Sebadoh.jpg' alt='Secret Ep Sebadoh' title='Secret Ep Sebadoh' />Pavements Bob Nastanovichs Indie Rock Kentucky Derby Party. Bob Nastanovich has plenty of stories that hell gladly tell you. Want to know about how he played on albums by Will Oldham or Tall DwarvesOur interview with power pop icon Tommy Keene, conducted just a couple of months before his sudden passing, continues with talk about his 80s solo career. Related Posts The Dead Daisies The Return of the Supergroup Monday Rock City A Conversation with Def Leppard Guitarist Simple is Best The Secret of ACDCs. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Secret. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the. Resins customs for sale by Bonnie Krueger 61317 Browse galleries of finished horses. Crossover Prog is a progressive rock music subgenre. Top Crossover Prog artists Mike Oldfield, Steven Wilson, Peter Gabriel, Big Big Train, Radiohead, Supertramp. Sure. His time as a tour manager for bands like Huggy Bear and the Frogs Absolutely. Want to know about the bands hes been a member of, Pavement and Silver JewsTotally. The guy who saw basically everything there was to see during the rise of indie rock will gladly talk to you about any of that stuff. But get him started on the subject of horses, and thats a whole other conversation. He really loves horses. When I was a boy, and I was living south of Richmond in Midlothian Virginia, the elementary school I went to, the principals cousin owned Secretariat, he recalls. If you had any connection to the famous Triple Crownwinning horse in the State of Virginia, no matter how slight, Nastanovich says you let people know about it. Plastered all over our elementary school were pictures of Secretariat, he says. The famous horse, was just some sorta like Pegasus whos some equine hero, the likes of which wed never come across. I remember that as a child. Sebadoh-Secret-EP.jpeg' alt='Secret Ep Sebadoh' title='Secret Ep Sebadoh' />It made a huge impact on me as somebody that was raised in sports fan to the max. His love for horse racing didnt really get fired up until he was 1. Thats when, in 1. Bill Shoemaker riding Ferdinand to take home the Kentucky Derby, because no matter how much or little you cared about ponies racing around a track, you had to weigh in on the Derby. At that point I was sorta hooked, he says. Nastanovichs newfound obsession coincided with another important milestone in his life. When he wasnt in school or taking two and a half hour drives with a mathematician friend who thought he could win big by using his math skills to pick winners, and another who just wanted to have beers and bet on horses, to the Charles Town track in West Virginia, he made friends with two people his name would go on to be forever linked with Stephen Malkmus and David Berman. What came next is legend that has been written and mythologized a million times over. The three would become tight, all move to Hoboken, New Jersey, together after college and record a bunch of really crude, lo fi sounding songs. Malkmus went off and started Pavement with his childhood friend Scott Kannberg. Pavement would go on to become a generation defining band. Berman, meanwhile, would start releasing records under the name Silver Jews, leading the press to believe it was just a lo fi Pavement side project. Pavements Bob Nastanovich Recalls His Epic IndieRock Kentucky Derby Bashes. Party remembered as 1990s underground rock meets Animal House included members of. Slacker Radio is a free internet radio service, light years away from the onedimensional playlists that youre used to. Personalize hundreds of music stations, as. Sebadoh est un groupe de rock indpendant amricain, originaire de Westfield, dans le Massachusetts. Il est form en 1987 par Lou Barlow et issu de la scission de. Nastanovich, meanwhile, was driving a New York City bus. He wasnt in a full time band, but he made sure that he always had time for the ponies. I started going every Saturday to Aqueduct and Belmont, he says. Every opportunity I had, Id actually park my transit bus in Manhattan and run into OTBs, and place bets for the entire day, and then follow the results on the radio. It was a good way to get me through the day. Sorta went well with bus driving. Eventually, Nastanovich would join his old college friend Malkmus in Pavement as the band started drawing in new fans and selling more records aided by an overly enthusiastic music press. A musical Swiss Army knife, he performed multiple live functions for the band from backing vocals to keyboard effects, before finally starting to record with the band on the 1. Watery, Domestic EP. Pavement started getting bigger, selling more records and playing to larger crowds. They werent making millions, but they were pulling in enough to live and put some money aside. Nastanovich saved up with the idea of someday owning horses, but at 2. He was now mostly living off the band, and New York City was too expensive for a person who lived life mostly on the road to buy a place. So in 1. 99. 3, he purchased a house at 9. Central Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. It was directly across the street from the mecca of thoroughbred racing, Churchill Downs. Indian Train Simulator Coach Engine States And All Download more. Nastanovich joined his college friend Stephen Malkmus in Pavement after a stint as a New York City bus driver. Courtesy of Bob NastanovichI thought about three or four different places Id be willing to move in the U. S., and obviously Louisville was at the top of the list because of the racing, he says. But it was after meeting Britt Walford of the band Slint when Walford was playing with Kim Deals new band the Breeders, and taking a trip to Walfords hometown with fellow Pavement member Mark Ibold to the 1. Breeders Cup, that Nastanovich says he was hooked on the city for its affordability and its access to world class horse racing. He moved there and set up shop, as he says. Living at first with Walford, Will Oldham and Jason Loewenstein from the band Sebadoh, it didnt take long for Nastanovich to settle in and pick the house he wanted to buy. While he admits that hes a very poor real estate investor who bought the house for 4. Rodan, Rachels and Crain to hang out at, but for touring bands and people from the race track as well. It was the kind of a situation where if people were just kind of broke, got evicted or just for friends of mine just trying to save money for 9. Nastanovich says. Or they got fired and their source of income was gone, they were always welcome to stay there. Whether it be for 3. Yeah Id say just pay me whatever, or put beer in the fridge. I think the most I ever charged anybody for rent wouldve been a hundred, he says. And we had a dog. He was one of those special dogs that he was smarter than all the rest of us. His name was Mr. Twinkles and he kinda ran the household. A Corgi. Just a fantastic dog. With the combination of musicians, late night party people and Mr. Twinkles, that house sort of had a reputation. If you went to the races, which a lot of people from the music scene did. Id always have food made. And wed always have beer in the fridge. It would just be a place to come and hang out and watch sports after the races. One local described it as kind of like indie rock Animal House. Kentucky Derby time, however, was a totally different story. There was no way you could live within spitting distance of the most famous racetrack on the planet and not throw a huge party. While the idea of indie rock luminaries sipping mint juleps and wearing elaborate hats or seersucker suits that are normally associated with Derby parties is a funny mental image, Nastanovich had other plans. He just wanted to throw a party his friends would have fun at. It started out with just a handful of people, but then it grew. The word got out, he says. People would come to town, and then theyd be looking for something to do after the Derby, before and after the races. And sort of the place to hatch your plans became my house. People came over, and it was really fun. Theyd sorta stay put. If they figured there were cool bands to go see, they always would. Theyd have a few drinks or eat. Just about every Derby of the 1. I was in that house Id make a traditional stew called burgoo. Which is just a meat and vegetable stew. But I had a really old recipe. Nastanovich says he got it from the 1. Out of Kentucky Kitchens. He claims to have made around six gallons of it for the Derby. Britt would always say, What do you have in that burgoo he remembers. Rockin the Suburbs with Jim Lenahan and Patrick Foster. Tommy Keene unexpectedly died on Nov. Just two months earlier, we had the great fortune to interview the power pop icon over drinks and dinner at Villain Saint in Tommys hometown of Bethesda, Md. He was just off a tour opening for Matthew Sweet, and this may be Tommy Keenes final interview. In this first of three parts, Tommy talks about his early days in the Razz and other bands, before his solo career began.