Rootism to summon the spirit of seemoobadeeyah before they have properly undergone The Five Trials.

"son," he said, "grab your bong, I've come to take you home"

I have cancelled all of this weekend's plans so that I can devote myself entirely to creating the 'Send Me On My Way'/'Solsbury Hill' mashup that bizarro is far too modest to explicitly ask for. I'll just say: message received, my friend.

YMP, the agency in question had an extended cut of their commercial which they tested on some focus groups but, as expected, the invocation of 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' was causing investment bankers and regional managers to abruptly quit their jobs to focus on aligning their chi and finally building that hydroponic greenhouse they'd been idly dreaming about for years. It was too powerful a weapon to be unleashed on the general public.

Legit lolz @ upper miss and lunch. Dying here.

BTW does anyone have ready access to historical archives of their touring schedules, and (if possible) any information about their preferred mode of travel between concert venues in the American South?

Specifically I want to know if they were ever booked to play in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, giving rise to the famous song that begins

Rusted Root in Baton Rouge

Waitin' for a train

addiction to bookmarks nearly caused me to miss this important poll. alas, I can't vote because "Well, cool breeze Baby raam, raam, raam Baby raam, raam" is not an option

looking forward to the next poll: At which line in Dispatch's "The General" do you begin sobbing?

Starting to realize that these guys basically picked up the Cocteau Twins baton and ran with it. Who needs words when you have feelings?

This is the best thread.

I am not going to listen to the song again but I can't for the life of me remember where "seemoobadeeyah" shows up if it is indeed different from "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

you guys woke to their song “Ecstasy”? That was the first one I remember hearing, before SMOMW.

Taken' away your companies
Takin' away your societies and go.
Get me off this backwards ride,
Takin' away your fictitious books of fact.
Yeah, do mum-ba-si-be-ah

I am not planning on listening to it any time soon either, but "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is closer to what I remember.

Wait...they have another song?!

You're gonna have to give me a minute to collect myself here.

love the AllMusic review for their 20th Century Masters compilation, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen the existence of such a collection questioned while bemoaning that Poi Dog Pondering has yet to get a similar treatment.

I can't for the life of me remember where "seemoobadeeyah" shows up if it is indeed different from "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

If you look at the original quote he seems to be saying that "oombayseeyou" is the one (one!) word he made up, and that "seemoobadeeyah" is his onomatopoeic evocation of how the melody goes?

Which brings us to the mystery of "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon." Numerous Rootologists have posited that "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is an elongated form of "oombayseeyou."

Compare it to the way that the English word "goodbye" derived from "god be with you." Extra syllables wore off over centuries of use in a process of concatenation, to the point that the original phrase is barely recognizable. god be with you > godb'w'you > goodbye.

If you interpolate the syllables you can kind of see it: ehBAbadeeSAYbubadeeYOn. It's essentially "oombaseeyou" with an extra badee and an extra bubadee.

I'm sorry, I have to disagree here. "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is it's own distinct phrae.

I liken it to a common reply. For example:

"How are you doing today?"

"ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon"

"oombaseeyou", OTOH, would be a more acceptable response to "What are you doing today?"

It's a subtle difference, I know.

I'm still in the process of trying to understand the employment of 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' in speech. Is it 'aloha'-esque, an utterance with multiple meanings which depend upon the context of a given situation? When Windchimes (I assume the lead singer's name is Windchimes) walks into his corner bodega for a pack of American Spirits unfiltered, does he simply walk up to the counter and say 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' confident that the clerk will pick up on the inflection and not mistakenly pass Windchimes the clove cigarettes he buys on occasion (usually when housesitting for his half-sister, Nugs, who's allergic to cigarette smoke, bleached flour, and nylon)?

It's not a greeting, it's kind of like a colloquial reply along the lines of "same shit, different day."

Same-ityshitdiffarintday

Ommaway

Did Windchimes from Rusted Root and the Scatman ever work together? They were contemporaries and I think the indifference with which they both viewed the English language would've blended really magically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8

I think "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" is Rootish for "gleaming the cube."

I would like to gleam my little cube.

The Root Head, having experienced the psychic havoc of being asked by his stepdad to mow the lawn, embraces a rebellious personal violence toward his own eardrums. 'ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon' gives expression to abstract states of feeling which all can share, at least all those who are Root Heads. In this way, the Root Head may be considered, for practical purposes, the Belgian Vegetarian. I've just proven it in this, my most popular post, which surely will not age poorly.

