![]() ![]() “Maybe in hindsight it would have been a successful single, but it’s always good to let your audience figure out what your hits are,” Nastanovich said. It’s also the top Pavement track on Spotify. “Harness Your Hopes” - a B-side released in 1999 - went viral with more than 10 million views of people dancing, lip-syncing or posting about the song. To prove to people in the racing industry that he was in Pavement, he sometimes had to Google the band and show them pictures.īut then something unexpected happened: TikTok. Nastanovich, based in Des Moines, Iowa, has a podcast called “3 Songs” and works in horse racing. Kannberg has stayed in bands and released his own music and that of others, while West is a stonemason in Richmond, Virginia, and Ibold is a bartender in Brooklyn. His guitar playing has moved into master-class territory, and he now runs a tighter ship on stage with his band The Jicks.Īfter years of indicating they would never get back together, Pavement reconvened for a world tour in 2010, and then went separate ways again. Still, aside from the semi-hit “Cut Your Hair,” they never got too big, and the band split up at the turn of the century as Malkmus set off on his own career, now nine albums deep. ![]() They were loved for their loose approach, tangled resonance, shrouded pop sensibility and seemingly off-the-cuff mindset in live shows. Throughout their 10-year run, during which they grew to include Nastanovich, bassist Mark Ibold and drummer Steve West, they released five albums and earned cult status among fans. But it was always more about how they translated those influences into their own sonic language. Launched in Stockton, California, in the late 1980s by guitarist/singer Stephen Malkmus, guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg and studio owner/drummer Gary Young, Pavement referenced everything from Swell Maps to The Eagles in their songs. In droves seems to be the different aspect.” There I sang this song on the Schulschiff Deutschland along with Fareweel to Tarwathie and Whaling in Greenland to provide a musical background to the reading of Moby Dick by Egbert Heiß.“It’s pretty amazing to see the energy that people - or Pavement fans, I suppose - have for this band, over 30 years since its inception,” said percussionist Bob Nastanovich. Since writing the above in the late 1990's I have recently (August 2013) had the good fortune to have been invited to the 2nd Leserpromenade. Even if I succeeded, I doubt whether it would go down with present day audiences. Maybe one day I'll try my hand at a sea song about aircraft carriers, atom-bombs, radar, biological and electronic warfare etc., the lot of a 20th century naval sea-goer, in the same vein. The song itself is about being seen-off by agents, the ladies, the hard life at sea and finally the wish of being ashore with a loving wife. Victorious whenever doing "Off to Sea Once More". This song is so evocative of the love/hate relationship between a seaman and his chosen element that I always find myself thinking about H.M.S. The gap separating whalers in the 19th century and aircraft carriers in the 20th century are indeed worlds apart. For my taste Roy's version is a lot more tuneful but the lyrics are virtually the same. ![]() I first heard it from Brian Kelly when in the Idle Fellows but the version I sing can be found in Roy Palmer's The Oxford Book of Sea Songs. "Off to Sea Once More" is one of my favourite sea songs and, according to mood at the moment, it may be my absolute favourite. ![]()
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