Possible new damien interview

[Rai]

Originally Posted by Cerque

I dunno about you but if i was Damo I would still bei n love with her too.

If I had wheels, I would be a tractor.

[Cerque]

I always thought you would be a golf caddy.

[cille]

^^ You'll have to talk to Wheels about that

Originally Posted by Rai

^Or maybe those things refer to Shane

I fooking knew it! He's so much like a man.

Originally Posted by cerque

Originally Posted by LaurenM
and would just love to get boned, stoned, or have a room like no one else.
uh...that song was actually about his mother, duh.

I heard it was about a friend of his though.

[verenita]

Originally Posted by Rai

If I had wheels, I would be a tractor.

out of topic: is that how you say it in english? we say "if i had wheels, i would be a bicicle" (si tuviera ruedas, sería bicicleta, hahaha, i LOVE that expression and i use it a lot! and some friends of mine say: "as verena says, si tuviera...", lol!).
sorry, i just got emotional, hehe, you can back on topic now

[Rai]

^I have no idea, I made it up from the Hungarian saying "If aunt Mary had wheels, she'd be the tractor" which I thought to be tad overcomplicated.

[verenita]

cool!

[ElephantMan]

So clearly damien was frustrated working on 9, asking this and that person, 'what do you think about this/that song...ok??

ME MY YOKE AND I....who was the person who "OK'd" that piece of garbage
and if u think it isn't garbage, it doesen't belong on 9

SLEEP DONT WEEP..... who OK'd that garbage, and thats exactly what it is

ROOTLESS TREE...FUFUFUFU...and that one?, The piano version is great however

these songs turned a decent album to average or below

did he ask anyone about:

Sand?
U Shouldnt be here
insane
Fool..among many others
and I could go on and on, But 9 could have been as good as O based on his material he has, and it wasnt...and to go far back as 1990's for YOKE...what the hell......

[expectingrain]

Considering how often he played Rootless Tree on tour (he also played it for Abbey Road), I'd say it wasn't included on the list of songs he wasn't pleased with from 9. Me, My Yoke and I was performed quite a bit too, wasn't it?

[beatleboogie]

Originally Posted by Amie R.

And hopefully he will make a song telling us how it was with Lisa reading him the story of O...that will be so much fun ;-)

You are very safada, young lady!

[dboyd]

for sogns i'd say that he would take off... would probably be

dogs
grey room
sleep don't weep
The animals were gone

Just because i don't recall them coming up in live shows nearly as much as others... i feel that they are not as powerful/good as the rest of the album as well... But i do love them all! :P

[julia]

Thank You so much for the interview.. Incredibly insightful and absolutely heartbreaking at the same time..

[julia]

Originally Posted by dboyd

for sogns i'd say that he would take off... would probably be

dogs
grey room
sleep don't weep
The animals were gone

Just because i don't recall them coming up in live shows nearly as much as others... i feel that they are not as powerful/good as the rest of the album as well... But i do love them all! :P

aww..lol.. All My Favorites.

[dboyd]

haha sorry... i love them too and i hate singling them out but i feel like those would be the ones he'd be talking about... but i don't know.. i could be wrong. i'm not damien :P

[julia]

Originally Posted by verenita

i knew you or melissa or, even, cali would make some comment on this. and i´m glad you did reading that description made think of you, ladies, i swear

Where is Melissa? and.. Cheers Cille, love the patchwork!

[SisterMidnight]

Originally Posted by julia

Where is Melissa? and.. Cheers Cille, love the patchwork!

i'm here, how are you lovely julia? i still need yoga and cigar smoking lessons

yay for the patchwork!

i'm kind of speechless about the interview.. that's a lot to take in..

i can't figure out his motivation for putting that all out there, except maybe he wanted to get the whole thing off his chest? his openness and honesty makes me respect him even more, though. that couldn't have been easy..

[rice puddin]

Great interview although i don't understand all the personal admissions.Is this his way of justifying what he did to Lisa?I'm sure someone has passed this on to Lisa and she's probably not to happy about it.I agree if you took off Me,My Yoke and Sleep and replaced with Sand,Insane,or Fool "9" would have gone from good to excellent!

[Gláucia]

Thank you SO MUCH for the interview. :-)
I feel sorry for them, for Lisa and Damien.
In the end, It is all very sad.

