2017-11-12 Brooklyn Steel
Setlist
Recording
Banter
- "This is a song about a small place in your heart that can never get clean." (In the Craters on the Moon)
- "When I was 16," [people woo] "There wasn't a lot to say 'woo' about when I was 16. When I was 16, we would buy magazines from England to find out what was going on. Because I lived on the west coast, and the west coast just worshipped London. We would look to London for what we were supposed to do. We had to do that because we felt that when we looked to New York for what we were supposed to do, it would make us feel bad about ourselves. We'd look further east and we would see the people with their gigantic teased up hair and say 'well, we're gonna look like that only we'll tease it up higher.' We'd see people with like, tasteful kohl underneath their eyes and say 'what if we smear it down like this, like we're dead or have been attacked, or something like that,' and that was our whole scene. When I was 16, we heard about a place called the Bat Cave. The Bat Cave was a tiny little club, a hole in the wall, you can see epictures of it now and it doesn't look nearly as glamorous at it sounded when it was just these articles saying, "well, it's all going down at the Bat Cave, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave have a thing going on called the Immaculate Consumptive, and y'all should come on over and see it.' And on the west coast, we go, 'well I can't go over and see it, but I can look at the magazines and maybe outlive you all.'" (Rain in Soho)
- "To me this song is even more depressing [than Autoclave]. It's not as violent but the people in it feel like they had a better chance at one point. It's gone now, because I took it away from them. It was on Get Lonely. It's probably my favorite song on the record." (Moon Over Goldsboro)
- "This is a song about a club in Long Beach, California, lot of people from Long Beach here tonight, where rumor had it, you could come all the way from say, Switzerland, and be in a tour bus and really really trying to pay off that bus. And you get back to the office after you played a show. You might be a band called Celtic Frost, you might have opened for Usurper, and it might have been a really spectacular show. You might have gone back to the office and said, 'Can we have our $500 guarantee now,' and the guy might have said, 'I don't have your $500, but I have an 8-ball.' And you or your tour manager might have said 'No, we really need the $500, it costs a lot of money to get the three of us over from Switzerland, do you have any idea?' and he goes, 'yeah, I sympathize with your case, I have an 8 ball, and that's all I've got.' And apparently that's how it would work at Fender's." (Paid in Cocaine)
- "This song is also off the new record [Goths]. And it's about - I was doing research. By the middle of the set you start going "wow, I got a Sisters of Mercy Song", and I've got one that's cryptically about representing Nick Cave and Peter Murphy, then you start digging deeper and you discover that some bands started putting on more eye makeup when it started looking like their own scene wasn't gonna work but the goth scene might be the ticket to another three album contract. And I find that very interesting, because I see their point, it's a good job making music, but at the same time, it's very weird to me to imagine a band going, 'sure, we'll make a goth record, why not?' So this is a song about a band who does, and regrets it. What happens is when you make an album, if you're working for a big label, you have to present it to them. Your manager calls a meeting and you play a couple tracks and you try to frame them. 'This next one is about such and such' and then the guys who have all the money, they don't care about what you're saying at all. They tell you whether or not they like the album and will release it. If they don't release it, you spend a year or two or three, working on something that will never see the light of day. And they take your little album, and they put it on the shelf." (Shelved)
- "This is a song about some friends of mine who did not get the applause that they wanted, but they probably got the applause they deserved." (The Young Thousands)
- "This is a song about that burning thirst for revenge. Which is reputed to be very unhealthy. And I know that's true, but it doesn't help. You might envision your revenge in the form of a great hulking animal coming out of the darkness to eat those who have done you wrong." (Up the Wolves)
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