Conor. Conor!
Oh, sorry. Hello
My name is Conor Oberst and I am at Amoeba in Los Angeles
and I'm going to show you what's in my bag.
Odelay. You guys know what's up with this guy?
Best vibraphonist ever to live.
Big public radio guy. I do love jazz.
Sometimes it's hard to listen to music with words
which is maybe weird 'cause my music has a lot of words but...
I mean, not that it's like background music to me but I'm scared of silence
and I like to hear music
but I don't always like to have to hear
words.
My friend Gruff's band, Super Furry Animals. You guys know what's up with this band?
It's like when all those cats were making whack-ass 90's Britpop
these guys were doing God's work, out there in the 90s.
Ooh, who do we have here? Thin Lizzy. Classic.
I love thunder and I love lightning.
It's one of the sickest bands ever. That guy's voice
I mean, you know their one song, but you should listen to their other songs.
My boys, Tom and Zack.
Pretty impressive. I played a show one time with Rage at the Palladium here
one of the scariest nights in my life.
They had, literally, riot police encircling the fucking Palladium, helicopters
and I'm up there with an acoustic guitar
playing sad alt-country songs
to Rage Against The Machine fans that all wanted me dead
like a hundred percent dead.
But they're nice guys.
Of course they sound great but to make that big a sound
with no samples, no loops, no nothing dude.
It's gnarly, I don't know how they do it.
Alright what is this? How'd this slip in, oh, it's The Replacements
obviously goes without saying, from the Midwest, one of my favorite bands
I forgot about this one because I've listened to their other records a lot more than this one
but it does have some jams.
I've heard a lot of good stuff about this guy. Sturgill Simpson.
He's some kind of cosmic country singer or something like that
I love acid, I love mushrooms, I love PCP
I gotta check it out. I like his name. I love The Simpsons.
You're insincere and I like that.
You're insincere. I like that.
Next up, it's my old pal Tim Kasher from the band Cursive.
He wrote a movie and directed it, and it actually came out and it's really good.
and I'm really proud of him. He's one of my best buddies
and this is the soundtrack from that record it's called 'No Resolution.' I recommend it.
Do you guys have bars down the street from each other?
We do.
We did a What's in My Bag with Tim recently and he might have mentioned that.
Yeah, everyone in Omaha owns a bar, like you have to do that.
So I made a record with this band The Felice Brothers from upstate New York, my favorite band.
I couldn't find their new record, it's probably sold out. It's called 'Life In The Dark.'
But I found these other two Felice Brothers records
the self-titled one, which actually me and my friend Nate, who's my manager
we used to have a label called Team Love, and we released this album in 2008
I've made a lot of music but I feel like
the greatest thing I ever contributed to music
in America was that I put this record out with my friend.
Listen to it, if you haven't.
This is their record before the last record which is also really rad.
They actually recorded in Nebraska, called 'Favorite Waitress.'
Ian, their kind of main singer/songwriter
he's a painter, he makes beautiful paintings
he painted my record before this record, 'Upside Down Mountain' but
This is a painting of his, it appears to be coffee cups
at some kind of a cafe or something.
There's some really good songs on here.
Last thing I'm going to tell you guys is... let's get serious
Let's support record stores, support Amoeba.
Let's buy physical music because it helps.
It makes people make more music because
if no one ever pays for anything... and I'm not crying, 'cause
I don't care, I'm super rich, don't buy any of my records
but honestly if you like a band
and you can give them... you can support them in some way.
It's a good thing to do because if you don't do that
It's not like they'll stop making music because people usually make music because
it's in their soul and they want to do it and they have to do it
but you might not ever hear it, y'know. Everybody's gotta have money so
support your local music and y'know buy a record once in a while.
That's all I've got to say. Love you guys.