A.V. Club Preview of Thirteen Tales Live with “Godless” Video
We’re three weeks out from THIRTEEN TALES FROM URBAN BOHEMIA LIVE AT THE WONDER and our friends at The A.V. Club have an exclusive preview for you today.
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13 Tales Tales: Significance In Opening Track Order?
Is there special significance in the ordering of Godless/Mohammed and Nietzsche opening Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia? Courtney lets us know in this episode of 13 Tales Tales.
Remember, our 13 Tales 13th Anniversary tour starts this Tuesday. Do you have your tickets? Check our SHOWS page, in case you forgot to buy tickets or have been asleep for a month.
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13 Tales Tales: Vintage ‘Godless’ via CD-ROM
Here’s an odd little video. A one-camera performance of “Godless” from back in the day shot by Launch and included on a cd-rom, or something? It could have been filmed in July of 2000, or October of 2000, or… November of 2000? I’ve never seen it. But then again, I don’t see most things.
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13 Tales Tales: Godless Mohammed Nietzsche
For months after completing Thirteen Tales we all had copies of the album. I had listened to my copy roughly 4000 times when one day I was riding in a car that had one of those CD players that automatically started the disc over again after the last song. The last song on the record was “Nietzsche.” It turned itself around to the first song on the album which, for the first 4000 times I listened to it, was “Country Leaver.”
“Country Leaver” to me sounded really great right after “Nietzsche.” I started thinking of how it would work if it was moved to song two but “Solid” didn’t seem right directly after it. Then I thought maybe it would work if the record just started with the “trippy ending” songs at the top then “Nietzsche” would be third and “Country Leaver” would be fourth and so on. This was before iTunes and laptops and iPods so I had to go back to the car stereo and start the record at “Godless” to see how it felt.
It was amazing. That “Godless” intro right at the top into “Mohammed” just seemed perfect. Then “Country Leaver” sort of worked as a wake up call with its rooster sort of waking you from the stoned haze of the first three songs. Magically, “The Gospel” ends up last when you do this creating a perfect ending to what I believe is a perfect record.
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13 Tales Tales: ‘Godless’ on Conan
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.
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13 Tales Tales: Godless at Dantes
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!
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