#Mark Ibold

[undergroundrockpress]

Pavement on stage at Maxwell's on 28 July 1992 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Photo by David Corio.

[malkments]

video description:

Stephen Malkmus pets Mark Ibold's hair while Ibold eats food from a plate on the ground, on his hands and knees, like a dog.

range life music video, 1995

[guerrilla-operator]

[therealasteroidfolkblues]

Happy birthday, Mark

[malkmusian]

Cut your hair (1994), Pavement

[iamdangerace]

Sonic Youth performing Calming The Snake during their farewell performance on August 12, 2011, at the Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, from the Brooklyn NY 2011 Live double album (2023).

Come on down, down to the river Come on down I want to feel you shiver Dark on the edges, golden on top Floatin' down the river You're so hot Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Come on down, down to the river Come on down I want to feel you shiver The sight of death is sure to deliver, Come on down I want to hear you quiver Oh oh oh

Corpses' drapery Rusting, sliding, sliding, Sliding Endless

[musicmags]

[transpondster]

[martystlouis]

PAVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!! ive been watiign for them since i was 16 i couldnt even believe this concert happened right in front of me.

[stephenmalkmusofficial]

[rattled-by-the-rush]

Pavement – “Summer Babe” (Dir. Tanya Small) – News

OMG HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS YET IM SHAKINGGGG

[thebowerypresents]

Pavement Revisit Their Catalog on the First Night at Brooklyn Steel

Pavement – Brooklyn Steel – September 11, 2023

Like a special deal at the department store, Pavement are back, for a limited time only, returning to Brooklyn for four nights at Brooklyn Steel this week. The run opened on Monday, the band taking the stage to “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” by the Georgia Satellites, which seemed to make sense, the packed crowd giddy with excitement as Pavement kicked into the instrumental “Heckler Spray” and then “Feed ’Em to the (Linden) Lions.” Each song more than 30 years old but felt as fresh as ever, the band — six members strong — bathed in red light, double guitars and double drums causing spastic energy as frenetic projections flickered on the screen behind them.

The tone was set for the night as Pavement wandered up and down the proverbial aisles of their catalog, relaying messages from the past and reminding the present that the reason their material is so relevant is because it remains so influential to many current artists. “Starlings of the Slipstream” was an early highlight, a symphony of electric guitars, heavy and light at the same time, thrilling the old-guard fans. Frontman Stephen Malkmus was vibrant in his singing and his guitar playing, characteristically drawing out some syllables here, shortening others there, creating rhythms in his vocals on classic Pavement songs like “Gold Soundz,” psychedelic meeting indie meeting punk, guitar chords going longer or shorter to match.

The set mimicked the variety and nonlinearity, some tunes feeling too short, finished before they could get going, others, like “Folk Jam,” stretched into extended off-kilter screeches of guitar to match Malkmus’s surrealistic imagery. The evolution of Pavement’s sound suffused the set decades after the fact: The raging energy of “Serpentine Pad,” the woozy rhythms of “The Hexx,” the fractured blues of “Fight This Generation.” The show’s energy waxed and waned, building to a nifty extended noodle section in “Type Slowly,” and then fading out with the set-closing “Major Leagues.” The band returned for a three-song encore, punctuated by the punchy, melancholy slow-burn of “Stop Breathin.” But wait, there’s more: Three additional chances to catch Pavement in Brooklyn before they’re gone again. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Pavement play Brooklyn Steel again tonight, tomorrow and Thursday.)

Photos courtesy of Dana Distortion | distortionpix.com

[malkments]

video transcript

Stephen Malkmus: The Pumpkins and, uh the Stone Temple Pilots-

Mark Ibold: Both bands we really hate.

SM: We've always had nothing but- it's not the music they do, it's personal. It's the individuals in the band. It's the way they wear their hair. It's the color of their shirts.

MI: The way they order their drinks and food in the bars and restaurants that we work in.

SM: It's their accents. It's their... shoelaces. What I imagine they- what kind of underwear they wear.

MI: The cars they drive.

wah², 2001 (footage from 1994, could not find source)

[therealasteroidfolkblues]

Love this picture of him

[malkmusian]

[majorbaby]

there is a post circulating in the pavement fandom (pop. 11 and not to be confused with the broader gay damon albarn conspiracy fandom) calling mark ibold the "peter tork of pavement" is there a mash-monkeestual who will kindly explain to me what that means?