Sat Nov 15 18:10:33 EST 1997 name: jonny nall email: nall@cs.duke.edu favorite cd: zopilote machine favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: we'll sail out far, maybe a little too far comments:hi folks. well, i think i've fixed the comments page. hopefully for good this time. it's residing on my server, so unless i'm running (gasp!) windoze, it should be fully operational. knock yerselves out... jonny nall.
Mon Nov 17 16:55:40 EST 1997 name: Jonathan Maier email: lo-fi@mindspring.com favorite cd: sweden favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": songs about fire favorite comp: the kspc basement tapes comments:well here are some more cool links that fans of the mountain goats might be interested in: Interview with John Darnielle in Brass Knuckles magazine
Interview with John Darnielle in Ultra WWW magazine
Photographs I took at the now infamous "Duke Show"
This guy Olle Norin has figured out chords for some songs
Cheers! ps, vinyl rules
Sun Nov 23 17:34:43 EST 1997 name: erin email: eemqueen@hotmail.com favorite cd: nothing for juice favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": philyra favorite comp: the wedding record comments:put a piece of your mind here... i figure that if i try this five million times, eventually my comment will get added. this is attempt #4 to let you all know that i've got the madison (nov.14,1997) show on tape for anyone who is interested. hear john fret over the breaking of two strings and singing "take a letter, maria". hear the madison locals screaming for the badger song incessantly. hear the bad opening band "framing amy"..well, no, unfortunately, ben didn't capture them on tape, but just picture a shrunken anthony kiedis and you've got the bassist down pat. and check out my new homepage, won't you? it's at http://members.tripod.com/~tastykakeman/index.html
Mon Nov 24 19:49:36 EST 1997 name: chris email: favorite cd: zopilote machine favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: back to the egg, asshole comments:put a piece of your mind here... still frustrated i missed the mt. goats and a. galbraith(?) in denton tx. simply because i refused to believe anything interesting was happening in denton tx. and didn't look in the local "what's happening and cool" section of the paper. but am here in chicago and will go see mt. goats on 12 of dec. looking forward to it. p.s. if in chicago, look up ajax distribution. he's running out of his apt. on north rockwell, and i found out he'll let you come over to buy if you call ahead, and then you get on the mailing list. also, if in chicago go to vintage vinyl in evanston. way cool record store that specializes in 6ts psych. check out skip spence, july, or kelaidoscope(?), or twink cds. real cool. is anyone recording and like to exchange stuff? if u leave an e mail, i'll get to u. keep up the good work mr. mt. goat. your music is often transcendental in the spirit of mr. whitman. with a yaw, yaw, yaw, over & out. $=death, chris.
Tue Nov 25 12:04:50 EST 1997 name: John Darnielle email: none favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: yam, the king of crops favorite 7": orange raja favorite comp: we'll sail out far, maybe a little too far comments:put a piece of your mind here... Hello there. It's John. I'm at the Ames Public Library trying to decide whether to go into work early (they want me to, but what feelings of obligation I have toward my workplace are, well, weak) and I checked the comments page and I just wanted to say: 1)I hope the fellow who wanted to see the Denton show checks the Chicago paper a couple of times, because the show is not on the 12th. It's somewhere in between the 4th and the 7th. Not sure which. It's at the Empty Bottle which has a homepage that isn't hard to find. I strongly advise anyone even remotely interested to attend this show. I'll be doing new things. 2)All glories to Jonathan Nall for his continuing excellence in all things. Jaya! Jaya! Jaya Jonny Nall! Do NOT bring up the subject of last night's game between the Raiders and Broncos if you want to say on my good side, John
Fri Nov 28 11:41:23 EST 1997 name: chris email: favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: taboo vi: the homecoming favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: back to the egg, asshole comments:put a piece of your mind here... the show in chicago must be 12/6. first time i'll be seeing the mt. goats. also, i can't seem to get the emerson essay. is it still out there? jon,i'm also woking at a library. a small medical library in in skokie illlinois. i like it though. nice, quiet contemplative work. was just working in a big corporate barnes & noble book store & hated it with a passion but got fired for calling a customer snotty. at least here there is no law of customer relations i have to abide by, just normal courtesy. take care.