[jasmineha]

after reading it, I felt almost messed up that I knew so much. I tried to listen to some songs that night, and my head was just so full of everything he said. now as I'm listening, I keep wondering "is this about lisa???"....

[Shillelagh]

i love yoke
it is one of his best songs live when he loops in from volcano and throws the distortion on and gets all metal

______________________

I am singing at the party,
I am singing it's my turn to sing, at the party.
Everyone is dancing, happy, party,
But Ramses is not dancing, he does not dance at the party.

Ramses number one, he knows the secrets of desire,
RAPAPAPAPILIAPUPALIAPUPPA
Ramses number one, he put the people all on fire,
RAPAPAPAPILIAPUPALIAPUPPA
Ramses number one, he likes to rundown to the playa
RAPAPAPAPILIAPUPALIAPUPPA

At night I play my games, I go to sleep, I think of Ramses.
The people in the street, they eating treats, they eating candies.
Will he ever lose, we'll never know, he'll never fight me,
Ramses is the greatest, even though he rhymes with panties

maybe the best song ever

[borneoman]

I just got the magazine delivered, they're very fast shipping it, took less than a week...

it's nice to read it in paper one thing I don't get is all the talk about him only wanting to do 1 album... think it's a bit of a lie (imho) cos since day one he was talking about album 2 (and sometimes even album 3) in interviews and concerts...

[verenita]

i (obviously!) can´t speak for him, but maybe that´s what he felt when he started to think about of making a record (just one), and then he got excited about all process of really recording an album (and letting all those things out of his system)... and after that, well, we all know what happened.

or maybe yes, it a bit of a lie

i´m not an artist (in any sense), so i have no idea about all the feelings and thoughts and emotions that just make you (and not only they being part of you). ok, silly thoughts, but that´s what came to my mind

[Fjordline]

I only registered myself to say thank you for uploading the interview! It was great to get some news about Damien. Finally! Thank you so much. I nearly missed my train stop while reading it.

[cille]

^Welcome, Fjordline!

[Fjordline]

Thank you. I'm really excited to be an eskimofriend now.

[quiquemartin]

I think he did't play dogs in the tour not becouse he doesn't like the song.
If you want to play dogs you have to tune the guitar in a complete different tunning, and you know Damien is too lazy to gig with two guitars :-)

I prefer to beleive that becouse I love dogs.

[Amie R.]

Originally Posted by quiquemartin

I think he did't play dogs in the tour not becouse he doesn't like the song.
If you want to play dogs you have to tune the guitar in a complete different tunning, and you know Damien is too lazy to gig with two guitars :-)

I prefer to beleive that becouse I love dogs.

He said himself he is lazy...lol

[cille]

Well having roadies who can tune the guitar for you eliminates the lazy excuse for not playing the song though, right?

[Joyful]

Originally Posted by Fjordline

I only registered myself to say thank you for uploading the interview! It was great to get some news about Damien. Finally! Thank you so much. I nearly missed my train stop while reading it.

Welcome!

[quiquemartin]

Originally Posted by cille

Well having roadies who can tune the guitar for you eliminates the lazy excuse for not playing the song though, right?

I heard him talking about his lowden guitar, that he wants to play only with that guitar, considering the risk of breaking a string and have to stop the concert for 3 or 4 minutes.

The tune used in dogs is very unusual, so you have to tune the guitar a couple of times before it stays in tune, and back again to the standard tune.

I've heard dogs in live, it was in a tv show, and it was the only song to play.

I even think that he could have used different gauges for this song in his guitar.

[Spamlet]

Originally Posted by dboyd

for sogns i'd say that he would take off... would probably be

dogs
grey room
sleep don't weep
The animals were gone

Just because i don't recall them coming up in live shows nearly as much as others... i feel that they are not as powerful/good as the rest of the album as well... But i do love them all! :P

I actually love all the songs on 9 too but do think that they were almost all better live (although I'd never heard SDW or TAWG before it came out). I agree though that the ones people think were most out of place like "MMYAI" and "Rootless" are the ones he'd have kept. Damo said for years that he intended the songs on the second album to be the guy from "O" no longer feeling sorry for himself but rather getting pissed off and not wanting to take it anymore. What he's probably referring to then is feeling pressured to put the more radio friendly, gentler and sweeter things (like Dogs and Animals) on it. I also think the uber-dark way "Grey Room" was originally played live would have worked perfectly too but adding Lisa and the strings and changing the words to make it more hopeful took it in a more commercially acceptable direction.