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Surfer Rosa
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 Posted - 08/05/2006 : 03:38:13
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This was posted on their myspace blog yesterday:
we started as a punk band with pop aspirations and we met every goal we set for ourselves. a few weeks ago, the album finally went gold in canada and that was the final mark i really wanted to reach.. it was my goal to see how big we could become without ever compromising or changing what we did right from the start... and now i know. we did way more than i ever expected and i like to think the fans (you?) enjoyed it as much as we did.... watching us sneak our way onto network tv, big festivals and sports arenas... playing music that most people assumed only belonged in basements and dirty rock clubs. we played our first show in a living room on long island for about 12 people and played our last in the calgary saddledome for 12,000. ha! what more could i have ever asked for? ive been in lots of punk bands over the last 15 years and i played every basement, squat, hole and alley from here to eastern europe. dfa79 was the first time i ever really played on a stage, yet i really didnt change what i was doing from what id been doing in the past... hell i was even using the same amplifiers! i never would have imagined that the wall of noise i love so much could have come this far. to see my silly elephant trunk idea become so popular... im sure its the greatest piece of graphic design ill ever do.
over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad. it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.
thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out to our shows, wrote letters just to say hi, baked cakes and made your own t-shirts. i kept everything you gave me. thanks so much to the kids who came really early to see us when were were opening for bigger bands... that meant so much to me. i hope i have been a positive example and not a bad influence and i really want you to know that when you stop me on the street and i dont know what to say, its not because i dont appreciate you, its just not something ill ever really get used to.
thanks again.
j f k
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 04:47:11
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I was thinking of starting a topic about this yesterday, but then I realised that I would only realy be doing it for you, and you would already know about it anyway.
But yeah, this sucks.
By the way, I thought MSTRKRFT was both of them, but I assume not if they don't even like each other now. SO who exactly is MSTRKRFT?
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 06:31:16
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That sucks. I was eagerly waiting for a new album.
What's MSTRLKMLKDGS?
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 08/05/2006 : 09:42:19
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MSTRKRFT is the wonderfully moustashioed bassist Sebastian's remix project which is quite a wonderful little project in itself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23If6Sqe-Q
I love this video by the way and thank you Homer and Villain for giving me an excuse to post it
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 04:33:44
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MSTRKRFT are kinda like 2ManyDJs.
The link is not working Nic.
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 04:48:18
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You should just need to sign in & confirm that you are older than 18 to view it - it's because it has breasts featuring rather prominently in it
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
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No more Death From Above 1979
