drive like jehu

does the corp. cover any songs? are you guys ever gonna make it to san francisco?

I think they should cover GHETTO MUSIC.

like this band

Anyone remember hose.got.cable.? They were like Jehu junior but I'm surprised they don't get more love...

wow. hose.got.cable. man, that takes me back. this has made me remember all kinds of bands: Thumbnail, Sideshow, Kerosene 454, Bluetip, Giant's Chair. shit. hose.got.cable were great. good packaging, too.

I only know two of those bands, and only from splits with bands I was more familiar with at the time - Kerosene 454 (split with Angel Hair) and Giant's Chair (split with Vitreous Humor or Boy's Life or Christie Front Drive or one of those Crank! bands...wonder how that stuff holds up?).

Oh yeah and I remember Bluetip - Dischord right?

Apparently there is a hose.got.cable discography CD. Were they from Virginia?

Huh, just bought this like four days ago: http://www.discogs.com/release/1090050

Got the Night Marchers album in the post today as well but probably won't have a chance to listen to it for a day or two. Looking forward to tho

Mencap, how much is that going for these days? That one and the Food Not Bombs benefit LP are screamo classics

I bought it off someone for £5 - it'd have been nice if he mentioned how beat up it was but I'm not that fussed

Ummmmmmmmm.......... Anyone hear Obits yet? The live songs on their Myspace sound an awful lot like Hot Snakes.

I wish those guys (singer in particular) never abandoned the tweaked, long-form, noodly nature of DLJ. I like the pre-Jehu stuff (Pitchfork) and the final Hot Snakes stuff (they improved live over the years, as well, in my opinion), but none of that's quite as charged or aggro or magical to me.

I like the Night Marchers disc, though there are a few tracks that sound pretty Warped Tour-y. And Reis sounds EXACTLY like Mike Ness on at least one of the tunes; it's kind of uncanny.

Can't wait to hear Obits (I generally preferred Froberg I think). The Drive Like Jehu show I saw on that Yank Crime tour was a mind melter.

Here come.... here come.... ROME PLOWS! ROME PLOWS!

hose got cable - man it's been a long time since I thought about those guys. That was one of the first indie rock shows I ever saw, after a moving to a town that knew what indie rock was. I remember the opening track on their album was mind-blowing, though I thought the rest was hit and miss.

The Drive Like Jehu show I saw on that Yank Crime tour was a mind melter.

I hear ya. So glad I caught one of the shows for that.

Wow, digging around I found their tour schedule from that year:

http://www.nyx.net/~gsherwin/dlj_tour.html

I saw the June 7th, 1994 date.

I remember another San Diego band - the far, far poppier Tanner - opened for them. And I remember Guy Picciotto watching Jehu off the side of the stage, looking suitably impressed. I bought the "Hand Over Fist/Bullet Train to Vegas" 7" that night. Oh, 90s alt-rock nostalgia!

June 30th show with DooRag for me. But how great is that London lineup soon after! That's a show I'd happily go back in time to attend.

I like that he calls it "metal":

Review of Yank Crime from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 22, 1994

by Johnny Angel

San Diego's other big band on the Interscope label, Drive Like Jehu, is as fierce as fuck. But that's not the prime mover behind the total digification of this fine recording. Nor is its contrapuntal guitar-over-bass riffs, or sore-throaty howlings. No, Jehu makes music that is brutal without the vaudeville that so many newcomers seem to indulge in.
Yank Crime, the band's major-label debut, doesn't sacrifice the heaviness of its indie releases. How can you not love a band that marries the pounding pulse and bass-heavy, odd-tempoed oeuvre of Slip It In-era Black Flag with the guitar shards of Mission of Burma or Wire (singer Rick Froberg's got that brain-scraping delivery down)? Jehu is Rollins without the shtick, Rage Against the Machine without the anal-retentive political correctness, Tool without the metal residue. "Do You Compute" is a rant that winds and unwinds from its mock-computer guitar intro through its hellaciously tricky arrangement, and, unlike so many compositions, doesn't lose you in its desire to impress with its show of "chops." (Fellow San Diegans Rocket from the Crypt, please take note.)

Besides, sincerity that doesn't announce itself is such a relief today, when imported attitude is the norm. Drive Like Jehu does its do without ugly fanfare, and the record is worth the price if only for the glorious build-up to the chorus of "Here Come The Rome Plows." Metal like this almost redeems every boneheaded CD we jaded reviewers have to endure.

I very distinctly remember being stuck in Connecticut the night of their June 9 Maxwell's show. Hindsight screams, "WHY DIDN'T YOU GO SEE THEM IN BOSTON THAT SATURDAY???!!!", and the regret flares up all over again...

