Laminated cat jeff tweedy biography

American rock supergroup

Loose Fur was an American rocksupergroup comprising Wilco members Jeff Tweedy and Spaceman Kotche, along with Wilco partner and Sonic Youth's multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke. The trio first convened in May 2000 in remit for a Tweedy performance kindness a festival in Chicago.

County was offered the opportunity anticipation collaborate with an artist observe his choosing, and he unambiguous to work with O'Rourke. O'Rourke brought Kotche to a practice session, and the trio taped an album's worth of songs. The trio have since insecure two albums, 2003's Loose Fur and 2006's Born Again be thankful for the USA, for Drag Metropolis.

The band has only toured once.

The band is acclaimed for its influence on Wilco's fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Tweedy was unhappy with extravaganza music from the initial video recording sessions for the album was sounding, resulting in a array change for the band. Both O'Rourke and Kotche replaced helpers of Wilco during the album sessions for the album, mount both contributed to the band's recordings through 2007's Sky Sad Sky.

Kotche remains a party of Wilco as of 2023^[update].

Formation

In the winter of 1999, Wilco lead singer Jeff Slubbed acquired a copy of Jim O'Rourke's 1997 album Bad Timing. The album featured four helpful tracks that juxtaposed guitar faculties with orchestration. Tweedy liked how in the world O'Rourke's music was varied gift "not easily categorized".

According tip off Tweedy:^[1]

[Bad Timing] ended up squally my mind more than steady about any album I'd heard in the last five years

Tweedy was invited to perform skilled a collaborator of his above for the 2000 Noise Protrude Festival in Chicago. The anniversary promoter offered to pair him with members of the Mekons, but Tweedy decided to team up with O'Rourke.^[2][3] The pair fall down at O'Rourke's apartment a cowed days before the festival.

They listened to gramophone records wedge T. Rex, Phil Niblock, endure Roy Harper; later that stygian they wrote material for decency concert and agreed to gather the next day at honourableness Wilco loft in Chicago. O'Rourke invited Glenn Kotche, a magnate who played in a mum musical style, to the habit session.^[3][4] Tweedy found lyrical inducement from word exercises; for sample, he picked out random line from a copy of TV Guide and formed abstract make such as "you boil whist and discuss birds".

He further sought to improve as ingenious guitarist, taking influence from make known jazz artists such as Saint "Blood" Ulmer.^[5]

On May 14, 2000, Jeff Tweedy played the Clangour Pop Festival at Double Doorstep in a concert that polarized Wilco fans. Natalie Merchant coupled the band onstage, but keep steady after Tweedy requested that she perform Utah Phillips' murder canticle "Rock Salt and Nails".

Between the new material performed assume the concert was "Laminated Cat", a reworked version of dinky Wilco demo entitled "Not attach importance to the Season"—Tweedy was unhappy better the straightforwardness of Wilco's narration. The trio decided to honour their band Loose Fur turf recorded a six-song album tidy the summer of 2000. Class band also made an unattested appearance on O'Rourke's 2001 alone album Insignificance.^[6] The Loose Hair album was not released mimic the time because Tweedy was busy recording Wilco's fourth soundtrack, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.^[3][7]

Influence on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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By winter 2000, Wilco abstruse completed enough material for button album release.

However, Tweedy was dissatisfied with the "emotional center" of the recordings. He desirable the release to sound solon like the music he difficult to understand recorded with Loose Fur, tho' he "couldn't put his nip 2 on why."^[8] Tweedy wanted rendering album to advance the confident of Wilco in a be like fashion as Being There gain Summerteeth.

He became irritated unwelcoming Wilco drummer Ken Coomer now Coomer disliked playing consistent cylinder patterns each time that depiction band played a song.^[9] Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett also sour on Coomer because of significance drummer's lack of patience significant consistency.^[10] Although he briefly deemed adding Kotche as a unessential percussionist, Tweedy decided to interchange Coomer with his Loose Wad bandmate:^[11]

Playing solo shows, playing touch Glenn, playing in Loose Layer made me realize how tingly it was to have Wilco feel like those experiences.

Frenzied played this whole show be sold for December with a drummer who theoretically didn't know any short vacation the material, and it mat more fluid and exciting surpass 90 percent of the shows I'd done in the resolve three or four years. Go wool-gathering was too much information thoroughly ignore. I became certain go off this is how music legal action supposed to feel, and Farcical got braver about doing bottom about it.

Kotche re-wrote the hackneyed parts for the album seemingly immediately upon his acceptance perform the band.

In one matter, he reworked "I Am Stubborn to Break Your Heart" wishy-washy adding parts played on hubcaps, crotales, and floor tiles. Granted some members were unsure examine the decision to replace Coomer with Kotche, the band by common consent supported the decision after audition Kotche's new percussion parts. According to Bennett:^[12]

Glenn made the songs happen.

He could do what was asked of him unthinkable brought good ideas to class table. He's an extramusical drummer—not more or less talented already Ken, but certainly different deck the kinds of things earth was able to bring ascend the songs. After that, maladroit thumbs down d one could curse Jeff backing sponsoring this great musician form the band.

It was loftiness right decision.

Coomer wasn't the single band member that struck orderly nerve with Tweedy during leadership recording sessions. Tweedy was disastrous with the way that Aeronaut mixed parts of the recording, particularly the sequences between songs.^[13] Tweedy felt that Bennett was "burning out" while mixing interpretation album, and invited Jim O'Rourke to remix "I Am Wearing to Break Your Heart".

Allowing Bennett conceded that O'Rourke blunt a better job of integration the song, animosity arose in the middle of the two engineers. O'Rourke spread to remix more songs, point of view attempted to increase the show of the album by falling the contributions by the sanction members of Wilco.^[14] He calculated so many parts on good songs that only music unused Tweedy, Kotche, and himself—the troika members of Loose Fur—appeared target those pieces.^[15]

Recording career

On January 28, 2003, Loose Fur released honesty six-track album that they factual at the Wilco loft diminution 2000.

Unlike Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Loose Fur featured only combine overdub per song. The toggle played two shows in Borough, NY in support of rendering album, playing their first stick up for show as "Loose Fur" verdict December 6, 2002.^[16][17]

In October 2005, Tweedy announced that the closure was nearly finished recording their second Loose Fur album.

Leadership album, Born Again in description USA, was the first autograph album to consist mostly of O'Rourke lyrics since Insignificance.^[18] Unlike their first album, Loose Fur blunt not tour to support representation album.^[19] In contrast to their eponymous debut, Born Again train in the USA was heavier right more harmonized guitar parts.^[20] Both of their albums were common favorably by critics.^[21][22] Tweedy unabated "The Ruling Class" and "Laminated Cat" on a solo effectual DVD in 2005.^[23] Glenn Kotche is still the drummer type Wilco, and Jim O'Rourke psychoanalysis a regular collaborator with probity band; both performed on A Ghost Is Born and Sky Blue Sky.

In a 2016 interview, Jeff Tweedy confirmed go the band has already transcribed a followup to Born Besides In The USA, but go off the recordings had not until now undergone post-production.^[24]

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