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from another board, sorry don't have a link. I'm posting it b/c it may or may not affect your scheduling decisions. Not to mention that it's all around AWESOME news.
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Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Rock trio Oysterhead is hoping to mount its first tour since 2001 later this year, drummer Stewart Copeland said during a teleconference with journalists today (June 6). As previously reported, the group, which also features guitarist Trey Anastasio and bassist Les Claypool, will return to live duty later this month at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn.
Oysterhead's lone album, "The Grand Pecking Order," was released in 2001 by Elektra. The trio spent Memorial Day weekend rehearsing at Claypool's California home in preparation for Bonnaroo.
"The plan was always to be an intermittent band and come down from the mountain every five years or so," Copeland said. "It's a shoot from the hip sort of thing - not tour, album, tour, album. We come together when we goddamn feel like it. [But] the Bonnaroo invitation came at the right moment. As soon as the three of us are together, all kinds of stuff starts to happen."
Copeland is thrilled that playing with Oysterhead exposes him not only to different audiences but unique approaches to his craft. "In my world you have to have a song and you play songs and a set list, for that matter," he said. "We actually do have songs and lyrics [but] we use those songs to leap out from. It's a whole new thing for me to get that buzz from an audience that's expecting a brand new piece of music. If we reach those pinnacles, reach those surges, that will enliven the bus ride back to Nashville!"
In related news, Copeland revealed that his documentary "Everyone Stares," culled from home movies shot during the Police's heyday, will play on Showtime in August and then arrive on DVD a month later via Universal Music Enterprises.
The DVD will include extra material such as backstage footage with "a different vibe," according to Copeland. "You can see [guitarist] Andy [Summers] scowling at me. It's band life that I didn't have room for in the movie." "Everyone Stares" will also be screened during Bonnaroo.
now i have no idea what to do. I think im still gonna have to go with oysterhead because it problably will be a while until i get to see oysterhead in a setting like that if they do tour. But at the same time rrfb puts on one of hte best shows ive seen. Damn u superfly!!!
i hear ya man. even if they were playing my back yard the day after roo i still wouldnt miss their first show back at bonna-fuc,kin-rooO!!!!!!! i am so freekin excited.
Post by oysterheadhead on Jun 6, 2006 23:21:07 GMT -5
ok, im just more excited now!!! i am a huge Stewart Copeland fan. he is one of the few drummers in all of rock history that has his own unique sound. i have loved the Police ever since i saw them on their last tour when i was 14. so i am stoked to see "Everyone Stares"
Stewart's comments mean that Oysterhead will always be a possibility as long as Les, Trey, & Stew are alive and kicking! i think its likely that they worked on some new music when they rehearsed. i hope we hear it!!
that is really exciting news. the one time that i saw them was amazing, squished on the rail in the front row in asheville. les really blew me away.
I Was at the asheville show and it was fantastic....i listened to the tapes just the other day....one of my dearest friends taped that show and it was one of his best....maybe even one of his last....poor fellow feel of the top of a truck at Roo II and hasnt been the same since....
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we wont, and we're slowly learning that fact & we're very, very pissed off......."
Post by exspectator on Jun 7, 2006 15:12:56 GMT -5
I Was at the asheville show and it was fantastic....i listened to the tapes just the other day....one of my dearest friends taped that show and it was one of his best....maybe even one of his last....poor fellow feel of the top of a truck at Roo II and hasnt been the same since....[/quote]
this might be a silly question, but did you see les pull a banner up from the crowd and throw it over his amp for the encore? that was ours, we were so happy!