Anyone else notice these three videos of PS performing live as a 3-piece in a
studio?

http://palestra.net/music/artist-profile/308

They're really nice, stripped-down versions.  They play jerky as all hell on my
old Powerbook, but I assume they're great on better hardware.

Side note: What the fuck are Scott and Alexis (and presumably Johnny and Eli)
putting in their Sanka?  How do they look EXACTLY the same as they did when I
started going to GVSB shows over 15 years ago?

d

Hello.
and the monologue continues...

Amsterdam, 02/26/09
the band was gooood.
the crowd was ****** ** (censored). Shame on you, Amsterdam.
and in the same time Kim Wilde plays in Paradiso. i'm not sure if it's funny or
sad. Well, she's a loved Blonde.
The highlight of the evening is here, pay attention after 2nd minute of the
song, when Alexis has his solo part, singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HFgow4-I4&feature=channel_page

Den Bosch 02/28/09
the band was superb. top performance. the best so far, what i've seen. On the
other hand, top performance was in Zgb too:)
Hope Oana will catch some time to write a proper review on both shows.

link to some of the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.hr/sdolezal76/ParamountStyles#

hope to upload more stuff on youtube these days. Esp from Den Bosch.

Paramount Styles, thank you.

over & out
s

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I always enjoy reading your tour diaries, Alexis. Funny stuff :)



--- In 7Seas@yahoogroups.com, gvsbnyc@... wrote:
>
>
>  hey there
> I started a tour diary of the last paramount styles tour and I will
keep updating it as regularly as I can if anyone is interested.
> http://www.gvsb.com/blog/
> thanks
> alexis

hey there
I started a tour diary of the last paramount styles tour and I will keep
updating it as regularly as I can if anyone is interested.
http://www.gvsb.com/blog/
thanks
alexis







-----Original Message-----
From: Slavica Doležal <sdolezal@...>
To: 7Seas@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 2:48 am
Subject: Re: [7Seas] Paramount Styles


































PARAMOUNT STYLES, November 12th, Zagreb, Croatia





Last night was one of those nights that happens maybe once a year.


A  kind of concert when you go home, you sit in your car and you feel like
listening to nothing else but all the records of the band you just saw. And like
i said it doesn't happen really often to me.





Paramount Styles played for about an hour, full repertoire; Alexis and Scott,
accompanied with Chris Smet on a guitar  and…unfortunatelly i forgot the name
of the bass player.


Julia Kent, a cello player,  who happened to be here the same night in the same
club, playing with Larsen and Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) afterwards, joined them
for 3 songs (One Last Surprise, These Starry Nights, More Than Alive).





It was great to hear the same songs the band played here 5 months ago, in quite
a different  way, really mighty and powerful.


Pieces of drum sticks were flying around.


'nuff said.








To Paramount Styles:


Thank you Pa
ramount Styles, come back soon (what was it, in 40 something daysJ?), hope
you'll enjoy the rest of the tour, have a safe trip back home and i'm really
looking forward to seeing you again.


slavica



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thanks for the report, slavica, hoping to see them next thursday in rome, if
there happen to be any other potential attendees, lemme know!



Laura



-----Original Message-----
From: Slavica Doležal <sdolezal@...>
To: 7Seas@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:48 am
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PARAMOUNT STYLES, November 12th, Zagreb, Croatia





Last night was one of those nights that happens maybe once a year.


A  kind of concert when you go home, you sit in your car and you feel like
listening to nothing else but all the records of the band you just saw. And like
i said it doesn't happen really often to me.





Paramount Styles played for about an hour, full repertoire; Alexis and Scott,
accompanied with Chris Smet on a guitar  and…unfortunatelly i forgot the name
of the bass player.


Julia Kent, a cello player,  who happened to be here the same night in the same
club, playing with Larsen and Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) afterwards, joined them
for 3 songs (One Last Surprise, These Starry Nights, More Than Alive).





It was great to hear the same songs the band played here 5 months ago, in quite
a different  way, really mighty and powerful.


Pieces of drum sticks were flying around.


'nuff said.








To Paramount Styles:


Thank you Paramount Styles, come back soon (what was=2
0it, in 40 something daysJ?), hope you'll enjoy the rest of the tour, have a
safe trip back home and i'm really looking forward to seeing you again.


slavica



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PARAMOUNT STYLES, November 12th, Zagreb, Croatia

Last night was one of those nights that happens maybe once a year.
A  kind of concert when you go home, you sit in your car and you feel like
listening to nothing else but all the records of the band you just saw. And like
i said it doesn't happen really often to me.

Paramount Styles played for about an hour, full repertoire; Alexis and Scott,
accompanied with Chris Smet on a guitar  and…unfortunatelly i forgot the name
of the bass player.
Julia Kent, a cello player,  who happened to be here the same night in the same
club, playing with Larsen and Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) afterwards, joined them
for 3 songs (One Last Surprise, These Starry Nights, More Than Alive).

It was great to hear the same songs the band played here 5 months ago, in quite
a different  way, really mighty and powerful.
Pieces of drum sticks were flying around.
'nuff said.