Cool to see that Obits' other guitarist is Sohrab Habibion, formerly of Edsel (anyone remember them)?

I saw them in fall of '93 in Vancouver BC. Unwound opened. It was the week that Unwound's first official album Fake Train was issued.

Fantastic show. Jehu did some sort of encore song that was 15 minutes of chaos that was truly excellent. I had been listening to them since their first 7", but wasn't really blown away until that moment.

'Golden Brown' - I must have looped that segue,, pre nose dive guitar (but including that as the orgasm) around 2min.20secs a million times.

Sorry - just played it -wank runs from from 1-45 to 2.15. Hairs aloft and witchcraft

So the Deftones covered 'Caress'.

Can't listen, at work, but sheesh. Covering Drive Like Jehu seems generally like a losing proposition, i.e., will probably not go well. How did they do?

One of my favorite shows of all time involved Drive Like Jehu. If memory serves, it was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, and went something like: Flying Saucer Attack/Prolapse/Drive Like Jehu/Stereolab.

Whoa, awesome bill. My one Drive Like Jehu bill was to be Polvo/Drive Like Jehu/Superchunk, but Polvo had van trouble. Still a great show! Drive Like Jehu blew my mind and totally changed my life that night, just fucking unbelievably good.

youtube sound quality is pretty atrocious but the deftones cover sounds fine by me. it's fairly faithful and the song kicks ass so...

faithful covers never really sits well with me. well, recorded ones. live is a different thing altogether.

agreed, and yeah, it's hardly essential. but I just looked it up the album and this track is some "itunes deluxe edition" throwaway, so they know that too.

but as far as DLJ covers go, it could've been worse

yeah they did a decent job of it.

Totally faithful to the point of redundant. I got partway through and realized it'd been a while since I listened to Jehu so I just put that on instead. That said, the average Deftones fan is probably not a Jehu fan so more power to them for hopefully turning their fans on to the best rock band that ever existed.

Yeah, pretty much every time I listen to "Yank Crime" I think to myself: this just may be the greatest guitar record, or my kind of guitar record at least, ever. Ever. This after 16 years of listening to it.

ASK STEVE SHASTA ANYTHING SERIOUSLY DUDES

this year just have All Froberg's Parties instead.

you guys do know that obits and reis' new band are on tour of the usa right about now?

and worth it

know what i like about the obits is that their OFFICIAL BAND URL is obitsurl.com

sultans >>>>>>> night marchers

sultans >>>>>>> night marchers = smashmouth

i love this album cover

http://www.nyx.net/~gsherwin/dlj.jpg

Okay so Lars Gotrich made the only iteration of this meme I will accept anymore:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/391333_4008187319679_1326385122_n.jpg

yeeeeeah

deluxe box set reissue thing of Yank Crime has to be imminent at this point, right?

Didn't they already do a reissue? I wonder how much else they have. I'd take an anthology box set.

All the reissue added was "Bullet Train To Vegas", "Hand Over Fist", and an alternate take of "Sinews". Granted, those are all killer in their own way, but I would take any unreleased Jehu in any form, especially if it is scrapped songs or stuff that was in the works that didn't make it onto an album. Not sure this band really worked that way, or would want to share stuff that wasn't fully-formed.

summer 2013 = rftc reunion/tour
summer 2014 = hot snakes reunion/tour
summer 2015 = *crosses fingers*

Hah, man I waited for so many years for a chance to see this band live again (and for another record ...). I am going to just try to forget that this would even be a possibility and hopefully get surprised some day. I have no doubts that if they did it it would be triumphant and not sad, especially based on how good Hot Snakes were live.

ATP must have tried to get a Jehu reunion going at some point surely?

I can't find the Froberg interview where he addresses this but yeah, they are asked and offered ridiculous money to reunite on a regular basis, but I guess Reis and Froberg are the only members of the group who have even touched an instrument in years, and I guess the other guys just aren't interested.

i read something long ago about how fed up they got with remembering how to play their own songs which lead to the breakup in the first place

I almost posted that already, and I don't think that Froberg is that interested in revisiting the songs either (even though they played a couple live in Hot Snakes). I don't think any of them really want to relearn those songs, and sure the shows would do OK but I can't imagine that the money would be so good that it would outweigh the difficulty of getting the band back together and relearning all of the songs. I think Hot Snakes worked cause they ditched the complexity and just had fun (and wrote kick-ass songs of course).

