10 Comments

1. October 1st, 2010 / 8:19 pm Adam Robinson—

   OMHFS. One of the best shows I ever saw was her solo at a small club in Chicago (Fitzgerald’s, I think) in 1997 or 98. She had a backing band of young dudes that couldn’t keep up with her — but the most impressive thing was her sweet sweet spirit, one that makes this alliance almost impossible to believe.

2. October 1st, 2010 / 8:37 pm Hank—

   Is that absolutely positively the same Maureen Tucker?

3. October 1st, 2010 / 8:49 pm Matthew Simmons—

   There’s some video and it sure sounds like her.

4. October 1st, 2010 / 9:03 pm A little more about Moe. | HTMLGIANT—

   […] earlier snippet linked to a Pitchfork story about Moe Tucker, drummer from The Velvet Underground, having recently […]

5. October 1st, 2010 / 10:38 pm deadgod—

   Well, some percentage of artful noisemakers is going to be seduced by the phonily “fiscal” ‘conservatism’, the “liberty” raps, and so on that have infested the reality-processing of lots of otherwise sensible Earthlings.

   It’d be interesting to hear/read Tucker talking about her current thinking – how it evolved, what she thinks of the thorough, long-standing socialization of infrastructure in America (on which American prosperity has always rested), and so on – , perhaps in conversation with, say, Patti Smith.

   Tucker says (as she does in the link above), “I’m furious about the way we’re being led towards socialism. I’m furious about the incredible waste of money when things that we really need and are important get dropped because there’s no money left.”

   Smith might reply, “So you just want the money collected from the community to be collected in a fair way and spent wisely. – Maureen, that is ‘socialism’!”

6. October 2nd, 2010 / 12:03 am Titular Journal—

   noooooooooooo… oh well.

   woops, this is reynard btw. on behalf of titular.

7. October 2nd, 2010 / 12:10 am R. Ridge—

   Yet another reason to separate art from artist. I was watching “Chinatown” earlier and had to remind myself this.

8. October 8th, 2010 / 4:52 pm ogradybt—

   I believe the Sun City Girls were her backing band at one point. But I don’t think those guys were ever young dudes.

9. October 8th, 2010 / 4:52 pm ogradybt—

   I believe the Sun City Girls were her backing band at one point. But I don’t think those guys were ever young dudes.

10. October 8th, 2010 / 6:13 pm Adam Robinson—

    I don’t know them, but I don’t think the group I saw was her normal backing band. They had chord charts and stuff on music stands.