To Paramount Styles:
Thank you Paramount Styles, come back soon (what was it, in 40 something
daysJ?), hope you'll enjoy the rest of the tour, have a safe trip back home and
i'm really looking forward to seeing you again.
slavica

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Nov 5 20088:00P
TBD (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=37274456&friendid=173673350
)Warsaw, PL

Nov 6 20088:00P
dragon (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=36579209&friendid=173673350
)Poznan, PL

Nov 7 20088:00P
TBD (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=36624588&friendid=173673350
)Krakow, PL

Nov 8 20088:00P
007 (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=36578459&friendid=173673350
)Prague, CZ

Nov 9 20088:00P
Melodka (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=36672282&friendid=173673350
)Brno, CZ

Nov 12 20088:00P
Teatar & td (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=37274407&friendid=173673350
)Zagreb, CRO

Nov 13 20088:00P
Palace (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=37510954&friendid=173673350
)Saint Gallen, CH

Nov 14 20088:00P
Le Romandie (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=37510981&friendid=173673350
)Lausanne, CH

Nov 20 20088:00P
MADS (
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_\
ID=37728355&friendid=173673350
)Rome, IT


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here's the link of paramount styles photos...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdolezal/


and...my 50something co-worker is playing the album for the second time
today....(this happens never.he usually switches to something else on
3rd song. after giving him at least 30-40 albums to listen to i kinda
gave up ...:)

slavica



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PARAMOUNT STYLES
ZAGREB, Croatia, June 6th
MURSKA SOBOTA, Slovenia, June 7th


I've never been good at writing reviews, so to make the long story short and
clear:
go and see the band. They are still in Europe, until the end of the week.
The band is great. The album is great. Live act is great.
Howgh!

Scott, Alexis and Chris (or is it Kriss, considering he's Belgian) on guitar,
(currently walking in Croatian sneakers!!!) played the whole album, plus
additional song for an encore. A set that lasted for an hour or so passed way
too quickly.
It was amazing to hear how the songs were played, with only 3 instruments
involved and the sound was so powerful and inventful...
They killed the bass player. They killed both bass players....
And cello player. But he should rise up  and join them again somewhere at some
point. According to Scott.
I loved the way that, say more quiet and calm songs ended dramatically,all
wrapped up in noise.
Great „job“ done. Keep it up and please get back on tour. Soon.

One more thing that still amazes me and I just can't get it...the band drives
around Europe by themselves, no extra driver in the van...so they drive around
for like 5-9 hours or more, have to deal with crazy border regimes, terrible
roads with no signs, awful weather (rainy) conditions, and still make it on time
and play like they had a beauty sleep for an entire day and after that they have
strenght to hang around with the audience, putting up with all the boring and
annoying questions we have...
Paramount Styles, thank you.
Slavica

P.S.
i should upload some pictures from the set some time next week.






>>> eric swennen <zebaleric@...> 26.5.2008 11:49 >>>

i saw them live last night in the Brussels area
and i liked a lot! now i'm more into the album.
it was a small venue, kinda café in a old house...
the band was in a very good mood, the power was down a few songs but Scott kept
on playing, only him, the cello and the Alexi's drums... really nice evening!


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a fun and funny read, cross-posted from the lanegan list, by rob 'oconnor 



(p.s. i think i worked with him at rocktropolis/allstar, but could be wrong!)





http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/55358/the-25-best-alternative-rock\
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i saw them live last night in the Brussels area
and i liked a lot! now i'm more into the album.
it was a small venue, kinda café in a old house...
the band was in a very good mood, the power was down a few songs but Scott kept
on playing, only him, the cello and the Alexi's drums... really nice evening!


--- En date de : Sam 13.1.07, whiggedout@... <whiggedout@...>
a écrit :

De: whiggedout@... <whiggedout@...>
Objet: Re: [7Seas] GVSB dates
À: 7Seas@yahoogroups.com
Cc: andrea.auguadro@..., fnotto@...
Date: Samedi 13 Janvier 2007, 9h09






ah, so no rome after all, then? how can italians ever improve their musical
taste if the cool bands always go to milan and turin (sometimes bologna) and
hardly ever venture south? ;-)

lw

In a message dated 1/13/07 6:39:55 AM, gvsbnyc@aol. com writes:

>
>
>
> Hey everybody
> just wanted to post these dates of GVSB playing in Europe in
> February. Things have been moved around a little bit but I'm looking
> forward to it! Unfortunately Eli will not be with us but we are
> bringing the multi-talented John from Enon, fully sanctioned by Mr.
> Janney. Hope to see you there:
>
> FEB 16 MILAN, IT @ Bloom
> FEB 17 TORINO, IT @ Spazio 211
> FEB 18 VERONA, IT @ Interzona
> FEB 19 SKOPJE, MACEDONIA @ Club Castro
> FEB 20 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA @ Fire Club
> FEB 21 PARIS, FR @ la Maroquinerie
>
> thanks
> alexis
>
>
>
>

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a straight edge doc on the nat geo channel?  never though i'd see the day.
 if anyone watches this tomorrow, be curious what you think.




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Youth can be a minefield: drugs, sex, violence, and peer pressure. One group has
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it's no drugs, no drinking, no smoking. They're rebels against society where
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wow thanks for this, S!  on the paramount styles (great name!) myspace site
right now, if anyone hears about the Euro tour dates before i do, please
inform!  



p.s. the 90's a time of "irrational exuberance", hadn't heard that, love it!