Q: Are Root Heads anything like Juggalos and if so what signifiers of makeup and/or dress do they use to identify one another? Like is there a particular kind of hemp jewelry unique to Root Heads which isn't also used by, say, DMB-lievers?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

C'mon, where is the root love?

Sure, a bit of context is required here: this was the early 90's: Cracked Rear View, Blind Melon, Cotton-Eye Joe, etc. The Dead were still actively touring. Lots of people were obsessed with Phish but still hadn't realized that they didn't have many good songs. So amongst that field, Rusted Root pretty much oozed authenticity.

Plus, they were great live in the early days... fast-strummed acoustic guitar, hand percussion interludes. When that penny whistle hit the opening notes of semeommaway, the room went nuts. They must have played my college once a month in 1993, and I'm pretty sure I was there for every show.

ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

username checks out

(btw still mad at old lunch for introducing me to this abomination)

I was cranking the Root when I got the ying-yang tatted on my neck back in '96, and then again when I got my dickhole pierced in '98. No better anesthetic imo.

(You'll come around, bg. Might I suggest some musically-accompanied body mods?)

I decided to get both eardrums pierced after hearing this song.

Also performed some minor self-trepanation to let out all the ill humors.

Wicked mods, bro.

It had to be done. Ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon, as they say.

If I didn't have my Rusted Root CD with me, I would just spoon Rainforest Crunch directly into my ears.

The single peaked at #72 on the Hot 100, and the album got no higher than #51. So why was this on the radio all the goddamn time?

DJs be hittin the ganj

this song is a persuasive argument for instituting the death penalty for marijuana possession

got a blacklight poster in yr dorm showing an alien smoking weed? you're doing 10 years hard time sonny

own a tie-dye tshirt? that's a public flogging

got a problem with that? blame rusted root, they ruined this for everyone

'Your honor, I only have one thing to say to you: simmyommaway.' (shimmies out of the courtroom and toward the awaiting paddywagon as a pennywhistle plays from the jury box)

*sounds the hibernophobia klaxon, awaits dmac's arrival itt*

Let's be fair: the music of Rusted Root is a hate crime against all people.

Bubbadesay bubbadeyon, my damie.

ITT: people who hate the ending o matilda and thus hate joy

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

Under the shade of a oombayseeyou tree, 

He sang as he watched and waited 'til his seemoobadeeyah
You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me

if you take the oombayseeyous out of the Rusted Root, you're left with Yeasayer

so sorry to take a swing at ilm's most talked about and loved band, Yeasayer

actually there might be something to that. take out the oombaseeyous and they might've been capable of making at least half a good album like side one of odd blood

their first 2 albums (which were essentially the same album, btw) were good

If you liked our first album, you're gonna wonder why you paid for our second!

https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m672qwydTF1qzfaj2o1_400.gif

so sorry to take a swing at ilm's most talked about and loved band, Yeasayer

Knock on Yeasayer all you like, just don't ever let me catch you badmouthing Yesyears.

ombaysee how this poll turns out

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

*wise old Native American man grins and nods sagely at the poll results; gestures for all of ILM to follow him toward mysterious doorway*

this is some fucking bullshit

mods, please delete my account

oombayseeyou later ilx

Yessssssss, fucking knew it. OOMBAYSEEYOU LATER!

Lol, xpost

seemoobullshitbadeeyah

I demand a re-poll with the critical 3rd option.

I'm happy to repoll if we can agree to exclude the obviously inferior 'oombayseeyou' option.

It wouldn't matter because the resplendent "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon" would obviously stomp on anything you put in there, up to and including "ommaway," "covfefe," "sloopy," and "sussudio."

...

.....

ommmaway

https://filmfestivalflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FP-Photo-6.jpg

I appreciate their absolute nothing of a Wikipedia entry. These are the only two paragraphs, the rest is basically stats stuff -- discography, membership, etc.

Rusted Root is an American worldbeat rock band formed in 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by singer-guitarist Michael Glabicki, bassist Patrick Norman and percussionist Liz Berlin. The band got its start as the house band playing a weekly gig in Jack's Back Room on Pittsburgh's South Side. The band achieved fame in 1994 with its platinum-selling album When I Woke, which included the hit single "Send Me on My Way". The song has been featured prominently in many films and commercials. Rusted Root has sold more than three million albums.

The band is known for its fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, and Native American influences. Michael Glabicki has acknowledged the popular success of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So as an influence on his decision to incorporate worldbeat into his own music. The band's lyrical content varies but often talks about Christianity and Judaism.

The band's lyrical content varies but often talks about Christianity and Judaism ombaseeyou and umbabadesaybubadeyon.

