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Questions for ‘Ask Courtney’

Written by sea gothman on . Posted in Courtney, News, The Dandy Warhols.

CTT, 2000 DAVE YANDELL

Hey there, Dandy Girl/Boy. Is there something you have always wanted to know about Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia from Mister Courtney Taylor-Taylor but you can’t just call him up on the phone becuase he’s literally a stranger? Questions like “how did 13 Tales get its name,” or “did you think “Bohemian Like You” would buy you a big house?” That sort of thing. Or whatever you want. Who’s gonna stop you? Post your questions here, on our Facebook, or tweet @TheDandyWarhols with the tag #AskCTT all this weekend, and he’ll will answer the best ones via video presentations next week.

Have a safe weekend!

GOTHMAN

13 Tales Tales: ‘Godless’ on Conan

Written by sea gothman on . Posted in News, The Dandy Warhols.

On November 30, 2000, The Dandy Warhols took time out from the third North American tour of the year to fly from Saskatchewan to New York City to make the first of two appearances on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. It was their second national network appearance in a month, coming after the band played CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (remember??) on November 3rd [VIDEO LOST TO THE AGES??]

The Dandys would return to Late Night in 2003 for one of the most memorable evenings in Dandy Warhol lore.

UPDATE: Friend JS Martin on “The Facebook dot com” found the Kilborn video almost immediately, we’ll show it to ya tomorrow.

GOTHMAN

13 Tales Tales: The Blind Faith of Country Leaver

Written by sea gothman on . Posted in News, The Dandy Warhols.

We’ve got a story coming up from Fathead about the song order of Thirteen Tales and how it got that way. Would it surprise you that at one time, “Country Leaver” was to open the record? It does, but it doesn’t really. I mean, it’s a great song. It’s one of my favorites. I never ever ask Courtney what his songs are about, because it should be open to your own interpretation (I guess), but I can guess what’s going on here. I feel like I’ve been in this situation way too many times in my life, on a plane armed only with dumb blind faith.

(This video is from The Alternate Side in New York.)

GOTHMAN

Perfect 13 Tales Party Food?

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on . Posted in Courtney, The Dandy Warhols.

@BracchusATalbot tweets:

Depends on how many peeps and how tricky how much money you can spend etc. Slow cooked pork shoulder is easy and can go on crackers or be served with a friggin souffle.

Call K&L wines and get a load of ’96 Lanessan. It’s affordable and amazing. Our Dandy NYE champagne is Schoenheitz NV Cremant d’Alsace. Should be 13 bucks a bottle and is awesome.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

13 Tales Tales: Rockin’ on the horse size…

Written by Brent DeBoer on . Posted in Brent, News, The Dandy Warhols.

I had a 1966 Cadillac Sedan Deville that I had bought just a little after we released Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. It was huge. One of the longest cars ever made. 19 feet 8 inches if I remember right. It fit eight people easily. It had five ash trays. It was the most perfect car I ever owned.

For the Horse Pills video we decided to pile eight people into the car and basically have a raging party while I drove down I-5 and 405 in a circle around Portland. We turned the camera on and just passed it around the car taking turns filming. Looking back I’m thinking it might have been a bit dangerous but we were young and carefree. The video is a document of one of the best periods of my life. To me it works as an extension to the video for Bohemian Like You that was mainly filmed in my Rock Dorm apartment and my two favourite neighbourhood bars featuring most of my favourite people. It feels like one of those nights when we would all leave Slabtown and pile into my Caddy and head across town. It’s a great low budget DIY video that just works.

BRENT DEBOER

13 Tales Tales: Zia’s Notes For ‘Bohemian Like You’

Written by sea gothman on . Posted in News, The Dandy Warhols.

Zia's Boho Notes (Click to embiggen)

One thing that popular movies get wrong about bands recording an album is that the whole band sits in a recording studio in a circle and just plays “the songs” live. Nah, man. That may have been the case in Little Richard’s time, but for well over 40 years, songs – and albums – have been assembled like a puzzle, with the only real guide the original intent of the songwriter (via his/her demo recording) and the intuition of the producers and recording engineers. The only real limitation is time. While this process can result in legendary recordings (like our own Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia), when it comes to playing the songs live, you kinda have to reverse engineer your parts.

Part of Zia’s process in learning her parts for live performance is what you see here. Zia makes these notes for herself during the initial rehearsal sessions whenever the Dandys venture forth on performing new material. She doesn’t need keep the notes on hand very long at all, just a few days. Quite frankly, I don’t know how we still have this sitting around the Odditorium, since these notes were obviously transcribed two studios ago. I think we have not thrown anything away, ever.

GOTHMAN

13 Tales Tales: Godless at Dantes

Written by sea gothman on . Posted in News, The Dandy Warhols.

On this date thirteen years ago The Dandy Warhols filmed the video for “Godless.” It was my first official day working for these jokers, and it set precedent of “sitting around all day, glaring” equals working. The most difficult part came when I had to stand for the six hour bathroom scene. So tough, acting.

Joining The Dandy Warhols in the video was Travis Grassman, as the bartender, Spike Keating and Michele Loew, as the couple, and Cameron the hula hoop boy as himself. The girl with the big eyes I don’t know and never saw again.

The video, directed by Chris Anthony, was filmed in the then newly-christened Dante’s at the ever bustling corner of 3rd and West Burnside in downtown Portland. So striking Dante’s was to me on that first day of filming, with its warm, dark womb-like ambience, hand to god I cannot remember what had occupied its spot previously.

More 13 Tales Tales tomorrow!

GOTHMAN

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