L



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From: Slavica Doležal <sdolezal@...>
To: 7Seas@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 2:53 pm
Subject: [7Seas] an interview




























there's a link to an interview made by Scott McCloud I've somehow just found
out:

http://crackhitler.com/?page=sinusNodeSyndrome

It's quite new, Jan. 24th.



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very interesting! paramount styles sounds fabulous! looking forward to see
them live.

oana

On Jan 29, 2008 3:53 PM, Slavica Dole�al <sdolezal@...> wrote:

>   there's a link to an interview made by Scott McCloud I've somehow just
> found out:
> http://crackhitler.com/?page=sinusNodeSyndrome
> It's quite new, Jan. 24th.
>
> ................
> I always meant to ask: why did it have to be �girls against boys�?
> You've got to think in terms of the context of when we started the band to
> get the name. There were several reasons why we called it Girls Against
> Boys. One, underground punk/postpunk whatever you want to call it was a very
> male dominated thing back then, and we wanted a name that would be ambiguous
> in a way, a name that wouldn't necessarily make you identify us with a
> "noise rock" scene. Musically, though we are a very noisy band, we always
> wanted to have a bit of a dance tone thrown in, not just pummeling sonic
> volume, but a style, if you will. "Girls Against Boys" doesn't sound like
> something like Ministry of Death, you know? It could be anything, and that's
> what we wanted, a name that could be any kind of music. We also didn't want
> to only identify with the male-oriented punk scene. We figured it would be
> better to appeal to both men and women, and in fact, I don't know if it was
> just the name or also the style of our brand of postpunk, we had a lot of
> women coming to our shows. And if the girls go, then the guys want to go. We
> basically wanted a name that implied a sort of sexy-ness to the music we
> were making, and in the end, the name was a good choice. It did not identify
> our brand of loud music to only macho guys, and that was what we wanted to
> achieve. The full on testosterone macho element of punk was uncool to us; we
> wanted to draw a more diversified crowd.
>
> So, where have you guys been all these years?
> Well, first of all, the Universal merger of 1998 basically derailed our
> momentum as a band. We found ourselves at that point stuck in a legal limbo,
> unable to make records, just stuck. Finally in 2002 we got out of that
> situation and made the one last record "You Can't Fight What You Can't See"
> and toured that. Still, in 2002 it felt like most of the momentum we'd had
> as a band, as a creative force even within ourselves, had been derailed, so
> we decided to not continue making any more records. Then we just lived our
> lives. Johnny Temple (bassist) started an independent book company called
> Akashic Books that still exists today. Eli Janney (bassist/keyboardist)
> focused his energies on studio work. Alexis Fleisig (drums) continued
> playing with some other bands and worked in art design for periods. I played
> on some other people's records, like Courtney Love's "America's Sweetheart"
> but found I didn't want to be, for lack of a better term, a "hired gun" and
> eventually moved to Paris, where I was married and lived for three years
> just doing other things. Around 2005 we were invited to play somewhere
> interesting, a festival in Spain I think, and decided it could be enjoyable
> to play out live again. Since then, we play occasionally, only when we want
> to. We're free to do whatever we want, when we want, and what we choose to
> do we pick carefully. Either it's a special festival, or going somewhere we
> never got to (we played in Istanbul, Skopje Macedonia and Bucharest
> Romania)� or its returning to places we have good memories of playing, like
> Paris, and of course now in February, Athens Greece.
>
> Word on the street is that each one of you is occupied in various projects
> lately�
> Definitely we all are doing things, various things. Alexis plays drums for
> a group called Bellini. Several of us performed on a tour here in the US,
> several years ago, with an actress named Gina Gershon, which was filmed for
> a sort of reality-show-type documentary series which aired on The
> Independent Film TV channel here� I've got a project I do with an Italian
> electronic composure in Italy called Operator� and I've got something new
> also, which I'll answer about later in interview!
>
> Despite so many individual works, you decided to get GvsB back on the
> street after being on hiatus for almost 5 years. Should we expect more in
> the future?
> We don't make any rules about it. Nor do we have any plans to record
> another album at this point. My point of view is that I don't see the point
> in making another album unless we have something creatively to ADD to what
> we've already done as a band. I think the records we've done stand up very
> well, and in fact I enjoy performing the music from, say, Venus Lux or
> Cruise Yourself now even more than I ever did. Also, I don't want to be in
> the position to owe anybody anything, to owe a label a certain amount of
> tour dates, or what have you. Right now we are not attached to any label,
> organization, anything at all. We are not trying to force sell any products
> to people, we are not marketing ourselves. We are essentially and simply
> playing our music as entirely free agents, and that's where I want to be
> right now. We are, indeed, fortunate to be in a situation wherein we can
