and from tinymixtapes.comSpeaking of album releases, Vice recently told TMT that The Boredoms are set to release a 6-CD box set. No street date has been set, and there really isn't information beyond what I've already said ("The Boredoms are set to release a 6-CD box set"), but it's exciting nonetheless! What is yet to be uncovered, though, is even a general description of the box set. Since, technically, the Boredoms are now named the Voordoms (fun fact: the "V" in Voordoms represents a turntable stylus, the infinity symbol that's supposed to be there represents two records, and the band is the motor), questions remain: will the box feature old demos, jams, and maybe live material from the Boredoms era? Or will this actually be six discs of NEW material??
sure, they didn't say anything about it, but i'm already excited.
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)
― haitch (haitch), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Ivan Gallardo (Ivan), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)
― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)
:DDD
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
the amount of money i've spent on obscure boredoms side projects over the years is truly ridiculous. i was a mad collector at one point. i bet if we added the amount of money we've collectively spent on boredoms japanese imports over the years we could buy a small car.
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)
YES! YES!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
― xero (xero), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)
i wish i could. i'd happily take a loss putting them on but i don't have a contact for their agent and doubt they'd add any more dates at this stage. i shall try to investigate though as it would be a dream come true.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)
― Sam Hunt (robosam), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)
(sobs, drools over the very thought of a box set)
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)
hi sam - i'm just about to fire off an email to you.
haha i wasn't being entirely serious but it's a nice dream.
well, i always try to make all my dreams come true so fingers crossed!
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)
if anyone has a rumor about an NYC show, out with it now? Because if I try to drag my gf to a Boredoms show during our first night of a London vacation, she might stab me with scissors.
I know the neighborhood but have never been inside Sheperd's Bush Empire. Pretty big, right? Is it the equivalent of our Irving Plaza or our Beacon Theater?
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)
scary how geeta wrote that as i was composing my message(!)
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)
PLZ COME TO BALTIMORE. YOU KNOW IT'LL SELL OUT.
- SH
― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)
― rizzx, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)
ha! you should just take your girlfriend to the boredoms show, nutramentmike! i think dragging your significant other to a boredoms show would be quite romantic (perhaps this is why i am not dating anyone right now?!) anyway, if it's anything like when i last saw them last, they'll turn the lights off in the beginning and EYE will spin around wires around with big shining lights on the end of it, which is a very pretty effect. it is easy to appreciate aesthetically even if you are not into the music.
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)
its closer to the muppet show theatre than irving plaza (not been to beacon theater)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)
yeah but still fun. it's not like when I took her to Black Dice, which I tried to tell her was actually not the harshest thing we could have seen
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)
one of my friends described a boredoms set many years ago as being so loud and punishing that he had to tear up all his cigarettes and stick the filters in his ears, but they're not like that anymore. v?redoms were like watching a hippie drum circle or something. noisier than the starry-eyed jamminess of albums like VCN but still on that general wavelength.
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)
― fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)
― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)
― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)
The Boredoms broke up in 1998 after what the band considered to be their most perfect musical performance ever at the Fuji-Rock festival.
The Boredoms S/D thread (circa April/May 2003) has a lot of the rundown on the current band sideprojects.
"The Boredoms" only exists in the minds of the ATP folk and equally opportunistic booking agents in USA/Europe. This band is actually known in Japan as The "VOOredoms" (or a variation of, the band changes their name regularly).
The V?‡REDOMS played New Years Eve in Yokohama, and later eYe DJ-d a set at shinjyuku liquid room in Tokyo.
However, the majority of the band lives in Kyoto... far to the South of Tokyo on the main island of Japan (Honshu). It's a 2.5 hour ride by bullet train (shinkansen) and is about $200 roundtrip. Or you can take overnight bus which'll run you about $135 roundtrip.
I will take a look sometime tonight and see if anything Boredoms related is happening in metro Tokyo in the next couple weeks.
-- gygax! (gygax0...), January 13th, 2004 6:57 PM. (gygax!) (tracklink) (link)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)
VV (7/8/2005):And then? The Boredoms broke up. Or maybe just Yamamoto left, shattering his guitar at the climax of the Fuji Rock Festival in August of 1999, after what he deemed "the perfect set."