Mon Dec 1 11:27:16 EST 1997 name: jonny nall email: nall@cs.duke.edu favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: we'll sail out far, maybe a little too far comments:chris, are you sure your real name isn't kaiser sose? that skokie, IL reference is just too great.
Mon Dec 1 17:42:04 EST 1997 name: chris email: favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: taboo vi: the homecoming favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: back to the egg, asshole comments:put a piece of your mind here... jonny nall, u like the skokie ref.? well, actually i spent time in russia as a certain prince myshkin under the spell of a certain nastassya filippovna. had a capital time for the most part but eventually felt like a complete idiot and had to go underground for awhile. then one day woke up in skokie with a mt. goats song in my head-la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la, two, three, four. found myself surrounded by fire. take care, chris
Sat Apr 4 17:44:35 EST 1998 name: jonny nall email: nall@cs.duke.edu favorite cd: zopilote machine favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": chile de arbol favorite comp: we'll sail out far, maybe a little too far comments:the comments should be working again...
Tue Apr 7 00:30:36 EDT 1998 name: David Alexander email: dea001@wmdc.edu favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": why you all so thief? favorite comp: abridged perversion comments:put a piece of your mind here... Well I am quite excited about seeing John play this Friday. He is appearing at the Ottobar in Baltimore with Alastair and the Iditarod(my bro and future sis in law!) It will be my third MG show but the first for my friends. They have never even heard of the Mountain Goats. They are virgins. So I've taken it upon myself to pound the wonderful music into their skulls for the past couple of weeks. They are beginning to see the light. If only the whole world could (check out any and all Magic Eye Singles related material!)
Thu Apr 9 17:13:12 EDT 1998 name: j. neo marvin email: n/a favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": orange raja favorite comp: the long secret comments:put a piece of your mind here... Looking forward to the Terrastock show in SF next week. I intend to drop a load of money if Mr. Darnielle brings tapes and singles for sale, since I have had a devil of a time finding any of them around here. Cheers. ...Oh, and, isn't the first line of "Incuinti-Totzli Days" (I think I got the spelling right) "Hear the PADS beat", as in the pads of the malevolent god-figure's little bunny feet? That's how I hear it anyhow. Anyway, kudos to y'all for this fine website.
Mon Apr 13 05:35:43 EDT 1998 name: John Parkinson email: kenpark@indigo.ie favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": orange raja favorite comp: those pre-phylloxera years comments:put a piece of your mind here... Has anyone noticed the similarity between the version of "Lonesome Surprise" from Nine Black Poppies, and the Velvet Undergroung song "Oh, Sweet Nothing"? J.
Mon Apr 13 09:40:01 EDT 1998 name: catherine email: scylla@unforgettable.com favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: yam, the king of crops favorite 7": songs about fire favorite comp: dog so large, i cannot see past it comments:i actually have only 2 cd's, unfortunately, so i totally lied about the other things :) i saw the show at brownies last night, and i was blown away. i'm gonna try to go to the show tonight, but i don't know how that's gonna go. i even taped it and i'm listening to it now ... it came out so well! john himself even made a comment at the end cuz i'm reviewing the show for my school paper and i asked him if he had anything to tell the students of columbia university ... he talked about not defaulting on student loans, which i have to agree with. i also got his zine and the beer frame cd ... i just dropped a ton of money. oh well. c'est la vie. great page :)
Mon Apr 13 21:32:59 EDT 1998 name: Matt email: kangamat@eclipse.net favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: taboo vi: the homecoming favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: cool beans! #4 comments:Heard "New Star Song" on WPRB 103.3-fm in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. It was twilight and I never thought I'd hear it again, but thankfully I did. Doeas anyone know which "Reading" ("Redding?") they are talking about inthat song? Pennsylvania seems to fit for me, although it could be COnnecticut. Now to find the cd...