> play when we want, how we want, and not have to deal with any of the other
> annoying parts of the music industry. We are not in competition for radio
> play, or exposure in magazines. We are free. But, yes, I believe we will
> continue to play when opportunities arise that sound interesting to us, and
> another record has never been ruled out. Perhaps it will happen in time.
>
> I'd like a few words about your new semi-solo project, Paramount Styles�
> Paramount Styles is my new band, it is a solo band. I sometimes say
> "semi-solo"" only because I want to stress that it is not me alone, not
> something like a solo acoustic singer/songwriter thing. I write the songs,
> and perform with a band of people I want to play with and who can be
> available. Therefore, again, I can be free to create records and tour
> without having to necessarily organize the same group of people every time.
> Paramount Styles first record; entitled "Failure American Style" will be
> released in Europe through Cycle/Konkurrent on March 17 this year. It is a
> rock record, but in the vein of moodier GVSB stuff. Alexis, from GVSB plays
> drums on it. Richard Fortus, a friend who played with the Psychedelic Furs
> and now Guns N' Roses plays second guitar� and other people and friends
> contribute on the record in various ways. The first European Paramount
> Styles tour is currently being scheduled for May/June 2008. I am excited to
> have a new record out after nearly five years. People can hear what its
> like, and see updates, tour dates, at
> http://www.myspace.com/paramountstylesnyc
> I'm already thinking of plans to make another record, so this may go on
> for some time!
>
> You were around in the early-mid 90's, when the underground scene had
> reached one of its highest points. Do you think those were the "good ol'
> times" or that there's still potential nowadays?
> I think what was going on in the 1990s in the music industry is that there
> was a lot of money floating around. Major labels were making huge profits
> from sales of the then new Compact Disk (its funny to think of that being
> "new" but it was) and in general, as they call the 90s now, it was an age of
> 'irrational exuberance." The underground music scene that had been growing
> through the 80s burst wide open with bands like Nirvana, Jane's Addiction,
> many others, and there was the Alternative Nation explosion part I
> happening. For me personally, they 1990s were good times, but I'm not sure
> that the same thing isn't happening again right now. There is so much
> alternative music these days. Even calling something 'alternative' doesn't
> really mean anything anymore, but in the 80s it did. And originally
> 'Alternative' was in some ways less about the 'sound' of something but more
> about the ways in which it was being distributed, which was in ways not part
> of the mainstream. The distinction is less clear now. I am not one of those
> people that think, "Man, those were the good old days, when things made a
> fucking difference!" To me I suppose it was just one wave of waves that
> continue, and which comes down to the idea that music and its creation can
> be accomplished by people and bands apart from large corporations, etc� All
> underground "scenes" are usually started on some kind of localized level of
> people supporting one another (and competing with one another), which grow
> into something larger. Right now, the music industry is not riding as high
> as it was in the 1990s. Sales are down. The era of the Compact disk is over,
> and the digital era is upon us, and I think what's going happen still
> remains to be seen, and likely it will forever be changing.
>
> Any recommendation on new promising bands worth listening to?
> To be honest, I don't follow new music as much as I used to so I probably
> can't make any recommendations that people don't already know about. I tend
> to like the sort of music that shares in common something of my own
> sensibility about music. So anything having to do with a sort of post
> punk/dance element (say, LCD Sound System) I tend to like because it's
> somewhat close to GVSB music. But I just turned 40 last year, so I don't
> have the same perspective about music as I did when I was younger. It's no
> longer about my personal identity. However, I am curious by nature so like a
> lot of people, I always want to hear what people are doing out there.
>
> Give me one memorable on-the-road incident.
> Well we lived on the road for about ten years, so there are so many. I
> used to have a problem with sleepwalking, so I have a lot of memories about
> waking up in hotel hallways, essentially naked, with no idea what room I had
> been in. Once, somewhere in the UK, I had to just take the elevator down to
> the lobby to ask the desk clerk what room I was in. I was still half-drunk,
> and nearly nude, and it was early late morning, so people were already in
> the lobby, in line checking into the hotel, and out comes this naked guy
> (me) from the elevator. Everyone just stared at me, but I acted completely
> calm and just said, "Excuse me, but I seem to have lost my room." They took
> care of me in a hurry, with all their customers looking on horrified. On a
> more serious note, I remember very well playing the Reading Festival in the
> UK in 1996. Girls Against Boys was just reaching the pinnacle of our fame,
> and I remember walking out on the stage (a bit shaken by the enormous crowd)
> and playing the first chord. The place went wild. That kind of thing is a
