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Post by tristramshandy on Aug 8, 2019 1:48:22 GMT
Great songwriter who preformed great songs. Was just about ready to go back out on tour after a decade or so. RIP.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 8, 2019 6:31:09 GMT
RIP, sad news, only discovered Silver Jews recently.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 8, 2019 17:37:48 GMT
A tortured soul who led a tumultuous inner-life.
Thank you for the music, Mr. Berman ... rest easy.
“I mean, I wasn’t fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it’s always terrible. Maybe this is a sort of solution to that – you don’t form the band until later, when you know what you want. People break up their bands because they grow older, everyone has new priorities, like marriage or something. People should start out as solo artists and slowly work towards a band – that way there won’t be any break-ups anymore and nobody will go through the bullshit that so many baby-boomers did over the Beatles in the ‘70s.
“Also, it’s interesting because I think the idea became an obvious way to work for me from watching the Royal Trux; a lot of the bands on Drag City just followed the Royal Trux model. There comes a time where people switch from a band name to their own name, and for me that might be tempting – Silver Jews hasn’t always been the easiest band name to have. I guess I could be tempted to do that, but I’ve never really thought about it. I have an investment in doing this series of things – I started this series, and it’s almost like The Hardy Boys or something, something that I liked as a kid. I want these records to be part of a bigger piece.”
- David Berman, Drowned In Sound
"I wrote a song for The Avalanches, and then they got in touch with David Berman through me, and they asked him to write a song. That time we were writing each other back and forth, and I was laughing at him for getting Pavement to do an L.A. Guns cover or some shit, ‘cause that was so lame. “Cut Your Hair” wasn’t for nothing, they really hated long hair. So we were writing back and forth, and David wrote a song for me for this upcoming EP, but actually Ethan Miller [from Comets on Fire and Howlin’ Rain] ended up doing vocals with me."
- Jennifer Herrema, BOMB
R.I.P.
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