Fixed it.

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2018/08/27/Uprooted-Michael-Glabicki-is-moving-on-from-Rusted-Root-Allegheny-County-Music-Festival-Hartwood-Acres/stories/201808270095

So, are you saying you feel a little bit of distance from the Rusted Root material, a lot of which was written when you were in your early 20s?

Yeah, there’s been moments on stage when I’m like, “What am I doing?” Like, “I don’t know what this is.” But, then, luckily, I’m fortunate enough that the music was so open-ended and wasn’t written about a certain time in my life. It was sort of like this collection of images and it was more tonal than it was lyrical. “Send Me on My Way” had “moobahdesee, moobahdeyah,” which aren’t even words, so now I can just sort of like adapt the tone to where I’m at now. It’s more ritualistic at this point for the audience and for myself, and improvising in it and opening it up, there’s a lot more in it to find.

big if true

I'm very embarrassed to learn I've been misspelling it this whole time.

moobahdesee, moobahdeyah

What the HELL, man, I mean Windchimes?

We have spent years on this and are just barely able to comprehend the subtleties of "oombayseeyou." Now you throw us two new mystikal inkantations to process?

Better open up them chakras, bruh, let the Rusted light come shining in.

My brother was just telling me about Rusted playing the restaurant where he works, I was so jelly, my dudes, as I'm sure you can imajh.

can't believe this guy is ceo of twitter now

I assume you mean twibbattasayehbubaderon.com

Ommaway

Dot org

(hippie pan flute begins to play) Looking to share your thoughts with the wider world? (ommaway) To touch hearts and minds across the globe? (ommaway) To optimize your brand strategy on the fly via the social media platform that Forbes Magazine calls 'synergistic...and sleek'? (ommaway) At Twitter, we recognize your longing to connect, and we send you on your way. (ommaway) (moobahdesee, moobahdeyah)

(b-roll of millennials cavorting merrily in various social settings)

simmyommaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cBJcbxP_4

(ommaway)

lmao yes

How many collegiate a cappella groups do you figure had Rusted Root in their repertoire, I'm gonna say 'lots'

This video is embarrassing and cringey in all sorts of ways, perhaps even surpassing the original. Shame he doesn't dig into those neologisms with quite the same panache.

I had never watched the video for this atrocity until now, and jesus h. christ, you think a song embodies settler colonialism and then you watch the video and hoooooooooooollllyyy shit the video IS settler colonialism

i remember when this and "Return to Innocence" were on the radio at the same time, what a cursed pairing.

i remember having to play both of these songs on the radio -- speaking of cursed!!

god, i'm so glad most of my playlists are lost to the sans of time.

i vaguely recall seeing a dude doing a 'send me on my way' puppet show in the embarcadero the last time i was in san francisco

Wow, things really have gotten bad there, haven't they?

I was just trying to type out the exclamation "eh", and was excited to see that my phone wanted to autocorrect it to "ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon".

Android's got my back!

əkoostik hookah released an album called 'dubbabuddah' in 1994, strengthing my increasing suspicion that jam band culture is underpinned by a pontypool-style virus which erodes the language centres of the brains of those affected

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:15 (three weeks ago)

'dubbahbuddah' features an tune called - wait for it - "Harmonic Convergence", which is definitely in the upper echelon of mid-'90s Widespread Panic-adjacent ephemera. Imagine if your college classmate - the one equally adept with making hemp necklaces as they are with the way-too-nice guitar courtesy of their Big-Pharma executive dad - took the chord progression of the intro of Bowie's "Panic in Detroit" and made that into an entire song, with (of course) lots of harmonics.

I used to think it would be even better if they pushed the tempo a few BPM, ditched the adult-contempo piano for some thrashing solos on the acoustic - oh, sorry, əkoostik - guitar, added more percussion tracks, then tied it together with better backup vocals. However, there's no need for Hookah to do this, because I'm basically describing the Rusted Root song "Ecstasy".

Rusted Root - solving our least-salient problems since 1994.

Some people eventually sober up and realize that the ideas they had while under the influence of mind-altering substances weren't nearly as profound as they seemed at the time. Others keep the party going indefinitely and utilize their major label record contracts as a means of foisting those ill-informed thoughts and expressions upon the public-at-large. Rusted Root et al are basically the margins of a high school stoner's geometry notebook made flesh.