> very euphoric memory, just because the experience was so surreal at the
> time.
>
> �and one you would rather forget�
> A lot I'd like to forget. Once, in Lisbon, Portugal, we'd arrived for a
> big gig and were very rushed. I'd never been to Portugal before, and was
> excited to be there. I asked someone, the wrong person it turned out, how to
> say 'Thank you' on Portuguese. The person told me, "Oh, just say Gracias,
> they understand that." So we went out to play in front of something like
> 5,000 people, and at the start everything was going fine. But about five
> songs into the set I started to notice some discontent in the audience. Some
> people were joyously dancing around, while others were yelling something at
> me that I didn't understand. I thought they were saying, "Gracias is
> obbligato" which I took to me "Thank you is obligatory." So I thought to
> myself: Have I not been saying thank you between songs? Because often when
> playing I am very into the moment and not conscious of myself in a usual
> way. So I said "Gracias, Gracias" several times in a row. The weirdness
> continued and soon the crowd started to turn against us, booing like crazy
> in-between songs. I continued to say 'Gracias'� toward the end of the show,
> the crowd had grown ugly, they were nearly rioting on the floor, and the
> volume of booing was intense� Finally security came on and ushered me off
> the stage and out of the building saying, "You should not come back here
> tonight, because we fear for your life, seriously." I asked "why?" They told
> me, "You cannot say Gracias in Portugal, it is like a very bad insult, and
> you have to say OBRIGADO. So, in the heat of a show I'd just misunderstood
> one word. It was not OBLIGATO, like obligatory, but instead something else
> entirely. I'd never heard the word 'obrigado' before. So basically, I was
> the only asshole in a room full of 5,000 people that didn't know what the
> fuck was going on. I was embarrassed beyond belief. Nothing like that had
> ever happened to me before. Five thousand people hated me that night. After
> that I thought: Well, I've probably now been through the worst live show
> experience I can ever expect to happen to me, at least that's something. I'd
> definitely like to forget that night.
> I've never been invited back to Lisbon either. Maybe there's still a price
> on my head. The audience thought I was DELIBERATLY REFUSING to say thank you
> to them in their own language. A huge insult. Which of course wasn't my
> intention at all.
>
> You had the chance to work and tour with some of the most interesting
> people/bands, such as Ted Niceley, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, Big
> Black etc. Any special memory about anyone in particular?
> We toured for a couple years on and off with the Jesus Lizard. Those were
> very cool times. Touring together we saw our shows get bigger and bigger and
> our friendship bonds gets deeper and deeper. It was a pleasure to play with
> them every night, one of the best live bands that ever existed. Working with
> Ted was always my favorite, just his sense of humor. When we recorded "House
> of GVSB" in 1996 it was at the same time as the OJ Simpson trial was
> happening, and being shown 24 hours a day on TV. Ted was obsessed by it,
> which was very funny to watch. And Fugazi, to know and tour with them was
> great. We were all from WDC, so it was like bands of brothers. It was Fugazi
> who invited Girls Against Boys on our first European tour ever, in 1992.
>
> I always considered New York and Girls Against Boys being as one. Was it
> the ideal landscape for your music or just the land of opportunity?
> When we moved, individually at first, from WDC to NYC it was a life
> transforming experience. I can only speak for myself. I was the first move
> up and slowly convinced the others. And the city was so exciting, so full of
> exactly the kind of late nightlife I loved. So many people, and yet you
> could be completely anonymous at the same time. NYC was like a dreamscape to
> me, and lyrically I always liked to be both conversational, and use imagery
> at the same time, to place a song almost in a picture, or an event, like two
> people talking late in a bar together. I think unconsciously we started
> making music that seemed and sounded to us like a good soundtrack for our
> lives in NYC, and I guess that comes across in the music.
>
> How's Mr. Silas Green doing? Haven't heard from him for a while�
> He's well, resting in a retirement home in Florida near Tampa Bay. He's an
> excellent golfer nowadays.
>
> You only perform selected shows nowadays. I was surprised that Athens was
> chosen over other major European capitals�
> We remember playing in Athens in 1996, and it was a special show for us,
> just a good night, a great crowd, so we've wanted to return for a long time
> and I'm very glad its finally happening.
>
> At this point i should inform you that we are expecting a bad-ass show and
> Greeks don't like to be disappointed�
> We are expecting a bad-ass crowd and we don't like to be disappointed
> either! We are going to bring it, so you all better be prepared to take it.
>
> Last question. What is that you like the most about Crackhitler?
> The name. Combines two very strong words. Crack and Hitler. I am a fan of
> non-sequiters, and it's a fine one.
>
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>
>
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there's a link to an interview made by Scott McCloud I've somehow just found
out:
http://crackhitler.com/?page=sinusNodeSyndrome
It's quite new, Jan. 24th.

