David Berman, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Eric Forst in Hoboken, NJ, March 23, 1990 скачать в хорошем качестве

David Berman, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Eric Forst in Hoboken, NJ, March 23, 1990

This is a copy of a cassette recording I made on March 23, 1990 at Bob Nastanovich's apartment in Hoboken, NJ. Bob and David had moved to the city after they graduated in May, 1989. Bob took a job as a bus driver. David and Stephen Malkmus were hired as security guards at the Whitney Museum of Art. I had just started in the creative writing program at UMass, Amherst. I was working on a paper for a folklore class about our music scene as a subculture with its own myths and folk heroes and made this recording as part of the research process. Pavement’s first seven-inch, the "Slay Tracks" EP, had just been released and was starting to get some buzz. Near the beginning of the recording, I ask Stephen and Bob about a Sub Pop artist named Tad; I was obsessed with who was “grungier,” Tad or another Sub Pop band, L7. Stephen talks about that and also the process of making "Slay Tracks" and meeting Mark Ibold, who would become Pavement's bass player. David and Bob invent a ball-toss game where you have to name cities in the same state, and if you drop the ball, you can never go to that city or "bad luck will befall you." Everyone is DJ-ing and we talk about our favorite records. Featured tunes include songs from L7, Wwax, Repulse Kava, Pat Ruthensmear, Naked Raygun, and Jawbreaker. David and Steve discuss a post-minimalist sculpture installation at the Whitney, we all yell at the TV a lot while watching some Final Four basketball games, and at the end of the tape, David and I chat about a conversation I had with Kim Gordon after a Sonic Youth show the previous week. Listening to this recording almost thirty years later offers a view into our lives at that time, and how much fun it was to be around David, Bob, Stephen and their hyperactive, creative energy.