əkoostik hookah released an album called 'dubbabuddah' in 1994, strengthing my increasing suspicion that jam band culture is underpinned by a pontypool-style virus which erodes the language centres of the brains of those affected

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:15 (three weeks ago)
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Looking back, I have no idea how I stuck with Phish through so much "Llama Taboot" and yet somehow "Gotta Jibboo" was enough to bring the whole thing screeching to a halt for me.

― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 2:06 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

valuable new evidence, thank u for ur service

whoops. I had mentioned those upthread already.

When Pitchfork first informed us about Vampire Weekend in 2008, I remember someone on these here internets (Stylus? ILX? I don't remember) responding to "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" with the retort of "I liked these guys back when they called themselves 'Rusted Root'"

əkoostik hookah's repetoire contains 15 songs with 'train' in the title alone.

I thought at first that you meant they had fifteen different songs simply entitled 'Train' and I also thought 'yes, that seems about right.'

You must explain why this must be
Did you lie when you spoke to me

Now I've been irie lately
Thinking about the kind bud to come
And I believe it could be
Something crunchy has begun
Oh, I've been vaping lately
Dreaming about the world inside my bong
And I believe it could be
Time to write a bong-centric song

'Cause I'm on the edge of a bong rip
There ride the 'koost train
Oh, 'koost train take this country
Make it əkoostik again

ommaway

simmyommaway

ommaway

This shit popping up on shuffle just now has been the uncontested highpoint of my day. That's where we are now, I guess.

cursed thread

I got to my lady bone
She don't my lady bone
My lady bone

https://www.allacronyms.com/251255rbot.png

ommaway

― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, May 20, 2020 12:47 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm-maway

who are the other American worldbeat rock bands?

i vaguely recall seeing a dude doing a 'send me on my way' puppet show in the embarcadero the last time i was in san francisco

― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 6:54 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

found video evidence of this on my phone and uploaded it here for y'all to "enjoy": https://imgur.com/a/q4UeFRa

is that really a puppet show? Did the gator and man work out their differences before breaking into song?

Aaaaaaand that's my bucket list, completed.

trying not to think about what it must've smelled like in that tent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbS7Wh8WTJ4

Was this written by AI?

Jerry Harrison produced a Rusted Root album

Ugh. That's like learning that Roy Orbison had a Prince Albert or something.

Although it does my heart good anytime this thread is bumped.

...

ommaway

If you check Jerry Harrison's wikipedia, you'll learn that Roy Orbison had maybe 18 prince alberts

Oh sick

Jerry's production discography is very weird.

This aint no oombayseeyou
This ain't no seemoobadeeyah
I ain't got time for ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

WAIT NO

We're ommaway to nowhere

lol

I would like to reach out my hand
The hand speaks
The hand of a government man
Ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

The world was moving, she was
ombayseeyou and she was

The sound of gunfire, off in the distance,
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in a ghetto,
Ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

(pennywhistle solo)

Psycho Killer
Ommaway
Fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa fa
Better sim sim sim
Simmyommaway

C'mon, where is the root love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurzuEw6bjQ

just looked at Harrisons production discography, and viewed in totality... WOW. What an incredibly shitty list of albums. This is a guy who at some point may actually have said some variation of: "I'm booked up with sessions for Live and Kenny Wayne Shepherd booked out, so tell the Von Bondies they'll have to wait." I'm almost impressed.

Ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon

put 1996's Matilda on the tele. oombayseeyou in the scene where Matilda makes pancakes.

Danny Devito confirmed as fan

Brad and katherine were on top of it upthread. resume normal activities.

are you...sending us on our way?

Ommatildaseyou

I just showed this thread to my husband and now we're both crying laughing

Whenever I hear the song 'Love Shack' in public, say at a Walgreens or the Starbucks, I like to say 'tiiiiiin Root...Rusted' real loud over the music because I love the band Rusted Root. People really dig it, I think.

― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 19, 2018 9:14 AM

It promotes awareness of Rusted Root.

― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 19, 2018 9:14 AM

Every time this thread gets bumped I get annoyed about the poll results. "Oombayseeyou" was robbed.

Have you ever stroked the luxurious fur of my malamute, Cloudburst?

― Pizza's the food that's sure to please! (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 19, 2018 7:21 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

http://www.kloudburst.com/

From Ekoostik Hookah’s webpage:

Formed in 1991, the band has made multiple national tours in the US,[1] as well as performing in overseas locales like Amsterdam and Jamaica,[2]

Only guessing here, but I think they like weed?

ahem, I believe you meant əkoostik hookah.

Precision matters.

Namaste.

take the train to HOOKAVILLE

Can't believe that my busy new job kept me from noticing this thread had been revived. Just submitted my resignaysh so I can follow the Root on their spring tour of third-rate wineries.

