Drive Like Jehu reunion???

I'm not seeing it.

5 cents, please.

oh vain hope!

a brand new band would be pretty good though.

RUMOURS... POSSIBILITIES..

is it the fat bratwurstmobile chick?

Uh.

http://www.drive-like-jehu.com/

John Reis via the Swami board:

We are going to play a short set accompanied by San Diego Civic organist Dr. Carol Williams. If you have never heard the sound of the Spreckle's pipe organ, you are in for a treat. It's a beautiful instrument. The show is free

Yeah, you got me.

weird?
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/7d/12/4c/san-diego-civic-organist.jpg

No, great.

seems like they're making a bid to be san diego's official band

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

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, July 14, 2014 8:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WILL THIS BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE THEM EVER?!?!?!?

j/k wish I lived in SD

News piece from SD on it all

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/19/drive-like-jehu-reuniting-after-nineteen-years/

This is key, BTW. This whole thing is SO San Diego in the best way:

"The appeal for me is, I love the Spreckels pipe organ," said Reis, who is the leader of the San Diego bands Night Marchers, Hot Snakes and Rocket From The Crypt, which last year reunited after an 8-year hiatus.

"I think the pavilion is one of the jewels of San Diego, without a doubt," he continued. "That San Diego has a civic organist on the payroll is pretty great. I just love the sound of that instrument. It captivates me; it's such a great sound! When I was a kid, Organ Power Pizza in Pacific Beach had this pipe organ and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world."

And from the organist:

"The Spreckels organ is a very strong instrument that can hold itself with any form of music, so this will be a fun night," she said. "They don't have a keyboard in the band, but that doesn't matter, because I'll be sympathetic to what they do. They have a great (lead) guitarist (Reis) and I've been enjoying what they're doing (on their two albums). The organ certainly won't be overpowered. I'm memorizing the songs and I'll improvise when we play them."

So they are surely gonna do "Luau" for this, right? All that organ bass surely gonna sound cool pounding that riff into the ground.

glad to finally get some confirmation it's the full line-up on the second page of that utsd article. Felt weird how everybody was taking that for granted.

I figured we would have heard something by now if it had been otherwise.

Please everyone go and film this please.

That venue is one of the coolest places in the States to watch music, as far as I'm concerned. This will be amazing.

The organist in question doing her thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZvMAJUN5g

We’re just doing this one show. There’s nothing else going on

Oh, come now.

As for the future, I don’t know.

Hmm?

I didn’t think we’d necessarily be playing again at all.

No?

I’m not going to say it’s out of the question, but there’s nothing planned.

*phone rings*

"Hello, Barry Hogan here. Now I know ATP is in a bit of a state..."

http://pitchfork.com/news/56432-john-reis-details-drive-like-jehus-reunion-were-just-doing-this-one-show/

can't decide whether to go. pretty sure it's going to be an epic madhouse of a scene.

Putting it mildly! At this point I won't be making it, sadly, but having actually been lucky enough to see them way back when I can't complain.

when i looked at the list of people going you were second on the list

i guess its not streaming anywhere...?

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spreckels-organ

8/31/14 Spreckels Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego
1) Do You Compute? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1feXVgZWJUA
2) Super Unison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhbPPp5eh5M
3) Sinews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-D5PU5zr2Y
4) If It Kills You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBdrkBxcnY
5) Luau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QljYoblmNKw

Man, it was glorious.

Wow.

oh man that's awesome

http://i.imgur.com/sssQg44.jpg

oh my god the organ sounds incredible during the climax of "Luau"

dud

oh my god the organ sounds incredible during the climax of "Luau"

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was worried the organ was going to be a weird addition, but honestly in the moments when you could hear it (few and far between), it enhanced the music - Luau being the best example.

DO YOU COMPUTER

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3879/14937134978_8941c5b3f7_z.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5564/15123334812_08fd4ff6b7_z.jpg

Was lazy and never saw DLJ back then, so there was no way I was going to miss this. It's hard to get a feel for the organ through the Ustream feed, but in person it's an immense enveloping sound that you could perceive but not really hear over the band. "Luau" seriously intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2rK12w09I0

another angle where you can see trombino. god bless him if it's true he had to buy a kit to play this show, he sounds like he never stopped.

