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I’m loving You in Reverse. I could listen to goin’ against your mind over and over again. The whole CD is very good.
I discovered BTS in reverse by first listening to You in Reverse (aka UOY). It is a great album. Keep It Like a Secret and Perfect from Now On are also outstanding – – Randy Described Eternity, Untrustable, Cortez the Killer(!), Broken Chairs (another cover), Carry the Zero – – good stuff!
Broken Chairs isn’t a cover?
But I do agree their live album is amazing. It makes you look at the songs in a totally different way.
~Jeremy~
But he didn’t write the song, just helped with the lyrics. BTS do that…. Doug’s wife apparently helps with the lyrics as well.
~Jeremy~
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BUILT TO SPILL Announce Winter U.S. Tour Dates
BURBANK, CA–(Marketwire – December 10, 2007) – Boise-based indie rock legends BUILT TO SPILL have just announced their first official tour for 2008 in support of their most recent LP, "You In Reverse." The month-long tour, which launches February 22nd in Los Angeles, will criss-cross the U.S. with a string of twenty-five confirmed dates, wrapping up in San Diego on March 21st.BUILT TO SPILL most recently released two reggae-inspired recordings — a brand-new song titled "They Got Away" and a cover of The Gladiators’ "Re-Arrange" — in July 2007. The tracks are currently available from online retailers, including http://store.warnerbrosrecordsstore.com”>http://store.warnerbrosrecordsstore.com as digital downloads and in stores as a 12"-vinyl single. Upon completion of this upcoming tour, BUILT TO SPILL plan to record yet more new material for a future album.
Confirmed tour dates are as follows:
Fri Feb 22 Echo Plex Los Angeles, CA
Sat Feb 23 Echo Plex Los Angeles, CA
Sun Feb 24 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Mon Feb 25 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Wed Feb 27 The Depot Salt Lake City, UT
Thurs Feb 28 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
Fri Feb 29 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
Sat March 1 Ridglea Theater Fort Worth, TX
Sun March 2 Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX
Mon March 3 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
Tues March 4 Howlin’ Wolf New Orleans, LA
Wed March 5 The Venue Gainesville, FL
Thurs March 6 State Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
Sat March 8 Free Bird Live Jacksonville, FL
Mon March 10 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC
Tues March 11 The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
Wed March 12 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
Thurs March 13 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN
Fri March 14 Headliner’s Music Hall Louisville, KY
Sat March 15 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
Sun March 16 The Blue Note Columbia, MO
Mon March 17 Madrid Theater Kansas City, MO
Wed March 19 Launchpad Albuquerque, NM
Thurs March 20 Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff, AZ
Fri March 21 Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CABuilt To Spill
Barry Divola
December 28, 2007When you’re young and you live in Idaho, you want one thing – to leave. Doug Martsch did exactly that by joining an alternative rock band and fleeing to Seattle in the late ’80s, just before it became grunge’s ground zero. Not that he was particularly into grunge. He was more into bands on the SST label: Husker Du, Meat Puppets and especially Dinosaur Jr.
"I remember listening to Dinosaur Jr’s album You’re Living All Over Me just after I finished high school," he says.
"It sounded like punk but the guitar solos were way louder than anything else. It was just an amazing sound to me."
Martsch’s stint in his first band ended, as did his time in Seattle. He returned to Boise, Idaho, where he still lives today, and started Built To Spill in 1992. Even he was a little surprised when major label Warner signed them three years later. Along with the Flaming Lips, their tenure at the company has been one of the longest and most astounding stays for a group that, let’s face it, is not a household name. Even bands who have long cited Built To Spill as an influence, including Modest Mouse and Death Cab For Cutie, have gone on to more mainstream success.
Surely Martsch must have contemplated the phone call he might receive from the record company one day that starts with the words: "Um, look, we’ve just noticed that you’re not Matchbox Twenty, yet we’ve been giving you money to make records for the past 13 years."
"Sure, we don’t make as much money for them as Matchbox Twenty," he says, laughing. "But their investment in us is not huge, we pay our way, we’re easy to deal with and perhaps we serve a function in that we make them look artist-friendly. And you never know, any time now we could bust out with a giant hit."
