Comments on: Waiting for Mary

Waiting for Mary

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:48:36 -0800

Pere Ubu guitarist Jim Jones dead. Jones also played in The electric eels.

Tangential, insane electric eels site here.

By: googly

googly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:55:03 -0800

This is very sad. Until recently, I lived just a few doors down the street from Jim. He was in very poor health for quite a long time; hopefully this is some sort of release.

By: brevator

brevator — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:55:34 -0800

. Pere Ubu is good.

By: tmcw

tmcw — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:04 -0800

By: TrialByMedia

TrialByMedia — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:59:49 -0800

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:28 -0800

I was kinda surprised that there weren't any videos that I could find for the electric eels or for The Mirrors, and that first post pretty much grabs all the best JJ-era Pere Ubu vids.

By: Kronoss

Kronoss — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:04:08 -0800

Damn. That's sad. There's an appropriate tribute song here, recorded some years ago by Cleveland weirdo musician Supie T. (warning: Myspace. Listen to the third song, "God Bless you Jimmy Jones")

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:07:16 -0800

Now that is sad........

By: malwilde

malwilde — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:11:42 -0800

So long those methanol soaked toilet-paper rolls in a tobacco can arguing with my best friend in the back winter shed over labour and MRR columns. Immensely missed by too few.

By: Item

Item — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:16:17 -0800

So sad. A visionary guitarist from a visionary group.

By: -t

-t — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:18:02 -0800

. Paging koeselitz... oh yeah, .

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:55 -0800

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:33:04 -0800

. truly loved that band, will break them out again. am saddened.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:34:29 -0800

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:39:19 -0800

sad A great band and he was certainly one of the reasons they were.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:06:39 -0800

By: whir

whir — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:20:50 -0800

This is sad. I saw Pere Ubu play SF the last time they were through, several months back. There was some prick in the audience who kept goading the band; at one point their drummer leapt offstage, punched the guy in the face knocking him over, and scrambled back on stage, immediately picking the beat back up perfectly while bouncers gave the interloper the old heave ho. It was the climax of a feeling of hostility between the band and the audience that did not seem at all faked, and I'm not sure what exactly was at the root of it. The feeling was not at all comfortable; it put me off at the time but in retrospect maybe it was a reminder of how their music was experienced when they were first making it. (Just as possibly, there were more assholes than usual in the crowd that night, or the band was just having a bad night.)

By: whir

whir — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:14 -0800

Some Pere Ubu mp3s here.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:29:50 -0800

Another.

By: backupjesus

backupjesus — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:34:43 -0800

By: dnial

dnial — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:39:42 -0800

I didn't even know you existed, but both bands added so much to my world... Thank you .

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:16:50 -0800

I once saw Pere Ubu mop the floor with the Pixies. .

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:30:29 -0800

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. This is tremendously sad. Ubu were my high-school heroes. David Thomas used to tell stories about Jones's unique tuning system; lore has it that fans would occasionally walk up to the stage and faux-casually brush his strings to try to figure out the tuning.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:10:09 -0800

That's bad news. He was an amazingly gifted guitarist. RIP, dear sir.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:34:46 -0800

Damn it. Goodnite, Irene I see you in my dreams I play the part you know so well Long live... carnival rain king king bee the king of Mars They're all like me Treat me like the king of Mars he fell to Earth and ended up behind bars he tried to live in a one horse town his breaking heart tore the whole place down It's my calling and I'm falling driven by the will of the wind I know it and I know it

By: El Brendano

El Brendano — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:18:22 -0800

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:04:40 -0800

"What is the delicate etiquette - on such a day?" .

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:06:28 -0800

"designate" - damn.

By: paddbear

paddbear — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:24:08 -0800

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:05:01 -0800

♪

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:51:18 -0800

Damn.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:00:28 -0800

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:43:02 -0800

By: klausness

klausness — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:11:08 -0800