................
I always meant to ask: why did it have to be ¨girls against boys¨?
You’ve got to think in terms of the context of when we started the band to get
the name. There were several reasons why we called it Girls Against Boys. One,
underground punk/postpunk whatever you want to call it was a very male dominated
thing back then, and we wanted a name that would be ambiguous in a way, a name
that wouldn’t necessarily make you identify us with a “noise rock” scene.
Musically, though we are a very noisy band, we always wanted to have a bit of a
dance tone thrown in, not just pummeling sonic volume, but a style, if you will.
“Girls Against Boys” doesn’t sound like something like Ministry of Death,
you know? It could be anything, and that’s what we wanted, a name that could
be any kind of music. We also didn’t want to only identify with the
male-oriented punk scene. We figured it would be better to appeal to both men
and women, and in fact, I don’t know if it was just the name or also the style
of our brand of postpunk, we had a lot of women coming to our shows. And if the
girls go, then the guys want to go. We basically wanted a name that implied a
sort of sexy-ness to the music we were making, and in the end, the name was a
good choice. It did not identify our brand of loud music to only macho guys, and
that was what we wanted to achieve. The full on testosterone macho element of
punk was uncool to us; we wanted to draw a more diversified crowd.

So, where have you guys been all these years?
Well, first of all, the Universal merger of 1998 basically derailed our momentum
as a band. We found ourselves at that point stuck in a legal limbo, unable to
make records, just stuck. Finally in 2002 we got out of that situation and made
the one last record “You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See” and toured
that. Still, in 2002 it felt like most of the momentum we’d had as a band, as
a creative force even within ourselves, had been derailed, so we decided to not
continue making any more records. Then we just lived our lives. Johnny Temple
(bassist) started an independent book company called Akashic Books that still
exists today. Eli Janney (bassist/keyboardist) focused his energies on studio
work. Alexis Fleisig (drums) continued playing with some other bands and worked
in art design for periods. I played on some other people’s records, like
Courtney Love’s “America’s Sweetheart” but found I didn’t want to be,
for lack of a better term, a “hired gun” and eventually moved to Paris,
where I was married and lived for three years just doing other things. Around
2005 we were invited to play somewhere interesting, a festival in Spain I think,
and decided it could be enjoyable to play out live again. Since then, we play
occasionally, only when we want to. We’re free to do whatever we want, when we
want, and what we choose to do we pick carefully. Either it’s a special
festival, or going somewhere we never got to (we played in Istanbul, Skopje
Macedonia and Bucharest Romania)… or its returning to places we have good
memories of playing, like Paris, and of course now in February, Athens Greece.

Word on the street is that each one of you is occupied in various projects
lately…
Definitely we all are doing things, various things. Alexis plays drums for a
group called Bellini. Several of us performed on a tour here in the US, several
years ago, with an actress named Gina Gershon, which was filmed for a sort of
reality-show-type documentary series which aired on The Independent Film TV
channel here… I’ve got a project I do with an Italian electronic composure
in Italy called Operator… and I’ve got something new also, which I’ll
answer about later in interview!

Despite so many individual works, you decided to get GvsB back on the street
after being on hiatus for almost 5 years. Should we expect more in the future?
We don’t make any rules about it. Nor do we have any plans to record another
album at this point. My point of view is that I don’t see the point in making
another album unless we have something creatively to ADD to what we’ve already
done as a band. I think the records we’ve done stand up very well, and in fact
I enjoy performing the music from, say, Venus Lux or Cruise Yourself now even
more than I ever did. Also, I don’t want to be in the position to owe anybody
anything, to owe a label a certain amount of tour dates, or what have you. Right
now we are not attached to any label, organization, anything at all. We are not
trying to force sell any products to people, we are not marketing ourselves. We
are essentially and simply playing our music as entirely free agents, and
that’s where I want to be right now. We are, indeed, fortunate to be in a
situation wherein we can play when we want, how we want, and not have to deal
with any of the other annoying parts of the music industry. We are not in
competition for radio play, or exposure in magazines. We are free. But, yes, I
believe we will continue to play when opportunities arise that sound interesting
to us, and another record has never been ruled out. Perhaps it will happen in
time.

I’d like a few words about your new semi-solo project, Paramount Styles…
Paramount Styles is my new band, it is a solo band. I sometimes say
“semi-solo”” only because I want to stress that it is not me alone, not
something like a solo acoustic singer/songwriter thing. I write the songs, and
perform with a band of people I want to play with and who can be available.
Therefore, again, I can be free to create records and tour without having to
necessarily organize the same group of people every time. Paramount Styles first
record; entitled “Failure American Style” will be released in Europe through
Cycle/Konkurrent on March 17 this year. It is a rock record, but in the vein of
moodier GVSB stuff. Alexis, from GVSB plays drums on it. Richard Fortus, a
friend who played with the Psychedelic Furs and now Guns N’ Roses plays second
guitar… and other people and friends contribute on the record in various ways.
The first European Paramount Styles tour is currently being scheduled for
May/June 2008. I am excited to have a new record out after nearly five years.
People can hear what its like, and see updates, tour dates, at
http://www.myspace.com/paramountstylesnyc
I’m already thinking of plans to make another record, so this may go on for
some time!

You were around in the early-mid 90’s, when the underground scene had reached
one of its highest points. Do you think those were the “good ol’ times” or
that there’s still potential nowadays?
I think what was going on in the 1990s in the music industry is that there was a
lot of money floating around. Major labels were making huge profits from sales
of the then new Compact Disk (its funny to think of that being “new” but it
was) and in general, as they call the 90s now, it was an age of ‘irrational
exuberance.” The underground music scene that had been growing through the 80s
burst wide open with bands like Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction, many others, and
there was the Alternative Nation explosion part I happening. For me personally,
they 1990s were good times, but I’m not sure that the same thing isn’t
happening again right now. There is so much alternative music these days. Even
calling something ‘alternative’ doesn’t really mean anything anymore, but
in the 80s it did. And originally ‘Alternative’ was in some ways less about
the ‘sound’ of something but more about the ways in which it was being
distributed, which was in ways not part of the mainstream. The distinction is
less clear now. I am not one of those people that think, “Man, those were the
good old days, when things made a fucking difference!” To me I suppose it was
just one wave of waves that continue, and which comes down to the idea that
music and its creation can be accomplished by people and bands apart from large
corporations, etc… All underground “scenes” are usually started on some
kind of localized level of people supporting one another (and competing with one
another), which grow into something larger. Right now, the music industry is not
riding as high as it was in the 1990s. Sales are down. The era of the Compact
disk is over, and the digital era is upon us, and I think what’s going happen
still remains to be seen, and likely it will forever be changing.