Mon Apr 13 21:33:22 EDT 1998 name: Matt email: kangamat@eclipse.net favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: taboo vi: the homecoming favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: cool beans! #4 comments:Heard "New Star Song" on WPRB 103.3-fm in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. It was twilight and I never thought I'd hear it again, but thankfully I did. Does anyone know which "Reading" ("Redding?") they are talking about inthat song? Pennsylvania seems to fit for me, although it could be Connecticut. Now to find the cd...
Tue Apr 14 16:00:06 EDT 1998 name: J Neo Marvin email: jneo@mailexcite.com favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: the long secret comments:put a piece of your mind here... (My actual pick for best 7" should be the Extra Glenns' "Infidelity" which is unfortunately not an available choice.) For some reason my previous message came out as one long line. I wasn't trying to be cute; it was a mistake and I feel just awful about it, really I do. Anyway I'm a little curious after reading that radio interview transcript. John Darnielle makes some pretty disparaging comments about touring in Germany and never goes into the details. I was curious: were the gigs bad? Did the audiences not "get it"? Or is it just that infuriating "foreign artist tax" they slap on everyone who tours there now, which you have to front to them even if you're not liable for it and then supposedly they refund your money later? (My ex-band played there 2 years ago and I'm still waiting for this supposed refund) I ask because a) I know Dirk, who booked and roadied for at least one Mt. Goats tour over there and found him to be a fine fellow, and sincerely hope that there was no falling out between him and JD, plus b) I have an ex-girlfriend in Koeln whom I still am very close to, and she is a total Mt. Goats FIEND so let it be known there are some Germans there who love these songs as much as we do. See you at Terrastock.
Mon Apr 20 14:24:07 EDT 1998 name: J Neo Marvin email: jneo@mailexcite.com favorite cd: sweden favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: the long secret comments:put a piece of your mind here... Well, the Terrastock set was fantastic, though way too short. John was in fine form, bantering maniacally with the equally manic fans up front. He even called for requests several times and even though he didn't play any of mine it didn't matter bacause it's so much fun just to yell out Mountain Goats song titles at the top of your lungs anyway: "Maize Stalk Drinking Blood!" "Alpha Negative!" "First Corinthians Chapter 13 Verses 8 Through 10!!" He did some new ones, including "I've Got The Sex", which is as good as everyone's been saying it is. A lively singalong "Itzcuintli-Totzli Days" followed by a request for the Easter Bunny song (the seasonal theme was evident) a painfully poignant "Minnesota", a particularly sweet "Grendel's Mother", a wild "Going To Georgia"...it was hit-packed. Had to catch a bus near the end of Alastair Galbraith's set so I don't know if they played together at the end. But the big news (well, it was news to me) was John told me the songs from all the non-Shrimper tapes and singles will be coming out on CD on Ajax in a series of three, the first one being released in June. Personally I'm pleased; I love putting on a CD and having the first thing I hear be wheel-grind. Anyway, if you're reading this, John, now that you know how many people love your stuff in San Francisco, maybe you'll come out here to play more often?? together at the end.
Mon Apr 20 14:30:16 EDT 1998 name: j neo marvin email: jneo@mailexcite.com favorite cd: sweden favorite cass: the hound chronicles favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: the long secret comments:put a piece of your mind here... Oh I forgot, he also did "Full Flower", and the mysterious lyrics on the chorus are "I would give anything in the world up for you/But I won't stop!"
Thu Apr 23 13:37:59 EDT 1998 name: Saffron Burrows email: saffy@nidlink.com favorite cd: nine black poppies favorite cass: yam, the king of crops favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: cool beans! #4 comments:I thought that this was a web page about real mnt.goats! I'm researching them for a science essay and I never knew that there was ever a band called "Mountain Goats." Nice song names,
Tue Apr 28 20:02:52 EDT 1998 name: a devout fan email: favorite cd: nine black poppies favorite cass: taking the dative favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: those pre-phylloxera years comments:put a piece of your mind here... HOW COME YOU HAVE NOT UPDATED THE SITE? I HAVE BEEN TO A FEW SHOWS SINCE FLORIDA THAT WEREN'T MENTIONED. AND, YOU HAVEN'T PUT KEPT UP ON YOUR JOURNAL? HAVE YOU LOST INTEREST IN THE MOUNTAIN GOATS? I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING NEW. PLEASE CORRECT THIS. THANKS.