Well, maybe. But only if critical praise for epic, atmospheric guitar-rock with high, keening vocals is one day matched by sales.
"I can’t get that sound you make out of my head," Martsch sang on the 1997 album, Perfect From Now On.
It’s a line that sums up a lot of Built To Spill’s rapturous reviews but the band hit a speed bump last year. The touring schedule for their most recent record, You In Reverse, was disrupted when Martsch suffered a detached retina during a rough basketball game.
"I took a long while to recover, plus I was in a bad mental state and had a lot of anxiety," he admits. "After surgery I was worried about jumping around. Not that I jump around a lot on stage but I yell a bit and shake my head around sometimes."
No more basketball for Martsch, then?
"Oh, I still play a little pick-up ball if it’s mellow. Actually, my knees are worse than my eye. They’re bad now."
Martsch and the band – three members live in Idaho, two in Seattle – have 15 new songs written for the next album, which will be recorded in March in Los Angeles. To Martsch’s ears, they’re shaping up as the most conventional Built To Spill songs to date.
"We’ll see what happens when we record them," he says. "Maybe we’ll have to throw in some things to f— them up. There are a couple that sound like Tom Petty or something."
Maybe those are the hits that will convince the record company not to make that phone call for another 13 years.
"Yeah, maybe I should leave them exactly as they are."
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/27/1198345143846.html”>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/ … 43846.html
"I think Dinosaur is probably the biggest influence for me. ‘You’re Living All Over Me’ was a really important record to me. And Sonic Youth, lots of bands like that. The Butthole Surfers, Camper Van Beethoven. That’s what I was reared on."
Reared on the Butthole Surfers, Doug? OK!
Doug Martsch Talks Built to Spill’s “Pefect” Portland Show
9/8/08, Rolling StoneIf music fans have any single person to thank for the recent trend of live performances of entire albums, it’s UK concert promoter Barry Hogan. Since 2005, Hogan’s All Tomorrow’s Parties series has seen the Stooges play Funhouse, the Lemonheads run through It’s a Shame About Ray and Sonic Youth tackle all of Daydream Nation. Earlier this year, Hogan asked Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch to perform his band’s beloved 1997 Warner Brothers debut Perfect From Now On for the first New York installment of All Tomorrow’s Parties, which goes down September 19. From that request came Built to Spill’s current tour, during which the Northwest quintet will play the album 50-some times between now and November.
“I don’t know what anyone thinks — some people like that record, some people don’t give a shit,” Marsch said a few days before the tour began in Seattle on September 4. “For me it was just a cool, weird kind of challenge and, you know, just a different thing to do.”
The second show was on Friday, September 5 as part of MusicFest Northwest, a four-day musical orgy of over 200 bands in 18 venues across Portland, OR. The Wonder Ballroom was packed to its 800-person capacity and a line several hundred hopefulls long stretched down the sidewalk in front, making BTS the biggest draw of the weekend.
In previous interviews, Martsch has admitted that Perfect From Now On is “a little slow,” and the performance proved it. Old favorites like “I Would Hurt a Fly” and “Kicked It in the Sun” stretched out over six- and seven-minute spans, swelling from one gorgeous, patiently built climax into the next. Cellist John McMahon, accompanying the band for the tour, bowed mournful chords over BTS’ swirling, three-guitar wash as Martsch played familiar leads note-for-note. Knowing the sequence songs would come in was comforting but left little room for surprises.
The energy level spiked immediately after the album’s final track when the band veered straight into “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” the raging opener of 2006’s You In Reverse. They encored with “Car” — delicately played by just Marsch, McMahon, and bassist Brett Nelson — and “You Were Right,” which sent the crowd into a frenzy. A little unpredictability went a long way.
Set List:
“Randy Described Eternity”
“I Would Hurt a Fly”
“Stop the Show”
“Made-Up Dreams”
“Velvet Waltz”
“Out of Site”
“Kicked It In the Sun”
“Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)”
“Goin’ Against Your Mind”
Encore:
“Car”
“You Were Right”Excellent interview ! + what’s the deal about Doug not being into guitar soloes, I never would’ve guessed that !
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