http://i.imgur.com/A18hpvc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/toB0y7Z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/USwoWSE.jpg

lol

#respect #donuts

How has Donut Friend not been discussed on here? Donut shop in Highland Park run by Mark Trombino that sells donuts named after punk bands...
(I haven't been there yet but have friends who swear by it...)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rOFaCA4oi5w/UoFwltjSf-I/AAAAAAAALN4/VYqcMP5iCqg/s1600/IMG_0973.JPG

"Rites of Sprinkles" is my favorite

apparently all donuts are made-to-order too

Donut Friend has def been discussed on ilx ftr

Vote for "The Cream Syndicate" here. And yeah, Donut Friend was mentioned in some thread or another, not sure which one, but yeah this dude has a business and the other half of the rhythm section gave up music for chemistry I believe, so an unlikely pair to do the big reunion thing. Trombino did production for quite some time after Jehu broke up, so he wasn't "out of music", but not sure he started/joined another band. I, personally, can understand basically bowing out after achieving a record as good as "Yank Crime".

I like the tribute to noted Britrockers Terravision there

deluxe reissue = yes please
reunion = no thanks

And if not a reissue... There MUST be a killer live album in the vault somewhere.

Donut friend is soooooooooo good.

I am with Jimmywine for the most part here in that I really just hope that somewhere out there are some recordings of unreleased stuff, and ideally something other than just alternate takes, though I would take those as well. A good live set would be fine, but

Oops. "Live set would be fine but" ... I would far prefer alternate takes or unreleased songs etc.

https://www.lataco.com/donut-friend-union/

Drummer is now a union buster.

that sucks.

was mentioned over here:

Mark Trombino's donut shop

Obits, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes…. What a career. RIP. :( https://t.co/nQlfYQJHvF

— Annie Zaleski (@anniezaleski) July 2, 2023

omg no no no

??? i don't use twitter

there's a john reis IG post

ok, Rick has passed away...

I saw Pitchfork play my first week of university. He was such a fucking legendary presence even as a youngster.

He also dated a dormmate of mine so that was kinda wild from a starstruck perspective.

He truly had one of the (post-Dez) all-time great punk rock voices.

one of the best rock singers of his generation. jehu has been, off and on, my favorite band.

when they did east coast dates in 2016 i cleared the calendar and got on a plane to go to one of those shows. don't wait to see your favorite bands.

aww man, this totally sucks. the pitchfork and jehu records were very fundamental to young me.

Summer 2014 I missed my chance to see the Drive Like Jehu reunion show in Balboa Park, and then last year I missed my chance to see this Rick exhibition in South Park.

Sometime around summer 2010, when he was doing the Obits (jesus, is his official obituary writer going to have to mention that in the first sentence) I read (probably here) that he was having some heart problems. I sent him an email to ask if I could buy a painting, but never heard back.

With two songs on the last Hot Snakes album with death in the title, and the first song on the album titled "I Need a Doctor," I can't say I didn't feel this coming.

I will really, really miss Rick.

Damn it, rip

Ugh, that is awful.

tragic. maybe my favorite punk/punk-adjacent vocalist of all time. searing and intelligent voice and delivery. brilliant lyricist, guitarist, and visual artist too. had the whole package.

i missed Snakes each time they came around for some reason or another. glad i got to see Obits and, more importantly for me, Jehu during the reunion tour.

RIP, man.

Yeah this was a rough one for me. One of my favorite bands of all time, and certainly one of the most influential on my development as a fan of loud, weird, interesting guitar music. I loved Hot Snakes, and they were great live for sure, but Jehu was just a singular thing. Rick was the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOn1xOzST1o

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/music/rick-froberg-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=3iyu81BR6T-7fdd19JZj51cs5HWR--sJUm6Ymnvh0f-mS9LleJ1QYJ5htrgjr9ylK7GKeoT54ujm7P4LmPtAqZD9mU4KiOrmRmthv4qirixrZLpxA8_CwngbTrEIoe7Wlj2Li02X_CW6UmQenQVtOl5E7rieAGceGi7YUfbZ77Y-3eSalq-1eWhiHYE5N8A0hFGx2KyVKMiES1qkmVVdhNyjWf4-s9JTpy9C07VAFI8pgq7rj2de9v0rHMMkfF6bVRpIKJMqIkH4vRC5HJo8PYosdso9T6LTNTkpedTh2BCKTmq64wFe5v8bSA4NRC3cOcQtCALwGRfqCeOZn02z&smid=url-share

“He was really firing on all cylinders,” Mr. Reis said. “His voice gave me a lot of freedom as a songwriter, because I didn’t have to worry about where the chorus or the melody was. I could go wildly off into what I considered uncharted territory for myself, and always knew that he would make sense of it and turn it into something beautiful.

“I’m just lost without him,” he added. “I don’t know what to do now.”

jesus