Any recommendation on new promising bands worth listening to?
To be honest, I don’t follow new music as much as I used to so I probably
can’t make any recommendations that people don’t already know about. I tend
to like the sort of music that shares in common something of my own sensibility
about music. So anything having to do with a sort of post punk/dance element
(say, LCD Sound System) I tend to like because it’s somewhat close to GVSB
music. But I just turned 40 last year, so I don’t have the same perspective
about music as I did when I was younger. It’s no longer about my personal
identity. However, I am curious by nature so like a lot of people, I always want
to hear what people are doing out there.

Give me one memorable on-the-road incident.
Well we lived on the road for about ten years, so there are so many. I used to
have a problem with sleepwalking, so I have a lot of memories about waking up in
hotel hallways, essentially naked, with no idea what room I had been in. Once,
somewhere in the UK, I had to just take the elevator down to the lobby to ask
the desk clerk what room I was in. I was still half-drunk, and nearly nude, and
it was early late morning, so people were already in the lobby, in line checking
into the hotel, and out comes this naked guy (me) from the elevator. Everyone
just stared at me, but I acted completely calm and just said, “Excuse me, but
I seem to have lost my room.” They took care of me in a hurry, with all their
customers looking on horrified. On a more serious note, I remember very well
playing the Reading Festival in the UK in 1996. Girls Against Boys was just
reaching the pinnacle of our fame, and I remember walking out on the stage (a
bit shaken by the enormous crowd) and playing the first chord. The place went
wild. That kind of thing is a very euphoric memory, just because the experience
was so surreal at the time.

…and one you would rather forget…
A lot I’d like to forget. Once, in Lisbon, Portugal, we’d arrived for a big
gig and were very rushed. I’d never been to Portugal before, and was excited
to be there. I asked someone, the wrong person it turned out, how to say
‘Thank you’ on Portuguese. The person told me, “Oh, just say Gracias, they
understand that.” So we went out to play in front of something like 5,000
people, and at the start everything was going fine. But about five songs into
the set I started to notice some discontent in the audience. Some people were
joyously dancing around, while others were yelling something at me that I
didn’t understand. I thought they were saying, “Gracias is obbligato”
which I took to me “Thank you is obligatory.” So I thought to myself: Have I
not been saying thank you between songs? Because often when playing I am very
into the moment and not conscious of myself in a usual way. So I said
“Gracias, Gracias” several times in a row. The weirdness continued and soon
the crowd started to turn against us, booing like crazy in-between songs. I
continued to say ‘Gracias’… toward the end of the show, the crowd had
grown ugly, they were nearly rioting on the floor, and the volume of booing was
intense… Finally security came on and ushered me off the stage and out of the
building saying, “You should not come back here tonight, because we fear for
your life, seriously.” I asked “why?” They told me, “You cannot say
Gracias in Portugal, it is like a very bad insult, and you have to say OBRIGADO.
So, in the heat of a show I’d just misunderstood one word. It was not
OBLIGATO, like obligatory, but instead something else entirely. I’d never
heard the word ‘obrigado’ before. So basically, I was the only asshole in a
room full of 5,000 people that didn’t know what the fuck was going on. I was
embarrassed beyond belief. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before.
Five thousand people hated me that night. After that I thought: Well, I’ve
probably now been through the worst live show experience I can ever expect to
happen to me, at least that’s something. I’d definitely like to forget that
night.
I’ve never been invited back to Lisbon either. Maybe there’s still a price
on my head. The audience thought I was DELIBERATLY REFUSING to say thank you to
them in their own language. A huge insult. Which of course wasn’t my intention
at all.

You had the chance to work and tour with some of the most interesting
people/bands, such as Ted Niceley, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, Big Black
etc. Any special memory about anyone in particular?
We toured for a couple years on and off with the Jesus Lizard. Those were very
cool times. Touring together we saw our shows get bigger and bigger and our
friendship bonds gets deeper and deeper. It was a pleasure to play with them
every night, one of the best live bands that ever existed. Working with Ted was
always my favorite, just his sense of humor. When we recorded “House of
GVSB” in 1996 it was at the same time as the OJ Simpson trial was happening,
and being shown 24 hours a day on TV. Ted was obsessed by it, which was very
funny to watch. And Fugazi, to know and tour with them was great. We were all
from WDC, so it was like bands of brothers. It was Fugazi who invited Girls
Against Boys on our first European tour ever, in 1992.

I always considered New York and Girls Against Boys being as one. Was it the
ideal landscape for your music or just the land of opportunity?
When we moved, individually at first, from WDC to NYC it was a life transforming
experience. I can only speak for myself. I was the first move up and slowly
convinced the others. And the city was so exciting, so full of exactly the kind
of late nightlife I loved. So many people, and yet you could be completely
anonymous at the same time. NYC was like a dreamscape to me, and lyrically I
always liked to be both conversational, and use imagery at the same time, to
place a song almost in a picture, or an event, like two people talking late in a
bar together. I think unconsciously we started making music that seemed and
sounded to us like a good soundtrack for our lives in NYC, and I guess that
comes across in the music.

How’s Mr. Silas Green doing? Haven’t heard from him for a while…
He’s well, resting in a retirement home in Florida near Tampa Bay. He’s an
excellent golfer nowadays.

You only perform selected shows nowadays. I was surprised that Athens was chosen
over other major European capitals…
We remember playing in Athens in 1996, and it was a special show for us, just a
good night, a great crowd, so we’ve wanted to return for a long time and I’m
very glad its finally happening.

