#kate Schellenbach

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Beastie Boys photographed by Josh Cheuse, via Josh's Instagram.

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day 29 (based off of something kate wrote for the beastie boys book 💗)

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Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

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Luscious Jackson: Deep Shag 12” Promotional Single (1994)

Capitol Records

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Kate Schellenbach of Luscious Jackson Exclusive Interview on Tom Tom TV

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Happy birthday, Kate Schellenbach

Kate Schellenbach

Kate Schellenbach

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The Amps - Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, July 1, 1995

I was watching this recent video of the Breeders in Big Sur a couple weeks back — and however great it is (it's great!), it got me thinking about the Amps, the one-and-done mid-90s Kim Deal project. Kind of a weird moment for Kim. She had climbed to the top of the Alternative Nation after the release of Last Splash, opening for Nirvana, playing Lollapalooza, hitting the late-night talk shows, etc. But by 1995, she was blowing it all up and starting again. Kinda. Here's the rundown from a very 1990s Spin magazine cover story written by Charles Aaron way back when. Those were different times, kids!

Kind of sweet, kind of pathetic. That’s how Deal has viewed her life following Last Splash‘s surprising success, propelled by the Top 40 single “Cannonball,” one of the most unlikely mosh notes ever penned. What was meant to be a well-deserved rest for the band after opening Nirvana’s last national tour, headlining gigs with Luscious Jackson, and joining Lollapalooza during the summer of ’94, became a boring winter exile for Kim in her childhood home of Huber Heights, the planned community outside Dayton that thrived in the ’50s with the opening of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where Kim’s dad worked as a physicist. Instead of catching up on laundry and bad TV, she learned to play drums, patched together a batch of songs, and agreed to help produce the next album by her drinking buddies Guided By Voices (of which her fiance and SPIN Senior Contributing Writer Jim Greer is now a member).

Meanwhile, the other Breeders were plenty busy. Jim Macpherson finally spent some time with his kids and renovated a new house. Bassist Josephine Wiggs fell in love (with Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach) and out of the closet (courtesy of a November ’94 Advocate story titled “Luscious Lesbians”), eventually moving from London to New York to be near Schellenbach. Kelley Deal made the most publicized move, out of Kim’s place and into a nearby house where she was arrested in November for receiving an Emery Worldwide package containing heroin. Her trial is set for July. Considering the circumstances, Kim’s desire to record a solo album made more than a little sense, for everybody concerned.

Pacer, that "solo record," hit shelves in the fall of '95 and — compared to Last Splash, anyway — was fairly low-profile. But it's a killer album, and somewhat forgotten these days, I think? If Kim had just called it a Breeders record, people might be more aware, I don't know. Anyway! The Amps toured a bit in '95 (I saw 'em open for Sonic Youth that October), and here's a nice audience tape of the band at Maxwell's that summer, playing a bunch from their then-unreleased debut, alongside a rambunctious closing cover of the Tasties' "Like A Briar." Take a trip down to Tipp City ...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Alvin Ailey, Isaac Albéniz's 1896 opera "Pepita Jiminez,” musician Leo Armbruster, Hugh Brannum “Mr. Green Jeans,” piano legend Alfred Brendel, Clancy Brown, George Brown (Kool & The Gang), Bradley Cooper, Elvis Costello & The Attraction’s 1979 ARMED FORCES LP, Elizabeth Cotten, Judge Crater, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 album BAYOU COUNTRY, Deadmau5, Iris DeMent, Mike Dewine, Robert Duvall, Umberto Eco, James Goldstein, Athol Guy (The Seekers), Wilbert Harrison, musician/pastor Michael Hauser, Buddy Holly’s 1959 single “It Doesn’t Matter,” Shah Jahan, Phil Joel, Vinnie Jones, Diane Keaton, Deepika Padukone, Pepé Le Pew, Sam Phillips (Sun Records), Zebulon Pike, Phil Ramone, George Reeves, Maggie Sajak, Kate Schellenbach, Tony Sheridan & The Beatles’s 1962 single “My Bonnie,” Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK album, Yves Tanguy, the 1975 Quincy Jones/Charlie Smalls musical THE WIZ, Chris Stein, Elmer Stoltzfus, Grady Thomas (Funkadelic, Parliament), Jane Wyman, Pramahansa Yogananda, and my friend—a Renaissance Man to be celebrated—Andrew Sandoval: Musician/recording artist, singer-songwriter, art and music archivist/curator, promoter, writer, radio personality, and true child of Los Angeles pop culture. 

 

I’m indebted to Andrew’s role in making those Monkees tour run like clockwork, with extra kudos for his amazing multi-media stage plotting. Andrew and I started corresponding in the 90s as he was preparing obscure Davy Jones tracks to remaster for Monkees’s CD reissues. As an archivist and curator, Andrew has piloted remasters and reissues of “deep cut” recordings by The Beach Boys, The Bee Gees, The Kinks, Del Shannon, and many other notables, and they were all grateful for the fresh interest generated by Andrew’s efforts. At some point I discovered Andrew’s original music, recordings of carefully crafted pop that initially reminded me of Jellyfish and The Left Banke. He also helms a radio show, COME TO THE SUNSHINE, focusing on “sunshine pop,” that special meld of flower powered baroque chamber pop, bubblegum, folk rock, garage rock, power pop, and psychedelia rooted in 60s innovation and timeless ear candies. His show champions themes and catalogs of legendary and obscure heroes whose music can’t stay in the shadows. Check it out here (and support as well): 

http://cometothesunshine.com …and HB AS!

 

#Andrew #Sandoval #Monkees #DavyJones #BeachBoys #BeeGees #TheKinks #DaveDavies #DelShannon #Jellyfish #TheLeftBanke #CometotheSunshine #Sunshine #flowerpower #bubblegum #folkrock #garagerock #powerpop #psychedelia #singersongwriter #recordingartist

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Michael Louis Diamond (born November 20, 1965), better known as Mike D. Mike, is best known as one of the founding members of the rap group Beastie Boys. Mike D was a former punk kid who played drums for the Beastie Boys; he was initially on vocals with Kate Schellenbach ( from Luscious Jackson)on drums in their early and later years. Things got shifted around with the addition of MCA and Ad-Rock. When the three started their rap career, Mike D became known for rocking the mic with his clever lyrics and wordplay. He always made all these clever references to pop culture and hip-hop. He was one of the members of the Beastie Boys, the first to embrace hip-hop fully. After the death of bandmate and friend Adam Yauch (MCA), Beastie Boys ended. Mike stays busy as a fashion designer and provides mixes of various artists. I always say this whenever I talk about the Beastie Boys. I can tell they were not a" rap rock" group. They were a rap group with samples in their music(I could continue.)If you want a clear history of the Beastie Boys, check out their book and documentary on Apple TV. Mike is a down-to-earth guy and an intelligent contributor to hip-hop.

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she's like kate schellenbach to me.....

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Luscious Jackson - Deep Shag

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The Beastie Boys in New York - Original lineup (1981): John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, Mike D, Adam Yauch

Photograph by Arabella Field