They played my living room three times in 1997-1998.

Greg's drumming is very fascinating to me.

Holdy Paws... yeah that album rocks. In fact I think my favorite Deerhoof song is on that album... The Great Car Tomb. Saw them at the 40 watt in Athens this summer. The drumming is hypnotic.

oh lucky

oh lucky

oh lucky bastard & your living room

that is awesome.

his drumming actually reminds me of peoplie like bill bruford maybe-- you know what i mean? you are the more musically adept here, if i say he sounds to me like a prog-rock drummer, would you say i'm talking out of my ass?

wow very kool!:)

his drumming is amazing. i saw him play the drums while sitting on the floor and it was a fascinating site.

I love this band and I think that they just get better and better. They've got a new lp released in January I believe.

Sure, there's something progressive about it. It's pretty jazzy and tricky, but not as ostentatiously tricky as a lot of other prog drummers. Bruford might be a decent comparison, but I can't say I've listened to much of his drumwork in years. Probably been 15 years!

But what's so interesting to me about Greg Saunier's drumming is all the little rolls and fills he does around the edges of a straighted rhythm, and yet that straighted rhythm is always very sturdy and played with convincing power...or gravitas if you will.

The drummer of US Maple also did a lot of nifty stuff around the edges of his beats. But it's a pretty rare sense or skill that these guys possess.

When I had him in the studio here at KDVS a couple years back, I complimented him on it, and he explained how he developed this sense of how to play drums, and it was a pretty great story.

"You remember how in 3rd grade, your teacher would give all the kids a little introduction to music education, just to see if you might be interested in music?" he asked.

"I remember," I replied. "I was given a hand-me-down flutophone, better known as a recorder. I sucked at it and became frustrated. So, is 3rd grade when you first played drums."

"Yes," he said. "I was in a little drum corps, and I was on a snare. At first we were just learning how to read sheet music for drums, and it took a while for some of the other kids to figure it out, so I was really bored. But once everybody had a handle on reading, we began playing as a group, and it was more fun. And then it became even more fun and I was really getting into it and thinking, 'Wow! This sounds totally awesome!' But just then, the teacher was like, 'Stop! Stop! Gregory, what are you playing???' And I showed her my parts, but she said, 'OH! You're on the wrong page. We moved on to the next page.'

"And that's when I knew that I liked to play rhythms that sounded weird."

dont like em much
anyone who has a reason to care, theyre touring japan with ooioo xmas time.

check ooioo.jp for details.
ooioo kick the living shitoutaem

dj rick--

awesome story, thank you.

btw i have a few of your shows burned on cd, which i play often. great stuff. thanks for those too!

from krs' mailing list:

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DEERHOOF ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, OFFEND MAGGIE
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Deerhoof has just finished a new album, Offend Maggie, to be released on Deerhoof's longtime home, Kill Rock Stars.

One song from Offend Maggie will soon be available from an interactive website as a downloadable written score. Fans (or foes, or perfect stangers) can then record the song and share their mp3s with others on the website. It is not yet known which song it will be. Everyone can hear Deerhoof's own solution to the song when the album is released October 7.

The October release will be followed immediately by a world tour of all-ages venues and low ticket prices.

In the meantime, Deerhoof will join their hip-hop buddies The Roots this weekend by performing at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia along with Gnarls Barkley and others before heading off to tour Japan, then a free show in Brooklyn, an appearance at the Halifax Jazz Festival, and a night at the Hollywood Bowl. They continue to perform songs from Offend Maggie throughout these shows. Catch them if you can!

Also don't miss the new Will Ferrel movie Stepbrother which features Deerhoof's Greg Saunier playing with producer John Brion and Nels Cline of Wilco on the soundtrack.

OFFEND MAGGIE
Act 1
1. Offend Maggie
2. Fresh Born
3. Chandelier Searchlight
4. The Tears and Music of Love
5. Buck and Judy
6. Don't Get Born
7. My Purple Past
Act 2
8. Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back
9. Numina
10. This Is God Speaking
11. Eaguru Guru
12. Snoopy Waves
13. Jagged Fruit
14. Family of Others

To order Deerhoof-Matchbook Seeks Maniac picture disc 7", go here:
http://www.buyolympia.com/krsnew/Item=KRS491

new deerhoof is gonna rule.

by the way, when did deerhoof become mainstream?

"giga dance giga dance"

when they started opening for bands like the flaming lips and radiohead. not to mention, all their records from revielle and onwards have been at their core, pop records. quirky, offbeat, eccentric, noisy, and awesome pop records, but pop records nonetheless.

they are pop but they are much more foreground than, say, animal collective; i really didn't see it happen.

I miss their concert in Vienna...

"giga dance, giga dance"

US Fall Tour dates here :

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...l-fall-us-tour

Thanks! Some dates are near me, so I'll go for sure to see them.

I'll be getting tickets for these sometime this week.