At this point i should inform you that we are expecting a bad-ass show and
Greeks don’t like to be disappointed…
We are expecting a bad-ass crowd and we don’t like to be disappointed either!
We are going to bring it, so you all better be prepared to take it.

Last question. What is that you like the most about Crackhitler?
The name. Combines two very strong words. Crack and Hitler. I am a fan of
non-sequiters, and it’s a fine one.




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the video has a small section on "craxi" of gvsb "roxy" fame.  :-)
4:10 -5:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/europe/13italy.html?ex=1198213200&en=9d6\
2a7e8870b087b&ei=5070&emc=eta1

or search for "in a funk, italy sings an aria of disappoitnment" on NY
Times site, ian fisher, author

L, in italy

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Hello all,

I'm spinning tonight downstairs at Nolan's on 18th Street in Adams
Morgan from 10 to close tonight. No cover, cheap drinks, good tunes.
What else could you ask for? OK, you might get lucky! (No guarantees)

See ya there!!

DJ Tommy B

Nolan's Bar
2323 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.319.1111

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ID=22030329&friendid=105580369
)ALICANTE

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ID=22030338&friendid=105580369
)VALENCIA

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ID=22030370&friendid=105580369
)BILBAO

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ID=22030378&friendid=105580369
)MADRID

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Which project? Operator, maybe?

On 9/28/07, Slavica Dole�al <sdolezal@...> wrote:
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>   Rumors say Scott McLoud has something on his own, and with that project
> he's hitting Europe in December. Anybody?
> Slavica
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Rumors say Scott McLoud has something on his own, and with that project
he's hitting Europe in December. Anybody?
Slavica




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belated thanks for that!   band still kicks ass (tho the audience seems a bit
lame)

cheers from strangely overcast rome,
laura

In a message dated 7/24/07 2:52:09 AM, jivin_han@... writes:


>
> GVSB's video from the 25th Anniversary show is up at
>
> http://www.touchandhttp://wwwhttp://wwwhttp://wwwhttp:/
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Hi,

This show at the Brooklyn Library is cancelled...

Best,
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i found out about this from a friend who works at the brooklyn museum.
she informed me that GVSB is playing a FREE show there w/ harry and the
potters.

unfortunately, i will be in DC that weekend so i can't make it. unless
some kind soul has figured out how to clone humans.

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/calendar.do?dispatch=detail&eventpa\
geid=37609
<http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/calendar.do?dispatch=detail&eventp\
ageid=37609>

to those of you who can make it, have lots of fun!



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I was kind of bummed that they didn't get a better turn out but I
thought the show was amazing.  The last time I saw them was at
Spaceland, like 5 years ago (not counting that Gina Gershon debacle at
HOB)and they were still tight as ever.

LA "fans" suck, but I still rocked out.

i hit the LA show at the el rey.
my first chance to see gvsb in 5 years!
the crowd was sparse, but LA music fans are
generally lame, so i wasn't shocked by
somewhat of a low turnout.
and the band seemed a little tired...no beers
were consumed on stage...
but, it was still an inspiring rock show--
as it has been every time (my 13th? gvsb gig).
put a buzz in my brain and a spring in my step.

jn



On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Karen Deime wrote:

> Finally waited a long time for the clip to be added.
>
> I also had a great time at the NYC show on Friday
> night, definitely the highlight of my vacation, which
> went by way too fast.
> Spoke with Johnny & Alexis before the show.
> GVSB had not played NYC in several years, Bowery
> Ballroom was cool place for a show.
>
> I know there were a few setlists & Edwina took a bunch
> of photos,
> http://flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/sets/72157600948822876/
>
> Anyone go to the LA show?
>
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?? Man, that show was tremendous. I can't believe that album came out fourteen
years ago, which is the first tour I saw them on... Psycho. I have to say,
living in NYC I have seen them MANY, MANY times and this was hands down one of
the best. The energy was great, the band was super aggressive, and it was
definitely one of the best SOUNDING gigs I have seen them do. Kudos to whoever
was running that board!







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Finally waited a long time for the clip to be added.



I also had a great time at the NYC show on Friday

night, definitely the highlight of my vacation, which

went by way too fast.

Spoke with Johnny & Alexis before the show.

GVSB had not played NYC in several years, Bowery

Ballroom was cool place for a show.



I know there were a few setlists & Edwina took a bunch

of photos,

http://flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/sets/72157600948822876/



Anyone go to the LA show?



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Finally waited a long time for the clip to be added.

I also had a great time at the NYC show on Friday
night, definitely the highlight of my vacation, which
went by way too fast.
Spoke with Johnny & Alexis before the show.
GVSB had not played NYC in several years, Bowery
Ballroom was cool place for a show.

I know there were a few setlists & Edwina took a bunch
of photos,
http://flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/sets/72157600948822876/

Anyone go to the LA show?





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cool photos! ;)

On 6/20/07, Slavica Dole�al <sdolezal@...> wrote:
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> pretty please
> and the set list...p:)
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> here are several photos, taken in Primavera sound festival in Barcelona.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdolezal/
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> I will be there... I would go to any GVSB show but doing THAT album in
> it's
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