Pavement

We had like zip disks stacked sky high.

Um, so, but you know, as far as, yeah, it was guitar or when I grew up, it was guitar music, um, mainly, you know, um, I came from Canada originally before I moved to Australia and, you know, that whole, I say Sonic Youth, Pavement, Nirvana, all that stuff was pretty, very, um, important and huge in my world.

So, playing along to Dinosaur Junior tracks and stuff like that on a guitar.

That's sort of how I learned.

everybody? Thank you so much for tuning in to Hyphenate with me, your host, Randy Randall.

On today's show, I am very honored and excited to welcome my good friend Scott Canenberg, Mr. Spiral Stairs of the rock band Pavement, as well as his own solo projects and the Spiral Stairs Band.

I don't know, the Spiral Stairs Records Incorporated.

I'm so stoked.

He was on crutches for part of it, I remember.

And then I didn't see him.

And then No Age opened for the Pavement reunion in 2010, which I want to say was like the next year or something like that, after we toured Australia with Scott's band.

And that was awesome.

it

great? The guy that does all the Pavement album covers is really cool as well.

I've actually got one of, because Mikey, when he was in Surf City, they went and visited him, the great artist.

He did a Surf City, their first EP's album cover, and I think one of their other albums as well.

Oh, sweet.

Anyway, they got a bunch of his paintings real cheap, and then when Mikey was moving to Melbourne, he sold me a couple really cheap.

So I've got these paintings that look obviously like Pavement album covers because it's the same guy.

Yeah.

But they did six albums and David Berman was the only constant member.

But then the various other members include most of Pavement, Steve Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.

Also Will Oldham.

And Peyton Pinkerton, who was in the Penis Brothers.

So you need a filing system like Tracy's.

But yeah, I didn't know much about them.

So the first time that I put this on, I was like, this band is so massively influenced by Pavement.

It

All right, Adam, we were going to talk about the driving range a little bit.

We should call this segment Range Life as a tribute to one of my favorite bands, Pavement.

Oh, yeah.

Good

And in either direction, like in the shredding atonal, like Joey Santiago from the Pixies is probably a more accomplished version of that.

Stephen Malkmus from Pavement on Slanted and Enchanted is probably doing more artful versions or something of this.

It's arguable, like a more... skillful maybe is the word i mean artful might be a different thing

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Welcome to Meeting Malcomus, a pavement podcast.

Hey, it's JD back for another week, examining, exploring, extrapolating information from our favorite band, Pavement.

Each week we listen to a track from the Pavement Canon with a goal that someday I get to meet Malcolmus.

It doesn't seem like a fair proposition, does it? You have to do all the listening and I get to do the meeting.

Oh, well.

The band, it's...

It's the beginning, it's the middle, it's the end.

Well, like, I like when those weird things happen if they're not engineered.

Like, you know the way Pavement's most famous song now is, like, Harness Your Hopes as, like, a B side because it became, like, a, a TikTok thing.

Yeah.

Like it just out of nowhere.