Douglas Wolk (10/19/2004):I've heard it said that Boredoms actually broke up in 1998, when they played a "perfect" show at the Fuji Rock festival and Yamamotor smashed his guitar, and that the current band is either called Vooredoms (with or without an infinity sign replacing the "oo") or 7V07.
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from gygax!'s interview with Seiichi Yamamoto in Osaka 2003:
"and then i left the band, on stage at fuji-rock, i just threw up my guitar and it fell down and exploded, we had played the most perfect music we could ever play."
-- gygax! (gygax0...), May 19th, 2004 8:25 PM.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)
is there a boot of this show?
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)
there's also stuff after the first paragraph, hey.
― mike powell (mike powell), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)
― mike powell (mike powell), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)
So wait did everyone just steal from gygax! or did Eye repeat this story elsewhere?
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)
Yamamoto is the only one who's talked about it. Even the Studio Voice monster issue really glosses over it.
My bad for calling Mike out because I think he was just naively grazing off of the other citations.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)
I look forward to putting this on the shelf next to my two 4xCD My Bloody Valentine boxes and the Kraftwerk remasters. xpost
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)
I remember that gygax! post, and I remember pointing out that I had seen a group that was very much the Boredoms (ie, Seiichi was there) at a festival in Irvine on July 4, 1999. There is even a photo from this show in the insert to VCN.
If you look at the quotes above, only the VV one has the correct date (ie, they apparently broke up in August 1999, not 1998). The fact the others all have the same incorrect year would tend to corroborate that they were all using the info that was originally posted by gygax! (!)
― cheshy f cat (cheshycat), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)
― cheshy f cat (cheshycat), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)
― manute lol (sanskrit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)
OK I may very well be wrong. I was under the impression that Boredoms = big group with guitar and bass and when Seiichi left they became Voordoms = just eYe+drummers. Maybe there was a transitional period I don't know about?
But if Seiichi was replaced with another guitar player, it seems to me it would be a bit presumptuous for him to say the group ended when he left. It's just semantics I guess.
― cheshy f cat (cheshycat), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)
― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)
The last thing he recorded with the band was the Phish cover, around the same time as Karera Musication's (Boredoms -EYE) soundtrack for Ichi The Killer.
Yamamoto's on good terms with the rest of the band, his projects often play on the same bills as other post-Boredoms projects. He has a new band called Para which he started after his wife died in a car accident while on tour with DMBQ in the USA last year.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)
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― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)
But some of you must have seen these shows on the '99 tour and been able to tell if Seiichi was with the band, right? RIGHT?
http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/514652/06041999/boredoms.jhtml
In 1999:
June 9; New York, N.Y.; South Street Seaport Atrium
June 11; Philadelphia, Pa.; Trocadero
June 12; New Haven, Conn.; TBA
June 13; Washington, D.C.; 9:30 Club
June 14; Cambridge, Mass.; Middle East Downstairs
June 17; Toronto, Ontario; Opera House
June 18; Pontiac, Mich.; 7th House
June 19; Chicago, Ill.; Metro
June 20; Minneapolis, Minn.; First Avenue
June 22; Denver, Colo.; Fox Theater
June 25-26; San Francisco, Calif.; Slim's
June 28; Portland, Ore.; Crystal Ballroom
June 29; Vancouver, British Columbia; Richards on Richards
June 30; Seattle, Wash.; Crocodile Cafe
July 3; San Diego, Calif.; Brick By Brick
July 4; Orange County, Calif.; Oak Canyon Ranch (Los Angeles Orange County Festival)
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)
Case solved.
Gygax! awarded with confetti, freeze dried mochi, and harsh ass of fate via lawsuits against certain media publications. :D
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)
Karera Musication's (Boredoms -EYE) soundtrack for Ichi The Killer.
Actually, if you look in the credits for the movie, Ey3 is thanked too.
Also, has anyone heard "SKYE" which is Eye with some dude from AoA?
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)
He is thanked but he was not involved with the soundtrack.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)
I was at that (best show I've ever seen), but I'm not sure what dude looks like to verify, maybe you could post a picture of him?
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)
*ShinKichi+eYE = SKYE
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)
Did you see a guitarist? If so, then you saw him.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)
also the VH1 page is just mirrored from an MTV page, they do that with every MTV News story.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)
http://music6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/dj/1031466654/
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)
SUPER ROOTS 9?!! NO FREAKIN' WAY!
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 28 October 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)