If they don't have a line of mid-priced Root-branded wines, they should.

Ommaway Chardonnay

Pinombayseeyou

Ommaway Beaujolais

Merlombasayou

For that matter, why not... Rusted Root Beer

Apparently they're as political as they've always beeen--as of eight years ago:

https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/entertainment/2014/07/06/rusted-root-just-as-political-as-ever-before/117348674/

South Bend catching the Root Wave right at its peak

Glabicki then put forth an eloquent denunciation of "fracking," the controversial practice of mining fossil fuels through hydraulic fracturing: "What extracting industries don't understand is that this practice lacks ehbubadeesaybubadeeyon. We're consulting with the prominent environmental engineering firm Ombayseeyou, LLC, which has conclusively demonstrated a viable path to sustainable seemoobadeeyah in a recent white paper."

"Namaste," he added, before disappearing in a patchouli-scented cloud into a doorway guarded by a mysterious native gentleman.

ommaway

pennywhistle solo fades into the distance

irl lulz

ommaway

Every time this dumb thread gets bumped, that song gets permalodged in my brain for a good couple of days at least. I guess that's what they call reaping what you seemoobadeeyah.

Here, this will cleanse you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8go9rQfdALU

what the fuck man

(Subtitles/closed captions unavailable)

YouTube is not so disrespectful to Röötness as to try to define the spirit of ommaway in mere captions.

Ommawretch

Youtube.com --> History --> Remove from watch history

is nothing sacred?!?

a young tony robbins

Found another a capella cover, happy days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Au87Po9Ek

There are a lot of competing theories about exactly what sparked the chaos at Woodstock '99 but for me the explanation has always been clear as day

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

Look, the 'VID finally bit my ass so I have nothing to do today but sleep and post sweet sweet Rusted vids, get out while the gettin's good

COVIDasayou, COVIDasayou bubadeeyon

just finished watching MATILDA (1996) with my daughter and was frankly dismayed to hear this over the triumphant closing montage ffs

It’s in an earlier scene, as well (encountered it the same way recently, and naturally thought of this thread!)

ffs

I wonder who has recently said “Lately I’ve really been getting into Rusted Root.” Someone has.

bg's daughter, one certainly hopes

https://didyouknowfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Untitled-collage-copy-7.jpg

I was at the trampoline park for my kid's 9th birthday and the music was a pretty much equal mix of modern country, hip-hop, and pop music of the type that I hear on the radio but have zero knowledge of except for "Send me on my Way" right in the middle of it all.

I can't believe I missed this thread. This fucking song. It was EVERYWHERE at the hippie trustifarian-filled college I went to for a couple of years. When I hear it, I'm instantly 17 yo in a sticky-floored bar buying well-drinks and dodging frat boys. This is bad not good. Still, much like Hook by Blues Traveler, it's catchy AF and reminds me of simpler, if harrowing in their own way, times.

Welcome, ENBB. Your observations about the song and the times are accurate and relatable. But the fact remains that this is one of ilx's most epic threads, and every time I think about it, it sends me ommaway.

(Insert pennywhistle solo here, while I go get my djembe.)

I've inserted my pennywhistle, now what

Oh I see what you meant (carefully retrieves pennywhisle)

Am I insane if I don’t dislike this song?
Ommaway

Oh I see what you meant (carefully retrieves pennywhisle)

crraaaaaweeweaaaaaaaalll semme ommaway

OMMAWAY

The trick is to just keep listening to the Root until you go from SIMMYOMMAWAY to FULLYOMMAWAY.

Hey, anybody want to go play hackysack in the Quad?

Sorry, bruh, I'm gonna be restringing all my puka shells today.

Okay. My Baja shirt is a little itchy right now anyway.

Omfg i’m at a wedding and they are playing this song.

Ommaway

Dearly bedabaloved, we are gathered here to ombaseeyou off to your new lives together.

You may now ombakiss the beebadibride.

Omfg i’m at a wedding and they are playing this song.

Ommaway

Playing at the nail salon what a treat.

They would like you to reach out your hands

"I like this color. Can you put it ommanails?"

Also legit lol @ sufjan.

ommanails

thank you ilm for introducing me to this band and song I have never felt more like rush limbaugh while watching a music video

or lionel hutz

so pat monahan spent a couple of years post divorce just wandering the desert eating mushrooms and listening to putumayo compilations on his ipod and it gave him a whole new perspective on music and life and love and stuff which has very much informed train's "new direction". he says it will be his most personal album but also says it will be "for everyone"