Thu Apr 30 14:41:20 EDT 1998 name: John Darnielle email: favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: yam, the king of crops favorite 7": orange raja favorite comp: fast forward #2 comments:put a piece of your mind here... To the person who signs his or herself "devout fan," I'd like to say: Hi and thanks for your devotion. This is John Darnielle. The fellow who runs this page does so out of the goodness of his unfathomably generous and enthusiastic heart, so if he only updates it, say, once every year, that's fine by me. He's got his hands full with all kinds of personal business. If I could pay him to do this page full time, then maybe it'd be OK to slap him around some for not updating every time I get an idea, but since his only payment is my ongoing failure to play his requests live, nobody's in any position to bitch him out. JD
Wed May 6 05:31:08 EDT 1998 name: DEVOUT FAN email: favorite cd: sweden favorite cass: taboo vi: the homecoming favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: the wedding record comments:put a piece of your mind here... WOH. JD RESPONDED TO ME! I MEANT NO ANGER TO THE GUY THAT RUNS THE SITE. JUST POINTING OUT THAT THE INTEREST OF KEEPING IT UP IS NOT THE SAME AS USED TO BE. HEY! I HEARD YOU WERE GETTING MARRIAGE. WHEN IS IT? IS IT GOING TO BE IN THE STATE YOU LIVE IN? I HOPE YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION SOON. I WAS THINKING OF STARTING MY OWN THE MOUNTAIN GOATS SITE. ONE THAT IS TOTALLY FAR OUT AND WILL BE KEPT ON A REGULAR BASIS. ITS IN THE WORKS NOW, SO I WILL LET YOU ALL KNOW WHERE TO GO SOON! JD-YOU WILL HEAR FROM ME SOON BUDDY. TAKE CARE.
Sat May 9 17:27:45 EDT 1998 name: Dan Mitchell email: favorite cd: beautiful rat sunset favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": songs for peter hughes favorite comp: i like walt comments:put a piece of your mind here... Let's see...finally saw my first Mtn.Goat show...the day before my 30th birthday. Thanks for the present John. Even with so many great bands at Terrastock, the Mtn.Goats was my high point....Anyway, I taped the show if anyone wants a trade. Sure you want to trade (1) it is a great show (2) It was my first show (3) it's the only show i own (4) you want me to have more shows so my life will be bloated with value and smirk (5) it was a great show and (6) you'll feel as if you were there with me sipping cheap wine....oh yeah (7) it was a great show!
Wed May 13 12:01:13 EDT 1998 name: seth mahern email: swmahern@indiana.edu favorite cd: full force galesburg favorite cass: hot garden stomp favorite 7": orange raja favorite comp: the wedding record comments:i was just writing hoping to get the John's mailing address. i need to send him a record and a letter and i have no idea where to send it since on all the mountain goats records i have that has been omitted. good day and take care, seth (812)323-2981 swmahern@indiana.edu
Thu May 14 16:12:48 EDT 1998 name: Jesse email: Jemerick@teleport.com favorite cd: zopilote machine favorite cass: yam, the king of crops favorite 7": songs for petronius favorite comp: pawnshop reverb comments:put a piece of your mind here... Hey, I have a question.... I just bought a 7" yesterday: the Tropical Depression e.p. split with Furniture Huschle and Thee Mountain Goats. Three great MGs songs...Anti Music Song, Going to Hungary and Earth Air Water Trees. I don't see it listed in the archives here. Is it new or old? It seems like it's from awhile back. The date on it says 1994. Did this just come out? Does anyone know? anyway, I'd just like to say hi, my name's Jesse and yes, it is still raining in Portland.