Robert Plant is rightfully known for many grand talents but subtlety isn’t one of them.
I admit that I lost track of Plant after Led Zeppelin imploded, but apparently in the interim Mr Hey Hey Ma got older and wiser and made some world music-ish records and sampled himself on a weird 1988 hit and got enough sleep and didn’t destroy his voice and recently decided to do an adult-contemporary record with a mainstream bluegrass singer. Confusing.
More confusing still, on Raising Sand he and Alison Krauss cover a song by Chris Isaak’s bass player called “Killing The Blues” that is the most beautiful thing you’ve heard in a long time, I promise. This is Robert Plant - he who needeth his lemon squeezed, who required a piece of your custard pie and was working from 7 to 11 every night. He’ll be 60 next year and sounds like he’s fronting a narcoticized Everly Brothers at the gates of heaven - apparently he survived his long seasons of rock and roll just fine.The song is slower and softer than anything I’ve ever heard, like it was produced by the most comfortable pillow known to man. Imagine Mr. Pillow at the mixing desk at 4 A.M. with a cigar and jelly donut and crushed top hat - Alright boys, lets try another take… but this time EVEN SOFTER. (more…)
We performed Friends Like These and Hallie on WNYC’s Soundcheck. You can listen to the performance and interview here.
Here’s a video our new BFFs and tour mates Middle Distance Runner posted of Noam fiddling with one of his frankenstein style modified electric gadgets.
It’s a drum machine that he modified with a patch bay. I guess the nails, when connected together via the metal band, short out the sounds in cool ways. Maybe I can get him to expain it better.
Due to unforeseen circumstances – at the fault of the venue, we are having to cancel the Baltimore show. We’re playing that night, the 13th, at Mojo 13, in Wilmington, DE. Also there’s the DC show at Rock n Roll Hotel on the 14th.
First stop in Florida today, we walked into a quickie mart slash gift shop. All the usual trinkets were present, postcards, porcelain piggies, glass swans staring down from the knick-knack shelf, some delicious looking marmelade (noam loves marmelade). Then in front of the window we noticed this. Why, you ask, are there 500 (perhaps fetal?) sharks, preserved in mysterious blue fluid, floating in individual jars, on display next to the oranges and alligator teeth? Further investigation probably would have revealed that the jars all sat on some sort of circuit whereby the life force of these fish-killers-nipped-in-the-bud is used to power some sort of satanic rube goldberg machine in the basement that converts the sad dreams of these captive creatures into a little known, but powerful, huffable upper, like jenkem. We may never know.
Virb.com has us on the front of their music page. Must be a cool site to feature us.
Last night in Atlanta was a blast. JJ, our new best friend, responded to Ben’s request for spicy Hot V8 by bringing what looked like a gallon jug of the stuff. We played for a great group of very spirited folks. Off to Athens today to hang with friends on a day off before heading down to Florida.
And what better time to drop a little shout out to Cinemechanica. (more…)
I’ve been toying with the idea of having a blog for quite some time. The main trouble was that I wanted to nail it down to a particular theme, but I always soured on the various theme ideas. . .
Well this blog makes it easy on me - its only connecting thread is going to be the interests, opinions, and ramblings of the members of Mobius Band, Earth’s highest quality rock band.
I will probably write about being on tour, music I like, the Wire, the music industry’s implosion, gossip news from places like tyler, who i think is hilarious, and i will occasionally get nerdy and academic and respond to a New Yorker article. The works!
Ben and Noam, my fellow band members, will also be contributing. I am really boring compared to them, they are constantly discovering interesting shit of all different kinds. Noam will probably cover a lot of circuit bending and outsider music, as well as tips and tricks for the modern trap set maestro. Ben is into photography and probably other stuff, I barely know the guy.
Most importantly this will of course be your one stop shop for all Mobius Band news — you can click Mobius Band News over there in the sidebar if you want to just see posts relevant to our band directly.