Officially official i.e. Coachella & an ATP in Iceland. Not sure how I feel about it, but I am sure they will deliver the songs and be good live, just kind of weird. Really I would take a new album over seeing the old stuff live, but will surely go if they come within a couple of hours of where I live.

Anyone seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--FTU73CoUk

bro town, bro scene

where da women at

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

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, July 14, 2014 8:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:22 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just purchased tickets to see them on 9/11

they were awesome

john reis looks better at 46 than he did at 26.

Awesome. Want some kind of tour to happen, really hope they think about it.

https://www.facebook.com/swamijohn.reis/photos/a.754157997955046.1073741828.751246914912821/889771894393655/?type=1

The comments are priceless:

Bryan Beard Too bad i'm working
Like · Reply · September 9 at 11:15pm

Swami John Reis Call in retarded. They won't miss u.
Like · Reply · 21 · September 10 at 12:03am

Brandon Trammell God damn this is cool, but I'll be watching Faith No More and Anthrax at 8 on Friday.
Like · Reply · September 9 at 10:36pm

Swami John Reis anthrax? I'm glad you are not coming
Like · Reply · 22 · September 10 at 12:03am

John Albert A clinic? Does that mean you're going to stick your thumb up my butt and tell me to cough?
Like · Reply · September 10 at 8:43pm

Swami John Reis Yes. The thumb that resides In my pants.
Like · Reply · 3 · September 11 at 12:24am

nyc in august mother fuckers tix on sale in 30 minutes

Thanks for the heads-up adam! Looks like they're also doing DC, Philadelphia, and Seattle dates that month.

$10 per ticket service charge fuck you irving plaza :(

i just made a very impulsive decision to buy tickets for dc in august

prob the last band i've never seen that i really need to see

can't believe this didn't get posted back in October:

TWO HOUR podcast/audio doc on the entire history of drive like jehu right up to the present:

http://vishkhanna.com/2015/10/08/ep-217-do-you-compute-the-story-of-drive-like-jehu/

that got posted somewhere, maybe on another jehu thread.

biggest takeaway was how trombino still sounded hurt that reis and froburg did other stuff on their own right after jehu.

otm

2nd biggest takeaway: young john reis idolizing doc severinsen

Trombino comes off the best, verifying for me that he is the secret sauce of why the band has stood the test of time in ways that Hot Snakes/Pitchfork falls short of DLJ's legacy, esp. Yank Crime. Bear in mind that I was also a huge Honor Role/Breadwinner, Bastro/Gastr del Sol & Slint fan at the time.

Rick presented this interesting conflict in retrospect as of today he thinks Yank Crime was his best work but at the time he was bored of the proggier song structures and playing octave chords.

Reis is obviously a career musician and when RftC became his meal ticket, he dropped DLJ. It was interesting to hear him attempt to validate that.

I recently caught the reunion tour and they were fantastic.

IDK, Trombino may have been a crucial ingredient and I appreciate his earnestness, but guy comes off as a little neurotic and not easy to deal with in this thing. His fears that the death of Jehu was brought on by him sucking the fun out of the experience may be not TOTALLY unfounded.

Hearing the timeline of what was happening with both DLJ and Rocket, it's hard to blame Reis for his decisions. Think most people in the situation would've done the same. Doesn't need to "attempt to validate" anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCrp8VJDZvE

have listened to this more in the last two weeks than I think I've listened to any song in any two-week period ever

it is just perfect

very worthwhile reunion imo

Yeah, the show I caught was incredible... I was lucky to see them a bunch back in the day and they were just as tight now, which I admit I was kinda surprised by as the rhythm section guys were out of the game for so long.

saw 'em in DC last night. preeeettttty good. i've heard them say in interviews that they're tighter than they've ever been and i can believe it.

i was there last night too. it was everything i could have hoped for honestly.

me, too! playing better than ever, probably.

I was also there last night. Great show. This was my first time seeing John Reis live in any capacity, and man, that dude is magnetic. He and Froberg make such an oddly perfect duo.

reis is such a pro, i think you could put him out there with the mormon tabernacle choir and he'd rock out and make it work.

fell down a jehu rabbit-hole today and discovered that drummer trombino's donut shop has more twitter followers than the band.

to be fair, they do look like some pretty outstanding donuts.